Grow these 5 potted plants on your balcony: tasty, beautiful, with lovely flowers and lots of fruit
A busy daily life can make us lose sight of how beautiful life is. Actually, when you quiet down and, in your free time, keep your home and your living environment clean and bright, and grow some pretty, eye-catching little potted plants, it will make our mood and our life better. If you have a small balcony at home that sits empty, you might as well grow some balcony potted plants that are both ornamental and edible. You can enjoy the flowers, or you can get fruit: beautiful and edible at the same time.
With these potted plants, grow one pot on the balcony and you can eat it and admire it: the flowers are beautiful and the fruit is plentiful!
Goji berry, its berries are pretty, edible, and can be brewed as tea. Bright red, and its flowers are lovely too. Actually, potted goji berry is very easy to grow. You can go to the outskirts and find a wild seedling to bring home, or you can directly root a cutting from a branch; it roots and survives very easily.
Goji berry likes plenty of light. As long as the potting soil is fertile, goji berry will grow fast, and its fruiting period is fairly long. The potted goji berry Xiaoya grew has been flowering and fruiting from late summer until now.
Honeysuckle, although it cannot bear fruit, its flowers can be brewed as tea, helping to clear heat, quench thirst, and protect the throat. Actually, it is extremely simple to grow. Xiaoya took a branch straight from outside; except in winter, it can be propagated by cuttings at any time. Just stick it into a flowerpot and water it to keep it moist, and it will quickly grow roots.
Honeysuckle climbs fairly fast. As long as it gets plenty of sun and fertilizer, it will bloom the next year. Potted honeysuckle is beautiful, and its flowers can be eaten too. The best of both worlds.
Pomegranate, potted pomegranate is also very easy to grow. It is fairly heat-tolerant and cold-tolerant, and it can grow fast even in a flowerpot. From a small seedling, raise it to the second year and it can bear fruit.
Its flowers are orange-red, quite bright and beautiful. Put the potted pomegranate in the sunniest spot on the balcony; it is not afraid of sun or cold. Repot it into a larger pot once a year, and both its flowers and fruit are beautiful.
Cherry tomato, cherry tomatoes can be eaten as fruit and can also be used in cooking. They are a very easy potted vegetable to grow. If the local climate is warm, tomatoes can be planted in both spring and autumn.
You can prepare a long trough planter, or a somewhat larger flowerpot. Tomatoes like fertilizer, so add some bone meal, cake fertilizer, or chicken manure as a base fertilizer. During the tomato's growth, keep watering it with fertilizer water and giving it sun; it will bear especially many fruits and can keep fruiting for several months. Pick them whenever you want to eat them; you can pick quite a few fruits at a time.
Five-color chili pepper,Chili is a seasoning we all like to eat, so grow a pot of colorful chili peppers. The peppers it bears are very pretty, with rich colors, and it can serve as an ornamental potted plant while also being edible, achieving two things at once. When growing chili, you do not need to sow too many seeds, because its germination rate is very high. So after the seedlings emerge, thin them out.
At most two plants per pot. When the chili seedlings grow to over ten cm tall, you can pinch off the growing tips to encourage side branches, so there will be more flowers and more fruit.