Sowing in March rocket and growing it on a window sill

If you sow arugula in March, then after 1.5 months (April-May) you will be ready greens grown at home. Since this seasoning in fresh form is not cheap in the shops, it is advisable to plant it at home, to grow on a windowsill in early spring or in the summer in the garden. For a bag will give you a maximum of 20 rubles. In another call arugula mustard lettuce, rocket salad, Indus.

What you need

potting soil;

a packet of seeds of arugula;

Capacity for planting;

expanded clay;

scissors;

water;

sprayer;

potassium permanganate or boiling water.

Step-by-step instruction

1. Take a deep container, 10 cm in height (I usually use several cut five-liter bottles) and done at the bottom drainage holes. Usually the sides, at the four corners, the bottom cut out a portion of plastic scissors.

2. Pour a concrete block at the bottom of the container. It will absorb excess moisture.

3. Fill half of the container with soil (garden land, stocked with which you fall, or purchase Soil mixtures, soil is better to dilute perlite, sand or vermiculite). Soil brim enough sleep as it is necessary to pour the ground when pulling and growth of the greenery.

4. Disinfect the soil. To do this, you need to make a pink solution of potassium permanganate and shed the ground, which you filled in suitable containers for planting. You can just throw the soil with boiling water. You have to wait until the soil dries out a bit.

5. Smooth the surface of the soil, to appear friendly shoots.

6. Sow the seeds evenly on the soil surface. The distance between seeds 2 cm. Optionally sow whole bag, it all depends on the size of the container, where you will be planting arugula.

Germination culture is excellent, so no need to spend time soaking.

7. Sprinkle with the ground not more than 1 cm above the crops.

8. After sowing the soil spray of pulvelizatora.

9. Cover crops plastic bag to create a greenhouse effect and condensation. Put the container in a dark warm place. Be sure to slightly open a film for 10 minutes a day for ventilation.

10. When the first shoots (5-6 days) set on the sill.

11. Remove the bag from the container within a few days.

12. As the green land gently pour into a container.

Plants endure a little shading, direct sunlight rocket salad does not like.

13. 1.5 months after germination can already eat arugula food.

Some of the plants can be planted in the garden in late April-early May. Rocket can withstand temperatures up to minus six degrees.

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