2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
The Russian hero is located at the fence and catches passers-by with his flowers, equipped with hooked armor, as if calling to pay attention to him. Simplicity disarms him, burdock - he is burdock. Yes, and he clings harmlessly, although if you hit him with your head, you will then have to cut off a clump of hair, otherwise you will not get out. Therefore, annoying people are compared to him, saying with annoyance: "I stuck like a burr!"
Homegrown Miracle
Gardeners love to invent extra work for themselves. They will begin to grow grapes with lemons on Siberian lands, where in the middle of a hot summer hail, the size of a quail's egg, may unexpectedly fall, or cold dew will fall on the beds in the morning, or even a light snow will spin in the air. They will bring a palm tree from overseas and sweat from morning to morning in order to protect, support, grow and get a handful of dates, which are full of fruit store counters, and prices are affordable for any wallet.
And the plants that were born, grew and became an integral part of the nature of a given area, at best, they do not notice, at worst, they are destroyed in all possible ways.
So the rustic burdock falls from people. They uproot it, pull it out together with roots deeply embedded in the ground, trying to rid their areas of its presence. And he clings with his hooks to cows, dogs, horses, and they carry seeds across the vastness, preventing the Russian giant from disappearing.
Japanese vegetable burdock or gobo
Maybe because they have little land, but there are many people, the Japanese do not exterminate the plant with the name "burdock", but call it "gobo" and grow it as a vegetable crop.
Both tops and roots are good for food. Sweet root vegetables resemble large carrots in appearance. Burdock is a two-year-old plant, so the roots of the first year of growth are more suitable for eating. Dried roots make flour, which is used in cooking in a mixture with other types of flour. The peeled pulp of the petioles and young leaves are added to salads, soups, they are used to decorate scrambled eggs, giving it a piquancy and a peculiar taste.
The healing properties of burdock
Those who are friends with nature do not rid their garden of burdocks, but actively use its vitamin reserves to heal their body.
Burdock oil, which is sold in pharmacies and is recommended for strengthening hair, is made from crushed burdock roots in conjunction with vegetable oils (olive, almond, sunflower), which is easy to make at home. The substances contained in the roots help the liver and kidneys, regulate blood sugar levels, and improve digestion.
Burdock and bees
If you decide on your fifteen hundred square meters to grow not only vegetables and fruits, but also stock up on honey, placing two or three beehives on the site, burdock flowers will be good helpers for you. Burdock is a wonderful honey plant, so your bees will be grateful to you that you did not get rid of this plant.
Commonwealth of Engineering and Creative Thought with Burdock
Observant people find in nature a lot of role models. So, the Swiss engineer Georges de Mestral, tired of cleaning his dog from burdock thorns after walking in nature, decided to take a closer look at the structure of these annoying flowers that annoy his beloved dog. And when I considered it, I came up with a unique fastener that flew around the world with lightning speed. Now children, and adults as well, do not need to bother and spend time on the daily lacing of boots and boots. Has closed two tenacious halves of the Velcro, and forward.
Skillful hands and creative heads sculpt toys and works of art from burdock spines.
Do not pass by indifferently the simple and familiar. It is in them that the Almighty has put many elegant secrets so that a person develops his creative imagination and does not get tired of being surprised at the manifested world
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