Celery: vegetable with obvious advantages

Celery: vegetable with obvious advantages
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celeriac

Celery root

Caught in Russia during the reign of Catherine II, the celery was first used as an ornamental and medicinal plant, and only gradually came into the culture. And he was awesome vegetables, which can be used in food leaves, petioles, stems and thick fleshy tuber-root. In the course of many years of efforts of breeders have bred varieties of celery leaf, stemmed and root celery with a large and juicy tubers.

Celery root has the most tender and flavorful flesh among all the white roots known to man, but it is not the main advantage of this, and that it is most useful. Substances contained in celery to make it totally unique food items equal to that in nature. In the healing of complex action celery experts compare with ginseng. Unlike the latter, celery can be bought in any store.

Just the essential oil of celery root consists of nine components useful to man. Cultivars contain up to 10% carbohydrates, 1 to 6% of proteins, many polyunsaturated vegetable fat and has a long list of vitamins Vitamins for everyone and minerals that make celery root in a real treasure.

Varieties of celery root

Varieties celeriac know quite a lot, but in practice most widely regionalized celery Apple. This early maturing variety is able to gain a trade weight from seedling to harvest and for 80-110 days, depending on weather and agricultures. Root from this sort of round shape and not very massive - up to 140 grams. Yields ranged from 12 to 30 kilograms per ten square meters of garden.

Sort Delicatessen slightly larger and has a flat tuber. Too early maturing, ripening on average 110 days with a yield of 20 to 32 kilograms. Sort Gribovsky from seedlings to the collection grows about 120 days under the Medium early. Smaller tubers weighing 60 to 130 grams with good care can give yield up to 47 kg. Exceptionally large root varieties from Magdeburg - almost pound, promising to zoning, we also sort Frigga and Apia, both of Germany.

From local varieties known as Prague (hoof-shaped roots, highly branched late maturity), Diamond, Albin, Yegor, Yudinka, Cascade.

Culture cultivation

Checked experience that grow celery root is best near the cabbage - a plant "help" each other. Celery essential vapors protects against pests neighbor Belyanko butterflies and cabbage celery stimulates better growth. Equally useful to the neighborhood with beets and tomatoes, cucumbers and spinach, any salad, chives and bush beans. The proximity of corn and potatoes, carrots and parsley is not recommended.

It prefers well-lit and open areas, highly dependent on water, but it is not recommended to pour the plant. Demanding for the content of humus and nutrients, absolutely not tolerate acidic soil reaction and near the shallow waters. Enough resistant to frost, even at the stage of seedlings.

Needs loosening (dry land reclamation) and accurate organic fertilizing every two weeks, or a little more often, but by the end of the second month of summer fertilizing is stopped as the plant begins to grow, and the tuber can "contaminate" its fertilizers at their surplus.

Collect celery root in dry weather in late autumn before the first frost is almost at the same time with the late varieties of cabbage. The later the harvest is carried out, the healthier and tastier root: Peak "set" of taste and nutrients from the root of celery falls on the last days of the growing season, when it becomes cool and the plant begins to prepare for the hard winter. Peeled soil healthy roots are cut from the roots (at 5 cm from the tuber), and from the leaves, leaving the stalks into 1, 5 cm. Store crop roots in a cool dark place in boxes, pouring dry shavings or straw. Best tubers are stored in cellars, glaciers at about one to three degrees.