Design and Applied Research of Indoor Soilless Planting Device for Sprout-Seedling Vegetables in Family Rooms

Abstract

Highlights The planting device designed in the study was very suitable for planting sprout-seedling vegetable in family room. The humidity in the planting device was maintained higher than 80%, which far exceeded the humidity in the room. Increasing both the humidity and water supplementation for sprouts was an innovation of this design. The sprout yield reached 50-70 kg m -2 yr -1 , the economic value reached 700-1000 RMB yuan ($99.5-$142.2) m -2 yr -1 . Abstract . In this study, we designed an indoor soilless planting device for planting sprout-seedling vegetables in family rooms and used it to conduct experiments. The results showed that the indoor soilless planting device designed by us had the advantages of a high moisturizing effect (above 80%), convenient disassembly, attractive appearance, low cost and high practicability, and it was very suitable for planting sprout-seedling vegetables such as radish seedlings, water spinach seedlings, pea seedlings, pine willow seedlings, sunflower seedlings, etc. The planting device could meet the needs of people to plant sprouts in family rooms in their spare time, which could not only provide families with high-quality fresh vegetables but could also beautify indoor environments with high economic and ecological benefits. The results show that the average yield of sprout-seedling vegetables reached 50 kg m-2 yr-1 to 70 kg m-2 yr-1, and the average economic value reached 700 RMB yuan ($99.5) m-2 yr-1 to 1000 RMB yuan ($142.2) m-2 yr-1. Keywords: Design, Family rooms, Indoor, Planting device, Soiless, Sprout-seedling vegetables.