Cultivation of oregano and its properties

SHOWER (oregano, incense, forest mint) - the medicinal and spicy-flavored plant of the Yarotte family is widespread in the wild in the Mediterranean.

It is cultivated in many countries of Europe, the USA and Russia. Oregano is an indispensable spice of Italian and French cuisine, in Germany it is known as "sausage herb", in Russia it is used in folk medicine.

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Reference by topic: Oregano-Oregano: use and cultivation, varieties and species

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SHOWER - DESCRIPTION

It is a long half-shrub up to 70 cm high with a branchy creeping rhizome and a straight, branched quadrangular stem in the upper part. The small petiolate oblong-ovate dark green leaves are located opposite.

Numerous small lilac-pink (sometimes white) fragrant flowers are collected in the corymbose-paniculate inflorescence. Flowering lasts from July to October. Seeds ripen in August - September.

MEDICAL PROPERTIES OF OREGANO

The green part of the plant is rich in essential oils with bactericidal properties, contains tannins, ascorbic acid and carotene.

Leaves and flowers are added to breast, sweatshops as an anti-inflammatory and expectorant. In folk medicine infusions and broths of oregano are used for insomnia, nervous disorders, liver diseases, stomach spasms, intestinal atony.

Essential oil is used as an analgesic for toothache, skin diseases, aromatization of baths, making compresses.

Oregano is contraindicated during pregnancy and gastritis with increased acidity. Dried stems with inflorescences are used to control the moth.

CONDITIONS FOR GROWING THE SHOWER

Oregano not bad winter in the Non-Black Earth under light shelter or in a place protected from the north winds. It can grow on any soil, but prefers light, rich in organic matter with a weakly acidic or neutral reaction. For planting choose a warm sunny place. The plant is drought-resistant, but in hot weather requires watering.

SHOWER - LANDING AND CARE

Cultivate oregano through seedlings or propagate by dividing rhizomes. Seeding for seedlings is produced in late March in pots or cassettes. In the open ground seedlings are planted when the threat of frost passes, leaving the distance between the plants 25-30, see Rhizomes are divided in May or September.

The mother plant is excavated with a clod of earth and cut with a knife into several parts. Young seedlings need regular watering, loosening of rows and weeding.

They are fed usually after wintering in spring and after harvest. To cut off the above-ground part, they start on the second-third year, during the period of mass flowering. The cut shoots are dried in the shade under a canopy. After drying, the raw material is threshed, removing the coarse part of the stems.

Dried thin twigs with leaves and inflorescences can be stored in a closed opaque container for up to three years, without losing their medicinal properties and aroma.

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Reference by topic: Oregano is a useful plant. Cultivation, recipes, useful properties.

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DISEASES AND PERSONS OF THE SHOWER

Oregano is rarely affected by pests and is resistant to diseases. Occasionally, plantings can be attacked by aphids. In this case, shoots are treated with a soap solution or sprayed with infusion of tomato leaves, garlic.

Chemical protective equipment can be used if it is not planned to cut stems and collect inflorescences.

Soul of the Face

There are quite a few different varieties of oregano of the Russian selection: 'Elegant', 'Rainbow', 'Honey flavor', 'Caramel', 'White'. 'Arbat Semko', 'Northern Lights', 'Fairy', 'Farmer'.

Popular foreign varieties: 'Compactum' with miniature bushes up to 20 cm, Variegata (variegated with green leaves with a white border), Aureum with golden leaves.

Kent Beauty (ampelny, for suspended flowerpots), Herrenhausen, distinguished by lush purple inflorescences.

USEFUL RECIPE
Cold Cream Firming Tea
Dried or freshly picked stems with oregano inflorescences. Dried (1 sterile spoon) or freshly picked stems with inflorescences, cut into small pieces, place in a teapot (preferably porcelain or glass) and pour boiling water. To tea is better brewed, a teapot wraps a towel for 10-15 minutes.
Drink warm, with honey or milk.

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GROWING AND USE OF ORANGE - PROFESSIONALS ADVISE

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ORANGE - BENEFITS AND CARE

Since I am studying wild herbs, I will speak about Oak (Origanum vulgare L.), which I often see on pine fringes. I grow it on my own land.

For successful cultivation of oregano:

5 important rules

The place should be sunny, sublime.

Seeds are sown in the spring in the open ground to a depth of 1 cm in the loose, nutritious soil, and the shoots are thinned, leaving the distance between seedlings 15-20,

Young plants need weeding. Watering is moderate and regular.

In the first year of life, peduncles are removed to better develop the root system and the bush rosette.

Note: if you follow the rules listed above, the oregano is not sick!

Procurement of raw materials

The aerial part with the peduncles is cut in July-September. Dry in a well-ventilated dark room. Raw materials are wiped, thickened stems are removed, poured into a container, tightly closed and stored not in the light.

In folk medicine

Infusion, which has a mild diuretic effect, softening the symptoms of menopause.

5 g of oregano fill 0,5 l of boiling water. Insist 5-7 min. % Drink like tea, adding honey to taste (of course, if there is no allergy to beekeeping products).

For external use with diathesis and pustular skin diseases.

50 g dry herbs brew 10 L of water. Filter and add to the bath or use for dousing.

Decoction with neuroses, headache, insomnia.

10 g of dry raw ore material is poured into 200 ml of water. Heat on a water bath 15 min. Then cool, filter and bring boiled water to the original volume. Drink on 1 tbsp. 3-4 times a day before meals. The same broth can gargle with angina.

In cooking

The aromatic component of oregano is close to thyme and basil. Add it to spaghetti, tomato sauces, salads, sausages. Oregano Italians are especially honored - they do not cook their favorite pizza without it.

Fresh leaves and young twigs are added to homemade kvass. Thanks to oregano, the drink lasts longer.

Used for conservation, especially when pickling cucumbers.

Try this combination of dry spicy mixture - oregano, basil, rosemary and black pepper. Smooth out soups and mushroom dishes.

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AROMA ORANGE

Of all the variety of spicy herbs, my favorite is oregano, a perennial plant up to half a meter high with branched stems.

I use oregano leaves in cooking, when marinating meat. Flowers are for making tea. It turns out fragrant and healing, relieves headaches, helps with pain in the stomach and calms the nervous system.

Oregano is propagated by seeds, division of rhizomes, layering and cuttings.

Initially, I grew oregano seedlings, I purchased the seeds of the Feya variety. I sown them in January in nutrient soil, evenly distributing them over the surface. The soil was regularly moistened. After seed germination and the appearance of 2-3 true leaves, the seedlings dived.

Seedlings were planted in open ground in the first half of May. Oregano grows well on nutritious soil, in sunny areas. This is the place she chose. I filled the soil with humus (a bucket per 1 sq.m) and superphosphate (1 tablespoon per 1 sq.m). I planted the plants at a distance of about 20 cm from each other.

FOR THE NOTICE

If you are lucky enough to find forest oregano in the forest or meadows, dig up a bush and plant it in your summer cottage. Just not together with the garden one, so that they do not cross-pollinate with each other.

Forest oregano is even more fragrant than garden.

Young plantings were carefully weeded, loosened the soil, watered moderately. And in the future, she did not water the oregano often and in large quantities, because in this case the plant loses part of the aroma.

Already adult plants propagate by rhizome, I do it in early spring. Oregano tolerates transplantation well and grows rapidly.

In the first year, I cut the oregano once during the flowering period, in subsequent years I do this up to three times per season. I cut the stems above the ground at a height of 5 cm, tie them in small bunches and dry them under a canopy. Then I cut and store in cloth bags.

For the winter, I cut the oregano close to the soil and cover it with fallen leaves of fruit trees. Oregano overwinters well, does not freeze, and in the spring grows before other perennial grasses.

© Author: Elena Kiryashina, Ulyanovsk Photo by the author

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