Cappers are endowed with a rich aroma and tart taste. Used mainly in cooking, but they are also used as folk healing agents. In addition, they have beautiful white flowers from which they make jam.
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Cappers are very loved by bright light and straight sun rays, so try to find a dry area for sowing. It should not be windy. If you do not reset the shrub, it will be the fruits until fifteen years old. The plant is multiplied with seeds, tanks or parts of the bush. The discontinuished fruits of the cercer possess a sweet taste resembling watermelon. But in cooking, it is the buds that they have more spicy taste and aroma.
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Capers are planted from March to May. The shrub grows even on the soils unsuitable for planting other plants. Perfectly suitable sandy or sandy soil. Before boarding, flipping the earth, adopt it with a complex fertilizer and disappear by 27-30 cm in depth. Press the seeds into the open soil. Between them, leave a distance of about 40-50 cm. Between the rows should remain 70 cm.
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You can grow capers at home. Please note that the roots of the caper can reach fifteen meters, so as the shrub will still have to transplant in the soil. But it grows very slowly, so for a long time will be placed in a pot. Prepare a pot with a diameter of 16 cm. Pour there an earthy mixture for cacti. Seed seeds to the ground. As already mentioned, the shrub grows very long, so for aesthetic species you can use suspension pots.
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From July to September, the term for collecting capers comes. Remember that the kidney size should not be more than 10-15 cm long. Good buds are small, round and solid. From one bush will be approximately three kilograms. Cut the fruits, put them on paper and dried under the sunny rays. Then pour them into glass jars and pour olive or vegetable oil. Also suitable grape vinegar. Close the banks with iron lids. It is in this form that capers will be kept up to the year.
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The cercer does not need frequent watering. Excessive watering will lead to the fact that the roots will not receive the required amount of oxygen and die. Therefore, water the shrub is extremely rare or as needed. So that pests do not appear in the shrub, regularly ventilate the room (if it grows at home) and spray it with fungicides. Do not forget to loosen the soil, glow weeds and feed the shrub fertilizers in May and July. By the end of winter, he always drops the leaves.
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Pests such as the wave and slugs often appear on the camp. If this happened, wash the pests under the water. Thoroughly wipe the leaves of the plant with a soap solution or spray them using a pulverizer. After that, handle the bunny fungicide. Conduct this procedure until the pests disappear.
The caper seat grows mainly in the Crimea or in the Caucasus. In the plots it is quite rare. Therefore, if you want to make your plot special, put the capers there. White flowers of an unusual form will allocate your home and will make exotic!