When to sow vegetables for seedlings: a note for summer residents

Very soon, the windowsills of city apartments will turn into seedling plantations.

At the same time, in order for future vegetables to grow well later, it is important to choose the date of their sowing correctly.

Let's figure out how to do this and what factors influence the sowing time.

When to plant seedlings

There are universal recommendations for the timing of sowing agricultural crops, but there are also a number of universal requirements that will help you choose the most optimal time.

These requirements include:

• the length of the growing season of the vegetable you are going to grow;
• the age of the seedlings when it is time to plant them in the ground;
• heat-loving culture;
• conditions for subsequent cultivation of the plant, that is, whether you will plant it in open ground or in a greenhouse;
• seed germination period;
• the climatic conditions in which the plant will grow.

Thus, it is important to take into account that there is no need to rush. For example, in the case of tomatoes, the period for planting them in the ground will be the first ten days of June, if we are talking about Moscow and the Moscow region.

And since the optimal age for seedlings is considered to be 40-50 days, seedlings should be started growing no later than May 1.