The summer season is closed, but this is not a reason for sadnessgardeners. Until the next spring, you can continue to care for the plants and harvest from the garden on the windowsill. This is not only an exciting, but also very useful for your health hobby. After all, the harvest, grown by own hands, does not contain any chemicals, and is also rich in vitamins. Regular intake of fresh vegetables from your garden improves and normalizes the digestive process. And the greens, added to salads, meat dishes, fish dishes help the assimilation of proteins of animal origin. In the room conditions on the window or balcony (loggias), one can grow early ripening leafy and spicy-flavored vegetable crops, as well as cucumber, tomato, sweet or hot pepper, squeeze greens from bulbs, root crops, rhizomes, grow leeks, cauliflower and others vegetables. In the same conditions, sprouts are grown for greenhouses, greenhouses and open ground.
The conditions necessary for the kitchen garden on the windowsill
The main factor that provides growthplants, as well as getting vegetables in the apartment conditions, is light. Different places in the living room are not illuminated differently. The greatest amount of natural light enters the balconies, loggias, verandas, window sills. On the inner window sill, the intensity of illumination decreases rapidly. Windows and balconies facing south, south-west and south-east are better and longer illuminated. If the window has a double frame, then the illumination is reduced by half. In the late autumn and winter it is very difficult to create the necessary lighting conditions that are required for most light-weight vegetable plants. During this period, artificial lighting can be used for them. The sources of such light may be fluorescent fluorescent lamps and white light. They give light very close to solar, but they emit a small amount of heat and therefore they can be placed near plants. The second important condition for a rich harvest, which will bring a vegetable garden on the windowsill, is the ambient temperature. It directly depends on several factors: the temperature of the outside air, the method of heating, 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 garden and garden on the windowsill from overheating, frosts and cold snaps. The next condition is the humidity of the air, which should be above the 60 ° C mark. It can be adjusted by ventilating the room in which the plants are located. Increase the humidity can be by placing in the garden kitchen utensils with water or raw sand, spraying plants with water, as well as using room humidifiers. It is very important to properly and in time water the plants in the home garden. Do it with tap water, snow or rain water, as well as water from springs or wells. The cleanest and best for watering indoor plants is snow and rain water. It has a weakly acid 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 in time to feed them with fertilizers. 
Garden and garden on the windowsill of the kindergarten
Growing vegetables in living areas is useful moreand the fact that it contributes to the development of curiosity and observation in children, it helps to better know the plant life. This interest is often used in preschool institutions, growing a garden on the windowsill for children, photos of its original design remain in the archive of the kindergarten. Since this garden every year turns out different due to various scenery and imagination of children and educators. Very often competitions are held between groups whose garden turned out to be more beautiful. In the mode of competition, children develop fantasy even more. All the plants in the home garden look elegant and perfectly combined with decorative indoor plants. They are an original decorate the life and each aesthetic pleasure. We advise you to read:
