Choose this for balcony vegetable gardening: easy to grow, good-looking, fragrant, and delicious, it sprouts and fills the pot on its own year after year

Perilla is an annual herbaceous plant. Its leaves have a distinctive fragrance. There is green-leaf perilla and purple-red perilla. It can not only be eaten, but can also be used for colds and the like. If you add some perilla when cooking fish, it will be especially delicious. Perilla is very simple to grow and needs almost no care. Perilla can generally be sown in spring and autumn. As long as there is plenty of sunlight on the balcony, you can grow a pot of perilla yourself.

Grow a pot of this vegetable on the balcony: easy to grow, good-looking, fragrant, and delicious, it sprouts and grows to fill the pot on its own year after year!

When sowing, prepare perilla seeds; as long as they are not expired, that is fine. Ordinary soil, or garden soil brought back from outside, can all be used for growing it. It is not strict about soil and can use sandy soil or clay soil. After sowing, cover with a thin layer of soil, water thoroughly, and generally seedlings will emerge in a week.

After germination, ensure several hours of sunlight each day. Give it more sun. There is no need to water too much; water again when you see the soil is dry.

If you feel the seedlings are planted too densely, you can pull out some of the weak seedlings. After the seedlings grow larger, they need sufficient water and fertilizer. You can water with some nutrient solution, or organic fertilizer water. As the leaves grow larger, you can pick the tender leaves to eat. As long as the plant has grown to a certain size, you can pick tender stems and leaves to eat at any time.

If you do not eat it, you can also keep it for viewing, because its leaves are purple-red and very beautiful, just like a potted plant. If you want it to bloom and set seeds, then stop pinching off the tops and picking it.

After some time, small flowers will bloom at the top part, and many fragrant seeds will also form. These seeds can be collected and kept for sowing again the next year, or you can just leave them alone. After Xiaoya grew perilla in a flowerpot for a year, when the seeds later matured they would fall into the flowerpot by themselves, and the next year many small perilla seedlings would sprout and grow, growing especially vigorously. It has strong, tenacious vitality, and wherever the seeds fall, they grow there. It really is a potted vegetable that is both beautiful, easy to grow, and delicious.