Secrets of growing vegetables at home from the Four Summers seed series

In urban conditions, taking care of domestic plants is not only pleasant, but also useful: stress is relieved, plants are pleasing to the eye and decorate the surrounding space. Growing vegetables at home is quite a feasible task. The main thing is desire and a little patience.

Most greens and vegetables can be quite successfully grown on a city balcony, loggia or kitchen window sill.Most greens and vegetables can be quite successfully grown on a city balcony, loggia or kitchen window sill.

Most greens and vegetables can be quite successfully grown on a city balcony, loggia or kitchen window sill. There are advantages here compared to growing outdoors: in such conditions, your plants are protected from low temperatures, many diseases and pests. And if your loggia or balcony is glazed and insulated, then you can grow vegetables almost all year round.

To get the best result when growing vegetables and herbs at home, you need to pay attention to the following: the best place for a home garden (without highlighting) is a south window (balcony), southwest, southeast.

If additional lighting is used, then the orientation of the windows (balconies) is not so important. The period when plants develop well in “natural light” (without illumination) is spring and summer. Thus, the sowing dates for tomato, cucumber and greens fall at the beginning of March – mid-April, and for pepper and eggplant – the end of February. In the case of the purchase of special lamps, sowing can be done at almost any time of the year.

For growing plants, you can use various containers: flowerpots, pots, boxes, buckets. For greens, boxes with a capacity of 5-10 liters and a depth of at least 10 cm will be optimal. For plants of cucumber, tomato, pepper, eggplant, containers with a volume of at least 3-5 liters for each plant are ideal.

The soil should be neutral, fertile and loose. It is most convenient to use ready-made soil mixtures, both universal and specialized for a particular crop.

It is better to water the plants with settled warm water, do not overdry and do not flood. Feeding is extremely important for plants, what and how to feed depends on your choice. Greens, as a rule, do not feed.

POISK Agroholding has created varieties and hybrids collected in a series of seeds “FOUR SUMMER”, which give the maximum result when grown at home: strong, undersized, early maturing, with increased shade tolerance and abundant yields.

Perfectly suited for growing on a loggia or balcony is an early ripe cucumber that does not require pollination Gift F1. This hybrid is distinguished by shade tolerance, short internodes, moderate growth (lashes up to 90-150 cm), and an abundance of non-overgrowing greens. Fruits are elongated-cylindrical, large-tuberous, dark green, without bitterness. 38-39 days after germination, you can already enjoy fragrant and crispy cucumbers. The hybrid is characterized by long abundant fruiting.

Cucumber Gift F1 (Four Summer series)Cucumber Gift F1 (Four Summer series)

Another crop that grows well in pots and containers is the tomato. The cultivar chosen should be compact, early ripening, well-growing and fruiting in low light conditions. In recent years, small sweet cherry tomatoes have become very popular. These tomatoes are very useful, because. their sugar content is 2-3 times higher than that of ordinary ones. Cherries are easy to grow and can grow all year round without taking up much space. And another “plus” in favor of cherry – they are amazingly decorative!

Tomato Baby (series Four Summers)Tomato Baby (series Four Summers)
Red Scatter Tomato (Four Summer series)Red Scatter Tomato (Four Summer series)

The smallest up to 15 cm high is the early ripe Baby tomato with red and very tasty fruits weighing 12-15 g.

Tomato Red placer is an early ripe, standard plant up to 50 cm, resistant to low light and abundantly fruiting. The fruits are round, red, weighing 25-35 g, rich in lycopene and antioxidants, excellent fresh and canned.

Look great on the balcony with bright, red, yellow and orange fruits of tomatoes Little Red Riding Hood, Yellow Riding Hood and Orange Riding Hood. Plants are early ripe, 85-90 days from germination to the beginning of fruit ripening, undersized, with very tasty and healthy cherry tomatoes weighing 15-20 g. A real delicacy for children!

Tomato Little Red Riding Hood (Four Summer series)Tomato Little Red Riding Hood (Four Summer series)
Tomato Yellow Riding Hood (Four Summer series)Tomato Yellow Riding Hood (Four Summer series)
Tomato Orange Riding Hood (Four Summer series)Tomato Orange Riding Hood (Four Summer series)

Hanging planters with ampelous tomatoes Golden Cluster and Rowan beads look unusual and beautiful. The length of the shoots of these plants is up to 1 m, the brushes are hung with sweet cherry tomatoes of 20-25 g, ripening in just 80-85 days. With proper care, these tomatoes will delight you and your loved ones with red and orange delicious fruits all summer and autumn.

Golden Bunch Tomato (Four Summers series)Golden Bunch Tomato (Four Summers series)
Tomato Rowan beads (Four Summer series)Tomato Rowan beads (Four Summer series)

Hot and sweet peppers can be grown on the balcony at the same time, but in this case, they are planted at different ends of the balcony so that the distance between them is at least 3-4 meters. If this is not done, then the sweet pepper will become bitter.

Sweet pepper Kuzya (Four summer series)Sweet pepper Kuzya (Four summer series)
Sweet pepper Tyoma (series Four summers)Sweet pepper Tyoma (series Four summers)

Early ripe sweet pepper Kuzya, up to 40 cm high, will delight you with abundant fruiting of fragrant and tasty red fruits weighing up to 80 g. You can harvest the first crop in 90 days.

In the yellow-fruited variety of sweet pepper Tyoma, the first fruits begin to ripen 95 days after sowing. The plant is compact, 45-60 cm high, with beautiful thick-walled juicy and sweet fruits.

Shrub pepper Drakosha F1 (Four summer series)Shrub pepper Drakosha F1 (Four summer series)
Pepper bush Phoenix (series Four summers)Pepper bush Phoenix (series Four summers)

The varieties of hot pepper Drakosha and Phoenix grow well – with red pods, Zolotnichok with dark orange, Mexican – changing the color of the fruit from light yellow, purple to red. All these plants are early maturing and do not require shaping. Possessing a sharp spicy taste, the fruits can be successfully used in cooking as spices and for canning.

Hot pepper Zolotnichok (Four Summer series)Hot pepper Zolotnichok (Four Summer series)
Mexican bush pepper (Four Summer series)Mexican bush pepper (Four Summer series)

Like the tomato, peppers can be grown in pots or containers all year round. But with a lack of light and too dry air, the fruits will not be tied. The most optimal time for sowing is the beginning of March. The grown seedlings can be transplanted into permanent containers in early May. With sufficient lighting, watering and optimal temperature, the fruiting of pepper plants will last until mid-autumn.

Eggplant Medallion (series Four Summers)Eggplant Medallion (series Four Summers)
Striped Eggplant (Four Summers series)Striped Eggplant (Four Summers series)

Early ripe compact varieties of eggplants Medallion and Polosatik can not only grow beautifully on your balcony, but also bear fruit abundantly. A 45 cm high striped stripe pours a lot of funny striped fruits weighing up to 80 g. The medallion will generously present you with pretty purple fruits. Just know – collect on the table!

Watercress Temp (series Four Summers)Watercress Temp (series Four Summers)
Purslane garden Lakomka (series Four summers)Purslane garden Lakomka (series Four summers)
Coriander vegetable Vanguard (Four Summer series)Coriander vegetable Vanguard (Four Summer series)

And what is a balcony without greenery? We recommend you early ripe watercress Temp with a pleasant piquant taste, delicate sweetish purslane Lakomka, fragrant coriander Vanguard, refreshing mint Zabava, healing oregano Nadezhda, spicy rosemary Rosinka.

Mint vegetable Zabava (Four Summer series)Mint vegetable Zabava (Four Summer series)
Origanum vulgaris Nadezhda (Four Summer series)Origanum vulgaris Nadezhda (Four Summer series)
Rosemary officinalis Dewdrop (Four Summer series)Rosemary officinalis Dewdrop (Four Summer series)

Basil Shalun is very decorative. This is a compact plant 15-20 cm high with a large number of shoots and small fragrant leaves. Basil Freshness has a rich lemon aroma – a wonderful spicy-flavoring additive for desserts and tea.

Basil vegetable Scamp (Four Summer series)Basil vegetable Scamp (Four Summer series)
Vegetable basil Freshness (Four Summer series)Vegetable basil Freshness (Four Summer series)

A vegetable garden on the balcony is not only an interesting and beautiful hobby, but also a storehouse of year-round useful vitamins! The shorter the “road to the plate”, the tastier and healthier the vegetables!

Anna Evans

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