A netizen shared that the vegetables grown by grandfather are taller than people, “I have only seen them in sports fields.”

My grandmother grew vegetables and grew huge quantities of fruits and vegetables. Vegetables are taller than humans and loofahs are taller than humans. After the pictures were revealed, netizens started heated discussions. Some people also laughed and said that the vegetable farming of the older generation was “really neither important nor heavy”, as if the farm in the game was directly brought into reality. From balconies and rooftops to deserts and even Antarctica and space, Chinese people’s enthusiasm for growing vegetables has allowed greenery to grow in all kinds of unexpected places.

China Youth Network reported on the 29th that netizens recently shared the fruits and vegetables grown by their elders. There are vegetables that are as long as the body, potatoes that are as wide as the waist, and loofahs that are as tall as a man. All kinds of giant vegetables surprised netizens: “Such big vegetables have only been seen in sports fields.” Some people saw the photos and questioned whether they were generated by AI. He laughed and said, “Why is there no AI logo?”

The related post attracted many netizens to share the results of their home-grown vegetables, and the comment area even became a “wish pool”, where some people were wishing to grow strawberries as big as watermelons. However, there are two extremes in the consequences of growing vegetables. Some people grow giant fruits and vegetables, while others grow smaller versions of fruits and vegetables.

The report notes that Chinese people’s passion for land is not limited to location. In the city, balconies, terraces, flower beds and even bay windows and foam boxes can be transformed into small vegetable gardens; As long as there’s an inch of land and a little sunlight, someone will find a way to grow vegetables. Some netizens even created vegetable landscapes on bottle caps, and someone else successfully planted rhizome root in Mozambique, causing netizens in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Chongqing to say it was interesting.

Not only small vegetable gardens in daily life, China is also trying to grow crops in special environments. Pineapples are grown in the Xinjiang desert, and more than 50 types of fruits such as papaya, banana and dragon fruit are also growing well; Large blueberries are grown in the Taklimakan Desert. The cultivation of sweet-fleshed blueberries utilizes local temperature differences between day and night and the care of fruit farmers.

In addition, through local variety improvement, sugarcane, which was originally suitable for growing in an environment of 25 to 32 °C, has gradually adapted to the spring temperature changes in Hotan. Pistachio is also grown on the edge of the desert, its kernels are thick and the rate of opening is high.

Planting boundaries also extend to polar regions and space. The winter building of the Zhongshan Station in Antarctica has a small greenhouse vegetable base, allowing to grow vegetable plants in snow and ice; The Space Botanical Garden of the China Space Station has also been upgraded to meet the needs of long-term stays. Apart from lettuce, crops like wheat, mint and cherry tomatoes are also grown.

The report concluded that the results, no matter how big or small, from bumper crops in the fields to vegetables planted in every home, are all due to the efforts of farmers to water, fertilize and remove pests. For many people, growing vegetables is not only about harvesting food, but also about planting the seeds of hope for themselves in life.