The fastest way to plant ready-made seedlings is greens, which are sold in grocery stores: salad, dill, parsley, cilantro, basil in pots. Use the leaves for food, and plant the stem with roots in the ground, most conveniently in boxes for balcony flowers. Young greens will appear soon. Planting can be done mixed – combine several crops in one box and gradually, as you buy or harvest, add new plants. For greater decorativeness in a mini-garden, it is good to plant flowers, they will eventually replace vegetables and decorate the balcony.
You can do without seedlings – sow seeds and plant bulbs. Sprout well watercress, greenhouse salad, beets for greens, cilantro, mustard, spinach, onions and garlic for feathers (onions). Rђ RІRѕS, parsley and celery from seeds grow slowly. To avoid stretching, it is better to keep the seedlings on the southern windows. Use artificial supplementary lighting for at least 12 hours a day with fluorescent lamps. Reflective surfaces such as foil will also help.
To water and feed the garden less often, add a hydrogel soaked in a solution of humic fertilizers to the soil, for example “Gumi”, “Ideal”. Feed every 7-14 days, in cloudy weather or early in the morning and late in the evening. Crops will not dry out if you cover them with glass or cling film before pecking. Such “greenhouse” germination will help protect seedlings from pets and germinate very small seeds that are sown on the surface, without embedding in the soil, for example, parsley, strawberries, ever-flowering begonia.
Any culture can be grown on the windowsill, but it will take more time and effort. Experiment with tomatoes and cucumbers (self-pollinated), remontant strawberries and spicy herbs.