Amazing Russian language, and by chance it is very hard to teach foreigners.In short it may be referred to a completely different objects and phenomena.For example, a bruise.Everyone knows that it is - a consequence of a fight or a bad fall.But there is a very different bruise: honey plant.This here is a strange name is a plant that is considered the king of honey plants.It highlights the nectar all day and night, regardless of weather.Even in a severe drought giving the plant the bees sugary juice.Experienced beekeepers say it medoproduktivnost - 500-800 kilograms per hectare.This means that for one day only one bee family with this plant can produce up to 8 kg of honey.No other plants are as productive as a bruise-honey plant.No wonder beekeepers are trying to put the hives where the plants are planted in the family Boraginaceae.Not only attracted the attention of bees honey plant.Bruise ordinary, despite its strange name, is very beautiful.It stems, often growing up to a meter, densely covered with very large (for honey plant) flowers.Revealing the flowers are pale pink color, and then, in the process of flowering, are bright blue.Over the azure color of the plant and got its name: a bruise.Honey plant is not only productive, but also very beautiful.It's nice for two months (from mid-June) to admire the azure sea of flowers and inhale their unique, very delicate flavor.But not for this value beekeepers and beekeepers honey plant Echium vulgare.Honey, which is collected by the bees with this amazing flower, it turns thick, viscous, dark-amber.It has a strong aroma, delicate taste, long aftertaste.And he never candy (not crystallized), so it can not only eat, but also to keep the bees in the winter.Bruise-honey plant all the more surprising that this plant, rod whose roots go back to two meters into the earth, poisonous, and honey it is useful.
Sowing themselves
bruise-bee plant (photo), many beekeepers specially planted around the apiary.Make it so.To sow one hectare, taking about 5 kg of seeds.They have such small bruise, which accounts for approximately 3 g 1,000.Scatter seeds in the ground dug up, and then dub it with a rake.The bruise is considered a honey-weed: two years later he starts to spread on its own, self-seeding.You can enroll in another way.If you can not buy seeds bruise, you can find a clearing, where it grows, carefully dig up the roots and transplanted to the desired location.The plant is so unpretentious, that it can be transplanted almost all year round, and it will grow even in the most unfortunate places and soils.Especially good bruise survives on very wet ground, so the transplanted plants can be watered.At the roots of breeding is the only flaw few who can transplant the roots of more than 300 a day.In an industrial scale can be used drills.This is usually done through the opener and then passes through the sowing drags.They do this either as soon as the snow come spring or just before the first frost.
