Balcony Agriculture: Enjoy a different kind of farming fun

[ China Agricultural Machinery Industry News ] In recent years, more and more families are not only planting flowers and plants on the balcony, but also using modern agricultural technology to grow fruits and vegetables, adding a lot of pastoral atmosphere to urban life. Balcony agriculture can not only beautify the indoor environment, but also experience the fun of “doing it yourself, getting enough food and clothing”. When you are a vegetable farmer, you can be a farmer and bring you a different kind of farming fun today. Planting vegetables on the balcony, eating the seasons is not heavy.

Balcony Agriculture: Enjoy a different kind of farming fun

“Balcony Agriculture” is a kind of indoor planting, which adds a pastoral atmosphere to people who live in urban life by planting fruits and vegetables. The lighting conditions for indoor planting are affected by the orientation of the room, especially for enclosed balconies. Even if the balcony faces south, the lighting conditions cannot be compared with direct outdoor planting. While plants, especially vegetables, grow, the role of sunlight is critical. Therefore, the production of most of the traditional terraced vegetables is better than that of the garden.

However, vegetable growing is seasonal. For example, in late autumn, you can grow spinach, leeks and other winter vegetables, which can last until May. After that, you can plant tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, beans, bitter gourd, etc. In the summer, it is the harvest season, you can eat until the early autumn. In the early autumn, plant cabbage and radish, and then harvest in late autumn. As long as the arrangement is reasonable, there are dishes that can be grown in a year.

If you want to make your own “farm” increase the output to a large extent, you should use various types of brackets, columns, and three-dimensional flower pots to increase the planting area. At the same time, arrange different kinds of time according to the growth characteristics of the crops to avoid “green and yellow”. If you want to pursue production, you can also choose to use soilless cultivation. Rational use of the upward space to keep the roots of the plants directly in contact with the nutrient solution, and the growth is faster than traditional soil culture.

Fish and vegetable symbiosis system has "family version"

The fish and vegetable symbiosis system was originally used in aquaculture technology and has now developed a pocket “family version”. People can eat their own organic dishes while enjoying fish at home. With this "family version" of the fish and vegetable symbiosis system, vegetables such as green vegetables, celery, lettuce, and broccoli can be organically grown.

On the side of the aquarium, a soilless cultivation bed consisting of several rollers is placed, and various vegetables to be planted can be inserted into the drum. Because the roots of the vegetables absorb the organic matter in the fish pond, the water is crystal clear and the fish swims in the water. The fish-and-vegetable symbiosis system uses the relationship of fish and vegetables as “golden partners”. Vegetables absorb nutrients from fish ponds and fish get purified water. At the same time, the mucus secreted by the fish can also contain the diseases in the roots of the vegetables, and the organic acids in the roots of the vegetables can make the fish healthier.

Take celery cultivation as an example: Cut a piece of celery root that was bought, wrap it in a cloth, insert it into a hole in a plastic foam, and then place the foam that is inserted into the vegetable root into the groove of the soilless culture bed drum. In the trough, the “organic water” is taken from the pool. When the roots of the vegetables are full of nutrients, they will thrive. Just feed the fish every day, no need to change the water, and do not have to fertilize the celery and add nutrient solution. Seeing here, do you also want to put a fish tank with a soilless cultivation bed into the balcony, while planting fish while growing vegetables? Then take action and experience the fun of "fishing without changing water, growing vegetables without fertilizing"!