Grow a small vegetable garden at home with just over a dozen pots of vegetables, and you can harvest something every day

If you have a fairly large balcony or rooftop, don't leave it sitting empty. You can turn that bare space into a lush little vegetable garden with your own hands. All you need to prepare are flower pots, soil, fertilizer, and some vegetable roots, stalks, and seeds from the kitchen, and that's enough.

A fellow gardener named Xiaoyu buried a Chinese yam root from the kitchen that was too much to eat into a large flower pot, and planted other vegetables beside it too. It didn't matter. They all grew together.

In January, when the other vegetables were also harvested, the flower pot was tipped out and the soil dug apart, and what a surprise was inside. She never expected so many Chinese yams to have grown.

Tomatoes are a very easy vegetable to grow. The tomatoes you normally buy for cooking in the kitchen, the seeds inside them can all be planted. As long as the flower pot is a bit larger and the soil is a bit more fertile, you can grow a bumper crop of tomatoes.

Heavy with fruit, the beautiful and nutritious tomatoes finally ripened. Although the process was a bit slow, the wait was absolutely worth it.

If someone at home really loves eating chili peppers, then growing a few chili plants is a perfect fit. Just go to the kitchen and find some chili peppers or red chili peppers, separate out the seeds, and sow them directly. They sprout faster than you'd imagine.

For chili peppers, be sure to give them plenty of sun, and during the flowering and fruiting stages, fertilize often. If you grow them in flower pots, use pots with a larger diameter, so the chili peppers will bear more.

If there is a sprouted sweet potato in the kitchen, don't throw it away. A fellow gardener named Yilu just planted it directly into the soil, and only needed to water it. In a week it sprouted many shoots.

Still just watering and sunning, and after another week, the green leaves grow more and more. You can pinch off stems to propagate more, or pick the leaves to cook with.

Potted chili peppers and potted tomatoes are both very easy to grow, and if you want to try potted pumpkin, that works too. Save the pumpkin seeds from the kitchen and sow them into a larger flower pot. Use fertile leaf mold or peat soil for the soil.

During the flowering stage, pollinate it by hand, and maybe it will produce a pumpkin of no small size, filling you with a sense of accomplishment.