⚡ Planting of greenery for winter = super early harvest!

Greenery is an integral part of our table. Especially nice to use fresh herbs grown personally. This harvest will be tasty and full of vitamins. And, as many know, is not necessarily begin to engage in the spring sowing, receiving a first beam of green in early summer. If you do the work in the late fall, the first naisvezhayshaya greenery will delight you at the beginning of spring.

The advantages of planting greenery for winter:

• Greens, planting that you do in the fall, will be more strong and healthy, because the winter has been tempered.
• Infectious diseases are unlikely to cause damage to your crop.
• Early green aphids will not run because the main activity of these insects will be in a period when the crop is already formed.
• Another advantage will be that the spring will have more time to do the rest of the garden.
• The harvest will be a super-early - soon after the snow (the exact dates depend on weather conditions in your area).

Not bad, is not it? Now you see that green crop before winter is not such a complex process, in fact, something more lightweight (no need worry about pests and diseases, due to melting snow you do not have to worry about moisture soil).

What herbs can sow a winter:

• dill;
• spinach;
• mint;
• cilantro;
• sorrel;
• parsley;
• salad.

When and how to plant herbs?

The exact date in this case is not, as the weather is changeable. But there are some criteria that you can determine when it is time for sowing:

1. At a temperature of 0 ° it is already possible to start seeding, only provided that warming is expected. Usually, it's the middle of October - November.

2. An important criterion - the soil freezes. This is to ensure that the seeds are not swollen and germinated before time!

How to prepare the seeds?

Winter sowing use the seeds dry, you can try to plant the seeds placed in clay tablets (clay serve as protection against rodents) .Vyseivayte the garden beds, and the top seeds fall asleep peat or compost. On top of the warm layer of soil (peat, compost), pour the seeds of a layer of mulch. The number of seeds recommended standard, as in the spring. You can sow slightly more seed, but know the measure - with a large number of them may be too closely. The need to water the seeds do not have - in the autumn they can from this bark, and they spring will be enough melted snow.

It is important to prepare the ground in advance and choose the right place to plant before winter

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Choose a flat on a bed sunny place, which quickly warms up, where the soil dries out faster. It is desirable that bed was a bit elevated - about 15 cm, if the site is fairly low for sowing.

An important point - do not choose a bed, where winter accumulates a lot of snow. Otherwise, it may flood the seeds, when will melt.

Prepare ground in advance. To this end, in September (available in October) should be well dug soil, break large pieces and add fertilizer (eg peat or humus). Another aspect is a disintegrant. Cold-resistant culture like a light, loose soil, so the extra with the fertilizer you can add the sand. After that Smooth out and create a bed rake the furrow depth of about 1-10 cm. All these rules are suitable for winter sowing under all the above-mentioned in the green list.

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