The summer cottage season is over, but that's no reason to be sadgardeners. Until next spring, you can continue to care for plants and harvest from the garden on the windowsill. This is not only an exciting hobby, but also a very healthy one. After all, the harvest grown with your own hands does not contain any chemicals and is also rich in vitamins. Regular consumption of fresh vegetables from your own garden improves and normalizes digestion. And greens added to salads, meat, fish dishes help to digest animal proteins. Indoors on a window or balcony (loggia), you can grow early-ripening leafy and spicy-flavored vegetable crops, as well as cucumbers, tomatoes, sweet or hot peppers, force greens from bulbs, root crops, rhizomes, grow leeks, cauliflower and other vegetables. Seedlings for greenhouses, hotbeds and open ground are grown in the same conditions.
The conditions necessary for the kitchen garden on the windowsill
The main factor that ensures growthplants, as well as the production of vegetables in apartment conditions, is light. Different places in the living space are illuminated differently. The greatest amount of natural light comes to balconies, loggias, verandas, external window sills. On the internal window sill, the intensity of illumination quickly decreases. Windows and balconies facing south, southwest and southeast are better and longer illuminated. If the window has a double frame, the illumination is reduced by half. In late autumn and winter, it is very difficult to create the necessary lighting conditions that most light-loving vegetable plants require. During this period, artificial lighting can be used for them. Sources of such light can be fluorescent lamps of daylight and white light. They give light very close to sunlight, but at the same time emit a small amount of heat and therefore they can be placed near plants. The second important condition for a rich harvest, which a vegetable garden on a windowsill will bring, is the ambient air temperature. It directly depends on several factors: the outside air temperature, the heating method, the number of windows, the thickness of the external walls and the properties of the building materials used. Therefore, it is very important to monitor the temperature, protecting the vegetable garden and the garden on the windowsill from overheating, frost and cold snaps. The next condition is air humidity, which should be above 60 ° C. It can be regulated by ventilating the room in which the plants are located. You can increase the humidity by placing a container with water or damp sand in the vegetable garden, spraying the plants with water, and also using room humidifiers. It is very important to water the plants in the home vegetable garden correctly and on time. This should be done with tap water, snow or rain water, as well as water from springs or wells. The cleanest and best water for watering indoor plants is snow and rain water. It has a slightly acidic or neutral reaction and does not contain harmful salts. For a good harvest, it is also important to use the right soil for each type of plant and feed them with fertilizers on time.
Garden and garden on the windowsill of the kindergarten
Growing vegetables indoors is beneficialand also because it promotes the development of curiosity and observation in children, it helps to better understand plant life. This interest is often used in preschool institutions, growing a vegetable garden on the windowsill for children, photos of its original design remain in the archive of the kindergarten. Since this vegetable garden turns out different every year thanks to different decorations and the imagination of children and teachers. Very often competitions are held between groups, whose vegetable garden turned out to be more beautiful. In the competition mode, children's imagination develops even more. All the plants in the home garden look elegant and go well with decorative indoor plants. They originally decorate everyday life and give everyone aesthetic pleasure. We recommend reading:
