If one day your friend hears that you are planting vegetables on the windowsill, he will think you are joking, because he has heard a lot about planting vegetables on the balcony and rooftop. He has never heard of planting vegetables on the windowsill, but! What I want to tell you is that vegetables can still be grown on the windowsill. The following is the experience of growing vegetables on the windowsill of his home shared by a flower friend who thinks his brain is full.
1、 Is to choose a small, can be placed close to the cultivation of containers.
Generally, the round pot for flower cultivation occupies a large area, and the area in the pot is not fully utilized, so it is not an ideal choice for high-density planting. The square basin is an ideal tool, but on the one hand, it is not available everywhere. On the other hand, the square basin is not small, so it may be inconvenient to place. So if the square basin is not available, you need to use your brain to find other containers.
All kinds of beverage bottles can be used as very good cultivation containers, such as beverage bottles, mineral water bottles, etc., especially the kind of square ice black tea bottles, small bottles are very good for cultivating lettuce, rape, leek and other short plants. Larger bottles, such as Coke bottles and oil barrels, can be used to cultivate tall plants such as tomatoes, agarics and cucumbers. Disposable cups can also be used as cultivation containers, but if you want to use paper cups, because they are easy to be broken by water, you need to replace them regularly or set a new cup outside the old cup. Plastic disposable cups are impermeable, but generally soft, so you should grasp them carefully when moving.
Can can also be used for planting, but cola can is very thin and sharp edge, so you should pay attention not to cut your fingers. The characteristic of the iron pot of mango juice is that it is very short. It is suitable for raising seedlings. It is also possible to plant short leafy vegetables in this kind of small pot.
A variety of soft materials can also be used for planting, such as socks, thick plastic bags and so on. These things can be obtained by waste utilization, especially the thicker socks, which have elasticity, can keep water, and the appearance is more textural. They are very good cultivation containers. They can be planted with stem plants such as pepper, onion, mint, and radish.
2、 Is to make full use of space, 3D development
The plane area on the windowsill is very limited, so we should excavate the space in the vertical direction. For example, the use of security window lattice to build a small board, make a small platform, the platform placed light loving plants, under the platform placed shade tolerant plants, which can expand a lot of usable area. In addition, you can also use short wooden sticks, bamboo chopsticks and the like to make some shelves with empty holes, which are inclined to hang on the anti-theft window lattice. The advantage of this kind of shelf is that it has a large light receiving surface, and it won't completely block the sunlight below.
Hanging is another convenient way, as long as you make some small devices, you can hang your dishes in the air. For example, the cultivation container made of plastic bottles can be hung with only two holes and a rope, which can leave the precious bottom area for large plants such as tomatoes and cucumbers. I also made a kind of upside down container, which is especially suitable for hanging the tall plants with stems. If it is used to plant the plants with vines, we should pay attention to the limited growth type, otherwise once it grows, the upside down type can't drop vines.
3、 Watering, fertilization and daily management
Because the containers used for high-density cultivation are generally very small, and the soil is also less, the amount of water and fertilizer conservation is very limited. Weeding can avoid wasting water and nutrients. It's very comfortable to visit your windowsill garden every day. Watering and weeding can be done easily, and it doesn't take much time.
Although there are a lot of containers for high-density cultivation, it's not particularly troublesome for watering. Because they are placed one by one, it's very convenient to hold a mineral water bottle for watering. If we make some simple slow-release and drip irrigation devices, as well as some water conservation measures, it will be more convenient.
As mentioned above, because the water holding capacity of the small container is limited, in order to avoid frequent watering, some work can be done to enhance the water holding capacity, such as wrapping the whole container with plastic bags, which can significantly reduce the evaporation and loss of water. In today's weather of more than 30 degrees, the soil can be kept moist for two or three days without watering. In addition, it can also avoid soil erosion The loss caused by the impact of rain, and will not cause the water to overflow the windowsill because of pouring too much water.
It is also because of the small container, so it is impossible to apply a lot of base fertilizer in the soil, and the method of digging and topdressing is also difficult to operate. Therefore, although a certain amount of base fertilizer can be mixed into the soil before cultivation, a large amount of fertilizer really needs to be poured into the water when watering. General fertilizers and compound fertilizers can be fertilized in this way. The trouble is that some solid organic fertilizers can only be used by making soil leaching solution.