Having a small place to plant then know how to plant pechay in pots with easy to follow steps. Making vegetable garden with many vegetable planted, is one of enjoyable moments to do especially when you are a farmer, agriculturist, botanist, and a nature lover.
Plants have more benefits to all living things especially to our human beings. Yeah. That's right.
Then let's make surrounding a more beautiful and great by learning on how to grow pechay in pots. This is a simple steps on how to plant pechay in pots and it's a way if having a source of food, income and it is a way of having happiness.
Step 1: Prepare for the Materials
Yeah prepare for it. Let's make it easy. Gathered the materials like pechay seeds. We need the seeds in order to grow vegetable. You can buy it on the market.We need also the pots, this is where we are going to plant the pechay vegetable. Trowel we will use this to cultivate and dig the soil.
Fertilizers it is best if it is organic fertilizers but you can also buy artificial fertilizer on the market. And lastly the seed box. This is where we grow pechay seedlings before we transplant on the pots.
Step 2: Grow the Seeds on the Seedbox
Further information. Seedbox this is a box where the seeds are put in order to grow until it become seedlings. In this box we will put the seeds and also we will put the soil together.When the seeds started to have roots and leaves, we will wait for them to grow until it is stronger enough until it becomes seedlings.
When it have three to four young leaves it is now the time and it can now be transplant on the pots.
Why it is needed? Why we need to do this if we can directly put the seeds on the pots and started to grow?
The importance of putting the pechay seeds on the seedbox is we can a sure that we have pechay vegetable that it is healthy and we can a sure to it's growth.
If we put directly the pechay seeds on the box we didn't know if it will grow healthy. Some will be weak but it depends on the seeds. The next will be a more information. Continue Reading.
Step 3: Transplanting
When it have three to four young leaves it's the time to do transplanting. Put soil on the pots and apply some fertilizer.Organic fertilizer is recommended. Get the trowel or you can use bolo then go to seedbox, slowly dig the soil make sure you will not cut the roots.
Transfer it one by one to each pots. Transfer the healthy seedlings and observe which are better and which are not. After you transfer the seedlings water it using the watering tools you have.
Just make it moist and don't put water excessive. Put the pots where it doesn't hit by the sun too much.
It is recommended to do this during early in the morning or late afternoon because the sun shines not so brightly.
Now you have knowledge and information on steps on how to grow pechay in pots. The lastly is the caring of the pechay vegetable and the harvest time.
Step 4: Caring and Harvest Time
To care for the pechay vegetable you need to water it everyday. The more you do it you can attain a more productive growth and green leafy pechay vegetable.Remove pest or insect you see by observing the leaves and remove it when you found on the leaves.
And within more or less 45 days, you can now harvest the pechay vegetable. That's the way on how to plant pechay in pots.