Exotic plants in the country

Many of us have tried to cultivate citrus, coffee or loofah. And certainly lit gardeners eyes at the sight of the unusual fruit in supermarkets: who does not want to impress the neighbors and acquaintances vegetables with strange shapes and unusual taste! Which of these exotics should experiment and whether it is possible to grow exotic plants in Moscow, told the Siberian scientists and participants forumhouse.ru.

Exotics in the garden

The scientists of the Central Siberian Botanical Garden studying exotic plants for Russia in the second half of the 90s. The attention of specialists of food plant introduction laboratories attracted no fruit, and the most promising vegetable crops: cowpeas, momordica, nods and Benincasa.

Fotev Yuri V. (senior researcher of the Central Siberian Botanical Garden (Central Siberian Botanical Garden SB RAS), PhD. agricultural Science, on the introduction and selection of new and vegetable crops specialist, author and co-author of 45 varieties included in the State Register of selection achievements of the Russian Federation):

- The systems include selection criteria such as genetic diversity, growing season length, the value of biochemical composition, productivity, keeping quality, resistance to diseases and pests, breeding efficiency (seed), and teplotrebovatelnost others (including ease of manufacturability and product processing methods and associated traditional taste preferences of residents Russia).

VignaOr green beans - a wonderful plant with fruits 50-60 cm long. It is a kind of our beans, but the quality and productivity of Exotic much higher. Vigna has high palatability, contains a large amount of vitamins, lectins, protein. By the way, so cowpea also called "vegetable meat." The fruits can be frozen, fry, stew, canned. In our summer conditions the easiest way to grow new varieties of cowpea - Yunnan and Siberian size.

Benincasa - another vegetable with valuable biochemical composition. The plant helps with ulcers of the gastrointestinal tract, allergies, diabetes, nerve diseases, helminths. Benincasa characterized sufficiently short growing period, ease of cultivation, yield highly stable. Bred in Siberia Akulina variety differs outstanding keeping quality of fruits - up to 3 years! Quite large fruits - with no grainy pulp pumpkin flavor, thin crust on top is covered with a thick layer of natural wax. Vegetable used in fresh, stewed, fried, canned, candied do.

beckon - one of the most popular among truckers exotic, reminiscent of cucumber. Hence another name - African cucumber and jelly or horned melon. The new variety that can be grown in our cottages - Green Dragon. This undemanding plant of the gourd family are characterized by good keeping quality - up to 6 months at ambient conditions. Vegetable has a pleasant flavor, is rich in potassium. Kiva - it is also a beautiful, thick and prickly creeper. She will decorate fences land so that "no enemy will not pass." Kiva used in fresh and canned form. fruits are very effectively looked at the table and in jars.

Momordica - a unique plant rich chemical composition (containing momorhariny, vitamins, pectins, alkaloids, insulin-like peptides). Scientists CSBG brought a new cold-resistant varieties Gosh. Vegetable proven its therapeutic properties in diabetes and reduction of immunity, hypertension, viral and oncological diseases. Momordica easy to grow differs short growing period. The fruits have a spicy-spicy taste - a real exotic! They are used in fried and stewed, frozen, canned, brewed tea.

success secrets

Many FORUMHOUSE visitors who try to grow exotic and rare plants in the conditions of Moscow and the Moscow region, They face such problems: the fruits do not have time to mature or have a bad taste, and the plant can not fruit. And to grow exotic plants in the garden would be desirable!

Fotev YV .:

- To succeed in the cultivation of various crops, we must, whenever possible, to take greater account of their biological needs related to the origin. It is useful to know that the vegetable pear - is a short-day, heat-loving plant, blooms until August and September by shortening the length of the day, so not particularly productive in the temperate climate and the middle band Russia.

Where to get seeds

Fotev YV .:

- Use the seeds extracted from fruits at the supermarket can be, but the result is completely unpredictable. Fruits vegetables, tomato and sweet pepper, often hybrid origin, so sown seeds and plants of these will be heterogeneous, including in relation to the value of the crop size and quality fruit. It is better to buy seeds from reliable sellers, companies that you trust, or originators varieties.

How to grow these crops

Fotev YV .:

- All of these heat-loving culture and can not withstand frost. Grow them better seedling method, sowing the seeds of 15 - 25 April in the cup in the room or greenhouse and conducting planting seedlings in the ground finished film or polycarbonate greenhouses 15 - 25 May. Cowpea can be sown directly into the ground greenhouses 15 - 25 May. Kiva can be grown in open ground, planting the seedlings after minovanii frost. All cultures were grown garter to the horizontal trellis located at a height of 1.8 - 2.0 m.

What other exotic fruit grown in Central band Gameday.

No new posts Ni4ka notes that it is worth attention is very decorative berries - zhmindaOr strawberry spinach. Planted to a permanent place begins to grow right out of the snow, and blooms in early May. Obtained from berries delicious fizzy brew a nice red color, with a "velvet" taste and a pleasant fruity scent.

No new posts Teana and raised in the suburbs lagenariyu. It is also called china gourd or pumpkin. For food use young fruits: fried in oil, baked pancakes, boiled porridge, pickled, canned, make caviar. Summer Resident collected from one plant of more than 20 kg of fruits of pumpkin exotic.

Tiny melon, she melothria scabra African and cucumber - a miniature plant whose fruit looks and tastes like cucumber. Participants forumhouse.ru note that this crop is easy to grow in the balcony boxes, a fence or pergola. Plant flowers and bears fruit from June until winter. Liana is growing very active, so it is planted, if you need to quickly decorate any vertical plane in the garden. Original and cute look dish decorated with pickled melotriey.

muscovite Donechka I could not stand still in front of a miracle - Thladiantha Dubia, It - red cucumber. No new posts notes that in the middle lane cucumbers ripen in September. The fruits of the plant - a soft, juicy flesh and unusual taste (for an amateur), good thirst quencher. Cucumbers (in fact it is another representative of the gourd family) may be preserved. Eat and use in medicine and tubers of plants. Tladianta used as a choleretic, diuretic and expectorant, astringent and antiscorbutic.
Fruits, herbs, leaves and seeds are taken as a tincture for headache and hypertension, tea of ​​yellow flowers is good for the flu.

In one article it is difficult to tell about all the exotic cultures that interested gardeners. Learn more about whether you can grow exotic fruits in the Average strip of seeds, whether or not to put the country Saraha, or blueberries vegetableHow to grow a plant sweetener steviaThan good oat root and what other unusual plants Gameday tried in your garden, you can in the subject "Horticultural rarity".

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