What And How To Sow Before Winter

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

Winter sowing helps to reduce spring work and accelerate germination. There is a large list of vegetable crops that, in comparison with spring plantings, will give an early and rich harvest. Consider the method of work and popular types of vegetables and flowers

What to sow in the fall in the garden

Certain types of vegetables and flowers respond well to fall planting. Gardeners sow various leafy greens. You can safely sow parsley before winter; cilantro; spinach; Dill; sorrel; celery; salad mustard.

Many flowers are suitable for winter plantings, as well as lavender; physalis; monad; sage. I will list the root crops that can be used for winter sowing:

• carrot;

• radish;

• garlic;

• swede;

• turnip;

• beet;

• onions (nigella and set).

Everyone is determined according to their preferences. It is important to know that winter root crops will be stored worse than those planted in spring. If you plan to grow carrots and beets for storage, allocate the garden area for different sowing dates spring-autumn. For winter plantings, buy early maturing varieties. For example, Dessert carrots, Nantes-4, Cold-resistant beets or A-17 Podzimnyaya.

What to sow in the fall on a flower garden

Florists sow annual and biennial species before winter, I will list the most popular:

• aquilegia:

• primrose;

• delphinium;

• primrose;

• doronicum;

• calendula;

• yarrow;

• gentian;

• bell;

• Gaillardia;

• gypsophila;

• alpine aster, new belgian;

• geychera;

• knapweed;

• mignonette;

• Lavater, • nasturtium;

• common agrostemma;

• Californian escholzia, etc.

Preparing for autumn plantings

A bed for winter crops is made where there are no drafts and accumulation of melt water. The land is being prepared in September. If something was grown at the planned place in the summer, you need to remove weeds, plant residues, and apply mineral fertilizers. For 1 sq. m is used 2-3 tbsp. l. superphosphate, wood ash is added - 1 glass.

At the end, digging is done on a full bayonet of a shovel, the surface is leveled with a rake. So that weeds do not grow before the start of work, the bed is covered with a dark film, a piece of roofing material.

Autumn sowing dates

The quality of the crop depends on the time of sowing. The term is chosen according to the weather, since the seeds should not germinate. Sowing / planting too early will lead to premature germination, this leads to the death of seedlings or to flowering. It is known that the root crop, which gave the arrow of the peduncle, will not gain the required size, and the quality of the fruit will suffer.

The timing of winter plantings is chosen before the beginning of freezing of the soil, in central Russia it is the end of October or mid-November. They do differently with garlic - they plant it earlier, without waiting for frost.

Before winter, the cloves should have time to form a developed root system. In frozen soil, rooting will not occur, the garlic will freeze and will not sprout in the spring. It is also impossible to rush, in warm weather shoots will appear. This will negatively affect the future harvest - the cloves will weaken and will grow sluggishly in the spring.

The term for planting winter garlic in the Moscow region is from September 20 to October 10, onion sets on October 1-15.

How to sow in autumn

With the onset of the first frosts, winter plantings take place until the ground freezes. Almost all seeds are sown at the beginning of stable freezing of the earth. You can not sow in warm weather - they will start growing, with the arrival of frost they will die.

On the prepared beds, markings are made, grooves are cut. The depth and distance between furrows depends on the type of plant. Such data is available on the seed bag. The depth should be 1-1.5 cm more than indicated. This interval will be filled with a layer of compost or humus, which is sprinkled on the bottom of the furrow.

Cutting the beds can be done in advance, since it is difficult to work with soil stuck in frost. In case of snowfall, it can be easily swept away with a broom before work.

For winter planting of seeds, it will take about 3 times more. In the spring, everyone will not sprout, when extra plants appear, thinning is carried out. When dry seeds are evenly distributed in the groove, sprinkle with peat or humus is done.