How to grow parsley at home

In the summer, we have the opportunity to eat more fresh vegetables, fruits and lean on greens. With the onset of cold weather, buy fresh greens, for example, a utility parsley, falls on the market or in supermarkets. It looks beautiful, bright, but not so tasty, as brought from the cottage. Usually, Parsley shops have already increasing and with a large content of nitrates. It is beneficial to implementers, and for people its nutritional value is not high, and may also harm. Therefore, we propose to abandon such a product and grow greens yourself. How to grow parsley - read in this publication.

The benefits of Petrushki.

If we talk about the benefits of parsley, then only in the case when it is grown by itself, on her beds without adding nitrates and chemicals. Such a parsley has a lot of advantages, most importantly is a large amount of vitamin A, as well as vitamins of the group B, K, C, Biotin, RR and E. In addition, the green grass and folic acid, fatty acids and a large number of useful macro- and trace elements (iodine, fluorine, manganese, potassium, phosphorus and others).

The grown Parsley on the garden or the windowsill will be not only useful on the windowsill, but also very fragrant and will become an excellent addition to any dishes. Parsley can be added to fresh salads, use as a filling for pies (in combination with boiled egg and onions), pizza and add to the first and second dishes. Parsley in the cold season (winter-spring) is especially useful. If you eat a few twigs of parsley daily, then you can get rid of bad mood and feel the tide of strength. By the way, parsley is used in medicinal purposes. For example, the decoction of young greenery will help to cope with the diseases of the kidneys.

How to grow parsley at home

If you are accustomed to in the summer to grow greens on your household plot, this tradition can be continued. In the cold season, Parsley grows well on the windowsill, so we suggest you read the recommendations, how to grow parsley.

First you need to pick up a plant grade, which is adapted to growing at home. To do this, we recommend going to the specialized stores and buy a package of seeds of early grades. The variety of parsley "Harvest", "Kudryashka Sue", "Curly", "sugar" or "prima".

You can buy several seed packages of ordinary parsley and curly. The second grade of the plant is more suitable for decorating festive dishes, as Parsley grows bright, and its leaves are beautifully twisted in different directions. Only you need to know that the benefit of human health is such a plant brings not such a majorly as a regular parsley. By the way, the Council from professionals: if we grow parsley on the windowsill, then it is better ordinary - it is useful and suitable for decorating any dish.

If you draw attention to the early grade of the plant, you can grow parsley in a pot to a certain date, it will begin to ripen 2 weeks earlier than the average-weighted plant varieties. Among the fast ripening varieties of parses are popular with the growing of greenery on the windowsill, Astra varieties, beads, "fragrant", and "Ordinary Sheet".

There are 2 methods of growing greenery on the windowsill - from seeds and from rooteplood. Parsley is a two-year-old plant, so you can grow greens like from seeds, and to transplant in the pot ones just digs from the corner of the root. First consider the first option - growing parsley from seeds.

How to grow parsley seeds

If you really want to do everything yourself, you can try to grow your own planting material. In order to get seeds from parsley, it is necessary to work pretty and stock patience.

Parsley is a two-year plant, in the first year of life after sowing purchased seeds, the plant forms the branches of greens and the root system is formed. For the winter, Parsley flows "in a hibernation" and with the onset of heat produces long stems, on which the boxes with seeds appear.

Collect seeds from parsley is quite difficult, as it is not done in the first year of planting, but in the second. It is important to try to keep the plant until next year to continue the development cycle. In the 2nd year of planting, it is necessary to collect umbrellas with seeds in time and put them on storage to take advantage of next year. Parrushki sowing in the winter at the end of October to get early greens with the onset of heat.

You can save the germination of seeds like this: assemble the planting material, put drying in the shaded, well-ventilated place. It is important that the seeds do not fall into the sun rays, it is also impossible to dry the planting material in the oven.

After drying, seeds are folded into banks, plastic containers or dense polyethylene packages and storing into a room where the air temperature does not exceed the mark +5 ^oC. A good place to preserve seeds will be a fridge or a dry cellar. If the indoor moisture is high (more than 70%), then the seeds will warm up ahead of time and their germination will decrease.

If you store the material for landing correctly, the seeds of parsley retain their germination over several years (from 2 to 4).

Before planting seeds, they need to go through and process.

Parsley from seeds

To grow parsley from seeds, you need to try. There is both advantages in this case. It is necessary to devote more attention to seeds, as they germinate for a long time, about 1.5 months from the moment of sowing. It is not very convenient, because many want to quickly grow greens on the windowsill. But parsley grown from seeds gives a lot of fresh greenery a very long period, about about a year.

Before proceeding with the seeds of parsley, it is necessary to prepare them in advance. 1-2 days before the expected date of seed landing in the ground, the landing material must be soaked in water. 2 times a day it is necessary to change the water to fresh so that the seeds germinate simultaneously and gave friendly shoots. If everything is clear with that, then we continue the following: 1-2 hours before sowing it is necessary to emit or disinfection the planting material in a weak solution of manganese. Prepare warm water and add several crystals of manganese into it.

If you did not work out, it is possible to disinfect with other means, for example, hydrogen peroxide (2%) is suitable. Liquid need to heat up to 40 ^oC and withstand in hot seeds for 8 minutes.

Hydrogen peroxide can be replaced by boric acid. Take half a teaspoon of acid and 1 cup of water. Machine seeds for 3 hours, fluid temperature +30 ^oC maximum. After processing, the seeds are pretty rinsed in clean water several times.

In the meantime, planting material is in solution, you can prepare soil and pots. For boarding parsley at home, an ordinary pot is suitable or a drawer for growing seedlings. The container is also desirable to be treated with disinfecting solution.

Do not forget that a good drainage is needed for normal growth. Earth can be taken directly from the cottage or buy a package of finished soil in a specialized store. If you prepare a mixture for planting seeds yourself, you can add coconut fiber and biohumus to the ground with a garden (2: 1). All components mix and set aside aside.

You will also need outstanding water, so you need to take care in advance and about it in order to fulfill the landing of parsley seeds in all the rules.

Seed landing rules:

• in the prepared container (pot or drawer), pour on the bottom of the drainage layer;
• from above to the drainage, lay out the land and give it a lot of it, tamping my fingers;
• now the Earth needs to pour hot water and compact again;
• we make grooves in the ground, depth up to 2 cm. It is the most convenient to grow parsley from seeds in boxes for growing seedlings. On such a "mini-garden" parsley will feel good, and you have the opportunity to sow seeds in all the rules, observing the distance;
• seeds are driving into a wet soil, not strongly buried - up to 0.5 cm will be enough;
• try not to pour too many seeds in one place so that every seedlings have the opportunity for normal development. Seeds are very small, so try to land them at least at least a distance of each other;
• we sprinkle the seeds of the bare ground so that the dry crust is not formed on the soil. Layer of land - up to 1 cm;
• boxes with seeds cover with film and choose the right place - dark and warm. As soon as the first shoots appear - the box is moving to the windowsill, and remove the film;
• every 2 days you need to water the parsley of the indentioned water temperature;
• seeds of parsley ride for a long time, so you have to be patient and wait a bit.

What else needs to know to collect a good harvest of greenery from the windowsill:

1. Do not allow soil drying, and also do not try to pour parsley. You can watered home beds 1 time per day very carefully so that the water does not blur the soil and seeds did not turn out to be on the surface.
2. When the first shoots appear, watering should be increased, especially if the containers with parsley are located near the hot battery. In winter, there is usually dry air in the room, so the plant needs to receive more moisture.
3. Compliance with the thermal regime is also important. So, the perfect room temperature is +15 ^oC, allowed to grow parsley and in the room, where the air temperature does not exceed the mark +20 ^oC. If the temperature in the room decreases, the growth of the plant will slow down, and if it is too hot on the windowsill, the parsley begins to dry.
4. The duration of the daylight can be extended by artificially. To do this, install the daylight lamp over the windowsill, the distance is 60 cm.
5. Parsley is preferably to cut forward immediately after the first germs, if you sowed the seeds very thickly.
6. If you see that Parsley has already grown, cut off young twigs. Sign of maturity - a plant that has reached a length of 12 cm.

Growing parsley from root

If you are looking for a response to the question of how to quickly grow parsley, we suggest familiarizing yourself with the second method of growing greenery on the windowsill and put in the pot of the root of parsley.

This method is considered faster and convenient, since it is not necessary to wait long until seeds. You already have an adult plant, you need to create a favorable conditions for growth and then you can collect the harvest of parsley all year round.

If you are using rooted roots, driven from your own bed, then in the variety plants you can not doubt.

How to plant roots:

1. We prepare the container for landing. It is necessary to disinfect the containers in a weak solution of manganese.
2. Put the drainage layer on the bottom (up to 1.5 m). The rest of the pot or box fill in such a mixture: humus, peat, sand, nervous land. Peat you need to take 2 parts, other components - 1 part. You can buy ready-made soil in the store.
3. Parsley's roots need to dig away from the bed at the end of October, when the soil still did not have time to freeze.
4. The optimal size of the roots for resetting: length from 5 cm, width - approximately 2.5 cm. If you have large roots, it is even good, then more kidneys will appear on them.
5. Now transplant the roots in the boxes or pots, the more denser, the better.
6. Soil before landing should be well moistened. You can plant large root roots, withsting the distance of 3-4 cm.
7. Blowing the plant so that only the tops of the kidneys (heads) remain outside the outside.
8. The soil is compathing and pouring well after landing root.

When growing greens on the windowsill, it is necessary to comply with certain requirements, otherwise the transplanted parsley from the garden may quickly die.

Features of growing greenery from rootepodes:

• immediately after landing, we remove the container with parsley in a cold place. If you have a glazed balcony, endow boxes and still leave directly on the floor;
• we provide moderate watering plant. Do not allow soil drying and do not strive to pour plants;
• as soon as the first greenery sprouts appear, transfer it to the container, providing optimal temperature - up to +20 ^oWITH;
• the pot or box must be turned at least once every 3 days so that the plant does not stretch behind the light;
• when there is no sun on the street, organize artificial lighting - set 60 cm from the boxes with parsley lamp of daylight;
• as soon as the greens enter the stage of active growth, watching irrigation - it is necessary to water often and remember;
• if you have noticed that the plants began to weaken, you can make feeding into the ground;
• with the onset of spring, drawers or pots with parsley need to be taken to the balcony.

If all the recommendations were observed, then at the end of December you can collect the first crop of fresh greenery from the windowsill. Fresh parsley grown by the soused on the windowsill, will decorate the New Year's table. For the winter you can make a few pastures of parsley to constantly eat fresh greens.

About updates

Recently, in large supermarkets specializing in the sale of goods for the garden and the garden, new items have appeared - these are modern tanks with hydroponics (this is "Aerogardden") and "Smart Pots Click and Grow". The novelty is designed by scientists for people who want to grow greenery at home and small vegetables, but cannot be due to lack of time.

The electronic pot independently controls the entire process, ranging from the state of the soil, the presence of nutrients, temperature and humidity, to such important stages in the cultivation of greenery as a backlight, watering, fertilizer. You can buy even a replaceable cartridge with seeds of colors or greens. As soon as the plant passes its cycle, it is necessary to extract the old cassette and insert a new one.

Provide a stock of vitamins for the whole winter is easy if you try to grow parsley yourself. After the first germs, fresh greenery grows very quickly, so you have to constantly cut the vitamin parsley and immediately find use. Eat more than fresh greenery, because it is a useful product for a person without harmful substances.

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