Honeysuckle edible

General information: in the gardens of the European part of Russia, you can often find a shrub with blue waxy bloom with sweet and sour large berries. This is an edible honeysuckle - an early and early-ripening culture with high winter hardiness. Her flowers and ovaries can withstand spring frosts to -7 ° C.Early ripening varieties ripen in individual years on June 5-8.

Requirements: for honeysuckle planting are suitable loamy and sandy loam soils. He does not like the plant of waterlogged and dry places, it grows poorly on acidic soils and in shady places.

The best time for planting honeysuckle - early autumn( September).But she is not afraid of spring transplants( before the beginning of bud budding), and summer( after the end of growth).In the non-chernozem zone, honeysuckle blooms 7-10 days in May, when cold and frosts return. In buds, flowers can withstand a short-term temperature drop down to -13 ° C, open flowers tolerate freezing up to -8 ° C.

Ingredients:

berries contain sugars( mainly glucose and fructose), organic acids( predominantly apple), pectin substances. Of the vitamins, more P-active compounds, vitamin C, carotenoids, folic acid have been found. The fruits are rich in iodine, manganese, iron and copper.

Planting: bushes are planted at a distance of

1 - 1.2 m from each other. A planting pit measuring 40 x 40 cm is made up of 8-12 kg of humus, 150-200 g of superphosphate and 20-40 g of potassium salt. The base of the stem during planting can be sloughed.

Propagation of honeysuckle with lignified and green cuttings and layers. Cuttings are harvested in the fall( after falling leaves) and stored until spring in the basement or buried in the ground. At seed multiplication, varietal quality is not preserved. When propagating honeysuckle cuttings cuttings length of

2 knots are taken from strong annual shoots. Green cuttings harvested and rooted at the end of flowering. Odrevesnevshie cuttings harvested after the fall of the fall, tied in bundles and stored until spring in a cold and humid room in the substrate( sand, sawdust, etc.).To accelerate the root formation of the base of green and lignified cuttings treated with 0.05% solution of heteroauxin within 24 hours.

The honeysuckle is multiplied by layers, like currants and gooseberries.