Many of us like fragrant and juicy oranges,but, having cleared them, we throw out the orange peel. However, it should be remembered that not only delicious pulp pleases our taste and helps maintain health. The rind of this fruit is no less useful. Areas of human activity where it is possible to use orange peels are very many. The most often used is the peel of this citrus in cooking, winemaking and cosmetology. Many housewives apply it not only for the preparation of delicious dishes, but also for the environmentally friendly cleaning of the house.
We all heard about vitamins and minerals,contained in an orange, but few people know that its skin (the outer colored layer) contains more vitamins than the flesh, as well as essential oils and pectin substances. All this contributes to the fact that the use of orange peels is becoming increasingly popular. It is worth noting that they can be used not only in fresh, but also in dried and crushed form. Maintaining your health with these orange fruits, over the course of our long winter, you can stock yourself with the dried orange peel to use it during the summer season.
Казалось бы, что может быть проще – почистил и ate an orange, dried his crusts. But it's not so simple. Modern fruits, including citrus fruits, are copiously treated with a variety of chemicals, both during cultivation, and during transportation and storage. Therefore, before you prepare and start using orange peels, you need to thoroughly wash this fruit, and then pass it with boiling water.
Plants grown in an apartment are subject todiseases and insect pests. Quite often, flowers are simply destroyed by various mites and aphids. To save green "pets" will help fresh or pre-stored orange peel. The application for flowers is quite simple: 200 g of orange peel should be poured with a liter of water at room temperature. The container with a solution is removed for five days in a dark place. After this period the solution is filtered, and the crusts are squeezed. ½ cup of infusion is mixed with 2-2.5 liters of water and add about a teaspoon of "green" or simply soapy soap. Leaflets of plants can be washed or sprinkled with the resulting solution on both sides. It is better to repeat this treatment in a week.
Many growers and gardeners are faced with the fact that cats and cats are very indifferent to young seedlings, and to room flowers, as they say, no-no, and "pulling paws."
Therefore, the following application is advisableorange crusts: lay them on the windowsill next to flowers or nursery boxes. Cats close to them will not work - they do not like orange smell very much and try to avoid places with such an "ambre". As experiments have shown, deodorants and air fresheners with the aroma of orange are much weaker.
Another problem is the discrepancyCat and your idea of the place of the toilet. Therefore, you can mix fresh and finely chopped orange peel and coffee grounds, and then apply around the animal-loving place. From the first time can not help, but after two or three applications your pet will stop going to this place.
After saving home flowers and seedlings withthe beginning of the summer season we export to the garden the orange peel accumulated during the autumn-winter season. Application in gardening can be very diverse. First of all, infusion on the peel of oranges is used to combat such insect pests as spider mites, thrips and aphids. For its preparation, crusts from a pair of oranges should be crushed and poured with 1 liter of warm water.
Quite a lot of trouble in the gardendeliver the colony of ants, in the fight against which will help orange peel. Application in the country is quite simple: peel two or three oranges in a blender with a glass of warm water. The resulting mashed potatoes are applied to paths laid by ants on the beds. By dissolving the powdered powder in more water, the resulting composition can be poured into anthills. The only problem is that insects, most likely, will take their home to another place.
Fighting insects using orangecrusts in the garden and in the garden is not limited. Some flowers, planted in a front garden or on a flowerbed, enjoy increased attention from the representatives of felines from all around. In order to save your landing from the visits of uninvited guests, spread out the peel of oranges in flowers, especially loved by cats.
At the beginning of the summer season, when the house is stillit's cold, orange peels will help to dissolve in the stove. Application in gardening will occur a little later, but as a kind of kindling orange peel is simply indispensable. It burns longer and better than paper, thanks to the presence of essential oils.
In addition, the combustion is very pleasantodor, thanks to which in a still cold room it immediately becomes warmer and more comfortable. You can simply arrange the crusts of orange throughout the house - the musty smell will disappear, and for the respiratory system it will be useful, because the phytoncids released by zest are oppressed by various pathogens.
Orange peel comes in handy later, then,when mosquitoes and midges will appear. If you do not have allergies to citrus fruits, then you can simply rub the open skin of the orange with open areas of the body - the smell remaining on your skin will scare off the insects.
