Oilsman: Cultivation of seeds

It is difficult to find a garden spice, more desirable than oregano. This incredible plant can not only turn the ideas about the art of cooking, but also to cure many diseases, to give peace and pacification. If you want the soul grass to please you with their modest color and healing fragrance, this article will help grow it on its site.

General characteristics

The oregano is a distant relative of Rosemary, Melissa, Mint, Basilica and other aromatic herbs, widely used in cooking and alternative medicine. It has a pronounced smell and powerful healing properties. As a spice, it is used in many national kitchens. Without souls, it is impossible to imagine the famous Greek salad or a real Italian pizza.

Interesting: In Italy, they do not know what soul is - there this plant is known as oregano.

As part of the stems, flowers and leaves of the oregano there is a large amount of antioxidants, vitamin C, essential oils and tanning substances. Because of such a rich and valuable composition, it is cultivated in Europe and the United States. In the wild, the soul is growing especially magnificently in the Mediterranean plains, but it is also found in Russia - on warm southern edges, rogs, disgraced meadows.

Doshi varieties

Despite the wide fame of the plant around the world, most people are not familiar with the full range of its capabilities and uses only as seasoning or fragrant additive for brewing tea. At the same time, the oregano is able to improve and transform the garden plot, give health and even extend life. It is very simple to grow it not only in the open soil, but even on the balcony or windowsill of a multi-storey house. To do this, you don't even have to look for grass in the forest, dig and replant it.

The breeders have long created cultural varieties of souls who are able to withstand more unfavorable living conditions, while giving a consistently rich color and lush foliage. Artificially created varieties in many ways exceed the oregano ordinary - they are much fragrant, more accurate, have a different chemical composition, thanks to which one or another variety can be used accordingly (treated, add to salads, tea, etc.). Also, the oregano may differ in the color of the flowers, the size of foliage, shape and height of the bush. Despite the obvious differences, each of the grades has three compulsory qualities: spice, medical properties, decorativeness.

Interesting: There is a legend, which says that during the reign of King Kiniir in Cyprus, his servant overthrew the amphorus with the loved incenses of the owner. The young man was so afraid of the ruler's wrath, which fell into fainting and turned into grass, smelling exactly like spilled perfume.

There are the following souls, derived by Russian breeders:

1. Arbatskaya secoko - bush height from 60 to 80 cm with abundantly growing foliage and purulent-pink color.
2. Caramel - is valued for its excellent taste.
3. White oregano is a decorative view that is distinguished by high yields and abundant paints of white small flowers.
4. Honey fragrance - bush tall up to 35 cm. Appreciated for high yields, beautiful purple flowers and strong fragrance.
5. Fragrant beam - a bush is not above 30 cm with a pale purple color, strong aroma and squeezed leaves.
6. Kudesnitsa - medium height of a bush up to 60 cm with purple-pink color, abundance of foliage and temperate aroma.
7. Mila - the maximum height of the bush is 50 cm. It is characterized by a semi-rotated socket, strong aroma and rich crops.
8. The elegant soul is a bustard with sky-blue flowers, pretty branched, often gives a double harvest for the season.
9. Hope is a low bush up to 30 cm high with a dark green slightly pubescent foliage and light purple flowers.
10. Rainbow - therapeutic soul grade. The bush is 60-70 cm high. Contains a large percentage of Anthociana, which says the saturated purple color of the leaves.
11. The Northern Lights - the middle height of the bush (up to 50 cm) with many straight dense license stems and purple-pink flowers.
12. Slotnica is another medicinal grade. The height of the bush reaches 40-45 cm.
13. The Siberian melody is a high bush of 60-70 cm with abundant foliage and brushes of small purple flowers.
14. Farmers - a bush tall not more than 60 cm with a dark green foliage of medium sized and small pink flowers.
15. Fairy is a high-yielding mid-yield of the soul martyr (photo), characterized by dark green foliage.

As the souls love and appreciate far beyond Russia, several foreign decorative varieties appeared:

1. Variety is a bush up to 30 cm tall, but very wide - it grows in diameter up to 50 cm. It has greenish-golden foliage, white fragrant flowers. It is grown mainly for commercial purposes as an aroma.
2. Gold Tip - Little bushes with a height of 10-15 cm with small foliage and plaque of light pink flowers. Flowers from the middle of the summer until the middle of autumn. The main feature is unusual green leaves with golden tips.
3. Beauty Kent is a very beautiful variety with flowers-tassels and hanging stalks. In one brush there may be flowers of various shades - from white to purple. Such souls are suspended in Kashpo and decorate the veranda or room it.
4. Variegata - a bush up to 20 cm tall with green leaves, which are clearly visible white border.
5. Aureum is a low-speed bush high 25 cm high with rounded golden leaves and yellow flowers than and caused by the name, translating "Gold".
6. Herrenhausen - Creation of German breeders. A bush with clusters of purple flowers, blooming at the end of July-August.

How to grown oregano

The cultivation of an ordinary oregano, unlike working with other varieties, does not require special skills and strength. This is an unpretentious plant that needs minimal care. It transfers even the most severe Russian winter, comfortably feels in the summer and grows almost on any soils (except for swampy). If you want to receive a consistently good harvest and lush flowering, it is preferable to plant a soul in sampling soils with good drainage and neutral acidity.

It is also recommended to choose the maximum solar plot for growing soul men. If the bushes are located in the shade, the bloom will not be so magnificent, and the beneficial components in the composition will be significantly dressed.

If growing grass, multiplying in a vegetative way, the bushes should be treated in spring or early in the fall, but with regular irrigation, the oregano is also attached to in the summer.

Growing from seeds

The cultivation of seed souls is the most efficient and priority method of reproduction. If you want to breed grass for personal use, it is better to use the seedliness. For industrial scales, seeds are sown directly into the ground. At the same time, about 2 kg of seed leaves for 1 hectare of land. To receive seedlings, seeds are evisted in the middle or end of March. In the first year, the oregano begins to bloom. When landing at the end of April-May, bloom begins for the second year.

How to grow soul:

1. Use small containers with drainage holes (plastic cup or product storage container).
2. Fill the capacity of light nutrient soil with a small fraction of fine sand.
3. Moisten the ground with simple water from the sprayer and lose weight slightly.
4. Drop the shallow grooves or separate wells of 1.5 cm and put seeds in them.
5. Plush the layer of land is not thicker 1 cm, again spray with water and cover the food film or package container to create a greenhouse effect.
6. From time to time, lift the film to control the crops and moisten the earth if necessary.
7. When the first shoots appear, remove the film and carefully moisten the land so as not to harm the tender rapid seedlings.
8. When the sprouts appear in 2-3 sheets, dissolve them in separate cups (you can take peat pots).

If the seeds were planted in March, it is possible to plant an open source to the open soil in May, observing the distance between the bushes at 30-50 cm on each side (depending on the variety). If you land the seeds of seeds in May, the seedlings should be smeared on laying beds, planting at 15-20 cm from each other. You can land the grass in the open ground at the end of July-August.

Vegetative reproduction

The oregano can be grown not only by a seed, but also in a vegetative way - the division of rhizomes, cuttings or chains. In any of the three cases, the plant is very successful.

To split rhizome, carefully dig a bush from the ground. Divide the plant so that in each part there is no less than 4-5 strong kidneys. In a place where you will plant new bushes, make the pits 30x50 cm, paint them with water and place the root.

If you got a rare variety of souls, it is better to multiply with it with cuttings or glasses. It is possible to shine the usual method: rooting the cuttings with 3-5 interstices, cover the film and keep in a miniature greenhouse until the plant starts to develop.

To multiply a bush with goddes, tilt the stem to the ground and secure it with an improvised bracket. Then sat down the land of the plot and water with water. In this case, the top of the stem must be outside. For the year, the skelter is rooted, and it can be placed in another place.

Caring for souls

Care for fragrant bushes is easy and pleasant. The young grass follows from time to time to water and feed the fertilizers, remove weeds and loosely loosened the soil, in general, do the same manipulations as for most garden plants. For the second year, attention should also be paid to feeding and watering, but it is necessary to water it moderately, so as not to reduce the content of essential oils in the grass. Starting from the three-year-old, the oregano does not require much care and develops completely independently. Sometimes you can make a forming haircut, make a weeding and watering.

Although the landing and soul care is not at all burdensome, it is necessary to comply with certain rules:

1. Despite the fact that the oregano is a perennial plant, it is better to "relocate" once every 5-6 years from one end of the garden - to another. At the same time, the rhizomes should be divided so that the stems are not pulled out, but there were moderate growth and gave a lot of foliage.
2. For one-year souls, it is necessary to remove the first inflorescences before they dissolve. Thanks to this, the bush will be more lush and fragrant in the next year.
3. Pay special attention to fertilizers. If you grow a bushes to obtain a medicinal material, then after each trimming (2-3 times per season), water it with water with organic fertilizers. A cowbank solution is suitable in proportions 1: 6 or water with a bird litter in a ratio of 1:15.
4. If you grow soul in purely decorative purposes, additional feeding is not required.

An interesting fact: the fragrance of the oregano distinguishes pests and insects not only from her, but also from cultures growing nearby. Only in rare cases, the oregano can spoil the cicadas, and that, he needs only sweet nectar. The fragrance of souls will help get rid of not only from garden insects, but also solve the problem with moth, cockroaches and even mice.

Where to plant souls, solve only to you, but it is preferable to choose the most sunny and remote corners of the garden. Two-three bushes to meet the needs of one family will be quite enough. Enough to press the aromatic herb for the winter and brewing therapeutic tea to make fragrant pads for strong sleep or rush fresh leaves to prepare sophisticated dishes.