Home gardening balcony vegetable garden (I)

I. Several Principles for Establishing a Balcony Vegetable Garden

1. Potted vegetables are characterized by their bright colors and ornamental value, such as ornamental bell peppers, ornamental eggplants, mini cucumbers, and dangling gourds, as well as other specialty vegetables with vibrant colors.

2. Choose those that are nutritious and have a unique and fragrant flavor, such as mint, sesame, and perilla. Kale and purple-backed amaranth have distinctive characteristics and unique flavors.

3. Choose plants that are both medicinal and culinary, such as Panax notoginseng vine, Andrographis paniculata, and leeks.

4. Some plants that can improve the environment and enrich life.

5. Experiencing the joy of agricultural operations is also a form of mental enjoyment.

II. Choosing the orientation of the balcony and the types of vegetables

III. Selection of Equipment

1. Modern, minimalist, stylish, and aesthetically pleasing designs, such as ladder-style, column-style, and wall-mounted fully automatic hydroponics systems (see image below).

(Rotating substrate cultivation device)

2. It is simple, dignified, and elegant, like a shelf in furniture, with a very beautiful shape.

3. Adapt to local conditions, make the most of available resources, and use whatever equipment is available for planting.

IV. Introducing some varieties of potted vegetables

1. 16 kinds of fast-growing leafy vegetables: rapeseed, garland chrysanthemum, butter lettuce, large fast-growing lettuce, loose-leaf lettuce, purple-leaf lettuce, bitter chrysanthemum, shepherd's purse, mustard greens, water spinach, watercress, watercress, coriander, Malabar spinach, water spinach, garlic sprouts, and romaine lettuce.

2. There are 9 kinds of vegetables that can be harvested from a single planting: purple-backed amaranth, kale, leaf beet, white pine needle vegetable, New Zealand spinach, andrographis paniculata, vine ginseng, leek, and wood ear fungus.

3. There are 16 kinds of ornamental edible fruits and vegetables, including tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, dwarf tomatoes, fruit cucumbers (Dutch cucumbers), ornamental eggplants, chili peppers, five-color peppers, colored sweet peppers, ornamental pumpkins, gourds, bitter melons, pumpkins, winter melons, cantaloupes, loofahs, and watermelons.

(Five-color peppers)

(Thumb-sized cucumber)

(Cherry tomatoes)

4. Root vegetables, cherry radishes, bulb fennel, carrots, and green radishes.

(Beijing Purple Kohlrabi)

(Cherry Radish)

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