Not having the conditions to set up an inspection or a heated Belgian, and if you want to prepare some seedlings on your own, we have to think about creating appropriate conditions in the apartment for this purpose. The minimum areas are window sills with the most sunny exhibition. A folding table would be a more convenient device, fixed on the window wall – by the window or next to the window. Thanks to this structure, additional space is gained for gardening work, and above all, to put boxes, plastic containers for sowing and quilting, and pots. Photo bathtubs can successfully replace wooden boxes. Also, various types of glass lampshades and dishes can be used both to fill them with soil and to prepare seedlings, and for covering crops and young plants, transplanted in order to prepare them for planting on the plot or in the garden.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The easiest way to produce seedlings is to sow the seeds on the seedbed. For this purpose, we designate a well-sunny and sheltered bed on the north side, e.g. the wall of the gazebo. The preparation of the seed pot should be very careful. Ideally, it is in the second year after manure has been used. If we don't have one, it is in the autumn that we fertilize it with well-rotted manure or compost (5 kg of fertilizer per 1 m2) and dig it, then cover with leaves or straw manure, in order to protect the soil against deep freezing; thanks to this, we can sow the seeds quite early. Early spring, usually at the end of March, we take off the coat, dig the bed with a wide-toothed fork or just loosen it with a norkros, we fertilize and level with a rake. For 1m2 it is possible 20-30 g of calcium ammonium nitrate, po 30-40 g of superphosphate and 40% potassium salt. These fertilizers must be mixed with the soil. If we didn't give manure in the fall, it is also good to add a 3 cm layer of compost.
The seeds are sown in rows designated every 5-10 cm, we cover with a thin layer of earth (approximately three times as thick as the diameter of the seed) and knead. It should be sown in moist soil, and also water the seedbed, using a watering can with a strainer with the smallest openings. To protect emerging plants from spring frosts, board the sides of the seedbed with boards, sinking them partially into the ground. The boards should protrude above the surface by approx 15 cm. Then a kind of a box is created, which, in case of greater cold, we cover it with a straw mat at night, foil or thick paper. Plants on the seedbed should be carefully watered, not allowing the soil to dry out, and to remove weeds. Because the plants on the seedbed are sown densely – due to space saving – after emergence, we break them or dive. If we're going to quilt, we need to prepare a properly larger seedbed. For quilting, that is, transplanting, we take out the plants gently, levering it with a sharpened wooden pin, which then – in a previously designated place – makes a hole, places the roots in it and lightly pinches the soil around them. Then the planted plants are watered.