When weather does not please with heat, and to the first shoots at the dacha or in the front garden is far, it is quite possible to be engaged in the device of beds, without leaving the house. Usually gardeners and summer residents plant on windowsills or in the warmed loggias only seedling. Meanwhile, this space perfectly approaches to get houses year-round mini-kitchen garden.
What to grow up?
If it is short, then almost everything. Except usual types of greens, for example, of parsley and fennel, it is possible to get "beds" with sheet salad, onions and garlic, cilantro and arugula, mint and spinach... And still to supplement them with mini-versions of normal tomatoes and pepper, strawberry and cucumbers. It is especially useful such ogorodik to those who have no giving or homestead economy, but children grow. So kids will be able to reap crop and to learn how different products grow, the majority sees vegetables already in shop.
How to equip?
According to the sizes of windowsills or spaces, on warm loggia choose wide and not too deep containers. From shop it is possible to add the earth from giving to soil. Buy watering can and tools the "toy" sizes in department for flower growers. Surely hang up bright lamps that plants received light till 12-14 o'clock in day over "beds". If you are going to grow up cucumbers or "trailing" sorta of tomatoes — build lanes on which escapes will curl.
How to couch?
Fill containers with soil and well spill it warm water. Evenly distribute seeds on surface and powder with thin layer of the earth, then once again water, cover with film and put to the dark warm place. As soon as there are sprouts, transfer container under light. The mini-kitchen garden is simple in leaving, it is enough to water of it, to feed up and highlight. When greens grow up up to 5-7 cm, it is possible to reap the first crop. Cutting off part of leaflets on ground level, you at the same time thin out shoots. When plants become higher, refuse cutting of greens at the roots and collect separate leaflets and escapes. British call such method of partial harvesting cut-and-come-again that in the literal translation means "cut off and come again".