Siberian juniper (photo) - benefits, planting and care
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Cultivation of Siberian juniper
Nowadays, various varieties of juniper are used everywhere to decorate plots, create hedges. What only you will not meet the green handsome, there are creeping, and columnar, and weeping, and spreading!
Tall, low shrubs or, conversely, giants. It all depends on the selected variety, color, haircut, finally. There are junipers that need to be formed into one trunk, there are those that need to trim the crown. There are spiky, and on the contrary - soft, like velvet.
And I want to tell the readers about its juniper - Siberian.
At first glance this is an ordinary variety with a soft crown, about 2,5 m in height. We brought it from the Urals, we cleaned it after transportation, because the roots on the road dried up.
Planting pit was made as a grape, but added the land brought from the forest, as well as a bit of native soil (when purchased from the seller), this is for the microorganisms to get to a new place and it got better.
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About bush-berries and the use of juniper
Juniper is our one-homed, that is, fructifies without the help of another pollinating tree, and from female inflorescences on the branches appear numerous fruits - cone-berry. Fruits mature long and are ready, when covered with a blue bloom. We gather them, putting a canvas under the crown and shaking the tree, or knocking on the trunk with a stick wound around the trunk.
The harvest is best dried immediately, otherwise the fruits will give a resinous tear, stick together and lose some of the valuable properties. And the value of the Siberian juniper fruit is enormous. Essential oil, which possesses a strong bactericidal property, is applicable for many infectious diseases. Broths and tinctures of berries Siberian juniper have a strong diuretic effect. Contraindication to the use of decoction of juniper fruit can only be kidney disease. And with high blood pressure will cope as well as tablets. And cholelithiasis, and hepatic ailments of pine and berries are treated with success.
Especially I want to note the disinfecting and anti-mold property of the Siberian juniper.
In the olden days they fumigated hospital rooms and houses during epidemics. In the Urals and in Siberia and to this day fumigated container for smoking meat and fish. We add the fruits of juniper to the pouring during conservation, closed jars stand without problems, and the shish kebab in the juniper marinade is just not forgotten.
As for the other qualities of Siberian juniper, it is able to heal the air around it in a radius of five meters, so a living juniper hedge is not just an ornament and an interesting fence, but also a healer. The air around it is saturated with volatile production - this is a kind of antimicrobial zone. Such a fence is especially good if the roadway is nearby.
Siberian juniper: planting and care
Propagated juniper Siberian only seeds, propagation of propagation only decorative varieties. Seeds should be fully ripened, with a bluish bloom. Sealing in fertile land at about 2-3, see
Weeding and loosening can damage the root system of the seedlings, so it is not worth it especially to be zealous. In winter, sprouts need to be lightly husked with needles, so that the vole mouse does not reach the delicious roots. Although it is believed that mice do not like the smells of juniper, mint, dope and so on, but one day, having arrived at the dacha in the spring, we found mouse traces on young twigs, apparently not only people understand the medicinal value of this plant.
A hedge of Siberian juniper is able to heal the air around itself within a radius of five meters.
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Juniper is an indicator of the purity of the environment
Not so long ago, we heard a speech by a respected environmental biologist. He said that the Siberian fruit juniper can be considered a kind of indicator of environmental pollution. Where it grows well, it produces abundantly - ecology is on top, and where it grows weak and yellow - something is wrong with the air.
After all, it is not damaged by sunburn and acid rain and is indifferent to mechanical injuries - it is almost immediately restored.
Here we have discovered such a wonderful "indicator" among many varieties. Juniper Siberian is loved and advised by those who have not yet decided how to decorate and improve their dacha. And how to improve your health. For those who are interested, I'll send the seeds (see the section "Ads" for the address).
© Author: Elena Mihailovna Verbitskaya
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