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- Winter hard purslane - tasty vitamin donor in the cold season
- Winter hard purslane is undemanding
- Grow winter sports powder
- Tips & Tricks
Winter hard purslane - tasty vitamin donor in the cold season
For a long time, the purslane, also known as the winter spinach, was fiercely fought as a very stubborn and unruly weed. For some years, the healthy winter vegetables, however, due to its high content of vitamins and minerals, however, to new honors. In fact, only winter sports are hardy, while the summer athlete needs plenty of sun and warmth.
Winter hard purslane is undemanding
Winter athlulak, also known as Winterspinat, Kubaspinat or Siberian purslane, is very undemanding and does well with little sunshine. In addition, the plant survives even frosty winters with temperatures up to - 20 ° C. The white or light pink flowering plants are about ten to 15 inches high and grow rather creeping. For this reason, they are ideal as ground cover, especially in shady places (eg for greening under trees).
Grow winter sports powder
Winter spinach can be sown directly into the open from the end of September. In mild winters even a sowing in December or January is still possible, as well as a spring sowing in March. The plants prefer a loose and humus soil, which may like to be sandy. In contrast to the summer athlete, the winter athlete is a bedecker, whose seeds should be about 10 millimeters deep in the ground. The optimal distance between the individual plants is about 10 x 15 centimeters, whereby you should separate the young plants quickly. Winter spinach is also one of the cold germs, which germinate only with a corresponding cold in the form of temperatures of below 12 ° C. An extension in the greenhouse, in the balcony box or another planter is possible.
Tips & Tricks
Cover the soil around the plants with a thick layer of bark mulch so that it is kept warm and moist - in this way not only weeds have no chance, the plants survive even very cold winters better.
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