Dill, parsley, green onions and garlic on the windowsill from their seeds (Belgorod region)
GARDEN ON THE WINDOWSILL FROM YOUR SEEDS
“I so want the summer not to end ...” Many people remember this popular song by Alla Pugacheva when the leaves turn yellow and heavy rains begin. Therefore, let's talk about how to extend your favorite summer time.
Autumn. Sad time...
And so you want a warm sun, greenery, delicious fresh berries, fruits, vegetables! And in order to brighten up the longing for the wonderful time of the year, I decided to arrange a small garden on the windowsill - at least a little to prolong the smells and tastes of my beloved summer. I have been doing this for three years and decided to share with you.
Everyone knows the benefits of dill, parsley, green onions, garlic. Previously, I always put greens in the freezer, although, of course, after that the smell and taste are not the same. Everyone knows how to plant onions and garlic, but I adapted to planting dill and parsley for a long time. I have my own seeds, from my garden, before sowing, I soak them in a weak pink solution of manganese for 10-15 minutes.
I sowed dill in pots, but for some reason it grew thin, but I like it large, juicy, and I found a way out: I put it next to the aquarium. There, the light bulb shines on my fish for 15-18 hours a day. I combine business with pleasure: it’s wonderful for fish, and it’s good for dill. At the bottom of the pot, be sure to put expanded clay drainage, and then the soil. You can from the store, but I take soil from the forest. Sow rarely, so that the seedlings are thicker, stronger. Then I cover with polyethylene and put in a dark place. Arises on the 5-6th day. When it grows up, I pick one or two branches from the bush. I feed with wood ash - well, there is a bathhouse.
I’ll tell you a secret that sometimes I water weak sprouts with water from the aquarium, and gradually the dill becomes plump and juicy.
I prefer to plant parsley from the garden. I choose plump, fresh. Be sure to plant in a deep bowl, as this plant has long roots, and if you damage the root, you may not get good results. All these plants love moisture, so I water often, as the soil dries up. In general, nothing complicated, but it's so nice in winter, when everything is covered with snow and cold outside the window, take a sprig of parsley in your mouth, chew, close your eyes and feel the heady smell of summer!
Salad and basil are also very useful. I sow them in November and just in time for the New Year I get greens for salads. I have my own seeds, tested. As usual, I prepare the ground, be sure to do drainage, soak the seeds so that they sprout faster, and carefully lay them out with tweezers sparsely so that the seedlings grow strong. Lettuce sprouts and grows quickly, but basil needs more time.
Lettuce leaves are good with sandwiches. It goes well with eggs, cucumbers, cabbage, tomatoes, etc., so the scope for imagination is huge. I put everything I have in a bowl, season it with vegetable oil or mayonnaise - and the vitamin salad is ready! Never stayed, everything is eaten!
Basil, of course, is not for everyone, but I add it to meat dishes, as well as to salads. In general, my family and I love all these greens very much, and most importantly, they are healthy! Of course, it takes time, but believe me, it's worth it.
This is my garden - it has dill, and parsley, and pepper, and onion, and garlic, and strawberries, and mint, and lettuce, and basil, and even calendula - everything that reminds me of summer. Because I want it to never end!
© Author: Natalya Mikhailovna Shevtsova. With. Chernikovo, Belgorod region
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HOME GREEN OWN HANDS
In winter, you really want fresh herbs - onions, dill, lettuce. Of course, all this is sold in stores, but my body is on strike and does not accept this nitrate (or something else) greens, and I grow them in pots on the windowsill. Forcing a good feather perfectly turns out to be a family radiance: 11-12 pieces of thin feathers grow from one bulb. I plant the bulbs in a pot tightly to each other, and in a month the greens are ready. I pull it out with the root and plant it again, pour fertile soil on top. I have it on stream: they ate one, I plant the other. During the winter I shoot up to five crops from the pot. Onions grow well without additional lighting, but dill and lettuce need to be highlighted.
Aloe, a phytodoctor growing on the windowsill, cleanses the blood well if prepared according to this recipe: do not water for 10 days, then cut off the branch, rinse with running water, dry and place in the refrigerator for 10 days. Then tear off the leaves, grind in a blender or meat grinder and pour the resulting juice into a three-liter jar.
We take 300 g of aloe, 500 g of honey, 700 ml of red grape wine, mix all this well in a jar and insist for three to four days. You need to use 1 tbsp. l. 20 minutes before meals 3 times a day. They drank the jar - a 10-day break, then repeat. Aloe should be used only three years. Good luck!
© Author: Rauza Zinatullona TETERINA, Irkutsk
Reference by topic: Transplanting greens in a pot for the winter or a garden on the windowsill
APARTMENT BED TAKE NOTE!
Most of all, in winter, I miss fresh herbs for salads and soups. It’s very expensive to buy in the store, and I thought: why don’t I grow greens in flower pots? I took old flower pots and washed them thoroughly with laundry soap. When they dried, I laid drainage for indoor plants on the bottom, then a layer of purchased soil. Sowed dill, parsley, basil and arugula. For the green garden, I chose the sunniest window sill, although you can also use additional lighting if there is not enough sun.
Unfortunately, there is no photo, but my window sill looks great!
© Author: Nina PAKHOLKOVA, Kostroma
Reference by topic: DIY MINI-GARDEN on the windowsill - vegetables at home
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I grew green onions on the windowsill all winter. The last planting was not a success: the tips of the feathers turn yellow, but do not dry, but become wet, then white. What kind of attack is this?
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— What you described is very similar to nitrogen deficiency in the soil. In this case, you need to apply nitrogen fertilizers. You can use urea, a small dose is enough: 1 g of fertilizer per 1 liter of water. Dissolve well and water the plants. For one onion - 100 ml of composition.
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ALL YEAR ROUND WITH AROMATIC GREENS
In our family, seasonings that we grow ourselves are on the table all year round. We grow one of the spices - coriander - in the summer in the garden, in the winter on the windowsill.
In summer, I sow every 20 days with row spacing of 25 cm, and in winter - in an apartment in boxes at a distance of 10 cm between rows, and between plants 5 cm. I grow the Yantar variety. This is an annual, cold-resistant, mid-season (35-50 days from germination to harvest) plant.
Caring for coriander consists of loosening and watering. Growth is enhanced by mineral supplements, which I spend immediately after watering: I fertilize twice a month with urea at the rate of 20 g per 7 liters of water.
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Pale leaves? Not enough light!
Every year I grow dill, parsley and onions on the windowsill. During this time, I realized that each plant needs its own conditions.
For example, parsley grows well only in the cold. I sow the seeds in pots with nutrient soil, cover with a dark bag and put them on the battery. And as soon as they appear
shoots, I take the plants to the glazed insulated balcony.
In winter, my temperature there is kept at around +5 ... +7 degrees, no more. But parsley is enough. By spring, when the sun begins to warm, the bushes become strong and give a lot of greenery. Dill and onions, on the contrary, need heat and moisture. I keep them in the apartment on the southern windowsill, and next to each pot I put a container of water. The moisture evaporates and the plants feel good. True, this year all my greens are growing pale and not very lush.
Although this does not affect the taste of the leaves.
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Many people think: once the plants are enough. Therefore, you need to install it on the windowsill, and even on the south one, then they don’t need any more lighting, except for what they have. In fact, this is absolutely not the case. For photosynthesis to occur fully, plants simply need light. When the daylight hours are short and there are a lot of cloudy days, the lights are not lamps for supplementary illumination and illuminate the greenery at least from 6-7 to 18-19 hours. Otherwise, the plants will stretch, the color of their leaves will be atypical, and therefore, a good harvest is not even worth dreaming of.
Irina GURYEVA, teach, corp. FNC them. Michurin
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Like many representatives of the male half of humanity, I have a special love for the fragrant parsley.
I can eat almost everything with fresh leaves of this spicy herb, except, of course, sweet dishes. Therefore, I was always sorry when the summer season came to an end and I had to go on a “diet” until spring. But a couple of years ago I made a pleasant discovery for myself: it turns out that parsley in winter can also develop perfectly in the house on the windowsill.
Now, in late autumn (sometimes even at the beginning of winter, from under a layer of snow), I dig out a few parsley roots from the garden and bring them home to the city. In plants, I cut off all the old leaves flush with the conditional root collar and plant 2-3 pieces in flower pots so that only the tops slightly peek out of the ground. Especially for this purpose, I purchased high flower bowls with a depth of about 20-25 cm - in such capacious containers, parsley feels more comfortable in winter. I prepare the soil for planting on my own: I mix garden soil and well-ripened compost in equal proportions and add a glass of sifted wood ash to the bucket of the mixture. After planting, I water the roots and put the pots on the window facing the south side. In addition, next to the containers I install a table lamp with a long “neck”, into which I screw an energy-saving fluorescent light bulb.
After a few days, even parsley roots frozen in the cold come to life and begin to actively release young leaves, and after a couple of weeks they turn into lush bushes. I water them regularly, once a month I feed them with complex fertilizer (I use liquid organomineral preparations according to the instructions) and constantly illuminate them with a table lamp.
Fragrant vitamin parsley in the cold season is a particularly valuable addition to a boring winter diet, devoid of fresh vegetables and fruits. I am also glad that our family now uses not store-bought greens stuffed with nitrates for food, but an environmentally friendly crop of home-made “production”.
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In winter, I grow green onions on the windowsill, using a 5-tier planting. This planting allows you to save space and grow more vitamin greens.
To create such an oasis in a 5-liter plastic bottle, I cut off the top with a neck. In the bottom I pierce drainage holes for irrigation with a heated iron nail, and on the side, retreating from the bottom 5-6 cm, for the bulbs, which I have in tiers. I select the size of the holes a little smaller than the diameter of the bulbs, so that they peek out of the bottle only with the top.
Before planting, I soak the bulbs for 2-3 hours in water with the addition of 10 drops of aloe juice. At the bottom I pour drainage from expanded clay (1 cm), then to the first tier - the ground (I mix the soil for seedlings with garden soil 1: 1).
In each hole of the tier, I tightly lay the bulb with a slope so that the top looks out and the bottom is inside. At the same time I hold the bulb, and with the other hand I pour the earth. I compact a little, poly
vayu, correct if the bulb ran away from its place, and move on to the next tier. From above, I complete the planting with large and small bulbs over the entire surface of the soil.
I put the bottle on a pallet and put on a transparent plastic bag on top, which I remove when the first shoots appear.
In the future, I only water through the pan and periodically turn the container for more uniform lighting.
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Vegetables and herbs that I grow on the windowsill in winter, I water in the morning with warm settled water.
I water plants in small pots once a day, because moisture evaporates faster in them.
I water the greens in large containers as the soil dries up. I make sure that the water does not stagnate, so I drain everything that flows into the pan from the drainage hole in half an hour.
I soften hard water with citric acid (1-1,5 g per 1 liter).