Most of gardeners grows up various leaf or cabbage lettuces on the site. They a well of vitamins, bring benefit to an organism, they can be eaten directly from a bed. The most popular grade, the relative of salad the Iceberg — original Frillis salad.
The early culture of saturated green Frillis color has crunchy leaves of fragmentary structure and a friable head of cabbage with a weight to 300 g. Salad is suitable for cultivation from April to September on any soil. He is unpretentious in leaving and doesn't demand a lot of place. During the season allows to reap several crops from one bed. The long time keeps useful properties, at the correct storage. Differs from other grades in excellent sweetish taste with a taste of bitterness and content of ascorbic acid.
We will consider 3 ways of landing of a frillis step by step.
To the open ground
Land this culture in preferably early spring, seeds in the prepared grooves at small distance from each other and on the solar site.
- Place sunflower seeds in the earth, powder from above with sandy mix and to press down slightly.
- It is plentiful to water and cover with a film (for protection at cold night).
- Thin out the sprouted shoots in case of their density as the size of a bunch has a diameter of 20 - 25 cm, to remove a film.
- Water daily in the evening and periodically slightly to loosen the soil in a row-spacing.
- Fertilizing carry out time in 1 – 2 weeks by special fertilizers or garden preparations.
During growth salad forms a head that simplifies process of its collecting. It is better to cut off leaves not at the roots, and leaving 5 – 7 cm that will allow to reap a repeated crop.
As well as all plants, this culture is exposed to garden diseases. Having found on seedling or an adult plant: I spoil, decay or a midge, it is necessary to process usual fertilizers and to remove all sick parts of a bush. It is necessary to disinfect also the soil.
Some gardeners use cunning at cultivation of a frillis. They interplant around a bed mint or cultivated flowers which the aroma and essential oils frighten off a plant louse and don't allow to develop a mold on shoots.
In a house container
At the first stage it is necessary to choose the correct box for landing. It has to be not high with a good drainage. Its optimum sizes in width of the 50th 70 cm and in height no more than 13 cm.
- Buy or pave the way. The best option – humus, peat, sand in a proportion 2: 2:1.
- On a bottom to place an expanded clay layer, to fill the prepared earth and to condense.
- Water with potassium permanganate solution (1 кристаллик on 0.5 liters of boiled water of room temperature), to make grooves of 2 cm in depth with an interval of 10 cm between them.
- Place seeds with a step to 7 – 10 cm to the prepared holes and powder with the earth.
- Irrigate with water from a watering can and remove to the dark place to the first rostochok. Then to expose on a windowsill and to water regularly.
- Following usual rules of watering and spraying, the first crop can be reaped a month later.
At cultivation in house conditions it is required to control the air temperature, humidity and illumination. Not expose a baking plate direct beams of the sun, to shade a little glasses and have near a pot humidifiers.
Podzimy landing
Winter-hardy plant therefore it can be sowed late fall before arrival of cold weather (October – November).
- In soil to introduce fertilizers, to loosen and make flutes of 10 cm in depth at distance of 25 cm from each other.
- Seed seeds more densely, powder with humus/foliage, cover with earth and water. It is recommended to cover with fir twigs.
- With arrival of spring to open landing and to wait for the first harvest which will please at the beginning of spring.
Caloric content and advantage of salad
The annual plant Frillis enters into group of low-calorie plants, so 100 grams contain only 24 kcal. It is vitamin-rich, acids, minerals. Its energy value makes: 1.5 g food fibers, 1.7 g light carbohydrates, 1.4 g of a squirrel, 0.2 g fats and 95 g of water.
Regular introduction to a food allowance of salad will help to revitalize an organism and to strengthen immunity. In addition, Frillis has the following beneficial influence:
- strengthens central nervous system and a cardiovascular system;
- nourishes hair, skin and fabrics valuable substances;
- stabilizes work of digestive tract and thyroid gland;
- promotes fast healing of wounds and cracks;
- normalizes a water balance of cages of bodies.
Also, promotes decrease in excessive weight, increase in development of leukocytes. And the high content of folic acid is useful for pregnant women and the feeding women.
Frillis it is possible to eat as an independent dish, having slightly poured lemon and oil dressing, and as a garnish to any dish. Indulge yourself and friends with original snack from seafood and fruit. It is quite simple, but very tasty recipe clear even to the child.
Spring shrimps salad
Ingredients:
- ready shrimps – 150 g;
- sweet-sour apple – 1 piece;
- pineapple cubes – 110 g;
- salad – 70 g;
- ginger powder – 0.5 tsps;
- soy-bean sauce – 1 tsp;
- vegetable oil – 2 tablespoons;
- yogurt gas station – a glass of 100 ml.
Step-by-step preparation:
- Shrimps to defreeze, drench with boiled water and to brown in a frying pan.
- Peel, cut apple thin strips.
- To wash, blot leaves of a frillis with a napkin, to dig hands.
- Lay out all products in a bowl, water with a soy-bean sauce and mix.
- In a separate drinking bowl to mix yogurt, ginger, the oil which remained after roasting of shrimps and to add any spices to taste.
- Pour dressing over snack, mix and give to a table!