It is not necessary to wait for the start of the season to eat the leaves of sorrel and cook your favorite healthy dishes. In winter, you can grow sorrel well on a windowsill or a glazed loggia.
Planting material
For the distillation of greenery used rhizomes 2-4-year-old plant to the large number of growth buds. Also sorrel grown from seed.
Lighting and temperature
It is desirable to break the mini-garden on the sill of a window overlooking the south side. However, sorrel, one of the few species of leafy greens, good tolerate shading. On this basis, it can be grown on windowsills Northern (northeast, northwest) windows.
In winter, when daylight hours and is so small, and most overcast days, to foliage not too stretched, it is possible to install additional lighting. It's enough to place at a height of 60 cm fluorescent lamp.
The plant is cold-resistant, so in a place where it is grown, the temperature can range from + 5 ° C to + 20 ° C. If you have a gazebo, where there is no frost (although greens can withstand frosts to -7 ° C), the containers can be sorrel and place it there.
Soil and Plant Capacity
Sorrel grows well on drained peat soil. You can use the purchased universal weakly acid substrate.
For the cultivation of sorrel can use any container. It is best to put together a wooden box, in accordance with the size of the window sill or on the balcony allotted space, but you can also use plastic containers and pots of various materials. At the bottom of the planting container pour the expanded clay or gravel to create a drainage layer. It is desirable that the container have holes for outputting excess moisture.
Planting and Care
Seeds are sown with a depth of about 0.8-1.1 cm. The optimal distance between the rows - not less than 7 cm, so you create for plant growth are good conditions. Groove with the seeds need to sprinkle on top of the substrate or ready sifted humus. Sowing sorrel can be carried out each month year round (in different containers). This will give you the opportunity to permanently cut the new crop.
After some time after emergence, preferably their thin out, leaving the shoots at a distance from each other by about 4 cm. Sorrel loves moisture, so make sure that the soil is always moist. Periodically, loose soil with a fork or a toothpick.
Feeding is carried out by any universal fertilizer complex intended for indoor plants, 1-2 times a month, spreading the solution in accordance with instructions.