Grow water spinach as a potted plant at home: it sprouts in 1 week, grows back after pruning, and you simply cannot eat it all

Growing flowers on a balcony only lets you admire their form and scent, while growing vegetables on a balcony lets you admire their form, enjoy their scent, and taste their flavor. While purifying the indoor environment, you also harvest green, healthy organic vegetables, and their nutrition and taste are beyond compare with vegetables bought at the market. You can savor the purest, most pristine taste of nature in a city packed with reinforced concrete. The green, healthy sunshine lifestyle is something you can only truly appreciate once you have it yourself!

Grow "water spinach" as a potted plant at home: it sprouts in 1 week, grows back after pruning, and you cannot even eat all the vegetables!

Water spinach likes a hot, humid climate and is not strict about soil conditions; it is best grown on low-lying, moist and fertile clay loam. The suitable growing temperature is 25-30°C, it can tolerate high temperatures of 35-40°C, growth stalls below 10°C, and the plants die after frost. It likes light and long-day conditions, has low soil requirements, and has strong branching ability.

The suitable germination temperature for water spinach seeds grown as potted plants on a balcony is 20-35°C; when the temperature is low, you can soak the seeds in warm water to speed up germination. Water spinach grown as a potted plant on a balcony is generally sown by broadcasting, covered with 1-2 cm of soil, and watered thoroughly; it sprouts in about 1 week, and the soil must be kept moist during this period. Water spinach seeds are fairly hard, so after buying the seeds we can soak the plants first. You can choose to use warm water, for about half an hour, and the temperature should not exceed 60°C.

After water spinach has recovered from transplanting, the leaf tips grow abundantly and rapidly, and the demand for water and fertilizer increases accordingly. Therefore, when sowing water spinach, in addition to applying enough base fertilizer, you also need to apply topdressing, and water frequently to keep the soil moist. When the surface soil looks dry after watering, you should hoe and loosen the soil in time to maintain soil moisture.

For water spinach grown as a potted plant on a balcony, after every 3-4 harvests you should give the plant 1 heavy pruning, keeping only 1-2 nodes at the base, and thin out some overly weak side branches. As long as you ensure a suitable temperature, sufficient water and fertilizer, and also enough light, growing water spinach is not a big problem. If you grow it at home, you can also pick and eat it whenever you like, and it has many uses.

Generally speaking, water spinach seeds are not very expensive, usually about 3 yuan per packet. The sowing time is around April, and of course you can also sow from then all the way until August. The suitable germination temperature is 20-35°C. Water spinach likes a hot, humid environment and likes light, so in everyday care we can give it plenty of water. In the south, water spinach can be grown in water, and if it lacks water, its taste becomes poor, so flower lovers need not be afraid of watering too much.