Growing greenery at home: work or pleasure

It's nice when the New Year's table is full of parsley, dill or celery. Over the summer, we are full of vitamins, and in winter they are very scarce, and indeed it is not difficult to organize the cultivation of greenery on the home window sill or insulated balcony. You can, of course, buy greens in the store, even in winter, but firstly, it is quite expensive at this time, and secondly, the process of growing itself is a lot of fun. Probably, their own grown sprouts will seem a thousand times more delicious than what is bought in the store.

Potty to buy - no problem. They can choose a rectangular shape (for the window sill) or any other. Soil mixture can be bought in the store, but the usual land under the house is also suitable. The main secret is directly in the preparation of seeds, watering, feeding and lighting.

Parsley . If there is a summer house, where greenery was grown in the summer, it is easiest to take small root crops (about 2 cm in diameter) from the petioles and plant them in the house pots according to the scheme 2-3cm x 4-5cm. For some time (about a week), the roots will be needed to adapt and begin to grow. At this time, it's best to keep them in a cool shaded place. Then you can put on the windowsill on the south or south-east side. Less than a month, the first harvest will be ready for tasting.

If the cultivation of greenery in the country is not practiced, then for the home garden we use seeds. They need to be prepared. We wrap the seeds in gauze, so that the bundle is not untied, and put it into a pot of running water for half an hour. During this time, the upper shell will be washed off, and the seeds will then sprout more rapidly. Then a wet bundle with seeds is left for a day for germination. All. The seeds are ready. We deepen them by half a centimeter, lightly pouring a layer of earth (about 1 cm).

The pot must be kept in a dark place for the first time (before emergence) and moderately moistened once every two to three days, depending on the temperature (if the temperature is about 16 degrees, water less often, if 20-23 can be watered every other day or every day). As soon as the first sprouts appear, they need to be weeded out (poudalat superfluous) and put in a well-lit place. Even if the windows on the south side, the light is still not enough, so growing greenery in winter without the fluorescent light bulb will not give good results, the sprouts will be thin and less leafy. If possible, it is necessary to include additional lighting in the evenings. The best varieties for domestic production. Yield, Bordovinskaya, Sugar.

Dill . This is the second most popular kind of greenery, which many are happy to adapt for the home garden. In general, growing the greenery of the house (and dill in particular) requires well-fertilized soil. Before you start seeding the seeds, you need to take good care of the nutrient of the soil. In specialized shops for this purpose, a large number of macro- and microfertilizers are sold for domestic plants, including green plants. It is good for fertilizing the home garden, for example, the drug "Raduna".

Dill is sown several times during the winter at a frequency of 1 to 1.5 months in order to be on the table throughout the winter. For a container measuring 40 x 15 cm, 3 grams of seeds are required. Then everything is as with parsley: after emergence of shoots, thin out, leaving distances between 2-3 cm sprouts, watering abundantly and twice a month we feed. Varieties that grow well at home (with unimportant winter lighting and a short day) are Gribovsky, Kaskelensky, and Armenian-269.

Growing greenery at home is a very exciting process. Once starting, it's very difficult to stop. The joy and benefit of the home garden will surpass all expectations and will pay for all the work.