How to sow and care for parsley at home

Let the parsley grown at home and not save a large amount of money, but it will always decorate the interior and the served table with its delicate greens and enrich the prepared dishes with a complex of vitamins and other useful substances.

Growing parsley: how to choose varieties for planting at home

Greenness and ripening speed are the main criteria for choosing varieties of home-made parsley, the sowing of which and the subsequent maintenance of it do not require any special care. The varieties recommended to grow parsley at home are Bordovinskaya, Curly, Curly Sue, Common Leaf, Prima, Sugar, Yield.

What conditions are needed for growing parsley on the windowsill

What kind of lighting do you need parsley?

Parsley light-requiring In the summer daylight hours are quite enough for her at home, but in the winter it is recommended to organize her highlighting with phytolamps for 3-4 hours daily.

What should be the soil for planting

First, the place itself is prepared for the soil. Tanks taken for it (boxes or pots) are treated with a disinfecting concentrate solution of potassium permanganate. In a pot intended for growing greens at home, there should be a drainage layer and a hole to remove excess moisture. For root crops soil can be used as a store, and you can prepare a mixture of garden soil, turf and humus in the ratio of 7: 1: 2. Phosphate fertilizers and lime are simultaneously added to this mixture. For seeds, the substrate is taken from biohumus and coconut fiber (1: 2).

Humidity and temperature for successful growth

Parsley does not like the heat and when planting, and while caring for her.12-19 degrees of heat, it is quite satisfied. The optimum humidity is 75-80%. Excessive dryness can be compensated by spraying moisture using a special appliance or manually.

How to plant parsley at home

How to plant parsley seeds

In general, parsley grown from seeds is quite fastidious. But additional efforts are worth it - for more than a year after that, fresh greens will be at your disposal.

Planting seeds is as follows:

• 24 hours before sowing, seeds are poured with water to remove the essential oils that prevent quick germination;
• 2 hours before the main procedure, water is changed for a weak solution of potassium permanganate;
• The planting itself is made to a depth of only 0.5 cm, but another 1 cm of soil is poured on top.

Growing parsley from root vegetables

This method is not too troublesome. Before the soil in the garden freezes, root crops with petioles are dug out in the right amount. Option - buying in a store or on the market. In both cases, the roots should not be damaged. Their value may fluctuate. Close to optimal diameter is from 2 to 4 cm. On a larger root, more buds and leaves will appear. In the prepared and moistened soil, placed in a box (pot), the roots are planted at a distance of 2 cm from each other. The spacing between rows is twice as large. The heads of root crops are not covered. After planting, the soil is slightly crushed and watered well.

Features care for parsley at home

• the container with the planted plants is transferred to the coolness of a closed loggia or balcony, where the parsley in moderate doses is provided with regular watering;
• after the beginning of the growth of petioles, the plants are on the windowsill;
• the symmetry of the growing parsley bushes is maintained by regularly turning the pot (box);
• the content on the windowsill is marked by an increase in the abundance of irrigation, which is becoming more frequent;
• dressing should be given if the appearance of parsley is alarming - the necessary fertilizers are bought in the store.

Since it is not very difficult to make several distillations of the plant and grow parsley in the winter for subsequent placement on the windowsill, you should start with the planting of small root crops, you just need to continue larger ones after a while.

The pots with the planted seeds are first cleaned in a dark place, watering is done in a day, the seedlings are transferred to the window sill when they turn green, and the seedlings that appear are thinned out. The distance between them is 4 centimeters. No matter how the parsley grows with any method of planting, it needs abundant summer and moderate winter irrigation.

Parsley Potted: Harvesting

It will not take a month, as it will be possible to cut the first crop of parsley, grown from root crops. Seed parsley ripens a little later (after 1.5 months). Cut 10-12 centimeter twigs need so that remained petioles up to 5 cm.

Being the most common herbal crop, parsley improves our life by increasing the stability of the human immune system, speeding up metabolic processes, strengthening blood vessels and lowering blood pressure, cleansing the body from accumulated toxins, quietly doing much more necessary and useful.