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.

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!

If you are just starting to grow cucumbers at home - choose from these varieties and hybrids, you won't lose.

To choose the seeds will help you our market, where the products of the largest online stores are presented. There you will find many varieties and hybrids described in this article. .

Council: You will offer you a lot of tomato varieties in the store, assuring that they are great for home cultivation. Listening to this and believing the seller, you still carefully read what is written on the package: on the bags you need there are special marks "home garden", "a series of crop on the window" or "recommended for potterities". Now if you saw such an inscription - boldly pay money)

Many of the above varieties can easily find on sale with our market. .

Pepper Sweet F1 Bayby Bell 28 rubles
Russian vegetable

Pepper Piquant Yellow Dwarf 39 rubles
Russian vegetable

Pepper Sweet California Miracle 15 rubles
Russian vegetable

Pepper Sweet Gift Moldova 15 rubles
Russian vegetable

Beans.

Believe me, you will not regret if you decide to "start" at myself a couple of beans bush).

Suitable varieties

What kind of beans choose?

• excellent proven itself black Eyed Peas "Fatima".
• good feedback from dachnings received varieties bush beans "Sugar 764 triumph", "Saks without fiber 615", "Mask" and "green-storyhouse 517".
• of curving beans Recommended to choose either the grade "Golden cervical" or "Violetta".

The dream of year-round dacha is more than real, make the beds right in the apartment - on the kitchen window.

You can build a beautiful garden on the windowsill with your own hands at any time of the year - the main thing is to correctly choose the plants. If you want to admire the greenery all year round, think over the combinations of cultures, the search for ripening and regularly add new seedlings. Find out what it is better to plant at home and how beautiful to arrange a mini-garden in the kitchen.

Inventory for growing indoor vegetables and herbs

First of all, consider the container to plant plants. It all depends on what you want to get a decorative mini-garden for decoration or only a harvest. For the first option, come up with the design, focusing on the photo offered in the section below. For the second, almost any capacity will be suitable:

• ceramic or plastic pots of different configurations;
• containers for seedlings (for annuals you can even take peat);
• plastic plastic;
• glass jars;
• ceramic mugs;
• deep trays (for greens);
• all sorts of packaging;
• disposable tableware.

To care for the petrogen pets on the windowsill, buy a spray gun for spraying plants, a small watering can, scissors for trimming fruits and greens.

If the composition is decorative, look for potential care kits, including miniature blades, rakes and other tools. This inventory will decorate the toy mini-cottage.

To create greenhouse conditions that increase and accelerating the germination of seeds, use polyethylene caps or packets.

What can be grown in the garden on the windowsill

On window beds, small plants can be grown with a compact root system. These are tomatoes and cucumbers of individual varieties, sweet and sharp peppers, greens and some other vegetables and fruits. If you do not want a garden, make an exotic garden of dwarf lemons and mandarins. If there are no places at all, create a mini-garden in a pot.

Fresh greens all year round

Greens for cultivation in the apartment all year round can be bought in specialized stores. Carefully learn the label: the ripening time, sowing and care features.

The simplest greenery for room mini-garden - cress Salad.. This is a spicy grass of a gentle green, a nine or yellowish shade. The taste of young leaves, depending on the variety, is like mustard, radish or horseradish. Cress Salad is rich in vitamins, burte and strengthens immunity. Food use young shoots. Seeds quickly germinate, and after a couple of weeks you can collect a harvest, cutting off with scissors.

Dill - Traditional greens. For the cultivation of the dill on the windowsill, abundance varieties are suitable, which long do not throw off the umbrella. It is better to choose the average species, since they are rapidly lost their attractiveness faster.

Parsley - Favorite and the most popular spice in the kitchen. In the garden on the kitchen windowsill, you can grow almost all types of sheet parsley. Beautifully look at curly low varieties.

Basil Attracts a strong spicy aroma and original taste. For cultivation on the window, low and decorative varieties are suitable, for example, "Osmin", "Marquis", "Dwarf". They grow rapidly and look carefully.

Onion On the windowsill, everyone was grown in early childhood using a jar with water. This method cannot be called decorative, moreover, banks occupy a lot of space. For growing in pots from seeds, look for rapid ripening varieties. The bow-star is well defined, it is beautiful, it has a gentle aroma and quickly pleases the result.

Mint Fill the room with a soothing aroma, her leaflets are added to tea and various dishes. Mint - a perennial plant, putting it once, you can not think about a new crop. So that the bush looked beautifully, it needs to be correctly formed. Compact varieties for cultivation in pots: "Penniroal", "Pearls", "Ceremony".

To make a garden on the windowsill useful, learn how to breed in winter sorrel, Rosemary, Charber, Melisu. Feel free to squeeze the soul, kinzu, thyme, stevia.

Vegetables for decoration and salads

Count on a rich harvest of vegetables for home billets is not worth it. But miniature fruits please the eyes and are ideal for decorating the table.

Cucumbers - Classic of the country genre. Self-pollized hybrids are the best varieties of cucumbers for growing on the windowsill, otherwise you will have to pollery the flowers manually. If windows overlook the northern direction, look for imaging species. For apartment gardens recommend:

• "Room Ryttova";
• hader "Masha F1";
• "Prestige F1" with long yield;
• "Balcony" suitable for loggias and balconies.

The cucumbers love the space, so choose the free container - for one seedling you need about five liters of volume. The cucumbers need light and heat, it is especially important to neutralize the lack of natural phenomena in winter.

To beautifully arrange a vegetable garden on the windowsill, it is important to correctly form a bush, ensuring high support. Be sure to pinch the vine and remove the mustache so that the plant does not spend strength on them and quickly fruited.

Tomatoes - The perfect plant for mini-garden in the apartment. For growing tomatoes on the windowsill, look for dwarf varieties with small fruits. Beautifully look at tomatoes, assembled in a cluster. Suitable varieties:

• "Minibel" with a height of about 30 cm;
• hader "Balcony Miracle";
• aromatic "Balcony Red" "Bonsai Micro", which grows only to 15 cm;
• easy to care "Pinocchio".

Put in pots with tomatoes on lit windows, use additional backlight so that the light period is 13-16 hours per day. Exclude drafts and watering cold water. Grow from seed for a long time, it is easier to buy a finished seedlings.

Pepper - Loves "Window Dachniks." On the windowsill, as well as on ordinary gardens, pepper sweet and bitter varieties. Breeders brought small varieties that are ideal for the kitchen and do not require complex care. Among them are fruit and decorative species with fruits of different shapes and shades.

This culture is easy to grow from seed even a novice - we have a detailed, take it to weapons.

Unusual culture for indoor cultivation

What else to grow on the windowsill in winter, spring, summer and autumn to enjoy and decorate the house?

• Ginger is easy to get from the root - place it in warm water for several hours to germinate the kidneys. Put in the pot
• Strawberries of decorative ampels gives fruit in the apartment even in winter. It is important not to forget to polle the flowers with your own hands.
• Strawberry is not so easy to grow on the window, but the strawberry plantations will be shown very beautifully.
• Radish is characterized by speed shoots, loves coolness and regular watering.
• Mushrooms in the apartment can also be grown on the windowsill, for such a garden are perfect oyster.

Child garden - an interesting way to teach a child to work

To distract the child from the computer, build a mini-cottage with him on the window in his room or in the kitchen.

To make a curtain garden on the windowsill for beginners who will continue to do in the future independently, choose pets that do not require complex care and a lot of time. Ideally, plants should:

• to grow rapidly, otherwise the baby gets tired of waiting for results;
• easily endure the absence of irrigation - the child may forget about the care, but it will be very upset if the pets dried;
• being beautiful and interesting in development, well, if the son or daughter can observe various ripening cycles - from shoots to flowering and harvesting.

Do not plan too much plants, make an emphasis on decorative design. For kids, you can come up with a small fairy tale with a hut and heroes that will take part in the care and harvest.

Most children's plant - Salad Cress, his quick shoots inspire further experiments. Children like small tomatoes and citrus fruits with mini fruits. From the bitter pepper it is better to refuse to tempt the harvest to endure with tears.

How to increase the yield of vegetables and speed up the growth of greenery

To be grown on the windowsill, vegetables and greens feel like in beds in a full-fledged garden, you need to create all the necessary conditions for them.

1. Try to provide a separate container every type of plants. In different cultures, their soil requirements, watering, free space for roots.
2. Good soil - do not save on the ground and do not collect the earth in the park or on the city clubs. Buy a package of land in the store, in such soil there is everything necessary for the development of cultures. For the cultivation of annuals do not have to even resort to fertilizer.
3. Provide good drainage - excess moisture harms roots no less drought.
4. So that seedlings sprout faster, pre-soak and germinate. After disembarking into a wet ground, cover with a polyethylene cap. For a detailed scheme of the germ, look for packaging with seeds.
5. Additional lighting is an important point in the winter season, when the day day cannot provide plants with the desired portion of light. For the backlight, it is best to use special phytolambamps that radiate the light spectrum desired for photosynthesis. If there are no such, make the LED backlight - it is economical and is not dangerous for gentle leaves.
6. Spraying with water is an important component of success. In the room, and on the window above the battery, especially dry air, so artificial precipitates regularly create green pets.

The ideas of the original design of the garden on the window

Most plants like in the kitchen - here warm and wet all year round. Pots are always in front of the eyes, which means you will not forget about the care of them.

Of course, you can simply grow greens and vegetables in ordinary flower pots, the taste and benefit from it will not change in any way, but why not turn the mini-garden to a fairy tale, it is interesting to beat the composition.

Drawing the idea of \u200b\u200bthe design of the garden on the windowsill in the photo, do not be afraid to make your additions and raisins in the design. You can first draw the scheme, designating the placement of cultures and decor elements on it - a fence, a house, shops, ladents, animal figures.

Creating mini beds, do not forget to take into account the possibility of neighborhood of various crops. For example, cucumbers and tomatoes require different air humidity therefore should not be grown them in close neighborhood.

To accommodate more containers on the window, use racks, butchers and suspended shelves. They are comfortable for low-speed copies and greens.

The miniature garden decorates the kitchen in winter and summer, and an environmentally friendly greens can be added to soups and salads. It is very convenient when you need a literally a few leaves of parsley for broth or mint leaf in tea.

Such a hobby is very exciting and does not take a lot of time as a real cottage or on the homeland area. If it is interesting to arrange the composition, the kitchen will become more comfortable, and guests will show.