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Consider the conditions of your balcony. If the balcony is relatively large, you can build a scaffolding and grow green beans, cucumbers and other vine fruits and vegetables.

02

The orientation of the balcony determines how much sunlight it receives. If you have a south-facing balcony, consider planting sun-loving fruits and vegetables. Such as cucumber, bitter melon, tomatoes, kidney beans, daylily, apricots, mustard greens, zucchini, green peppers, lettuce, leeks, etc. Balconies facing east and west have limited lighting conditions, so you can choose to plant onions, lettuce, rapeseed, leeks, loofah, coriander, radish, etc. The choice of growing vegetables on a north-facing balcony is very limited. You can choose shade-tolerant fruits and vegetables such as lettuce, leeks, asparagus, water spinach, and fungus.

03

Consider your own management time for the balcony. If you have less management time, you need to choose drought-tolerant fruits and vegetables.

04

You can purchase seeds or seedlings for planting. If you want to shorten the time to eat fruits and vegetables, you can consider buying eggplant, pepper, and tomato seedlings. The growth cycle of rapeseed, green garlic, sprouts, mustard greens, green vegetables, and lettuce is only 6 weeks, so if you want to eat vegetables as soon as possible, you can choose to plant these. For novices, it is easier to choose bitter gourd, carrots, onions, lettuce, and Chinese cabbage to grow vegetables, which can increase their enthusiasm for growing vegetables.

05

Choose a discarded jar, bucket, or porcelain jar at home, punch holes in the bottom to facilitate drainage, and then fill it with soil. The container you choose should be as large as possible so that it can be used for growing any vegetables in the future. For vegetables like peppers, be sure to use larger containers.

06

The soil chosen is rich in organic matter from woods or grass, or soil from river bays or ponds. You can also go to the market to buy special organic vegetable cultivation soil, which already contains the nutrients needed by plants, making it more convenient and hassle-free.

07

In order to ensure that the original bacteria in the soil are removed, before planting, we mix quicklime powder into the soil, add some water, and leave it for three days until the soil After killing all the bacteria in it, you can plant fruits and vegetables.

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Not only do we need to add base fertilizer before the soil is put into the container, but we also need to fertilize it while the fruits and vegetables are growing. Fill the middle of the container with fertilizer, using special vegetable fertilizer or compound fertilizer. We can also make our own fertilizer, such as soaking it in fertile soil or plant ash, and using the resulting liquid to water plants.

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To kill pests and diseases, you can sprinkle quicklime powder or chili powder. To deal with germs and pests in the soil, you can sprinkle quicklime powder or chili powder; to deal with leaf pests, you can sprinkle chili powder, spray chili water, or use chili spray; to quickly kill a large number of leaf pests, you can use household Aerosol insecticide for killing mosquitoes.

Special Tips

1. Different vegetables should be grown in one container, and peppers can be planted in each vegetable pot in turn, because peppers can kill viruses and reduce vegetable diseases.

2. Do not use plastic containers for planting, as they can easily decompose in the soil and produce substances harmful to the human body.