2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Shrubs with edible fruits are more attractive than fruit trees, since they begin to treat them with vitamin berries in the first or second year from the moment of planting, while the fruits of their older colleagues sometimes have to wait for several years. And caring for them is easier and more affordable for any gardener
Raspberries
The words of the song "Red raspberry …" are behind the times. Breeders have developed varieties, the berries of which can be yellow and even black, like thorny blackberry bushes. But, no matter what color raspberries meet, it was and remains a favorite delicacy and a skilled healer.
If rose hips are proud of their vitamin C content, then raspberries are rich in salicylic acid. Thanks to this acid, raspberry tea has long been considered the best remedy in the fight against colds. Moreover, not only berries, but also the leaves of the plant have healing abilities.
Someone is planting raspberries in even rows, providing tall thin-stemmed bushes with additional support wires. And among the lazy, it grows in lush thickets, often breaking through the fence into open spaces. Of course, the berries in such thickets grow smaller, smaller in size, but with the same intoxicating aroma.
True, harvesting in such thickets threatens with unpleasant meetings. For example, you can accidentally touch a hornet's nest, twisted, or rather, cobbled together from cells of wax, and be bitten by its inhabitants.
Rose hip
Along the banks of rivers and forest edges, you can find whole thickets of fragrant wild roses, which gave birth to decorative species of shrub roses with lush flowers. Although the flowers of rose hips are much simpler outwardly (only 5 petals) and more modest than their decorative descendants (up to 100 petals per flower), they leave behind fruits that are simply stuffed with vitamins.
After curious scientists discovered vitamins and their role in the well-coordinated work of all organs of the human body, real competitions began to find vitamins in human food, including plants.
It was found that 100 grams of rose hips contain 2 grams of vitamin "C". The leader in the content of vitamin "C" is the Daurian rose hip, in the fruits of which it is 9 times more than the above figure.
Many summer residents prefer to decorate their plots with unpretentious rosehip bushes, not being able to take care of his capricious "kids". The bushes grow very quickly, and therefore require restrictions so as not to fill the entire area.
Currant
Shrub, without which not a single summer cottage can do.
The most popular is the black currant, with large black berries and fragrant leaves. But currant lovers also grow red berries, which are otherwise called "sour" due to their sour taste, and white berries that are sweeter in taste.
No matter how fragrant the leaves of cultivated currants are, they are far from the aroma of currant leaves growing free in the wild.
Blueberries and lingonberries
I decided to combine these two berries under one heading, not because they are kindred spirits, but because of the small growth of their bushes, for which the word "shrub" does not fit, but the word "shrub" will be much more consonant with them.
The nature of plants and their fruits are completely different from each other.
Blueberry leaves are soft and afraid of frost, and therefore leave the bushes for the winter period. The berries are black, staining the mouths of the eaters in a persistent black color. They have healing abilities.
Lingonberry leaves are tough, like many evergreens. Even the Yakut frosts are not afraid of them, and therefore they go into hibernation green and juicy, shining with a dark green surface through the melting snow in spring. Lingonberry berries vary from bright red to burgundy shades, sour-bitter with a spicy aroma.
Blueberry
Blueberry bushes are taller than the previous two plants and can rise up to 1 meter in height. But more often they are 50-70 cm high, because they grow in swampy areas or tundra, where you can't run away especially.
Blue berries are juicy and tasty, and the leaves fall for the winter.
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