Today, the author went to the vegetable market to buy food and found an uncle selling winter bamboo shoots. He suddenly became interested. After all, everyone who has eaten winter bamboo shoots knows that it tastes delicious, but he hasn't eaten winter bamboo shoots for half a year. The author also forgot that it is the season when winter bamboo shoots are on the market.
In my hometown, winter bamboo shoots are not rare. Every year after beginning of winter, villagers come to the bamboo forest to dig winter bamboo shoots and calculate the time. Now winter bamboo shoots have been on the market for 1 month.
As a special food in the south, almost every household will eat this dish, but northerners have rarely seen it, but they all say it will be addictive once eaten.
Winter bamboo shoots, that is, bamboo shoots, are much smaller than spring bamboo shoots because of their short growth time, but their meat quality is more beautiful and delicate, and they taste sweet, crisp and delicious.
Compared with other vegetables, winter bamboo shoots are richer in nutrition, including vitamins, minerals, protein and cellulose, which has a good health care effect on human body. In winter, drink a bowl of winter bamboo shoot soup, which is delicious. Just before eating, you need to soak it for 4-5 hours to remove its astringency.
The price of winter bamboo shoots has increased by 40% this year.
In previous years, the price of winter bamboo shoots was 6-1 kg in 7 yuan, especially last year was a big year, and the price was slightly cheaper. This year is a small year with low output. Its origin has been sold to 10 yuan a catty, and the price has increased by 30-40%. In the market, it sold a kilo of 15-20 yuan. Because of its delicious taste, it is a great tonic for people with three highs, and many people will buy it.
Uncle Wang lives in Suichang. Every time after beginning of winter, he would dig winter bamboo shoots on the mountain with a hoe and a bamboo basket. It's not that easy to dig winter bamboo shoots. You need to learn to identify where there are winter bamboo shoots, and then you can dig out the loess with high viscosity. The whole process is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it is often necessary to dig 80- 100cm thick.
Some people may say that if farmers dig bamboo shoots for a long time, will they finish digging winter bamboo shoots? In fact, unlike other things, bamboo shoots are "digging more and more". How to explain it? In the experience of the old farmers, there were many winter bamboo shoots dug, and there were many spring bamboo shoots that year. If you don't dig, most of it will rot in the soil. Why do you say that?
Winter bamboo shoots are the underground stems of Phyllostachys pubescens in front of beginning of winter, that is, the tender buds of the lateral buds of bamboo shoots. A bamboo shoot may grow more than 65,438+00 bamboo shoots, which need to absorb a lot of nutrients and water, which is not conducive to the growth of bamboo itself. When the winter bamboo shoots are dug, there will be more bamboo shoots in the second year.
This year is a small year of winter bamboo shoots, and the yield in many places is not high, especially in Jiangxi and Sichuan. Due to low yield and short size, the price of winter bamboo shoots has increased by about 40% this year When winter bamboo shoots reach the market, they are naturally very popular. Some people spend 20 yuan to buy a catty of winter bamboo shoots.
Uncle Wang said that he is responsible for digging winter bamboo shoots every day and his wife is responsible for selling winter bamboo shoots in the vegetable market. Because he sells them cheaply, he can't sell them at the price of 10- 12 yuan per catty. He can earn more than 100 yuan a day. With luck, he can sell it for two or three hundred yuan. He is very satisfied.
03. How to identify the burial position of winter bamboo shoots?
Many netizens want to experience the fun of digging winter bamboo shoots just because they have no experience. Even if they come to the bamboo forest, they may not dig one for a long time. Uncle Wang said that it takes experience to dig winter bamboo shoots, otherwise it will waste time. So how to identify the buried location of winter bamboo shoots?
① Look at the terrain.
To dig winter bamboo shoots, it must be a bamboo forest that is more than 2-3 years old. If you can't find a place, it is a waste of time. When you come to the bamboo forest, you need to observe the terrain at this time.
First of all, if bamboo grows on the hillside, winter bamboo shoots mainly grow on the uphill position; Secondly, bamboo grows more easily in loose soil, while in hard soil, even if winter bamboo shoots grow, they are smaller. On the contrary, the winter bamboo shoots in loose soil are larger and the soil layer is shallower.
The most stupid way is to see if there are bumps or cracks in the soil, and most of these places contain bamboo shoots. Of course, winter bamboo shoots are bigger and more in the concave areas where rainwater gathers. In addition, there are more bamboo shoots outside the bamboo forest than inside, mainly because the external light is sufficient and the nutrient supply is more.
② Look at the leaves.
If the leaves of bamboo are blue and dense, the tip of bamboo is yellow, and there is no white hair on the bamboo pole, this means that bamboo has many nutrients and the probability of winter bamboo shoots is high. On the contrary, if the bamboo leaves are sparse and there are many yellow leaves, they are mostly old bamboos, and it is difficult to have winter bamboo shoots. Besides, bamboo is bigger, and bamboo shoots are usually bigger.
③ Find a bamboo whip.
To find bamboo whip, we must find out the age of bamboo, generally 2 years, and the distance between winter bamboo shoots and bamboo 1- 1.5 meters; For more than 3 years, the distance between bamboo shoots and bamboo 1.5-2.5 meters. The older the bamboo, the older the winter bamboo shoots.
Generally speaking, most sunny places are the growth direction of winter bamboo shoots. Of course, the direction of bamboo whip can also be judged by the direction of the first branch, and then the approximate position of bamboo shoots can be judged by the age of bamboo.
It can be seen that it is a skilled, experienced and often experienced old farmer who is looking for winter bamboo shoots. He can tell where there are winter bamboo shoots in a short time and then dig them.
For southerners, it is a common practice to eat winter bamboo shoots in winter. Winter bamboo shoots can be stir-fried or boiled in soup, or stewed meat. It tastes delicious and stimulates people's taste buds, so don't miss this delicious food in winter.