Cucumber grass (borago) - little-known pryanoaromatny vitamin culture. It is well known only by advanced gardeners. Meanwhile, the cucumber grass has so many advantages that it is included in food allowance of astronauts. On nutritious properties borago does not concede such widespread greens as salad, fennel and parsley.
Borago belongs to family burachkovy and has in the people such name as ogurechnik, received it for strong aroma of fresh cucumber. The name borago medicinal occurs in medicinal books. Cucumber grass - annual early cold-resistant plant, to growth conditions absolutely unpretentious. Will grow on any soils, on sunny side and in half-shade. borago will show the best nutritious and curative qualities on lands friable and fertile.
How to grow up cucumber grass?
Technology of cultivation of ogurechnik is very simple, the child will even cope with it. Seeds sow in early spring days, since April in several terms as conveyor culture. At crops at the beginning of April, greens are ready in the middle of May. Strong amicable shoots appear through 5... 9 days. Depth of seal of seeds to the soil from 2.2.5 cm to 3.4 cm, if soils easy or sandy. Between plants leave distance of 8.15 cm, between rows - 30...45 cm.
Plants differ in the good force of growth at moderate temperatures and the good filled soil. At hot weather borago it strelkutsya quickly and throws out flower stalk. Therefore in droughty weather of plant need waterings. Leaving for borago consists of rykhleniye, weedings and waterings. Remove cucumber greens in process of growth of young leaves. Growing old leaves more rough and tasteless. Use leaves until strelkovaniye of plants. For receiving young greens carry out reseedings, passing the top of summer, t.e the hottest time of summer season.
What do eat cucumber grass with?
Leaves borago have omission therefore it is better not to cut them in dishes and to pound as our grandmothers did, flavoring with fragrant cucumber gas station salads, cold soups, okroshkas, vinaigrettes, sauces, gravies, marinades, vinegar. In fresh flowers flavor cold fruit drinks. And decorate with the candied flowers cakes. In dried flowers improve taste of bakery products.
In what nutritious and curative force borago?
Plants have wide nutritious structure. In them in large number there are vitamins, organic acids, essential oil, tannic and mucous substances, sugar, carotene, mineral substances. In the medical purposes borago it is applied for a long time at the lowered tone of organism and melancholy. Use all elevated part of plants in traditional medicine. Infusion of flowers and leaves is drunk at neurosis of heart and nervous violations, at rheumatic joint and muscles pains, at gout, at metabolic disorder. Grass use as diuretic, sudorific, the laxative softening and enveloping medicine.