Viburnum In The Garden - Varieties, Care, Recipes

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

Viburnum juice, jelly from it, jam, marmalade, candy, tinctures, liqueurs, frozen fruits that can be added to tea in winter - this is an incomplete list of "gifts" that a gardener's viburnum gives every year, if you skillfully choose its variety, plant it correctly and take care of this plant in the garden

Where will viburnum grow?

Viburnum grows well and takes root in a well-lit, open place. She loves fertile, moist soils, the proximity of water bodies, and also the optimal acidity of the soil in which it grows.

If you have just this kind of soil and there is a small reservoir on the site, then it would be most correct to plant a viburnum tree in such a place.

Choosing a variety

Today there are many varieties of garden viburnum. Give preference to less costly in terms of caring for them. A good viburnum, not demanding to care for, should be frost-resistant, resistant to diseases, suitable for the weather conditions where your summer cottage is located.

Viburnum with black fruits "Gordovina" has proven itself quite well in this regard. With red "Zubchataya", "Raita", "Mongolian" and others. It is recommended to buy viburnum seedlings in biological nurseries, where they will give good good advice as to which variety is most suitable for your site and soil, they will pack the goods well so that the seedling is delivered to the place safe and sound, and such nurseries try to be responsible for the quality of seedlings and seedlings to the fullest extent.

How to plant viburnum?

So, you have decided on the variety of viburnum seedlings. Buy her seedlings at the end of April, you can at the beginning of May, to immediately plant them in the ground. A pit for each seedling will be required with a diameter and depth of 50 by 50 cm. If there are several seedlings, plant them at a distance of at least three meters from each other. While holding the seedling in the hole, add 5-7 kilos of humus to it, also 100-150 grams of superphosphate and 50 grams of potassium. Stir the fertilizer around the seedling, pour a couple of buckets of water into the hole and cover with the rest of the soil and mulch.

How to care for viburnum?

Viburnum plantings love loose soil, weeding around the trunks. In the spring, before budding on the tree, you need to fertilize the viburnum with ammonium nitrate (10-20 g for each plant).

In June, you also need to fertilize the plant with nitrate, a phosphate-potassium fertilizer. In the fall, as you harvest the viburnum, you no longer need to fertilize the plant with nitrate, but you should fertilize it with superphosphate and potassium (20 and 10 grams, respectively).

Humus should be applied to the dug beds where viburnum grows, once every three years. Viburnum also reacts well to manure, compost fertilizer. On overly acidic soils, their acidity must be reduced with lime at 100 grams per square meter.

If any branches on the viburnum are damaged, become dry, they should be cut off. Otherwise, they will only unnecessarily thicken the bush of the berry plant itself.

Cooking from viburnum

Viburnum berries are harvested after the first frost in the fall. Freezing is necessary for harvesting, as it kills the natural bitterness of these useful berries.

Dry viburnum flowers should be added to tea, compote in winter. They contain a lot of vitamins, they give the drinks a special aroma.

Viburnum berries need to be cleaned of foliage, if dirty, then gently rinse in a sieve, let the water drain, dry slightly on a paper napkin, then put in portioned bags for freezing food and put in the freezer of the refrigerator. Frozen viburnum berries can be used for filling pies, adding to tea, for cooking jelly with them, and so on.

Against a cold, you can prepare such a drink in winter: put a spoonful of honey, a spoonful of viburnum, a slice of lemon in a glass of hot water. This is an excellent anti-cold and immunity-boosting remedy.

To make a marshmallow from viburnum, you need a kilogram of berries, the same or slightly less sugar, a glass of water. Kalina should be washed, then blanched in boiling water for three minutes. Now we drain the water, pour the berries with a glass of cold water and cook until the berries soften. Cool them slightly, rub them through a sieve so that the seeds remain in it, add sugar, put all this on low heat and cook until thick, until the mass becomes like dough.

Put the pastille on a wooden board (we give the pastille a shape), which we put on the wire rack in the oven and dry the pastille at medium temperature in the oven. Everything, the marshmallow is ready! It can be cut into any shape, put on a plate. Store in a cool dry place.