Kobrin district

• Elder black
• Blueberry ordinary
• Blackberry ordinary
• The honeysuckle is ordinary
• Common hazel
• The guelder-rose is ordinary
• The buckthorn is fragile
• The gooseberry is ordinary
• Raspberry ordinary
• The juniper is ordinary
• Sea-buckthorn krushinovidny
• Currant ordinary
• The lilac is ordinary
• To return back



The gooseberry is ordinary

Gooseberry - a bush of family kamnelomkovy with the escapes covered with thorns, small 3-5-bladed leaves and small greenish (or reddish) flowers. Fruits - berries of various size, a form, coloring and taste, with a large number of seeds. Blossoms in May, fruits ripen in July - the beginning of August. The gooseberry is widespread in Western Europe. But in our country the culture of this berry plant gained development earlier and has centuries-old history.

In monastic gardens it was parted in the 11th century, and in the 15th century grown up in palace gardens of Moscow. However in those days cultivated small-fruited grades which in the 19th century began to replace large-fruited. In Belarusiya now the gooseberry meets under natural conditions in all territory. It is cultivated in the central regions of Russia, in Ukraine, Belarus and in Baltic. Sometimes use decorative qualities of this bush for landings in gardens and along fences.

The gooseberry is ordinary
The ripe golden-pink large berries of a gooseberry saturated with sugar, vitamins, useful substances are very tasty, not without reason sometimes call a gooseberry "northern grapes". It is parted in all countries of a temperate climate. In Russia the gooseberry was parted in monastic gardens in the 11th century, and cultivation of a gooseberry in Western Europe it is mentioned only from 16th century.

Sometimes bushes of a gooseberry can be noticed growing on old walls, in hollows of big trees, on thin roofs. Who could deliver seeds there? Birds - here who! Birds peck green and red berries of a gooseberry and leave undigested seeds where had a rest. If in a stone or in a wall there is a crack covered with earth once the rain goes, the seed will start in growth and in absolutely improper place the gooseberry bush will appear. There is a lot of cultivars of a gooseberry - more than 100. They differ in different terms of maturing, size and coloring of berries, taste shades. Besides, scientists managed to create grades of a besshipny gooseberry (Chernomor, Slaboshipovaty, Prunes) which, besides, are not subject to a typical disease of this plant - mealy dew.

The gooseberry is called "northern grapes". Tasty and nutritious berries long since eat it. They contain about 13,5% of sugar, more than 2% of organic acids, mineral salts (especially there is a lot of copper), pectins, tannins, etc. In berries there are vitamins C (35 mg of %), P (0,25 mg of %), groups B and carotene. Collect fruits ripe, dry (when there is no dew).

Fresh usually eat berries of sladkoplodny grades. Other grades are also suitable in food, but to their thicket use for processing. For long storage of berry subject to freezing and sublimation, sometimes preserve them in sugar. From a gooseberry cook compotes, jam, jam, jam, marinades, and also prepare juice, wine and confectionery.

The gooseberry is appreciated in dietary and baby food. At a metabolic disorder and obesity recommend, limiting at the same time food caloric content, within 3-4 weeks to use in large numbers of berry of a gooseberry. Expediency of such treatment is confirmed with medical supervision.

In the Russian traditional medicine of berry are known as the refreshing means. Sometimes they are applied as light laxative at chronic locks. Fresh berries are advised to use as zhelchegonny and a diuretic at diseases of kidneys and a bladder. The gooseberry is eaten at an anemia, frequent hemorrhages, skin diseases. Earlier in the Caucasus at tuberculosis of lungs applied gooseberry leaves.