Grow vegetables on the balcony: just pinch off a stem and it will live, and you can even stir-fry a plate of it every day
Keep a pot of heartleaf aptenia at home, both pretty and tasty!
Heartleaf aptenia is actually the edible Andrographis paniculata, rich in vitamin C, refreshing and delicious, and it is a very popular vegetable on the market now. Heartleaf aptenia is very easy to propagate; just pinch off a stem from a neighbor's plant and stick it in soil and it will live!
How do you grow heartleaf aptenia?
1. Cut off healthy branches of heartleaf aptenia, about 10 cm long; shorter or longer doesn't matter. Leave them in a bright, ventilated spot for about 1 hour to dry.
2. Prepare clean soil; nutrient soil or ordinary garden soil will both work. The important thing is that it has no pathogens or insect eggs. Put it in the sun for a few days in advance, or spray it with some carbendazim solution.
3. Insert the dried branches directly into the soil, water thoroughly, and leave them in a cool place to recover for 1 week. After that, whenever the surface of the potting soil looks dry, water thoroughly.
4. In winter and spring, let heartleaf aptenia get more sun, and it will grow very quickly!
How do you eat heartleaf aptenia?
1. Pick the tender tips of heartleaf aptenia and wash them clean. Put the washed heartleaf aptenia into a pot of boiling water and blanch it for about 1 minute. Then scoop it out and drain the water.
2. Prepare minced garlic, white sugar, chicken bouillon, salt, sesame oil, chili, sesame seeds and other seasonings, and mix them evenly.
3. Sprinkle the seasonings over the heartleaf aptenia, mix well, and it's ready to eat!
Grow a bucket of garlic on the balcony, and you won't need to buy garlic sprouts for a year!
The garlic we buy and bring home often sprouts at the slightest excuse, and we can plant that sprouted garlic and eat the garlic sprouts. Plant it once, and you can harvest 3-4 rounds, which is especially cost-effective!
How do you grow garlic sprouts?
1. Find a relatively large plastic bucket, and punch several round holes in the body as shown in the picture below.
2. Find a few heads of garlic, preferably ones that have sprouted. Break them apart and peel them.
3. Fill the plastic bucket with garden soil. Moisten the garden soil in advance, otherwise the soil will easily leak out.
4. One hole, one garlic clove; insert the lower part of each garlic clove into the soil in the plastic bucket one by one.
5. When the soil is dry, water thoroughly from the mouth of the plastic bottle. Give it more sun, and the garlic sprouts will grow very quickly!
6. When the garlic sprouts have grown longer, cut them off with scissors and keep growing them, and you can harvest round after round without stopping~
How do you eat garlic sprouts?
1. Wash the garlic sprouts clean and cut them into small sections.
2. Beat the eggs into egg liquid, fry them cooked in a pan, and set them aside.
3. Pour oil into the pan, add chopped scallions and fry until fragrant, then pour in the garlic sprouts and stir-fry until soft.
4. Pour the eggs back into the pan, and after stir-frying until cooked, add salt, then dish it out and it's done!
Grow a sweet potato on the balcony, and you can eat sweet potato leaves every day!
Sweet potato leaves are a particularly popular health food nowadays, rich in protein, vitamins and minerals, and they help prevent constipation, delay aging and improve immunity. But sweet potato leaves are only sold in spring and summer. What if you want to eat them in winter? Simple, just grow a sweet potato at home and it's solved!
How do you grow sweet potato leaves from a sweet potato?
1. Buy a few sweet potatoes at the market, and choose those that are healthy with intact skin; it's best if they have a few small roots.
2. Wash the sweet potatoes clean, find a plate, pour in a small amount of clean water, and place the sweet potato horizontally in the plate so that about 1/3 of the sweet potato is submerged in the water.
3. When the water runs low, add more water, and change the water about once every 3 days. In 1-2 weeks, the sweet potato will grow roots and tender sprouts.
4. After the sweet potato has grown roots, plant the side with the roots into the soil, and water only when the soil is not dry.
5. Give it more sun, and the sweet potato will grow sweet potato leaves, and very densely too!
How do you make sweet potato leaf egg pancakes?
1. Wash the sweet potato leaves clean and chop them up for later use.
2. Into the chopped sweet potato leaves, add eggs, salt, cooking wine, pepper and so on, and mix evenly.
3. Add oil to the pan and heat it, then pour the sweet potato egg batter into the pan and fry both sides until cooked and golden.
4. Scoop out the cooked sweet potato egg pancake, then cut it into small pieces, and it's ready to eat!
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