The back door at my house on the open space, there is a food, the seeds of spring only a few, and later turned into a few longer Maosheng Cong, and still looked lush, for us to eat a few. This is far from being handsome of water spinach.
Water spinach and other vegetables are not the same, and flowers but like a 1, but it's between the Festival and the Festival is empty, so called water spinach. It has just come out of the leaf length is very long and narrow, it is rolled up, yes, then gradually started deliberately shaped.
Water convolvulus is not only very special form, it has a strong vitality.
Habits of its very special. Other immediate spend it to broken, it will not flourish much longer, and water spinach on the contrary, it is not a long one foot high, we will pick it cook. Not only does it not look do not flourish, but the longer the more a cluster into a cluster and do not pick, then becomes a rattan trunk, on the ground "go crawling on all fours," the distance between each farther and farther, there is no way to eat. Therefore, as long as the spring of a sprinkle a few seeds, a village that is not the lack of it, every plate as long as the next section, inserted it in the fields, and its festival will take root and grow into food.
Its pests and diseases are rarely, it does not need help "cure" is being really green, green vegetables. But it does not like dry, wet like a cool place. In protected, in all kinds of side ditch it, so people are like it.
在我家后门的空地上，有一种菜，春天就种下时只有几棵，后来越长越茂盛就变成几丛了，到现在还长得很茂盛，供我们几家吃。这就是其貌不扬的空心菜。
空心菜和其他的菜不一样，而是和花一样，一节一节的，但是它的节和节之间是空的，因此叫它空心菜。它刚长出来的叶子是很狭长的，有一点卷起来，是的，后来渐渐展开，成心形。
空心菜不仅外形很特别，它的生命力也很强。
它的习性很特殊。别的花把它的顶头给弄断了，就会长得不茂盛，而空心菜正好相反，它长得不到一尺来高，我们就去摘它做菜。它不但不会因此长得不茂盛，反而越长越多，变成一丛一丛的，不摘的话，枝干就变成了藤，在地上“爬着走了”，每节之间的距离越来越远，根本没有办法吃。因此，春天一家只要撒了几颗种子，这一个村庄就不缺少它了，家家只要把它扳下一节插在田地里，它的节上就会生根发芽，长成菜。
它的病虫害也很少，不需要帮它“治病”，是正真的绿色、环保蔬菜。但是它不喜爱干燥，喜欢潮湿阴凉的地方。在瓜棚下，在水沟边都可以种它，因此人们都很喜爱它。