Ultra-simple: use flowerpots to grow zucchini on the balcony

All you need is a flowerpot, master simple skills, and grow zucchini.

Even if you don't have your own garden, you can still grow your own vegetables on your balcony.

In addition to growing seasonings such as spring onions, ginger and garlic, you can even grow some vegetables on the balcony. For example, delicious Zizania zucchini or zucchini.

You only need to be able to open up the space of a flowerpot and buy some seeds to grow pesticide-free and GM-free cabbage.

In addition, it is best to meet three more conditions:

Sun: zucchini need at least a few hours of sunlight every day to grow and bear fruit. If your balcony does not have enough sunshine or is blocked from the light, the zucchini may grow smaller. But don't worry, if the balcony is underlit or there is no balcony, as long as there is some light.

Plenty of water: zucchini grow and bear fruit on hot days, so plants need to be watered in the morning and at night. It is recommended to use flowerpots with drainage holes so that rotting roots do not occur.

Nutritious soil and fertilizer: zucchini has higher requirements for fertilizer, and it is more suitable for organic fertilizer. This is also very simple. Just buy some.

Then start the first step: raising seedlings

The time for sowing and raising seedlings is in May and June, and it will be adjusted according to the difference in temperature between the north and the south, but this requirement is not strict, and you can even plant it whenever you want.

You can use a small flowerpot or paper cup to put three or four seeds into the soil, about 3 or 4 centimeters deep, covered with soil to keep the soil evenly moist.

The first batch of new buds should be seen in about a week. If you grow several seedlings in a pot, you can carefully remove the weaker seedlings when you grow the fourth leaf, and you can keep them all if the seedlings are rising well, but don't rush to split the pot at this time.

After about a week or so, when the plant is relatively stiff, then divide the pot, put only one plant in a pot, be careful not to hurt the root system.

Step 2: watering and fertilizing, setting up shelves

When the plant slowly grows new buds, the next step is to build a shelf, which is very simple, so that the seedlings of zucchini will then climb the vine.

Watering is best to maintain a regular pattern, if the watering frequency is irregular, or lack of water, the gourd will be sometimes dry and sometimes waterlogged, which can easily lead to the final melon is not sweet or even a little bitter.

Zucchini is suitable for organic fertilizer, so you don't have to fertilize it often, just compost it and put it in a flowerpot.

The peel and core of the kitchen is a good material, but it requires earthworms in the flowerpot to turn it into compost.

If you don't know where to catch earthworms, you can also buy ready-made fertilizer.

Another advantage of growing zucchini is that it has few diseases and insect pests, only there may be mildew in wet conditions, just buy medicine and spray it.

The last step: harvest the results

In about two months, you can harvest and eat. It is generally recommended that zucchini can be eaten when they grow to about 20 centimeters. Although zucchini is not fully mature at this time, it is the most tender at this time.

If you grow up a little longer, until fully mature, the taste will be more delicious, but it will also be less tender, and the meat of the melon will be more compact. You can choose according to your own taste.

It is also important to note that it is best not to plant pumpkins at the same time, because they may cross and produce a strange melon that may be terrible to eat: