How to grow dill and parsley on the windowsill

Dill and parsley are the most beloved and familiar herbs on our table. If you want to always have fresh greenery on hand, be confident in its quality and just start a pleasant hobby, then we suggest you create your own mini-garden.

In this article you will find 3 step by step instructions on how to grow dill and parsley on a windowsill.

How to grow dill at home

Dill - an annual plant, so quickly get a crop, planting roots or bulbs, will not work.

• To grow dill from home seeds, you will need 5-8 weeks.

But you can put him in an apartment at any time of the year. True, from October to early spring, dill requires additional lighting with fluorescent lamps. The best time to grow dill on the windowsill is from March to August. At this time, it is easier to care for the plant, and it is not necessary to create additional lighting.

What we need:

1. Pot or container with a depth of 15-20 cm and with drainage holes at the bottom.
2. Soil for indoor plants and preferably garden soil.
3. Water in the spray.
4. Fluorescent lamps (if you grow dill in winter).
5. Seeds.

Step 1. Seed preparation

In order for the seeds to sprout faster and better, they must first be soaked in warm water for 24-48 hours, changing the water every 12 hours. Then the seeds that remain on the surface of the water, you need to select and throw out, because, most likely, they are not suitable for planting. All other seeds that have fallen to the bottom must be removed using a sieve or shed through gauze and dried on it.

Step 2. Soil preparation

While the seeds are soaked, you can do the preparation of the soil. To start, put a 2-3 cm drainage layer of expanded clay on the bottom of the pot or container. As a soil for dill fit a mixture of garden soil (it is best to prepare in the fall) and the soil for indoor plants. If you do not have the opportunity to purchase good garden soil, soil the purchased soil with biohumus in a ratio of 1: 4. Another suitable option is a mixture of biohumus with coco fiber in a 1: 2 ratio. Keep in mind that the better and looser the soil, the more chances you get a good result.

Step 3. Sowing Seeds

Now you need to irrigate the ground with water from a spray, dig small grooves 1-1.5 cm deep in it, sow the seeds in them, then sprinkle them lightly with earth from the edges of the grooves and moisten the earth again with water from an atomizer.

• It is important that the grooves are shallow, and the seeds are not too densely sprinkled.

Now it remains to cover the pot with plastic wrap or a bag and leave to germinate for a week in a dark place where the air temperature does not exceed 18-20 degrees. When the seedlings appear, pull out the extra shoots so that an interval of 3 cm is formed between the remaining sprouts, and then place the pot on the window sill.

Step 4. Create additional lighting

Dill is a plant native to the sunny Mediterranean and cannot grow without light. And the light for it is much more important than heat. When growing dill at home from March to August, the sowing pot can simply be put on a well-lit window sill.

• Dill should get enough sunlight for at least 6 hours a day. On cloudy days, it is desirable to light up the plants. If in the room where your mini-garden grows, the air temperature exceeds 20 degrees, it is also desirable to highlight.

In order to grow dill on a window sill in the winter, it is necessary to provide it with additional illumination with white spectrum fluorescent lamps, setting them at a height of 50 cm above the crops.

• In winter, artificial lighting of plants with fluorescent lamps should last at least 12 hours a day.

Step 5. Take care of the harvest

Well, that's all, it remains only to provide the plant proper care and wait 30-40 days before harvesting the first crop. Here are some rules and tips that will be useful to you during this period:

• In the summer, dill should be watered frequently, preventing the soil from drying out, and in the winter - moderately, waiting for the soil to dry after the last watering.
• To make the dill juicy, spray it daily with water.
• For irrigation, use only separated water at room temperature, otherwise dill will become sick and yellow. In winter, you can use snow-melted water.
• The ideal temperature for growing dill on the windowsill + 15- + 18 degrees. Minimum permissible: +8 degrees. Maximum allowable: +25 degrees.
• If the soil in which you planted dill was not of sufficiently good quality, it is recommended to feed it with Fertilizer Agrolife (1 p / mo for 1 tsp. In the upper layer of the earth) or Biohumus (pour into the aisle or around the stalks 1 time in two month at the rate of 2-3 tablespoons per pot).
• Since the leaves and stalks of dill do not grow after cutting, in order to get a crop regularly you need to plant seeds every three weeks.

Below is a video tutorial on how to grow dill on a windowsill in winter.

How to grow parsley on the windowsill

So, we dealt with dill, it's time to get instructions on how to grow parsley on the windowsill. In many respects, the rules of sowing and care are similar, but still differ, because parsley, though later sprouting, is less demanding on light and soil quality than dill.

In addition, to grow parsley at home in two ways:

• With the help of sowing seeds.
• With the help of sowing root crops.

Growing parsley from seeds

First you need to choose seeds. Which varieties to choose? To grow parsley on the windowsill, home gardeners most often choose early-ripening varieties, which give the crop earlier than others for 10-14 days.

Step 1. Wrap the seeds in a wet gauze, leave them to germinate for 2-3 days in a warm place, and then squeeze the gauze and dry the seeds. If desired, after squeezing the gauze, you can put it in the freezer (at a temperature not lower than zero) for a month, then the seeds will germinate faster.

Step 2. Prepare the soil according to Step 2 from the instructions above and moisten it well.

Step 3. Then start planting: “penetrate” the grooves with a depth of 0.5-1 cm, sow the seeds (quite often), sprinkle them with earth from the edges of the grooves and moisten the earth with water from a spray.

Step 4. Next, you need to leave the crops warm (at a temperature of 19-20 degrees) until the first shoots, that is, about 14-20 days. At this time, water should be sown every other day in moderation. Covering the container with a film at this stage is not necessary.

• Parsley must be watered with distilled or boiled water.

Step 5. When the first shoots appear, pull out the extra sprouts so that there is an interval of about 4-5 cm between the remaining ones.

Step 6. Now that young sprouts have appeared, watering can be slightly increased, but not allowed to dry out or, conversely, overflow the soil. However, when growing parsley on a window sill in winter, it should be watered moderately, waiting for the soil to dry out.

• Ideally, at this stage, the temperature should be lowered to + 15– + 18 degrees, for example, by opening the window. At night, the window can be opened at all to lower the temperature to the optimum 10-12 degrees Celsius.
• If the land was purchased, the plants can be periodically fertilized with complex mineral fertilizers or solutions 1 time in one or two months according to the instructions.
• In summer, parsley can be grown on the balcony until the air temperature drops to 0 degrees.

Step 7. From early spring and in summer time, the parsley growing on the windowsill suffices sunlight (at least 4 hours a day), and in winter it should be illuminated with a fluorescent lamp. Lamps can be installed at a height of 50-60 cm, and they should shine at least 8 hours a day.

Step 8. The first harvest can be harvested 2 months after the appearance of the first shoots. Cut the twigs need not under the root, and leaving 5-centimeter scapes.

When the parsley is already sufficiently grown, it can be cut. It is believed that the optimal "maturity" - branches with a height of 10-12 cm. The disadvantages of this method: a lot of trouble. In addition, the first harvest will be only after 1.5 months. But grow such parsley will be longer than a year!

How to plant parsley root vegetables

What is the cultivation of parsley on the window sill of root vegetables better than the first method? First of all, the fact that you do not need to wait 2 weeks before germination of the first shoots.

To do this, you need to prepare a tank with a depth of 15-20 cm and soil according to Step 2 from the first instruction. Then you just need to transplant the parsley into a moist soil rather tightly, and so that only the heads are visible. Finally, pour over settled water. It is desirable in the first days after transplanting parsley from the bed to keep it cool in the glazed balcony, and when shoots appear, move the mini-bed to the windowsill.

• The best time for forcing the garden parsley into the pot is the end of October, but it is possible at another time. The ideal size of root crops is 5 cm in length and 2-4 cm thick.
• If you do not have your own bed with parsley, you can buy root vegetables in the store.
• Parsley should be watered in moderation, waiting for the soil to dry out.
• When the parsley begins to grow actively, start watering it more often and more abundantly.

We offer to see a visual instruction how to grow parsley on the windowsill (root) in the next video.

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