Growing greens in autumn and winter
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I doubt about strawberries - they will need to be kneaded very carefully in order to get a harvest at home in winter. and here is the bow on the feather. We grow parsley and basil in winter on the windowsill in the kitchen - it’s warm there.
Parsley and dill grow poorly; they need sunlight for this, and in winter the days are short. Therefore, you need to add additional light to the greens. The most unpretentious will be the bow on the feather. Now a bunch costs like a kilogram of onions. It will at least grow five times as much greenery. Therefore, it makes sense to plant onions.
For some reason nothing grows for me, although I try. Onions, even sprouted ones, turn yellow and dry out when planted in the ground. I can’t understand why this happens. But strawberries grew from seeds. It’s December, and it’s in full bloom.
Strangely, onions are usually the most unpretentious, and strawberries definitely need to be watered and fertilized on time. If you grow strawberries, then vegetables will also grow without problems.
I don’t know how you manage to grow basil, but for me it turns out weak. Parsley grows in moderate temperatures. does not like drought and changes in humidity. There are no problems with onions at all. For all other crops, the windowsill is not the best place to grow. you need either a greenhouse or a special room.
We also easily grow onions for greens in winter.Parsley doesn’t particularly attract me in the summer, but dill grows in our beds until late autumn (and it’s even better than the one that was planted in the spring).
All I grew on my windowsill were tomatoes, small hot peppers and onions. Parsley doesn't grow. I plant onions in cut holes in square juice bottles. I pour water inside and the onions grow very well.
What did you grow your tomatoes in? The pots aren't particularly suitable, are they? It seems to me that something like rychki is needed.
I don’t know, I just plant seeds and that’s it. Yes, it does not grow bushy and huge, but this is not required - a few leaves for salads - indoor planting of basil is enough for this.
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And I grow onions and dill under fluorescent lamps. Luminescent. I made a box especially for this purpose. Everything is growing quite quickly. Onions especially. Vegetable garden all year round so to speak))
I grow onions for greens, pinch them periodically and for food. But after a while it begins to dry out. What is the reason.I bought drawers for them that were convenient for a narrow window sill here. Is it harmful to pinch them like that?
But I really can’t do anything: I tried several times to grow greens - dill and parsley in boxes on the kitchen window, but they don’t grow.
It is better to grow parsley, or rather to drive it out, from roots that are dug up from the garden bed in the fall. Then the greens will be fragrant and plentiful. I plant three mayonnaise buckets like this, and until spring I have my own parsley.
At home, on the windowsill, it is best to grow onions on greens, and parsley and dill require additional illumination with fluorescent lamps. You don’t need anything for onions, they grow well just like that. I grew these greens in cardboard liter juice containers. 3 large onions or 4 small ones are placed there.
In winter, I practice planting oats in a pot for my cat on the windowsill. Very useful for the animal’s body in such a winter, vitamin-free time!
Growing onions in winter is really no problem. Watercress grows very quickly. Wonderful zesty greens. If you insulate the bottom of the box with dill plantings, you can get a good harvest. You just have to wait, dill doesn’t grow quickly.
Are you growing it in a greenhouse?
In winter and spring, I only grow watercress and onions for greens, and then in small quantities. These are the simplest plants that do not require special care, the main thing is that the soil is moist.
We make sure to grow green onions, and we also try dill because... We love him very much.
We tried several times to grow dill and parsley, but these greens do not grow on the windowsill. In addition to onions, hot peppers and tomatoes grow well in pots. True, everything is small, but in winter we are happy with such a harvest.
By the way, try a vertical onion bed. Make a lot of holes in a five-liter bottle, fill it with soil, and stick the bulbs into the holes. Water from above, through the neck. Onions are growing by leaps and bounds and such a bed takes up little space.
Green onions grow well in water, but for the bottle, you will also need to buy soil. At the same time, there will not be a large increase in the green harvest, and there will be enough space on the windowsill to install several juice boxes in which onions grow beautifully.
In our house, apart from green onions, indoor tomatoes and hot small peppers, nothing else grows. We tried planting parsley and dill several times, but nothing was accepted.
There is no point in growing greens on the windowsill in autumn and winter. It's easier to buy greens. The labor costs are very high, and the yield of greenery is scanty. But just for fun, you can try it.
Do you know how much chemical there is in that green stuff? How is it grown? What are they watering with? I have a Korean neighbor, she does not hesitate to use human waste as fertilizer in her greenhouses, and she sells herbs at the indoor market all winter. Are you going to eat THIS kind of greens?
Dear matweewa.larisa2012. Don't put everything with the same brush. Based on your words, one might think that ALL greens are grown using chemicals. When purchasing vegetables/fruits, use a tester for nitrates and pesticides to begin with.
good afternoon everyone. My husband and I also decided to start growing greens. We want to open a small business. But we’re thinking about how and in what to grow it in winter. My husband consulted and was told to grow greens in a greenhouse. Allegedly, if you cover the greenhouse with thicker polycarbonate and also heat it, you can harvest crops perfectly. We found a greenhouse that suits us in all respects. But it is sold in Ukraine. Can you tell me where I can buy the same one, but in Moscow?
In winter I grow onions, parsley at home, hubby is designing a greenhouse, I will plant cucumbers and tomatoes there
I've tried growing greens several times, and onions work best. Dill and parsley require a lot of light and it really isn’t profitable to do so. That's why I freeze these herbs. They are perfectly preserved in this form throughout the winter, without losing their aroma and vitamins.
My dill and parsley did not grow either, but small indoor tomatoes and hot peppers grew very well. I planted a cucumber and it had a lot of barren flowers.At the end of April, I transplanted it into open ground and it began to bear fruit.
I have my own house and with parsley everything is generally simple - from year to year I do not remove it from the garden. Even in winter I have a whole clearing of green frozen herbs. It’s a pity that dill and onions cannot be grown.
It is in winter that it is easiest to grow onions, but parsley requires much more care, in addition to heat, it also needs to be additionally illuminated with special lamps, because the days in winter are short.
As many have already said above, the easiest and easiest way to grow is, of course, onions. It grows very quickly and well, a responsive plant. But it happened to me that the bulbs planted in pots did not produce a single sprout a month later. When I, having exhausted my patience, pulled them back and cut them, the first green feather was barely emerging inside some, while inside others there was no change at all. So now I initially stick all the bulbs into cups and jars of water. The roots have appeared - only then do we plant them in the ground.
I don’t plant onions in the soil on the windowsill, just water. In order for the bulbs to produce green feathers faster, their tops need to be cut off a little when planting. I read somewhere that if there is a small air gap between the roots of the onion and the surface of the water, then the onion grows better.