Sunberry. Cultivation and useful properties

Sunberry - a sunny berry, so affectionately called this plant the English. This is a giant nightshade the size of a cherry and 10-15 pieces in a brush. Of course, the taste is not very pleasant to eat raw berries. But from the sanberries in the processed form (the preparation for pies, jam or candied fruit, jam, jam or jelly, liqueur or tincture, canned fruits), unusual delicacies are obtained. To eliminate the not very pleasant taste, the fruits are poured with boiling water before cooking, which is drained after 15 minutes, and only then proceed to processing.

Biography

Sunberry is known and appreciated in many countries, but in Russia, few are familiar with this berry. This culture is the result of the activity of the breeder - American L. Burbank. Parents from Africa and Europe served as parents of culture. Sunberry adopted from the ancestor-African unpretentious growth, surprising large-fruited, rich yield, and improved taste - from an ancestor-European.

Agrotechnics

Sunberry is a one-and-a-half-meter-old one-year-old with a 4-faceted stalk surrounded by a powerful stepchildren. Surprising this giant ripened fleshy berries, generously streaking the plant, which allows you to collect more than one bucket of sandberry from one bush.

Growing sprouts

In the open ground the plants are placed according to the scheme of 60x70 cm. The plantings are compacted with lettuce, onions for a feather, and radish. Resistant to lodging, not requiring a garter of the main stem, carrying light frosts and drought - this is such a clever sanberri. Growing it does not require special care: watering, loosening, weeding, feeding with a mullein 1-2 times. Berries ripen gradually and they are harvested all summer. For seeds, it is necessary to select the largest fruits from the multiple and early brushes. Thus, the best breeding indications of precocity and yield will be inherited.

Some features of sanberry

Cultivation still has a number of features. Seeds germinate tightly, they must be soaked first in manganese for 20 minutes, rinsed with cold water and wrapped in a damp cloth for 3-4 days so that the seeds can penetrate. Seed in cups with a nutritious soil mixture of 1-2 seeds. To give stability, bushes hill as necessary. Under stepsons, bending from berry brushes, put wooden slingshots. A cruciferous flea can harm a sanberry. Cultivation of this culture will be more successful if there is no planting where cruciferous (cabbage, radish, etc.) grew in the previous years.

Beneficial features

The unpretentiousness of the culture makes it possible to receive abundant harvests annually, even in unfavorable years for other berry crops, which helps out - you can make blanks for the winter from sanberry. Useful properties of this berry are beneficial for acute vision, they have an antiseptic, hemostatic, diuretic, anthelmintic effect. The crushed berries in yogurt (1: 1) are applied in the form of bandages to abscesses, ulcers. Juice diluted with water in a ratio of 3: 1, is an excellent rinse with stomatitis and sore throats. Juice is treated with a runny nose, exhausting insomnia. From the juice of berries, water and honey prepare an elixir for health. 2.5 liters of water are poured into 2.5 liters of water and 1.5 kg of honey are stirred. The product is stored in the cold. Take before eating 2 tbsp. L. Thanks to the elixir, the pressure normalizes, the headache improves, memory improves, and the defenses of the body increase. He treats such ailments as rheumatism and gout, relieves asthma, varicose veins. Juice from the stem and leaves are treated with seborrhea, psoriasis, tying eczema. For 100 ml of juice you need 2 proteins and 2 tbsp. L. Berry juice. All mix and make bandages.

In dry grass, the healing power is preserved completely. Contraindication to use or treatment can only be individual intolerance.