How to grow wormwood in the country

Wormwood is a perennial herbaceous essential oil plant, which is widely distributed throughout Russia.

A straight, branched stalk of wormwood can reach a height of one or more meters. The plant's short, appressed hairs give it a greyish-silver hue.

Small tubular wormwood flowers are collected in small baskets with a diameter of no more than 3 mm, which are separated from the stem by very short branches, located next to each other, they form the so-called "panicle".

Wormwood begins to bloom in July. Seeds ripen in late August - early September. Brownish oblong fruits-achens of wormwood do not exceed 1 mm in length.

Wormwood is propagated by cuttings, division (in spring or autumn), or seeds are sown in open ground (in spring).

In the country, wormwood is best planted in semi-shaded or open sunny areas. The plant is undemanding to the composition of the soil and care. At the end of the year, pruning is necessary. Between adjacent plants, the distance should be approximately 40 cm.

The collection is carried out at the time of budding of the plant - the beginning of flowering (July). The leaves of wormwood are cut off, the herbal tops of the shoots (up to 25 cm from above) are cut off with a knife.

It is necessary to dry in the open air in the shade or in special dryers at a temperature of +40 to +50 C.

Useful wormwood application of its properties in the garden and in the garden

Useful wormwood: the use of its properties in the garden and in the garden

Many disdainfully refer to wormwood, calling it a malicious weed. But I consider her my protector from many misfortunes - pests and diseases of the garden and vegetable garden, and even from human diseases. Over the years I have gained experience in its application.

I used to harvest wormwood on the sides of country roads, but inadvertently brought the seeds to my site, where the plant began to grow and multiply, so that I no longer need to specially go anywhere for it. And I don't try to get rid of it. I have islands of wormwood under almost every young apple and pear tree, near fences, outbuildings, where they do not interfere with anyone at all.

However, do not think that it grows uncontrollably. The needs for wormwood and its reproduction are balanced so that it does not have to stay in the ground. I extract plants in whole or in part at a young or adult age - with my hands or with a trident.

Wormwood helps out in the fall

A great need for wormwood occurs in the fall. Where it does not yet grow in the near-stem circles of young apple and pear trees, I spread the grass around the trunks. This protects the trees from mice.

To the boles of young apple and pear trees on the south side I tie a pair of long branches of wormwood with electrical tape. This is protection, on the one hand, from hares in winter, and on the other hand, from the heat of the sun's rays in early spring. Moreover, for the entire period of application of such protection, there were no cases of damage.

In places of possible settlement by mice (in a house, a barn, a cellar), I lay out branches of wormwood. I do this in advance, as rodents get closer to housing for winter. And although they sometimes settle in "forbidden" territories, the persistent smell of wormwood irritates the animals, and they leave.

When laying the foundation of the house, I also wrap wormwood branches in foam rubber plugs.

Often, moths appear in places where food is stored, as well as clothes. To scare her away, I make special bundles with wormwood from pieces of old sheets.

Spring application of wormwood in the garden

In the spring I remove wormwood from tree trunks, I also collect it from all the places where I laid it out in the fall. But it is too early to throw away the grass: it will serve until a new one grows.

See also: Wormwood - medicinal properties and uses

What am I doing?

I spread a decent piece of plastic wrap, put a wooden block in the center and start chopping the collected wormwood with an ax. Flying pieces remain on the film. I put the collected chaff into a 20-liter bucket, close the lid and put it in the sun. After 1-1.5 weeks (depending on the weather), I drain the infusion through a fine sieve into 6-liter plastic bottles.

By the way, I do the same with the husks and stalks of garlic and onions collected in the fall. I put infusions in a shaded cool place.

I use these infusions to combat late blight, alternating them and adding 1 tbsp for every 10 liters. l. potassium chloride, liquid soap and 1 g of potassium permanganate. This remedy also helps against powdery mildew, scab, and other fungal diseases.

I also use them to control pests - caterpillars, aphids, and other insects. I often add iodine, brilliant green, table salt, boric acid, mullein to these infusions.

Not all plants are as harmless as wormwood. During the period of ripening and harvesting fruits and vegetables, plants should not be sprayed with infusions of milkweed, tobacco, henbane, hemlock, celandine, horse sorrel. They are poisonous to plants!

Wormwood description, application, placement in the country

Wormwood: description, application, placement in the country In continuation of the material about wormwood, I propose today to talk about another species - wormwood. It is possible that it was from this wormwood that the Egyptian priests of Isis, the goddesses of fertility and motherhood, wore wreaths on their heads. The specific Latin name for wormwood is absinthium, translated from Greek means without pleasure, because it has a very bitter taste.

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Botanical reference

Wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), like all wormwoods, is a representative of one of the largest families - Asteraceae. This is a perennial herbaceous densely pubescent and, in connection with this, a grayish-silver plant with a characteristic odor and a bitter taste, in warm regions it is often a shrub with an upright, branched stem, up to 1 m high. The flowers are very small, yellow, collected in an inflorescence basket, forming one-sided, slightly drooping panicles; bloom in July-September. Fruits - achenes; ripen in August-October.

Decorative variety ‘Lambrook Silver’ (75 cm high, leaves deeply dissected, silvery).

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Where is it found in nature?

It occurs along roads, buildings, in gardens, ditches, in weedy places, wastelands in the European part, in the Caucasus, in Western Siberia, in Central Asia.

How is wormwood used?

This is a wild-growing spicy, medicinal, very decorative, insecticidal plant. Leaves are used as food (bitter seasoning for meat dishes). For therapeutic purposes, the herb is used to stimulate appetite, improve the functioning of the digestive tract, as a choleretic, diuretic, sedative, disinfectant, anti-inflammatory, anthelmintic, analgesic, wound healing agent.

How to place wormwood in the country?

It is enough to have 1-2 plants on the site, which should stay away from neighbors, as they inhibit their growth. It can be used for planting on a spicy bed, in a rockery, where it will support a silver scale that harmoniously fits into a stone landscape. The distance between plants is 40-60 cm. Prefers dry soils, undemanding to fertility.

Does wormwood grow in your dacha?

From the "Helpful Tips" section, I will now tell you how you can deal with pests and plant diseases in your backyard without chemicals, using only herbal infusions and decoctions.

Infusions and decoctions of herbs in this fight have a number of obvious and indisputable:
- they are safe for both humans and pets and our feathered friends;
- they are easy to prepare
- they are almost always "at hand", next to us: in the garden, forest, in the garden, on the field.
So,

10 plants, decoctions and infusions of which are used to combat pests and diseases of fruit and vegetable crops.

1- Wormwood.
The whole plant is used for decoction. Freshly cut grass must be crushed, poured with water (half a bucket of chopped grass - half a bucket of water) and leave the resulting mixture for a day. After that, the resulting water-herbaceous mass is boiled for 30 minutes, filtered, and again add water to the remaining volume of the broth, the same volume as the resulting broth. This decoction is used to combat the codling moth and other caterpillars and beetles that feed on the leaves of fruit trees. For treatment, the affected trees are sprayed twice with a decoction of wormwood with an interval between sprayings of about a week.

2- Burdock.
To prepare an infusion of burdock, its leaves are crushed, poured with water (2/3 buckets of water are taken for 1/3 bucket of chopped grass) and infused for 3 days. The strong smell of the infusion repels pests and helps in the fight against pest butterflies. Spraying fruit trees is best done in the evening, when butterflies are active. With this infusion, in order to achieve a good result, it is desirable to process fruit trees 4 times during the summer.

3- Potato tops.
An infusion of potato tops is used to combat mites and aphids.

For 1 kg of chopped potato tops, 10 liters of water are taken, insisted for 12 hours and filtered.

Approximately 10-12 hours after spraying, up to 90% of mites and aphids die.

4- Dandelion.
Dandelion leaves are used to prepare the infusion. For 10 liters of water, 40 g of crushed green leaves are needed.
Insist 12 hours, filter.
Dandelion infusion is used in the fight against aphids, mites and other insects that damage fruit and berry crops, cabbage, cucumbers and other vegetable plants.

5- Field chamomile.
100 g of dried and crushed field chamomile flowers are poured into 10 liters of water.

A day later, the infusion is filtered and diluted with water five times. Add 50 g of liquid soap to a bucket of solution and foam.

The infusion is used against aphids, weevils and caterpillars.

6- Tansy.
Grass must be collected at the beginning of flowering, cutting off the entire inflorescence. Fresh grass is a good remedy for flies, bedbugs, fleas and moths. A decoction of tansy is effective against the codling moth and other pests. To prepare a decoction, you need to take 700-800 g of tansy inflorescences.
Grind the plants, put in a container and pour 2 liters of water, close the container tightly with a lid and leave for two days. Then boil for 30 minutes, strain and add as much cold water to the broth as the broth turned out. Tansy is poisonous, so it is best to use rubber gloves when spraying, and it is best not to use the decoction storage container for any other purpose.

7- Spurge.

Grows everywhere, poisonous.
To prepare a decoction, take 4 kg of fresh leaves and boil in a small amount of water for 2-3 hours. The broth is filtered and diluted with water to 2.5 liters. Used to control the caterpillars of various butterflies. To combat fungal diseases, milkweed stems are cut into pieces 3-4 cm long. As soon as the juice comes out of the plants, they are dipped into water. The washed grass is thrown away, and the next portion is lowered into this water to wash out the juice. Washing is repeated several times until the water turns the color of skimmed milk. This solution is sprayed 2-3 times on plants affected by powdery mildew, rust and other fungal diseases.

8- Garlic.
Half a kilogram of garlic is crushed, poured into 10 liters of water, stirred and infused for two days, and then filtered through gauze. Then add 50 g of soap and lather well.
The infusion is used against larvae, caterpillars, mites, aphids, and against tomato disease - phytophthora. Spray the plants with the resulting infusion in the evening: fruit trees and berry bushes 2 times with an interval of 5 days; tomatoes - at the end of June and again after 10 days; cabbage and cucumbers - when pests appear.

9- Branches of coniferous trees.
Cut branches of pine or fir fill a bucket and brew with boiling water.
The next day, the infusion is filtered and diluted with water in a ratio of 1:5.

It is used for spraying plants as a deterrent against flying pests at the beginning of flowering fruit trees and shrubs.

10- Celandine.
Celandine should be harvested during flowering, in May-July, cutting off the entire above-ground part. In this case, it is necessary to take into account the harmful effect of celandine juice on the skin and put on gloves on your hands. Dry the collected grass quickly at a temperature of 40-60 °. It is ground into a fine powder, which is used to “pollinate” cabbage, radish, turnip, radish and other crops against garden flea.
Grass can be fumigated, fruit trees and shrubs to kill various insect pests. An infusion is prepared from the grass and roots of celandine. Infuse 1 kg of dry mass in 10 liters of water for two days. Use against aphids, scale insects and other pests.

There are a great many plants, decoctions and infusions of which can protect your garden from pests and diseases, and you can’t list everything. I stopped only at the ten most, in my opinion, common, which I also use in my summer cottage.

Have a good mood. good pest control and a great harvest!

Many disdainfully refer to wormwood, calling it a malicious weed. But I consider her my protector from many misfortunes - pests and diseases of the garden and vegetable garden, and even from human diseases. Over the years I have gained experience in its application.

I used to harvest wormwood on the sides of country roads, but inadvertently brought the seeds to my site, where the plant began to grow and multiply, so that I no longer need to specially go anywhere for it. And I don't try to get rid of it. I have islands of wormwood under almost every young apple and pear tree, near fences, outbuildings, where they do not interfere with anyone at all.

However, do not think that it grows uncontrollably. The needs for wormwood and its reproduction are balanced so that it does not have to stay in the ground. I extract plants in whole or in part at a young or adult age - with my hands or with a trident.

Wormwood helps out in the fall

A great need for wormwood occurs in the fall. Where it does not yet grow in the near-stem circles of young apple and pear trees, I spread the grass around the trunks. This protects the trees from mice.

To the boles of young apple and pear trees on the south side I tie a pair of long branches of wormwood with electrical tape. This is protection, on the one hand, from hares in winter, and on the other hand, from the heat of the sun's rays in early spring. Moreover, for the entire period of application of such protection, there were no cases of damage.

In places of possible settlement by mice (in a house, a barn, a cellar), I lay out branches of wormwood. I do this in advance, as rodents get closer to housing for winter. And although they sometimes settle in "forbidden" territories, the persistent smell of wormwood irritates the animals, and they leave.

When laying the foundation of the house, I also wrap wormwood branches in foam rubber plugs.

Often, moths appear in places where food is stored, as well as clothes. To scare her away, I make special bundles with wormwood from pieces of old sheets.

Spring application of wormwood in the garden

In the spring I remove wormwood from tree trunks, I also collect it from all the places where I laid it out in the fall. But it is too early to throw away the grass: it will serve until a new one grows.

What am I doing?

I spread a decent piece of plastic wrap, put a wooden block in the center and start chopping the collected wormwood with an ax. Flying pieces remain on the film. I put the collected chaff into a 20-liter bucket, close the lid and put it in the sun. After 1-1.5 weeks (depending on the weather), I drain the infusion through a fine sieve into 6-liter plastic bottles.

By the way, I do the same with the husks and stalks of garlic and onions collected in the fall. I put infusions in a shaded cool place.

I use these infusions to combat late blight, alternating them and adding 1 tbsp for every 10 liters. l. potassium chloride, liquid soap and 1 g of potassium permanganate. This remedy also helps against powdery mildew, scab, and other fungal diseases.

I also use them to control pests - caterpillars, aphids, and other insects. I often add iodine, brilliant green, table salt, boric acid, mullein to these infusions.

Not all plants are as harmless as wormwood. During the period of ripening and harvesting fruits and vegetables, plants should not be sprayed with infusions of milkweed, tobacco, henbane, hemlock, celandine, horse sorrel. They are poisonous to plants!

From the word “weeds” almost every summer resident spoils the mood, because these are their worst enemies. Weeds negatively affect the growth of cultivated plants, spoil the appearance of the site, make them spend more time in the garden, sometimes leading a continuous struggle. One of them is wormwood. This perennial plant of the Aster family with a thick straight stem and feathery leaves, up to 1.5 meters high, is one of the most tenacious weeds.

There are over 400 types of wormwood:

• bitter is used for making decoctions and in perfumery, brooms are harvested from it;
• field is used for decorative purposes;
• Louisiana forms dense thickets, but does not tolerate severe frosts and stagnant water;
• tarragon, which is also known as spicy or tarragon, is added to dishes, for example, the well-known Tarragon lemonade.

All types of wormwood have one thing in common: they reproduce by seeds, bloom from July to August, have small, smooth seeds that ripen in September.

Dragon grass loves calcareous soils, so it can serve as an indicator of a sufficient amount of nitrogen in the ground. An unpretentious plant, which, thanks to its long root, can be found even in arid areas.

Methods of prevention and control

Free uncultivated areas are the main source of sagebrush. It is found along roadsides and ditches, in abandoned vegetable gardens and near houses. To prevent its appearance on your site, it is necessary to mow not only it, but also nearby territories.

Mature plants must first be cut and then dug up the root. The root of wormwood is taproot and can penetrate quite deep into the soil. When removing it, it is important to dig as deep as possible, otherwise it will sprout again, and at the same time become stronger and stronger.

It is better to cut wormwood in June-July, before it ripens. The plant produces up to 70 thousand seeds. After removing the roots, it is necessary to dig the site. Weeds should not be allowed to grow uncontrollably.

It is easier to loosen the soil shallowly in early spring, the plants that have barely grown from seeds will be on the surface. By catching this stage in time, you can save a lot of time and effort by preventing the emergence of adult plants, which are much more difficult to deal with.

If desired, you can mulch the soil. This reduces the number of weeds by about 5 times, and germinated plants will be easily weeded out of the loose cover.

Is there any benefit to weed?

You can look at wormwood from a different point of view. Birds use it in their nests to keep fleas and ticks away. Weed is not suitable for flea poisoning, but due to the specific smell, insects leave those places where they encounter wormwood. Freshly cut shoots are placed in the corners, near the plinth, under the carpets, near the animal beds. Decoction of wormwood treat animal hair, wash the floor.

Beekeepers use this herb to control mites in their hives.

Wormwood is a natural repellant. With its growth, it scares off the cabbage caterpillar, whitefly, and earthen fleas. An infusion of wormwood with ash is used to treat potatoes to control the Colorado potato beetle.

Recently, wormwood has been used in landscape design. It gained its popularity due to unpretentiousness, abundance of species, compatibility with other plants. It is decorative throughout the season and retains its appearance until frost, and also lends itself to cutting and does not require frequent watering.