Auntie grows Chinese cabbage in the cracks between bricks, and one plant can weigh four or five jin
It seems Chinese people are born with this amazing skill for growing vegetables. They can grow them in America, in Africa, even in space, and they do not even waste a space as narrow as a brick crack - the aunties plant Chinese cabbage, eggplant, scallions in them...
Growing Chinese cabbage in brick cracks
Although these little vegetables survive in the cracks, they cannot hold back the aunties' superb growing skills. Let's take a look at how this Chinese cabbage is actually grown!
1. Late July to late August is a good time to plant Chinese cabbage. Buy cabbage seeds, sow 2-3 seeds in each brick crack, and water a little.
2. Within a few days, the seeds sprout. At this point you need to thin the seedlings, keeping 1 stronger cabbage seedling per brick crack and pulling out the rest.
3. Because the cabbage has plenty of sunlight outdoors after thinning, it grows extremely fast!
4. It has grown a little bit more...
5. There are more and more leaves, and there is simply nowhere to step!
6. In late autumn and early winter, the cabbages begin to head up!
7. It is winter, and the Chinese cabbage can finally be eaten! Use it to stew with vermicelli, pickle it as a side dish... Not only can your own family not finish it, the neighbors all around cannot finish it either!
Not only does the Chinese cabbage grow vigorously, the round cabbage is also quite plump!
A watermelon grown from a brick crack - it should be called Tough Melon~
Growing eggplant in brick cracks
1. Buy small eggplant seedlings and plant one in each brick crack.
2. After planting, water a little.
3. After the seedlings survive, they begin to send out new shoots.
4. The eggplant grows sturdier and sturdier, slowly grows bigger, blooms, and finally produces large eggplants!
The brick-crack vegetable-growing aunties in the city
Brick-crack vegetable-growing aunties are not only in the countryside, they are in the city too! Although they do not have a big yard, if conditions are lacking, they create the conditions to grow vegetables! Just look at the brick cracks on a riverbank slope in a residential compound in Ma'anshan - they are densely planted with vegetables!
From a distance, a high-end-looking residential compound!
Up close, oh! Nice greenery!
Look more carefully! Oh! They have even set their sights on this place for a vegetable garden!
1 vegetable per brick crack, no fighting, neat and tidy!
The soil by the river is fertile, and the little vegetables are so green they look like they are glistening with oil!
Bury a few garlic cloves in there, and in a few weeks you can eat garlic shoots. They really know how to make the most of life!
However, with vegetables this big, the root systems must be very developed, and they will surely loosen the bricks on the riverbank slope, which is unsafe. This method is not recommended!
Growing vegetables is truly a national talent of the Chinese people,
Relying on this national talent,
we can survive with just a handful of soil!
Have any flower lovers ever grown vegetables?
Hurry up and show off your vegetable-growing skills!
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