How to grow green on the windowsill?

Fresh greens remain desirable, and sometimesan indispensable ingredient in many dishes. It is used to decorate salads, is added to the first and second dishes and to snacks. Agree that even the seasoned with fresh dill cooked potatoes is much tastier. Therefore it is very convenient to have a bunch of fresh greens on hand. And even better, when there is an opportunity to take this seasoning right from the garden. If the beds are not at hand, then it will not hurt to learn how to grow green directly on the windowsill.

Growing instruction

For leafy greens, you need to purchase an ordinarya flower pot of rectangular or elongated shape, a soil mixture intended for growing vegetables, and drainage. Also take the seeds of greenery that you are going to grow. And then all the instructions:

1. Pour the drainage layer into the pot.
2. Pour a layer of soil mixture (not reaching the edge of the pot about 3-5 cm) and tamper with it.
3. For parsley, celery, basil, coriander and other herbs, except dill saddle grooves with a depth of about 1 cm.
4. Sow seeds and fill them with earth.
5. Pour it.
6. Seeds of dill just sprinkle on moistened soil, pound and pour.
7. Before the appearance and the first week after the appearancesprouts water your "bed" only from the spray. When the shoots get stronger and give the first real leaflets, water them like ordinary houseplants.

If you are interested, how to grow on a windowsilllettuce, then also use this instruction. Only after the appearance of two or three pairs of these leaflets, sprout seedlings into individual small pots or special seedlings. Then the cabbage salad will be better formed and grow faster.

And how to get fresh greens onions, read in our article How to grow a green onion at home.