If raspberries can be found in almost every garden, her own sister, blackberry growers while not particularly favor attention. And it is in vain. Because Mother Nature gave her a much more rich dowry.
Benefits of Blackberry for your health
- At relatively low calorie of 35 to 100 g Feces products, blackberry rich in vitamins and minerals.
- One hundred grams of berries cover 1/6 of the daily requirement of vitamins C and K, as well as dietary fiber. That's them in our time of total fast food is lacking in the diet of modern man.
- Rich berry and antioxidants, but by the content of anthocyanin is unmatched!
The ability of anthocyanins inhibit growth of bacteria can also use the juice, syrup and brandy blackberry for coloring and blending wine.
- Due to the unique composition of the fruit, after use, is cleansing the body of toxins.
- harmful cholesterol in the blood after two weeks of consumption decreases, stop the inflammation of the intestine.
- Blood thickens, dissolve cholesterol plaques.
- Antioxidants help prevent cancer.
Blackberry - a native of North America, creeping shrub with a multi-level, multi-root system. Height shoots 1.5-1.8 meters. The fruit - a complex drupe, fused with the plodolozhem. Berries dark blue color, flavor dessert, weighing 2 to 4 grams.
reproduction
Propagated by dividing the berry-roots and rooting of annual shoots. The root system of the plants grows under the ground, giving shoots from the roots branches. For reproduction dig up and cut off part of the root to escape.
Rooting in the early summer bends young shoot and prishpilivayut to the ground at 4-5 buds from the top. Place of attachment to the ground sprinkled with earth and watered periodically.
As a rule, it formed an extensive root system 1,5-2 months. In the autumn, a month before frost, cut maternal escape. For permanent transfer of a young sapling next spring.
Landing
To choose a sunny location protected from drafts, location. Preferably loam soil, black soil or sandy soil rich in humus without stagnation of water.
Seedling prepared hole under size 45h45h45 cm. The soil from the hole is mixed with a bucket humus, sand half buckets, glass complex fertilizer. The plant is placed in the center of the hole. Gradually, layer by layer, the ground and sprinkled water shed for better bonding of the roots with soil. Mulch planting hole. Seedling shoots are pruned, leaving 4-5 buds.
Care
Care for blackberries is loosening the soil, weed control and timely watering, preventing both from drying soil and stagnant water. Otplodonosivshie the autumn shoots are cut, the current year gain shortened by 1/3. In the hot season of the plants pull sunscreen grid.
Breeders have withdrawn more than 300 varieties of blackberries bezshipnoy. Place a few bushes of this amazing berry on the site and provide a truly unique family on the composition of the fruits.