2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
We continue to discuss what kind of garden crops you could plant in your home garden. These are the representatives of useful, edible greenery that could settle in your apartment greenhouse in the winter
Leaf salad
Many people love salad. Few green beds in a modern summer cottage do without this plant. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of types of salad all over the world. But you need to understand that any salad is light-loving. Lettuce generally needs additional lighting. If there is little light and sun, the lettuce head of cabbage will begin to release flowering inflorescences instead of abundant foliage. For home planting, take varieties of lettuce such as Lollo rossa and Lollo bionda, you can also use the seeds of the Emerald, Vitamin and New Year lettuce.
Also keep in mind that lettuce doesn't like dryness and heat. There will be little watering - its leaves will become coarse and bitter. With a good friendly germination of lettuce seeds, it should be thinned out. Moreover, this must be done twice: seven days after the first shoots and after the appearance of three leaves on the plant. Dense plantings will not give a good harvest!
Head lettuce should not be planted at home, as it is more demanding to care for than leaf lettuce. By the way, when good shoots of lettuce appear, it is not at all necessary to wait for their maximum growth. Its green tender young leaves are very tasty.
Rucola
Arugula is considered the healthiest salad of all. She came to our table from Italy. Arugula is planted at home in a special way. It will take a long container for planting it, and not horizontal or wide.
In such an oblong pot with prepared soil, you need to make trenches up to five cm deep. The seeds in them should be poured thickly, sprinkled with soil, compacted a little, watered a little and then … wait for full-fledged shoots. They will appear approximately 11-14 days after planting. Arugula loves moisture, light, weeding, thinning.
Basil
Basil is a plant with an interesting color scheme of leaves and stems. Has a spicy special aroma. Despite the exotic Italian origin, basil grows excellently in our soil.
They plant it with seeds in trenches made in a container with soil, at a depth of no more than two cm. Have you planted it? Sprinkled with soil? Now pour lightly, cover the container with a film and put it in a bright place in the house, preferably on a windowsill.
Every day, the soil in the seed container needs to be moistened by removing the film to allow oxygen to the plants and closing it again. Seedlings will emerge approximately on the sixth day after planting the seeds. As a heat-loving plant native to sunny Italy, basil loves warmth, sun, moisture. It is not necessary to pour basil, but irrigate the soil regularly and make sure that it does not dry out, you still need to.
Basil has several varieties and colors. Therefore, for one container, out of interest, you should buy 2-4 types of basil seeds, mix them and plant them in the ground. As the basil grows, it will be interesting to taste the different types of basil.
Fresh basil is used in the kitchen in drinks, salads, tea, for making sauce for Italian pasta.
Oregano
Another fragrant green crop for home breeding. Oregano is rightfully considered the prototype of Russian oregano. This plant is well suited for meat, fish dishes, vegetables. Vegetable oils are insisted on it for their additional aromatization.
Oregano is unpretentious. He loves, like all exotic cultures from warm countries, the warmth of the sun. However, it tolerates dry soil stoically. Do not plant small oregano seeds too deep in the soil. Plant them at their minimum depth in loose soil without tamping. Watering should be in small portions every other day.
Thyme
We talk about him - thyme. It goes well with fish, vegetables. It is added to hot drinks, tea for flavor. Thyme rises, it should be noted, it is bad. Therefore, even on a small container, you need to pour more seeds. It is better to remove the extra shoots afterwards, if the thyme grows too thick than you will wait, and a few stunted twigs will sprout. Thyme loves watering, grows well on the windowsill.
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