Conditions: sunny balcony and terrace
Difficulty: medium
Size of basin: large
Benefits: Needless to say, the benefits of grapes, especially the grape skin is rich in antioxidant polyphenols, and its anti-aging ability is 50 times that of vitamin E and 25 times that of vitamin C, which helps the body to stay young. But I only dare to eat my own grapes.
Note: A. Grapes are actually very good. As long as the balcony is enough, the basin should be as large as possible, preferably more than 40 cm deep. Pay attention to the soft soil. Grapes like water, but roots are afraid of waterlogging. So many people grape because the roots are soaked. This is because the water at the bottom of the basin is not discharged in time. There is a trick here, that is, put some broken porcelain pieces, tiles and the like at the drain of the basin bottom, and add soil on them to ensure that the excess water can be discharged in time.
B. Fertilize once every half month, and apply thin fertilizer frequently;
C. Pay attention to pruning and don't let the branches stretch too long. Also, remove the tendrils of the grapes in time and fix the grape branches on the telephone poles with iron wires.
2. Strawberries
Conditions: sunny balcony and terrace
Difficulty: medium
Size of basin: small
Benefits: Strawberries are rich in vitamins and minerals, with high vitamin C content, and have the effects of moistening lung, promoting fluid production, invigorating spleen and relieving summer heat, relieving fever, diuresis and quenching thirst. However, strawberries are extremely delicate, and the fruits are directly exposed, so they are easily polluted by harmful substances such as pesticides.
Precautions:
The depth of the flowerpot should be about 20 cm, and the soil should be soft to ensure sufficient light. Strawberries like light, so they should be given enough light, otherwise the plants will grow vigorously and the flowers will be scarce. In early spring, strawberries should be watered and fertilized frequently from germination to flowering, and the soil should be kept moist; With enough fertilizer and water, we can blossom and bear more fruits and reduce ineffective flowers. During the growing season, dead leaves, diseased leaves and fine lateral buds should be removed in time. When the fruit is ripe in April-May, the red fruits and green leaves complement each other and are beautiful.
3. tomatoes and cherry tomatoes
Conditions: sunny balcony and terrace
Difficulty: small
Basin size: medium
Benefits: tomatoes and cherry tomatoes are rich in nutrients and have unique flavors. Has effects in reducing weight, relieving fatigue, stimulating appetite, promoting protein digestion, and relieving abdominal distension and dyspepsia.
Precautions:
Tomatoes do not require high soil conditions, but in order to bear more fruits, we should choose fertile loam with deep soil layer, good drainage and rich organic matter. The depth of the flowerpot should be about 30 cm, and tomatoes are also light-loving crops, so it is necessary to ensure sufficient illumination. Tomatoes need more water, but they don't need regular irrigation. Generally, the soil humidity is 60-80% and the air humidity is 45-50%. High air humidity not only hinders normal pollination, but also causes serious diseases under high temperature and high humidity conditions.
4. Mulberry
Conditions: sunny balcony and terrace
Difficulty: small
Size of basin: large
Benefits: Mulberry is rich in nutrition, which can improve the blood supply of skin (including scalp), nourish skin, make skin white and tender, blacken hair and delay aging. Mulberry is a good fruit medicine for middle-aged and elderly people to keep fit, beautify and resist aging. Eating mulberries regularly can improve eyesight and relieve the symptoms of eye fatigue and dryness. Mulberry has the function of promoting immunity. Mulberry can increase the weight of spleen, enhance hemolytic reaction, prevent human arteriosclerosis and osteoarthropathy, and promote metabolism. It can promote the growth of red blood cells, prevent leukopenia, and play an auxiliary role in treating diabetes, anemia, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, neurasthenia and other diseases. Mulberry has the functions of promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, promoting digestion and helping defecation. Proper consumption can promote gastric juice secretion, stimulate intestinal peristalsis and relieve dryness and heat. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that mulberry tastes sweet and cold, and has the effects of nourishing liver and kidney, promoting fluid production and moistening intestines, and enriching the purpose of invention.
Precautions:
Choose flowerpots over 30 cm. Mulberry is not picky about soil, just ordinary garden soil. Choosing good quality mulberry seedlings can be done on Taobao. Similarly, mulberry trees need sunshine, and it would be better if they could be directly drenched by rain.
5. Blueberries
Conditions: sunny balcony and terrace
Difficulty: great
Basin size: medium
Benefits: The World Health Organization has selected the top ten healthy foods, and the only fruit is blueberry. Blueberry fruit is rich in nutrition, which has the functions of preventing brain aging, protecting eyesight, strengthening heart, resisting cancer, softening blood vessels and enhancing human immunity. In particular, it is rich in anthocyanins, which has the functions of activating retina, enhancing vision and preventing eyeball fatigue.
Precautions:
For acidic, soft, porous and rich in organic matter, the soil pH is generally required to be 4.5-5.5, and the soil organic matter content is generally 8%- 12%. Family potted plants can buy humus soil common in flower market, and add humus moss or peat, sawdust, rotten pine bark and other organic substances according to their own conditions. Add some edible white vinegar when watering at ordinary times (recommended dosage:)
It is recommended to use a well-ventilated earthen basin, followed by a sand basin, and then a plastic basin. It is not recommended to use a pottery or porcelain basin. Because blueberries are fibrous roots and shallow roots, large pots are not needed, and deep pots are forbidden. 15 cm pots are recommended for young seedlings, 25 cm pots for finished seedlings, and large pots are forbidden for young seedlings.
6.lemon
Conditions: sunny balcony and terrace
Difficulty: medium
Basin size: medium
Benefits: Lemon is rich in vitamin C, which plays a role in human body like natural antibiotics, and has many functions such as antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and enhancing human immunity. It contains vitamin B 1. Vitamin B2, vitamin C and other nutrients are also rich in organic acids and citric acid. Lemon is a kind of high alkaline food, which has strong antioxidant effect and is very effective in promoting skin metabolism, delaying aging and inhibiting pigmentation. It is an excellent natural whitening fruit.
Precautions:
Potted lemons, if not properly managed, often only bloom without fruit, or rarely bear fruit, or even do not bloom. In order to make lemon blossom and bear fruit every year, scientific management must be carried out in water, fertilizer and pruning to achieve fruitful results. After the lemon blooms, in addition to applying dilute liquid fertilizer once a week, the flowers and fruits should also be diluted. When the flowers are not in full bloom, some buds should be thinned to make the flowers wither and set fruit, and then some weak fruits should be thinned to reduce the consumption of nutrients and concentrate on storing flowers and fruits. In order to ensure more flowers and fruits every year, it is necessary to turn over the pots and change the soil. The best time to turn over the pot is half a month before the lemon germinates in spring, and the lemon will be put back on the pot in combination with pruning rotten roots and replacing new nutrient soil.
pitaya; dragon fruit
Difficulty: small
Basin size: medium
Benefits: Pitaya not only tastes sweet, but also has high nutritional value. Gather the strengths of fruits, buds, vegetables and medicines.
Precautions:
Only in the tropics! This is very important, as a tropical fruit, this is the premise, otherwise it is difficult to bear fruit.
Potted pitaya is best to use cutting seedlings, which are easy to survive. I have seen a kind of pitaya on the balcony. It grows well and can bear many pitaya.
8.pineapple
Difficulty: small
Basin size: medium
Benefits: It has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer-heat, quenching thirst and digestion, stopping diarrhea, strengthening spleen and stomach, invigorating qi and blood, promoting digestion and eliminating dampness, beautifying and slimming. It is a seasonal fruit for both medicine and food in summer, but it is not advisable to eat too much at one time.
Precautions:
The tropics will bear fruit! Because it is a hot fruit, it needs plenty of light.
Cut off the crown bud at the top of the ripe pineapple, place it horizontally in a ventilated place and air it for two days until the incision is dry and healed. Use a plastic bottle, put a little water, and let a small part of the crown buds soak in the water. Change the water every day until the roots grow a few centimeters.
Tips:
1. In order for potted fruits to blossom and bear fruit smoothly, pruning is the most important besides sunshine, soil and fertilization, because compared with land, pots are small in soil and provide limited nutrients, which cannot meet the growth needs of fruits. Regular pruning of dead branches, old and weak branches and overlapping branches is beneficial to the transformation of nutrition into fruit.
2. For many fruits, it is better to choose cuttings or buy them directly online. Seeds are not recommended. Taking grapes as an example, the propagation variation of seeds is great, and the cutting method can ensure the production of grapes with the same quality.
3. Choose according to the local climate characteristics, such as not planting tropical fruits in the north.