Who among us at the height of winter will give up the vitamin "pill" from his own bed? We think that many people dream of a small winter garden, but they simply do not know which side to approach. It is for these beginners truckers and will be useful to our express course, telling how in the winter to plant greens on the windowsill.
What kind of greenery can be grown on a windowsill?
Many people know how to easily and easily grow a green onion on a window sill in winter. In fact, what's complicated is that he put the bulb that has begun to germinate in a jar of water and know yourself to harvest. But in fact, the green onions list is not restricted for the green growing of greenery. In addition, fennel, parsley, celery, various kinds of lettuce, mustard, portolac, basil, mint, lemon balm and coriander are excellent at home.
How to plant greens on the windowsill?
Now let's take a closer look at how to break a green garden bed on a windowsill.
Step 1 - prepare everything you need
For the arrangement of the winter home garden we will need containers of different sizes. In principle, the greens can be grown almost in any pottery: pots, plastic containers, wooden boxes and even plastic bottles. But all of them should have drainage holes and a height of at least 7 cm. At the bottom of the selected capacity, a layer of drainage is laid out, and only then it is filled with a loose and nutritious ground mixture. The mixture for growing greenery can be purchased in the store, or you can cook yourself, mixing peat, gardening land and sand in equal parts. And most importantly - the natural lighting of greenery will clearly not be enough. Therefore, you have to get a special phytolamp .
Step 2 - choose the inoculum
To the idea of winter growing green from the seeds on the windowsill was successful, you need to choose the right seeds. The most suitable for this venture are low-growth varieties and
Step 3 - sow the seeds
To accelerate the germination, seeds before planting soak for 10-12 hours in warm water, and then for another 2-3 hours placed in a light pink solution of potassium permanganate. During these water procedures, some seeds remain afloat, and some settle to the bottom. The seeds sown to the bottom are alive, and it is worth sowing them. They are carefully dried and distributed along the tanks to the ground, deepening by 2-3 cm. Then the containers with the seedlings are placed in a mini-greenhouse (wrapped in polyethylene, covered with a glass jar) and kept in it until the appearance of the first shoots.