What vegetables can I eat in winter?

Common winter vegetables are: lotus root, zucchini, celery, winter bamboo shoots, kale, pumpkin, spinach, watercress, Chinese cabbage, carrots, radishes and broccoli.

1, white radish

As the saying goes, it is scientific to eat carrots in winter and pears in autumn. The marketing time of white radish is from September to April of the following year. White radish is rich in vitamins and trace element zinc, which helps to enhance human immunity and improve resistance. Moreover, white radish has always been known as "small ginseng", because Bao radish is rich in glucoamylase components, which can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and increase past lives.

2.cabbage

In winter in northern China, Chinese cabbage is a frequent visitor on the dining table, so there is a saying that "Chinese cabbage is as beautiful as winter bamboo shoots". Cabbage is slightly cold, and has the effects of clearing away heat and vexation, quenching thirst and diuresis, dredging the stomach and clearing away lung heat. When the weather is dry in winter, eating more cabbage can play a good role in nourishing yin, moistening dryness and caring skin.

3. Winter bamboo shoots

Winter is coming, and it's the season of fresh winter bamboo shoots. Winter bamboo shoots are rich in water, a lot of carotene, vitamins B, C and E, and essential nutrients such as calcium, phosphorus and iron. Regular consumption of winter bamboo shoots can absorb the fat in the food eaten at each meal and reduce the absorption and accumulation of fat by gastrointestinal mucosa, thus achieving the purpose of losing weight and effectively reducing the occurrence of high-fat related diseases.

4. watercress

Early winter to late spring is the most vigorous and tender season for western food. Watercress is sweet and cool, non-toxic, and has the effects of clearing throat and moistening lung, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, stimulating appetite, cooling blood and diuresis, which is beneficial to the prevention and treatment of pharyngitis and tonsillitis caused by dryness, and is very beneficial to respiratory diseases such as whooping cough and tuberculosis. Western food can help people spend the year-end, and is known as "a natural decoction for clearing dryness and saving lungs".

5. Pumpkin

Pumpkins are on the market from 10 to February of the following year. Pumpkin is one of the "all-purpose" vegetables in winter, which can be steamed, roasted, fried and made into soup. Its bright orange comes from its rich beta carotene, which is a strong antioxidant and helps to prevent heart disease and cancer. Pumpkin contains ingredients that can promote bile secretion, strengthen gastrointestinal peristalsis and help food digestion.

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Planting method of vegetables in winter

1. Choose vegetable varieties with better cold resistance and disease resistance.

Now we are cultivating excellent vegetable varieties every year, and we can't just rely on acquaintances to find out what to plant. Learn to go to some websites to compare varieties and market prices, and then choose the right vegetable varieties to grow according to local conditions.

2, completes the management of anti-freezing and heat preservation measures.

After sowing or planting seedlings, warm-keeping measures should be put in place before the arrival of extremely cold weather. Specifically, you can do this:

(1) Gradually reduce the frequency and quantity of watering;

(2) mixing plant ash, manure and soil, and spreading to the place where vegetables are grown;

(3) by installing electric heating wires in the greenhouse, the greenhouse plants can be kept warm;

(4) Covering the roots of vegetable plants with drip-free films.

If you have suffered from freezing damage, you can take measures according to the freezing damage. Generally, if the freezing injury is serious, it may be necessary to replant other vegetables. If it's not so serious, you should immediately apply quick-acting fertilizer and spray some chemicals to inhibit evaporation.

Tips: When planting winter vegetables in greenhouses, the temperature is generally controlled at 25-28℃, and most vegetables are suitable for growing in this temperature range. However, we should also pay attention to large-scale ventilation on sunny days in winter to prevent vegetables from being suffocated.

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