How to grow greens for sale: green onions, dill, parsley, and chives
Fresh herbs on the table are not only a wonderful decoration for cooked dishes, but also a wonderful aroma of summer. It's still a pantry vitamins and trace elements that are necessary for the normal functioning of the human body. Where can I get exactly fresh herbs, so beneficial to health? If it comes to the countryside, then everything is clear - you need to rip it off beds, where once you put her.
In the city, the situation is a little more complicated. Growing greenery in an apartment is quite problematic, since there may not be room for its location or other categories of problems. It remains to buy it at the grocery market or store. But sometimes what we see on the shelves is far from a healthy product, especially when it comes to greens. Then you should roll up your sleeves and start growing it yourself, and with a bountiful harvest, you can also put up something for sale.
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Profitable sale of grown greens
By cultivating greens for sale, you can get a good profit and not a bad financial help. This can be done not only in dachas and country houses, a city apartment is also quite suitable, in which there are successful conditions... This type of activity has long been welcomed by urban retirees and housewives, who not only save themselves on buying greens, but also use the grown products to make a profit.
As you know, greenery does not take up much space. Location on, is quite unpretentious to care for and costs, especially in the winter months, pretty decently. In addition, without fresh herbs, the table is not the same, and there is no aroma and the taste is rather poor. Therefore, it is worth it to grow greenery for people who want to earn extra money at minimal cost. There are cases when people made a lot of money selling greenery literally during one season.
On average, from one hundred square meters of soil, you can get about two thousand kilograms of fresh greens with skillful care.
Here's some money for you! Consider the main types of greenery that most people in our country grow on the windowsills of their apartments.
Growing green onions
An indispensable product during spring, summer and autumn is rightfully green onions... Its excellent taste and fresh aroma attract not only in the composition of many dishes, but also to its freshness. Usually. Since winter, many have been planting it in their apartments to harvest in the winter months. A feature of the cultivation of green onions is unpretentiousness in care, rapid growth and a large amount of benefits for the body.
Usually, onion sets purchased or grown by themselves are taken as planting material.
In the absence of it, you can use relatively small bulbs onions and turnips. The harvest will be in the first and second case. From the onion set, a rather delicate onion feather is obtained, and from the onion turnip you can grow a fairly abundant harvest! In both cases, the product remains for sale.
Secrets of growing green onions:
- Before planting, you need to decide on the planting material. For growing onions on a feather, onion material from samples is quite suitable. A lot of it is sold in the fall, so the purchase of such seed material will not cost much. The main thing is to save such seed until the planting date!
- For planting onions on a feather in an apartment, small containers are suitable, where the necessary layer of soil is previously placed. It is advisable to choose a large-structured soil, since it is it that allows water and air to pass through well, which are necessary for the normal growth of the plant. Pre-in soil a small amount of a hydrogel, previously soaked in a small amount of a biological product called Gumi, is introduced. The biological product used to strengthen and nourish the plant organism. Growing onions on a feather in an apartment is rather dry, and with the help of a hydrogel, the problem of moisture deficiency is easily solved.
- To get fresh bulbous feathers throughout the year, plant onions every ten days. Thus, you will receive a harvest of fresh herbs throughout the year, which can be sold at a profit.
It is best to plant onions on a feather in an apartment in small containers, which can be purchased at specialized garden utensils stores. It is advisable to pre-sprinkle the bottom of such containers with expanded clay, providing the formation of small holes for the drainage of excess water. Then the soil with the soaked hydrogel is placed and the prepared planting material is planted.
Having planted the bulbs, they slightly compact the soil and watered abundantly.
After a while, the first green feathers appear, with good watering and abundant light, becoming more and more. Once they reach a certain height, the green onion feathers can be cut and used for sale.
Dill for sale
Dill is in no way inferior to green onion feathers in terms of popularity in use. In the kitchen without dill and the dishes are not the same! This plant is also irreplaceable as a source of fresh herbs on your table.
Dill growing tricks:
- Plant dill should be pre-soaked seeds... Dill seeds germinate well, even in conditions when the soil has warmed up only two degrees.
- It is not advisable to germinate seeds in water, as green shoots of dill may suffer when planting. Soaking dill seeds is necessary to dissolve the essential oils present in them.
- Plant dill follows in rows. With this method of sowing, young dill shoots will receive the maximum amount of light rays, heat and moisture necessary for growth. The rows should be positioned relative to each other at a distance of ten centimeters.
- Having placed the seeds in small containers with pre-marked rows, they are covered with earth and watered.
- After the formation of seedlings on the surface of the soil, if necessary, weeding the rows with dill is carried out.
- Young shoots of dill need watering, which should be provided by a gardener who wants to get a good harvest.
Young green shoots of dill are well watered before being cut for sale. Then the selected area with dill is slightly dug in and the roots are cleaned from the soil. Next, the roots and shoots are rinsed with water and placed vertically in the space of a waterproof container. Young shoots of dill in a container are placed upside down.
You can store dill greens in such a container for quite a long time.
Thanks to the container, fresh cut dill can stay fresh for up to five days, showing no signs of wilting at all. It is very convenient for selling or transporting goods over long distances. During the cold winter period, sales of such fresh herbs increase significantly.
Parsley for sale
Perfect and useful a kind of greenery at any time of the year is parsley... It is healthy and tasty, and also very aromatic. Cultivating parsley for sale definitely cannot be miscalculated, since it is easy to care for and indispensable in the human diet.
There are two main ways to get fresh parsley at home: sowing the seed directly into the ground or forcing young shoots from cooked roots.
The first method is easier to use, while the second requires little preparation. It is advisable to prepare seed material for planting from the end of summer. If you did not manage to stock up on planting material in time, you can purchase it in specialized stores.
Consider getting fresh parsley by distillation from the roots:
- For these purposes, we take healthy roots. Not showing signs of wilting.
- Be sure to check for the presence of an apical bud on these roots, thanks to which the parsley greens will begin to grow. If there are no buds on the roots, then you may not get the expected yield of parsley.
- The roots should be planted in small boxes or flower pots.
- It is advisable to use sod soil for planting, since it is very fertile and excellent in oxygen and moisture permeability to the roots.
- Placing a small amount of prepared soil in the desired container, water it. Abundant watering is the key to the rapid appearance of greenery from the roots. Then he places the cooked roots in these containers, and sprinkle them with a small amount of soil.
- If necessary, we water and ensure the penetration of heat and light to the planted roots.
- After a while, we notice the appearance of a small carpet of fresh greenery on the soil surface.
- Young parsley leaves need good lighting, but direct sunlight can be detrimental to them.
- When the leaves reach a certain size, you can produce them pruning for sale.
- Cut leaves are placed in small bunches and tied. It is convenient to buy and sell parsley in such water.
- To ensure a fresh and healthy look, the bundles are periodically sprayed with a small amount of water.
Parsley can also be grown from seeds at home. In this case, it is worth considering the long period of time required for the germination of parsley seeds. Before planting, you should also prepare the soil, moisten it and sow the prepared seed material there.
Parsley seeds can be soaked in a small amount of Gumi solution to accelerate germination. The soil with the sown seeds should be moistened as needed.
Containers with sprouted parsley seeds can be kept on the windowsill of the apartment.
The plant is not at all afraid of cold weather, but needs constant light and good moisture. On the windowsill ideal light conditions for intensive photosynthesis. And to provide additional moisture to the soil, you can place a little hydrogel in the container before planting. This substance will provide additional moisture to the young shoots of parsley. When the plants reach a certain height, they cut and form beams. Now you can use this product for sale.
Chives for sale
Growing chives in comparison with the other types of greens described is somewhat more difficult and requires preliminary preparation. Psedimentary material for chives, it is advisable to harvest in the autumn months. For this purpose, they dig out not large curtains of chives and cut the feather on them. Cooked curtains are placed in small containers for storage.
With the onset of winter, the curtains are brought into a warm room and placed as close to the light as possible. Chives are characterized by rapid feather growth, which is either plucked from the bush or cut off.
Growing chives at home can be done with two harvests.
It is very profitable, but after the second harvest the plant weakens greatly and is no longer capable of producing a feather. It is better to choose planting material for distillation from pre-thinned plantings.
Growing tips:
- For this plant, the level of soil moisture is important. If there is little moisture in the soil, then the plant begins to fade, its feather becomes rough and even a little bitter. To prevent this from happening, you should monitor the level of soil moisture and, as necessary, water the plants. For watering, it is better to use water at room temperature.
- For plants, light is important, which must be supplied in sufficient quantities. The chives are best kept on a windowsill or near a light source. Having reached the feathers of the desired size, they are cut off and small bunches are formed. In this form, greens are supplied for sale. It is advisable to moisten green feathers with water from time to time. Thus, it will look fresh and juicy for a long time.
When cultivating greenery for sale at home, you should choose those plants that are completely unpretentious in care. So you can quickly get the desired yield at minimal cost. You can grow radishes, salads and much more on the windowsills.
One has only to take into account the consumer's demand for these crops and the degree of care for them.
Selling greenery is a good income for many categories of citizens, carried out at low cost and effort. In addition, the owner himself will always have healthy green parsley, aromatic dill and much more on the table.