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The cultivation, care and use of useful properties of red raspberry


Botanical characteristics of raspberry

Raspberry is a prickly, much branched shrub, belonging to the family Rosaceae. This plant has a perennial rhizome, with erect shoots. The leaves are alternate and vary in appearance depending on where they are. For example, the top are trifoliate, with stipules adhering to the petiole. The leaves at the bottom of the stem, pinnate, with each leaf consists of 5-7 leaflets.

The flowers are white, are in the cups greenish-gray color. Raspberry flowers are collected in inflorescence panicles that emerge from the leaf axils. Raspberry fruit – team drupe, usually red, but sometimes yellow color. The wild raspberry drupe of fast breaks, that is not true of raspberries that grow people, because these drupe, conversely, very dense and not decaying. Inside the fruit has many small seeds, solid, and rounded. Raspberry flowering begins in early summer and lasts 1 month. The fruits ripen in mid-late summer. Every year raspberries bear fruit in different ways.

Wild raspberries can be seen in the European part of the CIS, Kazakhstan, the Caucasus, Western Siberia and the Urals. It prefers to grow on the edge of the forest, clearings, glades, on the banks of rivers, ravines and areas of burning.


Growing raspberries

Raspberries planted in the autumn and in the prepared soil, namely the fertilized with organic fertilizers.

When introduced into the soil all fertilizers, it is necessary to dig the ground. The plants are planted, keeping the distance between them, which they will need for a proper and good growth (30 cm). With a good watering in the spring to cut plants to soil level.

After landing a need to do soil mulching with compost or manure (you can use peat moss or straw). Mulch will not germinate weeds, retain moisture and improve the structure of soil. After 1 year mulching repeat.

Caring for raspberries

Spring is the time for tying raspberries. At this time you need to tie the 2 first "floor"of each plant. When tying you can't use metal or wooden supports. It is not necessary, because the stems in the bound state are upright and they themselves serve as a support for the twine. For tying most suitable polypropylene twine.

After harvest, cut fruit-bearing stems at a height of half a meter from the soil surface.

So the plant gave a goodthe crop must be regularly and properly watered. Raspberry sensitive to moisture, so it definitely should be watered – rare, but abundant. Better make watering with sprinklers.

Not on the plot to plant many rows of raspberries since it is only a worse impact on crops and lead to contamination of the site. With the emergence of bad shoots and remove them. Root suckers must also be removed. Early spring is required to bring the soil to nitrogen fertilizer.

After harvest, it is necessary to perform in furrow irrigation – so water gets right into the roots of plants without damaging their crowns.


Useful properties of raspberries

In raspberry fruits contain organic acids, sucrose and fructose, tannins, pectins, vitamin C, essential oil and other substances. Fresh raspberry fruits quench thirst, normalize digestion. Raspberries are used as a means to"sober" when drunk.

Raspberry has antipyretic, antitoxic and hemostatic effect. Women raspberry is very useful because it has a positive effect on the skin color and in its tone.

The people who work and are constantly experiencing nervous tension, should take the raspberries since it contains copper, which is a component of many antidepressants. Raspberry has diaphoretic properties.

Use raspberry

Raspberries used in colds, acute respiratory infections, influenza, sciatica, fever and neuralgia, is a constituent ingredient in the preparation of diaphoretic teas. Raspberry helps to reduce the inflammation of the prostate gland and is part of the duties that help to cure impotence and infertility.

Raspberry is used in atherosclerosis, diseases of kidneys, stomach, intestines, hypertension and dysfunction of the heart. Raspberry juice is used in diabetes. Diarrhea and bleeding are recommended to take a decoction of the leaves of the plant. External use raspberry also is the place to be. For example, a decoction of raspberry can be used for gargling and mouth in various inflammatory processes.

Recipes with raspberries

Dried raspberry in the cold. Take 2 teaspoons of dried raspberries and pour them a glass of boiling water. The finished tea is taken for colds as a diaphoretic. After taking this medicine you should immediately go to bed. Per hour you need to drink 3cups of this tea in the form of heat. This tea helps women to recover after menstruation, childbirth, relieves ailments. Raspberry tea soothes and tones the body.

The decoction of leaves of raspberry. For its preparation you need to brew 2 teaspoons of the crushed leaves of the plant boiled water. Take broth 100 ml 4 times per day. The broth has not only an astringent but also anti-inflammatory effect. It is used in enteritis, gastritis and diseases of the respiratory tract.

Tincture of raspberries from insect bites. Prepare the infusion of raspberry difficult. Take 100 grams of flowers and raspberry leaves and pour 500 ml of vodka. Insist a few hours. Then the bite of the insect to lubricate the finished tincture 8-10 times. Do lubrication is necessary so: smeared with tincture of the bite, it was dry, and again, you smeared the place with the tincture, and in that order 10 times.

Raspberry juice is pressed from the fresh berries of the plant. To make this juice you need 50-100 ml of gastritis, colds or colitis.


Contraindications raspberry

People with liver disease can eat raspberries, but in small quantities. In raspberries there is a coarse fiber, so it should not make people with ulcers of the stomach and duodenum. Of course, don't forget about hypersensitive raspberry. People who are allergic to red berries, red raspberries should not be eaten, but they can use raspberries if black with yellow fruits. Raspberry it is prohibited in nephritis and gout.