Snow red called snow, because in the southern region of China, because it is rare to see into the purplish red "snow red", at the same time the market in order to sound good, but also the snow red called snow.

The snowy vegetable is generally referred to as potherb mustard, the scientific name is snowy red, snowy vegetable, spring is not old, frost is not old, is the cruciferous family, brassica genus mustard cultivated varieties, annual herbs.

Snow beet contains protein, vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, iron, riboflavin, niacin and other substances. The reason why snow lettuce is called "snow red", because it is more resistant to cold, in the northeast, when all the green vegetables in the fall are withered pull, it is still alive, but after the frost, the upper part of the plant will become red, so it is named.

Plant Form

Sherry red, also known as row of vegetables, roasted vegetables, nine mustard, is a new variety of mustard mutation, the leaves are larger, the stem and leaves are stout, light green ovoid, in the frost after part of the leaves become red and named, the flowers are bright yellow. Cherry red is a leafy vegetable in the mustard class, so it smells spicy and tastes a little bitter, so most of them are used to make pickles to eat, of course, there are also boiled or fried to eat, but most of the life is used to make pickles.

Winter and spring type snowdrops are generally sown in late September, fall snowdrops sown in late July. Specifically according to the characteristics of varieties, edible requirements and stubble arrangements and other conditions. Before sowing, first watering the bottom, and then sowing, to do fine sowing, even sowing, sowing cover fine soil, and covered with straw and other mulch cooling and moisturizing, the conditions of the available shade net cover, after the emergence of seedlings in a timely manner to remove.