Why sea buckthorn is useful and how to properly grow it on the site

Sea buckthorn Is a shrub belonging to the Lokhovye family. Bushes grow up to 10 m high. Sea buckthorn grows in the USA, Europe, Canada, Central Asia. It can be near river banks, on mountain slopes. The plant is very hardy, it is even suitable for Siberia.

Content:

• Sea buckthorn: description and properties
• Application of berries and leaves
• Sea buckthorn varieties
• Rules for planting sea buckthorn on the site
• Shrub Care Tips
• Pest and disease control

Sea buckthorn: description and properties

Sea buckthorn has a trunk covered with thorns and elongated leaves. It blooms in April, and by August-October the fruits ripen - sweet and sour yellow and orange berries.

How are raw materials procured? The berries are harvested when they are fully ripe and in good weather. It is best to freeze the berries in the freezer, then all the vitamins are stored in them. Also, berries can be dried in a dryer at t = + 40 ° C. You can also squeeze juice from the berries with a press, and make sea buckthorn oil from the pulp. Branches and leaves are harvested in June and dried in a dry, dark, well-ventilated area.

Beneficial features:

• The berry contains 505-1170 mg / 100 g of triterpenic acids, they normalize blood flow in the body, prevent heart pain, help with insomnia, shortness of breath, atherosclerosis.
• The fruit contains a large mass of B-sitosterol, which has an anti-sclerotic effect.
• There is serotonin, which helps against tumors.
• There is choline, which reduces the amount of bad cholesterol and prevents obesity.
• Flavonoids prevent cancer.
• There are 15 trace elements.

Application of berries and leaves

Since the sea buckthorn berry contains a large amount of vitamins (A, B1, B3, C), it strengthens the immune system and fights against vitamin deficiency.

A decoction from the leaves of the plant has a beneficial effect on the intestines and aids in digestion.

If the sea buckthorn berries are kneaded to a pulp, then the sea buckthorn disinfects and heals wounds, cuts, helps to disappear burns, scars, heals age spots.

This gruel should be eaten for sore throat and sore throat. If you mix berry gruel with honey and take it, you can cure a dry cough. A decoction of sea buckthorn seeds is used as a laxative. A decoction of the fruits and leaves of sea buckthorn is good to drink with gout and rheumatism.

Using sea buckthorn oil:

• If you get sore throat, flu and colds, then oil is applied to the throat and buried in the nose. They smear frostbitten skin, various ulcers.
• A decoction of twigs is good for hair loss and baldness.
• The cream, which contains sea buckthorn, in addition to healing burns, scars, improves complexion, eliminates wrinkles.

Sea buckthorn berries contain carotene, which can cause allergies in some people. The fruits contain a large amount of acids, so they need to be used very carefully by people with liver disease, pancreatitis, cholecystitis, inflammation of the duodenum.

Sea buckthorn varieties

Early fruiting:

• Vorobievskaya
• Darling
• Amateur
• Panteleevskaya
• Chuiskaya

Average term:

• Moscow beauty
• Gift to the garden
• Trofimovskaya
• University

Late:

• Galerit
• Elizabeth
• Red carmine
• Perchik
• Muscovite

Frost-resistant varieties suitable for Siberia:

• Vladimirka
• Gift of Katun
• Ear of gold
• Favorite Michaly
• Multivitamin
• Popular.

Rules for planting sea buckthorn on the site

Bushes sea ​​buckthorn can be both male and female. Because of this, in order to get a lot of berries as a result, male and female bushes are planted side by side.

Where and when to plant sea buckthorn:

• Sea buckthorn should be planted at the edge of plots, along paths, near lawns.
• When planting, you need to remember that its roots grow to the sides about 10 meters from the trunk and they are located shallow from the surface. Therefore, it is not worth digging up the ground near the sea buckthorn.
• Plants love the sun's rays and are best planted in open areas where there is no shade.
• The seedling is planted in early spring. It should have 3-5 skeletal roots up to 20 cm long and a large number of fibrous roots, and its trunk should be 35-50 cm high and 6-8 mm in diameter, have several shoots.

If the soil has acidic characteristics, then ash or dolomite flour 300-500 g / m2 is added to it. 3 weeks after adding ash, or dolomite, 10-15 kg / m3 are added to the infertile land during digging. sq. rotted manure or compost and 60 g / m. sq. simple superphosphate, 70 g / m sq. potassium. If the original soil is heavy loamy, then 300 g / m is added. sq. superphosphate and 3 buckets of sand per sq.

When planting in rows, the distance between the bushes is 2.5 m, and in the aisles - up to 4 m.

Landing rules:

• First, pits 60 cm deep and 50 cm wide are dug out.Then 1/3 of the hole is filled with earth, filling the soil with a mound.
• Next, a bush is placed on the mound, the roots are carefully spread, covered with earth and compacted.
• The root collar is deepened by 5-7 cm, then additional roots will grow at the sea buckthorn.
• A wooden stake is inserted into the ground, a bush is tied to it, a near-stem hole is carefully dug, 2 buckets of water are poured per 1 plant and mulch with sawdust or peat soil.

Shrub Care Tips

After planting seedlings for 2-3 years, they do not plant anything nearby and constantly pull out weeds... After 3 years, greens can be planted near sea buckthorn, parsley, dill... Do not dig deeper than 7 cm near the sea buckthorn. Always keep the ground moist.

If there is a drought, then when watering, pour over 1 square meter. trunk circle 3-5 buckets of water. If you see a crust on the soil after watering, then loosen the soil, but shallowly.

Fertilization:

• 1 time in 3 years, add on 1 sq. M. trunk circle 10 kg of rotted manure and 25 g of phosphorus and potassium.
• Pour 1.5-2 buckets of well-rotted manure around the bush annually.

In early spring, cut dry branches and burn them. If you see that overgrowth has grown around the bushes, then use a shovel to expose the base of the root sucker and cut off the overgrowth with a pruner. Cover the cut with garden pitch and cover with soil.

Pest and disease control

To combat endomycosis in early spring, spray the bushes with a 4% solution of Bordeaux liquid, use 2-3 liters per plant. Immediately after flowering, spray the bushes with 0.4% copper oxychloride or 1% Bordeaux liquid solution.

With a scab disease, the shoots dry out. Round black shiny spots appear on the leaves and shoots. In the fall, cut off the affected stems and spray the bushes with 1% Bordeaux liquid 20 days before picking the berries.

To eliminate sea buckthorn moth and sea buckthorn fly, spray the plants with chlorophos.

To combat sea buckthorn aphids make infusion and decoctions from the tops tomato and potatoes, husks garlic and Luke, tobacco leaves. Add laundry soap to them. You can also spray the bushes with a solution of 10% karbofos.

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