What to do when the summer season is over, but you still want to pamper yourself with homemade herbs and fragrant herbal tea? A mini-garden on the windowsill will come to the rescue. It can be used to grow watercress, onions, dill, parsley, basil, garlic, as well as spices and aromatic herbs such as mint, rosemary, savory, sage, etc.
Planting material can be bought at the market or in a store, or in the fall, you can prepare root crops in your summer cottage (you can store them in a dark, cool place, sprinkled with earth). At home, you can plant spicy herbs and greens on the windowsill all autumn, winter and spring, namely, from the end of October to the beginning of April.
What is required for this:
1) small but deep pots or several boxes. (The pots look cozier and more aesthetically pleasing, in them your garden will delight not only your taste buds, but also the eye);
2) soil for home vegetables, or hydrogel (only dry);
3) a wide window sill with sufficient natural light;
4) seeds or roots.
5) drainage: pieces of polystyrene, expanded clay, brick chips
Helpful hints:
When planting a root crop, you do not need to bury it completely in the ground, the top should be outward.
No more than two or three root crops should be planted in one pea.
Watering your mini-garden is enough once a week.
If sunlight hits your mini-garden on the windowsill for less than 5 hours a day, then you need to additionally illuminate it with fluorescent lamps.
It is important to keep an eye on the humidity in the room. It should not be less than 50%.
