The modern world is appreciated all natural, natural and environmentally friendly. On a par with eco-style in the interior design, the use of healthy products without preservatives and dyes in fashion is the trend in growing their own fruits and vegetables. However, not everyone can afford breeding townspeople private vegetable gardens. Therefore, mini planting increasingly occupy space on the windowsills of city apartments.
The preferred such mini-gardens to grow fresh herbs and healthy grass. One of those is mint.
How to grow a crop of fragrant mint
- Pots or box - it is better to use for planting.
Of course, in this regard it is important to be guided by the wishes and possibilities:
- length and width available in the well-lit home sills and free surfaces of shelves or tables;
- free funds to buy boxes, pots or containers;
- the desired quantity of ready useful product that you want to eventually collect.
You can use any plastic containers with a wide diameter at the throat, specialized breeding boxes, as well as any plastic container of ready-made salads and cooking.
Important! In fact, the packaging for planting can be any, but preferably not too deep (max. 15 cm) and always convenient for breaching drainage holes!
- The ideal soil for planting mint
Fit several types of soil:
- Humus with the acidity of no more than 6 PH; this soil is loose and comfortable;
- peat, not less loose, enriched with natural minerals.
If you are afraid to buy potting soil ready, create your own. This will require mixed in equal proportions with the ground suburban area, peat, humus and sand. Mix well until completely combining the components, and planting soil ready.
- planting seeds
Buy a bag of mint seeds are available in any store. Prepare once the seeds for planting are not required. The process will be as follows:
- and thoroughly loosened ground to smooth out the drawer, make a pencil or pen garden fork groove depth of 5 mm;
- sow the seeds in the furrow and abundantly sprinkle water from a spray or pour a thin construction site of water;
- sprinkle their land without tamping surface only lightly tapping with your fingertips.
Important! The box with the corn rows is important enough to put in a warm place with good ambient light: window sills, countertops, standing next to the window. Or create a regular artificial light that mimics sunlight.
First shoots should be expected in 3 weeks.
- The growth and maintenance: how to help the development of mint
- Mint - grass picky, but, like any plant needs attention. Winter should not be pereuvlazhnyat soil, watering must be careful not abundant. Suffice it to 1 times per week. Since the early warm spring and during summer-autumn grass will require abundant irrigation, as entering the active phase of growth.
- In winter, it is important to regularly spray the plant, especially one with a grass box standing on your windowsill over a radiator. The air in the Russian winter quarters is very dry, so the plant is necessary to create the preferred microclimate. Once a day, arrange your Sadiq light shower of microscopic droplets of spray.
- Avoid drafts! Peppermint likes to extreme temperatures and flows through the cool air. Therefore, if you decide to ventilate the room, clean the box with seedlings deep into space to save the plant.
- Light, light, light, and again! If you have too dark apartment, buy a spare lamp to maintain a favorable plant life. But in the case of brightly lit apartment, take care of the leaves of fragrant herbs from burns.
During the winter mint grow on a windowsill in a rather bushy specimen will give you the opportunity to enjoy the fragrant leaves and cook fresh lemonade with its help. Summer support plant fertilizers, and by the fall, you can prepare for breeding and planting of this famous spice rhizomes.