Sowing vegetable crops in winter is an agricultural technique that allows you to get the earliest harvest. Moreover, this is not a whim of southern summer residents, but adherence to natural processes, which can be applied even in central Russia. Therefore, it is important to know what crops are planted before winter and what rules are followed.
Top 5 crops for podwinter crops
Greens, vegetables and even flowers are planted in late autumn. Their seeds undergo natural hardening during the winter, and in the spring with melting snows they give strong, healthy shoots. The harvest of overwintered crops ripens 2-3 weeks earlier, its fruits will be of better quality than from spring plantings.
Among vegetables, those varieties are chosen that are distinguished by cold resistance, early maturity and resistance to shooting.
When cultivating podwinter beds, the following rules are followed:
- the beds are prepared in the fall before the cold weather in well-lit places that are not flooded during the melting of snow;
- sow dry seeds with the onset of frost to avoid their untimely germination;
- the number of seeds is doubled, taking into account that some of them will die;
- sowing is carried out in frozen ground, the beds are sprinkled with dry earth and then mulched.
In no case should you water podzimny crops - in spring nature will do it!
Winter garlic
Planting dates for winter garlic range from mid-September to late October
Garlic, of course, can be planted in spring as spring, but it is winter that gives powerful heads with full-bodied, large cloves. This vegetable tastes spicy and very aromatic. Its harvest has an excellent presentation and is sold at an attractive price in summer. The only drawback of winter garlic is its short shelf life.
To determine the time of disembarkation, you need to rely on the climatic features of the region.
Behind the scenes among summer residents there is an opinion that it is necessary to plant garlic no earlier than a month before the onset of the first frost. Then the cloves will establish themselves in a new place, but have not yet had time to germinate.
Winter onion
Winter onions are unpretentious, do not require special care, the crop can be harvested in 70-80 days
You can plant almost any type of onion, but usually it is planted on a feather and on a turnip. In addition to adapted zoned varieties, they take "Black Prince", "Buran", "Danilovsky", "Lugansky" and others. Before planting, the onions are calibrated into small ones, from which large juicy bulbs grow, and large ones for distilling early greens. Small sevok practically does not shoot in spring.
Winter onions are sown at about the same time as garlic, then the first shoots, under favorable conditions, will appear at the end of March, which is a month earlier than in spring. It will grow in a period free from diseases and pests.
Radish
Planted winter radish seeds will disappear if planted too early
Radish also belongs to cold-resistant crops. His crops will give the first harvest by April, and the fruits will be juicy and sweet. Early radish does not shoot, is not susceptible to disease and cruciferous flea, which is still sleeping at this time. After harvesting, you can have time to sow ultra-early varieties. Radishes are planted not earlier than the end of November, it is possible even in January-February. For sowing, the varieties “Okhotskiy”, “Liman”, “Zarya”, “Sakharok” are chosen.
Carrots and beets
Do not sow winter beet seeds after carrots and cabbage
Usually the two crops are planted at about the same time. However, spring sowing is fraught with the fact that with a lack of moisture, seedlings may not be present - this is typical for arid regions. Therefore, planting carrots and beets before winter can become a kind of reinsurance in obtaining a crop. Among the varieties of carrots are popular "Nantes 4", "Krasa Devitsa", "Moscow Winter". From beets choose "Cold-resistant 19" and "Podzimnyaya A474". Crops are planted during the onset of stable cold weather at a temperature of 0, -3 ° C.
Greens
For the autumn planting of greenery, vegetable gardens are suitable, in which cucumbers, cabbage, potatoes and other early ripening crops were previously grown
In temperate climates, you can plant almost any greenery - dill, parsley, lettuce, cilantro, sorrel, arugula, etc. Then, by the end of March (and maybe even earlier), the first fresh vitamins will appear on the table. Greens are sown with the onset of persistent frosts so that the seeds do not hatch ahead of time.
Winter planting is a minimum investment of effort and labor, but there is one point: you need to be ready to install greenhouses in case of unstable weather. This mainly applies to radishes, beets and carrots. And in general, sowing before winter does not cause much trouble.
