One of the most popular fruit in the middle zone of Russia is a tasty and healthy cranberry.Where is this wonder of nature is growing, thanks to which you can strengthen the immune system and overcome colds?So the question is raised by many novice collectors.Let's talk a little more about the places where should look for this berry is used whereby should ensure its storage.
Why collect when you can buy?
question about where to collect cranberries, excites many.Berry pretty easy to buy in a store or on the market, but in this case, no one can guarantee you the quality, the absence of nitrates, chemicals and other harmful components in the lineup.To avoid such risks, it is recommended to collect the fruits of their own sour in terms of wildlife in the regions and areas with good ecological conditions.
If such an opportunity you do not have, do not worry, make purchases in proven locations.With regard to the storage period, the berry has the maximum of its beneficial properties and is considered usable for twelve months.
cranberry Why so popular?
Before you begin to define the place of shrubs, let's talk about what is the lie of its beneficial properties.Cranberry - a product exclusively dietary, 100 grams only 26 calories and no fat completely.Its main advantage - an abundance of vitamin C, the basis for the fight against viruses and bacteria for colds.In addition, berries perfectly strengthens the nervous system, can help you deal with stress and frustration, improve your mood.Among its advantages also include:
- Prevention of thrombosis.
- enhance memory and improve brain function.
- Reduced body temperature.
- total rejuvenation of the body.
Collection Rules
support the immune system and helps you to improve the health of ordinary cranberry.Where this berry grows and when it should be collected?The answer for the start of the second of the aforementioned issues.So, there are three main options for harvesting:
- in September (and sometimes the end of August).For a given length of time the characters is very solid and very acidic, not yet fully ripe berries, different light color.Eat it once is not recommended.There must be to provide additional storage for ripening.
- From mid-October until the first night frosts.Collect cranberries at this time more successfully of all, it is very useful, fully matured and has a sweetish taste notes, moreover, perfectly kept in its original form.
- berries begin to look back in March, when the snow on the ground.Many experts believe that such a decision is fundamentally wrong, as the fruit of the winter become softer, lose the natural bitterness and much worse than stored.
area of distribution in our country
Where cranberries growing in Russia?In full these neat red berries can be called swamp, because healthy bush should be sought in the wet, covered with water woodlots.Here, in the kingdom of moss from early autumn until the height of the spring, and you can collect a small healing berries.There they are in the North, Siberia, the middle lane (from Moscow to St. Petersburg and to the south), and the Far East.
Different varieties of cranberries
total in the world is divided into three main varieties of berries such as cranberries.Where Small berried shrub grows?For the most part it is extended to the territory of our country, in the northern part, where the reign is quite complex and harsh climatic conditions.Thus, such a variety can be found near the Arctic Circle, the tundra and the forest, say, in the realm of the cold.
Where many ordinary cranberry?Of course, in the middle zone of our country.At any shady and moist areas you will find a small, tidy shrubs this undemanding plant.It should be noted that the beak does not come across in the southern latitudes, where the year-round warm and sunlight.Thus, the plant can not be found in the Caucasus, near the Black Sea and the Volga region.Among other things, a bush of this kind is found in North America and partly in the United States and throughout Canada.
large-fruited berry mostly represented in the Asian countries and the United States.This is the most susceptible cultivar cultivation.
conditions for growth
So where is the most common cranberries?Where grows this unique shrub?The area of its spread is quite wide, there are various grades throughout the Russian Federation, America, Japan, China and several other countries.
for growing cranberries requires a swampy area and the specific soil (eg, such as the tundra or tundra).At the same time the bush is characterized by significant ruggedness, easy to tolerate the lack of light, or at least the excess moisture, but for normal fruiting it needs at least a temporary shadow.What should be a swamp, where the cranberry is found in abundance?As a rule, it has such features as:
- fertile soil.
- abundance of water.
How to cultivate a bush?
Where in Ukraine grows cranberries?This issue is also very popular, because most of the country is in the area is very warm and dry climate.However, it should be remembered that in the northern part of the state is still present moorland where it is possible to try your luck and try to do the gathering of useful berries.
If in your area grows cranberries, do not despair.Try to cultivate undemanding shrub in your garden, it is likely that such an initiative can you work out.So, where should you start?First, you set the stage, when it is the poor structure of the (clay) necessarily making natural fertilizers such as manure.
Planting seedlings takes place in the spring, after the snow melts.For ordinary cranberry observe the following scheme: 5 centimeters - in the depth of burial in the ground, and 10 cm - distance between the individual shrubs.The first summer obligatory extremely abundant watering, the soil should always be moist (if necessary, create artificial shade or cover the ground with moss).Be prepared that the first harvest will collect no earlier than the third year after planting.
Now you know where it grows cranberries in Russia and abroad.If you are going to visit the shady swamp in search of useful berries, be sure to read the rules of their collection and further storage.Also, do not be amiss to learn and in what order to use sour fruit.
