In the spring, in the garden, an unusually beautiful looking Irga is an ordinary, strewn with brushes of pinkish-white flowers. In summer, the bush of irgi is hung with multicolored bunches of berries from green to almost black. In autumn it attracts attention with its red-yellow leaves. Refers to the Irga to the family of Rosaceae. It grows in the form of a tree or a bush. Beautiful berries are juicy-violet. Irga is a very good honey plant.
Irga Cultivation
Irga common or round-leaved - very frost-resistant and hardy plant, easily tolerates frosts at 50 degrees, and flowers can bloom at -7 degrees and even give an ovary. Ирга very quickly grows and is amazingly unpretentious. Her flowers are self-pollinated, so she produces good harvests every year, regardless of the vagaries of the weather. Irga lives almost without diseases and without lesions pests sometimes up to 70 years. Explain this vitality can be that the roots of the Irgi are very large, grow to two meters in depth. The plant is light-loving, so we must remember that when planting irgi in the shade, it will not bear fruit. Irga grows on any soil, but it will be grateful to you for loosening and fertilizing with humus.
Reproduction of Irgi
The common stock of Irga is multiplied by offspring, but more often by seeds, which are selected from ripe berries and stored in a cold place. In August, the seeds are sown in boxes or directly into the garden. If you want to sow seeds in the spring, then they must first be held in moist sand at a temperature close to zero, for about 100 days. When sprouting, they are dived. In the autumn of the second year seedlings can be planted in the open ground.
Every year, a large number of radical sprouts grow, which is used for reproduction. The young syringe is planted in spring or autumn in a large hole, about 6 cm deeper than it grew earlier. Add organic fertilizers and ashes or mineral fertilizers. It is desirable to cut the seedling by one third, this will help it to get better. 3-4 years after planting, the saplings of the irgi begin to bear fruit.
Periodically, you need to cut out old branches, not allowing a very large bush to form. It rejuvenates the plant and promotes a good growth of young shoots. A most abundant fruit last year's shoots. Because of the love of irgi to "haircut" it is often used as a hedge and protection from the wind.
In the period of fruiting over the bushes, many gardeners draw special nets with shiny and ringing objects suspended on them, thus discouraging birds from berries.
In the summer after fruiting, it is good to feed the Irg with a liquid solution of bird droppings or mullein. And during a drought, during the period of pouring fruits, it is necessary to water irrigation. The berries of the common mushroom do not ripen all at once, but gradually, on one brush, there may be mature berries, and quite green. Therefore, the harvest is collected in 2-3 sessions.
The fruits of Common Irgus are delicious, sweet, rich in vitamins, organic acids. So, vitamin C in berries is more than in apples, pears, peaches and apricots. From berries cook jam, jelly, jam, compotes, you can freeze them or dry them. Prepare from wine even wine, it turns out it's beautiful red-violet. And due to the fact that there are a lot of sugars in berries, when cooking jam, for example, for one kilogram of cheese, you need only 300 grams of sugar.
Irgi Diseases
Although the irga is not very susceptible to disease, it can be overcome by such pests as:
- Irgovaya mol-perstanka - a small butterfly lays eggs on the leaves, then the caterpillars develop in the leaf, the leaf withers and crumbles. To fight the moth after the harvest, bushes are sprayed with carbophos or an aktel;
- Irgovy seed beetle - a small insect, the female lays eggs inside green still berries. Larvae hibernate in seeds of such damaged berries. Sprinkle after flowering with akatelik or carbophos.
In addition to other advantages, irma is also an excellent medicine: juice is used as a multivitamin, rinses the throat for colds, treats purulent wounds. Fruits are used to treat cardiovascular and gastrointestinal diseases. Growing a bush of irgi in your garden, you will benefit both for health and for mood.