Weed weed (stellate) - benefits and properties
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Woodlice grass - to whom weed, to whom medicine
After reading this letter, some summer residents are indignant. These are those "fighters" with any livestock, in which even a fly will not fly by on the site. It is clear that they can not be found useful insects. But how well these "wrestlers" know how to complain about bad harvests!
Clever crow
I want to join the author of one of the comments in the article about weeds and write about the well-known wood lice (botanical name - chickweed). It grows on loose moist soils.
She has a superficial root system - only 2-3 cm, so she is a competitor only for seedlings of root crops and annual flowers.
And for other plants, it can serve as mulch - under it is always damp. The wood lice can determine the weather: if in the morning its white flowers did not open, it will certainly rain in the afternoon. Even if the morning is sunny.
Infusion of woodlice along with the flowers of clover is well watered with cauliflower to speed up the tying of the heads, since iodine, silicon, zinc are contained in the grapefruit. All kinds of lice are suitable for fattening domestic animals and birds, and in cows it even raises milk yields!
Wood louse can and should be eaten by people. Different salads are good with her, summer borsch. But the most important thing: wood lice is a medicinal plant and is widely used in folk medicine in many countries. As a medicine, grass lice is used raw, in the form of juice, infusion or a decoction of dried plants. It is good to put fresh grass in shoes with cracks on the heels and so walk all day.
In the cocktail contains vitamins C, K (promote blood clotting), P (flavonoid, strengthening blood vessels), as well as triterpenic acids that strengthen immunity. Fresh grass and juice is used for liver diseases, cholelithiasis and urolithiasis, inflammatory processes in the bronchi and lungs, with hemorrhoids and chest pains.
Infusion is used to treat the initial stage of hypertension, ischemic heart disease, tumors (to soften the resorption), as well as with thyroid disease.
In Central Asia, the infusion of herbs is also used for eye diseases. In Bulgaria - as an anti-inflammatory agent, incl. in the treatment of gout and arthritis. Strong infusion is externally used for baths, lotions, compresses for skin diseases, wounds and ulcers. It is believed that such baths strengthen the nervous system. In addition, the silicon content helps strengthen bones, hair, tooth enamel. Here's how useful this weed is!
And the crow pushed me to write about him. Out of my window, on a loggia, in a flower garden, on the 8th floor, a wood louse grew - I added it to salads. And then one day I go out onto the loggia and see how a crow pokes up my wood louse. No wonder they say that these are very smart birds, they understood their benefit.
See also: Recipes with portolac or VERY delicious weed
Royal cucumbers
And I want to share one of my fiction. Once I read that either in Uglich, or in Murom, barrels of pickles were stored at the bottom of the river. And the cucumbers were so delicious that they were delivered to the royal table! I don’t have a basement, and to carry cans of cucumbers to the city, and then, in April, back is not very convenient. And keeping them in a city apartment is not the best option. So I decided to lower them to the bottom of the well in a plastic bag on a rope. In the spring I take out wonderful pickled and pickled cucumbers. I have been using this storage method for four years now.
And I’ll write about my method of growing strawberries. The photo clearly shows: it grows in two rows, and in the middle - garlic, which grows there as much as strawberries grow, i.e. 4-5 years old. We cut and eat greens all spring.
And between the beds I pour sawdust: the grass does not grow, and it’s dry to walk in the rain, and most importantly - I have practically no weevil. I believe that this is the "merit" of garlic.
However, because of this, I can not wallow the beds with polyethylene, although I know that this is very cool. Once in Bulgaria, I saw whole plantations of strawberries, covered with such a film, only transparent.
I wish everyone health, good spirits, and do not bother about the difficulties that frighten us.
© Author: G. Maslenitskaya. Saint Petersburg
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If the wood lice overcame
A few years ago, wood lice started up on the site. Whatever I did: I dug up the site, and carefully weeded out the weeds with roots, but the wood lice did not care. With each new season, it became more and more.
Somehow a neighbor passed by and said that I could not cope with wood lice until I deoxidized the soil. She advised me to add a liter jar of chalk per 1 sq.m of the plot in the fall for digging. And next year, on her advice, I applied only mineral fertilizers, no organic matter. And already in the spring I was surprised to notice that there were very few wood lice. And the next season, after one weeding, the annoying weed completely disappeared by itself.
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Our grandmothers and great-grandmothers always knew: wood lice - an excellent tool for shaky nerves. To heal the nervous system and forget about the daily urban stress will help motive infusion.
Classic recipe: 1 Art. l fresh leaflets and stems of mokrichnik finely chop, pour a glass of boiling water, insist a couple of hours, then filter. Drinking such an antidepressant should be twice a day for half a cup, and once more for the night.
The same woodlice recipe will also help to cleanse the blood. For the blood-forming system, wood lice is a great blessing, it helps to increase hemoglobin, and lice infusion is especially recommended for women during menstruation. To prepare the infusion you need 1 tbsp. l dry herbs pour a glass of boiling water, insist 1,5-2 hours, strain. Take 3-4 times a day before meals, a third of a glass.
Infusion is also taken in diseases of the liver and lungs, chest pains, hemoptysis, hemorrhoids, thyroid disease, gastrointestinal diseases, liver cirrhosis. Due to the presence of a large amount of vitamins in the wood lice, it quickly restores strength in humans.
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Every year on my site I conduct an unequal struggle with weed vegetation and now I'm thinking: maybe there is some kind of weed from the weeds, maybe I can use them somewhere, and this will save me a lot of energy?
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Indeed, every year we struggle with weed vegetation, which, in our opinion, interferes with cultivated plants. At the same time, nobody completely destroyed the weeds. And, maybe, in fact, it is worth trying to benefit from wild plants.
Plants such as yarrow, cuff, St. John’s wort, tansy, forest and field geraniums, creeping insects, different species of Veronica on the flower bed will look very appropriate, and if combined correctly with other cultures, it’s just gorgeous. Such copies have a very good advantage over their cultural counterparts: they are very hardy and do not require any effort on the part of the owner. So if you want to have an unpretentious flower garden on your site, do not neglect the natural wealth.
But these plants can be useful in another sense. So, wormwood will protect the site from uninvited guests in the form of insect pests, and its silver above-ground part is also a wonderful decoration. The ivy budra and tenacity will serve as an excellent “veil” for the soil, and for the crops among which they will grow, they will become a living mulch.
Almost all wild crops have healing properties. Coltsfoot, celandine, dandelion roots - these are not weeds, but real medicines.
In addition, many wild cultures can be used to control pests in the garden. Especially well cope with this task yarrow, wormwood, dandelion, tansy.
Many gardeners have heard about green fertilizers. For their preparation, weed plants are suitable, but do not put in the compost heap those specimens that have already tied the seeds, otherwise you will spread them even more. Weeds can mulch the soil under other plants, it will retain moisture and add additional fertilizer to the soil.
And finally I want to say that weeds can be eaten. For example, young dandelion leaves and piles are full of micronutrients, which we so lack, especially in early spring.