2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
If you are an experimental gardener and decide to grow a Sunberry in your garden, heed the following tips. First, purchase seeds of this crop only in specialized stores. Secondly, the cultivation of sun berries is similar to the agrotechnical care of tomatoes. The advantage of this valuable culture is that it is less demanding and sensitive. The overseas berry tolerates drought and cold well, and can be grown in a capricious northwestern climate
Growing seedlings
Like any other member of the family, the nightshade sunberries are grown in seedlings. If you plan to get a decent harvest of the most valuable berry, then in March start germinating seedlings. For rapid growth of seeds, soak them in a weak solution of potassium permanganate for half an hour, then rinse with running water and again place them in a humid environment, wrapped in a wet cloth. Wait for the seeds to sprout. Prepare a container for future seedlings, creating good drainage at the bottom. Cover the seeds no deeper than 0.5 cm, otherwise the seedlings may rot. Seedlings will appear quite quickly, in a month your seedlings will reach 30 cm. The room temperature should be room temperature, watering is regular. Pick young seedlings with 2 true leaves.
Landing in open ground
Any soil is suitable for Sunberry, it is not whimsical. Just don't plant it on soil with low pH. Acidic soil will reduce the yield of the berry. Plant overseas berries in the beds where domestic zucchini or cucumbers grew, she will be happy with such predecessors. The ideal option for planting would be a bed fertilized with manure and located in a sunny place. Sunberry is usually grown as an annual crop, with a large harvest during this period. Planting in open ground occurs at the end of May, the distance between plants is 70 cm. Sunberry blooms continue all summer, inflorescences are not pinned.
Plant care consists in abundant, regular watering and feeding. As a fertilizer, you can prepare slurry or fermented herbal infusion. Sometimes under the load of berries, the trunk of the plant and stepsons fall, they need to be supported with wooden slingshots and supports.
Cover the plant with spunbond or any covering material during early fall frosts.
Harvest and use of berries
A sun berry with even minimal care will give you a bountiful harvest. Take your time to pick it, leave the berries to ripen throughout September. Overripe berries are much tastier, the best time for picking is October, when the first frost hits.
If you do taste an unripe berry, you will most likely not like it. Unripe and fresh berries are not very tasty due to the lack of "sourness". But it is worth scalding them with boiling water and waiting for frost, then the berry acquires a unique taste. An interesting fact - overripe sunberries become soft and never rot or dry out. Want to extend your intake of fresh berries? Then pluck out the plant bush and hang it down with fruit in a warm room.
Starting to cook something of their sunberry, the berries are first treated with boiling water, to remove the nightshade taste, the water is then drained and proceeded to its processing. The most common sunberry recipe is jam. Delicious jam is made from sunberry in a duet with cranberries, currants, red rowan berries, barberry, lingonberries. And if you add chopped lemon, then the taste of the jam will be amazing. In order to preserve all the value and not destroy the biochemical composition of the berries, it is recommended to cook the jam - five minutes.
Do not get carried away with eating sunberry jam, excessive consumption will cause stomach upset. Firstly, the pectins contained in berries act as a laxative, and secondly, the product is caloric. For gourmets, you can prepare a healing wine from a sun berry. We take 10 liters of boiled water, 3 kg of crushed berries and 3 kg of sugar, let it ferment without oxygen. Wine can be drunk within a month. Drinking a drink before meals in the amount of 50 g, you improve the owl's mood and well-being.
There are also contraindications: berries cause drowsiness, are not recommended for those who get behind the wheel; in pregnant women, can cause uterine contraction; allergy sufferers develop skin rashes and redness.
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