"It turns out that the flowers of Artemisia annua are so beautiful!" Recently, Wenyuhe Park has added 6,000 square meters of "vegetable garden", which is the first tourist vegetable garden built in Beijing in the park. The staggered and colorful flowers and leaves have attracted many citizens to punch in, and have also raised the question of readers: Why do you want to grow vegetables in the park? Can the dish live well? With these questions in mind, the reporter came to Wenyu River Park.
Enter from Gate 3 of Wenyuhe Park and follow the road signs to find the "East Yunjia" scenic spot. In the small vegetable garden of 6,000 square meters, the vegetables grown are staggered and vibrant. Yellow artemisia and rape flowers "dance" in the breeze, and white and purple kale, purple Kyoyu purple, green lettuce and rape form a colorful landscape belt. Next to the vegetable garden, Wang Shuai, deputy head of the vegetable crop section of the Beijing Agricultural Technology Extension Station, is carefully inspecting the growth of vegetables.
"When it comes to agriculture, most people have the impression of growing vegetables and growing grain in the countryside. Wenyuhe Park is only a ten-minute drive from Tiantongyuan, and what we want to do is to pull agriculture to the side of the citizens. I want everyone to realize that agriculture can not only make people 'feast', but also 'feast their eyes'. Wang Shuai introduced the original intention of "planting vegetables" in the park.
In order to highlight the landscape effect, Wang Shuai deliberately chose a strong ornamental variety to build and plant. He pointed to a strip-shaped landscape in front of him and said: "You see, the light yellow is the big fast lettuce, the dark green is the big oak lettuce, although they are all lettuce, but the shape and color are very different, and when they are built together, they have a good visual effect." In addition, it is also necessary to consider that the height of the crops does not cover each other, and the surrounding garden landscape is matched to form an ornamental effect of forest and field integration. ”
The design team chooses vegetables that are suitable for the time and will also be "stubble". Spring day and night temperature difference is large, most of the planting is cold and cool leafy vegetables, such as rape, lettuce, winter cold vegetables; in summer, the temperature rises, will plant tomatoes, eggplants, peppers and other ornamental melons and fruits; the weather turns cool, and then reincarnate cool-resistant vegetables, tourists in different seasons to enjoy the scenery, there will always be different harvests.
Considering the visitor's experience in the garden, the vegetables in the park are applied with rotten fertilizer and do not emit odors. On the contrary, vanilla plants such as mint can also improve the air, and large-scale vegetables have a certain regulatory effect on the microclimate.
Can you live well by growing vegetables in the park? Wang Shuai introduced that leafy vegetables are more delicate than garden plants, and for the purpose of planting and becoming a scene, the vegetables in the park are planted in the park after growing to a certain stage in the greenhouse. In early spring, the outdoor night temperature is low, and the temperature of the greenhouse is mostly between 10 ° C and 15 ° C, if directly transplanted, vegetables are easily "injured". "We will 'refine seedlings' in the greenhouse in advance, and then transplant vegetables after slowly adapting to the outside temperature, environment and air volume, and the survival rate will be much higher." Wang Shuai said.
"There are also citizens who are worried that the cost of growing vegetables in the park is too large, but this is not the case. Vegetable planting is to form a landscape, to achieve the purpose of planting garden plants, not only that, vegetables are produced, the later by the professional service body for production and sales, but also can recover a certain cost, and even achieve profits. In addition, the popularity of science is also relatively strong, creating a good platform for citizens to experience farming at close range. In addition, most of the plants in the park are highly resistant to harsh environments, which can also reduce losses and reduce maintenance costs. Wang Shuai said.
In order to ensure the effect of the landscape and prevent individual tourists from digging and picking indiscriminately, the park also uses bamboo poles to build a fence wall around each vegetable, creating an artistic conception of "the fence is sparse and deep".