Gardening is known to us, but many do not grow it themselves. The garden alarm system is so easy. More on this topic here.
The garden orache (Atriplex hortensis), which grows up to two meters high, can be grown as a leafy vegetable in almost any garden bed. What is special about this relatively undemanding plant is that it is available as a green-leaved, red-leaved and yellow-leaved variety. And some garden centers even offer a purple variety.
Cultivation of garden oriels
You can sow orache directly outdoors from March (until July). It does not make any great demands on the soil conditions and even thrives well in semi-shade. However, you should treat soil that is low in nutrients with compost beforehand (if possible in autumn).
Hint:
You should repeat the sowing several times at intervals of about 3 to 4 weeks, so that you always have fresh vegetables available over a longer period of time and you don't have to process an overly lush harvest at once.
After about 2 weeks, the garden orache will have grown well in most cases, so you can thin it out with a planting distance of about 15 to 20 centimeters. Or you thin out the young plants - in about the 4th week - by harvesting.
Important:
You shouldn't grow the orchard in the same place year after year, but in a different place every year if possible or at least every 3 years sowing. Furthermore, the reporting is not suitable as a follow-up crop for beetroot or chard, but you can plant them between potatoes every year.
Maintain garden message
» Fertilize:
If you give the orache, which is rich in vitamins B and C, a little complete fertilizer from time to time during their growth, you can significantly increase the harvest yield.
» casting:
Garden alarm should provide you with water regularly. On hot days, even water in the morning and evening if possible! Unfortunately, if the plants are too dry, they sometimes shoot - just like lettuce.
» Fight pests:
Of pests, theGarden report only rarely infested once. Only mildew (fungal disease) sometimes bothers her. Then, however, you must remove the entire plant immediately and dispose of it in the household waste.
Should aphids also settle on the garden orache, you only have to cut off the individually infested leaves and dispose of them as well.
Harvest orchard
Young plants that are still small (e.g. intermediate plants that have been sown too tightly) can be harvested whole and processed immediately. With larger perennial plants, on the other hand, you should only process the leaves into vegetables and dispose of the woody stems on the compost.
Tip:
Orache, which you have processed like spinach, is ideal for freezing. So you can enjoy the vegetables all winter long. If you only steam the leaves for a short time, they will retain most of their color and only lose a large part of their bitterness.
Flower and Seeds
From the flowering phase, however, you can no longer harvest the garden orache as a vegetable, but only use it as a decorative vase plant. The red message in particular mutates into a real eye-catcher in the glass.
Tip:
The flowering panicles of the orchard form the seeds for the coming year. You can easily keep it dry throughout the winter. However, you must then ensure that the seeds are of a single variety. The reports belong to the wind pollinators and can quickly interbreed or multiply uncontrollably in the garden.
Use garden alarm in the kitchen
- Organic is closely related to spinach (also known as Spanish spinach)
- They also taste similar to spinach, but are milder
- Young plants (up to 20 cm) are particularly tender and can be eaten raw
- higher proportion of magnesium and vitamins A and C than conventional spinach
- if you are allergic to goosefoot plants, you should avoid eating melde
By the way:
If you roast the seeds in a pan or in the oven (about 1 hour at 220 to 250 degrees), you can use them later than extremely use a tasty spice (also suitable for baking) in numerous dishes.