Cucumbers, peppers, carrots and even strawberries! All this can be grown on the balcony or windowsill and all year round there are fresh, eco-friendly, and most importantly, free vegetables and fruits. Right now we will tell how to smash the mini-garden in the city apartment.

Growing food in the conditions of the city is popular all over the world. So, Britt Riley (Britta Riley) lives in a tiny apartment in New York. She came up with a vertical garden on hydroponics. He takes little space and brings a good harvest. Britt told about his innovation on TED.

In the West, if the product is marked with Eco, Bio or Organic, it means two things. First, these products are grown, collected and reworked in accordance with environmental standards, that is, without pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, growth stimulants and other "nasty". They were certified, and serious organizations guaranteed their quality. Secondly, the bioproducts are an order of magnitude more expensive.

We have a "clean food" market only originate. Not yet formed bioserity and control systems. And the difference in prices between bioproducts and ordinary vegetables and fruit is sometimes reaching up to 1,000%! Therefore, for us the most eco, bio and organic - these are products grown with their own hands.

But dachas and relatives in the village are not all. What to do the children of Urbana, accustomed to see the potatoes of the soot and grids, and greens in vacuum packages? Grow vegetables and fruits right on the balcony or windowsill.

6 reasons to arrange home mini-garden

1. You can pamper yourself with fresh, full of vitamins with vegetables and greens all year round.
2. Saving. Vegetables and fruits are expensive, especially in winter. With a homeland garden no longer have to adapt to the season (we can only eat tomatoes in July, and apples in September).
3. You yourself, with your own hands from a tiny seed can grow a plant, you can collect fruits. This is creative activity, charging positive energy.
4. You can improve your knowledge about biology, get useful skills and acquire a fascinating hobby.
5. Your children will see how tomatoes, cucumbers and other vegetables grow, and will understand that they do not materialize a miraculous way in the refrigerator, their cultivation is serious work.
6. You can surprise friends and acquaintances. Imagine how you will boast harvest, showing the window "Circots". ;)

What you need to grow vegetables and greens at home

• A place. This is usually a windowsill or balcony. Better if they go to the sunny side. If not, there will be lamps for additional lighting. If necessary, the windowsill can be expanded or to build racks for "beds" (the minimum distance between the shelves is 50 cm).
• Capacity. Glinic or plastic pots, wooden boxes can serve for homemade garden. The main thing is that in the day there are holes for draining water. Capacity is recommended to put on pallets.
• Priming. There are many soil mixtures for indoor gardens. As a rule, several layers are made: peat, compost, fuel. You can prepare the soil yourself, and you can buy in a specialized store.
• Seeds. Some varieties of tomatoes or cucumbers grow well at home, while others do not even spare. Therefore, before you do room garden, you need to sit on the forums, read articles on the Internet and find out what seeds to buy.

In addition, you may need fertilizers, feeding, a thermometer and a vessel for settling water (home plants are watered with water room temperature, estimated from chlorine).

There is an inventory, now you need to decide what exactly is planted. Lifehaker has already written about some vegetables, perfectly growing on the windowsill.

16 products that can be raised at home

Today we will tell you about ten such plants.

Carrot

Variety : "Amsterdam".
Temperature : from 15 to 25 ºС.
Yield : through ≈70 days.

To grow at home you need to take miniature varieties of carrots. You can plant in boxes, pots, or just cropped plastic bottles with holes in the bottom. The soil should take drainage.

Seeds are placed in the ground to a depth of about 7 cm. When carrots go up and germinate for several centimeters, it needs to be switched, leaving the strongest sprouts at a distance of about 2 cm from each other. It is not recommended to keep the beds under the right sunny rays.

Water carrots at home you need often, but you need to follow, so that the moisture does not have too much, otherwise the rooteplood starts. From time to time, you can feed the lowest nitrogen fertilizers (if there is a lot of it, the whole growth will go to the BOTS). It is also very useful sometimes loose soil.

Pepper

Pepper grown on the balcony

Sort : "Treasure Island", "Dwarf", "Watercolor", "Swallow" and others.
Temperature : from 25 to 27 ºС.
Yield : After 100-130 days.

Seeds first plant in small pots, which are closed with food film and put in a warm place. When the first sprouts appear (in one or two weeks), there are several small punctures in the film. After some time, the peppers will strengthen, then it can be transplanted into large pots or shoulders. It is necessary to do it carefully not to damage the root. The plant is rouded by a third, after which the warm (30 ºС) water is watered.

In the future, pepper can be watered every day. This plant loves light, so in addition to natural lighting, a white spectrum lamps are recommended. It is necessary to take care of home-grown pepper from drafts and direct sunlight.

It is possible to fertilize nitrogen fertilizers, but the potash salt and chloride potassium will destroy the roots of the plant. With proper care, peppers on the windowsill can delight the fruits to two years.

Cherry tomatoes

Sort : "Pigmey", "Bonsai", "Bead" and others.
Temperature : from 23 to 25 ºС.
Yield : 90-100 days (depending on the variety).

Soil, as in the case of pepper, it is more convenient to buy ready. Capacity is recommended to take cylindrical: it is better filled with the root system.

First, the seeds germinate in small pots: buried to a depth of 1.5 cm, covered with food film and leave in warm place to the first sprouts. When tomatoes rose, they are divened to a greater and deep dishes.

It is important that the plant get uniform lighting. To do this, over the "Groces" you can hang daylight lamps or regularly rotate the containers to the window.

Watering should be carefully: Cherry is easy to pour. When the plant creates, the soil is recommended from time to time to loosen and feed mineral fertilizers. If necessary, the trunk of tomato can be tiered to the support (wooden skeletal or pencil). It is also important to ensure that pests do not appear on tomatoes.

By the way, not only Cherry, but also the usual tomatoes, are beautifully growing in home groces.

Cucumbers

Cucumbers grown on the window

Sort : "Room Ryttova", "Miracle on the window", "ant" and others.
Temperature : from 21 to 24 ºС.
Yield : After 35-45 days.

For cucumbers, quite large containers are needed, a volume of at least 6 liters. The soil must be loose, with peat or compost.

At home, self-polishing grade of cucumbers grow well. First you need to prepare seeds: they are poured into a weak hydrochloride solution, those that pop up, throw away. Then the suitable seeds of 20 minutes are soaked in a solution of manganese, after which is washed on a wet marla and plant in the ground (under the film). When seedlings go up and grow up, it can be seeded in large containers.

Watering homemade cucumbers for warm water every day, but with caution. Leaves can also spray with a spray gun. Calivial Selith is recommended as feeding.

When the capers of the cucumbers are formed and grow up, the backups should be built for them so that the plant can be placed.

Radish

Homegrown radish

Sort : "Carmen", "White Fang", "Selesta F1" and others.
Temperature : from 18 to 20 ºС.
Yield : After ≈40 days.

Radish is recommended to plant in wooden or clay tanks, but conventional plastic cups can be used. We need loose, well-drained ground. Seeds before landing can be checked for the germination like cucumbers. After that, they need to be burned to a depth of 1-3 cm.

After landing, the soil should be pouring and cover with a film. When shoots will appear, the "greenhouse" is cleaned. Radish, as a rule, do not dive. But sometimes it is placed on two to three days in a lower temperature regime - about 15 ° C. This tempts the plant and contributes to the best crop.

Five days after the emergence of the first germs, organic feeding is carried out, and two weeks later - mineral. Radish watered abundantly as dried. It is also important that the air in the room where it grows is not dry.

Spinach

Home spinach

Sort : "Virofla", "Godri", "Golyansky" and others.
Temperature : 15 ºС.
Yield : After ≈40 days.

Spinach refers to vegetable greenery and is considered very helpful. To grow it at home, you need containers with a height of 15-20 cm. You can use ready-made soil mixtures. The main thing is that they came into their composition.

Seeds before landing is recommended to soak in water for a day. Sowing is carried out at a depth of 1-2 cm. To accelerate germination, you can cover the capacitance of the film. Spinach is approaching about a week after landing, then you can dive it.

In winter, when the apartment has a heating and when a short light day is recommended to highlight the plant with lamps and spray from the sprayer (in addition to watering).

Vintage can be collected when the spinach will reach 7-10 cm in height.

Basil

Sort : "Marquis", "Lemon", "Baku" and others.
Temperature : from 22 to 24 ° C.
Yield : in 50-55 days.

Basil is one of the most fragrant and beloved hostesses. At the same time, it is rather unpretentious and growing perfectly on the windowsill.

Place basil immediately in large containers (volume at least 1.5 liters). First you need to prepare the ground to land: twice to pour mineral fertilizers at intervals in five days. Seeds deepen at 1-1.5 cm. While the plant does not go out, it must be watered every two days. Next, watering is carried out daily, preferably in the morning.

Green garlic

Sort : "Kharkov", "Jubilee" and others.
Temperature : from 18 to 25 ° C.
Yield : After 15-20 days.

As a rule, garlic bulbs are used in cooking. But green shoots (arrows) are also suitable for gastronomy: they are suitable for making marinades and sauces.

Garlic varieties are divided into two groups: winter and torn. The latter usually do not give arrows, so they are not suitable for growing at home.

Those who have ever grown onions on the windowsill, it will be easy to cope with garlic. It is desirable to take the cloves of garlic of winter grade, it is desirable that they were with sprouts. Soil you can take any. Each teeth are planting at a depth of 2-3 cm and at a distance of 1-2 cm from each other. Posted, you need to pour.

Capacity with garlic should be kept on the highlighted window in the house. Water with soil drying. From time to time you can feed nitrogen-containing fertilizers.

Mint

Temperature : from 20 to 25 ° C.
Yield : through ≈60 days.

The mint has a rather branched root system, so it should take a deep and wide container for its landing. The soil is recommended to use peat, varieties - any.

There are two ways to land mint: seeds and cuttings. The latter is shown in the video below.

To grow mint from seeds, you need to put them in the ground to a depth of about 5 mm and pour. To create a greenhouse effect, you can use the film. Before the appearance of germs (about two weeks), the Earth needs to be sprayed with water every day. After germination, mint must be seeded.

Mint is unpretentious. In the summer it needs to be protected from direct sunlight, and in winter from lack of light and excess watering. From time to time, the plant can be facilitated by organic mixtures.

Adult plants can reach a height meter. As a rule, there are many leaves on them - mint for tea or homemade mojito will always be.

Strawberry

Sort : "Autumn Fun", "Home Delicates", "Garland" and others.
Temperature : from 18 to 20 ° C.
Yield : through ≈30 days.

The homemade heat is suitable ampeline removable strawberry varieties. They fruit all year round and not too demanding to light. Shed strawberries can be in any landweight. But before the bottom it is necessary to pour drainage (clamzit, small pebbles) to protect the strawberries from water stagnation.

Strawberry can be grown from seedlings or seeds. Both are sold in stores for gardeners.

Seeds plant in small tanks (for example, plastic glasses) are rich enough and covered with food film. After the first germs appear, the film is removed and put seedlings in a well-lit place. When three or four leaves are formed, the strawberry is divened to the containers more.

This plant loves light. When the days are shorter than nights, artificial illumination should be used. Watering and spraying are carried out as the soil drying. Strawberries easily pour.

Solutions with an essential iron content are used as feeding. During the active growth of strawberries, it becomes a mustache, they must be tested to supports.

As you can see, grow vegetables, greens and even berries in the urban apartment is not difficult and exciting.

Estonian startup offers its own automatic mini farm for growing greenery

Estonian startup Click & Grow is working on green growing technology directly in urban conditions. The automatic vertical "smart farm" size with the refrigerator itself monitors the necessary amount of water, nutrients and lighting, which can be plants. Minimal care and a radically reduced amount required for water growth is the interesting properties of the farm that can make it popular.

Click & Grow - not newcomers in the cultivation of plants in cities. A few years ago, they held a super-successful crowdfunding campaign at Kickstarter, and now offer everyone "smart pots" and "smart gardens". These devices are also intended for growing plants at home. One plant grows in a pot, in the kindergarten - three. It is a bit, but also the places they occupy how the usual flower pot. But, unlike pot, do everything automatically.

Smart Garden from C & G

Vertical mini farm

The unique technology Smart Soil, in the development of which Russian scientists took part, allows the use of sponge material instead of ordinary earth. It is not compacted over time, nutrients are not washed out of it, and it is well penetrated for oxygen required for plant growth. Smart Gardics are equipped with LED lighting, ideal for plant growth, and themselves provide them with the desired amount of water, which must be addressed only once a month.

Instead of the refrigerator. The joy of vegetarian.

While vertical farms are not yet available for widespread selling, but experienced samples are already going under the order. If it is as simple and economical in work, like the previous startup products, then the potential of its use is very wide. After all, agriculture is the largest consumer of fresh water, for example, in the US, farmers use up to 80% of all water consumed by residents. In those places of the planet, where there are water interruptions, or in large overpopped cities, where to deliver fresh greens fall from afar, the idea of \u200b\u200bsaving water to the cultivation of the greenery "on the spot" will certainly receive support. After all, if even yogurts are useless, the benefits of the consumption of greenery no one will argue.

Vertical farms in urban conditions have long plan to build. And they can really use less water by 70-80% than ordinary farms. But their cost due to the high complexity of the hydroponic system is tens of thousands of dollars. Smart Farm The creators promise to deliver only $ 1500 at a price. And if not everyone can put this farm next to the fridge, probably large supermarkets will be interested in the ability to sell super-fresh greens, grown right in stock.

Seeds for vegetable garden on the windowsill

Vegetable seeds suitable for growing in the apartment, manufacturers are tagged: for balcony use, for growing on the windowsill or for potted growing. It is advisable to choose also shadowish.

• Cucumbers choose parthenokarpic (not requiring pollination), female type, disease-resistant and, of course, early. On the package it must be written "F1" - that is, it is hybrids. Sibmama grown at home and on the balcony "Gillanda", "Balcony", "Masha", "Marinda", "City", "Favorite Zyatk". However, Sibmama Josephine It writes that it is necessary to pollinate everything: "The cucumbers" Favorite Zyatnika ", as it is written, the resellers do not require, but nonsense all this, while the tassel does not begin to reverse - the cucumbers did not grow up, the messy just dug and fell off. So we crossed and grow, the son is happy that he can tear cucumbers with cookies. "

Photo Nadya: "The cucumbers are planted at the end of January - early February, and the photo of March 13. The cucumber began. "

• Perhaps the most popular among homemade-growing lovers due to their decorativeness. Many varieties, for example, "Little Miracle", "Orange Miracle" from Sedk, "Orange Favorit" from Aelita ("Harvesting Window"), "Surprise" from Sedk.

Photo ard., grade "All Sky in Stars"

• Among the cultivation on the windowsill, Sibmama traditionally choose "Pinocchio", "Balcony Miracle", "Florida Petit", "Pearl Red and Yellow". The same varieties can be grown in the country - as seals in greenhouses between tall varieties (for example,) or even on the flower beds.

• Seeds of greenery - dill, parsley, sorrel, arugula, coriander, basil, oregano, Melissa, you can take any. For greenery, the main thing is to organize the right light.

Photo of arugula OT. lmlNow.

Photo Orego and Melissa from Nadya: "Seeds bought from biotechnics, grown in March to seedlings, then grew in the country, and in the fall moved back to the apartment."

Photo mila1977.

Photo Basilica Ot Navladia

It seems that at home you can grow by anything, but it is necessary to approach the choice of culture. For example, Homochka. He wrote about his unusual experience: "Pumpkin ... Well, here I flew myself - planted a bee-peeled plant! But the greens was awesome! "

Homemade lamps

Greens should be grown on the solar and cool windowsill. But with early crops in November-February, without good, could not do.

Photo Marina79.

Sibmama ard. Notes: "The light is different. For greenery, they write, more blue and UV need to be not achieved in any way on the windowsill, nor on the balcony. On the windowsill and balcony, the light is more scattered, green and red spectrum. Tomatoes and peppers can be grown, green straight light is needed. Half of my success - backlit. We always keep seedlings under blue light, so it is compact. In any fluorescent lamp, the spectrum is not for the harvest of strawberries: lacks red. For strawberries (for crop), only the polno-cap light (or Full Spectrum) will suit. But the color laying is suitable and powerful luminescent. "

Photo mila1977.

What should be pots for home care?

For tomatoes, the required minimum is 5 liters on the bush, but better than 7. If you have taken to grow at home varieties or, then we need a volume of 15-20 liters per bush.

Photo Nadya: "Tomatoes" Florida Petit "in mid-May, sowing in February."

For peppers, the volume is suitable - from 1 to 3 liters.

Photo Ard.

The cucumbers are the most demanding culture for homemade cultivation, both to the volume and the composition of the soil. By 1-2 bushes it is necessary about 10 liters, as the soil in small pots will strongly disperse.

Photo Di na: "I have a large window, french type. The ropes tied straight to the curtains. The cucumbers did not pinch. Now my cucumbers are 6 weeks. "

Greens can be grown in standard boxes for seedlings with a height of about 15 cm.

Photo lmlNow.

When to sow vegetables and greens for home cultivation?

If there is a good phytolampa, then green can be sowed at least all year round. Vegetables it is better to start sowing from mid-January and up to traditional crops of sowing in mid-March. Without a lamp for seedlings, in any case can not do. Moreover, the tomatoes are better not to tear green, as we do it for, and we must wait for full ripening on the bustle.

Agrotechnics of growing vegetables and greenery on the windowsill

There are only seven simple rules, observing which even a newcomer to grow vegetables on their balcony or windowsill.

1. Highlight our garden. In order not to forget to turn on and turn off the phytolamp on time, the relay will be useful (I bought in IKEE). We grow everything on the sunny windowsill.

Photo ard.

1. Be sure to put drainage on the bottom (for example, clamzit).
2. Pour only with estate water, and moderately. In the heat we water more. If you leave somewhere, then you can substitute a jar with water with a twisted harness from the bandage, the second end of which is put in a pot. By banding water will flow into the soil. Another secret to irrigation shares ard.: "The acidic water was poured, since the soil from the resistant tap water had white with rust nave, and I diluted with soft water."
3. We support air humidity, especially in the period of batteries. Include air humidifiers or simply put the water in the bank next to the boxes, or we throw wet towels on the batteries.
4. Preparing the right soil. It should be loose, breathable. I always use my own compost from the garden, which is sure to add purchased soil and vermiculite. Forgetful can add hydrogel to the soil, then it can be less likely to water.

1. Observe the temperature regime. We carry out, we carry out the temperature at night with the temperature of about 12-15 degrees, opening the window - but remember that the seedlings just startled can "lie" from cold air. In the afternoon, the temperature should be no more than 18-22 degrees. We choose from solar burns, samples, if necessary, can also be sprayed from the spray temperature of the room temperature from the sprayer in the evening. When plus temperature will be installed with spring nights, you can leave pots for the night on the balcony or loggia. The cucumbers are better grown not on the southern windowsill, but on the eastern or western, otherwise sunburn leaves and drying the soil can not be avoided.
2. We regularly feed. Before flowering, we use comprehensive fertilizers for seedlings, where there are nitrogen. During flowering, we use fertilizers with a high content of phosphorus and potassium. Ard. He advises: "Let the power be a wide spectrum than the lack of something one will lead to a crop loss. All who grows under the phyto-LED lamps, note that it is more often feeding. This is associated with the fact that under the phytosvet the metabolism is faster. True, I never feed the recommended quantities. Syman on a knife tip on half liters. I also noticed: I will not feed the day or two, the flowers are slow down. "

Photo ard.- Peppers in August.

Do I need to form and cut vegetables and greens on the windowsill?

Tomatoes on the windowsill are mainly growing those that do not require steaming, but if it is indicated on the seed package, then we regularly remove the steps.
Peppers form: we remove the inner twigs that interfere with the ventilation and the growth of fruits, the corona buds also plunder. Excess and drying inflorescences.

Photo ard: "I could not stand it, cut off all side branches with weak little flowers from the increasing pepper. All the same, all these flowers will be thrown off, and the food they spend. Left somewhere half of the branches. "

Cucumbers, of course, weiss. Photo lmlNow.

Seed green, but then thin. Cut can be knocked out or add to salad. Photo Jewish

Onions on the feather cut with a neat knife, it will grow one more time. Photo Twins.: "I took little lyheads, but not segue specially bought, and from an ordinary bow chose the smallest."

Basil nipple, he grows perfectly again, as well as, sorrel, Melissa. Photo To @ r @ stranded

Petrushka is also cutting off, it will grow again. Photo mila1977.: "I grow a parsley on the windowsill. At the end of the summer, I dig up at the cottage several roots of parsley and transplant into a pot. Of course, in the darkest months, growth slows down, but since February again goes to growth. It stands on the southern window, it is possible to carry out on the loggia. I water often - dries very quickly. From seeds greens on the windowsill, I do not risk growing. "

Cress Salad in a jar with water

Eight It is divided by an interesting way to cultivate Cress Salad:

• take a glass jar (which, for example, from under the cucumbers),
• on the bottom pour water 0.5 cm,
• we put paper napkins there (6 pieces should be enough),
• raude seeds (pretty thick),
• sometimes they carry out (smell, I will tell you, it will be even),
• sometimes water
• after 1.5 weeks we collect a crop - just shaking the salad from the can and eat with the roots, since there are no land there.

_Elenka_specifies: "Sit so, only with a hydrogel and a disposable container, the salad was flushed, added to the okroshka (it was spring)."

In winter, I want something fresh and tasty so much, because it is in winter our body especially suffers from lack of vitamins. It came in winter, you will no longer go to the garden, do not have a fringe fringe and tomato plates to make a salad faster. The experienced dacities, of course, have their billets from the garden and dried greens in the flaws, but it's not that ...

Of course, the modern agrowork does not stand still and you can buy fresh greens at least every day in any self-respected supermarket. However, many agree that greenhouse greenery and vegetables do not have a characteristic taste and smell, for which we actually love them.
Unfortunately, not everyone has its own vegetable garden and the ability to grow cultural plants in the open ground, but it is no secret that growing vegetables can even be indoors and it is not necessary that it was a greenhouse. What about the windowsill actually apartments? The garden on the windowsill can delight you with its fresh gifts all year round, unlike plants in the open soil.
You can build a garden on the windowsill do it yourself at any time of the year, especially such a garden is relevant in the winter season. Your efforts will pay off and after a few days you can chew fresh dill in the salad, drinking it with scented mint tea.

We will need:

• Containers or pots with holes at the bottom. You can take boxes with cells, in which each plant can freely grow, not intertwined with roots with a neighbor. In such containers, various varieties of plants can be attached, such images can not only grow the garden on the windowsill in winter, but also to create a special decor, striking with its splendor of the guests;
• Purchased soil for plants. It is desirable to choose specialized soils for vegetable seedlings, in which all nutrient elements are optimally balanced. For example, the soil elite vegetable is perfect for growing grill on the windowsill;
• Packages or caps helping to create a special microclimate for plants;
• Spraying pulverizer, watering watering can;
• Additional backlight;
• Seeds or seedlings of cultivated plants.
• Landing rules.

In order to build a home garden on the windowsill, it is necessary to take advantage of a special purchase of soil mixture, because in the ground, insect larvae can live in the ground, as well as viruses and fungi dangerous plants. Vermion products fully meets all the requirements of crop production, guaranteeing high seed similarity and abundant fruiting.
Containers or pots must be filled with the ground and is well to pour so that water reached the lowest layer. Lower the seeds on the surface of the soil and covered with a layer of no more than 1-1.5 cm. Next, pour from the sprayer and slightly compact the soil.
Containers can be delivered for several days to a warm dark place and cover with a cap or film to maintain optimal temperature and humidity. After the first shoots will appear, you need to remove the film and attribute the container to the windowsill.

Care rules

Watering the mini garden on the windowsill is necessary as the top layer of soil is desired. When watering, it is necessary to monitor the pallet: as soon as water appears in it, watering should be stopped, because from overflowing can be started and driving the roots of plants. Water needs to be well defended so that harmful impurities fall into the soil gradually concentrating to dangerous indicators.
If you use clay pots or your windows come to the south, the plants must be watered more often, since they will lose moisture much faster. Additional lighting in the spring and summer periods do not need, except that you want to provoke photosynthesis at night. However, at night, plants are still better to "sleep", because the photosynthesis contributing to the growth of green mass of the plant passes into two phases - day and night. In winter, it is necessary to use special photo and imitating sunlight.

Harvest Rules

Greenery on the windowsill is a useful thing. It can be collected when shoots exceed 7 cm long. Experts are advised to cut forward greens, cutting off the plants under the root - so you can start to be touched by fresh greens, while giving other plants more space for growth and development. The rest of the sprouts do not need to cut, all that you need it to overturn the bottom leaves, leaving the socket as a whole and fruit.

How to grow greens on the windowsill

Onion You can plant (or sow seeds) to any container, filled with Earth, and water as needed. You can also sow celery, parsley, planting garlic cloves and use their young, gentle leaves and feathers into the food.

BasilSounded by seeds, germinates very long and slowly, it is better to plant it in a pot already seedy. Basil is great for veal, lamb, pork. Fresh basil with olive oil, parmesan and cedar nuts - this is the famous pesto sauce, italian cuisine.

Marjoram Grow houses without much effort: sown in wet soil, he will germinate in a couple of weeks. - Beautiful seasoning to dishes from beans and pea (soups, stew). Without thyme, it is unthinkable to prepare Cassul - specialtic cuisine (white beans baked with meat). This greenery is also added to champignons or fried chanterelles. There is a variety of lemon thyme, suitable for a bird and fish.

Borago (cucumber grass) Very well feels like a windowsill. It is not demanding of light and easy to care. Shoots appear on the 8th day after sowing. To taste, this plant resembles a cucumber.

Rosemary Widely used in Provencal cuisine. This is an excellent seasoning to lamb, game, bird, as well as to good (dish of braised eggplants, zucchini, tomatoes and paprika). After all the needles are torn, rosemary rigid sprigs can be used as shockts for kebabs (for example, meat or fish).

Sage Improves digestion, so it is often added to oily, seriously digestible food (pork, eel, goose). Sage love in Italy, it is added to Nyokki (Dumpling) or Saltimcomk (pork medallions with a raw ham). The fleshy leaflets can be paniced in the dough and serve for a snack.

Mint Traditionally used in desserts (chocolate mousings, ice cream). In the British and Arabic kitchen, the mint is considered to be a classic seasoning to lamb. Sliced \u200b\u200bmint strips makes a brighter taste of beetroot, cucumber salad and green peas dishes, and is also an excellent addition to cocktails.

Cucumbers and tomatoes on the windowsill

It is no secret that many of us have already seen some of us or heard that some daches are breeding a winter garden on the windowsill for growing cucumbers and tomatoes. The idea itself seems fantastic, because these plants are large enough in size and require special care. However, in fact, these cultures are very unpretentious and at home perfectly grow and fruit almost all year round, since they do not need to die on the autumn, reaching the peak of their fruiting.

There are special seeds of cucumbers, characterized by the meal and ability to self-pollization. Tomatoes, unfortunately, will require pollination of colors with a brush, but you will be sure that every bouton in the future turn into a spillish ripe tomato.

Cucumbers and tomatoes love high humidity and good lighting, you will have to highlight shootouts at 12 hours per day, avoiding drafts. It is desirable as they grow to excavate plants on separate spacious pots with a large clay at the bottom.

Cress Salad on the windowsill

Cress Salad. Recently, it has become a real discovery in the world of healthy nutrition. After landing, this plant does not require any additional departure except watering, increasing the first harvest after a couple of weeks after punishing. It is possible to plant it in any shallow elongated container on a small layer of the Earth, scattering the seeds densely and chaotically. From above, the seeds are usually covered with a layer of soil no more than 1 cm. Earth should be nutritious, because this plant is rarely watered with fertilizers and everything you need should take from the layer rich in soil by microelements.

Beets for greens

Many gourmets love Borschi Borsinkan with Bleek's Botow, but this product will not always find this product, not that in winter. In order to constantly have the houses of fresh leaves of beets, it is not necessary to sow seeds of this root, since this process will take a lot of time, and the leaves themselves will not achieve the desired size. It is easier to buy several large dense beets and put their container with nutritional land.

The first leaves will seem after a few days, and after a couple of weeks you can already cook for the whole family a useful and delicious Botvinnik.

The cultivation of cultural plants at home is the perfect solution for those like experimenting. In addition, if there is a child in your family, you can create a children's garden on the windowsill, with which your baby will learn to care for plants and love live nature!

How to grow mini garden at home? Garden on the windowsill!

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I would like to sometimes go to the balcony, like Jamie Oliver, to recruit my own grown vegetables and herbs and stunning something stunning from them. And the balcony, by the way, looks much more nice if there are not old glands, which it is time to send to a landfill, and fragrant herbs and vegetables.

website Selected several interesting plants that are well sued on the windowsill or on the balcony.

Pepper

On the windowsill, you can grow a sharp pen for the pizza Dyablo. It will take a warm bright place and varieties suitable for home cultivation: "Carmen", "Flint", "Spark", "Ryabinushka", "Bride", "Indian Summer" and others.

Buckets are very cute and do not require large pots. On one plant, up to 50 fruits may start. The optimal temperature is 25-27 degrees of heat.

Carrot

For the cultivation of carrots at home it is better to take the mini-varieties of Parmeks, Sophie, "granddaughter." They grow up for 80-90 days and do not require a lot of space - they will fully arrange a pot or container. You can also take a funny round variety "Round Baby".

Soil for carrots should be easy and well drained. Vegetable can be grown in cropped plastic bottles. The optimal temperature is in the range of 13-24 degrees of heat.

Mint

Mint - a plant is noncain and undemanding. It can grow on your window sill or on the balcony even in winter if you arrange an additional backlight. It can be grown from cuttings and seeds. If there is an opportunity to dig up the cuttings in the country or friends, it is better to use this method. Mint grown out of seeds is not accepted so actively, and waiting for the crop longer.

It is important to remember that the plant loves well-moistened soil. And when you choose a place for him, keep in mind that the lighting should be good, but the direct sunlight is better to avoid. The optimal temperature for mint is 20-25 degrees with a plus sign.

Green Luc

To grow green onions at home, no special dexterity is required. But still it is worth considering some nuances: the bulb, which you will plant, should be round, tight to the touch and shut-free, the root cup is well formed.

Immediately after landing, it is worth putting onions in a cool dark place so that the root system is better formed, and only then Peru will need a lot of light. The optimal temperature is 18-20 degrees, it is not worth overheating, because then the growth of greenery will stop.

Basil

Any basil variety grows perfectly in flower pots and drawers. It is better to highlight a sunny place, watered well, keep warm and ensure good drainage. For landing, you can use both cuttings and seeds. At the same time, the cuttings will quickly give the first harvest, but will not last long, as they will quickly bloom. The crop from the seed will have to wait longer, but also will serve such a bush more.

The optimal temperature for the basil - 20-25 degrees of heat. In winter, highlighting is required about 3-4 hours to increase the light day.

Cucumbers

To grow on the windowsill or on the balcony, cucumbers should look at the hybrid varieties that are marked with the F1 icon. If all conditions have been created for the plant, it can give 3-4 dozen fruits. Here you have to tinker with the seedle, but after the transplant to the boxes it will only have to water and trim the mustache.

Plants in the capacity of at least 5 liters are planted. It is important to remember that cucumbers - large water chills and earth should always be wet. The optimal temperature is 21-24 degrees of heat.

Tomatoes

The dwarf varieties are usually chosen as home tomatoes: "Minibel", "Florida Petit", "Balcony Miracle" and others. This miracle you will need to take the most illuminated place in the apartment. It will be necessary to start with the seedlings, after which it is planted to plant in containers, support, feed and take care of cold weather. This is one of the most trouble-playing balcony crops, but the pride is attached to the crop for the work done and the horticultural talent.

It is important to remember that tomatoes, like all plants, love water, but they are easy to fill. Therefore, water should be watered. The optimal temperature is 23-25 \u200b\u200bdegrees of heat.

Sorrel

Sorrel other than a wonderful taste is characterized by the fact that it calmly transfers shaded places. It is possible to grow from the rhizomes of 2-4-year-old plants with kidneys or from seeds of such varieties as "Maykopsky", "Altai", "Odessa Slavicizer".

It can grow at 5, and at 20 degrees of heat and even withstands small frosts. So, on the balcony, it can be kept to the last, and if the balcony is well holding heat, then do not remove for the winter. Leaves are cut with an altitude of 8-10 cm, it is necessary to do it carefully so as not to damage the growth kidneys.

Ginger

Ginger is not only a delicious seasoning, but also a beautiful plant. If you put it at home, sprouts can be chopped up to a meter in height. Squeege pieces of ginger root, consisting of at least a pair of sections with alive kidneys. If the root is dropped, you can hold in warm water for several hours so that the kidneys woke up.

It is not very deep to plant the root, and until the first shoots will appear, it should be watered very moderately. Keep ginger should be in the light, but away from direct sunlight. The optimal temperature is 20-25 degrees of heat.

A pineapple

And fruit.

Modern technologies allow you to make it possible even for beginners to organize a garden on the windowsill in winter.

For beginners there are a lot of practical advice from professionals and lovers of a home appliance.

Having studied the right approach, it is possible to indulge yourself with juicy vegetables and greens, without leaving the house.

To create a homemade small garden in winter, you will need careful preparation:

• Plastic containers (Cropped bottles, glasses) or flower pots are suitable.
• Polyethylene to organize a mini-greenhouse.
• High-quality soil and fertilizers that are designed for vegetables and greenery.
• UV lamp, to create daylight.
• Thermometer to control the temperature of home garden.
• Small Lechka, for watering the garden.

Soil can be purchased in any specialized gardener store. Then they need to fill the harvested containers and pour, so that the ground is wet. Then seeds or seedlings are sitting. In the case of seed fit, the containers must be placed in a warm place and cover with a film, to create a greenhouse effect, until the culture is started germinate.

Only sprouts will appear, polyethylene should be removed, to ensure air circulation and transfer them to the windowsill, where there will be daylight access to plants.

The key to high-quality plants and a successful homemade harvest is timely watering, feeding fertilizers and access to daylight. Since natural light is not enough in winter, you will need a daily lamp.

If there is no desire to plant seeds, you can buy already sprouted cultures in the store and simply transplanses them at home into containers.

Growing greens

Greens is not only a taste seasoning for many dishes, but also a source of vitamins that are necessary for each organism, especially in winter. On the windowsill, you can grow absolutely any kind of greenery.

Consider the most popular who are very easy to plant at home.

Onion

No need to plant everything at once. It is enough to plant 7-10 heads, after 2 weeks as much as so on.

Thus, it is possible to provide the greenery of Luke all year round smooth, and not clutching all the windowsill.

Cress Salad.

Cress Salad, like the green onions, is not whimsical and does not require a lot of attention on the room bed. It grows very quickly, which is important for home window sill, already 2 weeks after landing, you can enjoy greens.

In addition to taste, this type of salad has a multitude of beneficial properties for the body:

• improves blood circulation
• normalizes blood pressure
• promotes the generation of hemoglobin
• satisfies the body with vitamins A, B, C, E

Cress does not require special lighting or temperature regimen. For him, an excellent environment is considered from +15 degrees and above. The main thing is to water it all the time, because the plant dies from the lack of moisture. For permanent harvest of greenery, seed portions are recommended to plant once a week.

Leaf salad

According to experts, for the garden on the windowsill, two types of sheet salad are ideal: Lollo Ross and Lolla Biona.

But these, in contrast to the bow or cress, require additional lighting.

To leave the leaves with juicy and soft, it is important to stick to neutral moisture, drought or excessive watering will lead to bitterness.

When the seeds begin to argue, it is important to break through at a distance of 1-1.5 centimeters.

When the plants are fixed, the distance between them needs to be increased to 4 centimeters. In the grindiness, the salad will weaken and n will give juicy fruit leaves.

Given the compactness and miniature of the garden, you should not wait until the leaves grow to full size. You can taste with young leaves, trimming them on time and giving the opportunity to appear new sheets.

Parsley

This kind of greenery belongs to one of the most not picky and fast-growing. Plant parsley in several ways:

• Sowing seeds. Seeds, pre-measured in GUM, are selected in the container with moisturized and fertilized soils. Then be covered with a layer of land and put in a warm place for germination. With the advent of greens, it can be rearranged on the windowsill. With such a landing, you need to know that the seeds of parsley germinate very slowly.
• Landing the tramps - harvested in advance of roots. This option is a bit simpler, since seeds will not need. In the moisturized land, the spots of the medium size are imprisoned. Plastic box, container or flower pot are perfect as the tank.

Parsley does not require much watering or lighting. It is enough to moisten the soil, as needed. In thinning, this plant also does not need.

Luk-Schnitt.

In order for the entire winter period, the Schitt pleased with a juicy harvest, it is necessary to conduct preliminary training since the autumn. Luke's curtains need to be placed in the container and send to the balcony or to the basement. When it is time to put it on the windowsill, the blanks are entered into a warm room. Feathers grow very quickly.

As practice shows, you can get two crops from one fruit, after which the plant flies. Consequently, to prepare for winter you need several containers.

It is not necessary to fill the cynic water, but also to allow the dryness of the soil is also not worth it. When dry feathers become bitter, and flowerons are formed. For high-quality harvest, it is recommended to add hydrogel before planting the ground.

Basil

Basil is planted with stalling or seeds seeds.

And in the first, and in the second case it turns out a shared harvest.

At temperatures from +18 and above, the seeds ride on the 6th-7th day.

Strenniki let roots from 10 to 15 days.

In the case of a basil, it is better to use the sowing method.

This plant loves the loose soil, and to create favorable conditions, the coconut fibers are laid into the container with soil. They can be purchased at the Garden, Gardens type stores.

Watering need a basil as needed, not allowing soil drying. As for lighting - quite a natural light regime in the winter time.

Mint

Mint is easiest to grow on the windowsill, since it is not capripping or to the light, nor to moisture or the quality of the soil. Different types are perfectly getting together, even if you put a mint assorted mint in one pot.

Seeds sow mint at home is not recommended - it is too long. It is better to buy seedlings with roots in the store or on the market. Mint is caring to 12 - 14 days, and then begins to grow rapidly, spreading an incredible fragrance around the apartment.

Rosemary

Rosemary's cutlets immediately sits into the ground for rooting. It is not necessary to plant it in the water. From above you need to create a greenhouse - a film or a glass can fit. The root will strengthen in 2 weeks, then the "greenhouse" needs to be eliminated.

At the bottom of the tank with the soil you need to put drainage. Rosemary loves fresh air, but the draftsman is afraid. There are no special guidelines for watering this plant, but it takes from time to time to splash with water.

Growing vegetables

In addition to greenery, you can grow in the garden on the windowsill in the winter. For beginners, the lighting should be as high as possible, so that there are no problems with plants. Those who have already practiced cultivation cultivation already in their own experience, for which vegetable, what light is needed.

Cucumbers

It seems that the cultivation of cucumbers in the apartment is unrealistic. With the right approach and competent care, everything is real! Cucumbers are not very whimsally, therefore in December and in March you can enjoy fresh salad.

Advantages of planting cucumbers on the windowsill:

• it is not difficult, even a beginner can easily cope with this task.
• u 'one and a half months after landing, you can enjoy juicy and healthy fruits
• all year round can be provided with tasty fresh salads

Before breeding in the apartment, it is important to know that not all varieties are suitable for this. It is better to give preference to self-polished, bush and shadowish. For this, the following varieties are suitable:

• Legend F1.
• Marinda F1.
• Connie F1.
• Debut
• Athlete
• Babylon
• Claudia F1.

For you need to create favorable conditions so that the plant is quickly saturated with vitamins and soon gave fruit:

• Shine. The cucumbers are light-sounded, so the natural lighting will not be enough. It is necessary to purchase the lamps of daylight to illuminate the plant when it darkens on the street, or cloudy weather.
• Heat. For these plants, it is important to ensure the mode from +20 to +24 degrees. At a smaller temperature, the fruits will be ripe for a long time and will not work juicy and crispy.
• Moisture. The cucumbers do not tolerate droughts in nor in the garden, nor on the windowsill. It is necessary to strictly monitor the soil moisture.

The bush hybrids are better to plant in a plastic container or flower pot (big). Sits immediately seedlings. It can be bought, or prepare in advance, from autumn.

On how to grow cucumbers and tomatoes on the windowsill, you can look at the video:

Tomatoes

Tomato on the windowsill - the dream of each mistress. White bedroom tomatoes are not whimping to moisture and temperature. It is necessary to water them as the soil drying and hold the temperature from +17 to +24 degrees. The room where tomatoes can be aircraft, since, as opposed to cucumbers, they are not afraid of drafts. The following varieties are best suited for home care:

• Balcony miracle
• Room surprise
• Betta
• Bansai
• Cherry
• Florida
• Talisma

As a rule, on the seeds it is indicated that this variety is suitable for growing in the apartment.

For a tomato bush is beautiful and even, and the fruits sang evenly, then recommended to turn a pot with a tomato to the window with different sides.

Sweet pepper

Bulgarian pepper is one of the most simple vegetables for growing at home.

It does not require special heating or lighting.

But the first fruits appear months after 6 after the seed is boiling.

That is, to provide yourself with perforations, you can plant a few bushes every month, which will give an uninterrupted harvest.

Pricing varieties:

• Patio-Ivo - Bright Yellow Juicy Fruits
• Jupiter F1 - gives red and green fleshy peppers
• Oda - one of the most damned sweet pepper varieties

Initially, you need to sow seeds and create a greenhouse. After sunrise, the sprouts are moved to the container with a fertilous soil to the "permanent place of residence". Pepper is unpretentious, but requires sun and heat. The best mode for them is + 22-26 degrees. Additional lighting should also be present, because after all, it is a southern plant.

It is better to protect the sweet pepper from the room Gorky. Otherwise, hybrid pollination may occur, as a result of which both varieties will be ruined.

Pepper sharp

Acute room pepper will give fruit, regardless of temperature and light. It is enough to 3-4 hours per day. Sunny or artificial lighting. After sunrise, the fruits appear in 8-10 weeks. One plant can be fruit up to five years. In addition, the bitter pen is very beautiful and will be the addition of any interior. Varieties that are suitable for the windowsill.