Instructions for planting clean herbs at home

Herbs are vegetables that can be grown all year round and are a popular favorite vegetable. With simple planting techniques, people can easily grow their own plants at home.

It is interesting that the fresh spice vegetables are grown in your own garden. They are easy to grow, whether on the balcony, by the window or in the garden. Many spice vegetables can also be grown year-round and will save you the opportunity to buy them at the supermarket or in the market. Just follow the instructions on the techniques of growing plants and caring for the spice vegetables below people will immediately have a mini market of spice vegetables in the home garden.

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Aromatic herbs have simple planting techniques, easy to grow

Choose herbs growing tools

People should plant seeds in a small box or tray, such as yogurt boxes, used fruit juice containers, eggshells or small ceramic pots. Pour the soil into the box, plant pots.

Use clean soil that has been treated (buy at a store that sells land or buy products online) to grow herbs. Do not use untreated soil because these soils may contain parasites that you can catch when eating raw vegetables.

Picture 2 of Instructions for planting clean herbs at home People can take advantage of all non-household items to grow herbs

Drills

With all kinds of herbs such as perilla, marjoram, dill, basil, dog basil : evenly spread on the surface of each tray about 0.5-1g seeds, covered on a thin layer of 0.5cm soil and watered water, moisturize, after 7-10 days seeds will germinate. With coriander (cilantro) plants, people need to use a light glass bottle to crack the seeds and soak them in warm water (2 boiling, 3 cold) for about 10-12 hours. Then remove the seeds and rinse them with clean water, drain and then sow about 20 seeds / tray, after 7-10 days the seeds will germinate.

With all kinds of sprouts such as broccoli, cabbage, green beans, water spinach . should also be soaked in warm water and thick seeded (5g / tray), water to keep moist after only 2-3 days to sprout. After 5-7 days, thinning can be used and continue to take care to have green vegetables to eat gradually.

Note : Use covers (grill, cardboard, newspaper .) cover the trays after sowing and water enough to bring them into the dark for the first 2-3 days for seeds to germinate quickly. When the seeds have germinated, remove the covers, check the humidity to regularly supply water to the tray. When vegetables grow 1-2 cotyledons, give light to fast growing vegetables.

Cuttings

Once you have a mini aromatic garden in your home or yard, you don't want to have to plant seeds to grow new crops, you can make cuttings to get more aromatic herbs. First, people have to choose sharp cutting tools for cutting branches to avoid stalks or bruises as it will affect the development of trees in the future.

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Cultivation of herbs can be done by sowing seeds or cuttings

Use alkaline or scissors to cut the branches of herbs. This is a trick when taking scissors, or sharp objects, to avoid injuring yourself when placing them in a gardening bag, just stick two scissors to a stopper.

Prepare glass jars containing water to hold the newly cut branches, glass vials will help people see how the roots will grow from the trunk. Note that water must be changed regularly every day to ensure that the tree does not rot.

Glass jars need to have large mouths to avoid taking the plants out so that the roots are not damaged. People can use a root stimulation solution, which is available at bonsai shops, but often this is a bit expensive, and we don't often use it so we can skip this step.

Take care of

Water regularly for vegetables, the first two days of watering (morning, afternoon), the following days can be irrigated depending on the moisture in the tray and outside weather conditions. Do not water when it is hot. Small and fine sprayers should be used to avoid leaf blight.

Picture 4 of Instructions for planting clean herbs at home Regularly water the best growing herbs

The types of herbs such as basil, dog basil, perilla, marjoram . when they are 20-30 days old, they can grow their own pots (1-2 plants / pot), the plants will grow quickly, tops , apply more fertilizer, water enough moisture to plant more branches and harvest tops, leaves longer (from 6 months to 1 year).

Harvest

Once harvested vegetables such as coriander (cilantro), fennel: 40-45 days after sowing can be harvested for use. If all is collected, bring the shelf to dry, mix the soil or the new medium to replant the other litter. Vegetables harvested many times: 30-35 days after sowing, harvest the young tops, continue to fertilize, take care of the next harvest 5-7 days later.