When will the bamboo shoots be picked?

Bamboo shoots are available all year round. The underground stems of Phyllostachys pubescens, Phyllostachys pubescens and other scattered bamboo species are deeply buried in the soil, and bamboo whips and bamboo shoots are protected by the soil layer, so they are not easy to suffer from freezing injury in winter, and the bamboo shoots are mainly produced in spring. The underground stems of Dendrocalamus latiflorus, Phyllostachys pubescens and other clustered bamboo species are shallow in the soil, and the shoots are often exposed on the soil surface, which is vulnerable to freezing injury in winter, and the shoot emergence period is mainly in summer and autumn.

Harvest of bamboo shoots:

What matters is the winter bamboo shoots harvested in summer and the spring bamboo shoots harvested around Tomb-Sweeping Day. Bamboo shoots are harvested when the shoot heads are just exposed to the soil. They are harvested too late, with much fiber and bitter taste. When harvesting, remove the soil around the bamboo shoots to expose the bamboo whip, cut off the base of the bamboo shoots with a knife, take out the bamboo shoots, and then cover the holes with soil and fill them up, which will not affect the sustainable development of the mother bamboo.

Extended data:

Bamboo shoots are perennial evergreen herbs, and the edible parts are primary, tender and fat, short and strong buds or whips. Bamboo originated in China, with many kinds, strong adaptability and wide distribution. The underground stems of Phyllostachys pubescens, Phyllostachys pubescens and other scattered bamboo species are deeply buried in the soil, and bamboo whips and bamboo shoots are protected by the soil layer, so they are not easy to suffer from freezing injury in winter, and the bamboo shoots are mainly produced in spring.

There are many kinds of bamboo shoots, which are produced all year round, but they are especially fresh and delicious, so they are known as the "king of vegetables" in spring. There is a passage in Li Shangyin's works that describes "Nenxiang Lei has just left the forest, and Yuling is as expensive as gold". Back in the Tang Dynasty, it was said that Emperor Taizong liked bamboo shoots very much. Whenever bamboo shoots appear in the market, he always takes bamboo shoots as a symbol of national prosperity and calls them "bamboo shoots feast", just like "bamboo shoots mushroomed" in the Tang Dynasty.

References:

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