How to eat goat milk fruit? How to grow goat milk

Goat milk fruit is generally the most common in Yunnan, and non-locals may not know how to eat it. So, how to eat goat's milk fruit? How to grow goat milk fruit?

How to eat goat milk

Goat milk fruit is a specialty of Yunnan. It's a kind of fruit. When the granules are ripe, you can eat them. Fresh fruits can be eaten raw or processed before eating.

Goat milk fruit is a specialty of Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province. Goat milk fruit is the mature fruit of Elaeagnus Elaeagnus L. honey flower. Perennial evergreen climber, the ripe fruit is bright red to purple, the fresh fruit is eaten raw, and the edible part accounts for 9 1%. Sweet and sour taste, moderate taste, sufficient moisture, bright color, can be used as juice, canned food, candied fruit.

Goat milk fruit is rich in nutrition, and contains protein, carbohydrates, calcium and other essential nutrients. There are many ways to eat it, which can be eaten raw or made into the above processed foods.

How to grow goat milk

Goat milk fruit is generally used in fruit food. There are two varieties, one is sweet, the other is small, and the small fruit type is still wild in the mountains. Goat milk is sweet and sour. Usually eaten raw, pickled with salt and pepper. If you use sugar to make fruit Dan, it will be delicious. Goat's milk fruit is cultivated and used to be mostly wild. Goat milk can be planted by sowing or cutting, which is relatively easy to grow.

1. Sowing: In the middle and late May of each year, fruits are picked and piled up. After a period of maturity and self-decay, the seeds are washed and sown immediately. The germination rate of seeds is only about 50%, so the sowing amount should be increased appropriately, and the furrow sowing method should be adopted, the row spacing should be 15 ~ 20 cm, and the covering thickness should be 1.5 cm. After sowing, it should be covered with grass to keep moisture. It's summer after sowing, and the temperature is high. It will all come out in more than a month. You should immediately put up a shed for shade, topdressing twice that year, transplanting seedlings in the early spring of the following year, and then cultivating 1 ~ 2 years to leave the garden.

2. Cutting: The cutting of goat's milk fruit is mostly carried out in early April. Cutting the intact 1 ~ 2-year-old branches, cutting them into 12 ~ 15 cm long, leaving 1 ~ 2 leaves, and burying them at a depth of 5 ~ 7 cm. If you need to build a shed for shade when cutting in the open seedbed, you should maintain it under the shade shed when potted, and take root in about 2 months. You can continue to cultivate big seedlings in open-air seedbeds or flowerpots.

3. Afforestation: Goat milk fruit has strong adaptability to the environment and small crown, which is suitable for close planting. Generally, it is 1× 1.5m, with 6000 ~ 7500 plants per hectare. Before planting, dig a planting pit with a diameter of 60 ~ 80cm and use farmyard manure as base fertilizer. After planting, the seedlings should be watered.

4. Management: In the year of goat milk fruit planting, intertillage, weeding and topdressing should be done in time to promote seedling growth. After that, intertillage weeding should be done 1 ~ 2 times a year. After the forest is formed, the dense branches should be cut off every autumn, and the drooping branches and tillers should be cut off according to the management of clumped branches, so as to keep ventilation and light transmission, and it will enter the fruiting period after 3 years.

Growth habit of goat's milk fruit

Goat milk has strong cold resistance, can overwinter in the south of North China in the open air, can tolerate the absolute low temperature of about-8℃, and the suitable growth temperature is 24 ~ 34℃, which can withstand high temperature and summer heat. In the country of origin, although it grows in sparse forests and wet valleys on hillsides, it is not afraid of the sun and has strong shade tolerance. The requirements for soil are not strict. Neutral, acidic and calcareous soils can grow, and are drought-resistant and barren, but not waterlogged.