Grow vegetables without soil in the family room, choose the right variety

Vegetables suitable for soilless cultivation indoors include pakchoi, cole, cabbage, lettuce, celery, coriander, etc. Plastic boxes can be used as planting pots, then pottery gravel and pearlite are washed and spread, seeds should be soaked in warm water at about 32℃ for about 6 hours, then holes should be dug for sowing, diluted nutrient solution should be poured every day after emergence, and thinning seedlings and proper watering should be carried out in the later stage.

Vegetables suitable for soilless cultivation indoors

Suitable for indoor soilless cultivation of fruits and vegetables are: strawberries, tomatoes, cucumbers, balsam pear, cherry, radish and so on. Leafy vegetables are: cabbage, rape, cabbage, lettuce, celery, coriander and so on. The maturity cycle of these vegetables is different, fruit vegetables in 3-5 months, leafy vegetables in 2-3 months, the temperature requirements of fruits and vegetables in 10-25℃, the need for adequate light throughout the day, the general leafy vegetables demand is relatively not so high, so suitable for family indoor planting.

Preparing the planting pots

Can not use plastic flowerpots and foam plastic boxes, used as planting pots, but need to have holes and trays at the bottom, pay attention not to use earthen pots; then put in 1 jin of pottery gravel and 1.5 kg of pearlite, general building materials stores can buy, or peat, vermiculite, rock wool can also be; and then concentrated nutrient solution divided into No.1 and No.2 two, need to be diluted before use.

seedling

selecting high-quality seeds, soaking the seeds in warm water at 32 DEG C for about 6 hours, soaking pottery gravel and pearlite in clean water for later use, filling a plastic cup with soaked substrates, digging holes, planting two seeds in each hole of fruits and vegetables, digging ditches for sowing leaves and vegetables along small ditches, covering with substrates, gently compacting, and covering with films for seedling emergence.

post-management

After seedling emergence, dilute the nutrient solution 1-2 times a day until there is exudate in the tray. Thinning seedlings when seedlings grow 2 leaves, leaving only one seedling per hole on average, and pulling out redundant seedlings.

When the seedlings grow to about 4 true leaves in the later stage, it is necessary to change the pots for the seedlings. Generally, a layer of soaked pottery gravel is sprinkled on the bottom of the pot to facilitate drainage, then some perlite is sprinkled, and then the seedlings are transplanted into the big pot together with the matrix. A layer of pottery gravel can be sprinkled on the perlite. After transplanting, the seedlings should be watered completely for the first time, preferably with exudate from planting tray, the leaves and vegetables should be watered once every 2 days, twice a day, and the fruits and vegetables should only be watered twice a day.