Sweet potato bonsai is sweeping the world, selling well in Europe, America and Japan, yet few people in China know about it

Everyone is familiar with sweet potato (sweet potato); it is a daily ingredient for everyone, and boiling, roasting, stewing and sun-drying can all make it delicious. When we usually eat sweet potato, we do not feel there is any artistic sense or beauty to it, but one person put sweet potato into a flower pot and made it into sweet potato bonsai, which entered the United Nations women's conference organized by the United States Congress, promoted sweet potato bonsai around the world, and promoted sweet potato bonsai in international families. The United Nations issued a sweet potato bonsai stamp to commemorate this invention

This person is Zhao Shuran. She has dozens of pots of sweet potato bonsai at home, each with a different form and breathtakingly beautiful, and the sweet potato leaves can be picked all year round for cooking. Now sweet potato bonsai has almost become a calling card of Weihai

This sweet potato bonsai, which is so famous, is actually just the sweet potato we usually eat growing leaves. We do not often eat them, and in rural areas they are all used to feed pigs. Now in Europe, America, Japan and other places, sweet potato leaves are best-sellers for cooking, and are praised as the queen of vegetables and longevity vegetables, which shows their nutritional value is too high

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Such a beautiful sweet potato bonsai is actually very simple to make. Follow along and learn how to make one!

1. Go to the market and choose a few sweet potatoes with good growth, no diseased or insect-damaged spots, and smooth surfaces. After returning home, gently wash them clean.

2. Find a flower pot or a suitable cup, and plant it in soil or grow it hydroponically. For hydroponics, submerge one third of the sweet potato, do not soak it all in. It will root in a week. In summer it grows very fast, and in a month it can fill the pot.

3. After the sweet potato sprouts, make sure it gets sufficient light. For soil-grown sweet potatoes, you can choose a good-looking container to shape the look. For hydroponic sweet potatoes, do not change the water often; generally wait until the water is almost gone, then simply add some water.

Fellow flower lovers, what are you waiting for! Hurry to the supermarket and buy a few sweet potatoes, and get started!