Planting parsley in the winter - the best varieties and growing dates

Gardeners and gardeners prefer the winter season for sowing parsley. So they guarantee for themselves the receipt of fresh herbs in the early stages, a plant saturated with vitamins can begin to be consumed in March. In order to collect rich crops annually, you should choose the time when to plant parsley in the fall, the number of feeding activities, based on the basic agricultural rules. Parsley planted in the fall is preferable for many due to its greater endurance in disease and environmental conditions, larger root crops (in contrast to spring planting).

Popular varieties

In the context of modern breeding policy, many varieties are bred, each of which meets certain parameters.

Varieties:

1. Sheet - Breeze, Athlete, Sheet, Curly Sheet, Carnival, Esmeralda.
2. Root - Berlin, Alba, Good morning, Piquant, Harvest, Sugar.

Seeds with early and medium ripening time are more common:

1. Russian size, a variety of root parsley with white pulp and a sweet aftertaste of root vegetables;
2. Eagle, unpretentious to conditions and in leaving in the fall, in the spring, has a magnificent rosette of leaves;
3. Common leaf, resistant to frosty temperature, has a lush green cover;
4. Italian giant, mid-season crop with rapidly growing greens in the form of large leaves;
5. Esmeralda, has beautiful curly leaves.

The best time for winter parsley sowing

To the question of gardeners about the most suitable planting time, is it possible to plant parsley in the winter, there is an exhaustive answer: it is important to choose the time so as to prevent the autumn germination of seeds, they should exclusively swell. Therefore, sow parsley for the winter (for example, in the Moscow region) at a later time, in October or November days.

The time for planting is limited to the first frosts, when a thin ice edge forms on the ground, and night temperatures fluctuate around 2-3 degrees Celsius. It is better to plant parsley in the winter on a slightly frosty day. In cases where warm weather continues until December, autumn drags on with prolonged rains, planting should be postponed.

Preparing seeds for planting in open ground

The algorithm for preparing parsley seeds for planting in open ground:

• Engage in sorting seeds, select more elite, select low-quality and damaged specimens for rejection.
• Then put in a solution with disinfecting properties (boric acid, copper sulfate, potassium permanganate, etc.) for the accelerated appearance of the first sprouts.

It is possible to use bubbling - placing seeds in water at a temperature of 20 degrees Celsius, actively saturating it with oxygen or air using a compressor, so the disinfection process takes place.

For winter sowing, it is worth preparing more seeds than for spring planting. Effective methods for preparing for sowing parsley in the winter:

• Vernalization, for this it is necessary to place the seeds in a container of wood, which should be kept on ice cubes, while stirring the contents.
• Dragee, dip the seeds in a special mixture with peat, humus and useful minerals, which also have sticky qualities.

Ensure uniform planting, all samples are stimulated for germination, more resistant to various environmental conditions. Soaked seeds should dry for a certain time.

How to choose the right place to sow parsley in the winter

It is right to choose a slightly shady place, protected from drafts, gusty winds, direct rays of the hot sun.

It is recommended to use the following areas for planting parsley in autumn:

1. The beds, patches of land on which cabbage, potatoes, cucumbers and other ripening crops were grown earlier.
2. The ridges, which in winter were covered with snow more than other places.
3. Protected from flooding.

In addition, the sun in the spring in this place will warm up more.

Preparing the soil and sowing parsley seeds for the winter

Before planting parsley in the fall before winter, you should: loosen the ground, break up large hard clods, saturate with organic substances. After harvesting from the ridge intended for parsley, you need to fertilize it: superphosphate in granules and potassium salt, a little later nitrogen fertilizer.

It is recommended to make the earth easier by mixing the top layer with a certain amount of a stove or peat, it is not worth ramping. It is better not to use manure as fertilizer, but to use the contents of compost or vermicompost, and only then sow parsley.

Winter crops are applicable in regions with humidity that persists for a long time after thawing snow and ice masses. Therefore, it will be necessary to cover the seeded culture with covering materials (cover with a film), arranging a kind of greenhouse. This increases productivity, because it will be possible to collect two crops per year.

To protect yourself and the planted parsley from the invasion of pathogenic organisms, larvae of harmful insects and other pests during the spring sunrise, you should remove all plants from a piece of land.

Having determined an acceptable day for planting seeds in the fall, you should remove the covering material - the film. Rules for planting parsley in winter in the open ground:

1. Prepare a plot of land with a width of not more than 1 meter, a depth of loosened soil surface of about 10 centimeters.
2. Prepare small furrows about 5 centimeters deep, pour a layer of sand in them, a layer of compost.
3. Then we sow the seeds along the grooves - i.e. need to plant parsley, sprinkle with soil.
4. You can also apply mulching the soil with humus or peat.
5. The distance between the hogs corresponds to 10 centimeters, so the parsley will develop in the standard normal order.

And only the spring sun will provide activation of germination.

Proper plant care

After the complete formation of snow cover, seeds planted in the ground in October or November should be sprinkled with snow.Parsley grown in open ground will withstand frosty days with a temperature of no more than 9 degrees Celsius.

The crop rises after a couple of weeks, taking into account the material for sowing. Systematically, it is easy to loosen the surface of the bed in order to grow the plant correctly. Stably clean the soil of constantly growing weeds, weeds, fertilize, discharge shoots, monitor the density of the subgrade.

When the snow completely melts, complete sowing enrichment through compost fertilizers, superphosphate, potassium chloride and nitrate. A crop planted in the autumn period requires stable top dressing with a solution of cow manure or compost. You can purchase foliar replenishment, enriched with various trace elements, the use of such substances is allowed no more than 2 times a season.

Around April, when there is almost no snow on the ground, sprouts of spicy grass need to be watered several times a week in the evening with slightly warm water.

Harvesting

When collecting, harvesting greens, drying and freezing are usually carried out. To get a fragrant, maximally fragrant culture for drying, reduce the amount of watering 2 weeks before removal. In the case when it is required for fresh consumption, stable irrigation should be ensured, which is more than 60 percent of the total soil moisture characteristic.

The cold-resistant plant is harvested until the last days of November along with the root crop, however, do not wait for more severe frosts (about -10 degrees).

Spicy grass - parsley, it can be found in almost every garden, fragrant, tasty. It contains a large amount of carotene, vitamin (A, C, K, E), essential oil, trace elements (phosphorus, iron, calcium, potassium, magnesium). Greens are used in the manufacture of cosmetic products, traditional medicine, for the preparation of various foods. Planting and grooming according to the rules are effective, guarantee a crop that is different in quantity and quality.