Flowers barometers. Which plant is called a living barometer. her tops before the rain falls down

It is enough to look at clover to see that this plant feels the approach of bad weather. Before as it will rain, the clover brings together the cap of its inflorescence, folds the leaves, the stem of the flower bends and the inflorescence droops. This plant is very common, so it is a reliable barometer.

Just like clover, or even more so, dandelion is common. It is found everywhere, as it is unpretentious and hardy. Its flowers can be found in the forest, on boulevards, in wastelands and in the meadow. This plant is also a barometer, and no matter how familiar its white and yellow flowers are, it is worth looking closely at them in order to determine the weather. faded dandelion, white color, easily spreads its fluffs everywhere in dry weather, and if it rains, the fluffs cannot even be blown away strong wind. In anticipation of bad weather, the dandelion folds its inflorescence. Its yellow flowers sometimes do not open in the morning, anticipating bad weather.

Another barometer grows in coniferous forests. Oxalis leaves also consist of three lobes and are similar in appearance to clover, but significant differences are visible close up. Oxide can cover large areas, and blooms with small white single flowers, similar to violets and very short-lived. Both flowers and leaves fold before the rain, pressed against the petals.

IN good weather flowers of violet tricolor are fully opened. And before the rain, they droop and close, so that they become completely invisible. Often, anticipating rain and bad weather, mallow and marigold inflorescences close. Among aquatic plants a good barometer is a water lily, which closes its flower before the rain and goes under the water.

Before the rain, the acacia begins to smell intensely and secrete nectar. So a sure sign of the approaching bad weather is a lot of insects in its flowers. It also reacts to changes in pressure and humidity before rain and honeysuckle, starting to smell much stronger.

Leaves

The leaves of carrots, which are grown in many gardens, droop before the rain so that the downpour does not break them. Bone leaves twist in different directions, and this is worth a closer look. Before the leaves are twisted down, and if the leaf is untwisted or bent up, this is a sure sign of bad weather, the approach of which the stoner often feels in a few hours.

The fern is similar in this to the stone fruit, and its fronds are also twisted down before good weather, and straighten up before bad weather.

Made by a 6th grade student

MOBU SOSH#5

Schukina Anna

Head teacher of biology

MOBU SOSH №5

Zotova Tatyana Yurievna

Goals:

• To study and summarize the theoretical material on the research topic;
• Expand the understanding of plants, which are very sensitive to fluctuations in humidity and temperature in the atmosphere and can act as a kind of living barometers.
• Realization of goals is carried out through solving problems

tasks:

• to study scientific and fiction literature;
• to study the main features of plants that are sensitive to weather changes;
• find out how plants react to changing weather conditions.

Is it fog at dawn!

Correct forecast

The forest is not visible, birches are not visible

And somewhere it's hot - it's time to swim!

How many forecasts are on the air!

Whirlwind, frost.

Where is the sun, where is the ice

How many weather!

Plants - weather predictors

Man has long noticed that in many plants on the eve of a change in weather, the position of individual parts changes. They can pick up things that our senses cannot. This ability of the green "children of the sun" is explained by the dependence of their life on environmental conditions: temperature, humidity and air pressure, as well as on sunlight.

Strong smell of acacia - to the rain

Bone leaves curl down before good weather and unwind or curl up before bad weather.

The leaves of the bracken fern twist to the bottom - to warm dry weather,

straighten the thorns - to bad weather

Barometer plants are true omens. Of course, there are deviations, there are accidents, and therefore it is necessary to determine the upcoming weather not by one, but by several plants. Many plants are sensitive to changes in air humidity. But they are sensitive in different ways - some more, others less. Therefore, it may happen like this: the maple has already “cryed” - it predicts bad weather, and the leaves of the bony are still twisted down. Are any of them wrong? No, it will take several hours, and the leaves of the stone berry will also straighten out. The fact is that the maple "Learns" about the upcoming bad weather in two days, and the bone tree only in 15-20 hours. Therefore, the bone tree cannot be a partner of the maple.

plant that can be classified as plants barometers - This acacia. Among the people there are a lot of signs by definition weather conditions, for example, if an acacia is stuck around, then it is better not to go into the forest, as it is expected to rain and bad weather. This is due to the fact that acacia, before it starts to rain, begins to secrete nectar, on which bees flock. In the same way, the bees flock to the bushes and honeysuckle. You can also determine that it will be a nice and clear day without rain. Bees will also help in this if they flock to bird cherry or, then tomorrow it is worth waiting for a warm, dry and clear day. The flowers of these trees produce nectar even on dry days. Therefore, weather conditions can be easily determined.

For example, on summer cottages so many woodlice. You can also navigate by this plant. In the morning, when you go out onto the porch of the house, you can watch the plant. So, if the woodlice opens in the morning and remains with blooming flowers, then tomorrow a hot day awaits. You can also determine the weather conditions. If you watch, then before the rain, dandelions close. And even if on a dry day dandelions are in this form, it means that rain is approaching. But what is interesting, if the sky begins to frown, but the dandelions rejoice in the day, then the weather will be fine.

A very good device in determining weather conditions is a dandelion that has already faded. In dry, clear weather, its fluffs scatter everywhere. Otherwise, it behaves on wet days. All the fluffs gather in a handful and no breeze will fluff them. It is also possible to learn about the approaching bad weather just by looking at its flowers. If the buttercup flowers are open, then rain is not expected. Concerning roses And wild rose, then they also take care of their buds and do not open them before the rain. Even if it's cloudy outside marigold will not delight in their beauty.

Another excellent barometer plant can be called thistle. If the weather is clear and dry, he opens his thorns so that it is even impossible to pluck them. Before the onset of a wet day, the spines become non-thorny and can be safely plucked, as the spines shrink towards the base of the head. By burdock you can also determine the approach of bad weather. The leaves that are around the inflorescences with the approaching rain begin to swell, as the humidity in the air increases and their spines, therefore, become less prickly.

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IN Lately only lazy people do not complain about the weather. The weather itself gives a lot of prerequisites for this, arranging rain floods or droughts where they never happened before. Powerful scientific forces are thrown into weather forecasting, but even the availability of the most modern computers does not always allow weather forecasters to make the necessary forecasts in advance and with high accuracy. But people learned to predict the weather a long time ago, and nature itself helps them in this. There is a mass folk signs associated with weather forecasts. They have been developed over centuries of observation and often take the form of proverbs and sayings, firmly rooted in the minds of the people. Correct forecasting of the weather was vital for the peasants, for whom errors in forecasts could result in the death of the crop. People who can predict the weather by the condition of plants, the appearance of clouds, the color of dawn or sunset, the strength and direction of the wind, the behavior of birds, animals, insects, and even the scent of flowers, have always been surrounded by honor and respect. And such people's weather forecasters, apparently, in Rus' there were a lot. Surprised by the ingenuity of the peasants, A.S. Pushkin wrote in the poem “Signs”: “Try to observe various signs: A shepherd and a farmer in infancy, Looking at the heavens, at the western shadow, They already know how to predict both the wind and the clear day, And the May rains, the joy of young fields, And scum early cold, dangerous to grapes. Ability to predict the weather natural phenomena and plants have not lost their importance in our time. Of course, it will not be possible to make a long-term forecast in this way, but with a high probability, any person who can read the "book of wildlife" is quite capable of predicting weather changes in the near future. Particularly accurate weather forecasts are given by plants, which, unlike animals, do not have the opportunity to hide from rain, blizzards, heat or cold. In order to protect themselves and their ripening seeds from sudden changes in the weather, plants have been forced to learn in the process of long evolution to sensitively respond to all upcoming changes. Moreover, often such a reaction occurs many hours from the upcoming weather change. Many factors help plants to recognize upcoming weather changes: temperature, humidity and electrification of the air, Atmosphere pressure, geomagnetic field.

WHEN THERE IS RAIN, SOME PLANTS STARTS TO CLOSE THEIR FLOWERS AND CHANGE THEIR POSITION TO PROTECT THEM FROM MOISTURE AND TO REDUCE HEAT TRANSFER. THIS IS WHAT THE FIELD BIDDLE DOES, CLOSING ITS FLOWER BEFORE THE RAIN - A GRAMOPHONE. C BINDING BRANCHES CLOSE - RAIN IS NEAR, BLOOM IN CLOUDY WEATHER - TO SUNNY DAYS. COLOR VETAS SMELL BEFORE THE RAIN.

M OKRITSA (STARTER MEDIUM) IF IT DOES NOT OPEN FLOWERS IN THE MORNING - THIS IS TO RAIN, WHICH YOU SHOULD WAIT AFTER DINNER. AND IF THE FLOWERS REMAIN OPEN DURING THE DAY, THE WHITE LITER IS ALSO AVAILABLE FOR GOOD WEATHER, WHICH IN THE MORNING MAY NOT APPEAR ON THE SURFACE OF THE WATER OR WILL BE UP, BUT THE FLOWERS WILL NOT OPEN. COLOR BRANCHES OF THE SPRING CHISTYAK BEFORE THE RAIN FOLD THE PETALS, COVERING THE STAMENS AND PESTLES WITH THEM.

OTHER PLANTS BEGINNING TO CHANGE THE POSITION AND SHAPE OF BRANCHES, STEMS AND LEAVES. SO, THE BONE LEAVES STARTS TO BEND UP THE LEAVES HOURS BEFORE THE RAIN. THE SPIR AND JUNIR BRANCHES CLEARLY SHOW THE APPROACH OF RAIN. IN DRY WEATHER THEY ARE ALWAYS LIFTED UP, AND IN THE PREVENTION OF RAIN THEY BEGIN TO DOWN. TO LEVER LUGOVOY BEFORE THE RAIN DOWN THE HEADS OF INFLOWERS AND FOLD THE TOP LEAVES AROUND THEM WITH AN UMBRELLA.

MANY FLOWERS BEGIN TO EMIT A STRONG FRAGRANCE BEFORE THE RAIN. WHAT DOES, FOR EXAMPLE, THE WHITE DREAM, WHICH 9-12 HOURS BEFORE RAIN DRAFTLY INCREASES THE SMELL OF FLOWERS, TRYING TO FAST LUCK INSECTS. THEREFORE, PAY ATTENTION TO THE DREAM FLOWERS IN THE EVENING, IF A LOT OF BUTTERFLIES SIT ON THEM, THE NEXT DAY YOU SHOULD EXPECT WORSE WEATHER AND RAIN. DREMA MAY LEAVE THE FLOWERS OPEN BY THE MORNING, THERE WILL BE RAIN IN THE AFTERNOON. THE SMELL OF WHITE AND YELLOW ACACIA IS SMOOTHING, THE LILAC ON THE FLOWERS OF WHICH A MASS OF INSECTS GATHER BEFORE THE RAIN. INSECTS ARE ATTRACTED BEFORE THE RAIN WITH A SILENT SCENT - WHITE AND MEDICINAL.

SOME PLANTS LITERALLY "CRY" BEFORE THE RAIN. AND THE WILDHOUSE DERBENNIK EVEN RECEIVED FOR SUCH BEHAVIOR THE PEOPLE'S NAME "PLAKUN - GRASS". DERBENNIK, PROBABLY, ALL TOURISTS WHO HAVE BEEN ON THE BANK OF THE RIVER OR NEAR THE SWAMPS SEEN. ITS LEAVES LIKE WILLOW LEAVES, THE SAME LONG, NARROW, POINTED AT THE END. FROM THE SECOND HALF OF SUMMER, the loosestrife BECOMES RASPBERRY, FROM SMALL FRAGRANT FLOWERS BLOOMING ON IT, WHICH ENTIRELY COVER THE HIGH BRANCHED STEM. DERBENNIK NEVER MISTAKES IF IN THE CLEAR SUN ON ITS LEAVES SHINE WATER DROPS - WAIT FOR RAIN. JUST DO NOT confuse LIKE DROPS WITH DEW.

SOME TREES DO THIS WAY. IT IS OFTENIOUSLY HAPPENING LONG BEFORE THE WEATHER CHANGE. 2-4 DAYS BEFORE RAINY WEATHER, WATER STARTS DRIPPING FROM THE LEAVES OF THE PLANET-LEAVED MAPLE (HOLY MAPLE). LOOK AT THE ORDINARY WILLOW, IT IS NOT IN SURE IT IS CALLED "WEEPING". ABOUT ON ALSO "CRYING" BEFORE THE RAIN, AND BEFORE A SERIOUS CHANGE IN THE WEATHER UNDER THE WILLOW, THE EARTH CAN EVEN DAMP, SO DIFFERENTLY IT WILL "SHED TEARS". P WATCH THE HORSE CHESTNUT, WHICH HAVE BEEN CAREFULLY PLANTED IN MANY LOCATIONS RECENTLY. BEFORE THE RAIN, DROPS OF STICKY JUICE FORM ON THE CHESTNUT LEAVES, FROM WHICH THE LEAVES ACQUIRE A DARKER, LIKE A LACQUERED COLOR. LESS EXTENT MOISTURE APPEARS ON THE LEAVES OF ESOKORA (BLACK POPLAR) AND BIRD BIRDS ON THE LIFT OF RAIN. "CLACH" OF PLANTS IS EXPLAINED VERY SIMPLY. WHEN THE AIR HUMIDITY INCREASES, THE NATURAL EVAPORATION OF MOISTURE DECREASES IN PLANTS AND THEY ARE FORCED TO GET RID OF ITS EXCESS IN SUCH A PECULIAR WAY.

It is curious that SEEDS AND DRIED PARTS OF PLANTS - BRANCHES, STEMS, LEAVES REACT TO WEATHER CHANGES. THEY CHANGE THEIR POSITION, BEND, TWIST, OR RIGHTEN. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO BLOW THE HEAD FROM THE DANDELION BEFORE THE RAIN, SO STRONGLY THEY HOLD ON IT, ALTHOUGH IN GOOD WEATHER EVEN A LIGHT BREED WILL BREAK THEM. THE SEEDS OF THE STORK CICUTE ARE EXPERIENCED, WHICH WHEN THE HUMIDITY INCREASES, THEY START TO LITERALLY SCREW INTO THE SOIL. THIS HAPPENS BECAUSE THE TAIL OF A LONG SEED IN DRY WEATHER LITERALLY ROLLS INTO A SPRING, WHICH STARTS UNWINDING WITH INCREASING HUMIDITY, TWISTING THE SEED INTO THE GROUND. B THANKS TO THIS PROPERTIES FROM STORK FRUITS IT IS POSSIBLE TO MAKE A PARTICULARS NATURAL BAROMETER. FOR THIS, THE STORK FRUIT IS FIXED WITH A THICKENED END ON A PIECE OF PLYWOOD OR PLASTIC. IT IS NECESSARY TO OBSERVE HOW THE POSITION OF THE TAIL WILL CHANGE IN CLEAR AND INSANE WEATHER AND APPLY THE REQUIRED RISKS ON THE "BAROMETER".

IN THE WASTE WASTELESS, IN THE RAVIES, ON THE CLIPS, IN THE PASTURES YOU CAN SEE THISTLES. THIS PLANT IS OUT OF COMPETITION IN SELF-PROTECTION, RESISTANCE AND VIABILITY. IN THE PEOPLE HIM HAS LONG BEEN CALLED THE POINT burdock, burr. UNIQUE HONEY PLANTS PUT IT IN THE RANGE OF ECONOMICLY USEFUL PLANTS. IN PLACE WITH THAT, HE IS AN EXCEPTIONAL WEATHER FORECASTER. BEFORE CLOUDY WEATHER, THE burdock thorns are tightly pressed against the head and do not prick at all. WHEN HEATED, THEY, ON THE CONVERSE, BEND TO THE SIDE, AND THEN THE HEAD IS MORE SPIKED. E IF THE SKY IS FROWN AND THE BUTTERFOLES FLOWERS ARE OPEN - IT WILL NOT BE RAINING. AND IT HAPPENS SO THAT: THERE IS NOT A CLOUD IN THE SKY, AND SUDDENLY IN BLOOD OF DAY THE BUTTERNUTION FLOWERS CLOSE - TO RAIN. WHEN THE WEATHER IS STABLE, THEY ONLY BY THE EVENING SHRINK AND DOWN ON MOVING STALKS

IN THE FOREST IN DENSE GRASS, BETWEEN SHRUBS, NEAR HUMAN HOUSING UNDER THE FENCE, HIGH GRASS WITH BRIGHT YELLOW FLOWERS GROWS IN THE GARDEN - Celandine. WITH THE TABLE RIBBED, LEAFED, BRANCHED. C BRANCHES BRIGHT YELLOW, ON A PRETTY LONG PEDICLE, COLLECTED IN SIMPLE UMBRELLAS AND LOCATED ON THE TOP OF THE STEMS AND BRANCHES. THE COLOR FLOWERS DURING THE ALL SUMMER. BEFORE THE RAINY WEATHER THE FLOWER COLORS OF THE CERENALT WILL VISIBLY DROP.

ABOUT ONE OF THEM IS THIS: WHEN PEOPLE LOST IN THE BLOWING STARTED TO LOSE STRENGTH, THE SNOWFLAKES HAVE PITY OVER THEM AND, FALLING, STARTED TO TURN INTO WHITE FLOWERS. IMMEDIATELY IT WAS WARMER AROUND AND THE HOPE FOR SALVATION INSTALLED IN THE SOULS OF DESPERATE TRAVELERS. SO THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SYMBOL OF HOPE, THE AWAKENING OF NATURE LEFT BEHIND THE SNOWPLANTS. SNOWPLANTS - THE FIRST SPRING FLOWERS - TRUE WEATHER FORECASTERS. THE SNOWPLANTS BREEMS VERY EARLY, AS THE SNOW MELTS, PLEASING THE EYE WITH THE REFINED FORM OF SNOW-WHITE FLOWERS - BELLS. FOR THE SHY BEAUTY THE PEOPLE FOLD NUMEROUS LEGENDS ABOUT THE GENTLE MESSENGER OF SPRING.

AFTER THE WINTER COLD WE ALL WANT HEAT. IN THE VERY INDICATOR OF WARM DAYS AT THE END OF MARCH - BEGINNING OF APRIL - THE APPEARANCE OF THE FIRST YELLOW FLOWERS OF THE PLANT MOTHER-AND-STEPMOTH AMONG THE SNOW ON THE SLOPES AND SLOPES, ON THE RAILWAY SLOPES, CITY WASTEL LANDS. WITH YOUR NAME THE MOTHER - AND - THE STEPMOM GOT FROM - FOR THEIR LEAVES (THEY APPEAR LATER THE FLOWERS; THEIR UPPER SIDE IS GREEN, SMOOTH AND COLD, LIKE THE EVIL STEPMOM IN FAIRY TALES, AND THE LOWER IS GENTLE AND WARM, LIKE THE MOTHER. M AT - I - STEPMOM IS A MEDICINAL PLANT, ALTHOUGH IT IS CONSIDERED A WEED AND THE DRIED LEAVES AND FLOWERS OF THIS PLANT ARE PRODUCED IN A MEDICINE TO HELP GET RID OF THE COUGH. USSILAGO FARFAR ", WHICH MEANS "TO EXERCISE COUGH".

MALVA IS VERY SENSITIVE TO WEATHER CHANGES. SHE USUALLY GROWS IN FRONT GARDENS, GARDENS. IN HIGH, WITH BRIGHT LARGE FLOWERS, SHE IS VISIBLE FROM A FAR. ON THE EVE OF THE RAIN HER FLOWERS CLOSED. FROM THE END OF JUNE, THE WHOLE JULY AND AUGUST POTATO FIELDS ARE COVERED WITH WHITE-PURPLE FLOWERS. P WATCH THE POTATOES. THIS IS NOT ONLY A VALUABLE PLANT FROM WHICH TUBERS YOU CAN OBTAIN MORE THAN 200 DIFFERENT PRODUCTS, BUT ALSO A PARTICULARS BAROMETER. BEFORE WEATHER COMES, THE POTATO PEDICLE LOOKS AND THE FLOWERS DROP.

PLANTS - BAROMETERS PREDICT THE WEATHER WITHOUT ERROR. IN CAREFULLY OBSERVING THE PLANTS, IT IS POSSIBLE AND WITHOUT THE HELP OF FORECASTERS TO KNOW THE WEATHER FOR TOMORROW, OR THE NEXT DAYS - TWO. B OTANIKI TODAY KNOW NOT MUCH NOT LITTLE, BUT ABOUT 400 SPECIES OF PLANTS THAT CAN PREDICT THE WEATHER. THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF PLANTS THAT CAN PREDICT THE WEATHER. THE MOST RELIABLE THING IS TO OBSERVE THE REACTION OF SEVERAL PLANTS AT ONCE, THEN THE FORECAST WILL BE ACCURATE AND THE RAIN WILL NOT TAKE YOU SURPRISED.

LATE SPRING. ABOUT THE SHADE THE LEAVES ON THE TREES BEGIN TO TURN YELLOW FROM BELOW. CH EREMUKHA AND ROWAN BLOOMED LATER THAN USUAL. THE SUMMER IS SHORT AND WARM. CH EREMUKHA, ROWAN, DANDELION BLOOMED EARLIER than usual. SUMMER IS DRY AND HOT. LEAVES ON BIRCH APPEARED EARLIER THAN ON ALDER AND MAPLE, AND ON OAK LATER THAN ON ASH. SUMMER IS COLD AND RAINY. A LOT OF JUICE FLOWS FROM MAPLE AND BIRCH. LEAVES ON BIRCH APPEARED LATER THAN ON ALDER AND MAPLE, AND ON OAK EARLIER THAN ON ASH. WARM AUTUMN. AT THE END OF SUMMER CLOVER, NETTLE, CELLUS, BUTTERFLOWERS, SHEPHERD'S BAG, Yarrow, Violets CONTINUE TO FLOWER. WARM AND LONG AUTUMN. R YABIN FLOWED LATE. EARLY AUTUMN. IN THE FIRST DAYS OF AUGUST THE LEAVES ON THE TREES STARTED TO YELLOW. RAINY AUTUMN. THERE IS A LOT OF FRUITS IN THE FOREST ON THE ROWBAR. RIPEN OATS STARTS TO GREEN. COLD WINTER. N LOW HARVEST OF MUSHROOMS, CONES, ACORNS. THE FALL STARTED FROM THE TOP OF THE TREES, THE LEAVES FROM THE BIRCH AND OAK WAS NOT FULLY FALLED. THE FIELDS HAVE A LOT OF SOCKWHITE FIELD. WARM WARM, WITH THAWS. THE FALL STARTED WITH THE LOWER BRANCHES OF THE TREES. LEAVES FROM BIRCH, OAK AND OTHER TREES FALL TOGETHER AND COMPLETELY. A LOT OF ACORNS ON THE OAK, MUSHROOMS IN THE FOREST, SORREL. LONG WINTER. AND VA WAS COVERED WITH HORROW EARLY. Centuries-old folk practice shows that, by analyzing the behavior of a number of plants, one can long-term forecasts weather.

Which are capable of very sensitively capturing the slightest changes in capricious weather and in advance informing a person about this in an expressive language of smells and movements, colors and shapes. To be aware of the upcoming changes, you need to learn to understand this letter and know which representatives of the green world you can count on. Plants-barometers are not so rare, they can be found in the forest and in the field, in the garden and in the flower bed, they surround us at home, trustingly stretching out their arms-branches from their flowerpots on the windowsill.

Many of them are sensitive to upcoming changes in air temperature, others feel fluctuations in humidity and pressure. In anticipation of rain, mallow and marigold flowers droop their heads, buttercups lower their closed lacquer petals low. Cloudy weather with high humidity leaves closed dandelions, pale blue flowers of flax and thistle.

Noticing that insects swarm more actively, attracted by the smell of the sweet nectar of yellow acacia or sleep grass, one can confidently predict worse weather and heavy rainfall. The fact is that these plants, before the rain, release more fragrant nectar than usual, attracting winged heralds of bad weather with a tart aroma.

Noble canna and carved monstera leaves “cry” 7-9 hours before the rain, covered with small transparent droplets of moisture. Field clover, in anticipation of precipitation, lowers its leaves, as if covering purple flower heads with them like an umbrella; before a storm, the plant straightens up and stands straight. The burdock also anticipates bad weather, straightening the thorns of its cones before the rain, and if the thistle has spread its sharp needles, wait for sunny and clear weather.

A nondescript garden grass, chickweed is a great home barometer. Her whitish small flowers accurately predict cloudy weather unwillingness to dissolve their corollas in the early morning. The straight, straightened leaves of the bracken fern will tell about the approaching bad weather without words. Twisting to the bottom, they warn of dry calm weather.

Forest trees, like no other, are able to capture the "mood" of the weather. Lowering its heavy branches-paws to the ground, a slender spruce is preparing to take a shower in the form of heavy rain; lifting them to the sun, she greets him, "announcing" the warm and clear weather. Sometimes the deciduous forest makes a lot of noise in calm weather. If you heard this unusual noise in the summer - it will be raining, in the winter - the thaw is approaching. Dry grass in the forest in the early morning warns of evening rain.

Grape

In gardens and home gardens, you can choose a warmer place for planting grapes, for example, on the sunny side of the house, garden pavilion, veranda. It is recommended to plant grapes along the border of the site. The vines formed in one line will not take up much space and at the same time will be well lit from all sides. Near buildings, grapes should be placed so that water flowing from the roofs does not fall on it. On level ground, it is necessary to make ridges with good drainage due to drainage furrows. Some gardeners, following the experience of their colleagues in the western regions of the country, dig deep planting holes and fill them with organic fertilizers and fertilized soil. Pits dug in waterproof clay are a kind of closed vessel that fills with water during the monsoon rains. In fertile land root system grapes develop well at first, but as soon as waterlogging begins, it suffocates. Deep pits can play a positive role in soils where good natural drainage is provided, the subsoil is permeable, or reclamation artificial drainage is possible. planting grapes

You can quickly restore an obsolete grape bush by layering (“katavlak”). To this end, healthy vines of a neighboring bush are placed in grooves dug to the place where the dead bush used to grow, and sprinkled with earth. The top is brought to the surface, from which a new bush then grows. Lignified vines are laid on layering in spring, and green ones in July. They are not separated from the mother bush for two to three years. A frozen or very old bush can be restored by short pruning to healthy above-ground parts or pruning to the “black head” of an underground stem. In the latter case, the underground trunk is freed from the ground and completely cut down. Not far from the surface, new shoots grow from dormant buds, due to which a new bush is formed. Grape bushes that have been neglected and severely damaged by frost are restored due to stronger fatty shoots formed in the lower part of the old wood and the removal of weakened sleeves. But before removing the sleeve, they form a replacement for it. Grape care

A gardener starting to grow grapes needs to study well the structure of the vine and the biology of this most interesting plant. Grapes belong to liana (climbing) plants, it needs support. But it can creep along the ground and take root, as is observed in Amur grapes in a wild state. The roots and the aerial part of the stem grow rapidly, branch strongly and reach large sizes. Under natural conditions, without human intervention, a branched grape bush grows with many vines of various orders, which comes into fruiting late and yields irregularly. In culture, the grapes are formed, give the bushes a form that is convenient for care, providing a high yield of high-quality clusters. Vine

Lemongrass

In the literature on climbing vines, the methods of preparing planting pits and the planting itself are unnecessarily complicated. It is proposed to dig trenches and pits up to 80 cm deep, lay drainage from broken bricks, shards, install a pipe to the drainage for food, cover it with special earth, etc. When planting several bushes in collective gardens, such preparation is still possible; but the recommended pit depth is not suitable for Far East, where the thickness of the root-inhabited layer at best reaches 30 cm and it is most often underlain by waterproof subsoil. Whatever drainage is laid, but a deep hole will inevitably turn out to be a closed vessel, where water will accumulate during the monsoon rains, and this will entail damping and rotting of the roots from lack of air. Yes, and the roots of actinidia and lemongrass vines, as already noted, are distributed in the taiga in the surface layer of the soil. Planting lemongrass

Schisandra chinensis, or schizandra, has several names - lemon Tree, red grapes, gomisha (Japanese), cochinta, kojianta (Nanai), kolchita (Ulchi), usimtya (Udege), uchampu (Oroch). In terms of structure, systemic relationship, center of origin and distribution, Schisandra chinensis has nothing to do with the real citrus plant lemon, but all its organs (roots, shoots, leaves, flowers, berries) exude the aroma of lemon, hence the name Schisandra. Lemongrass clinging or wrapping around a support, along with Amur grapes, three types of actinidia, is an original plant of the Far Eastern taiga. Its fruits, like a real lemon, are too acidic for fresh consumption, but they have medicinal properties, pleasant aroma, and this attracted a lot of attention to it. The taste of Schisandra chinensis berries improves somewhat after frost. Local hunters who consume such fruits claim that they relieve fatigue, invigorate the body and improve eyesight. In the consolidated Chinese pharmacopoeia, compiled back in 1596, it says: "Chinese lemongrass fruit has five tastes, classified in the first category of medicinal substances. The pulp of lemongrass is sour and sweet, the seeds are bitter-astringent, and in general the taste of the fruit is salty. Thus, It contains all five tastes. Grow lemongrass