How to decorate your bare garden may puzzle some after moving into a new house, but many Chinese people could drive this problem away with ease by growing vegetables, which offers a feast of blooms in spring and harvest in autumn. Beyond that, Chinese people have also planted seeds in deserts and even in outer space.

This enthusiasm hadn’t trigger too much attention, that is until Mrs. Yang, an overseas Chinese living in Australia, published a video on social platform, which attracted heated discussion. The video shows Yang’s backyard, which is used to be a delicate garden, filled with tomatoes, lentils, and green onions after a visit from Yang’s mother.

Not limited to backyards, Chinese people’s passion for growing vegetables has dispersed seeds across the world and even in space.

Wang Zheng, a doctor from eastern China’s Jiangxi province, successfully cultivated vegetables in Antarctica during his dispatch there, marking the first time for China to grow vegetables in this icy land, Wang told reporters after his return in 2016.

The lack of water supplies definitely presents a challenge for the growth of vegetables. In a desert 50 km away from the center of Dubai, where the annual precipitation is lower than 100 mm, overseas Chinese successfully turned the barren land into an oasis by growing cucumber, leeks, aubergine, and other vegetables.

As the local cuisine favors fried or roasted meat and vegetables can be a luxury in supermarkets, many Chinese residents have turned the impossible into something possible after improving the soil and digging underground for water, offering more alternatives for local menus.

Beyond the Earth, Chinese astronauts also grew plants aboard the Tiangong-2, a Chinese space laboratory. Thanks to the botanic growth chamber, thale cress and rice can now be grown to their full potential.

In the days away from their motherland, a vivifying vegetable garden comforts their sentimental attachment to their birthplace. Pulling the grass and watering the garden, Chinese people have planted seeds across world, and, in the process, buried a love for their hometown in the idyllic life, commented Chinaqw.com, a news portal for overseas Chinese.