Our four tips for a successful sowing
1st tip: Prepare a cozy bed
To wake up, the seeds need a hot and draining substrate. If you sow in the open ground and it is pailed, turn it off so that the sun warms it, and work it one to two weeks before getting into sowing. If the earth is too heavy, add a little sand or soil (not from a peat bog). The finer the seeds, the more the substrate must be too. For sowing under shelter, cover the seed with a layer of soil of about once and a half its size. Then tap slightly to put them in contact well.
2nd advice: water in abundance … but without excess
The substrate must also be constantly wet to trigger germination. Whether by vaporizer, watering room or “foot bath” (irrigation from below, immersing the buckets), water regularly until the very first leaves appear, called cotyledons. Vigilance, however, in shelter: banish excess water in buckets or terrines, conducive to rotting roots and fungal diseases.
3rd advice: tailor -made temperature
Between 10 ° C and 15 ° C for spinach, lettuce or onions, but from 20 to 25 ° C for eggplant or tomatoes: each type of seed requires a certain area of thermal comfort to get out of the ground (Read the box below) . So invest in a thermometer dedicated to gardening to check your reception conditions.
4th advice: Light at will
Your sowing “spin”, they grow in height, but are too fine and fragile? Is that they do not have enough light, keystone of all harmonious growth. Place your sowing in veranda if you are lucky to have one, and of course under chassis or in a well -exposed greenhouse. Otherwise, in the absence of an appropriate space, you will have to “waltz” your buckets or terrines: outside the day, for sunbathing, inside at night to stay warm. An effort necessary to see the birth of healthy healthy plants, ready to take off in your garden.
