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  1. Summerman, gardener and gardener (anonymous)

    UNDERGROUND SOWING

    Autumn is the time to ease the stress of spring. Before winter, many crops can be planted and sown.

    Taking into account the predecessors, you can sow sage, carrots, sorrel, cauliflower and red cabbage, parsley, lettuce, spinach, dill, beets, onions, garlic, rhubarb, mint and other cold-resistant crops.
    Predecessors can be cucumbers, tomatoes, potatoes, and legumes.
    Sowing must be done in such a way that the seeds do not have time to hatch and germinate in the fall. Therefore, it is better to be late with sowing than to hurry.
    Seeds for underground sowing must be completely dry. Soaking or heating them is strictly prohibited. Sow them to a depth of 1,5-3 cm.
    Seeds should be taken 30-40% more than the spring-summer norm, since the germination rate of winter ones will be somewhat lower.
    The place where I prepare the bed for sowing should be with a slight slope to the south or southeast, well lit. Soil preparation begins in September - October. After collecting plant residues, it is necessary to add 3-4 kg of humus or compost, 50-60 g of nitrophoska and 80-100 g of wood ash per 1 sq. m. m.
    When the bed is ready, I mark out the rows and in their place I lay wooden pegs 2-3 cm thick, which lie on the beds right up to the crops. After this, I cover the bed with a piece of roofing felt, and place stakes along its edges.

    If the snow falls early, in November - December, I focus on the poles, dig out a bed from under the snow, and remove the roofing material.

    You can sow. I fill the grooves with sand or peat prepared in advance. After this, I cover the bed with as much snow as possible.

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  2. Olga Mikhailova

    Every year I plant onion sets before winter. Last year I read that carrots of the Shantane variety sown before winter work well. And I grow this variety, along with Nantes and Losinoostrovskaya, only I sow them in the spring. I decided to experiment.
    In early October, I planted onions and in the same bed, for testing, sowed a row of carrots of the Chantane variety. Just like in the spring, I made a row, poured ash, then sand, tamped it down, spread out the carrot seeds (I tried to sparingly) and covered it with sand on top too.
    To separate the onions from the carrots, I sowed dill between them.
    When the onions sprouted in the spring, the carrots also sprouted. It rose well. Since it was sparsely sown, there was no need to thin out. I started picking carrots early; of course, they were not as large as at the beginning of autumn.
    At the end of July, I removed the onions, and the carrots grew well in August, growing large, sweet, and juicy.

    And it was ready much earlier than the one sown in the spring.
    Now I’ve decided to always sow carrots before winter: you can enjoy the tender root vegetables early, and you don’t have to bother with sowing in the spring.

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  3. Nikolai Konovalov

    I noticed that the neighbors were sowing something on the site during the thaw. I asked what they were sowing there, and they told me: “That's it! And carrots, and cabbage, and beets. Will something grow with such sowing? How to do it right?

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    • OOO "Sad"

      - Winter crops are not news, but rather commonplace. If there is an opportunity and desire, a variety of crops can be sown during the thaw: carrots, beets, turnips, radishes and other root crops.

      To do this, make small grooves in the thawed soil, scatter dry seeds over the surface, sprinkle with earth, peat or humus. As a rule, after such sowing, early and friendly shoots appear. Gardeners also note that plants grow more viable.
      Some gardeners practice just sowing the seeds right in the snow, but it is important to protect the seeds from birds, otherwise it is likely that they will peck them, and then you will be left without a harvest.

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