During the autumn and winter period salad and spicy herbs which you can grow up on the windowsill not only will be vitamin addition to your table, but also will please eye in fresh green color. If near greens there is enough place for the blossoming houseplants, then it is possible to create bright decorative composition.
It is required to you
- Sheet salad
- - seeds of sheet salad
- - long flower box
- - subacidic soil
- Garden cress
- - garden cress seeds
- - flowerpot or deep bowl
- - neutral soil
- Officinal melissa
- - seeds of melissa or part of the divided bush
- - friable neutral soil
- - small pots
- Thyme
- - thyme shanks
- - pots
- - subacidic fertile soil
- Parsley
- - parsley seeds
- - box for landing
- - subacidic soil
Instruction
1. Sheet salad. Salad is early culture which can be grown up on windowsill all the year round. Seeds of salad put in long flower boxes with pallet. The soil for landing has to be subacidic, on bottom of box fill bank sand for drainage. Plant salad seeds in two – three rows. Distance between ranks not less than 5 cm.
2. When there are shoots, salad needs to be thinned out. Temperature for normal growth of salad has to be 18 – 20 degrees. The plant is photophilous. It is impossible to overdry the soil. It is better to water salad in the morning. The first leaves can be collected in 20 days.
3. Garden cress. The garden cress contains mustard oil which impacts juicy relish of these greens. Decorate with gentle leaves of plant sandwiches, strew with the crushed greens soups and garnishes. The garden cress well grows on cold windowsills. It does not demand in addition lighting and is very unpretentious. The plant can be eaten in 15 - 20 days.
4. Put garden cress in flowerpot or deep bowl. Use friable soil with the neutral environment. Instead of the soil it is possible to use porous paper or the scalded sawdust. Seeds put rows, depth of landing of 0.5 cm. The garden cress needs high moisture content of the soil and air. Spray gentle leaflets from the spray.
5. The melissa of lekarstvennayameliss – perennial plant, containing vitamin C in the leaves and A. Imeet spiciness, has the toning effect. Season with melissa dishes, add it at pickles of cucumbers. The melissa is planted seeds at the end of February, or division of old bush in August. The plant demands a lot of light and the friable not sour soil.
6. Use small pots for planting of melissa. After shoots in pot there have to be no more than two – three bushes. The plant needs uniform watering. The soil needs to be fertilized mineral fertilizing.
7. TimyanListya and sprouts of thyme add to fish and meat dishes. Use when twisting autumn salads and marinades. Plant evergreen with strong citrus smell. The thyme loves good lighting. Water plant in pallet when the earth dries up.
8. Plant thyme shanks which divide in the fall. The soil in pot has to be subacidic, at the bottom of pot make good drainage. In few weeks the gentle escapes can be added to food.
9. Parsley. On windowsill grow up sheet parsley from seeds. Parsley contains vitamins C and groups B. Strew with parsley soups, sauces and second courses. Petrushka easily transfers cold and low illumination. Parsley seeds before landing should be couched in wet gauze.
10. Land parsley in narrow boxes. Lay sand or beaten brick on bottom of box. Soil has to be easy and feeder. Water plants with otstoyanny water of times – two in week. Pinch off greens as necessary.