Plant a pot of this vegetable in autumn: it sprouts fast, grows fast, looks as beautiful as a bonsai, and you can harvest it several times

Growing a few pots of vegetables at home is not as difficult as it seems. It is autumn now, and the weather is very suitable for growing vegetables. If you have more peas at home than you can eat, you can plant them in a flower pot. After they sprout, the lush green is both easy on the eyes and beautiful, and you can also pick the tender shoots to eat. You can harvest several rounds, and its stems and leaves can cool you down and relieve summer heat, and are rich in nutrients.

Methods and tips for growing potted peas at home

Prepare pea seeds that have not gone bad. In fact, when the peas inside the pea pods you bought have gotten old, you can also use them as seeds for sowing. Prepare an ordinary flower pot, large or small, generally about twenty-some cm in diameter is fine, or you can use a long trough planter.

For the soil for growing peas, use ordinary garden soil, add some base fertilizer; fully decomposed cake fertilizer or chicken manure fertilizer both work. Soak the pea seeds in clean water for a day, then you can sow them into the flower pot, covering them with 2 cm of soil. Water thoroughly to ensure sufficient moisture and promote germination.

As long as the balcony has good ventilation and some sunlight, it will sprout in a week and quickly grow into pea shoots. If you do not eat them, keeping them as a potted plant to admire is also very beautiful. At this time you can also pick the tender pea tips and use them in noodles or soup; both are very tasty.

After picking, apply a light fertilizer once more, and it can continue to grow. You can pick and eat it several times. When watering normally, wait until the potting soil is dry before watering, so as to avoid waterlogging in the pot, which can cause root rot.

If you like eating pea leaves and pea tips, you can harvest them multiple times. If you want it to form pods, just pick fewer. Then thin the seedlings, keeping the sturdy ones. Add more soil around the plants and apply more fertilizer.

Before the peas bloom, you can apply a light fertilizer once to promote plant growth and grow more branches. You can also set up a support for it. When it starts forming pods, increase the amount of watering and apply phosphorus and potassium fertilizer.

Before winter, you can add some fertile leaf mold around it. Peas generally bloom around March; fertilize in time, and they form pods in April and May.

As a cluster on the balcony, space is limited, so you might as well grow a pot of pea sprouts. Plant once, and you can pick and eat them several times. In the end, seeing the peas you grew produce beans is also a happy, exciting, and very fulfilling thing. The peas Xiaoya grew in the flower pots on the terrace are also growing well.