A Detailed Guide to Indoor Vegetable Growing Techniques and Methods

Growing vegetables indoors is now a very common thing, and today I will introduce indoor vegetable growing techniques to you; master this little skill and you can eat fresh vegetables at home too.

1. How to grow vegetables indoors

1. Prepare a container

First, prepare a container suitable for growing. If you do not have a spare flower pot at home, you can use an empty oil drum and punch holes in it. Usually you only need to give enough water and it will grow quickly; you can apply organic fertilizer as appropriate.

2. Growing method

First soak the seeds for three hours, then put them in a refrigerator at about 4 degrees, refrigerate them for about twenty hours, and then they can be planted in the soil.

3. Watering

When watering, you can cover the soil with the planted seeds with a layer of dry grass. After about a week, you can see small sprouts emerge. Keep the soil moist; as soon as the potting soil is dry, water it immediately. When the leaves have grown to about five, the vegetables are mature and can be picked as appropriate.

2. How to choose vegetables

1. Look at the color

Vegetables can generally be divided into two major categories by color: dark green leafy vegetables, such as spinach and amaranth; these vegetables are rich in carotene, vitamin C, vitamin B2 and various minerals; and light-colored vegetables, such as Chinese cabbage and lettuce; some of these vegetables are rich in vitamin C, while their carotene and mineral content is relatively low. If some vegetables have abnormal color, pay more attention, such as vegetable leaves losing their usual green and appearing dark green, or edamame being unusually emerald green; they may have been sprayed with or soaked in methamidophos pesticide before harvest and are not suitable for purchase.

2. Look at the shape

Vegetables with a normal shape are generally conventionally cultivated and have not been treated with chemicals such as hormones, so they can be eaten with confidence. “Abnormal” vegetables may have been treated with hormones. For example, with Chinese chives, when the leaves are especially wide and thick, even 1 times wider than ordinary broad-leaf Chinese chives, hormones may have been used during cultivation.

3. Look at freshness

If the application amount of nitrogen fertilizer (such as urea, ammonium sulfate, etc.) is too large, it will cause relatively serious nitrate pollution in vegetables. Through spot checks of vegetables on the market, it was found that the ranking of nitrate content from strong to weak is: root vegetables, potato and taro vegetables, green leafy vegetables, Chinese cabbage vegetables, onion and garlic vegetables, beans, melons, solanaceous fruits, edible fungi.

There are many kinds of vegetables, and the nutrients they contain are also different. Eating more vegetables can supplement the energy the human body needs and speed up metabolism.