It’s winter outside, but summer on the windowsill: mint aroma, juicy green onions, fluffy parsley. And you’re harvesting vitamins from your own plantations. Tempting, right?

A garden on the windowsill in winter is a source of vitamins and joy in the snowy months, when the days are cold and short, and there’s no excess greenery on the table!



If you strictly follow simple rules, then growing greens in winter is quite simple.
Here is a simple guide to action.

Half the success is the right choice of crops.
It is worth paying attention to low-growing and small-leaved cultures.
Miniature varieties require much less space and nutrition. In addition, they are usually more stress-resistant. For example, low-growing curly varieties of parsley.



First of all, we place our vegetable garden on the most illuminated and warmest windowsill in the house. In order for the greenery to be bright, you cannot do it without additional lighting. The higher the air temperature in the room, the longer the daylight hours should be. Otherwise, the greenery will begin to fade, stretch out and become thinner.

Many gardeners use a phytolamp when growing seedlings, as a rule, it lies idle until the end of February, and here there is a reason to “train” it.

The distance from the lamp to the plants should be 25-40 cm.





Also, in conditions of low humidity, which often occurs in apartments and houses during the heating season, greenery will feel very bad. It will start to turn yellow and dry out.

To avoid this, you need to spray the greenery with water from a spray bottle at least a couple of times a day. And of course, you need to water the greenery as the top layer of soil dries out and do not let the soil dry out too much.



And, of course, you need to understand that the greenery will grow in rather stressful conditions for it anyway. Timely application of fertilizers will help to minimize the damage.

The use of mineral fertilizers is undesirable, which is associated with a high probability of nitrate accumulation in the greenery. The soft action of potassium humate "Bioresource" of the brands "Rich Harvest" will help give plants nitrogen, potassium, sulfur, and there will be no excess of nitrates. Humic acids stimulate the growth of greenery, improve the condition of the soil or ground. Once every two weeks, it is necessary to add one or two caps of potassium humate "Bioresource" to the water for irrigation.



Onions are a very grateful crop for growing in winter. For forcing, you can use onions, family onions or batun onions. Onions contain a large number of useful elements: B vitamins (folates, pyridoxine, pantothenic acid, choline, riboflavin and thiamine), vitamin K, vitamin E, ascorbic acid, amino acids (tyrosine, glycine, alanine, tryptophan, leucine, arginine, etc.), di- and monosaccharides, zinc, magnesium, iron, calcium, potassium.

You can prepare pots with batun onions in the fall. It is worth planting a bed in the garden, and in the fall, transplant some of the bulbs into pots. Do not trim in the summer that part of the bed that you are preparing for winter cultivation, let the bulbs gain strength.

The pots should stand in the cold, feel the winter. And then you can bring them into the warmth under a phytolamp.



Parsley greens can be grown on a windowsill from seeds or roots of this plant. Before sprouts appear, the container can be placed in a dark place, but as soon as the first shoots appear, the container with greens is placed on the windowsill. Important! Parsley shoots must be thinned out, creating an interval of 3-4 cm between plants.



The easiest way to get a magically smelling lemon balm at home is to dig up the plant from the garden in autumn and plant it in a pot.

It is important to ensure regular watering and spraying of the leaves. Similar to lemon balm, you can grow sage on your windowsill at home. Important! The longer the lemon balm is in the sun, the brighter the aroma of its greenery will be.

Thus, the question "What greenery can be grown at home on the windowsill?" has a clear answer: "Any!"

Try it, and your winter garden will delight you with vitamin greenery in your dishes when you want summer on cold snowy days!