3 Best Folk Ways to Speed Up Parsley Springs I Use Every Year
Like many gardeners, I am impatient - how can you wait for something to sprout by itself, slowly, will bloom and form ovaries, when you need to plant so much more, so you want to try the first one as soon as possible harvest!
Here is parsley - early vitamin greens, the shoots of which, with proper care, can decorate the beds a little later than primroses decorate forest glades.
Thanks to the advice received from experienced farmers, as well as from scientific and botanical articles, I know for sure which 3 popular ways can rush the emergence of its shoots.
Bubbling
This strange name hides the process of treating seeds with air bubbles. This will require a tall glass or bottle, 2/3 filled with water. You need to pour seeds into the container and lower the tube of the aquarium compressor. And turn it on for a long time - for 18-24 hours.
The effectiveness of the method is explained by the fact that the parsley seeds are enriched with oxygen, they swell as well as they could not swell with ordinary soaking. But the main thing is that bubbling removes essential seeds from their surface, which plants normally need to protect them from premature germination.
Compost tea
In fact, this is the same growth promoter, but with a homemade recipe. To prepare it you need to take:
· 1 liter of chlorine-free water. It can be rain, melted snow or river.
1 tsp l. molasses or any jam.
· 0.5 cups of dry compost.
All components must be mixed. It is advisable to lower the compressor into the liquid to completely activate the necessary processes, but in principle, this is not necessary.
A bag of parsley seeds in "tea" should be soaked for 24 hours.
The benefit of the method comes from the fact that the seeds are saturated with unique microorganisms and valuable substances that accelerate their germination. And for future seedlings, this one is good because it increases the immunity of parsley.
Temperature alternation
This method requires very hot, freshly boiled water, as well as ice water. Parsley seeds are poured into a bag, tied and then simply immersed several times for 3-5 seconds alternately in both bowls.
The effectiveness of the method is based on the fact that the seeds are subjected to stress, which activates awakening in them - in order to even in unfavorable conditions, the plant could quickly enter the growing cycle and bring "offspring", that is, give seeds.