Homeland tarragon - Mongolia and eastern Siberia.In the Urals, the Caucasus and throughout Siberia it occurs in the wild.Cultivate it in the Ukraine, in the Caucasus.
Tarragon (tarragon): description
This perennial plant is referred to the family Asteraceae.At the height of tarragon grows up to six meters.Numerous stems, forming a plant covered with narrow lanceolate leaves.Its yellowish flowers, small.Accordingly, the small egg-shaped and produced seeds.The plant belongs to the genus Artemisia, but completely devoid of bitterness.Tarragon and has a completely different taste and aroma.Other causes of gamma and other use of spices in comparison with other sagebrush.As a seasoning for many dishes, tarragon highly prized in ancient Syria.In the Middle Ages used the juice of the plant in order to prevent the plague.
Tarragon (tarragon): accommodation
best soil for plants - a moderately soiled Ogorodnaya.Arable layer must be deep, because roots in the ground nearly two feet.If you exceed the amount of fertilizer will be a lot of greens, but it will lose its flavor.Tarragon can be grown in one place for a direct up to 15 years, but the best yields are still within 4 years.Tarragon good winters, can withstand even -30 ° C.Once the last snow come down, the plant gives shoots.Therefore, in early May, they are ready for use.
Tarragon (tarragon): breeding
For seedlings collected seeds are sown in pots, boxes or cassettes in the early spring.Once the seedlings germinate after 14-20 days, they must be prepared in advance raspikirovat greenhouse.On a permanent place they are planted in 2 months.In late April, the seeds can be sown directly into the ground.
They sleep in small grooves and lightly sprinkle the ground.Emerging seedlings thinned out so that the distance between individual plants did not exceed 10 cm. Grown so tarragon (tarragon) should spend the winter garden of this, and next spring it should be transplanted to a place where it will grow constantly.But since not all plant produces seeds, it is an ideal way of reproduction - the division of rhizomes.You can also cut early in the summer of 10-15 cm cuttings and root them in the greenhouse.The soil is necessary to add sand and humus.Earth around the depth of 4-5 cm cuttings must be sealed and pour.The most comfortable temperature for the successful establishment - 16-18 ° C.Take root cuttings in two weeks.
Tarragon (tarragon): useful properties
plant contains ash and nitrogenous substances.And its essential oil contains aldehydes, and actually terpenty estragole.They give tarragon and delicate aroma and peculiar smell of anise.Furthermore, the plant comprises vitamin C, rutin and carotene.The people tarragon is used as a means of leading normal gastric acidity, promotes good digestion and scurvy and beriberi warning at all.In cooking, dried grass plants used for pickling.Fresh leaves in powdered form is added to salads, sauces, cheeses.It has been observed that the addition of lemon juice in a food enhances the taste of tarragon.Also, all known since childhood, and many like to drink "Tarragon", whose membership includes not only water, sugar and citric acid, and extract and herbs of the same name.
