Xikou Chestnut Chestnut specialty Xiushui

Many chestnuts usage, can be used to add water, soup consumption, for physically weak after the illness, weakness in limbs; available chestnuts porridge, add sugar consumption, with gas, strong bones and muscles; dried chestnuts can be eaten twice daily number of stars, can also be used Fresh chestnuts simmer cooked food for the elderly kidney; bruises, swelling and pain during congestion, the available raw meat crushed chestnuts mashed, applied to the affected area. It should be noted that it is difficult to digest raw chestnuts, cooked and easy to stagnation gas time, it can not be eaten too much, and indigestion, warm worse unfit for human consumption. Real chestnut has three fears: First, heat intolerance, and second, fear dry, the third is afraid of cold. Storage mainly for the following methods: a sand storage method: outdoor trenching (pit) storage is. Choose a well-drained site, dig 1 meter wide, 60 cm deep, long limited the ditch, after leveling, ditch a layer of wet sand (moisture content 30-35%), put a layer of chestnut, followed by lamination, each 5-6 cm thick sand and chestnut. The top layer of sand from the pit face up to 10 cm. Shujie the ventilation pit can be inserted, and finally into a house crest-shaped mound, anti-rain infiltration. Second, the band shell storage: choose well-drained sites, floors 10 cm thick sand, the bud if the open air. Size of the heap may not like, but not exceeding 1 meter in very high fever. Kaoliang covered with straw heap. Pay attention to check, such as heap heat or dry, may be appropriate to splashing water, cooling moisturizer. This storage method is simple labor, long storage period can be maintained until March-April next year, but with the storage of chestnut bud germinate easily. If the fruit bud weevil hazard is not easy to use this method, because the heap Tibetan high humidity favor weevil activity. Third, plastic film or a film bag storage account: the normal maturation of the chestnut, the sweat and heat a month later, you can use a film account or burrows film storage bag. Film bags can be placed in cages, paper baskets or wooden boxes. To prevent mildew, wash fruit before bagging and thiophanate solution with a few 500 times dipped fruit, dry bags. Film bag capacity of 25 kg is appropriate, film thickness 0.05 mm, on each side of the bag marked with a diameter of 2 cm hole, hole distance of 5 cm. No holes such as the use bags, they have at any time rake to facilitate ventilation and bulk water vapor. In the high temperature, humidity bag is too large, it should spare no inspection, reduce decay and weight loss reduced germination.