Rosehip Wrinkled

2024 Author: Sebastian Paterson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:47

Rosehip hedges provide vitamins

All fruits and vegetables are healthy. Some - to a greater extent, others - to a lesser extent. The most important indicator of usefulness is the content of vitamin C. But the absolute champion in this indicator is the rosehip!

Vitamin C in rose hips is 100 times more than in lemon and 10 times more than in wild garlic! And not in every rosehip, but only in cinnamon, which grows in the European part of Russia and Siberia, as well as in wrinkled, found on the ocean coast of the Far East.

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Along with these two species, dog rose is widespread in nature (especially in the south of Russia and in the Chernozem region), in small fruits of which vitamin C is almost absent. Ironically, this is what is traded throughout the markets. You can distinguish dog rose hips by the bracts pressed against the berry, while in other species they stand upright. But tough merchants break them off when drying. In order not to get into a mess, there is nothing easier than growing a vitamin rosehip on your site - after all, this plant is extremely unpretentious.

For this purpose, the wrinkled rosehip (Rosa rugosa) is most suitable. Firstly, its fruits are very large - up to 3 cm in diameter - and are suitable not only for drying, but also for making jam, jam, marshmallows …

Secondly, it has the property of remontant, that is, it blooms and bears fruit constantly until late autumn, in contrast to the cinnamon rosehip, which blooms only in May (why is it also called May). Therefore, it is very decorative all summer long and is ideal for creating a beautiful impenetrable hedge, especially since it is naturally resistant to cold winds.

And since the rose hips are valuable raw materials not only fruits, but also fragrant petals, then over the summer they can be dried a lot and added to herbal teas all winter, giving them a unique rose aroma. The productivity of wrinkled rose hips is amazing: from just 1 square meter, you can collect 1-1.5 liters of fruit and 0.5 liters of petals.

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Cultivation of wrinkled rosehip

It is very simple to grow wrinkled rose hips. It is exceptionally frost-hardy and hibernates without shelter even with a low snow cover, resistant to winter thaws, drought, not picky about soils …

His only requirement for light is that with shading, flowering and fruiting weaken. But this requirement is just satisfied when planting along the edge of the site - in a hedge. Rosehip is very responsive to fertile soil and watering. Therefore, if we want to have a really beautiful hedge and collect good harvests, then when planting we need to work a little and dig a trench of the required length, 0.5-0.7 meters wide, 30-40 cm deep and fill it with fertile soil.

And then in the fall or early spring, plant seedlings in the trench every 0.7-1 meter. Why is it necessary to plant in a trench, and not in pits, as is usually done? Because the rosehip reproduces very quickly by root shoots. In order for it to spread along the fence and not "creep" onto the site or road, a trench is being prepared.

Rosehip seedlings are rarely on sale, even in large cities, as nurseries are reluctant to deal with this plant due to its thorniness. But this cannot be an obstacle for those who want to get hold of this rare plant in the gardens. Everyone can grow seedlings himself, since the wrinkled rosehip reproduces well by seeds, and, as a natural plant, it completely transmits all its characteristics to the offspring.

Rosehip seeds have a very thick and strong "shell" and a long dormant state. Therefore, it is best to sow them before winter. Then the embryo ripens in the soil, and the shell cracks when freezing, and in early spring the seeds germinate. You can sow them in a box in winter and put it under the snow. Finally, the seeds can be sown in early spring, but then they must be prepared.

First, they must be scarified, i.e. rub with sandpaper to make the shell thinner. Secondly, they must be stratified, i.e. keep for about two months in a damp substrate (peat, sawdust, moss, etc.) at a temperature of about zero degrees - in a refrigerator or cellar.

In the first year, rosehip plants reach a height of 30 cm, in the second - already one meter and begin to bush, and in the third - these are adult bushes about 1.5 meters high, entering fruiting.

Properties of wrinkled rosehip

Rosehip petals can be collected all summer at intervals of 2-3 days (this is how long the flower lives), dried and stored in glass jars. The fruits are harvested from August to October as they ripen.

In overripe fruits with a bright red color and soft pulp, the amount of vitamins is significantly reduced. Vitamins are also destroyed during prolonged (more than two days) drying, so it is better to dry the rosehip in the oven with the door ajar at a temperature of about 80 ^o C.

In addition to the record amount of vitamin C, the pulp of wrinkled rose hips contains many other vitamins - B, K, P, PP, as well as various useful substances: carotene, sugar, kalufer, etc.

More than 200 other rare medicinal, spicy plants, vegetables, flowers and shrubs can be ordered from the catalog. Send an envelope with your address - in it you will receive the catalog for free. The catalog can also be viewed on the website www.sem-ot-anis.narod.ru or received by e-mail - send a request to E-mail: [email protected]. My mailing address: 634024, Tomsk, st. 5th Army, 29, apt. 33, mob. t. +7 (913) 851-81-03 - Anisimov Gennady Pavlovich.

Gennady Anisimov, Tomsk Photo by the author