Grow these 3 vegetables on your balcony, and they will thrive even if you ignore them, so you'll never worry about food all year round

Growing vegetables on the balcony for self-sufficiency is green and safe, and it is quite popular nowadays. But many office workers want to grow them but have no time to care for them, and no experience either. Below are a few vegetables that need no experience and take no time to manage. Once planted, they will grow vigorously, guaranteed to be enough to eat.

Lettuce

Sprinkle lettuce seeds evenly into a pot filled with soil, cover with a layer of sowing soil, and do not bury them too deep, or the seeds will struggle to sprout. When the temperature reaches 20°C, they will sprout in about 5 days. No need to water much, just keep the soil moist.

Lettuce has a short growing period, and can generally be harvested in about 30 to 40 days. When harvesting, pick from the outer leaves, and the middle leaves will slowly keep growing. Plant a few more, and you'll have enough to eat.

Garlic

Buy some intact garlic heads from the supermarket, with the skin on, separate them into individual cloves, place them directly into the soil with the garlic heads pointing up, cover with soil and that's it. Garlic will survive without any care, as long as the soil is not too dry or too wet.

Garlic is something you can eat in everyday stir-fries, so this also saves you from buying it. You can eat both the garlic and the garlic sprouts.

Scallions

For the scallions you buy, cut off the upper part to stir-fry and eat, and take the lower part with a section of the white stalk and roots, insert it directly into a pot with soil, press down the surrounding soil, water thoroughly, and place it in a sunny spot. In about a week, new shoots will grow. When eating, do not pull them up by the roots; just snap them off to eat, and they will keep growing.

Actually, scallions, cilantro, and chives are all vegetables commonly eaten at home, and they are simple to grow, grow quickly, and cost neither effort nor money, so they can all be planted. If you want them to grow fast, you can apply some fertilizer when you first plant them. Microbial inoculant fertilizer specially for fruits and vegetables is green and safe, odorless, and has a remarkable effect on increasing vegetable yield.