Ginseng – the grassy perennial plant which is widely used in traditional medicine. In the nature the ginseng becomes suitable for use only by 20 years. At the expense of fertilizers and leaving, the ginseng which is grown up in garden or at home becomes suitable for use in 6-7 years. To grow up ginseng independently, it is necessary to consider certain agrotechnical conditions.
Instruction
1. Prepare the earth for seedling or seeds. It can include sheet and manure humus (4-5-year), the forest earth, biohumus, coarse-grained sand, peat, ashes, the rotted-through sawdust, egg shell. Using the listed ingredients, in 2-3 months prior to landing prepare bed about 40 cm high and about 90 cm wide. The bed has to be located from the East on the West. If you grow up house plant, prepare the earth of the necessary structure and fill up in pot.
2. Construct canopy over bed. For it it is necessary to hammer together framework from bars and to beat plates about 8 cm wide, leaving gleams on 2-3 cm. Establish this board under inclination from South side that direct sunshine did not get on seedling. If the ginseng grows at window, put pot on any party, except southern. Remember that under direct sunlight the ginseng perishes. Before landing the soil on bed or in pot needs to be processed boiled water.
3. Buy seedling or seeds of ginseng. Pay attention to how seeds were stored – they have to be in humid environment, otherwise will not ascend. But if you want to receive quicker prepared for use plant, it is better to plant three-four-year seedling. Seeds put towards the winter, to frosts, on depth about 10 cm and shoots they give only in 20-22 months! Water seedling as required, without allowing strong drying.
4. Prepare plants for wintering. In the fall when the ginseng dies off, it needs to be cut off at ground level. It is necessary to do it and if the plant grows on bed and if it is planted in flowerpot. In case the ginseng grows at home, it needs to be taken out on balcony, in cellar or to put in the fridge, otherwise roots of plant will decay. In February it can be brought back to the apartment.
5. The ginseng increases resistance of the person to adverse effects of high temperatures, intoxication, radiation. It is applied at diabetes, neurasthenia, impotence, diseases of heart, radiation sickness.