Common parsnip, or Field parsnip, or Sowing parsnip (Pastinaca sativa) in the wild is widespread in regions with a temperate climate (middle zone of Russia, North Caucasus, Crimea, Ural, Altai, etc.), but so far it is rarely found in garden plots... True, today the popularity of parsnips is growing quite actively. In animal husbandry and beekeeping, it is used as a fodder plant and honey plant, and in cooking - as a tasty and healthy vegetable.
The host's common favorite among the decorative deciduous perennials captivates not only with the beauty of the leaves. It is durable and relatively undemanding, in the right place has been growing for many years, but it can hardly be called fast-growing. Hosta reproduces easily, although you will have to be patient to get spectacular highly decorative bushes. To increase the host collection on your own, first of all, you need to remember about the peculiarities of this culture.
Dill spreads well by self-sowing, so many summer residents do not consider it necessary to sow this crop every year on the site. But at the same time, everyone understands that dill and dill are different. And the greens of carefully grown dill in the garden by their own taste and the flavor is generally superior to the herb of dill, which grows on its own. In this article, we will tell you how to have enough green dill in the beds with early spring until late autumn.
Stir-fry with beef, soy noodles, vegetables and Iceberg salad - recipe quick dinner or lunch for a busy person. It takes no more than 15 minutes to cook it, and you can feed them a couple of hungry mouths that can't wait for a tricky lunch. Stir-fry is a way to quickly fry vegetables and meat that came to us from the east. Don't be discouraged if the wok is not among your kitchen utensils. A regular skillet with a thick bottom and non-stick coating will do too.
Among the plants that boast variegated foliage, alpinia claims to be not only the rarest, but also the most original culture. It simultaneously reminds of bamboos and arrowroot calatheas, and sometimes even vriezia. True, it looks like the latter only with its inflorescences. Luxurious leaves, most often covered with variegated contrasting stripes, look so modern that it is impossible not to admire the beauty of their impeccable patterns and brilliance.
Vegetarian cabbage rolls with mushrooms - steamed cabbage rolls for dietary, vegetarian and lean menu... Cabbage rolls are unusually tasty, very appetizing, and, if applicable to food, beautiful, unlike their counterparts from white cabbage braised or fried in a pan. Savoy cabbage tastier than a white one, a loose head of cabbage, it is easier to disassemble it into separate leaves. The color of the leaves is from pale green to emerald.
V winter time every summer resident is looking forward to spring and is happy to open the season with the first sowing of flower and vegetable crops for seedlings. But, unfortunately, the space on the windowsill is limited, and it is not always possible to place it in the apartment. the right amount seedlings in cups. In addition, some of the crops may simply not grow, something will die ... And for us, summer residents, no matter how much we plant, it is not enough! Therefore, almost every gardener buys at least some seedlings.
Growing annuals in the garden has at least two advantages over growing perennial flowers. First, most of the popular annual plants bloom profusely throughout the growing season. Secondly, many annuals sow freely and appear in the garden year after year with minimal involvement from the grower. Which summer people can be planted only once, and then, following simple techniques, meet them in the garden every season?
You can make jellied meat and meat salad with onions from pork shank. The shank, especially the back, is a very tasty and affordable piece of pork carcass that can be fed small company... A 2-pound shank will make a bowl of meat salad and a large plate of jellied meat. There will still be meat broth, on which I advise you to cook cabbage soup or borscht. For this dish, we take a rear knuckle weighing from 1.7 to 2 kilograms, I advise you to beg the fleshy one from the butcher.
Eggplants require a sunny, but short day, medium-warm temperatures without sweltering heat, sufficient moisture, but without flooding the root system. Provide such conditions in open ground most regions of Russia are quite difficult. Therefore, earlier eggplants were grown only in greenhouses. With the development of breeding, it became possible to grow eggplants in the open field, not only in southern regions but also in middle lane.
Among predatory plants, the sundew rightly claims to be the brightest and most expressive beauty. This plant attracts, first of all, with its unusual textures and play of colors. But the feeding mechanism of this swampy and quite hardy miracle is so exotic that it is very easy to forget about sundews as plants, primarily decorative ones. The sundews are quite demanding on humidity, but they are not so difficult to grow in ordinary living quarters.
Chocolate cake with a custard made from simple and affordable ingredients, it turns out to be so delicious that rarely anyone is limited to one bite. Biscuit cakes wet, they seem to be made from real dark chocolate, although the recipe only contains cocoa powder. Creamy custard delicate and lightweight, goes well with chocolate biscuit... All this splendor of tastes is complemented by coconut flakes, an ingredient is simple, but in this recipe, like the cherry on the cake, it comes in handy.
Although the calendar spring begins in March, this month can hardly be called spring. But May is already a real long-awaited spring, filled with aromas and colors of awakened nature. Fresh young leaves on trees and shrubs attract the eyes that yearn for greenery during the long months of winter. In May, the parade of primroses continues in the garden, delighting with variegated foliage and flowering ornamental shrubs, perennials, conifers are being updated.
In the middle lane, the formation of grapes suggests the possibility of shelter on winter period, which means that the reference point should be to preserve the head of the bush at the soil level. Further north by big harvest it is not necessary to count, but for such areas there are their own principles of pruning. The article discusses the fan-shaped formation scheme grape bush, often used in the middle lane, and cordon - which has shown itself well in regions with a more severe climate.
Beef with eggplant with vegetable sauce in the oven is a simple dish, very tasty and not very high in calories, which is quite important in our time. Only vegetable sauce, no flour, sugar, milk or cream. The meat is fat-free, yet juicy and tender. Can be replaced with chicken fillet or veal. Eggplants do not need to be pre-fried, just add a little salt to soften. TO ready meal I advise you to make a light yoghurt sauce.
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Lilies of the valley are flowers that are the personification of tenderness and fragility. These amazing plants very difficult to breed, and in nature they are not so common. This is partly what makes them so valuable. Agree, a bouquet of lilies of the valley is very romantic. On the other hand, why tear so rare flower? Better to let it grow further ...
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We never stop admiring the beauty of nature on our planet. All over the world, such unusual trees grow that it is impossible to pass by them indifferently. Some of them are unique because they only grow in certain areas. Talented photographers from all over the world decided to immortalize the most unusual and beautiful trees, sometimes one of a kind, in photographs ...
It turns out that after someone's touch, the leaves of this plant fold, and then straighten again!
This is due to the fact that, with external irritation, they are released chemical substances, including potassium ions, which act on the cells of the leaves, as a result of which there is an outflow of water. The internal pressure in the cells drops and the petiole with petals on the leaves rolls up.
- 2) From what word did the name "cabbage" come from?
- Translated from the ancient Roman word "kaput" means: "head". Even the ancient Egyptians served cabbage at the end of the meal as a sweet dish.
- Cabbage juice is known to help improve digestion. This plant contains a lot of antiscorbutic vitamin C.
- 3) One hectare of forest gives more than 6 tons of wood every year.
- 4) The name "agave" comes from the word agauos, which means "amazing".
- Mexico was named after this plant. Translated, this means "the place of the agave" (from the word of the ancient Aztecs who inhabited Mexico, "metl" - "agave").
- It turns out that cacti are edible and have a very delicate, palatable flesh. The only downside to this treat are the thorns, which are very difficult to remove.
However, Luther Burbank managed to breed a cactus that does not have thorns, and besides, it grows quickly. This is prickly pear. The fruits of this cactus are smooth and fragrant, making a good competition to oranges in taste.
- The pulp of the prickly pear cactus is used to make marshmallows, the so-called "tuna cheese", and the juice is used to make wine, syrup and molasses.
- Unripe prickly pear fruits are boiled with meat, and the ripe ones are dried and then cooked from them. delicious cupcakes with honey aroma.
- Different cacti have different tastes and flesh colors. The cactus tastes like raspberries and pears, melons and strawberries, gooseberries and oranges, and the color of the pulp has various shades of yellow and orange, green and pink, purple and even black.
- One stalk of a cactus holds up to fifty fruits, and about twenty tons of valuable crops are harvested from one hectare.
- From the apical kidneys date palm by fermentation, "palm cheese" is obtained
- The heart of a young date palm is an exquisite but expensive delicacy, as harvesting it leads to the death of the tree.
- At the site of the cut of the inflorescence or stem of the date palm, up to three liters of juice per day are released. And if the cut is updated, then the juice can be collected for at least three months, which will be an average of 270 liters. Once upon a time, sugar or lakby wine was made from juice.
- The juice of fresh dates is used to make date honey or wine.
- Date seeds completely replace coffee when roasted and ground.
- The Arabs feed their animals and even their dogs with dates.
- The harvest of dates from one palm tree ranges from 100 to 250 kilograms.
- The harvested dates are laid out on the ground for drying, and then buried in the sand for storage. Dates can remain in pitch for two years.
- Pressed dates are called the bread of the desert "-" ajue ", and take with them on the road.
- Coconut is somewhat similar to the face of a monkey, and the monkey in Portuguese is "coco".
- Potatoes used to be planted as a flower and cultivated in flower beds in front of palaces.
- Carrots have been known as an edible root vegetable for four thousand years.
- In China and Japan, carrots up to a meter long are cultivated.
- V ancient world parsley meant sadness and was woven into wreaths as a symbol of grief.
- The onion becomes golden brown when fried due to the sugar in the juice.
- If you chew on a piece of onion for three minutes, it will kill any bacteria in your mouth.
- Young sunflower inflorescences were once eaten in England with vegetable oil and vinegar.
- The bifurcated antennae on the branches of the grapes make rotational movements, making a full revolution in two hours. And the very top of a young branch of grapes, according to the observations of Charles Darwin, makes a revolution in four hours.
We constantly meet with plants in Everyday life: during the time when we get to work, walk with the child or wander around the world. And also almost every house has its own cultivated plant.
There are more than ten thousand plants with poison on planet Earth... People have long learned to use these opportunities to hunt and defend against opponents. In books, they often recall the poison curare, which was used by people living in South America... They coated weapons with substances that are found in such plants. And in Central Africa, the natives used the poison from strophanthus seeds. Such a poison can destroy even the largest prey with lightning speed.
Typically, such plants can be found in countries with tropical climates. In the wooded areas of the United States and the Antilles, there is a tree called marcinella. It emits poisonous vapors that are dangerous for us. If you are near such a tree for a short time, then you can be very poisoned.
It turned out that there is an unusual mushroom on the ground. It tastes like simple chicken... It grows in large clusters and has a twenty centimeters wide head. In some parts of the Earth such a mushroom is a delicacy.
Next on the list is cerotonia. It always produces seeds that cannot be distinguished from each other. A long time ago, people who specialized in precious products used these seeds as weights to determine the weight of the product. ... Now this unit of measurement is called karat..
There are quite a few in our world unusual trees... This is the rainbow eucalyptus, which is located on the island of Mindanao. It has a very beautiful iridescent bark. This happens because the bark gradually falls off in strips, and instead a new one, of a different color, appears. The color changes depending on the age of the tree.
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Cultivated plants have become so firmly established in human life that few people think about where the history of their cultivation began. Eating vegetables and fruits for food, a person does not ask the question of how their wild relatives look and how great the variety of cultivated plants is.
Historical facts
Almost all cultivated plants known today have their historical roots, which determine the centers of their emergence and gradual transformation.
The origin of cultivated plants dates back to 50,000-60,000 BC. e. Until this period, picking plants was the tribe's way of surviving, which was the responsibility of women. Historical evidence that people began to select large and healthy grains and fruits in order to grow them near their homes are ancient utensils, pots of supplies in burials and their drawings.
Today, of the most popular 640 species of cultivated plants, it is known that about 400 of them came from South Asia, 50 from Africa, more than 100 from South and North America the rest are from Europe.
Interesting facts about a cultivated plant, such as wheat, suggest that cereals were the first species that people began to consciously cultivate near their homes. This statement is confirmed by the most ancient mortars and pestles found at the sites of the settlement.
Plant Domestication Centers
In the 20th century, scientists were able to more fully determine where they came to us modern species cultivated plants. Even N.I. Vavilov divided the geography of plant growing into 7 zones:
- So, South asia became the progenitor of 33% of domesticated species. Cultivated plants (examples can be found in the writings of Vavilov), such as rice, cucumbers, eggplants and many others, came to us from there.
- East Asia gave us 20% of cultivated species such as soybeans, millet, cherries, buckwheat.
- Southwest Asia is rye, legumes, turnips, accounting for 4% of the plant.
- 11% of the known cultivated plants belong to the Mediterranean part. These are garlic, grapes, carrots, cabbage, pears, lentils and others.
- Ethiopia became home to 4% of the species, which include chickpeas, barley, and coffee trees.
- Central America gave the world corn, pumpkin, tobacco, cocoa.
- South America owns potatoes, coca, oki,
Wild relatives of all these plants can still be found today. On this Interesting Facts the cultivated plant does not end there.
Selection in ancient people
It is hardly possible to name cavemen or more late species human development by breeders, but they had some skills in selecting and growing plants.
Archaeologists have come to the conclusion that farming and a sedentary lifestyle as a way of survival became applicable 10,000 years ago. It is this period that is considered the beginning of the cultivation of plants. In fact, cultivated plants (examples of which archaeologists find at the sites of ancient sites) began to be bred long before that.
As scientists assume, the collected wild cereals, stone fruits and other types of plants grew near the camps of ancient people when they spilled grain or threw out the seeds along with leftovers. Among the women of the tribe, it was customary to pull out weeds near such "plantations", which has survived to this day.
Gradually, people began to select the roots, grains and seeds of the most delicious and large fruits and purposefully plant them near their homes. Thus, agriculture was born, which gave impetus to a new level of human development.
The variety of cultivated plants today
Nowadays, breeding has become a science that works not only on the yield of cultivated plants, but also on their taste and increased survival. Almost all types of vegetables, fruits and cereals that are eaten modern man, - hybrid, that is, artificially bred.
Interesting facts about a cultivated plant, which has undergone not just selection, but crossing with other species - this is that a completely new organism is obtained that has no analogues in nature.
The hybrids artificially bred in laboratories are a disposable seed, but thanks to them the amount of tasty, giving high yield cultivated plants increased hundreds of times.
Today, hybridity has affected both fruits and vegetables well known to us, such as tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and many others.
Cultivated cucumbers
The cultivated plant cucumber is so common on our table, both fresh and canned, that we do not ask ourselves the question "where did it come from at all".
It turns out that the path of the cucumber to our table was rather big, since India and China are its homeland. Even 6,000 years ago, this vegetable was domesticated, although its ancient relatives still grow in Indian forests, like lianas, twisting around them, and they are also used for landscaping fences and hedges.
On the frescoes in Ancient egypt, and then in Ancient Greece, this vegetable was depicted on the tables of rich people and for a long time was available only to high-ranking officials.
The Greeks brought cucumbers to Europe, and their distribution became rapid due to their taste and the ability to pickle for future use for the winter. Today this vegetable is available to everyone, everywhere. Every gardener considers it his duty to grow good harvest cucumbers, for which both varietal and hybrid varieties are used.
Indoor plant cultivation
People appreciated plants not only for the ability to eat them, but also for medicinal properties as well as beauty. Interesting facts about a cultivated plant, which from a wild state has become a standard of beauty and tenderness, relate to the rose.
The rose has become a symbolic flower among many peoples since ancient times. So, according to Indian legends, beauty was born in a rosebud. Poets in various countries and at all times dedicated poems to her, and her homeland was tropical Southeast Asia... It was from there that the cultivated plant rose moved to Ancient Greece where it was named the flower of Aphrodite. V Ancient rome even put up greenhouses for roses to bloom all year round.
Today, hundreds of varieties of this plant are known, bred by breeders for flower growers around the world.
Modern roses are grown outdoors, in pots on windowsills, in greenhouses and winter greenhouses... Delicious and healthy jams are made from them, and rose oil is considered one of the most expensive, since 500 kg of petals are used to obtain one kilogram.
Cultural fruits
Like grains and vegetables, fruits became the object of domestication among ancient people. Beneficial features berry and fruit plants, as well as the ability to keep them dry or soaked, made them permanent objects of pantries. The most famous of the fruits are apples, the wild relatives of which are found in the Cretaceous layers, and dates. Today many fruit trees, which were considered foreign 200-300 years ago, grow habitually in gardens on personal plots.
The future of cultivated plants
Breeders around the world are still working in their laboratories to create new crops that can take root in unusual conditions and produce unprecedented yields.
Thanks to their efforts, cultivated plants better tolerate changes in climate, depletion of the soil layer of the Earth and at the same time give good yields.
Many cultivated plants began to give two harvests per year or per season, as they received hybrid hardening. This gives hope that in the future, our tables will be fresh vegetables and fruits, whose homeland has long ceased to be individual countries, but the whole world has become.