Vegetable physalis - planting and care (Moscow)
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GROWING PHYSALIS IN THE MOSCOW - PLANTING AND CARE
If you are planning to plant physalis in the garden, first read this letter carefully. Learn a lot of interesting and useful.
PHYSALIS: SURPRISE DELICIOUS
The story I want to tell began with the fact that I bought my wife Valyusha a cake decorated with the fruit of a confectionery physalis. She really liked the cake, but was even more impressed with the strawberry flavor of physalis. And the wife decided to grow it in our country house: I extracted five seeds from it (later I bought the seeds of vegetable physalis in the store), planted it and got my way!
True, a year later she decided to refuse the confectionery: although its fruits were delicious, it was painfully small, a handful of them came from a huge plant. Vegetable physalis turned out to be very fruitful, and even with fruits of decent size. Their taste is unusual, for an amateur, but still impressive. The flesh is tender, with many small seeds. These fruits are good both fresh and canned, especially along with other vegetables.
PHYSALIS FROM SEEDS THROUGH SEEDLING
The first time the wife grew physalis through seedlings. Sowed it in March, as well as tomatoes. They grew, as expected, vertically, and the stems of the physalis, let's immediately intertwine with each other. Oh, and my beloved tormented, unraveling the Gordian knots when diving! Moreover, the physalis seedlings were more likely to grow tomato, and its stems were fragile to indecent.
My wife regretted here that she had not immediately sown the seeds in separate glasses. I also lamented that I used all the seeds from the bag at once, I had to persuade my neighbors and acquaintances to take at least a couple of extra plants.
TRANSFER OF PHYSALIS IN THE GREENHOUSE
When transplanting physalis to the greenhouse along with tomatoes (both cultures belong to the nightshade family and the requirements for caring for them are the same), my wife and I left a little more space for him than for the neighbors, because these bushes do not need to be planted.
Transplanted seedlings from glasses into organic-filled and spilled holes without deepening.
See also: Physalis sprouts
MOSCOW PHYSALIS: CARE
The care consisted of regular watering and two top dressings with fermented grass: once ash was added to it, and the second time a bird droppings were bred. For prevention from phytophthora, I sprayed physalis with serum with the addition of iodine (like tomatoes). And with the same iodine open bubbles were hanging all over the greenhouse. He regularly removed weeds and, with the onset of steady heat, ventilated the greenhouse around the clock without closing the door and windows.
They did not begin to tie the physalis, so as not to break the powerful, but still quite fragile stepsons. Several ripe fruits that came into contact with the earth rotted, and we left them in the garden. We provided ourselves with this (seedlings for the next year: in May friendly shoots appeared in the greenhouse, and we only had to select stronger plants in the quantity we needed.
Last spring, to add soil to a warm bed, I took the earth from one of the greenhouses. And after a few days some shoots appeared there, although I still had not time to plant anything there. A week later, it became clear and then physalis!
Well, I decided to give him this bed. Despite the fact that the plantings were thickened, the bushes grew perfectly, lounging in all directions. During the summer, I watered them a couple of times during long breaks between rains, and did not fertilize, as the land got well-filled. Harvested as it ripens, starting in August. He took the last fruits on October 15, and more than three buckets were gathered.
Physalis loves fertilized soil, moderate watering, but compared to tomatoes it is more unpretentious and more resistant to disease. And one more important point: the fruits should be freed from the covering scales immediately after harvesting, and doused with boiling water before meals to wash off the sticky coating from them.
When removing the fruiting bushes, he threw several ripe fruits on the adjacent bed and sprinkled them with earth. The winter sowing was completed. The letter should be completed on this, but at the request of the wife I will answer the question of E. P. Belousova, which she asked in the article “Vegetable or weed?”
Dear Evgenia Petrovna! Really, physalis is vegetable and decorative. You are growing just the second. This is a perennial plant with orange "lanterns", inside of which are inedible fruits. This is understandable, because they are grown for beauty.
Vegetable physalis is an annual culture, and its fruits can and should be eaten. The bushes are well branched and have a fibrous root system. And the decorative one is powerful, long, resembling potato stolons. Planting it must be limited by digging metal strips or slate around them. If it breaks through the fence, it must be regularly mowed, since it cannot be removed by plowing, it can only be propagated by cutting fragile roots with a plow or hoe.
FISALIS USE
And in the end I’ll say this: although the vegetable physalis is still an “exotic” for many gardeners, a separate article can be written about its benefits.
I will only briefly list its amazing properties: painkiller, anti-inflammatory, hemostatic, antiulcer, diuretic, antiseptic. It also helps with coughing and epilepsy.
Experts concluded that the systematic consumption of its fruits prevents the development of oncology, as they cleanse the body of toxins. Physalis fruits can be used even for people with diabetes. In addition, they are useful to those who want to lose weight.
See also: Physalis - cultivation, planting and care, varieties and cooking of vegetables from the Physalis
FISALIS VEGETABLE AND DECORATIVE - VIDEO
© Author: Sergey Vladimirovich Moscow
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E.D. Silina writes about physalis (“Golden Miracle”). Elena Dmitrievna, sow physalis in the fall in the allotted area: it will sprout earlier and have time to ripen, and labor costs will be significantly reduced. I have been growing it for several years, and I have never dealt with seedlings - the berries remain in the garden and sprout like bristles in the spring. Physalis seeds germinate even after several decades!
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This year, for the first time, I tried to grow vegetable physalis in a greenhouse. But something went wrong. The bush grew large, and the fruits appeared late and in small quantities. They will not have time to mature. Why did it happen? After all, physalis seeds, like tomatoes, were sown in early March ...
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- Firstly, most likely, you sowed the seeds of physalis of late varieties, which are more suitable for the southern regions. And it is better for residents of the middle lane to grow Peruvian, Strawberry, Columbus, Surprise varieties in a greenhouse.
Secondly, a small number of fruits indicates insufficient pollination. To avoid such a problem next time, open the vents and doors during the flowering period, lightly tap each plant once a day.
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Physalis sowed at the end of February; Is it possible to deepen it? Or plant lying?
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By its biological properties, physalis is close to a tomato and perfectly forms additional roots. Therefore, elongated seedlings can be planted lying down (in the northern regions), and in the south they can be buried to cotyledon leaves.
The optimal age for seedlings of strawberry physalis (varieties Zolotaya placer, Rakhat-lokum, Filantrop, etc.) is 35-45 days. For a Mexican vegetable (varieties Pineapple, Jam, Confectioner, Korolek, Gourmand, etc.) 30-35 days. In the Central Black Earth region and to the south, seeds can be sown directly into the ground. And only a vigorous Peruvian physalis with a long growing season (varieties Kudesnik, Columbus, etc.) is sown for seedlings in late February.