The Russian language is amazing, and it is not accidental that it is very difficult to teach foreigners. In a word, it can be called completely different objects and phenomena. Here, for example, is a bruise. Everyone knows that this is a consequence of a fight or an unsuccessful fall. But there is a completely different bruise: the honey plant. This strange name is worn by the plant, which is considered the king of the medonos. It emits nectar round the clock, regardless of the weather. Even in a severe drought the plant gives the bees sugary juice. Experienced beekeepers say that its honey production is 500-800 kilograms per hectare. This means that in one day only one bee family from this plant can produce up to 8 kilograms of honey. There are no other plants that are as productive as a bruise-honey plant. It's not for nothing that beekeepers try to plant beehives where these plants from the family of borage plants are planted. Not only does the attention of bees attract this honey plant. The common bruise, despite its strange name, is very beautiful. Its stems, often growing to a meter, are densely covered with very large flowers (for honey plants) . Expanding, the flowers have a gently pink color, and then, in the process of flowering, they turn bright blue. For this azure color, the plant got its name: a bruise. The honey is not only productive, but also very beautiful. It is pleasant for two months (since the middle of June) to admire the sea of azure flowers and to inhale their unique, very delicate aroma. However, beekeepers and beekeepers do not appreciate bruising ordinary bruise. Honey, which is collected by the bees from this amazing flower, turns out thick, viscous, dark amber. It has a strong aroma, a delicate taste, a long aftertaste. And it is never sugared (it does not crystallize), so it can not only be eaten, but left to bees for the winter. The bruise honey is all the more surprising that this plant, whose rod-like roots go two meters into the ground, is poisonous, and its honey is useful.
We sow ourselves
Bruising bruises are specially planted around the apiary (photo). Do it this way. In order to sow 1 ha, take about 5 kg of seeds. They are so small in bruise that about 3 grams are about 1000 pieces. Seeds are scattered into the dug up land, and then it is raked by rakes. A bruise-honey is considered a weed plant: in two years it will begin to spread independently, self-sowing. You can do it in another way. If there is no opportunity to buy seeds of bruise, you can find a clearing where it grows, carefully dig out the roots and transplant them to the right place. The plant is so unpretentious that it can be transplanted almost all year round, and it will grow even in the most unsuccessful places and soils. Especially good bruising takes root on a very wet ground, so transplanted plants can be watered. Reproduction with roots has only one drawback: rarely one manages to transplant more than 300 roots a day. On an industrial scale, seeders can be used. Usually this is done through the opener, and then pass through the sowing by scoops. Do it either immediately, as the spring snow comes, or before the very first frosts.