2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
It would seem, what's the difference to which family this or that plant belongs, which our grandfathers and great-grandfathers grew, and we continue to grow. Of course, you can do without it, and most summer residents do. Those wisdom that we were taught in the sixth grade in biology lessons have long been forgotten, and again there is neither time nor desire to read about monocotyledons and dicotyledons, stamens and pistils. However, simple knowledge about the belonging of a plant to a particular family will help more successful crop cultivation
Belonging to the same family
Plants are united into families due to the similarity of their external data, from which it can be concluded that the conditions of their growth should be similar. It is no coincidence that almost all nightshades are native to South America. This means that both friends and enemies should be similar.
Such knowledge simplifies the tasks of the gardener. Looking at how the Colorado potato beetle devours potato bushes appetizingly, he should think about whether the beetle will move its numerous offspring to tomatoes, eggplants or peppers when the potato plantings become cramped for him. And for many, he has already moved in that direction to the surprise of the gardener: "How! This bastard eats tomatoes ?!" If he knew that tomatoes and potatoes are related, he would not be surprised.
Knowing the "nepotism" of vegetables will save you from mistakes in the annual alternation of plantings in order to obtain a larger harvest. The predecessor should never be a "relative". After all, they draw out the same chemical elements from the soil, thereby depleting the soil for the next vegetable. They have the same pests hiding in the soil in order to pounce on new victims in the spring with an awakened appetite.
Representatives of the Solanovy family
The Solanaceae family boasts a wide variety of their representatives. Among them are the vegetables most popular with people; decorative, medicinal and poisonous plants. Some of them are grasses, others are vines or shrubs and small trees.
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Nightshade vegetables
* Eggplant
* Potato
* Vegetable pepper
* Tomatoes
* Tsifomandra is an evergreen tomato tree (or shrub) that cannot live in our climatic conditions, prefers the mountainous regions of South America. Jam and compotes are prepared from its fruits. They are eaten raw, stewed and fried.
Ornamental plants of the Solanaceae family
* Fragrant tobacco
* Datura garden
* Nikandra
* Petunia
* Physalis
Medicinal (they are also poisonous) plants
* Helen (Mad Grass, Blekota, Rabid, Zubnik, Scab) - all parts of the plant are poisonous.
* Belladonna (Crazy berry, Crazy cherry, Krasuha, Belladonna ordinary, Sleepy stupor).
* Mandrake - Its fleshy root, rich in starch, is poisonous. Branched roots often resemble human figurines, which is why in ancient times magical properties were attributed to the roots.
* Scopoly.
Hybridogenic species of the Solanaceae family
* Sunberry is a delicious berry used to make jams, preserves, marmalade, jelly, candied fruits. Vegetable caviar is prepared. Good for filling dumplings and pies. Wine is made from it, and also dried for the winter. The plant was obtained by crossing the small-fruited European nightshade with the tasteless (but not poisonous) African nightshade, which gave the hybrid large-fruited, decorative effect and yield.
Potatoes with petunia flowers
Plants belonging to the same family have a magical property. One plant can be grafted onto another. For example, a potato bush can dress up as petunia flowers if it is grafted with a petunia stalk. If you do the same with a tomato shank, then tomatoes will grow on the potato bush.
"Why do we need such" freaks "?" - you ask. For example, then, in order to turn the cultivation of whimsical vegetable peppers, requiring watering and attention, into a drought-resistant plant, grafting its stalk into an unpretentious wild-growing black nightshade.
Such vaccinations have long become commonplace when it comes to fruit trees and berry bushes. But this action can be carried out with other plants, provided that they belong to the same family.
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