Stakhis

An unpretentious, cold-resistant plant. Stakhis can grow even on poor, podzolic soils, but it really gives a good harvest only on soils rich in organic matter: up to one hundred kilograms from one kilogram of planting material! On the outside, the plant is very similar to the deaf nettle. The height is only 60 cm. On the underground sprouts-stolons, like potatoes, grow tubers, but only small, with transverse constrictions, which make them look like shells.

Stamens of stachis are prepared for planting in the same way as potato tubers: first they are heated in hot water, then they are kept in a solution of potassium permanganate, then they are greened in the light, germinated in the dark and planted.

Plant, too, like a potato, in rows at a distance of 60 cm row from the row. Tuber is placed in rows at a distance of 25 cm from each other. Seedlings appear in about two weeks. When they grow up to a height of 25 cm, they are hilled. Plants planted on May 10-15 bloom in August and continue to blossom until harvesting. Flowers do not break off the stachis. Harvest is collected in late September.

They take care of the staxis as well as the potatoes, that is, they are poured in the arid intervals between rows, loosen, before fertilizing they give mineral fertilizing with any complex fertilizer, in which they additionally add double granulated superphosphate( 3 tablespoons of azofosca - 1 tbsp spoonfulsuperphosphate) and make 1 tbsp.spoon under the bush.

Nodules are well kept at a temperature of 3-4 degrees until the very spring. If it is not possible to store them in a cellar or a cellar( or in a refrigerator) and have to store them at room temperature at home, it is better to leave a part of the crop for wintering right in the soil, and in the spring to dig and use for food and planting.

There are practically no pests at the stachis. The causative agents of illness do not touch it.

There is almost no starch in the nodules, but they contain a large amount of polysaccharides, vitamin C and natural inulin, and therefore stahis is a valuable dietary product, especially for people with high blood sugar. Stachis is recommended to eat not only diabetics for reducing sugar, but hypertensive people for lowering blood pressure, it is also useful for people with tuberculosis. There is no contraindication to use stachis in writing.

Nodules boil, dropping them into boiling, slightly salted water, uncleaned, no more than 5-6 minutes( otherwise they become sticky), or cook for a couple. Boiled nodules can be filled with mayonnaise or vegetable oil. Sprinkle with dill and parsley. They can be fried in breadcrumbs, like cauliflower. It is a good and healthy side dish for meat and fish.

Stakhis can be eaten in raw and boiled salads, salt, marinate, like cucumbers. Fresh and dried young shoots of stachis can be consumed in small quantities( due to strong spicy taste) as an aromatic seasoning for sauces, salting and marinating.