ARONY ARONIA - GROWING, USE, LANDING AND CARE

Chokeberry propaganda is not necessary. But, unfortunately, not with us. With the most healthy cultures, things are especially sad. Perhaps inspired by an interesting story by our regular author, you also plant this useful tree that does not require almost any worries?

ARONIA REAL NATURAL Hoard

At the end of the summer season, I reviewed everything and noticed that the chokeberry (another name - chokeberry, or simply chokeberry) But this plant is worthy of the closest attention!

Even in the 1970-1980-ies about this plant was not heard. However, in 1989 or the beginning of 1990 (I don’t remember exactly) I came across one, and then another article about chokeberry, about its extremely useful properties. I wanted to plant it in my country house, but for several years I was restrained by the fact that black chokeberry grows strongly over time: it reaches 2,5-3 m in height and more than 2 m in width. And then, and it was about 20 years ago, I decided to try plant black chokeberry on ordinary forest mountain ash.

I found advice in the literature that it is easier and more reliable to vaccinate in January-February. Of course, going to the cottage at the height of winter is a serious matter.

But how to abandon chokeberry? After all, chokeberry berries are very useful for hypertension and atherosclerosis, and with age it is relevant for everyone. Yes, the chokeberry berries are slightly tart, but this is because they are rich in iodine and P-active substances: only two or three berries contain a daily dose of vitamin P!

In terms of the content of this vitamin, chokeberry has no equal in nature. And there is as much vitamin C in it as there are in winter apples, cranberries, cranberries, cherries. In addition, chokeberry berries remove salts of heavy metals - cobalt and strontium, contain vitamins E, K, B1, B2, PP1, provitamin A, iron, fluorine, boron, copper, manganese.

It is not for nothing that doctors recommend the fruits of aronia in any form (jam, compote, juice, raw, frozen, wine).

I started planting chokeberries by the fact that at the end of summer at the edge of the forest I found several young shoots of mountain ash. I chose one of them, 80 cm high and about 5 mm thick. Since there are many young shoots at the edge, I marked the selected shoot by tying a narrow strip of color film on it. Otherwise, after leaf fall, this escape can not be found or confused with another.

At this age, mountain ash has small, superficially located roots. I dug up this rowan shoot with a lump of earth in the fall, after leaf fall, and planted it in the place where I was going to grow a chokeberry. Since black chokeberry was brought to us from North America, it is not afraid of winter and spring frosts, so I chose an open, sunny place next to the fence.

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I dug a hole for a seedling with a width of 60-70 cm and a depth of 25-30 cm, filled it with a mixture of forest soil, humus and sand in the ratio 1: 1: 1. Added here to 3 Art. l superphosphate and potassium sulfate. Since I did not know how acidic the chokeberry needed soil, I did not add ash and dolomite. And guessed it! The mountain ash has taken root well and grows without problems.

When planting, the sapling well poured and drove a peg next to it so that it would not accidentally disappear, not get lost in the snow, and not break. The spring was wet and there was no need for watering. But in the summer, in the heat, he watered two or three times, but a little, without pouring. There was no more care, as I had done all the grass at the landing site in advance.

The following winter, somewhere in January-February (I don’t remember exactly), I planted chokeberry on this seedling.

He took the stem from a neighbor from whom it grows by a bush. The stalk picked up the same thickness as the seedling. On a sunny day, I knelt down in front of the sapling, scooped up snow from the sapling to the ground and planted it at an 15 cm height from the ground using improved copulation method. In order to get the vaccine successful in the cold, I kept my hands warm, in fur gloves. The grafted stalk is tied with plastic tape, with the adhesive side facing out.

After grafting, I left three buds on the cuttings and put the top cut on the cuttings with garden var. After that, he leveled the snow, sprinkling the grafted seedling with soft snow gently, without damaging the grafting.

Already in the middle of summer, he loosened the binding of the vaccination site, and by the autumn he removed it altogether. All the care was in the first season in the fact that in the spring I fed the plant a solution of mullein once. Over the summer, watered a couple of times when the sun was baking. Of course, weed around the grass.

The grafted chokeberry has taken root well and has grown well. She does not require special care. From it I formed a small tree (photo 1). Formation carried out in the first two to three years. In the early years, the mountain ash, on which I planted a chokeberry, gave side shoots - I removed them at the beginning of summer. Then the growth of these shoots stopped - apparently, the supply of growth buds on the mountain ash was exhausted.

For two decades I have defined such care for chokeberry: every three to four years I bring in a half-bucket of humus in autumn, 2 Art. l superphosphate, a glass of ash, and in the spring I pour 1 Art. l urea. I spend watering only with prolonged drought.

ARONIA: TASTE OF HEALTH

Aronia is very decorative. The leaves look like cherry blossoms, and the berries look like mountain ash, only they are black and larger (photo 2). My black-fruited tree is abundantly strewn with clusters of berries in the fall. It has firmly grown together at the vaccination site (photo 3), and I have no doubt in his long life.

Fruit chokeberry we add juices to the jam, make wine out of them. To support health in the winter, we prepare this - concentrate:

1 kg of washed and dried h berries are ground with a wooden crush into gruel, mixed with 800 g of liquid honey and put in a dark place at room temperature for two weeks. Then store in the refrigerator. Accepted in the morning by 1 tsp

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WINE FROM CHERNOZODOK OWN HANDS - A PROVEN RECIPE!

But especially I want to mention wine from aronia. After all, it is done without heating, and everything that is in the useful berry is concentrated in wine.

The peculiarity of this drink is that the longer it is aged, the more intense and subtle its aroma becomes, the bouquet becomes more refined. Given the medicinal richness of such a wine, I drink it 40-50 ml - purely for pleasure, before dessert.

And now more about cooking (based on the 10-liter bottle). I take 3,5-4 kg of clean, unwashed berries and pass through a meat grinder. Pour the resulting pulp 3,5 l of cold boiled water, mix and leave to insist for a day. During this time, I make extra yeast from raspberries (a half-liter jar) and 100 g of sugar, put this composition on a sunny window and let it ferment. After a day I filter the chokeberry through cheesecloth and pour into a bottle. Presses again pour 2 liters of water on 5-6 hours. After that, filter the whole composition through cheesecloth and dissolve 0,5 kg of sugar in it, pour into a bottle. I pour in the fermented raspberry sourdough. I close the bottle with a cotton plug.

The next day I pour 1 liter of juice from an 1,5-2 bottle, dissolve 0,5 kg of sugar in it and pour into a bottle. To the "shoulders" of the bottle I add warm (namely warm!) Boiled water, close it with a glove with a pierced finger and put it in a warm place near the battery. If on the third day no signs of fermentation appear in the bottle, add about 50 g of ordinary baking Yeast diluted with 1 tsp. sugar in a glass of warm water. Seven days after the second sugar addition, I add another 0,5 kg of sugar in the same way. Then, after another 7 days, I again add 0,5 kg of sugar, i.e. just add 2 kg of sugar.

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FILLING FROM BLACK

After the last sugar application, I let the future wine completely ferment and drain the remainder for the first time. I withstand it in a dark place for two or three months, the second time I drain it and take it out for three to four months into the basement. After this time, the third time I drain from the sediment and bottle. I sign the bottles and put them in the farthest corner of the basement: the wine still has a long exposure. Now I enjoy 12 summer wine. I wish you, with pleasure, to strengthen your health, as I do.

I wish fellow countrymen worthy harvests, good health, bright and fruitful days!

I express my sincere gratitude and gratitude to those who, having found me on the Internet, reported the addresses of nurseries where you can buy seedlings of stunted blueberries. Good luck to you in country affairs!

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THERAPEUTIC CHARNOPLOD: JAM AND WINE WITH YOUR HANDS

I inherited a dacha where several bushes of chokeberry (chokeberry) grow. At first I did not know what to do with the harvest, and generously distributed it to my neighbors, not even suspecting how valuable the fruits of this plant were. According to its beneficial properties, chokeberry can give 100 points ahead to black currants, raspberries, apples and oranges. The amount of vitamins and microelements in the composition of fruits simply rolls over, which is worth only the content of folic acid, calcium and iodine.

When I started looking for drugs that normalize blood pressure and lower cholesterol in the blood, I didn’t even suspect that the medicine was growing at my side, but my neighbor had long realized that eating chokeberry is much more effective and safer than pills (he advised me to harvest berries).

I collect the fruits before the start of frost, some I freeze, some I keep fresh in the cellar for 2-3 months (by the way, they are not at all tart, as it seemed to me, but very sweet and pleasant to the taste).

My mother-in-law makes delicious jam from berries and apples for the winter. Washes 1 kg of chokeberry, immerses it in boiling water for 5 minutes, and then immediately cools it under running cold water to soften the hard skin of the yagoa. From 0,5 liters of drinking water and 0,5 kg of sugar, boils the syrup, lowers the mountain ash into it, boils 5 minutes and leave to cool until morning.

In the morning, add another 1 kg of sugar and bring to a boil. Peel and core 0,5 kg of apples, cut into slices, add them to the mountain ash in syrup, put 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, cook the jam for 10 minutes, then let it cool completely, cook again for 10 minutes and pour the hot jam into sterilized jars.

And I cook sweet, but not too strong wine from chokeberry. I pass 10 kg of unwashed berries through a meat grinder, add 2 kg of sugar, 1 liter of warm water, mix and fill 3/2 3-liter jars with mass. I cover the container with gauze and put it in a warm place for a week, stirring the mass daily. Then I filter the juice, pour it into a glass bottle, close it with a water seal. Pour 2 kg of sugar into the remaining pulp, pour 1 liter of warm water and leave for 5 days, stirring occasionally. Then I filter this mixture through cheesecloth, mix the liquid with the first portion of chokeberry juice, pour it into jars again and leave it under the lids with a water seal for a week (I throw away the cake). I pour the wort with the help of a tube into another container - and so every week, until the complete end of fermentation. I filter the young wine through gauze, pour it into ordinary dark wine bottles, cork them and leave for 2 months.

© Author: L. PETROVSKY Belgorod

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BLACK ROWAN - HELP WITH PRESSURE

Among the berry bushes there is one that you rarely see in gardens - chokeberry, or chokeberry:

I recommend paying attention to this perennial, because its berries are a storehouse of useful substances.

VALUABLE PROPERTIES

Chokeberry berries contain many antioxidants, one of them is anthocyanins, which give the fruit a dark purple hue. These substances help protect the body's cells from damage caused by harmful free radicals.

Studies have shown that regular consumption of chokeberry leads to a significant reduction in blood pressure levels. The fact is that its chemical composition contains amygdalin glycoside, which, in combination with vitamin E, has a positive effect on the cardiovascular system, helps to relax blood vessels, improve blood flow and reduce the load on the heart.

The berries also have a pronounced capillary-strengthening effect, relieve spasms well, and have a diuretic effect. If a person has a tendency to bleed, chokeberry will become his best friend, because it restores blood clotting.

Chokeberry also has a positive effect on the state of the endocrine system.

In 2021, a study was conducted that showed the effectiveness of chokeberry fruits in treating high cholesterol levels. I recommend including chokeberry in your diet for everyone who is overweight, has problems with blood vessels and the heart, high uric acid and hypothyroidism.

HEALTHY RECIPES FROM CHARMONY

Infusion for hypertension. Pour 25-30 g of dry chokeberry berries with 300 ml of boiling water and let it brew for at least an hour. Drink 100 ml three times a day, regardless of meals. The infusion helps normalize blood pressure after the first dose. If you take it as a course, the effect will gradually accumulate and after a month you will feel better.

Refreshing and nutritious smoothie. This drink is a great start to the day. Mix 1 tbsp. frozen chokeberry, 1 banana, 1 tbsp. any vegetable milk and a handful of spinach. If desired, add 1 tsp. honey for sweetness.

Healthy salad dressing. In a blender, mix 0 tbsp. chokeberry juice, 5 tbsp. olive oil, 3 tsp. apple cider vinegar and a pinch of ground pepper. Drizzle this dressing over any vegetable salad for more flavor and health benefits.

COMFORTABLE CONDITIONS

In the garden, chokeberry prefers open sunny areas with loamy soil. neutral reaction,

Shrubs can be planted in spring, in the second half of April, or in autumn, at the end of September and early October.

It is important that the plant receives enough moisture at the beginning of the growing season and during the formation of berries. Therefore, if necessary, chokeberry is watered (20-30 liters of water for each specimen).

If the shrub grows on nutritious garden soil, it will be enough to mulch the tree trunk circle with organic matter as a top dressing. Otherwise, after spring fertilizing, it is worth fertilizing the soil with an infusion of mullein (1:10) or chicken manure (1:20), and in the fall add 100 g of superphosphate and add ash under the bush.

Formative and sanitary pruning is carried out in the spring, before the buds swell. Remove damaged branches growing inside the bush, as well as young shoots and old stems, leaving 4-10 of the strongest ones. Sanitary haircuts can also be carried out in the fall, after leaf fall.

© Author: Nikolay TROTSENKO, phytoteralt, Moscow. Anastasia ILINA, biologist, Minsk

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