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Vegetable growing abroad
Abroad vegetable growing differs in the separate countries assortment of cultures and methods of their cultivation. Among the foreign socialist states specific weight of vegetable growing in plant growing and economy of Bulgaria where cultivate vegetables in a considerable quantity for export is especially high; 1 place on areas under crops and a total yield is occupied with a tomato, then a sweet pepper, vegetable peas, an onions, salad, colour and green-head cabbage, carrot, etc.
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Increase yield of vegetables
In an increase yield and increase in production of vegetables the important role is played by Selection and Seed-growing. The Soviet selectors breed breeds of vegetable cultures for each soil-climatic zone of the country, various ripenings on times, for cultivation in opened and a sheltered ground, consumption in a fresh kind and for different kinds of processing qualitatively new breeds and heterosis forms of plants Are etc. bred also: cold-resistant, determinant, bole breeds of a tomato; keeper and ultra-early ripening breeds of cabbage, and also a breed, resistant against a clubroot; partially monoecious forms of a cucumber; breeds of carrot with the raised content of carotin; an one-seeded table beet, breeds of a beet for an early winter sowing. On 1974 637 breeds (80 %) Soviet selection have been zoned 796 breeds and hybrids of vegetable cultures, from them.
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Vegetable growing – the term 1
Vegetable growing – the branch of agriculture engaging in cultivation of vegetable plants. Melon growing concerns vegetable growing – cultivation watermelons cultures.
Distinguish vegetable growing of an open ground and vegetable growing of the protected (closed) ground. In an open ground cultivate vegetable cultures for reception of vegetables and seeds during the spring-and-summer and autumn periods, in a sheltered ground – vegetables during out-of-season time when on climatic conditions crop reception in the field is impossible, and seedlings for an open ground.
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Beet drying
For drying select a dark red beet, without large proveins and light rings. The size of a beet for drying should be an average.
Beet wash, cut off at it radicles and a tops of vegetable and lower in boiling water. Scald a beet about 25 minutes, to average softness. It is important to scald a beet not cut as at beet cooking entirely in it remains more than nutritious and curative substances.
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Potato storage
Potato to dig out it is necessary cautiously not to damage tubers. The gathered potato touch, cut off the tubers damaged by diseases, pests. Remained half, the cut off tubers need to be stored separately and to use in food as soon as possible. The touched potato dry under the sun within several hours.
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Storage of a radish, turnip and beet
Radish, turnip and beet store, as well as carrot, in wooden boxes in height about 1 metre. It is possible to store these root crops and on a floor, sprinkle their small hillock. Haulm of a radish, turnip and a beet cut off at once after their harvesting.
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Gathering and storage of root crops
Many root crops gather hands, pulling out vegetables from the earth for the bottom part of haulm. By the way, one of signs of that the root crop is time for cleaning, the grown brown haulm which leaves start to fall down and bend down to the earth serves.
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Crop preservation for the winter
Very important not only to reap a crop from a garden in an integrity and safety, but also to keep it further so that vegetables could be used within all winter.
For storage of vegetables special rooms – a cellar, a cellar are necessary. Before placing in them the gathered vegetables, in a cellar or a cellar to be spent careful harvesting, they are well aired. The temperature in a room in which vegetables are stored, should be not above 4-6 degrees of heat.
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Vitamins
Vegetables represent the special value as alimentary and medicinal products in connection with the high maintenance to them of vitamins. As vitamins are called low-molecular organic matters, various on a chemical constitution. Remarkable feature of these materials is that their quantity necessary for an organism, is insignificant a little, but presence of these remains necessarily. Such simple name of these materials – vitamins – actually masks the terrible fact bound to them: absence of vitamins in nutrition invokes heavy diseases, for example a scurvy, takes-take, a rickets, pellagra and other which come to an end with mors of the patient. From here "vitamin" that В«life amineВ» (amines – the phylum of organic matters) means.
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Vegetables
Vegetables began to define the further development of an alimentary system. They compensated a meat lack: thanks to the low caloricity they were consumed by our ancestors in considerable quantities without excess of rational energy value, creating feeling of appetite and satiety. Also vegetables have not driven out some meat of a diet of the person completely, but opposite, promoted the best mastering of meat and other food natural products. The feeling of satiety has allowed our ancestors not to ferment all time in search of food, and a food by meat stimulated development of a brain which has occupied hours of full leisure ancient with useful occupations.
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