12 Review (s)

  1. Angelina MAYSTRENKO

    In early August, lupine seeds ripen. I collect them after the fruits turn yellow (they dry unevenly, so I collect them in several stages). Trying not to miss a moment, as mature lupine beans crack.
    I line the shoebox with thick paper and put the beans in one layer.
    Lupine and especially its seeds are poisonous. It is better to dry and store them in a non-residential area.

    I take the container with the planting material to a warm, dry place (in the attic or in the barn). If moisture gets into the box, the beans will become moldy. In the spring, in April, before sowing in open ground, I lightly wipe the seeds with sandpaper to scratch the shell, and soak them in warm water for 5-8 hours to swell.
    I pack the dried seeds into fabric bags, ATTACHING LABELS WITH THE NAME OF THE VARIETY AND THE DATE OF COLLECTION.

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  2. Tatyana Romanovna

    At the neighbor every summer lupine blooms wonderfully.
    I also decided to get it, but the plants turned out to be weak, and the flowers faded.
    What's wrong?

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    • OOO "Sad"

      To grow lupine, several requirements must be observed: the place where it grows must be illuminated by the sun at least four hours a day. For tall varieties, it must be protected from the wind. The soil can be any, except strongly alkaline. Watering lupine should be moderate, not allowing the soil to dry.

      The plant needs additional feedings, while it is desirable to use fertilizers without nitrogen. In preparation for the winter you need to trim the dried stem. Typically, perennial lupins grow 4-5 years, then the bushes are removed and new ones are planted.
      Florist Anna Petrovna Blazhko, Minsy answered the readers' questions

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  3. Julia KUPINA, Belgorod region

    Always admired the openwork foliage and saturated colors of lupine inflorescences. In my flower garden, several of its varieties grow: Monsieur Pierre (with orange-red inflorescences), Faust (with violet), Castle (with bright red), Gallery (with yellow), Countess (with huge pink), Russell's lupine White flame (with cream-white) and Blue flame (with blue).

    I sow lupine seeds directly into the open ground. To improve the germination, you can slightly rub with their sandpaper. Some growers practice seedlings. But he, in my opinion, is not the best. Lupine does not like transplants, and grows stronger if he is immediately planted in the soil (in the spring or under winter). If you prefer a seedling method, then when planting seedlings, be careful not to damage the roots.

    Optimal for lupine are light soils with a pH level of 5,5-6,0. On alkaline soils (pH greater than 7,5), the leaves can start to turn yellow. In this case, it is necessary to introduce acid peat or iron-containing fertilizer. If the soil is acidic, add lime-puschka into it.
    Lupine loves the sun, but also feels comfortable in light shading. Strongly does not tolerate damp places, but short-term drought is not afraid of him. Before flowering (in the 2nd year after planting), lupins can be fed with potassium sulfate (1 tbsp. Per 10 liters of water), and during flowering - add 3 tbsp under the bush. l wood ash.
    Lupine multiplies perfectly by self-seeding. But if you do not want the lupine to grow, trim the withered peduncles.

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  4. Elena I. AKULICH

    I widely use the lupine grown in a dacha in my home make-up. The use of products prepared on the basis of this plant, allows you to improve the skin: clean and maintain its healthy tone, get rid of acne and acne.

    The seeds contain a high oil content that can be distinguished by pouring crushed grains with sunflower or olive oil. It is widely used in cosmetology, because it helps to maintain the elasticity and firmness of the skin, improves blood circulation, stops inflammatory processes and generally actively fights aging.
    I offer recipes for infusions, masks, compresses, which give an excellent result.
    Mask from acne
    2-3 st. l. chopped dry grass lupine pour 200 ml of boiling water, insist 5 minutes, then strain. The resulting gruel is applied to the face. After 15 minutes, the mask should be washed off, and the face wiped with the remaining
    you are infusion. With a problematic skin, make such masks should be 2 times a week.
    Infusion for daily washing
    1-2 st. l. dry herbs lupine pour 200 ml of boiling water, insist 2 hours, drain. Can be used within 2 days. With problematic and oily skin, to achieve a more lasting effect, washing with infusion is carried out for 2-3 months, due to which the skin will become matte and velvety.
    Cleansing lotion
    3 st. l. fresh herbs of lupine finely chopped, add 150 ml of vodka, cork and put in a dark place for a week. After this, drain, add
    Stir 100 ml of cold boiled water, stir, store in the refrigerator. Use as a lotion to cleanse the face in the evening.
    Infusion of dandruff
    5 st. l. dry grass and lupine flowers brew in 200 ml of boiling water, cool, strain and rub into the scalp. After 20-30 minutes, rinse with warm water. Use 2 times a week for a month.
    Compresses for getting rid of scars
    1 tbsp. l chop green lupine grains, put on a layer of bandage, attach to the scar and fix with a band-aid. But you can do differently. 1 tbsp. l grind ripe lupine grains into flour (I use a coffee grinder for this), mix with sunflower, and even better - with olive oil (1-2 tbsp. l.). Apply to a layer of bandage, secure with a band-aid.
    The compress in both versions should be kept in place of the 4-5 scar. Apply daily until the scar disappears completely on the skin.

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  5. Lidiya KOSTINA, settlement Elan-Kolenovskiy, Voronezh region.

    In my garden, for several years I have been cultivating various varieties of lupine, and I was not disappointed in the plant at all.

    In order to admire the flowering in a year, I sow the seeds of new varieties in April (as they are more often on sale in the spring). You can sow in the fall, and so even easier and preferable - more friendly shoots. Then in the spring after the snow has descended the seedlings will already rise, and in early August they will bloom.
    I seed the seeds in the soil to a depth of 3 cm. On the sandy you can sow deeper - up to 7 cm.
    The place in the flower garden I take away behind the low perennials, which can cover the lupines with bright flowers. Well combined lupines in mixed plantings with hosts, lilies, irises, nivyannikami, delphiniums, astilbes.
    Sowing lupines is better after cereals (oats, rye, vetch-oats).
    Cultivate in one place no more than three years.
    If you comply with agrotechnics, lupins are not sick, and pests do not attack them. But in unfavorable years fusarium wilt can develop, root and gray rot. Threatens the plant and mosaic, rust, patchiness and fomopsis. If any bush is sick, immediately cut it to the ground and feed it. Emerging new shoots are usually healthy.

    Lupine is an excellent siderat. The root system of the plant penetrates the soil to a depth of up to 2 m, loosening its structure and raising nutrients from the depth of the soil. In the root tubers of lupine, nitrogen is formed, which enriches the soil, replacing manure.

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  6. I. OZEROVA, the city of Stavropol

    If you want beauty, but once densely to do flower garden, plant lupines. They are now a lot of varieties, but mostly interesting are derived in England lupins Russell.
    There are tall forms. there are undersized. Both one-color, and two-color. Plants are very beautiful, very non-whimsical, grow well, winter well, retain decorative features for a long time. Faded - just cut the flower stalk, the leaves will remain beautiful until the end of summer. But think immediately where to place them. Because, if you decide to transplant or just dig up lupins, there is only one advice: call your husband. The rhizome is powerful, stiff.

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  7. Valery MATVEEV, Doctor of Science

    To enrich the soil with the necessary mineral substances, sow the lupine (in the beginning or middle of May) trunks of fruit trees (apple, pear, cherries).
    In early summer, fruit trees need a lot of water for growth and development of fruits. In spring and early sowing, siderat, including lupine, will dry up the soil. Therefore, sowing in the garden is better in the second half of the summer. At the beginning of flowering, the siderates are mowed, chopped and embedded in the soil.

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  8. Nikolay ERMIKOV, Bryansk

    The land in the garden is denser with time, and our holiday village and was completely formed on agricultural land, through which for years tractor went.
    In fact, it turns out that at the depth of 25-30 cm for plants there is practically no oxygen. But they can help the soil themselves! In the summer season part of the site I leave "to rest" and sow there a long-term lupine. I sow it under the trees, close to the trunks. I let grow, and in the autumn I mow down. This plant has very thick and long roots. When they rotate in the soil, they simultaneously loosen it in a vertical direction and provide plants with air access.

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  9. THEM. ARONOVA, Tverskaya obl.

    Agree that lupine is one of the most beautiful siderates. In Europe, it is called a "blessing" for the soil. For planting, choose a blue lupine - it is the fastest growing mass.
    I plant lupine on the garden bed, which rests, on the first five-day day of May. On the roots of the plant there are small swellings - special nodules in which bacteria live that can bind the free nitrogen of the air and accumulate it. That is, the roots of the lupine work like a pump, they penetrate
    into the soil to a depth of more than a meter and with their help pumping nitrogen from the air into the soil.
    But that's not all. Unlike other ciderates. lupine in a short time increases the fatty green mass, when the lupine starts to bloom, I smell it into the ground, and a fine humus is formed. The acidity of the soil decreases.
    I smell the lupins to the depth of 15 cm. Of course, I do not advise doing this with decorative lupines-handsome men.

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  10. O. KURLYAEVA, city of Kirishi

    Gone are the days when the lupine was just a weed or, at best, a culture that was grown as a green fertilizer. Now there were such decorative varieties and such colors, that lupine became a real find for an unpretentious garden.
    I really didn’t think that I would ever buy lupine! But I saw a varietal plant of bright orange color in the garden center and could not resist, although the purchase was not cheap! But I did not regret it even once. The next year I bought a different variety, and today everyone comes to admire the multi-colored ears of my lupins - no one has such flowers!
    Sun
    Best of all, the lupines themselves were shown on a sunny spot on sandy soil with a small addition of humic fertilizers. Lime and strongly fertilized soil
    lupine does not like. We did not protect the weeds until the first year. then the lupine itself will stand for itself.
    Lupine grew and blossomed beautifully for four years, then the flowers were chopped, and I realized that if I want to preserve this particular variety, I should multiply the plant. And here it turned out that the old bush of lupine was not divided, the rhizome became numb and almost died.
    How to keep the variety
    In order not to lose the plant, I gathered the seeds and sowed them in the winter. Everyone survived, grew, and when they bloomed in three years, there was no limit to disappointment - they lost the chic orange color of their parents. Since then I propagate lupins only vegetatively - by cuttings. Only then will the “children” retain all the parental characteristics.
    On the cuttings I take basal rosettes, they develop from the kidneys on the root neck.
    Cooking for reproduction
    To cuttings it was easier to separate, I prepare an adult bush for cuttings in advance. In autumn, I plant it with good soil, and this stimulates the active growth of lateral roots and ground outlets, which I then carefully cut out with a piece of root and plant. I conduct this operation after flowering.

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  11. Yulianna PULENKOVA, f. Tamansky, Krasnodar Territory

    Perennial lupine blooms beautifully, improving the decorative pattern of the front garden, and it can also be used as top dressing. I sow a plant at different times: in spring, summer and before winter. As soon as the lupine flowers begin to fade, I cut off the inflorescences to the first leaves - thanks to this, new shoots form, and the plant blooms again.
    Lupine needs protection from numerous enemies. For example, from bean aphids; its larvae and adult insects suck juice from leaves and flowers. Leaves turn yellow and fall. I get rid of aphids with the help of onion peel - it must be poured with hot water, insist for a day, strain, diluted with water in a ratio of 1: 4. Alfalfa scoop is also dangerous - its caterpillars eat the leaves. Last year, I saved the lupins thanks to the pharmacy daisy. Pour it with boiling water, insist 12 hours, strain, dilute the infusion (it turned out 2 l) 10 l of water and mix with 40 g of soap. After spraying, the scoop disappeared.
    Lupine attracts a lot of useful pollinators to the garden, he also extracts nutrients from deep layers of soil where other plants do not have access, and his crushed green mass serves as an excellent fertilizer if buried around the bushes of currant or gooseberry to a depth of 7-10 cm .
    The rhizomes of perennial lupine are rich in nutrients. You can dig out the old rhizomes, cut off the green parts, chop them, pour them with soft (rainwater) water (1: 3) and insist in darkness 48 h. If you pour strawberries with such fertilizer, it grows larger and fruits until frost.

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