How to choose greens for your home garden

Even urban residents on balconies and window sills often grow fresh greenery. And if a person has his own garden, then without beds with home greens he definitely does not do. After all, it is so nice to make a salad of crispy vitamin goodies that you just picked under your window.

Growing greenery at home It is not only necessary, but also inspiring. Life here is boiling: some plants are already ready for use, others are gaining strength, others are only cursed, but already please their owner.





Experienced gardeners advise to combine salads on the garden with different maturity dates so that fresh greens are on the table from May to late autumn. But how to choose among the abundance of different varieties that is suitable for your garden? Let’s look at the most suitable plants for this purpose.

1. ruccola
   A plant with a spicy mustard and slightly oily taste. Especially well suited to meat, emphasizes the taste of any vegetable or green salad. It is sown 4-5 times per season. Interestingly, Julius Caesar ordered the addition of arugula to all dishes served on his table. Why not include this wonderful plant in your diet?
   
   
   
   
2. iceberg
   Crunchy leaves with a neutral taste. The salad received such a curious name because it had to be stored with ice. You can sow every two weeks from complete thawing of the soil until the end of August. It works well next to potatoes or cabbage. You can grow houses on a windowsill, but keep in mind that the salad loves sunlight.
   
   
   
   
   
   
3. radiccio
   It's bittersweet and spicy. It gives spiciness to fresh salad assortment. The plant is also known as "Italian chicory". Different varieties of radiccio can be sown from the beginning of May to the end of summer.
   
   
   
   
4. cherry
   In the early spring, when the onions and garlic are still about to grow, the garlic is already ready for use. It is especially pleasant that the best taste and greatest benefit are the early leaves of the plant. It should be noted that garlic is grown only in the shade.
   
   
   
   
5. roman
   The crunchy leaves of the plant with a slight nutty flavor are necessarily added to the popular Caesar salad. However, for a plant that has been used in cooking for more than 5 thousand years, you can easily find use when cooking other vitamin dishes. Romaine is sown every 3-4 weeks.
   
   
   
   
6. celery
   Supporters of healthy eating without celery is difficult to do, because, in addition to vitamins and trace elements, it has antiseptic and tonic properties. And finding a recipe for a suitable dish with celery is definitely not difficult. It is grown in the form of seedlings or sown in the soil at the end of April.
   
   
   
   
7. Cress salad
   Unpretentious and precocious plant that can be eaten soon after sowing (approximately 2-3 weeks after sprouting). Cress salad contains phytoncides and mustard oil, has a bitter-spicy taste. Sown twice a month. Without much hassle, you can grow right on the windowsill, which will only give comfort to your home.
   
   
   
   
8. Cucumberweed
   This plant for its fresh cucumber smell and taste is also called a cucumber. Such a salad perfectly replaces cucumbers in dishes, when these vegetables have not even had time to bite. Cucumber grass attracts bees, which contributes to better pollination of other crops nearby. Surprisingly, however, next to potatoes and eggplants, the plant also serves as a reliable protection against the Colorado beetle.
   
   
   
   
   
   

Of course. greens at home You can grow anything, as long as you are fully satisfied with its qualities. Someone will sow wax or leaf lettuce, someone will give preference to chard, and someone in the olden way populates parsley and spinach.

However, even an experienced gardener should sometimes try something new to always please yourself and seven varied and interesting dishes with an abundance of fresh vitamins.