Irga information

Dried berries are called irriga, which is why the plant itself is often called a pea. Irga grows on almost any soil, except marshy, but best on loam. To the fertility of soils, it is also undemanding, as it manages to grow even on bare rocks.

Irgi has beautiful round leaves with a bluish tint, it blooms early, so leaves from the spring frosts, so it always yields. A plentiful bloom makes her in the spring elegant, and bunches of dark berries appear in early summer. True, in the autumn, the beauty of the Irga does not shine. Usually grows one tall trunk, the berries with which the birds are willingly flavored. To eat berries instead of birds you yourself, do not let it grow more than 2-2,5 m, for

, which is constantly shorten the top of the irca, which it is better to cut down later in the autumn. The sawing of the top creates conditions for the appearance of zero shoots from the soil. Usually they go right at the trunk, so digging up such an escape for reproduction is not easy at all, it's usually not done. Shoots must also be shortened each year.

Neither enemies nor diseases have an irgi - such a pretty plant.

On irgu it is possible to plant a pear which will enter fruiting already on 2-3th year. As with mountain ash, vaccination should be done low, at a level of 13-20 cm from the soil surface.

Features of growing

Planting

Plant irgu in both spring and autumn. It is well established, provided that it has a good root system. Pay attention to this When buying a seedling. Cuttings of the irrigated breeder is very difficult to breed, so it should not be cut. It can be multiplied by layers, but the roots of the buried tree branch grow slowly, and usually the plant is planted only a year later. But the iraga multiplies well by seeds. They are sown right after the berries are ripe. Mature berries are smeared on toilet paper and sowed in place right along with the paper. Make sure that the soil in the place of crops does not dry out. In the spring, young plants will appear, which in the autumn can be transplanted into place, although they are still quite small. With the transplant, you can wait until spring, but do not delay the transplant. Adult or overgrown plant transplant is poor, because its root system slowly settles in a new place. But then with the plant, no worries, no trouble. It grows itself and does not need to be taken care of.

Of course, the Irga, like any plant, prefers fertile soil and good lighting, but will tolerate what is.

Do not remove foliage from under the plant, this irge is quite enough to feed. If from time to time you pamper it with a couple of organic buckets in the spring, then it will thank you for the excellent harvest.

The plant is exceptionally winter-hardy, so irgu can be used to protect the garden from the north wind. Plant it as a green fence along the northern boundary of the site. She is peaceful and gets along well with all the people in the garden.

Useful properties

Berries have an unpleasant taste, ripen earlier than black currant. They do not possess special properties, but they are pleasant to taste, they contain not so much

vitamins as polysaccharides. She is very fond of children, animals and birds, so this is a worthwhile berry.

Birds need protection, otherwise they peck the ripe barrel from the berry, and it withers. Covering the plant with lutrasil is useless, the birds climb inside the shelter, but to throw a network on top is an effective measure. Birds are afraid of sylphs. Instead of the network, you can use bags from under the onions or potatoes, reminiscent of the network.

Recipes from

From berries of irgi, jam is cooked with black currant berries or without blackcurrant berries, but then a little citric acid should be added during cooking. Jam is cooked only, "five-minute".

First bring to a boil a couple of times, and then cook it for 5 minutes, otherwise the berries skukozhivayutsya, and the skin of them becomes stiff. It is even more tasty to cook Irgu with lemon.

Jam with lemon

1 kg of berries, 800 g of sugar, 1 lemon, 1/4 teaspoons of vanilla sugar.

Berries fill with sugar for 5-6 hours. Let the lemon burn with boiling water. Grate it on a grater, or grind it in a food processor, or in a meat grinder, removing the grains( otherwise the jam will be bitter).

Mix lemon paste with berries, bring to a boil, remove from heat, cool. Then again bring to a boil and cook for 5-7 minutes. Add vanillin, stir and spread on cans.