Sunberry - a sunny berry, so affectionately called this plant by the British. This is a giant nightshade the size of a cherry and 10-15 pieces per brush. Of course, the taste is not very pleasant to enjoy raw berries. But from a processed berry (cake blank, jam or candied fruit, jam, jam or jelly, liquor or tincture, canned fruits), unusual delicacies are obtained. To eliminate the not very pleasant taste, the fruits are poured with boiling water before cooking the preparations, which is drained after 15 minutes, and only then proceed to processing.
Biography
Sunberry is known and appreciated in many countries, but few are familiar with this berry in Russia. This culture is the result of the activity of the breeder - American L. Burbank. Parents of culture were nightshades from Africa and Europe. Sunberry took over the unpretentiousness of growth, amazing large-fruited, rich productivity, and the improved taste - from a European ancestor.
Agricultural technology
Sunberry - a one and a half meter year old with a 4-sided stem, surrounded by a powerful stepson shoot. This giant surprises with ripe fleshy berries, generously strewn the plant, which allows you to collect more than a bucket of sunberry from one bush.
Seedlings
Plants are placed in open ground according to a 60x70 cm pattern. Plantings are compacted with lettuce, feather onions, radishes. Resistant to lodging, not needing the garter of the main stem, tolerating light frosts and drought - this is such a clever sunberry. Growing it does not require special care: watering, loosening, weeding, feeding with mullein 1-2 times. The berries ripen gradually and are picked all summer. For seeds, you need to select the largest fruits from multiple and early brushes. Thus, the best selection signs of precocity and productivity will be inherited.
Some features of the sunberry
Growing still has a number of features. Seeds germinate tightly, they must first be soaked in potassium permanganate for 20 minutes, washed with cold water and wrapped in a damp cloth for 3-4 days so that the seeds can hatch. Sown in cups with nutritious soil mixture of 1-2 seeds. To give stability bushes spud as needed. Under the stepsons, bending from the berry brushes, they put wooden slingshots. Cruciferous flea can harm the sunberry. Cultivation of this culture will be more successful if you do not have planting where cruciferous plants (cabbage, radish, etc.) grew in previous years.
Beneficial features
The unpretentiousness of the culture allows you to get abundant harvests every year, even in adverse years for other berry crops, which helps - you can make blanks for winter from sunberry. The beneficial properties of this berry are beneficial for acute vision, they are characterized by antiseptic, hemostatic, diuretic, anthelmintic effects. Crushed berries in yogurt (1: 1) are applied in the form of dressings to ulcers, ulcers. Juice diluted with water in a ratio of 3: 1 is an excellent rinse for stomatitis and tonsillitis. Juice treats a runny nose, tiring insomnia. Elixir for health is prepared from juice of berries, water and honey. 2.5 liters of water are poured into 2.5 liters of juice and honey - 1.5 kg is stirred. The product is stored in the cold. Take 2 tbsp before meals. l Thanks to the elixir, pressure is normalized, headache is relieved, memory improves, and the body's defenses increase. It treats diseases such as rheumatism and gout, relieves asthma, varicose veins. Juice from the stem and leaves is treated with seborrhea, advanced psoriasis, affectionate eczema. For 100 ml of juice you need 2 protein and 2 tbsp. l berry juice. All mix and make dressings.
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