Want to grow fruit on your balcony? These 6 are the best choices

When many people hear about growing fruit, the first thing that comes to Chuanguo's mind is the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit or the Peach Garden of Immortality - in short, big spaces, rich soil, and beautiful scenery, with extremely high demands on climate and soil. But in fact, right on your balcony, you can not only grow flowers and vegetables, but also use the limited space to grow some small potted fruit plants. However, there are so many kinds of fruit - which ones are more suitable for growing on our balconies?

1. Strawberry

Potted strawberries on the balcony are fairly common, though you do need an open-style balcony, otherwise there won't be enough sunlight, and there won't be bees to pollinate them. If there are no bees to pollinate, you will have to pollinate them yourself with a soft-bristled brush. It's best to choose perennial strawberries, so you can plant them once and keep harvesting.

2. Fig

This fruit can be grown in both northern and southern China. Fig seedlings propagated by cuttings in spring may even bear fruit by autumn of the same year. With proper management, a fig grown from a cutting can bear fruit in the same year and keep bearing for more than ten years. It is a great fruit tree - one investment, a harvest every year.

3. Tomato

Tomato, also known as the tomato, is a plant known to virtually every household. It can be eaten as a fruit or as a vegetable. Tomato is a warmth-loving plant and needs an environment with plenty of sunlight. You can add some sun-dried, crushed eggshells to the potting soil to increase the yield.

4. Dragon fruit

Dragon fruit (pitaya) is a shallow-rooted plant, and being in the cactus family, it has excellent drought tolerance, making it very suitable for growing on balconies and terraces. Dragon fruit is a strong-light plant, so you need a balcony with plenty of light (at least eight hours of sunlight). Although dragon fruit can be pollinated by insects, it is best to hand-pollinate the dragon fruit we grow on balconies by cross-pollination, which can also greatly increase the fruiting rate.

5. Watermelon

Here we mean small varieties of watermelon; large ones don't grow well on a balcony either, though if you're growing them on a rooftop you don't need to worry about this. Just note that it's better to choose fertile, sandy loam soil rich in organic matter.

6. Grape

Set up a trellis on your balcony, and growing grapes in pots is not difficult at all - many friends have succeeded at it. When planting, be sure to choose local varieties, as they have the best adaptability. Give them plenty of sunlight, and apply thin fertilizer frequently.

Of course, there are many other fruits you can grow in pots on a balcony. These few are ones the editor has grown before, and personally I find them fairly easy to grow, and they taste good too.

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