Shepherd's purse shepherd's purse is an annual or biennial herb of Cruciferae shepherd's purse, also known as shepherd's purse, nursing grass, pillow grass, ground vegetable, rice vegetable, water chestnut vegetable, zongzi vegetable, triangle grass and so on. This also shows that it is suitable for large-scale growth, north and south of the river.
The ancients ate shepherd's purse for a long time, and there were many poems praising shepherd's purse in history, which continued people's love for shepherd's purse for thousands of years. For example, in the Song Dynasty, Su Shi "searched for wild fields around the wheat fields and cooked mountain soup for the monk's house"; Fiona Fang replied that "the speed of the snow must be returned, and the shepherd's purse is fat and sweet with white wine"; In Zheng Banqiao in Qing Dynasty, "Sanchun shepherd's purse is very delicious, and nine-ripe cherries are the most famous". Interestingly, its Latin name comes from Latin, meaning "shepherd's wallet", which is used to describe its capsule shape like a shepherd's wallet.
Shepherd's shepherd's purse leaves tender root fertilizer, rich in flavor, delicious taste, high nutritional value, rich in protein, sugar, vitamins and various amino acids and minerals needed by human body. Picked tender stems and leaves or whole grass of shepherd's purse can be stewed, boiled, fried and boiled, or stuffed with jiaozi. Some local folk customs have the custom of boiling eggs with shepherd's purse, which is called "on March 3, eating boiled eggs with shepherd's purse will keep you from having a headache for a year". Of course, the porridge used to cook shepherd's purse is also delicious.
In fact, people take a fancy to shepherd's purse because it has good medicinal value. Shepherd's purse is known as "authentic medicinal material". Chinese medicine believes that shepherd's purse is sweet in taste and cool in nature, and has the effects of regulating spleen and diuresis, stopping bleeding and improving eyesight, and can be used to treat hypertension, coronary heart disease, dysentery and nephritis. The plant intelligence platform sponsored by the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences shows that the whole grass has diuretic, hemostatic, heat-clearing, eyesight-improving and digestion-promoting effects when used as medicine. The famous doctor A Bie Lu contains "the main benefit of liver qi and harmony"; Compendium of Materia Medica contains "improving eyesight and benefiting stomach". Therefore, people often make tea after drying shepherd's purse.
Since the use value of shepherd's purse is so diverse and the market demand is increasing, what about large-scale planting?
According to the report, there are indeed many places where shepherd's purse is planted, so the "money bag" is bulging. Baiguohui Planting Cooperative in Bodang Township, Minquan County, Henan Province, planted shepherd's purse 150 mu in 20/7 years. Products are exported to Shanghai and other places. Calculated by 4000 kg per mu, per kg 1.5 yuan, it can sell 6000 yuan per mu. Yangmin Village, a farmer from Limin Town, Yucheng County, contracted more than 65.438 million mu of land. In the past, wheat and corn were harvested twice a year, and the new model of wheat, sweet corn and shepherd's purse was changed to three times a year. After harvesting sweet corn, all of them were planted with shepherd's purse. Excluding land rent, fertilizer, watering and labor costs, shepherd's purse earned a net profit of more than 600 thousand yuan in just one season. Based on this, local enterprises have developed quick-frozen shepherd's purse and become one of the largest quick-frozen shepherd's purse processing bases in China.
At present, there are two main varieties of shepherd's purse on the market: one is shepherd's purse with plate leaves, also called shepherd's purse with big leaves, which is a local variety in Shanghai. The plant of this variety grows on the ground, with Ye Zhan 18 cm, but it is strong in winter, bolting and flowering early, so it is not suitable for spring sowing and suitable for summer or autumn cultivation. One is loose-leaved shepherd's purse, also known as baichi shepherd's purse. The plant grows underground, with moderate cold resistance and strong heat resistance, which is 10 ~ 15 days later than a leaf shepherd's purse, and is suitable for spring sowing cultivation.
According to the data, shepherd's purse can be cultivated in the Yangtze River valley in spring, summer and autumn. Sowing in spring from late February to late April; Sowing in summer from early July to late August; Autumn planting is from early September to early October of 10. North China can be planted in two seasons and in March and April in spring; Autumn cultivation can be from July to mid-September. Plastic shed or solar greenhouse cultivation can also be carried out at any time from early October of 10 to early February of the following year.
Shepherd's purse sown in spring and summer grows rapidly. The days from sowing to harvesting are generally 30-50 days, and the number of harvests is 1-2 times. Shepherd's purse sown in autumn takes 30-35 days from sowing to harvesting, and then it is harvested 4-5 times continuously. The Yangtze River basin can be postponed until next spring. Because shepherd's purse plants are small and easy to be mixed with weeds, attention should be paid to weeding in time.
It should be reminded that for shepherd's purse, consumers generally prefer wild shepherd's purse, are not too cold about shepherd's purse in greenhouse, or worry about pesticide problems, or feel that "game" is not enough. In particular, the wild shepherd's purse under the chilly spring has experienced the cold winter, which has better nutritional value and taste, and the price is higher than that of greenhouse planting. If you are interested in planting, Yucheng's planting mode with crops is a good reference.