The method of preserving mustard knots is as follows:

Tools: Container.

1. When pickling mustard knots, the container used must be clean and dry, and there must be no water or oil in the container.

2. The container must be sealed without any damage or gaps, otherwise it is easy to fail to pickle the mustard pimples. Seal the container with a lid and marinate for storage.

Introduction to mustard

It has a spicy taste; the stem is upright, and the leaf stalks have small lobes; the lower leaves of the stem are smaller, with notched or serrated edges, and the upper leaves of the stem are narrow and lanceolate, with edges With inconspicuous sparse teeth or entire margin. The racemes are terminal and extended after flowering; the flowers are yellow, the sepals are light yellow, oblong-oval, and spread upright; the petals are obovate, the siliques are linear, and the seeds are spherical and purple-brown. It blooms from March to May and bears fruit from May to June.

Cultivated throughout China. The leaves are salted for consumption; the seeds and the whole plant are used for medicinal purposes, which can resolve phlegm and asthma, reduce swelling and relieve pain; the seeds are ground into powder and are called mustard, which is used as seasoning; the extracted oil is called mustard oil; this species is an excellent nectar plant. It is rarely cultivated in European and American countries and originated in Asia. Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" records the medical value of medical mustard.

Mustard prefers a cool and humid environment, avoids heat and drought, and is not frost-tolerant. It needs strong light conditions. It needs low-temperature vernalization and long-sun conditions to prepare buds, vines, flowering and fruiting. Its root system is well developed, with main and lateral roots distributed in about 30cm soil layer. It likes fertilizer and has a large demand for nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizers.

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