2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
To obtain early harvests of greens and vegetables, sowing seeds is sometimes carried out before winter. Such crops are divided into winter and winter crops. Let's try to figure out what is the difference between such crops, which crops are suitable for them
Winter sowing
Benefits of winter sowing
• Seeds, sown before winter, partially swell in the soil in the fall. Winter thaws also contribute to their swelling. Winter frosts do not kill, but harden the seeds, making them less sensitive to spring frosts. Their root system develops more powerful, capable of absorbing more water.
• Early development of seedlings protects them from pests, which show their activity later, when it gets warmer.
• Small-seeded crops under winter sowing succeed better than when sowing in spring, in areas where spring dry winds dominate.
• The main advantage is getting an early harvest. Especially when it comes to green crops.
What is suitable for winter sowing
Green crops are suitable for winter sowing of seeds: salads, spinach, dill, cucumber grass.
You can also sow the seeds of root crops: beets, carrots, parsnips, parsley, radishes, onions (especially seed if you grow your own seeds) and garlic.
Site selection
To protect the seeds as much as possible from winter scrapes, you should choose places protected by a wall or fence from the chilling winds, facing south or southwest. These should not be low-lying areas flooded by spring floods, or lands with a high groundwater level.
Light sandy soil is best. It needs to be dug deeply and fertilized with humus and mineral fertilizers.
If the soil on the site is heavy, or the groundwater comes close to the surface of the earth, it is safer to make high beds.
Sowing time
The exact date of sowing is difficult to name, since it depends on the climatic region and the behavior of nature, which often surprises. The main reason for choosing the sowing time is that the seeds thrown into the ground have time to swell before frost, but do not germinate by seedlings to the surface, and the cloves of garlic and bulbs take root, but do not sprout. After the ground freezes, the crops can be mulched with a layer of leaves. Whoever is in the country in winter, arrange snow retention at the sowing site.
For winter sowing, the usual seeding rate is increased by 10-15 percent.
For winter sowing, winter is also suitable, if you make planting grooves in advance and prepare the soil mixed with humus. When the ground freezes, they sow seeds in the grooves, covering them with soil-humus and snow, if it has already fallen to the ground by that time.
Lighthouse culture
For seeds with a long germination period (parsley, carrots and others) add seeds of the so-called lighthouse culture, which germinate quickly. For example, lettuce or radish. In early spring, they will mark the rows, which will allow loosening the soil in the garden, which is so necessary for these vegetables in the spring.
Spring shelter
In early spring, it is advisable to cover podzimny crops in addition to mulch with a film or covering material. After thawing the soil, the film and mulch are removed and the aisles are loosened by applying nitrogen fertilizer.
Winter crops
Winter crops differ from winter crops in that the seeds have time to reveal a rosette of leaves to the world before the arrival of winter cold weather, or they form another organ in which there is already a supply of nutrients, which allows to give out earlier production in the spring.
For winter crops, crops such as radish, spinach, rapeseed, collard greens are suitable, and there are also special winter varieties of cabbage.
Recommended:
Winter Crops "for" And "against"
Autumn sowing helps to unload sowing activities in spring, to get an early harvest. Are these expectations justified? Consider the pros and cons of winter sowing, possible mistakes and what you can sow in the fall
April Crops Of Early Crops
Many vegetable crops have already been sown for seedlings in the winter in early spring. And what to do with yourself in April, while eggplants and peppers with tomatoes are waiting for relocation to the beds? Is it really worthless to lose a whole month? Experienced gardeners know that this is one of the most important months of the year when you need to lay the foundation for getting your first vitamins from your garden. While vegetables with a long period of development are waiting for their turn, their free areas should be used for obtaining early crops. Sown
Winter Crops
Any gardener or summer resident should have the talent for correctly allocating time and labor for growing a variety of crops. There is always a lot of work in the garden, as a result of which you can carry out several procedures in the autumn season in order to unload yourself in the spring. One of the important tasks is sub-winter sowing
Preparation Of Berry Crops For Winter
It is deep autumn in the yard. Let's talk about how to prepare the favorite berry crops of our garden for wintering so that they do not freeze in the cold and in the next summer season will again delight us with a fragrant harvest
Winter And Winter Sowing Of Medicinal Flowers
Adherents of herbal medicine when buying medicinal herbs are often faced with dubious dates on the packaging. Roots to be harvested in autumn are packed in summer and aerial parts before or after flowering. There remains the question of such a plan, how long the raw materials were stored before they go on sale. In order not to be tormented by doubts, it is useful to acquire your own medicinal bed in your personal plot. Moreover, many of the medicinal herbs, in addition to their medicinal
