Grass-Durma, Tarkhun, wormwood or estragon - this plant has many names, but the area of \u200b\u200bapplication is the same. If you remember the popular drink "Tarkhun", it immediately becomes clear that it is prepared on the basis of Estragona extract - useful spiced grass. This plant is widely used both for the preparation of beverages and in cooking. You can grow an etaragon on your own dacha and even at home on the windowsill.
How to recognize Estragon
If we consider the plant on the old name "wormwood", then in translation from ancient language we learn that this word means health. So there is, the grass Estragon, fragrant wormwood or tarhoon can really get rid of many diseases. This plant is used not only in folk medicine, but also in cooking. Cooks from all over the world worship this spice and add it to their dishes. Estragon is widely used in Japanese, Italian and Spanish cuisines, as well as in China and in France. Spicy grass gives the dish a special taste, as well as a gentle sophisticated fragrance, strengthens the processes of digestion and appetite - this means that after ecepting the etragona, metabolism improves and gastric juice is more active. As a result - the body processes the food faster and gets rid of toxins and slags faster. For this, the unique property of the etragon fell in love with the holders of lush forms - as a means of excess weight. By the way, by regularly eating the Estragon, you can not only reduce extra volumes in the field of hips and waist, but also get rid of most of the ailments: insomnia, headaches, depression and bad mood, as well as defeat the cold and eat spicy grass in order to strengthen immunity.
It is possible to learn the estragon by characteristic long and narrow leaves, the height of one adult plant reaches 1 m. During the flowering period, Tarkun is covered with small yellow flower. We mentioned that the etragon is often called a wormwood, and there is only a wormwood of an ordinary is distinguished by a sharp durning aroma, and the estragon does not have such a strong smell.
In the people, this spicy grass was painted as "Stragon" or "Dragun Grass" due to high content in the plant of essential oils and a bitter taste.
The grass can be used in food both in fresh and dried. Young shoots are added to salads, meat dishes, as well as widely used for canning mushrooms and cucumbers. And, of course, the etragon is the only grass from which you can cook a useful and delicious drink - Tarkhun.
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Growing Estragona
If you are among the fans of spicy grass, then you can not look for a dry spice on the market, but to grow it yourself on a household plot or a house in a pot. The best option is the acquisition of seeds or cuttings of an adult plant of Mribovsky-31 grade. By the way, the ancient Greeks dubbed this variety of plants as "Little Dragon" due to the fact that the leaves and roots look like a long dragon language with a split tip. And this is not all, etragon from ancient times was used as a powerful antidote from snake bite.
Motherland Estragona or Tarkhun is Siberia and Mongolia, but grows the dragoon grass everywhere, we just do not pay attention to it and do not know how helpful it is. By the way, than south, and therefore, the warmer - the etaragon develops faster and thinned sharp fragrances. In the north, Estragon can also be found, but the aroma of the plant will be weak and not so pronounced. Estragon is growing not only in the fields and meadows, but also in the steppe and in the mountainous area. In nature, the plant is unpretentious, well multiplied and does not require much care.
For the cultivation of the etragona in the country area, it is necessary to choose a well-lit place, the plot must be pre-prepared, free from weeding grass. If drinking rays in your country, it is necessary to carry out a more thorough cleaning of the site, as the etaragon is not friendly with this weed.
Tarkhun is growing on any soils, but best - on neutral and acidic (pH 6 or 7). If the soil is fertile, then the plant develops well and produces a lot of greenery, only the quality of the leaves and the number of essential oils will be minimal. Try soil on the site fertile, just do not strive to fertilize the land with nitrogen fertilizers.
The preparation of the soil before landing should be started in the fall and deeply move the plot, in the spring enough of the standard loosening and people on the "half" shovels. If there is no fertility on the summer ground, then an organic fertilizer should be added to the ground - on 1m 2 3-4 kg of nutrient mixture. Mineral fertilizers are allowed to make in spring, during the rescue, on 1m 2 You can add such a mixture: 20 g of ammonium sulphate, 20 g of potassium salt and 30 g of superphosphates.
The best way to reproduce spicy grass is a vegetative division - you can split an adult bush, choose a tank or stroke cuttings to put into the ground.
If you need to grow seedlings, then the Estragonian seeds are sulking in the open soil in spring (the period from April to the end of May). Seedlings are distinguished for the growing seedlings in a greenhouse, pre-prepared the beds in advance so that there is a distance of at least 20 cm. Tarhun seeds are very small, in 1 g there are about 5 thousand seeds, so after you seize the seeds in the soil, you need to truth Layer of Earth and wait for germination. This will happen in 2 weeks, shoots need to immediately proper that there is a distance of at least 10 cm between the plants.
As it is necessary, the ground on the plot where the estragon is planted, loose, weep and water. For the winter, Tarkun is left in the seating page and only with the arrival of spring choose the strongest and strong seedlings to transplant into open ground.
You can sow seeds immediately in the soil of early spring, under the snow. The seeds are not close deep into the ground, only a little sprinkle the earth. Requirements for landing are the same: the distance between rows is 15-20 cm, shoots appear on the 14th day or a little later, you need to break the young seedlings. In the first year, the plant is gaining strength and only formed stem, expect flowering for the second year. Fruits can not be seen, as they do not always appear.
There is a faster way to grow Estragon - it takes an old bush of the plant, age of 4-5 years and divided it into 3-4 parts so that in each part there remained at least 3 escapes. New part need to land in the ground. In one place, Tarkhun can grow 10 years old, but it is best to update the plantation every 5 years in order not to reduce the yield of the medicinal plant.
Growing Estradon from Seeds
Tarkhun grow from seeds - the task is not the lungs, it is troublesome, but it is possible to provide a family with a useful spice and often cook the drink "Tarkhun". For a family, it is enough to plant only 4-5 bush ethas.
How to grow Estragon:
- since the root of the plant is rustic, then Tarkhun will not grow strongly, and therefore the pot can be highlighted small. The plant will not be closely;
- the rules for planting seeds are the same: you must first put a pot of drainage on the bottom, then pour the soil (you can grow seedlings), sow seeds and pour out a thin layer of land (no more than 1 cm);
- until the first shoots appear (at least 14 days), you need to maintain a soil in a wet state. Watering barely crumpled seeds need to be very careful, so as not to break the sprouts and do not blur the soil. It is best to do this with a pulverizer;
- the germination of seeds can be good, we need to choose some of the strongest sprouts, the rest should be pulled out;
- after 1.5 months, you will see that your sprouts have acquired new processes. It is important during this period not to fill the seedlings so as not to provoke the formation of pricious rot. It is impossible to get rid of this attack;
- you can prevent this phenomenon and mix the soil in advance with the components that will take over the extra moisture - it is vermiculitis and perlite. As the land drying out, these components will give moisture back;
- estragon will grow on any window, but it feels best on the east side. If the plant lacks the sun, then Tarkun begins to stretch and rain, the leaves lose the color intensity and become pale.
When going to grow alone Estragon, you should know that the most piquant and fragrant spicy grass is not multiplied by seeds. This is the so-called French etaragon, it can be proposed only in a vegetative way. You can go to the store and choose a plant yourself. Make sure this is a real spice, if you taste the leaf for taste. On sale you can meet only the seeds of Tarkhun "Russian" and "Wild." In an adult plant, leaves are rude and devoid of such a fragrance as a French tarragon.
Caring and harvesting
No special care for the estragon is not necessary, like any garden culture, Tarkhun loves, so that it was clean, the soil was loose and slightly wet. Loose the soil you need from time to time and watch the plant will not attack weeds.
By the way, in the first year of landing Tarkun it is undesirable to feed, and for the second year, with the onset of spring, you need to make a mineral mixture.
Crop the harvest can be started already from autumn and carefully cut the green parts, but not completely so that the plant does not weaken. For the 2nd year after landing, the etragon can cut more carefully and cut the greens as needed. You can finally remove all the greens at the end of the summer, when Tarkun starts blooming. On average with a plantation 1 m 2 you can collect up to 2 kg of crop green mass.
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