Grow parsley and other leafy vegetables on the windowsill of their own apartment - the occupation is useful and fascinating. The mini garden in which spicy plants develop all year round, it allows you to ensure the needs of a small family in a juicy vitamin greenery. Petrushka, like other umbrella cultures, including dill and fennel, unpretentious, and when organizing proper care of sowing gives stable yields in the minority.
Planting tanks
Parsley can be grown both in a specialized container (plastic boxes, specially incommated wooden boxes, pots, porridges and vases) and in any undergraduate tanks whose depth is over 12 cm, for example, in plastic trays from under herring and portion slices of chicken, Casting sauces and bowls or in children's buckets. In the absence of drainage holes in them, the bottom of the containers or a rose is lined with a centimeter layer of brick crumbs or twisted in the arms of the egg shell. The presence of drainage warns the moisture stagnation, the excess of which can lead to the rotting of the roots of seedlings.
Soil
According to the reviews of experimental vegetables, for mini garden, a mixture of fertile land can be used from its own garden (before use it is necessary to hide in the oven at least half an hour or shed a midgans with an average of pink color) and a peat substrate intended for growing vegetables seedlings. Components for soil are taken at approximately equal proportions. But it is easiest to buy a universal soil for indoor plants with neutral acidity (pH 5.5 - 6.5).
Planting material
To distort the garden parsley on the greens at home all varieties of culture are suitable.
However, the best effect is obtained by gloomy, growing on the windowsill, early and high-yielding types of umbrella vegetables, for example, "parsley fragrant sheet" or "Parsley Curly Mospop".
The dry seeds of parsley are uniformly decomposed on a slightly rambling and necessarily wet land (not very thick), once again moisturized from the spray and fall asleep with a layer of loose substrate from 3 to 5 mm.
Until the appearance of shootouts of the plant is kept under glass or cellophane coverage in a dark and warm place, for example, near the battery. Depending on the variety and freshness of grains, the first sprouts appear on 4-14 days. The landing is carried daily by removing the cover at an hour, and, if necessary, moisturize the ground from the sprayer.
Temperature mode
In the middle lane, the cold-resistant parsley, withstanding short-term reduction in temperature to -4-5 ° C, can be grown on a glazed balcony, as in a cold greenhouse, from the end of March, when a plus temperature is installed, without fear that sowing will die with small night freezes. It is starting to enter the same planting containers from the end of November, after the occurrence of a long cooling. The optimal temperature for germinating seeds after sowing is +20 to 24 ° C. To create a greenhouse effect, planting containers with parsley are covered with glass, polyethylene film or wrapped in packages. Moisture, settling on the inner surface of the coverage, creates optimal conditions until the seed awakens.
After the appearance of sprouts, the cellophane is removed, and planting tanks are exposed to the windowsill. In the warm room, the seedlings develop quickly. The optimal temperature for greens growth is from +16 to 20 ° C. In the cold, growth and underground, and the above-ground part of the plants is suspended.
Caring for crops
It is impossible to dry up the upper layer of soil under parsley. At the beginning of the vegetation, shoots are recommended to moisturize every day or every other day with solely soft water without chlorine through a finely dispersed pulverizer nozzle. In the future, crops are watered from a mini watering can or homemade springs once every 1-4 days, depending on the humidity and temperature of the air indoor or on the balcony.
Lighting
Petrushka, like the remaining leafy vegetables, demanding of lighting. From the end of the autumn and until the middle of the spring, it is necessary to freeze the crops that live on the windowsill southern windows, when the light day is short, and the sun due to clouds is not shown every day, or even several times a month.
For greens, a light day is needed for a duration of at least 10 hours. It is best to grow seedlings that receive a shower up to 15 hours. Sources of additional lighting, such as fluorescent lamps, phytolamba or LED tapes, are installed at a height from 15 to 20 cm above the tops of the bushes. In the summer, parsley sowing can not be heated if they are on windowsill windows overlooking the southeast, south and south-west. The maximum harvest of juicy greenery receives the hosts, which are in the warm season with plants with plants to an open balcony or a veranda in places with access to open sun rays.
Parsley on microcellenia
In the absence of additional lighting from October to the middle of March, as well as in the conditions of lack of light, which are observed on windowsill windows overlooking the north, northeast and the north-west all year round, get full sprigs of parsley will not work. Massly emerged sprouts of parsley in 4-10 days stretched. Their stalks are thinned, lengthen and eventually run.
However, do not be upset. If you do not have the opportunity to freeze the crops, then parsley shoots are cut at the stage of the development of seedy leaves. Such micro is the increased doses of vitamins and valuable nutrients, therefore it is considered much more useful than the full-fledged twigs of parsley. When your sprouts reach a height of 4 cm, proceed to the harvest. And on the cleaned place immediately sow a new portion of leafy vegetables. You can use all parts of seedlings in food, pre-spinning white roots under running water. Microelline is an excellent addition to any vitamin salads and other cold snacks. To save in the seedlings of all vitamins, they are recommended to be added to chilled food, that is, in hot borsch or grass soup, the grass is not desirable. We wish you a stable yield of greenery in the minority!
