If you have never sled a garden and have not grown anything, now you have the opportunity to grow any garden crops on your summer cottage. Unpretentious in care and very rapidly growing sorrel. A little knowledge about how to grow this garden culture properly, plus timely care will help you to collect a good harvest.
Sorrel is a perennial plant that is resistant to cold. In one place, the culture can grow for 4 years, then it is necessary to sow sorrel in another corner of the garden. Sawel has a strong branched root that grows in the ground to half a meter. The plant can withstand not only short-term freezing, but also severe frosts up to -25 oS. Sorrel grows well on the weakly acidic fertile soil.
What do we know from history
Motherland sorrel is considered asia and Europe. And at present, sorrel grows there very plentiful. Wild plant is known to people from time immemorial. There are more than 200 species of sorrel in the world.
In the 12th century, first mentioned about Orel, as about garden culture. Russians believed in a row for many years that sorrel was weed and tried to get rid of him every way. Naturally, nobody used this plant in food. In the past few centuries, people began to grow sorrel on their gods. As a vegetable culture of sorrel ordinary grown on the gardens. In the people, it is customary to call "sour".
In Russia, many dackets do not really like sorrel and in vain, it is advisable to stay at least a small piece of fertile land to grow this vegetable culture. Sorrel is very useful for a person, it contains simultaneously several acids: lemon, ascorbic, oxal and apple.
Sorrel refers to very early and unpretentious cultures. Also, only the snow will have time to melt, and the earth will begin to harvest the spring sun, as the first shoots appear. Already at the end of May, young leaves appear, reaching 7-10 cm in growth. They can be cut and the next time to collect a crop in 2 weeks. Finish collecting a harvest at the end of July, just by this time the leaves will accumulate a lot of acid and become rough, they are undesirable to eat them.
In the late spring and throughout the first two year old months (in June and July), there are many lemon and malic acid plants in young leaves, as well as a large amount of vitamin C, potassium, iron, sugar and proteins. During this period, it is necessary to stock vitamins for the winter. From sorrel you can cook a lot of delicious and useful dishes: cook green borscht, bake patties or pie, make mashed potatoes or add to salad. Sorrel can be not only fresh, but also in canned form. In conservation, all useful properties of the plant are saved.
Sorrel is popular not only in cooking, but also in folk medicine - it is used as a choleretic and stopping blood, as well as for the treatment of a zing disease. Doctors warn that the excessive use of sorrel can harm the person, the kidneys will not cope with a lot of acid.
Popular sorrel varieties: broad and malachite. The first loose socket and elongated leaves. This variety is resistant to frost and withstands drought. Malachite matures very early, with 1m 2 Square can be collected up to 2 kg of harvest. The first crop can be collected 1.5 months after seed landing. Compact rosette, leaves remind the shape of a spear.
Sorry varieties View in the photo:
You can find on sale and less popular sorrel varieties: spinaching and broad-sized. They are distinguished by low oxalic acid content.
How to grow sorrel
Grow sorrel on the summer site is very easy, you need to start with the choice of a suitable place. In order to get a good harvest, it is necessary to take a wet plot of land, but only without moisture. The soil should be released from weed grass, especially does not like sorrel Neighborhood with the grass with dusty. Good soil - soup or loam, generously fertilized by humus. Sorrel will grow well and on peat drainaged soil. It is important to comply with the following rule: groundwater should be at a depth of 1 m from the surface of the Earth. On the weakness of the soil, sorrel will also grow well and delight you with its rich harvest, and the loss of the soil from the pH of 4.5 do not need to do.
How to prepare the soil before landing
If you want to get a good harvest, you need to take care of the soil in advance. It needs to be prepared in autumn. Make in advance the allotted plot of 6 kg leveling and 30 g of potassium chloride and superphosphate. This number of fertilizers is calculated on 1m 2 Earth.
With the onset of spring, immediately before sowing sorrel, the soil must be fed to such a mixture: take 2 g of ammonia nitrates and a potash salt, 4 g of superphosphate and 40 g of urea, add 3 kg. MODE.
Landing sorrel
When can I put sorrel? There is no accurate landing time. If you have such an opportunity, the sorrel can be put in early spring, and in the southern part of the country you can land sorrel and in the summer if you have a free plot of land. With late landing (in the summer), it is necessary to take into account that the plant needs to have time and root before the onset of cold weather. This is given to 1, a maximum of 1.5 months. So if you have a desire, you can plant a plant today and in the middle of September to collect the first harvest.
Of course, if you are not going to grow sorrel for sale, and for yourself, then it is better to plant a sorrel early spring. At this time, moisture in the soil will be more than in the middle of summer and you do not have to spend time on watering.
When landing, it should be borne in mind that the sorrel will not quickly appear. If moisture is very small, then it can take off unevenly, and in some places and not at all "to proceed."
Standard landing rules:
- Observe the distance between the rows - at least 20 cm.
- The distance between the plants is 5 cm.
How to prepare seeds to land
Seeds before planting are preferably prepared in advance if you are in a hurry, and you have no time to prepare - you have to sow seeds directly from the package.
For those who wish to get a 100% germination, we offer an easy way: seeds need to soak in water, wrap in gauze and leave for 48 hours. During this time, they will eat moisture and will go faster.
If you want the seeds to go well and were strong, then you can add some nutritional fertilizers in conventional water.
Growing sorrel from seeds
When the soil is already ready, you can start planting seeds. You can buy them in specialized stores for weight (which is much cheaper) or packaged in paper bags. When buying, pay attention to the shelf life of sorrel.
Before proceeding with the landing, it is necessary to free the earth from weed grass. As previously stipulated, the landing can be carried out at any time, except for winter. Early spring, as soon as the soil is ready for processing (not earlier than the middle of April), it's time to work for work. There is moisture in the soil, which means that the seeds will be good to attack.
Keeping pre-seeds need to be sown in the soil (if the land is not wet enough, it needs to be well). Sowing depth - 1.5 cm. The distance between the rows is 20 cm, you can save and make rows with a distance of 15 cm. There should be a free space of 5 cm between seeds.
Sevings need to be mulched peathed or just sprinkle the earth. After 2 weeks, the first searches should appear. If you cover the bed with seeds of the film, then on the 5th day you can expect the first sprouts.
As soon as the seeds go, it is necessary to break sorrel. The distance between the plants should be 10 cm. After 50 days from the moment of seeding, it will be possible to collect the first harvest.
If you sow seeds in the summer, then you can do it in mid-June or in July, just after cleaning the bow planted for greens or radish. Summer sorrel will have time to strengthen the onset of frosts and the next year will give a good harvest in the spring.
Winter sowing can be started in October or November, given that the seeds do not have time to germinate before the onset of frosts. Collect the first harvest can already be in spring. Note that winter sowing does not give 100% germination, so the crop will not be very high.
Subtleties sowing:
- it is more convenient to make grooves in the soil with a tip, use a thick stick or a metal pin;
- make a stall of grooves, type seeds in your hand. Note that they are very small;
- loss them evenly on the furrow;
- top neatly trigger the earth seeds. The soil layer is 1 cm, it will be enough. If the soil is heavy, then the seeds will not be able to break up.
How to care for sorrel
Despite the fact that this garden culture is considered unpretentious and frost-resistant, sorrel really loves watering. When the air temperature reaches the mark above 26 oC, and summer arid, then the outlet will develop weakly, and soon the sorrel will bloom. This reduces the quality of the future harvest. Watering the plant must be regularly in the summer. To prevent blossoms, the first blooms need to be removed as early as possible.
In the spring, as soon as sorrel goes into growth, the soil is desirable to jumble and mulch. It will not hurt to make fertilizers, dilute 25 g of phosphoric or potash fertilizer in a bucket of water and plenty of soil.
At autumn time, a humid or compost must be made in the aisle. 1 M. 2 Earth takes 5 kg of fertilizer. Just the compost mulches the barbed roots of sorrel.
In a year it is necessary to make a good feeding: on 1m 2 the soil must be taken in 20 g of urea and potassium chloride and 30 g of superphosphate.
Harvest Rules
When the harvest is coming - you will be guess. The leaves are better cut off with young, they will have less oxalic acid, and therefore more benefits. As soon as 4-5 leaves appear on the outlet, they can be cut off with a sharp knife. Return 3-4 cm from the surface of the Earth and make a smooth slice. Collect the harvest gently so as not to damage the top kidneys sorrel. It is possible to tear the leaves and manually, but then be very neat so as not to damage the outlet.
Before proceeding with the harvest, sorrel is desirable to free from weeding grass, and the soil between the rows should be dried with a tip. Collect harvest in the morning or evening. From one socket you can cut the leaves up to 5 times.
As soon as you see that sorrel began to throw out floral arrows, they must be cut off so that the plant does not weaken. After each such manipulation, a mixture of mineral fertilizers with nitrogen should be enhanced in further yield.
In the dry time of the year (in the summer, when the rains are small), it is better to feed the sorrel with liquid fertilizers, and in a rainy time - dry.
As soon as it goes 3 or 4 years from the moment of planting sorrel, this plant will already be not suitable for harvesting and eating. So that sorrel does not disappear for nothing, it can be used to tramplink. In the fall, the plant digs along with an earthen room and sent to the cellar for storage. The room temperature should not rise above +2 oC and descend the mark below 0 oS. At the end of winter, sorrel can be picked up in the ground in the greenhouse and plenty. After 20 days, you can collect the first harvest.
If the area of \u200b\u200bthe greenhouse is large, then it can be spoiled immediately after digging the plant. Then you can collect the harvest in winter.
How to deal with pests
The main disease of the garden culture of sorrel is a malievable false dew. To prevent this disease, it is necessary to produce thermal processing of seeds. In addition, the leaves love the wave. To get rid of pests, sorrel can be sprayed with a decoction of tobacco, and after cleaning the plant, destroy the remnants.
Often, when growing sorrel, many daches face that holes appear on the leaves - this is the work of the oxalous leaf. It is enough to treat sorrower wood ash and this problem will be solved.
Sometimes small yellowish or brown spots appear on the leaves. Such plants need to cut and throw away, and the rest is a healthy sorrel process.
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