Growing vegetables on the balcony in an empty oil drum, you can pick vegetables every day, beautiful and delicious

Growing vegetables on a balcony or terrace at home is not only ornamental and beautifies the environment, but also lifts your mood and lets your family eat fresher vegetables. The process is especially fun, and the moment you see the results you feel incredibly happy too.How do you grow vegetables indoors, what containers do you use to grow them, and which vegetables are easy to harvest, tasty and easy to grow?

1. Containers for growing vegetables. Actually, for growing vegetables, if you have old flower pots at home you can put them to good use. If you don't even have flower pots, we can use the empty oil jugs left over from cooking oil in the kitchen to grow vegetables.

First wash the oil drum, then cut off the end with the lid, and use a nail to poke about ten small holes in the bottom for drainage and airflow.

2. Soil.Then fill it with ordinary garden soil or leaf mold. If you don't want to spend money on soil, we can dig up some clean garden soil or fertile leaf mold in the suburbs in places without garbage dumps or construction waste, and then we can start growing vegetables.

3. Choose vegetables that are easy to grow. To grow lush vegetables at home, even on an enclosed balcony, and produce pot after pot of eye-catching green, thriving vegetables, there is one little trick: grow some tough, easy-care vegetables that you never have to worry about keeping alive, such as baby bok choy, lettuce, cilantro, garlic chives, tomatoes, chili peppers and so on.

Especially the three vegetables below: once planted, you can keep picking them for quite a long time. Every few days you can get a harvest.

Baby bok choy, prepare some greens seeds. Things like baby bok choy can be planted all year round. After sowing, water thoroughly, and they sprout especially fast, sprouting in six or seven days.

They also grow especially fast. You can thin them out and eat them as you go, and in just over a month they are ready to eat.

The thinned-out seedlings can be used to cook noodles, or replanted into spare flower pots, where they will grow even more vigorously. It is very simple.

Tomatoes,you can grow them from the seeds inside small tomatoes bought from the fruit shop. Because the empty oil drum is deep enough, one empty oil jug can grow one plant, or you can grow them in other containers.

When too many side branches grow out, we can pinch off some of the side shoots.

to encourage flowering and fruiting, and fertilize more during this period. Whether it is decomposed chicken manure fertilizer or cake fertilizer, either works, and the plant will bear lots of fruit.

Chili peppers,you can sow seeds from red chili peppers. First dry them in the sun, then sow them, cover with soil not too thick, water after sowing, and they will sprout in a week.

During the growing period, give them plenty of sun, open the windows often for ventilation to ensure air circulation, and fertilize in time.

The chili peppers will bear a lot, and you can pick chili peppers to eat for several months in a row.

Ripe red chili peppers.

A bumper harvest of chili peppers.

You can also use empty oil drums to grow other vegetables.

You can also use empty oil drums to grow cilantro, which grows quite well.

You can also use them to ferment rice-washing water and make your own fertilizer, and the vegetables grow especially well.