Sowing parsley before winter: when to plant and is it possible, timing

Beds for greenery occupy significant areas in the gardens. Already in the spring I want to have fresh fragrant greens on the table. To do this, it is necessary to sow parsley before winter, then in the spring you can pick bunches of odorous grass, add it to salads and various hot dishes. There are certain rules for growing parsley when sown in autumn.

Features of planting in the cold season

Many vegetables are planted in autumn before winter. If the seeds of aromatic and spicy parsley are sown in time, they will be covered with snow, and they will not freeze on frosty days.And as soon as the snow begins to melt, the grass seedlings will begin to actively develop, grow. And already in the spring you can collect bunches of parsley, fragrant, pale green.

When the seeds successfully overwinter, they become resistant to low temperatures. And after harvesting, you can plant the bed again with greens for harvesting in October. After planting parsley for the winter grass:

will be better able to endure spring frosts;
will accelerate in development by a month;
disease resistant;
ready to eat fresh.

To sow before winter, you need to know what period of autumn is most suitable for this. The time frame will vary depending on the region. So, in Siberia, landing is carried out earlier than in the Moscow region. Climate and weather conditions play a big role in the timing and rules of sowing parsley in the cold season.

Popular varieties for winter growing

Not all varieties of vegetable crops are suitable for planting before winter. The most common greens with early and medium ripening:

Russian size root parsley with snow-white flesh and sweetish taste of the underground part of the plant;
Eagle variety, low maintenance, with lush leaf rosette;
leaf parsley Common, frost-resistant, with lush greenery;
Italian mid-season giant, rapidly growing large green leaves;
curly parsley variety Esmeralda.

Choose varieties in accordance with the purpose of the vegetable crop, resistance to low temperatures and diseases.

The best time to plant parsley before winter

It is necessary to sow parsley in the fall at a certain time. With early sowing, the spice will begin to sprout quickly, and due to the onset of frost, tender seedlings will die.

It is necessary to choose the timing of sowing so that the seeds only swell, but do not begin to germinate. Therefore, they choose the time for sowing in October-November, depending on the region, the timing of the onset of winter.

Vegetables are sown when the temperature drops below zero at night and reaches 2-3 degrees during the day. It is best when the day of planting parsley will be clear, slightly frosty weather. After all, the vegetable is not afraid of the cold and tolerates soil temperatures of 0 degrees well.

If the onset of winter shifts and heavy rains begin, then the sowing dates are postponed for a while.

Preparing seeds for planting in open ground

Preparation of parsley seeds is necessary to exclude low germination of low-quality and affected specimens.

A few days before planting, selected seeds are soaked in a one percent solution of potassium permanganate. It is enough to lower them in a gauze bag for 20-30 minutes. Instead of potassium permanganate, solutions of boric acid or copper sulfate are used.

Barbotage, saturation of the seed material with oxygen, will increase its resistance to diseases and pests.

For winter sowing, more seeds are prepared than in spring. Therefore, procedures with them are carried out more often before landing. Can't do without:

vernalization, icing;
dreating, enveloping in a mixture of humus, peat, mineral fertilizers;
hardening with alternate placement in warm and cold water.

After going through all the stages of preparation, the seeds will show resistance during wintering, and will actively begin to germinate after warming up in the sun.

How to choose the right place for the autumn planting of parsley

After harvesting vegetables from the garden, they begin to prepare a plot in the country for parsley. A vegetable crop needs fertile soil with neutral acidity, although a slightly acidic option is also suitable. A bed for a vegetable is prepared where groundwater does not come close to the surface. Otherwise, during the snowmelt period, the area will be flooded, and the seeds may die.

In order for grass seeds to successfully overwinter, the bed must be in an open area where there is a lot of snow. The sun for the spring harvest needs more than in the shaded corners of the summer cottage.

A place for autumn planting of parsley will be ideal if potatoes, onions, tomatoes, cabbage have been harvested on it before.

You need to know that after collecting grass, the beds are better to sow with greenery. It is difficult for vegetables to grow after parsley.

Preparing the soil for planting

For planting greenery in autumn, the ground on the selected bed is necessary:

carefully clean up plant waste left from cultivated crops;

to loosen;
saturate with organic and mineral fertilizers;
moisturize well.

To prevent parsley from being attacked by pathogenic microorganisms or pest larvae during spring germination, all vegetation is raked from the site and destroyedLoosening the soil will allow you to cope with eggs, pupae of parasitic insects wintering in the soil. You can spill the area with boiling water or a solution of potassium permanganate.

From organic fertilizers, compost or biohumus is applied to the garden, up to 5 kilograms per 1 square meter. It is also necessary to feed with granules of superphosphate, potassium s alt, 20 grams of each substance. The same amount is added fertilizers with nitrogen content. To improve the permeability of the soil, coarse river sand or fine-grained gravel is mixed into it.

The grooves for planting seeds are made in advance with a depth of 5 centimeters, covering them with a film so that the rains do not violate the integrity of the beds.

Sowing parsley seeds

Having chosen a suitable day for sowing parsley before winter, the film material is removed. Dry sand is poured into the grooves with a thin layer. Seeds take a third more than usual. This will avoid the absence of seedlings in April.

Place the seeds in the grooves, sprinkle with dry soil, nutritious and loose, and lightly tamp.

It remains to protect the plantings from frost, to keep moisture and nutrients in the grooves. To this end, a bed is covered with a layer of mulch consisting of peat, humus or chopped straw, dry foliage.

If the weather is rainy, without lowering the air temperature, you can cover the beds with a film. The material will save parsley from moisture getting inside the soil, premature germination of seeds.

After the spring sun begins to bake, parsley seeds become active, grow, get enough moisture.

Proper plant care

Before the onset of winter, parsley beds are best covered if they are in places where little snow accumulates. For shelter, foliage is raked onto the site or straw is laid. During a snowy winter, you can do snow retention by installing special shields.

In April, after the snow melts, sprouts of spicy grass appear. Now they need watering several times a week. Moisturize parsley seedlings with warm water in the evening.

After the sprouts become larger, they must be thinned out, leaving large, he althy specimens. After the third thinning, the distance between parsley stalks should be within 10 centimeters.

Greens need feeding. Fertilizers are applied in the form of organic matter, using mullein diluted in a ratio of 1:6, or bird droppings in a solution with a concentration of 1:15.

From mineral fertilizers to grow greenery, you need nitrogen contained in ammonium nitrate, as well as potassium and phosphorus. The vegetable plant will extract the last element from wood ash. The solution is prepared from 100 grams of ash per 10 liters of water. Feed every 2 weeks, the first before grass leaves bloom

It is important that plant nutrition should be done in moderation. Too much fertilizer can make the herb tough and tasteless. But it does not make sense to refuse them when the soil is very depleted in nutrients.

Seedlings must be protected from weeds. They are removed as they appear, as weeds become a source of infection with fungal infections, parasite larvae.

Harvesting

Parsley is grown before winter for fresh consumption. Therefore, as soon as the leaves and stems reach maturity, they are cut off. For use for a long time, you should immediately put the herb in the refrigerator, in bags, providing air to the greens. Do not forget to sort out the shoots before laying, dry them.

To ensure the juiciness of parsley leaves, it is necessary to water the bushes more abundantly before cutting. If root varieties of the plant are grown, then they dig up white fragrant roots in May-June. They are cut and placed in the freezer.

The stalks of herbs are cut at the root, not the tops are plucked. This will allow young shoots to grow, and then the grass will actively develop until autumn. It is better to take a few stalks of grass for salad from the outside of the bush, without violating its integrity.

When the curly leaves begin to turn yellow, plants cut off the shoots completely to store them for cooking.

If you follow the rules for growing parsley before winter, carefully care for the plantings, you can achieve a high yield of greens. It will provide summer residents with vitamins, useful trace elements until the next cut of spicy grass.