Grow vegetables on the balcony without buying seeds or pots: one trick to make vegetables grow vigorously

Many city gardeners like growing vegetables at home on the balcony. If they have a terrace, rooftop or yard, they will grow even more vegetables, picking them whenever they want to eat. Homegrown ones are fresh and tasty, with especially full flavor.

Growing vegetables on the balcony does not necessarily cost money. In fact, as long as you use your head and your hands, you can grow a bumper crop of vegetables yourself.

Soil

If you do not want to buy soil, go to the fields or vegetable plots in the countryside and dig some soil to bring back, staying away from construction sites and places with construction waste. Then expose it to strong sunlight at high temperature to sterilize it, and you can grow vegetables.

Flower pots

If you do not want to buy pots, just use empty oil drums, old flower pots or plastic boxes, punch holes in the bottom, and you can grow vegetables.

Seeds

Seeds are available everywhere too. For example, chili seeds: the seeds inside the red chilies we eat can be used.

The seeds inside tomatoes can also be used, as long as the tomatoes are ripe.

Water spinach can be grown simply by taking the stems and planting them as cuttings. Sweet potato vines also root when planted as cuttings. And scallion bulbs can be replanted after the roots are left over from eating them.

Fertilizer

If you have no fertilizer, you can compost organic fertilizer yourself using fruit peels, vegetable leaves and okara.

Put it in an empty oil drum, cover it with the lid and leave it alone. After three months, once it changes color, dilute it with water and pour it on the vegetables. It is both fertile and easy to use, and the vegetables grow like crazy.

Harvest

Grow a few chili plants on the balcony, and you can pick ten or more every day, which is more than enough as a seasoning. Grow a few cucumber plants, and every few days you will harvest two, which feels very rewarding.

Growing your own vegetables is very easy. Give it a try.