Even in the late autumn, gardeners do not stop planting in their plots. What do tireless workers plant in the winter and does this make sense?
Winter sowing has many advantages:
- Effectively used winter supply of moisture.
- Shoots appear two weeks earlier than when sown in spring. This allows you to collect early crops in areas where the soil warms up slowly.
- After harvesting the ripened vegetables in mid-summer, you can use the beds to get a re-harvest.
- Time is being freed, which is so lacking in the spring.
In addition, many seeds must undergo stratification before germination, and the cold period will only benefit them.
Cons: in root crops that are planted in the winter, the flower arrow begins to grow more often. This is especially true for carrots and beets. There is also a danger that during a sudden thaw, seedlings can grow and die when frost sets in.
What vegetables are planted before winter ?
After harvesting the main crops, you need to prepare the beds for winter crops, stock up with mulch and dry nutrient soil for sprinkling seeds. Sowing itself is done much later: when the air cools down to 0 degrees, and the soil - up to -4 0 C. According to popular beliefs, this time comes when the leaves fall off the cherry.
An important rule: what is planted before winter should be sown with dry seeds in dry land. The main crops for winter crops:
- Parsley. This cold-resistant spice rises for a very long time. Such sowing allows you to get fresh greens earlier for a few weeks.
- Dill, spinach, celery, cabbage and leaf lettuce . They easily tolerate frosts, spring up evenly and amicably. Ripening can be significantly accelerated by using shelter.
- Radishes, turnips, beets . Cold-resistant varieties resistant to shooting are taken for sowing.
- Carrot in winter sowing gets a huge advantage. Its hard-like seeds germinate for a long time and in the spring are forced to compete with the weeds that have grown in growth. Carrots planted in late autumn at the onset of plus temperatures develop rapidly and its delicate sprouts do not strangle weeds.
- Onions and winter garlic are perfectly stored in the ground and give a good harvest. They can also be sown before winter seeds.
What colors are not afraid of frost
The benefits of early vegetables providing the first spring vitamins are obvious. And what can be planted under the winter for the soul, and not for eating? Creating a beautiful garden begins in the fall. Flower seeds will undergo natural stratification and will sprout under favorable weather conditions. When sowing pilots, two points must be taken into account:
- Sowing seeds is possible only in light cultivated soil. On heavy lands, flowers do not grow together and grow poorly.
- The germination rate of such crops is relatively low, therefore, planting is done densely.
It should also be remembered that only cold-resistant flowers are planted in the winter, gentle heat-loving summers are sown in the spring.
A number of plants develop better precisely when sown in late autumn. These are cornflowers, purslane, Iberis, godetia, gypsophila, feverfew, clarkia, eschscholzia, delphiniums.
A good result is given by sowing scabiosis, snapdragon, petunia, Chinese cloves, helihrizum and calendula.
The benefits of this method are obvious: you do not need to grow seedlings, the plants are stronger, stronger and bloom earlier than their greenhouse counterparts. They are more resistant to weather conditions and diseases and have a well-developed root system.