V summer period no table can do without greens. To provide the family with greenery throughout the summer, it is necessary to properly plant parsley and dill. Even an inexperienced gardener can do this.

This plant can easily tolerate frosts down to -4 degrees. That is why you can sow seeds immediately after the snow has melted from the garden and frost from the ground. Dill seeds are capable of germinating at temperatures of +3 degrees. Optimal conditions for growing this plant, the temperature range is from +15 to +20 degrees. To ensure consistent green production throughout the season, you need to sow the seeds every two weeks. An early harvest of this plant can be obtained already in the first decade of April.

Dill loves neutral and loose soils. When choosing a heavy soil, the similarity, growth and development of this plant will be much worse than in loose soil.

To facilitate planting seeds in spring it will be best to prepare the garden in the fall. To do this, you need to dig up the ground to a depth of at least 20 centimeters. At the same time, mineral fertilizers and humus are introduced into the soil. In the spring, it will be necessary to carefully level the surface of the garden bed and make grooves on it, the depth of which is at least 2 centimeters.

Dill growing tips:

• Dill is best planted in rows.
• The distance between them is 20 centimeters.
• After stretching the grooves and moistening the greenery, the seeds are planted in the ground.
• Sprinkle the seeds on top with loose earth. In this case, the soil must be slightly moistened.
• It is not necessary to water the crops, as this will lead to the fact that the seeds go far into the soil.

In order to get dill greens as early as possible, it is necessary to plant seeds before winter. For this purpose, the preparation of the beds is carried out in the fall. In this case, they are refueled organic fertilizers... Dill planting in this case should be done before freezing the ground. At the same time, the rate of planting seeds should increase by 25 percent, and the depth of planting seeds should be at least 3.5 centimeters.

In order to protect the bed from crusting it. With its help, seedlings will not appear during the first thaw. Compaction of the soil with such a planting does not need to be done.

Dill seeds can also be planted in winter period... This requires:

• Prepare the soil in autumn.
• In winter, the bed must be freed from snow and seeds must be scattered over its surface.
• Crops must be covered with a layer of earth, which, or one humus.
• After the snow begins to melt, the seeds will be sucked in with the help of the melt water and will begin to germinate. This will allow you to get an early and full harvest.

Winter and subwinter methods of planting this plant allow you to cut seeds a few weeks earlier.

In order to ensure a constant harvest of dill and parsley, it is necessary to plant them in stages, that is, to plant them in parts with an interval of 1-2 weeks. After seed germination, after two weeks, it is necessary to thin out these plants. In this case, the distance between individual plants should be from 7 to 15 centimeters when planting a root variety and 20 centimeters when planting a leafy variety. This will ensure the formation of a healthy and full-fledged bush.

Watering greens should be done regularly.

In order to protect the plant from yellowing in the summer, it is necessary to plant seeds. This is because the sprouts will be protected from the daily sun of the day. If necessary, obtaining early harvest you can plant seeds from greenery.

Unlike dill, parsley is a biennial plant. At correct landing and caring for this culture on next year you can also get good harvest... It is necessary to grow dill and parsley seedlings in an unshaded place. This will allow you to get fresh herbs in large quantities already at the beginning of May.

You can grow dill and parsley not only in the open field, but also on the windowsill:

• The first harvest of these plants when grown in this way will appear in a month.
• When planting plants on the windowsill, you can significantly save the number of seeds and get a larger amount of spice.
• These plants are very fond of wet soil and sunny side, which provides them with full growth and development.

Dill and parsley grow very poorly on unfertilized soil, so you should not make such mistakes when growing these crops. When planting greenery, you need to pay attention to their varieties. Each variety of these plants may have its own characteristics of cultivation, which must be taken into account in mandatory... Otherwise, you can reduce the level of productivity of these plants.

When growing parsley and dill, it must be remembered that the lighting level is the decisive factor for them.

The lower it is, the longer the greenery will grow and, accordingly, the later is harvested. Planting seeds must be done in early spring when the daylight hours are long enough. It is necessary to adhere to this rule not only when planting plants in open ground, but also when growing them in indoor conditions... To get parsley greens in the winter, its bushes can be dug up in the fall and transplanted into indoor pots.

Growing dill and parsley is a fairly simple procedure. To do this, you just need to adhere to the rules and know everything about the features of the performance of this action. Even an inexperienced gardener can grow crops.

More information can be found in the video.

It is possible without waiting for stable heat, since these plants are frost-resistant. Just mix the seeds with sand, sprinkle them along the furrow, and cover on top thin layer land. You can do this with a rake, you can cover with earth passed through a sieve.

In winter, I especially want fresh greens, because the body does not receive so many vitamins! But for Dill and for parsley, the decisive factor is not the temperature, but the lighting. When the days get too short, the plants simply won't sprout - they lack that length of daylight. Nevertheless, if you have not had time for greenery in summer, try next way: Dig up parsley bushes and plant in a pot of soil. Adult plant not critical to sunlight so that in winter you can enjoy the fresh greenery.

Helpful advice

After sowing, it would be good to feed the plants with nitrogen, phosphorus and organic fertilizers, especially if the soil on which they grow is poor. The favorite soil of greenery is loam and sandy loam.

It is not necessary to have summer cottage to always have fresh herbs on the table. You can grow it right on your windowsill. For example, parsley. Observing simple recommendations, you will eat these greens all year round.

You will need

• You will need seeds, a pot and soil.

Planting greenery on personal plot saves you the hassle of going to the store every time you prepare your food. It is not only convenient, but also beautiful if you arrange the beds in the form of a flower bed. Vitamin greens from early spring to late autumn will be on your table, useful for marinades for the winter, it can be prepared for future use.

Green vegetable crops on the site

Most green crops are cold-resistant, that is, they can withstand short-term frosts. A short period of growth and development allows you to get food greens in 30-35 days, or even earlier. They can be grown in early spring, summer and fall. If desired, it is permissible to sow 3-4 turns. Most often, vegetable gardens turn green:

• salads;
• parsley;
• spinach;
• dill;
• onions;
• coriander;
• other spicy plants.

All these crops grow well on fertile, fertilized, loose and moderately moist soils. With minimal maintenance, you can get a rich harvest in a short time.

Spring planting of greenery by seeds

It helps to determine the timing of planting a particular crop knowledge of the biological characteristics of plants... Most of them are annuals, that is, they are planted every year. Each of the plants requires a different approach. To obtain high yields, you need to follow simple rules. Let's try to figure out some of them.

Sowing salad

An annual plant that does not require bee pollination. The crop is quite cold-resistant and can withstand short frosts, so it can be planted as soon as the soil becomes loose enough. Lettuce grows and develops at an air temperature of 15-20 degrees. From germination to harvest, it takes from 40 to 80 days. It depends on the variety and variety. Salad happens:

• leaf - forms a deciduous rosette;
• head - resembles loose cabbage;
• romaine - forms heads of cabbage or half-cabbages of an elongated shape.

Leaves and stumps are used for food. head lettuce ... They are rich in vitamins, beneficial acids and salts:

• nicotinic acid - participates in cellular metabolism;
• lemon acid- irreplaceable in cellular respiration and other biochemical processes;
• potassium - maintains water and alkaline balance;
• iron - a catalyst for metabolic processes, protects against anemia;
• calcium - necessary for the bone skeleton;
• phosphorus - preserves bones and tooth enamel;
• other useful substances.

Grow lettuce with multi-line ribbons... Using a narrow board in wet soil they make a furrow with a depth of 1-1.5 cm, they try to sow the seeds not too often, for convenience, you can mix them with sand. From above, the seeds are covered with dry earth and lightly pressed.

The distance between the bushes is 7-10 cm, between the lines - 15-20 cm, and between the rows - 40 cm. The number of lines should be such that when weeding and harvesting, you can reach with your hand from both sides.

Planting care is very simple: weeding, loosening, watering and thinning if necessary. In order for the salad to be on the table all summer, it is recommended to plant the seeds three to four times, with an interval of 20 days.

Coriander, or cilantro

The plant is relatively cold-resistant... An annual that grows well on fertile and moist sandy loam soils. If there is not enough moisture, it quickly turns to flowering, shortening the harvest time. From sowing to germination - 30-50 days. Leaves and young shoots are eaten, and ground seeds are added to marinades and dishes as a spicy seasoning. The plant is rich in carotene, ascorbic acid and rutin.

When to plant coriander, the weather will tell you. Seeds do not sprout if they are cold, therefore, planting is carried out when the earth is ready and the air temperature is at least 10-12 degrees, when there is no threat of recurrent night frosts.

Seeds are planted in furrows 1.5-2 cm deep... If the ground is damp, there is no need to shed furrows. Sprinkle with earth on top and lightly slap. Sowing density can be arbitrary, but if planted too densely, the leaves will be small.

Spinach

Annual, the closest relative of sorrel, only less sour. The plant tolerates cold well and ripens quickly. Harvesting can be done 25-30 days after germination. It grows well on moist soils fertilized with organic matter - compost, humus, rotted manure.

This plant short day... As the day begins to lengthen, spinach will form arrows. If it is planted too late, then the entire crop will go to seeds, bypassing the stage of formation of a deciduous rosette. Delicate young leaves are used for food, preparing all kinds of casseroles, mashed potatoes, cabbage soup, or adding to salads. The leaves contain:

• proteins;
• vitamins;
• carotene;
• mineral salts.

Spinach is planted in early spring, as soon as the ground thaws. The landing is the same as for a salad - with multi-line ribbons.

Dill

Without this spicy seasoning life will seem boring, because not a single soup or borscht can do without dill. It is salted and dried, used in seaming and pickling, babies are given dill water so that their tummy does not hurt. The herb is rich in ascorbic acid and carotene.

The vegetative period is 40-60 days. He tolerates well low temperatures... Many have noticed that last year's dill grows here and there in the spring on the site. This plant is a 10-12 hour day, likes well-lit places, moist and fertile soil... With a lack of moisture, it almost immediately proceeds to arrowing, therefore watering, especially at the first stage of growth, is especially important.

The soil will help determine when to plant dill. It should be moist, but crumble when compressed into a lump. If you suddenly make a mistake with the planting time and plant the dill ahead of time, then nothing terrible will happen. He will ascend under favorable conditions for himself. Can be sown in several stages two weeks apart in wide strips. The seeding depth is small - 0.5-1 cm.

Parsley

Biennial plant forming a socket in the first year of life. There are root and leaf. In root parsley, both the leaves and the root are used for food. The plant contains:

• phosphorus;
• potassium;
• iron;
• calcium;
• magnesium;
• essential oils.

The plant is light-loving, tolerates cold well. For the seeds to germinate, a temperature of + 2-3 degrees is enough. After two to three weeks, shoots appear, and after 60-80 days you can start mass harvesting of leaves. Root crops ripen later - after 110-140 days.

Parsley calmly tolerates frosts down to -9 degrees, so it can be planted in early spring, as soon as the soil allows. Grows well on loam and sandy loam soils filled with humus. On heavy soils, root parsley produces an ugly, crooked root crop.

The landing site must be sunny, well fertilized... Seeds are sown to a depth of 1-2 cm, wide ranks or ribbons. The distance between the rows is 45 cm, inside the ribbon - 20-25 cm, and between the ribbons - 60 cm.Parsley, especially the root, is thinned out, leaving 4-5 cm between the plants.

Seeds can be obtained the next year. The parsley left in the garden will delight you with early greens, and over the summer it will give a huge amount of seeds.

Celery

Celery leaves per 100 grams of mass contain about 80 mg of vitamin C, as well as sodium, magnesium, calcium, carotene, iron and many other useful substances. This is a true champion among green crops.

The plant is cold-resistant, tolerates frosts down to -4 degrees. Seeds sprout in 12-15 days. Germinate at a temperature of + 18-20 degrees.

Vegetation period:

• root celery - 140 to 210 days;
• stalked celery- from 110 to 180 days;
• leafy celery- from 80 to 90 days.

Grows on almost any fertile soil, but prefers neutral, humus-rich, or cultured peat soils... The planting site must be sunny.

Before planting, to speed up sprouting, the seeds are soaked in water for a day. They are planted to a depth of 1 cm in rows with a distance between plants - 12 cm, between rows - 45 cm. Over the summer, they are fed two or three times with a garden mixture, slurry or a solution of poultry droppings. Care consists in timely watering, weeding and thinning.

In areas with short summer celery is planted with seedlings due to the long growing season.

Sorrel

Perennial that can be grown in one place for up to 5 years. Very cold-resistant, shade-tolerant, perfectly wintering and moisture-loving culture. Leaves contain:

• tannins;
• acids;
• proteins;
• vitamins;
• iron salts.

Loves manured sunny areas, but tolerates shade well. Seeds are sown early when the soil is ripe. They are planted in rows with a row spacing of 15-20 cm. Planting depth is 2-3 cm. With proper care, the crop can be harvested 4-5 times per season. After cutting the leaves, the bed is loosened and fertilized. Into the aisles, one square meter is applied:

• ammonium nitrate - 20 grams;
• superphosphate - 20 grams;
• potassium salt - 10 grams.

Fertilizers are embedded in the soil when loosening.

Onion

The bow is often called guard against diseases and pests... Planted between other plants, it will protect from rot and harmful insects. The phytoncidal properties of onions have long been known. When eaten, it stimulates appetite, normalizes bowel function, saturates the body useful substances- vitamins, carotene, minerals, sugars and acids.

The onion is planted to obtain a feather. The plant is perennial, grown in one place for up to five years. It tolerates severe winters perfectly. It sprouts in early spring, replenishing our diet with tasty and juicy greens.

It is very easy to plant it in the ground. Seeds are planted to a depth of 2-3 cm. Between rows - 10-15 cm. Batun does not like waterlogged soils, so watering should be moderate. In the first year after planting, seedlings may be weak, especially if the soil is poor in organic matter, but the next season you will get lush greenery - the plant branches under the ground. Many people make the mistake of pulling out a badly risen tree when they just need to wait.

Planting green crops in open ground with seeds- a completely uncomplicated procedure. Beginners in gardening should not be afraid to do something wrong. Almost all greens can be planted several times per season. If suddenly something did not work out - plant it again!

To keep your greenery lush, start preparing the soil in the fall. At the onset of the first frost, dig up the beds without breaking lumps. During the winter, they will crumble by themselves. When digging, add humus or rotted compost, manure or bird droppings. In the spring, all you have to do is level the ground and start planting.

Romantics can prepare a flower bed. The greenery looks very nice in circles. Plant spicy herbs that ripen faster on the outer circle. After harvesting them, you can plant seedlings of flowers.

It is better to alternate beds with herbs - essential plants with common... This will scare away some insects. For aphids, snails and slugs, use folk remedies- ash, soap and soda solutions, herbal infusions. Delicate green leaves absorb chemicals well, and this is completely unnecessary for the human body.

With a minimum of effort, you can grow any greenery. It's not difficult at all and very exciting.

Parsley is quite capricious about the soil on which it will be planted, so if you plan to plant it in the spring, you need to start preparing it back in the fall.

Parsley is planted on fertile soil with plenty of light. At the same time, when choosing a place to create a garden bed, try to choose an area with a minimum amount of drafts. Please note that the plant is not particularly willing to take root on soils where crops such as previously grew:

• caraway;
• Dill;
• carrot;
• cilantro.

Plants are not recommended to be planted in early spring. The soil should warm up well, and this will definitely take some time, depending on how warm March was. Optimal timing for planting parsley - mid-late April.

Planting seeds is carried out according to the following scheme:

1. Before planting in the ground, the seeds are preliminarily kept in warm water... It is enough to leave them for 30 minutes in order to significantly increase their survival rate. After soaking, dry them and proceed directly to the procedure.
2. Make several grooves in the garden bed. They should be shallow, only 1 cm is enough.
3. Sow seeds. Planting parsley is carried out at the rate of 0.5 g of seeds per 1 m 2.
4. Water the planting material and lightly crush it with earth.
5. In order to prevent the soil from drying out too quickly, it is advisable to cover the bed with a film.

Despite the external fragility, parsley is a surprisingly hardy plant. It is able to grow at a temperature of +2 degrees and remain viable in frosts down to -8 degrees. However, this is not a reason to plant it as early as possible and it is better to wait a while.

Parsley does not require global care. You can enjoy fresh greenery throughout the warm season by simply cutting off the tops of the bushes. The main thing - do not forget to sow the beds from time to time and make timely feeding. As a rule, ammonium nitrate is used to improve the growth of greenery. It must be brought in at the rate of 50 g for every 10 m 2. This top dressing is ideal for leaf parsley, at the same time, it is recommended to use phosphorus-potassium fertilizers for the root.

Of course, like any other plant, the bushes must be watered. This must be done carefully, without oversaturation of the soil with moisture. Watering is recommended in the morning and in the evening. Pay attention to possible appearance weeds on the soil. If not removed in a timely manner, weeds can take away the necessary nutrients, create unnecessary shadow, and also infect parsley with diseases. Do not be lazy to regularly inspect the condition of the beds for the presence of unnecessary plants there and remove them.

Parsley is very hardy and very unpretentious plant... The cultivation of this plant does not require any specific operations, everything is quite simple and banal. If you still have any questions, the video tutorial will give you all the answers you need. Fresh greens in the spring and summer period can be on the table for each of us, if we are able to plant it correctly and provide timely care. Water the greens, monitor the condition of the beds on which they are planted, and feed them from time to time. Then your soups, salads and sandwiches will always be decorated with fresh and juicy parsley!

To prevent dill and parsley from disappearing from your diet, you need to sow them in stages - once every 2 weeks. Further, it is important to thin out the crops, leaving 7-15 centimeters between the plants if it is a root variety, and 20 centimeters if it is a leaf variety. Greens need to be watered regularly (especially after cutting the leaves).
In the spring, the sowing site must be covered with a film, so that the earth does not freeze when there are nighttime cold snaps.

And in order to protect the plant from yellowing in summer due to direct sunlight, it is worth planting some of the seeds in the shade. There they will sprout later, but will be protected from the hot daytime sun.
You can plant seedlings of greenery instead of seeds. Since parsley is a biennial plant, it is possible to forcing greens in the winter and get early parsley in the spring. To do this, you will need to bury several seedlings of root parsley in high bed early spring. Before planting, the roots should be stored in a cellar in damp sand. You can also plant parsley seedlings at the end of March, which will grow for a long time, but after a month, small bushes will appear. These seedlings should be grown in a shaded area. Thus, in early May, there will be fresh herbs in large volumes.
Parsley tolerates cold snaps well, you can feast on it even after the first snow falls. It can withstand 5-7 degrees of frost and will continue to grow after frost.

By choosing the right varieties and preparing fertile soil, you can start sowing dill:

• place the seeds in water two days before sowing and change it every eight hours - essential oils from the seeds will be eliminated, and germination will take place faster;
• thoroughly moisten and loosen the earth in the boxes;
• make grooves every fifteen centimeters;
• scatter the soaked dill seeds along the grooves;
• cover on top with a thin layer of soil and slightly moisten from a spray bottle;
• when sowing seeds directly into the greenhouse soil, you can simply distribute them over the surface of the earth, then close them with a rake, but then thinning will be more troublesome.

Preparing seeds for early germination

If you want to get lush greenery already at the beginning of May, you should not ignore any of the stages, and especially preparatory work... Are you planning to grow dill? Then its seeds should be placed in a gauze bag and soaked in clean hot (+50 ° C) water for 72 hours. In this case, it is necessary to change the fluid at least 5 times a day. Thus, you will significantly speed up the emergence of seedlings. Next, we need steamed sawdust. We take the seeds out of the water, put them on gauze bags and cover with prepared sawdust. The latter can be replaced with a damp cloth, but such measures are resorted to in extreme cases. We leave planting material in this state for several days. It is advisable to keep the room temperature around 20 ° C. As soon as the dill seeds have begun to germinate, you can proceed to the next stage.

Dill seeds

How do you prepare parsley seeds? After all, such spicy greens are no less in demand on the tables than fragrant dill. This procedure is not too different from the one described above, and even a little simpler, since the stage of soaking in hot water... It is enough just to cover the planting material with a damp cloth and leave for several days until sprouts appear.

When cultivating dill in a greenhouse, it should be fed every two months with ammonium nitrate or peat, distributing it at the base of the bushes. The fact that dill lacks nitrogen, you can easily understand by the yellowed leaves.

V final stage growth of dill bushes can reach one meter in height - this must also be taken into account when planning its cultivation in a greenhouse. Carry out the cleaning of greenery gradually, without pulling out the plants entirely from the ground, but simply tearing off their leaves.

For some, this plant grows like a weed, appearing every now and then on the beds occupied by other crops, and someone is puzzled over how to plant dill so that the plants are not so weak and lifeless. Although this culture is considered to be unpretentious and simple enough to grow, not every gardener has it as lush and aromatic as one would like.

Dill is an unpretentious garden crop that grows well in any soil and does not require careful maintenance. It is characterized by the following features:

Given the listed features, it becomes clearer how to plant dill, what place to allocate for it on the site, and what to look for when growing it.

Video: proper cultivation of dill

Presowing seed treatment is a guarantee of friendly shoots

It is known that overwintered seeds germinate better and faster than those sown in spring. It's all to blame for essential oils, which impede seed germination. Therefore, before sowing dill, it is necessary to prepare the seeds properly.

Fold the seeds in a gauze bag and soak for three days in water at a temperature of about +50 degrees. The settled water will need to be drained up to five times a day. This technique will help disinfect the seeds and accelerate the emergence of sprouts.

After processing hot water put the seeds on the same gauze bags, cover with pieces of damp cloth or steamed sawdust and leave for four days at a temperature of +20 degrees, until some seeds sprout. Before sowing, the seeds are slightly dried for half an hour and sown in the soil well-spilled with water.

Additionally, you can carry out hydrothermal aeration of seeds, as well as bubbling during the day in water saturated with oxygen. At home, a compressor from an aquarium is suitable for this purpose.

Before sowing, dill seeds are slightly dried for half an hour and sown in soil well-spilled with water.

If it is important for you to get an early harvest of dill, you can grow seedlings on the windowsill and transplant them into open ground 35 days after planting. There will be more hassle, but you will be able to save seeds and grow much more high-quality, dense greenery.

Growing up on a windowsill is a simple matter, since it does not require special efforts from a person. The main thing is to wisely choose a variety and arrange a place on the windowsill so that the plant can receive a sufficient amount of heat and light. For more information on how to grow dill at home step by step, read our article:

Dill - how to plant it correctly, and in what time frame?

Due to the fact that the plant is able to withstand frosts down to -4 degrees, its seeds can be sown in mid-spring, as soon as the snow melts from the garden. Germination of seeds is possible at a temperature of +3 degrees, and optimum temperature for growing greenery + 15 + 20 degrees.

For an early harvest, dill can be planted in the first decade of April at a suitable temperature, sowing seeds every two weeks to ensure the constant formation of fresh greenery. Most often, in the conditions of the Russian climate, gardeners sow the plant on the twentieth of April.

For an early harvest, planting dill can be started in the first decade of April.

Dill grows best on neutral, loose soil; it is undesirable to grow it on heavy soil. Prepare the garden in the fall so that you can sow seeds early in the spring. Digging up the soil to a depth of 20 cm, add humus and mineral fertilizers to it. In the spring, it remains only to carefully level the surface of the earth, make grooves on it 2 cm deep, leaving 20 cm between rows, moisten the ground and sow seeds. Sprinkle the seeds on top with loose earth, slightly compacting the soil. There is no need to water the crops, otherwise the seeds with water will go deeper than necessary.

How to choose sowing time

Considering the ability of seeds to tolerate frosts down to -5 0 С, their sowing begins immediately after the snow melts in the garden. For middle lane For Russia, this corresponds to the middle - end of April. The upcoming frosts are not scary, because the seedlings will begin to germinate only after a stable temperature is established above 3 degrees. Podwinter sowing in open ground has proven itself well. For this, the soil is prepared 1-2 weeks before the onset of frost: they dig it up, apply fertilizers, remove weeds. Seeds are planted in late October - early November at a depth of 1.5-2 centimeters and a row spacing of 20 cm, and upper layer do not seal. In spring, the seedlings themselves will stretch to the required depth and sprout immediately after the snow cover disappears. This method allows you to get the earliest fresh dill with open ground.
Summer sowing fresh seeds gives noticeably worse results without preliminary preparation... Summer heat has a bad effect on the growth of dill - the plants require constant intensive watering. It is used most often for growing fresh herbs for the table, and spring dill is used for harvesting for the winter.

Choosing neighbors in the garden

Dill plants love correct location in the garden and are sensitive to the choice of neighbors. Planting goes well next to potatoes, cucumbers, cabbage, onions and garlic. Neighborhood with caraway seeds, parsley, carrots is not recommended.

Presowing seed preparation

It is used for summer planting and growing seedlings on the windowsill of the house. It's all about essential oils making it difficult to open the seed coat. Overwintered seeds have no problems with this.
Planting material is prepared as follows:

1. We place the seeds in a gauze bag and soak warm water(about 50 degrees), we change the water several times a day for 3 days. This technique will help get rid of the oily film on the surface of the seeds.
2. We take it out of the water and lay it out on damp gauze, cover it with a cloth or sawdust. We keep them for 4 days, periodically moisturizing. The first shoots should appear.
3. We dry the seeds for half an hour and sow them in the ground. The first shoots will appear in 14 days.

It is very easy to care for plants outdoors. First, to provide high-quality irrigation, best of all drip type. Secondly, do not run the bed with weeds and loosen the soil. Thirdly, regularly apply nitrogen fertilizers, for example, fermented grass, humus.

Cut the greens when they reach 15-20 cm, and the flowering shoots are immediately removed. These measures allow you to get up to 2 crops from one root.

Greenhouse growing of dill

In protected ground, you can get fresh greens all year round. It is enough to provide a temperature of 15-20 degrees and additional lighting in winter. Sodium or phyto-lamps based on LEDs are used as supplementary lamps. These light sources provide the most correct emission spectrum and promote the best growth. And dill is a light-loving plant.

Advice! To turn on artificial lighting, a timer is used, which will illuminate for 2-3 hours in the morning and 3-4 hours in the evening. This is enough for rapid growth.

Advantages of greenhouse growing of dill:

• Year-round production of fresh herbs that can be used for sale;
• Frost protection;
• Convenience of collection and sowing, independence from weather conditions;
• Productivity from one square meter higher than in the open field.

In greenhouses without heating, the first crops can be done as early as March, when there is still snow in the garden. Then fresh and fragrant greens will ripen by the May holidays. For year-round cultivation we need prepared seeds or dill seedlings. This will shorten the time for the ripening of plants.
Growing dill in greenhouse conditions starts with soil preparation and application mineral fertilizers... It is more convenient to fertilize the soil between plantings. The distance between the grooves is no more than 20 cm, and the seeds are rarely planted and thinned out after germination. Caring for plants does not differ from open ground: abundant watering, weeding, cutting off overgrown stems. closed ground it is best to use varieties that can be cut repeatedly. Every two weeks on new bed We sow a small amount of new seeds for a constant supply of fresh herbs. Popular varieties are Gribovsky, Borey, Salut, Umbrella and others.

Winter and subwinter sowing

In order for fresh greens to appear on your table as early as possible, seeds are sown before winter. For this, the garden bed is prepared in the fall, filling with mineral and organic fertilizers. Before the ground freezes, dill is sown, while increasing the seeding rate by 25%, and the seeding depth by one and a half centimeters. The bed is covered with mulch to protect it from crusting, which will prevent the emergence of seedlings. Compact the soil when winter sowing greens are not needed.

Plant growing video

It is also possible to plant dill in winter:

• a bed prepared in advance is freed from snow;
• seeds are scattered on its surface;
• from above the crops are covered with a layer of humus or earth mixed with humus;
• during the spring melting of snow, the seeds are drawn into the ground along with the melt water and soon germinate.

With winter and winter landing it is advisable to throw covering material on crops in the spring, securing it along the edges. Compared with spring plantings dill greens sown in winter or autumn can be cut a week or two earlier.

The article was updated on 30.01.2018