The companion family is represented in the home collections of flower growers and gardeners of an olive-green tall plant. tarragon (tarragon), blooming in August-September, pale yellow (most often) flowers. It happens to be odorous and not odorous.
Aztec
Aztec is obliged to the name of an ancient Mexican origin. Strongly branchy and leafy. The thick aroma of the plant has aniseed shades. Most often, the plant is used as a culinary seasoning. The bush rises to 1.5 m in height. Cultivated in one place up to 7 years.
Valkovsky
The opaque leaves of Estragon Valkovsky have a faint aroma. This is a cold-resistant variety of Russian breeding tarragon. It is unpretentious and impregnable for diseases. In small whitish colors there is some essential oil that is used in cooking and perfumery. From germination to ripening in May - 2 months.
Important! Does not tolerate excess moisture.
Goodwin
One of the most famous odorous varieties of tarragon. At meter height, it is characterized by a large amount of green mass - more than 0.5 kg in the second year of the growing season. A bright smell has a bitter taste. Leaves of this tarragon are seasoned with pickles and a variety of foods. It can be diluted both in open ground and in a pot on a windowsill.
Gribovsky
Tarragon Gribovsky has earned wide popularity due to its frost resistance and the duration of its growth in one place (up to 15 years). Long sharp leaves on a meter-high plant serve as a dark green background for small whitish flowers. Use - classical for all grades of odorous tarragon - seasoning for salads, pickles, meat and fish dishes.
Dobrynya
The usual meter height of Estragon Dobrynya is combined with an unusually high content of beneficial substances - ascorbic acid, carotene, vitamins and trace elements. This spicy herb demonstrates all the benefits of tarragon. Feels good in a drought, not afraid of the cold. Able 10 years to grow in the same place.
Did you know? Tarragon must be rejuvenated when the bushes are divided every 3 years.
Zhulebinsky Semko
Compact frost-resistant bush with green opaque leaves. It has small yellowish flowers in rounded inflorescences. For 7 years, it grows in one place up to 150 cm. The versatile in use sweetish spice is suitable for baking, making soft drinks.
Did you know? The stalking tarragon stalks in the lower part lose their foliage early.
King of herbs
It blooms in summer. The height of the bush (up to 1.5 m) is similar to the Tarhun Monarch and some other varieties. As with Estragon Aztec, aniseed aroma prevails in strong odor. Foliage contains substances that help products harvested at home to preserve color, increase strength, make smell and taste better. Helps to cure many diseases.
Important! In the first year of plant development, the harvest is done once - before flowering.
Monarch
In the upright bush (from 0.8 to 1.5 m) a large number of stems. Tarragon leaves are narrow, bright emerald color. It takes a whole year (from spring to spring) to sow from seedlings to planting in a permanent place. The fresh greens of Estragon Monarch are especially good in salads.
The spicy taste of the plant in this variety prefer to use in drinks and pickles. There are therapeutic properties: tarragon improves the functioning of the stomach, increases appetite, reduces inflammatory processes. With the help of tarragon, respiratory diseases - pneumonia, tuberculosis, bronchitis - are treated.
Emerald
Prefers open flat areas. Stems erect, height is within 80 cm, dense foliage becomes rigid at the beginning of flowering. Narrow panicles of inflorescences are formed by baskets in the form of balls, where yellowish flowers are collected. Salting, canning and amateur cooking use the leaves and young shoots of Tarhuna Smaragd. Also often tarragon of this variety is used by flower growers for decorative plantings.
French
On the 1.5-meter-high stems of the Tarhuna of France, the dark green of oblong leaves and the whiteness of small flowers pleasantly contrast. Resistant to cold and disease. It is well-known to cooks as an additive to main dishes. In modern landscape design this variety of tarragon is often used for single plantings.
Varieties of tarragon are not very different in planting and care. Reproduction by seeds, shanks and division of a bush varies. When planting, the width between rows is 0.7 m, and the distance between plants is from 40 to 70 cm. Manure and mineral fertilizers are used as top dressing. Rows are cultivated 3-4 times and weeds are weeded a couple of times.
