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Burachok (lat. Alyssum) - a flowering low plant from the Cabbage family. Another name is alissum.
Description
Burachok is a low-growing plant equipped with fairly strong semi-lignified shoots. As a rule, the height of this plant is in the range from eight to fifteen centimeters, while it can be both an annual and a perennial.
Not too large pubescent beetle leaves are characterized by an obovate or oblong-lanceolate shape. Due to their soft pubescence, they have a slightly grayish tint.
Small four-petal beetroot flowers, collected in spectacular brushes, boast a delightful honey aroma and an incomparable purple, yellow or white color. And the beetroot fruit looks like small pods, and all these pods are generously filled with tiny flat seeds.
In total, the genus of beetroot includes from one hundred to one hundred and seventy species.
Where grows
Burachok is quite widespread in North Africa, Asia and Europe, while on the territory of the former USSR, as many as forty of its species can be found.
Usage
Borage is great for growing in rock gardens, containers, cracked paths and hanging baskets. In addition, it is often planted next to blue lobelia. The beetroot will also look great next to creeping low-growing plants, for example, with phlox or razuha. And this handsome man is even very suitable for landscaping retaining walls.
Burachok is an excellent honey plant. Also, this plant is sometimes added to salads, and if you mix it with cucumber herb, then a drink prepared on the basis of these ingredients will help to quickly get rid of anxiety and calm the nervous system.
Growing and caring
Burachka can be safely grown on poor soils, the most important thing is that they are well-drained, and that the area where the beautiful plant is planned to be planted is sufficiently sunny. On rich soils, the beetroot gives abundant foliage, but at the same time it blooms extremely unimportantly, and with the establishment of a prolonged drought, its flowering may completely disappear. By the way, in order to prolong the flowering period of this plant, experts recommend that the faded beetroot inflorescences be carefully cut with scissors.
It is necessary to water the beetroot sparingly, but regularly: if there is enough moisture in the soil, a beautiful plant will invariably delight the eye with its abundant flowering, but if the soil dries up, it will not only stop blooming, but can also completely wither away. Also, this plant needs systematic weeding, loosening of the soil and periodic feeding. The beetroot is usually fed in the summer, once or twice a season, and it is desirable to do this in the morning. Solutions of such fertilizers as "Rainbow" or "Agricola-7" are especially well suited for dressing - for every ten liters of water, a tablespoon of fertilizer is taken. Fertilizer "Flower" has also proven itself well - it is an organic fertilizer, and for ten liters of water it is taken in the amount of two tablespoons. By the way, beetroot feeding is carried out exclusively at the root!
The beetroot is usually propagated by sowing seeds - with the onset of February they are sown under glass. And on a permanent place, seedlings are planted, as a rule, already in May, closer to the middle of the month. It is perfectly acceptable to immediately sow seeds in a permanent place - this is done at the end of the spring season. And, importantly, when planting beetroot between plants, it is necessary to maintain a distance of twenty-three centimeters.
