The balcony can grow vegetables like this for a summer without buying and eating.

If you want to grow vegetables well on the balcony, you should pay attention to the following points:

1. Soil allocation problem

Grow vegetables with soil first. You can use half of the garden soil and half of the rotten leaf soil, and you can also go under the old firewood pile to dig out the rotten and blackened rotten soil, which can be evenly mixed with the garden soil. This kind of soil is most suitable for growing vegetables. Add some organic fertilizer or rotten cake fertilizer to the soil, the amount of fertilizer should be added according to the size of the container, it is easy to burn roots. When choosing containers, try to choose larger ones, such as foam boxes, plastic frames, etc., because it is to be harvested, try to make as many kinds of points as possible.

2. Choose vegetables

If you want to eat early, plant some Chinese cabbage, small rape, rape, coriander, this kind of vegetables have a short growing period and harvest faster. Can also plant some leeks, meat seedlings, this kind of dish is the most suitable for stuffing, but also can be harvested many times, more cost-effective. There are all kinds of radish, can also be planted in the balcony, very beautiful. After all, watching is the main thing, and eating is the second. Pepper, pearl persimmon, this kind of vegetable knot, one or two is enough, good management, harvest enough for you to eat. There are cucumbers, towel gourd, pumpkin, zucchini, this kind of melon, the plant is relatively large, vines have more branches, there must be enough space to raise, build a shelf for it to climb, otherwise it will not bear many melons. You can choose the right seed according to your preferences.

3. Planting

Bury the seeds or seedlings in the soil so that the seeds do not have to be buried too deep. Before planting, you can cover it with wet gauze for a few days, promote germination, and keep the gauze wet until the vegetable seeds germinate. The soil is moist, the light is sufficient, and it is ventilated and ventilated.

4. Management

After emergence, thinning seedlings, according to the container size to determine the plant spacing and row spacing, can not be planted too dense, so the growth is not good. Watering should be timely, because vegetables like a wet environment, so it grows fast. Of course, you should bask in the sun, unless you want to move indoors when the temperature is above 35 ℃, and you can leave it outside at other times. Or keep it in the sunniest place in the house for a long time. Basic fertilizer has been applied, as long as the growing vegetables do not have yellow leaves, there is no need to apply fertilizer.

After bearing fruit, you can use some cake fertilizer appropriately, not too much, thin fertilizer less, do not rely on the root, avoid burning root. If you find raw insects, timely prevention and control, you can catch, you can also use spicy garlic and pepper spray, as long as it is not serious, it is best not to use pesticides. Climbing vine vegetables, to pinch the heart to control the seedlings, wait until they grow to a certain height, or according to the size of the space, pinch to promote branches, or promote seedlings sturdy, so that the results are more and larger.

Growing vegetables, most like to watch the process of its growth, every inch of growth will bring joy and a sense of achievement, harvest is even more joy and satisfaction. It's a good choice to grow vegetables on the balcony. You don't have to go shopping all summer.