Proper planting of vegetables before winter

Having exhausted all winter supplies of vegetables and fruits, we want to get vitamins as soon as possible. And besides chemical vitamin complexes, there is another way - to get vegetables early. And for this you need to use the podzimnyu landing.

Advantages of the method

The first advantage of planting in the winter of vegetables and flowers is considered an earlier harvest.

Next plus - this is the hardening of plants. You can not choose which of the remaining seeds to plant before winter, and sow everything. Sown seeds will undergo a natural stratification, to harden. Weak seeds will die, you will get strong and viable sprouts. Third - abundance of moisture in the spring. Seeds sown for the winter will go to growth, using thawed snow, you will not have to think about moisture after sowing.

Fourth - plants will gain strength and yield a crop before the main insect pests appear.

When to start?

Correctly chosen time of sowing is the most important guarantee of obtaining a quality crop.Therefore, special care should be taken.

Sowed seeds should turn, but should not germinate. It is of great importance when wintering. Therefore, you need to guess so as to have time to severe frosts, but not in a hurry. Best of all - when the average temperature will be 0 ° C per day. Or when the first frost seizes the ground by 2-3 cm.

You can recommend seeding in the second or third decade of October. If the weather allows, then the crop can be transferred to November.

How to prepare the soil?

Now let's talk about how to prepare the beds for sowing seeds for the winter.

The place for beds should be dry, located on a hill (or have good drainage), well lit by the sun. When digging in the winter and the formation of beds, add to the soil a mixture of baking powder (sand or sawdust) with ready-made compost. This will give the earth lightness and friability.

Next, make the necessary fertilizers. There is no unequivocal opinion on what kind of fertilizing is needed. Therefore, the choice of mineral (and what mineral) or organic is yours.

But you can make such recommendations:

1. Humus must be rotten. Fresh can cause seeds to rot.
2. When feeding during sowing, use phosphate-potassium fertilizers.

The main condition is that the soil should remain loose. Otherwise, during the winter it will thicken and the seeds will not germinate. Make holes or grooves to a depth of 3-5 cm. Seed consumption can be slightly increased. After sowing, sprinkle them with dry soil and then with mulch (2-4 cm).

Whether or not to shelter a bed for the winter is also up to you. If there are heavy snowfalls in your region, then you can do without shelter. If the earth suffers from severe frosts, but without snow - then the branches and spruce branches over the seed beds do not interfere.

Popular crops for growing

Now let's talk about what vegetables and flowers to plant in the winter. Seeds for podzimnogo sowing should be high quality and large. Weak seeds simply will not grow.

Gardening

• Garlic. Can be sown and teeth, and heads. Depth of seeding - zubkov 5-7 cm, heads 2-3 cm. Aisle 20-25 cm.
• Bow. Put it deeper than in the spring (3-5 cm). He will endure the winter well, but the shooter will not give.
• Carrot. Sown at a depth of 3-4 cm.From above sprinkle mulch or humus by 2-3 cm. Responds well to fertilizer. Therefore, the soil can be mixed with compost or use superphosphate.
• Beet. It can be planted even later than other crops due to its good and early germination. Sow at a depth of 3-4 cm, a row spacing of 25 cm.
• Greenery (spinach, parsley, sorrel, dill, cilantro) - have good winter resistance. Sow at a depth of 2-3 cm. Well respond to fertilizers, both mineral and organic. For best results in the spring can be covered with a film.

Flowers

Flowers - this is what you can plant in the winter with vegetables. Natural stratification benefits many colors.

Annual plantsthat do not tolerate the transplant, you can sow directly to the flowerbeds: alissum, cornflower, cloves, calendula.

Perennial flowers: poppy, lavender, delphinium, lupine, primrose, rudbeckia.

Podzimny sowing is a good way to get an early harvest.protect plants from parasites. If you are afraid of risking good varietal seeds, then risk sowing expired seeds. Over the winter they will show themselves.If there are no shoots in spring, you can use the second chance and plant new ones.