What can be sown for winter from flowers, vegetables and herbs

Autumn work involves not only preparing the garden and vegetable garden for winter, but also sowing various crops for winter. This is a convenient way to save effort and time in the spring period, when some of the necessary crops are already ready for sprouting and active growth.

What to plant

Experts suggested that it is good to sow during the winter carrots It is best that it be of early varieties. But late-ripening varieties may behave badly during this period, because they will try to grow according to a two-year cycle. As a result, from such sowing, there will be hard carrots with a poor texture of the root crop. Such varieties are sown in spring. Radishes can also be sown during the winter.

There is a wide selection of green crops to grow an early spring crop for salads. Among them:

  • dill;
  • parsley;
  • spinach;
  • leaf mustard;
  • black onion;
  • sorrel.

You can also sow flowers during the winter. There are really many varieties. Give preference to inexpensive seeds, because some of them can be damaged by sub-zero temperatures in any case. You can sow, but with stratification, primrose, adonis, daisies, aquilegia, veronica. This is not the whole range of colors. The flower assortment can be supplemented with the following varieties: viola, lupine, marigold, cornflower, cosmea, and forget-me-not.

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