How to grow dill parsley at home?

In winter and at the beginning of spring, a person really needs vitamins: fruits and vegetables have practically ended since last year, and it is still far from harvesting a new crop. And there is only one way out in such cases - to grow fresh herbs right on the windowsill. This is not only useful, but also pleasant, especially since you can grow both green onions and celery, dill, parsley, cilantro and various salads in winter. And today we will tell you just about how to plant dill and parsley on the windowsill.

Growing dill and parsley on a windowsill

Let's start with a brief description of these cultures.

Dill

It is known primarily for being a strong antioxidant, and it also removes toxins from the skin due to its high content of ascorbic acid. In addition, regular consumption of dill enhances gastrointestinal motility, increases appetite, normalizes metabolic processes, reduces blood pressure, and so on.

Growing dill

If dill grows in the garden on almost any type of soil, then for cultivation on the windowsill you will need a fertile soil mixture, which you need to prepare yourself (more details on this will be discussed later).

Parsley

Parsley is another rich source of vitamins and minerals. The plant is stored for a long time in freezing (about one year), but it does not lose its useful properties. Parsley is not only eaten, but also used for cosmetic purposes, due to the high content of vitamin A.

Parsley on the windowsill

Despite the fact that the growing procedure for both parsley and dill is practically the same, it is recommended not to sow the first one in winter, but to grow it with the help of root crops. Instructions for sowing both plants will be given below, but in fairness, now we will briefly consider the features of growing parsley from root crops.

You can also grow parsley from root vegetables

You can get root vegetables in one of two possible ways:

• purchase them in the market or in a specialized store;
• dig up in the garden in the fall, and then store in the refrigerator in a plastic bag on a vegetable shelf.

Note! It is very important that the root diameter is at least two to three centimeters.If the roots are too long, then they should be cut off, wait a while (the cut off part should be hardened) and only then start planting. Otherwise, the roots will simply rot.

The roots are planted in specially equipped boxes, always in rows (the distance between the latter should be nine to ten centimeters). The distance between the plants themselves should vary within three to four centimeters. If desired, instead of boxes, you can use flower pots 13-14 centimeters high - in this case, several root crops should be planted in each pot at once. It is also important that the top of the head is not covered with earth during planting.

Selection and planting of root crops

Parsley should be watered only once a week, since this culture cannot stand an excess of moisture. The water used for irrigation must be settled and always at room temperature.

Seedlings require regular watering

After each application of moisture, the earth is loosened. Containers with parsley should be placed on light windowsills - in this case, the first greens can be cut off after three to four weeks.

Light must suffice for parsley

Actually, that's all. Now let's get acquainted with the peculiarities of planting these crops on the windowsill.

Planting parsley and dill

Is it worth growing dill in an apartment

Let's make a reservation right away that there are no special varieties intended specifically for "window sill" cultivation in nature, therefore, when buying seed, you should pay attention, first of all, to the ripening time. It is very important not to be mistaken with the choice: of course, early varieties quickly give green mass, but they also stretch quickly into flower stalks, besides, they are not as leafy as early ripening crops. As for the late varieties, they do not ripen in the beds during the summer, but they are excellent for home cultivation. Now - directly to the workflow.

Stage one. We prepare everything you need

You should start by preparing everything that is required for cultivation. For the convenience of visitors, the information is given in the form of a table.

Table. What is required in the work

Boxes or pots	These are simple containers (made of ceramic or plastic), the same ones used for flowers. If pots were chosen, then their volume should be one to two liters (the specific figure depends on how much greenery will be grown). The bottom of each container must necessarily have holes to drain excess liquid.
Drainage	Expanded clay drainage, for example, can be easily purchased at any specialty store.
The soil Coconut pills	It is desirable that it contains vermicompost. There is an alternative - the use of coconut tablets, but this method is more expensive.
Potassium permanganate	With its help, you need to pickle the seeds. Yes, today it is far from everywhere possible to purchase potassium permanganate, therefore, several alternative options will be given in the text.

After preparing everything you need, you can start pickling the beans.

Stage two. Seed preparation

Planting dill includes proper seed preparation, it begins a few days before sowing

Dill Gribovsky

If the seeds are more than two to three years old, then they should be soaked in warm water overnight. In the morning, the water must be drained, and the seeds themselves must be soaked in a heated solution of potassium permanganate (the color should be bright pink) for about two hours. This is necessary in order to disinfect the grains - the plants after processing will not hurt.

Soak the seeds

If it was not possible to purchase potassium permanganate, then you can use one of the following methods.

Method one... Use a 2 or 3 percent hydrogen peroxide solution. It should be preheated to a temperature of 38-40 degrees, after which the seeds should be soaked in it for about six to eight minutes.

Hydrogen peroxide

Method two... Use of boric acid. In this case, you need to dilute ½ teaspoon of acid in a glass of water. The seeds should be soaked in the resulting solution for two to three hours, while the temperature should vary within 25-30 degrees. After dressing, the seeds are thoroughly rinsed under the tap.

Boric acid

Stage three. Sowing seeds

While the seeds are pickling, you can start preparing the pots. The algorithm of actions should be as follows.

Step one... Expanded clay drainage is poured to the bottom with a layer of two to three centimeters.

Backfilled drainage

Step two... Soil is poured over the drainage, not reaching the upper edge about three or four centimeters. The soil is abundantly watered with pre-settled water. Everything, containers are ready for further sowing.

Step three... After dressing the seeds, the potassium permanganate is drained, and they themselves are laid out on a piece of gauze to drain the remaining liquid.

Note! It is necessary to leave for sowing only the seeds that sank to the bottom during soaking. The fact is that the seeds left afloat will have a low germination rate.

Step four... Dried seeds are sown in pots. This can be done in the usual way, that is, simply sprinkle them with a pinch, or plant them in any convenient order - in a checkerboard pattern, in rows, etc.

Sowing dill

Step four. A layer of soil with a maximum thickness of two centimeters is poured over the seeds, after which you can additionally water a little.

Step five... The pots are covered with cling film or PET bags to create a greenhouse effect. Then they are placed on the windowsill. It is important that the optimal temperature for germination is maintained in the room - it is about 18 degrees.

Cover the container with the sown seeds with foil

The pots can now be left alone until the first shoots are formed. For parsley it takes no more than two weeks, for dill it takes from seven to ten days.

Stage four. Further care

When shoots appear, the film must be removed.

Dill seedlings

Further care of plants is to comply with standard requirements.

1. Water should be moderate but regular during the first month. In summer, watering should be abundant, and in winter, again moderate.
2. Dill "loves" spraying with a spray bottle, even with ordinary tap water.
3. Plants need to be provided with enough sunlight - at least three to four hours a day. It is for this reason that the seeds are best sown in the spring (around March).
4. Growing temperature should be 18 degrees (+/- 2). Although dill is able to withstand a drop in temperature up to eight degrees, which means that this culture can be bred on a balcony (that must be glazed) until late autumn.
5. Rotate the pots 180 degrees daily, otherwise the stems will stretch to one side.

   Further care for dill

Note! Three to four weeks after germination, it is advisable to add soil a few more centimeters. Such a simple action will replace picking, that is, germinating seeds in small cups, followed by transplanting them into larger pots.

Actually, this is all you need to know about caring for parsley and dill. Now all that remains is to wait for the harvest, which will appear in 1.5 months (for parsley) and five weeks (for dill) after the introduction of seeds. As for overseeding, in our case it is not required, since the described crops yield a harvest throughout the year.

Not only beautiful, but also delicious greens in the house

Video - Growing dill in the winter

Growing dill and parsley in eggshell

Eggshells, which account for thousands of tons of waste annually, are 95-97% calcium carbonate. In addition, it contains nitrogen, calcium and phosphoric acid - everything that plants need for development. For this reason, the shell is actively used in horticulture.It can also be used to grow parsley and dill on a windowsill.

You can grow greens right in the eggshell

The procedure itself is not complicated and consists of several simple steps.

Step one... First, the shell is prepared - it needs to be washed and dried.

We wash the shell

Step two... A small hole is made in the lower part of the shell, through which excess liquid will be removed.

Step three... The shell is ½ filled with soil.

We fill the shells with soil

Step four... A few seeds are placed inside, on top of which a little more soil is poured.

Step five... On the shell, you can write with a marker which plant is planted there.

Step six... The shell is placed in an egg tray, which is placed on the windowsill. From time to time, plants need to be watered with a small amount of settled water.

Don't forget to water the sprouts

In this case, of course, it is not worth waiting for large bushes, but the shell will play the role of additional fertilizer and provide plants with useful elements.

Useful Tips

Video - Growing parsley on a windowsill

Dill and parsley are the most favorite and familiar herbs on our table. If you want to always have fresh greens at hand, be sure of their quality and just have a pleasant hobby, then we suggest creating your own mini-home garden.

In this resource, 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 is an annual plant, so you won't be able to quickly get a harvest by planting roots or bulbs.

• It takes 5-8 weeks to grow dill from seed at home.

But you can plant it 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 there is no need to create additional lighting for this.

What we need:

1. A pot or container 15-20 cm deep with drainage holes at the bottom.
2. Soil for indoor plants and preferably garden soil.
3. Spray water.
4. Fluorescent lamps (if you grow dill in the winter).
5. Seeds.

Which varieties are more suitable for growing dill at home: early ripening, mid-ripening or late-ripening?

• If you want to quickly get greens or umbrellas and seeds for conservation, then choose the early varieties Gribovsky or Grenadier. They will give a crop quickly, but, unfortunately, it will not turn out to be rich (4-6 leaves), and soon after the leaves appear, the early ripe dill will begin to bloom.
• Mid-season varieties (Richelieu, Umbrella, Kibray) will produce greens about 10 days later, but there will be more of it (6-10 leaves).
• Late-ripening bush varieties of dill (Alligator, Russian Gigant, Buyan) yield a harvest later, but the richest in leaves (more than 10). Perhaps this option is most suitable for obtaining fresh greens.

Step 1. Seed preparation

In order for the seeds to germinate 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 must be selected and thrown away, since, most likely, they are not suitable for planting. All other seeds that have fallen to the bottom must be removed with a sieve or spilled through cheesecloth and dried on it.

Step 2. Preparing the soil

While the seeds are soaking, you can start preparing the soil. To get started, fill the bottom of the pot or container with a 2–3 cm thick expanded clay drainage layer. As a soil for dill, a mixture of garden soil (it is better to prepare it in the fall) and soil for indoor flowers is suitable. If you do not have the opportunity to purchase good garden soil, season the purchased soil with vermicompost in a ratio of 1: 4. Another suitable option is a mixture of vermicompost with cocoa fiber in a 1: 2 ratio.Keep in mind that the better and looser the soil, the more likely you are to 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 seeds in them, then lightly sprinkle them with earth from the edges of the grooves and again moisten the ground with water from a spray bottle.

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

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 shoots appear, pull out the extra shoots so that there is an interval of 3 cm between the remaining shoots, and then place the pot on the windowsill.

Step 4. Create additional lighting

Dill is a plant native to the sunny Mediterranean and cannot grow without light. Moreover, light for him is much more important than heat. When growing dill at home from March to August, the seed pot can simply be placed on a well-lit windowsill.

• The dill should get enough sunlight for at least 6 hours a day. On cloudy days, it is advisable to supplement the plants with lamps. If in the room where your mini-garden grows, the air temperature exceeds 20 degrees, it is also advisable to highlight it.

To grow dill on a windowsill in winter, you need to provide it with additional lighting 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. Taking care of the harvest

Well, that's all, it remains only to provide the plant with proper care and wait 30-40 days before harvesting the first harvest. Here are some rules and tips that will come in handy during this period:

• In summer, dill should be watered often, preventing the soil from drying out, and in winter - moderately, waiting for the soil to dry out after the last watering.
• To make the dill juicy, spray it with water every day.
• For watering, use only settled water at room temperature, otherwise the dill will get sick and turn yellow. In winter, you can use the water melted from the snow.
• The ideal temperature for growing dill on the windowsill is + 15- + 18 degrees. Minimum allowable: +8 degrees. Maximum allowable: +25 degrees.
• If the soil in which you planted the dill was not of good quality, it is recommended to feed it with Agrolife fertilizers (1 r. / Month, 1 tsp. In the top layer of the earth) or Vermicompost (add in the aisle or around the stems 1 time in two months at the rate of 2-3 tbsp. l per pot).
• Since the leaves and stems of dill do not grow back after cutting, in order to regularly get a harvest, you need to plant seeds every three weeks.

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

Also see our other materials:

How to grow parsley on a windowsill

So, we figured out the dill, it's time for instructions on how to grow parsley on the windowsill. In many ways, the rules for their sowing and care are similar, but still different, since parsley, although it sprouts later, is less demanding on light and soil quality than dill.

In addition, there are two ways to grow parsley at home:

• By sowing seeds.
• By sowing root crops.

Growing parsley from seeds

First you need to select the seeds. What varieties to choose? To grow parsley on the windowsill, home gardeners most often choose early-maturing varieties that yield 10-14 days earlier than others.

We recommend planting the following early varieties:

• Curly parsley: Moscaruse and Astra.
• Flat parsley: Irinka, Italian hero, Laika, Russian feast, Plain.

Step 1. Wrap the seeds in damp 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 of the instructions above and moisten it well.

Step 3. Then start planting: "dig" grooves 0.5-1 cm deep, sow the seeds (quite often), sprinkle them with earth from the edges of the grooves and moisten the ground with water from the spray.

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

• Water the parsley with settled or boiled water.

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

Parsley shoots

Step 6. Now that young shoots have appeared, watering can be slightly increased, but not to allow the soil to dry out or, conversely, overflow. However, when growing parsley on a windowsill in winter, water it sparingly, 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 completely in order to lower the temperature to the optimal 10-12 degrees Celsius.
• If the land was purchased, then the plants can be periodically fertilized with complex mineral fertilizers or solutions 1 time in one to 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, parsley growing on the windowsill has enough sunlight (at least 4 hours a day), and in winter it needs to be illuminated with a fluorescent lamp. The lamps can be installed at a height of 50-60 cm, and they should shine for at least 8 hours a day.

Step 8. The first crop can be harvested 2 months after the first shoots appear. You need to cut off the branches not at the root, but leaving 5-centimeter petioles.

Parsley cut

When the parsley is old enough, you can cut it off. It is believed that the optimal "maturity" is twigs 10-12 cm high. Disadvantages of this method: a lot of trouble. In addition, the first harvest will only take place in 1.5 months. But such parsley will grow for more than a year!

How to plant parsley with root vegetables

Why growing parsley on a windowsill from root crops is better than the first method? First of all, the fact that you do not need to wait 2 weeks before the germination of the first shoots.

To do this, you need to prepare a container 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 rather tightly into the moist soil, and so that only the heads are visible. And finally, pour with settled water. It is advisable in the first days after transplanting parsley from the garden to keep it cool on the glazed balcony, and when shoots appear, transfer the mini-garden to the windowsill.

• The best time for forcing garden parsley in a pot is at the end of October, but you can also at other times. The ideal size for root crops is 5 cm in length and 2-4 cm in thickness.
• If you don't have your own parsley garden, you can buy root vegetables at the store.
• Water the parsley in moderation, waiting for the soil to dry.
• When the parsley starts to grow actively, water it more often and abundantly.

We suggest looking at a visual instruction on how to grow parsley on a windowsill (root) in the next video.

Dill and parsley are the most beloved and familiar herbs on our table. If you want to always have fresh greens at hand, be sure of their quality and just have a pleasant hobby, then we suggest creating your own mini-home garden.

In this resource, 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 is an annual plant, so you won't be able to quickly get a harvest by planting roots or bulbs.

• It takes 5-8 weeks to grow dill from seed at home.

But you can plant it 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 there is no need to create additional lighting for this.

What we need:

1. A pot or container 15-20 cm deep with drainage holes at the bottom.
2. Soil for indoor plants and preferably garden soil.
3. Spray water.
4. Fluorescent lamps (if you grow dill in the winter).
5. Seeds.

Which varieties are more suitable for growing dill at home: early ripening, mid-ripening or late-ripening?

• If you want to quickly get greens or umbrellas and seeds for conservation, then choose the early varieties Gribovsky or Grenadier. They will give a crop quickly, but, unfortunately, it will not turn out to be rich (4-6 leaves), and soon after the leaves appear, the early ripe dill will begin to bloom.
• Mid-season varieties (Richelieu, Umbrella, Kibray) will produce greens about 10 days later, but there will be more (6-10 leaves).
• Late-ripening bush varieties of dill (Alligator, Russian Gigant, Buyan) give a harvest later, but the richest in leaves (more than 10). Perhaps this option is most suitable for obtaining fresh greens.

Step 1. Seed preparation

In order for the seeds to germinate 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 must be selected and thrown away, since, most likely, they are not suitable for planting. All other seeds that have fallen to the bottom must be removed with a sieve or spilled through cheesecloth and dried on it.

Step 2. Preparing the soil

While the seeds are soaking, you can start preparing the soil. Start by pouring a 2–3 cm thick expanded clay drainage layer onto the bottom of the pot or container. As a soil for dill, a mixture of garden soil (it is better to prepare it in the fall) and soil for indoor flowers is suitable. If you do not have the opportunity to purchase good garden land, season the purchased soil with vermicompost in a ratio of 1: 4. Another suitable option is a mixture of vermicompost with cocoa fiber in a 1: 2 ratio. Keep in mind that the better and looser the soil, the more likely you are to 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 seeds in them, then lightly sprinkle them with earth from the edges of the grooves and again moisten the ground with water from a spray bottle.

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

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 shoots appear, pull out the extra shoots so that there is an interval of 3 cm between the remaining shoots, and then place the pot on the windowsill.

Step 4. Create additional lighting

Dill is a plant native to the sunny Mediterranean and cannot grow without light. Moreover, light for him is much more important than heat. When growing dill at home from March to August, the seed pot can simply be placed on a well-lit windowsill.

• The dill should get enough sunlight for at least 6 hours a day. On cloudy days, it is advisable to supplement the plants with lamps. If in the room where your mini-garden grows, the air temperature exceeds 20 degrees, it is also advisable to highlight it.

To grow dill on a windowsill in winter, you need to provide it with additional lighting 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. Taking care of the harvest

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

• In summer, dill should be watered often, preventing the soil from drying out, and in winter - moderately, waiting for the soil to dry out after the last watering.
• To make the dill juicy, spray it with water every day.
• For watering, use only settled water at room temperature, otherwise the dill will get sick and turn yellow. In winter, you can use the water melted from the snow.
• The ideal temperature for growing dill on the windowsill is + 15- + 18 degrees. Minimum allowable: +8 degrees. Maximum allowable: +25 degrees.
• If the soil in which you planted the dill was not of good quality, it is recommended to feed it with Agrolife fertilizers (1 r. / Month, 1 tsp. In the top layer of the earth) or Vermicompost (add in the aisle or around the stems 1 time in two months at the rate of 2-3 tbsp. l per pot).
• Since the leaves and stems of dill do not grow back after cutting, in order to regularly get a harvest, you need to plant seeds every three weeks.

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

Also see our other materials:

How to grow parsley on a windowsill

So, we figured out the dill, it's time for instructions on how to grow parsley on the windowsill. In many ways, the rules for their sowing and care are similar, but still different, since parsley, although it sprouts later, is less demanding on light and soil quality than dill.

In addition, there are two ways to grow parsley at home:

• By sowing seeds.
• By sowing root crops.

Growing parsley from seeds

First you need to select the seeds. What varieties to choose? To grow parsley on the windowsill, home gardeners most often choose early-maturing varieties that yield 10-14 days earlier than others.

We recommend planting the following early varieties:

• Curly parsley: Moscaruse and Astra.
• Flat parsley: Irinka, Italian hero, Laika, Russian feast, Plain.

Step 1. Wrap the seeds in damp 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 of the instructions above and moisten it well.

Step 3. Then start planting: "dig" grooves 0.5-1 cm deep, sow the seeds (quite often), sprinkle them with earth from the edges of the grooves and moisten the ground with water from the spray.

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

• Water the parsley with settled or boiled water.

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

Parsley shoots

Step 6. Now that young shoots have appeared, watering can be slightly increased, but not to allow the soil to dry out or, conversely, overflow. However, when growing parsley on a windowsill in winter, water it sparingly, waiting for the soil to dry out.

• Ideally, at this stage, the temperature should be lowered to + 15– + 18 degrees, for example, by opening a window. At night, the window can be completely opened in order to lower the temperature to the optimal 10-12 degrees Celsius.
• If the land was purchased, then the plants can be periodically fertilized with complex mineral fertilizers or solutions 1 time in one to 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, parsley growing on the windowsill has enough sunlight (at least 4 hours a day), and in winter it needs to be illuminated with a fluorescent lamp. The lamps can be installed at a height of 50-60 cm, and they should shine for at least 8 hours a day.

Step 8. The first crop can be harvested 2 months after the first shoots appear. You need to cut off the branches not at the root, but leaving 5-centimeter petioles.

Parsley cut

When the parsley is old enough, you can cut it off. It is believed that the optimal "maturity" is twigs 10-12 cm high. Disadvantages of this method: a lot of trouble. In addition, the first harvest will only take place in 1.5 months. But such parsley will grow for more than a year!

How to plant parsley with root vegetables

Why growing parsley on a windowsill from root crops is 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 container 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 rather tightly into the moist soil, and so that only the heads remain visible. And finally, pour with settled water. It is advisable in the first days after transplanting parsley from the garden to keep it cool on the glazed balcony, and when shoots appear, transfer the mini-garden to the windowsill.

• The best time for forcing garden parsley in a pot is at the end of October, but you can also at other times. The ideal size for root crops is 5 cm in length and 2-4 cm in thickness.
• If you don't have your own parsley garden, you can buy root vegetables at the store.
• Water the parsley in moderation, waiting for the soil to dry.
• When the parsley starts to grow actively, water it more often and abundantly.

We suggest looking at a visual instruction on how to grow parsley on a windowsill (root) in the next video.

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In winter and at the beginning of spring, a person really needs vitamins: fruits and vegetables have practically ended since last year, and it is still far from harvesting a new crop. And there is only one way out in such cases - to grow fresh herbs right on the windowsill. This is not only useful, but also pleasant, especially since you can grow both green onions and celery, dill, parsley, cilantro and various salads in winter. And today we will tell you just about how to plant dill and parsley on the windowsill.

Growing dill and parsley on a windowsill

Let's start with a brief description of these cultures.

Dill

It is known primarily for being a strong antioxidant, and it also removes toxins from the skin due to its high content of ascorbic acid. In addition, regular consumption of dill enhances gastrointestinal motility, increases appetite, normalizes metabolic processes, reduces blood pressure, and so on.

Growing dill

If dill grows in the garden on almost any type of soil, then for cultivation on the windowsill you will need a fertile soil mixture, which you need to prepare yourself (more details on this will be discussed later).

Parsley

Parsley is another rich source of vitamins and minerals. The plant is stored for a long time in freezing (about one year), but it does not lose its useful properties. Parsley is not only eaten, but also used for cosmetic purposes, due to the high content of vitamin A.

Parsley on the windowsill

Despite the fact that the growing procedure for both parsley and dill is practically the same, it is recommended not to sow the first one in winter, but to grow it with the help of root crops.Instructions for sowing both plants will be given below, but in fairness, now we will briefly consider the features of growing parsley from root crops.

You can also grow parsley from root vegetables

You can get root vegetables in one of two possible ways:

• purchase them in the market or in a specialized store;
• dig up in the garden in the fall, and then store in the refrigerator in a plastic bag on a vegetable shelf.

Note! It is very important that the root diameter is at least two to three centimeters. If the roots are too long, then they should be cut off, wait a while (the cut off part should be hardened) and only after that start planting. Otherwise, the roots will simply rot.

The roots are planted in specially equipped boxes, always in rows (the distance between the latter should be nine to ten centimeters). The distance between the plants themselves should vary within three to four centimeters. If desired, instead of boxes, you can use flower pots 13-14 centimeters high - in this case, several root crops should be planted in each pot at once. It is also important that the top of the head is not covered with earth during planting.

Selection and planting of root crops

Parsley should be watered only once a week, since this culture cannot stand an excess of moisture. The water used for irrigation must be settled and always at room temperature.

Seedlings require regular watering

After each application of moisture, the earth is loosened. Containers with parsley should be placed on light-colored windowsills - in this case, the first greens can be cut off after three to four weeks.

Light must suffice for parsley

Actually, that's all. Now let's get acquainted with the peculiarities of planting these crops on the windowsill.

Planting parsley and dill

Is it worth growing dill in an apartment

Let's make a reservation right away that there are no special varieties intended specifically for "window-sill" cultivation in nature, therefore, when buying seed, you should pay attention, first of all, to the ripening time. It is very important not to be mistaken with the choice: of course, early varieties quickly give green mass, but they also stretch quickly into flower stalks, moreover, they are not as leafy as early ripening crops. As for the late varieties, they do not ripen in the beds during the summer, but they are excellent for home cultivation. Now - directly to the workflow.

Stage one. We prepare everything you need

You should start by preparing everything that is required for cultivation. For the convenience of visitors, the information is given in the form of a table.

Table. What is required in the work

Boxes or pots	These are simple containers (made of ceramic or plastic), the same ones used for flowers. If pots were chosen, then their volume should be one to two liters (the specific figure depends on how much greenery will be grown). The bottom of each container must necessarily have holes for removing excess liquid.
Drainage	Expanded clay drainage, for example, can be easily purchased at any specialty store.
The soil Coconut pills	It is desirable that it contains vermicompost. There is an alternative - the use of coconut tablets, but this method is more expensive.
Potassium permanganate	With its help, you need to pickle the seeds. Yes, today it is far from everywhere possible to purchase potassium permanganate, therefore, several alternative options will be given in the text.

After preparing everything you need, you can start pickling the beans.

Stage two. Seed preparation

Planting dill includes proper seed preparation, it begins a few days before sowing

Dill Gribovsky

If the seeds are more than two to three years old, then they should be soaked in warm water overnight.In the morning, the water must be drained, and the seeds themselves must be soaked in a heated solution of potassium permanganate (the color should be bright pink) for about two hours. This is necessary in order to disinfect the grains - the plants after processing will not hurt.

Soak the seeds

If it was not possible to purchase potassium permanganate, then you can use one of the following methods.

Method one... Use a 2 or 3 percent hydrogen peroxide solution. It should be preheated to a temperature of 38-40 degrees, after which the seeds should be soaked in it for about six to eight minutes.

Hydrogen peroxide

Method two... Use of boric acid. In this case, you need to dilute ½ teaspoon of acid in a glass of water. The seeds should be soaked in the resulting solution for two to three hours, while the temperature should vary within 25-30 degrees. After dressing, the seeds are thoroughly rinsed under the tap.

Boric acid

Stage three. Sowing seeds

While the seeds are pickling, you can start preparing the pots. The algorithm of actions should be as follows.

Step one... Expanded clay drainage is poured to the bottom with a layer of two to three centimeters.

Backfilled drainage

Step two... Soil is poured over the drainage, not reaching the upper edge about three or four centimeters. The soil is abundantly watered with pre-settled water. Everything, containers are ready for further sowing.

Step three... After dressing the seeds, potassium permanganate is drained, and they themselves are laid out on a piece of gauze to drain the remaining liquid.

Note! It is necessary to leave for sowing only the seeds that sank to the bottom during soaking. The fact is that the seeds left afloat will have a low germination rate.

Step four... Dried seeds are sown in pots. This can be done in the usual way, that is, simply sprinkle them with a pinch, or plant them in any convenient order - in a checkerboard pattern, in rows, etc.

Sowing dill

Step four. A layer of soil with a maximum thickness of two centimeters is poured over the seeds, after which you can additionally water a little.

Step five... The pots are covered with cling film or PET bags to create a greenhouse effect. Then they are placed on the windowsill. It is important that the optimal temperature for germination is maintained in the room - it is about 18 degrees.

Cover the container with the sown seeds with foil

The pots can now be left alone until the first shoots are formed. For parsley it takes no more than two weeks, for dill it takes from seven to ten days.

Stage four. Further care

When shoots appear, the film must be removed.

Dill seedlings

Further care for plants is to comply with standard requirements.

1. Water should be moderate but regular during the first month. In summer, watering should be abundant, and in winter, again moderate.
2. Dill "loves" spraying with a spray bottle, even with ordinary tap water.
3. Plants need to be provided with enough sunlight - at least three to four hours a day. It is for this reason that the seeds are best sown in the spring (around March).
4. Growing temperature should be 18 degrees (+/- 2). Although dill is able to withstand a drop in temperature up to eight degrees, which means that this culture can be bred on a balcony (that must be glazed) until late autumn.
5. Rotate the pots 180 degrees daily, otherwise the stems will stretch to one side.

   Further care for dill

Note! Three to four weeks after germination, it is advisable to add soil a few more centimeters. Such a simple action will replace picking, that is, germinating seeds in small cups, followed by transplanting them into larger pots.

Actually, this is all you need to know about caring for parsley and dill.Now all that remains is to wait for the harvest, which will appear after 1.5 months (for parsley) and five weeks (for dill) after the introduction of seeds. As for overseeding, in our case it is not required, since the described crops yield a harvest throughout the year.

Not only beautiful, but also delicious greens in the house

Video - Growing dill in the winter

Growing dill and parsley in eggshell

Eggshells, which account for thousands of tons of waste annually, are 95-97% calcium carbonate. In addition, it contains nitrogen, calcium and phosphoric acid - everything that plants need for development. For this reason, the shell is actively used in horticulture. It can also be used to grow parsley and dill on a windowsill.

You can grow greens right in the eggshell

The procedure itself is not complicated and consists of several simple steps.

Step one... First, the shell is prepared - it needs to be washed and dried.

We wash the shell

Step two... A small hole is made in the lower part of the shell, through which excess liquid will be removed.

Step three... The shell is ½ filled with soil.

We fill the shells with soil

Step four... A few seeds are placed inside, on top of which a little more soil is poured.

Step five... On the shell, you can write with a marker which plant is planted there.

Step six... The shell is placed in an egg tray, which is placed on the windowsill. From time to time, plants need to be watered with a small amount of settled water.

Don't forget to water the sprouts

In this case, of course, it is not worth waiting for large bushes, but the shell will play the role of additional fertilizer and provide plants with useful elements.

Useful Tips

Video - Growing parsley on a windowsill

It is convenient when there is always fresh greens at hand - the prepared dishes with it become more aromatic and tastier, so you can often find dill on the windowsill among prudent housewives. At home, this unpretentious plant feels no worse than in the garden, and with good care it gives a lot of lush greenery.

Choosing the right dill variety is the first step to a good harvest

It would seem that even inexperienced gardeners should not have any questions about how to grow dill at home: after all, you just need to sow seeds in a pot with soil and do not forget to water the seedlings, removing the weeds. But in fact, instead of the expected dense thickets of fragrant dill, thin pale blades of grass, practically without aroma, sway sadly in the pot. What's the secret? How to plant dill at home and get greens that are no worse than those that are sold on the market all year round?

For the purpose of growing dill at home, gardeners most often choose the early ripening variety Gribovsky

To grow dill at home, you will need:

• seeds of a fruitful unpretentious variety of dill;
• soil for indoor plants;
• fertile garden land;
• suitable containers (pots, containers);
• fluorescent lamps;
• complex mineral fertilizers.

Video about growing aromatic dill

For the purpose of growing dill at home, gardeners most often choose the early ripening variety Gribovsky. This variety of dill is not picky about care, resistant to temperature extremes, high yield and disease resistance. Its greenery has a strong aroma. In order for Gribovsky dill to produce a good harvest at home, it is enough to sow it in fertile soil and prevent weeds from appearing.

The following varieties are also suitable for growing on a windowsill: early-ripening Grenadier, mid-ripening Richelieu with bluish-green fragrant leaves, late-ripening Kibray with beautiful wide leaves. Gardeners are also cultivated at home and southern varieties, which have a more spicy taste, but are more finicky.

And late bush varieties do not have time to ripen in the beds over the summer.

Since there is no special variety of dill intended for growing on the windowsill, when choosing a seed, the main attention should be paid to the ripening time. It is important not to be mistaken here: although early varieties give green mass in a very short time, they quickly stretch into flower stalks and are worse leafy than late-ripening varieties. And late bush varieties (Gourmet, Salute, Russian size) do not have time to ripen in the beds over the summer, but they are great for growing at home. Such dill on the window forms dense, well-leafy bushes, from the axils of which all new shoots are formed.

Instructions on how to grow dill on a windowsill

In the garden, dill can grow on almost any soil, but successful cultivation of dill at home is possible only in a fertile soil mixture, which must be prepared in advance. To do this, in the fall, you should prepare loose garden soil and mix it before sowing with purchased neutral soil for indoor plants. Select a container for crops of a sufficient size so that the dill is not crowded, and do not forget about the drainage layer at the bottom of the container.

Since dill seeds germinate for a long time due to the high oil content, they must be soaked for 20 hours before sowing in warm water through which oxygen is continuously passing (for example, using a compressor from an aquarium). Another option is to simply place the seeds in warm water for two days and change it to fresh water every six hours.

For best results, you can make grooves a centimeter deep in the ground, spill them with water and lay the prepared seeds on the bottom.

Seeds can be sown directly on the surface of the moistened earth, without grooves and pits, sprinkling with peat mixed with humus on top. Sufficient seeding rate is 0.3 g per 1 square decimeter of soil. For best results, you can make a centimeter deep groove in the ground, spill them with water and place the prepared seeds on the bottom. From above, dill seeds are sprinkled with dry earth from the edges of the grooves, so that a dense crust does not form on the soil surface, which prevents the emergence of seedlings. Cover the container with crops with cellophane and put it in a dark place with a temperature of about +20 degrees for a week.

After cutting, the stems and leaves of dill do not regrow: in order to continuously cut fresh greens, sow seeds on the vacating area of ​​your micro-vegetable garden every three weeks.

Growing dill on the windowsill - the secrets of success

Growing dill at home, first of all, you need to remember that this plant is very fond of light. Place the crops on a light windowsill, and in winter, provide additional lighting for the dill by installing fluorescent lamps at a height of 50 cm above the plants. On the windowsill, it is enough to turn on the lamps in the morning for about five hours, but if the boxes with dill are in the back of the room, the lighting should last at least fifteen hours.

Video about growing dill on a windowsill

Dill care rules at home:

• dill must be watered regularly, especially paying attention to watering during seed germination and when young shoots appear;
• once every two weeks, it is recommended to feed the plantings with complex mineral fertilizer;
• it is best to grow dill at a temperature of +18 degrees, but even on a glazed balcony when the temperature drops to +8 degrees, the plants will feel quite comfortable;
• if the temperature in the room is higher than +20 degrees, you need to increase the illumination, otherwise the dill bushes will turn out to be elongated, sluggish and light;
• in the first week, as the shoots seem to appear, it is advisable to lower the temperature in the room at night by opening the window, or to carry out the crops to the glazed balcony so that the dill does not stretch out.

The dill needs to be watered regularly, especially paying attention to watering during seed germination

Growing at home can be more or less hassle depending on what time of year you plant the dill. The easiest way to grow dill on a window is from March to August, since planting without additional lighting forms lush greenery, provided there is fertile land and a light windowsill. In the autumn-winter period, without additional illumination, the plants will stretch and fall, which means that you will have to pay more attention to them, and the costs of growing will increase due to the consumed electricity.

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Homemade greens saturate the body with vitamins, give dishes an appetizing look and unsurpassed aroma. Growing dill on a windowsill is a simple matter. The main thing is to follow the recommendations for breeding it at home, and then a fresh fluffy crop will appear in the flower pot.

What you need to breed dill

To grow a mini-garden on a windowsill or balcony, you will need:

• choose a variety of spices, prepare seeds;
• prepare a flower pot (container) of the required size, 15-20 cm deep and always with drainage holes at the bottom;
• collect garden soil and purchase land for indoor plants;
• when growing a house in winter, additionally use backlighting;
• the use of complex mineral fertilizers.

As you can see, the preparatory cultivation of dill at home will require minimal investment, effort and knowledge.

Variety selection

Seed material for breeding fresh greens from seeds must be selected based on the timing of its ripening.

Varieties are divided into categories, each of which has its own characteristics.

• Early - you will not have to wait for the seedlings of the harvest for a long time, usually the greens appear 3-4 weeks after planting, but there will be few stems and leaves. After the first leaves, dill of this species begins to bloom. These include the variety Gribovsky, Carousel, Early miracle, Aurora and Grenadier.
• Mid-ripening - greens will appear at home 10 days later than early ones, but there will be more bushes. This variety includes Umbrella, Richelieu, Smelly and Kibray.
• Late ripening - the spice in the mini-garden will grow later, but there will be much more fragrant thick dill. Such high-yielding varieties are Gigant, Alligator, Buyan and Russian.

In order for fresh spicy grass to always grow in a pot on the balcony, you can choose several varieties with different ripening periods. You can take an elongated container, divide it into three parts and plant early, late and mid-season varieties of dill at the same time.

Seed preparation

To harvest a high-quality and lush harvest at home, you need the seeds to germinate quickly and well in the soil. They must be soaked in warm water for 1-2 days, changing the liquid once every 12 hours. Those that are left floating on the surface are not suitable for planting, so they should be collected and discarded. The rest of the seeds remaining at the bottom of the container are good. They need to be drained and dried well.

Some experienced vegetable growers who are engaged in growing dill on the balcony, after removing bad seeds, soak the remaining seeds for 3-5 hours in a weak, light pink solution of potassium permanganate. This is how the seed is disinfected.

Soil preparation and container selection

As for the open air, spicy greens grow on any kind of soil, but at home it is better to plant them in fertile soil, but not acidic. A mixture of garden soil and soil for indoor plants prepared from last year is perfect. You can mix the substrate with humus, peat. The earth should be loose, breathable.

At the bottom of the container for growing dill on the balcony, it is necessary to lay a two-centimeter drainage layer (broken brick, expanded clay).It will help drain off excess liquid when watering the plant and protect potted greens from overflow. Prepared soil is laid on it.

When growing greens from seeds, any container will do: a plastic container, a wooden box, or a flower pot. The main thing is that the dishes are not small, because dill has a pivotal root system.

Advice

A container of 1.5-2 liters in volume is ideal for these purposes. A prerequisite is the presence of small drainage holes at the bottom of the container.

Sowing seeds

When growing fresh grass on the balcony, the soil must be irrigated with water from a spray bottle, shallow grooves must be made in the ground. The depth of the pits should be no more than 1-1.5 cm. Sow seeds into the holes, do not sprinkle them too tightly on top with earth, moisten the contents of the pot with water from a spray bottle.

Next, cover the container with a plastic bag (plastic wrap) to achieve the effect of a mini-greenhouse, put it to germinate for 7 days in a dark place with an air temperature not higher than 18-20 ° C. The film retains soil moisture.

When shoots appear from the seeds (after about a week), you need to remove the extra shoots so that an interval of about 3 cm remains between them. Place the container on the windowsill.

Additional lighting

Dill is a light-loving herb. Adequate lighting is more important than warm air for fragrant greenery. When breeding her at home in the spring and summer months, the sowing container should be placed on a lighted windowsill.

Important!

In the warm season, the greens should be fed by the sun's rays for at least 6 hours a day. In cloudy weather, it is better to supplement the dill with lamps.

When growing a mini-garden on a balcony in winter, it must be additionally illuminated. For this, fluorescent lamps of the white spectrum are suitable. Artificial lighting in cold months should work for at least 12 hours at a height of 50 cm from crops.

Comfortable temperature and humidity

When planting greenery at home, it is important to observe the optimum air temperature and humidity. Dill is quite hardy to cold weather, but 17-20 ° C is considered the best temperature for a good harvest. Boxes and containers with herbs can be stored on the balcony until the first autumn frosts.

Air humidity should be kept within 40-50%. Otherwise, with high humidity, the leaves of dill can be struck by a fungal disease, and excessive dryness can simply destroy the plant.

Success secrets

There are a few tricks for making your home grow fluffy and bushy.

• Water the dill when the top layer of the soil dries up with settled water. The first time, until the seedlings have grown stronger, it is better to irrigate them from a spray bottle.
• Plant feeding should be carried out with nitrogen fertilizers 1-2 times a month.
• Turn the sides of the container over to the light every day. So when grown on the balcony, dill will grow evenly.

Growing fresh dill at home is not difficult. Greens will give the room their aroma, saturate the body with vitamins all year round and decorate any hearty dishes.

The main thing when growing greenery at home is to choose the right seeds, prepare fertile soil, maintain a comfortable temperature, monitor air humidity and lighting.

Dill and parsley are among the most popular greens in the world. These herbs contain many vital vitamins and trace elements, they are included in recipes for a large number of dishes, their medicinal properties are widely used in folk medicine.

A rare housewife does not dream of growing these herbs on her own at home and having at hand at any time of the year fresh greens without nitrates and other toxic substances. How to plant dill and parsley at home on the windowsill? It is not that difficult, you just need to follow some simple steps.

What varieties of seeds to choose for growing at home?

You can grow greens at home on a windowsill all year round. It should be noted that the cultivation of dill and parsley in spring and summer takes place without much hassle. But in winter, additional lighting in the form of fluorescent lamps will be required.

Dill varieties must be chosen depending on the purpose for which it is supposed to be used. If you need to get umbrellas for conservation, then it is better to choose the early varieties Gribovsky and Grenadier. If you need to get more greenery, then choose mid-season varieties - Richelieu, Umbrella, Kibray. The richest harvest in greens is given by late varieties - Alligator, Buyan, Russian giant.

Vegetable growers recommend choosing early-ripening varieties of parsley: curly parsley - varieties Moscaruse and Astra, flat parsley - varieties Irinka, Plain, Laika, Russian feast.

Preparation of the necessary equipment and soil

Before you start sowing dill and parsley on the windowsill, you need to collect the following materials:

1. Purchase utensils for growing - pots, boxes. They can be ceramic, plastic, ordinary floral, always with holes at the bottom for the outflow of excess moisture. Their volume will depend on the desired amount of greenery.
2. Prepare drainage material - expanded clay, it is sold in stores, or fragments of ceramics, in order to spread out along the bottom of the pots.
3. Stock up on earth with vermicompost or coconut tablets. Coconut tablets are available at specialty stores.
4. Prepare potassium permanganate. But since it is not easy to find it in our time, it is possible to replace it with hydrogen peroxide or boric acid.
5. Buy seeds of the selected variety for planting.
6. Prepare a container of water with a spray bottle.

Pretreatment and sowing of seeds

2-3 days before sowing on the windowsill, you need to start preparing the seeds:

1. It is advisable to soak them in plain water, while those seeds that have surfaced are best removed. They will not produce the desired harvest. Leave the seeds in water overnight.
2. Drain the water in the morning, and soak the seeds in a bright pink warm solution of potassium permanganate for 2-3 hours. This procedure disinfects the seeds, and the plant will not hurt as a result.

Potassium permanganate can be replaced with hydrogen peroxide solution. In this case, it must be heated to 38-40 degrees and the seeds should be soaked in it for 5-6 minutes.

Another option is also allowed - 0.5 tsp. Dissolve boric acid in 1 glass of warm water and soak the seeds for 2-3 hours. Further:

1. After soaking, rinse the seeds well. Put to dry on cheesecloth.
2. Prepare containers for planting. Pour expanded clay with a height of 1-2 cm, or spread ceramic fragments along the bottom.
3. Pour earth on top of the drainage layer not reaching 4-5 cm from the top of the container.
4. The soil from above must be watered with settled water.
5. Sow dried seeds in any way.
6. Pour another layer of earth 2 cm thick on top.
7. Drizzle lightly again.
8. Cover the containers with plastic wrap to create a greenhouse effect, and place them on the windowsill. For seed germination, the ambient temperature should be around 18 degrees.

The first sprouts of dill will appear in about a week, and for parsley in 2 weeks.

How to properly care for seedlings?

1. After the sprouts appear, you need to remove the film.
2. It is advisable to thin out too dense seedlings.
3. For the first month, water regularly a little, less in winter, slightly increase watering in summer.
4. It is advisable to spray the dill with water from a spray bottle.
5. Plants love sunlight, they need to receive it at least 3-4 hours a day, therefore, in the autumn-winter period, additional lighting with fluorescent lamps will be required.
6. Growing temperature should be around 18 degrees.
7. Pots of herbs should be rotated periodically so that the stems do not grow to one side.
8. If the soil was not fertile enough, then once a month, fertilizing with vermicompost is required. It must be carefully poured into the gaps between the plants in the amount of 2-3 tablespoons per pot.

The first crop can be harvested from dill after 5 weeks from the moment of sowing, and from parsley after one and a half to two months.

How to grow parsley from root vegetables?

If you want to get a harvest of parsley in a shorter time, you can grow it from root crops.

If there is such an opportunity, then at the end of October it is necessary to dig up parsley roots from the garden bed and transplant them into a previously prepared container with earth and drainage about 20 cm deep, as described earlier.

The tops of the root crop should protrude slightly from the ground. If there is no vegetable garden, then you can buy root vegetables in the store. They should be at least 5 cm long and 2-3 cm thick. Watering is moderate, more abundant in summer than in winter. Place the container in a sunny place. The first shoots will appear in a few days. The plant must be kept at a temperature of about 18 degrees.

Growing parsley and dill on a windowsill in an eggshell

There is also such an original way. Eggshell, due to the presence of a large amount of calcium, as well as phosphorus and nitrogen, is used as a fertilizer.

In order to sow dill and parsley in an eggshell, you need to perform the following simple steps:

1. Rinse and dry the shell.
2. Prepare the seeds as described earlier.
3. Make a small hole in the bottom of the shell.
4. Fill the shell halfway with soil.
5. Place a few seeds in each shell and cover with earth.
6. Place the shells with soil and seeds in an egg cage and place on a windowsill.
7. Water as needed.

The shell in this way acts as a fertilizer. However, large and branched plants will not work with this sowing method.

As can be seen from the above, it is not difficult to sow and grow dill and parsley at home on the windowsill, it is quite economical and invaluable for health. And how fresh and juicy greens will delight the eye in cold winter, and what a special taste it will give to ordinary dishes! In addition, in the same way, you can successfully grow cilantro, green onions, watercress and even green peas at home.