Green bed with care for your health

The benefits of greenery

Green plants are therefore called useful, since they contain such chemical
elements like: zinc, magnesium, chromium, iron, folic acid, phosphorus, calcium, potassium. Rich
greens and the most valuable vitamins: A, C, B1, E, B2, PP, B5, B6 and others. Alkaloid lactucin,
causing a bitter taste in some varieties, normalizes metabolism, arterial
pressure, promotes healthy sleep, has a positive effect on body systems, in
most of them on the nervous and digestive. All kinds of green plants
low in calories, contain a significant amount of dietary fiber and fiber, so they
used in diets. A green bed in the garden will be useful for any gardener.

Green bed: the best types of plants

Head and leaf lettuce.

It has in its stock many varieties with different
intensity of taste and bitterness. Grows in the form of a loose head of cabbage or root rosette.
Planted early by seed or seedling. Every couple of weeks of the warm season
new beds are being sown.

Arugula.

Eliminates a large number of diseases. This plant is famous for its spicy mustard
taste. Sow 5 times per season.

Watercress.

An early ripening type of salad, its readiness to go into the mouth comes in 10-20 days
after germination. Sow at intervals of 1.5-2 weeks.

Radicchio.

This plant has a spicy and bitter taste. Forms burgundy dense
heads of cabbage with thick veins. Sowed from the first days of May until the end of the summer period,
depends on the variety.

Iceberg.

Crispy salad, has the freshest taste. Grows in the form of a loose head of cabbage with a radius of 20
40 cm. It is sown from the moment the soil thaws by 5 cm until the end of summer, with an interval of a couple of weeks.

Romain.

Romaine leaves are a component of the very Caesar salad. Looks like compressed
rosettes with a thick vein in the center. This salad variety is famous for its nutty flavor and
freshness. Sowed every month.

Ramson.

The earliest bird in the beds. It looks like lily of the valley bushes. Has a taste
garlic. Loves to be in the shadows. The very first leaves are very useful and especially
delicious.

Fennel.

Or "fennel". In fact, it really looks like dill - with large
sockets. Fennel is a source of rutin, ascorbic acid, as well as valuable vitamins K, B, A, E. All parts
fennel are used as food. Fennel is sown 2-3 times per season.

Onion.

Diverse in its types: onion, multi-tiered, shallots, slime, leek, chives, batun,
garlic. A treasure trove of valuable trace elements and vitamins. An irreplaceable companion for
strong persistent immunity. They are eaten fresh, boiled, fried.
Can be grown at any time of the year both in the garden and at home.

Spinach and sorrel.

Perennials that grow in a rosette, their leaves are very
useful. These plants have a sour taste, more pronounced in sorrel. Irreplaceable
addition to first courses, salads. Sowing takes place before winter or in spring once in
year.

Celery.

The most useful variety of greens. Appears before us in the form of a plant with juicy
thick basal petioles or in the form of a low bush. Grown by seedlings or
sowing into the soil once a year at the end of the second spring month.

Parsley.

Very useful greens. Exceeds lemon in vitamin C content by as much as five times, and
by the content of carotene spits carrots. Adds fresh flavor to salads. Sow
parsley before the first frost or early spring every year.

Cucumber herb.

A great alternative to cucumber. Has a fresh cucumber smell and taste. Grows in
the form of a root rosette of rough leaves. They are sown once a month, since the cucumber herb has
property to bloom very quickly.

Chard.

Pleasing to the eye, as it will decorate any garden. Grows in the form of a root rosette
leaves on long, bright petioles (crimson, orange, snow-white or yellow) are
a distinctive feature of Swiss chard. Cuttings and leaves are eaten. Chard
improves immunity, body defenses and removes insoluble salts.
It is sown once a season, in the period April-May. From an aesthetic point of view, the ridge can
arrange in the form of a beautiful flower garden.

Usefulness, availability, variety of plants, their freshness - that's what value it has
useful green bed. Plants can be grown both in the garden and on the windowsill, and
then good health is definitely guaranteed!