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A windowsill in a city apartment can become a small vegetable garden. Especially in the winter season, when the lack of vitamins affects health, it is nice to add fresh parsley, dill or cilantro to the salad. Growing greens on a windowsill is within the power of any city dweller, even who has never been to the garden.
Unpretentious plants
Since the greenery will grow on the windowsill in the apartment, it is worth choosing the most unpretentious plants in care and light. Dill and basil are great for your first gardening experience. In addition, in a few weeks, the first crop can be harvested from home beds.
Before starting planting, you need to purchase: fertile soil, pots or containers, fertilizer for plants, expanded clay or other drainage, a sprayer. Depending on the season and preferences, you can choose seeds or greenery sprouts. Seeds are best preferred in spring or summer when the plant has enough daylight to ripen.
Growing dill at home
For home cultivation of dill, the variety Gribovsky, Grenadier or Resilie is suitable. Before planting, dill seeds must be soaked for a day in water at room temperature in order to accelerate the germination of greens. At this time, in a container for a future plant, it is necessary to mix fertile soil with ordinary soil for flowers and then moisten the resulting mass. We lay out the dill seeds on the surface of the earth, cover the container with a plastic bag, as if creating greenhouse conditions, and place them in a dark place for a week.
A week later, we rearrange the container on the windowsill. The key to good growth of dill is constant watering of greenery and fertilization of the land every two weeks. In the winter season, the shoots may not have enough sunlight. When dill withers, it is necessary to install fluorescent lamps at the container. With proper care, fragrant dill will grow on the windowsill in a couple of weeks.
Basil on the windowsill
It would seem how such an exotic plant as basil can grow in an apartment, but in fact, this type of greenery is unpretentious in maintenance. Growing basil in an apartment is practically no different from growing dill.
Add to the pot a mixture of fertile soil and soil for garden or home plants in a 1: 1 ratio. The land should be loose, this is the guarantee of the fertility of greenery. Transfer the basil seeds to the moistened earthy mass. The distance between the future greenery should be about 2 centimeters. Sprinkle the seeds with earth and cover the pot with plastic to create a greenhouse effect. In a dark room, the pot should be about 7 to 14 days until the first shoots crawl through.
Basil loves light, a windowsill on the sunny side will be just the way. Water and fertilize the plant as needed. When the seedlings reach a height of 10 centimeters, it is worth adding earth to the pot so that the sprouts are comfortable. When buds appear in a pot of basil, they must be cut off, as the greens can begin to say goodbye.
Growing other types of greenery in a city apartment
Not only dill and basil take root well in the apartment. You can also place pots of onions, lettuce, garlic, parsley and cilantro on the windowsill. Watering and fertilizing the plants will not take much time, and fresh greens will definitely delight the household.In addition, planting in the apartment can be started all year round. If necessary, a fluorescent lamp can create suitable conditions.
