Some friends frankly said that it is already a bit unrealistic to want to grow vegetables with absolute characteristics today, but all agricultural products with market potential have no secrets in the country, even if they use greenhouses, they have to plant it, and finally end up blossoming everywhere, thus losing the selling point of characteristics.
However, the vegetable we talked about today can be described as very distinctive, the growth period is particularly short, farmers and friends can plant a stubble in the spring and autumn, peel off the skin can be eaten raw, crisp with a little sweetness, like eating fruit, of course, you can also fry or make soup, you can also use garlic juice cold mix.
But its biggest value is not in fresh food, but made into dehydrated vegetables, now the purchase price of the land is 18 yuan / jin, mu yield (dehydrated vegetables) about 260 kg, so calculated, mu benefits can reach more than 4500 yuan, two stubble income of nearly 10,000 yuan, the most important thing is that this crop is not anywhere can be planted, leaving the right soil and climate, the quality is greatly reduced.
This interesting vegetable is dried moss, also known as tribute vegetables, xiangcai, local rural people commonly known as moss, for dried moss, many friends may be very strange, from the appearance, it is easiest to think that this is not lettuce, indeed, in addition to the body size than lettuce slender, it looks like the twin brother of lettuce, if you see dried moss in the field, it will make many friends mistakenly think that this is oil wheat vegetable, yes, its leaves are like very oil wheat vegetables.
For this kind of dry moss like lettuce, but also like oil wheat vegetables, the yield is so low, but also so harsh on the climate and soil requirements, no wonder the economic benefits are so high, in all parts of the country has not formed a swarm of bees planting reasons, below, please follow the author, go deep into the dry moss planting line, see the farmer friends harvest and process dried moss lively scene.
Shatu Town, Bozhou City, Anhui Province, is one of the main production areas of local dried moss, in the home of Meng Xianling, a dried moss grower in Wuzhuang Village, he is pushing a cart of freshly harvested dried moss, coming out of the ground, the open space in front of the house, the family is busy sorting and processing dried moss, the sunset is setting, farmers and friends put the joy of the harvest on their faces, the agricultural product market is good, everyone is also working with special energy, even the old mother who is nearly ninety years old also came to help, and the granddaughter who has not yet started school is even more busy.
According to Uncle Meng: "Dried moss is now the price of 18 yuan a catty, and last year is almost the same, our growers are still satisfied, if you can store until winter, and then take it to the city to sell, usually the value will be more than doubled, but for our growers, this is somewhat unrealistic, especially in the spring moss drying, after drying there is no way to store, if not sold in time, it will be easy to produce sugar discoloration, because the dried moss sugar content is higher, there is no way to store without cold storage."
Although dried moss is easy to plant, but the harvest processing is a complex link, after harvesting from the field, to remove the leaves (only leaving the tender shoots), and then scrape the skin, after exposing the flesh, and then use a blade to cut into four petals, and then hang in the sun for drying, if the scraping is not clean, the dried moss will have a bitter head to eat, so every time the work must be done very carefully.
If the processing of dried moss is hard, I have not yet talked about the core, this dried moss processing has a characteristic, that is, after scraping the skin, it must be hung in the sun in time to dry, if not in time to ventilate to see the sun, it will change color, the dried moss dried out of the sun is black and dim, can not sell the price at all, so everyone is up in the early morning to process the dried moss, and when the sun comes out, the village is full of freshly processed dried moss. Therefore, some young people have said that it does not matter if they are tired of farm work, if they stay up late continuously, they will not be able to stand it at all.
If you want to learn more about a crop, then go deep into the field and find an experienced grower like Uncle Meng, you can benefit a lot, below, we go back to the beginning, what kind of vegetable is dried moss, why does it look so similar to lettuce and oil wheat vegetables, and is there any inevitable connection between them?
It should be emphasized that the reason why dried moss, lettuce and oil wheat vegetables are similar in appearance, and even easy to be confused with lettuce, is because they belong to the same crop of the Asteraceae family, and the family does not speak two languages, and the similarity in appearance is not difficult to explain.
It is also said that dried moss is a variant of lettuce, although the appearance is easy to be similar, but there is also a difference, this is like a pair of twin brothers, in the eyes of others it is difficult to distinguish brothers, but in the eyes of parents, the two are still very different, dried moss and lettuce In addition to some less obvious differences in appearance, the biggest difference is that dried moss can make high-quality dehydrated vegetables, while lettuce cannot.
For the past life of this vegetable, and why it cannot be widely promoted nationwide, these topics we will talk about in the next issue, and we also welcome interested friends to actively leave messages to discuss and exchange.