This inconspicuous field weed is called a life-saving vegetable that grows crazy when thrown into a flowerpot.

This stem is purple, lying on the ground long weeds, is purslane, its vitality is strong, often born in roadside, farmland, mountains, for the field a little insignificant weeds, generally in temperate and tropical areas are very common.

Now for us, Portulaca oleracea is a rare wild vegetable, rich in nutrients, such as calcium, phosphorus, iron and vitamins E, B, C and so on as many as dozens of nutrients, often eat Portulaca oleracea can reduce blood pressure, but also to prevent cardiovascular disease is very helpful, so Portulaca oleracea is also known as "life-saving vegetables."

We eat purslane, mainly to its tender stems for food, often used to blanch water to eat cold, but it itself is rich in malic acid, so eat up with a little sour, very refreshing.

Portulaca oleracea was originally a kind of wild grass growing in the wild. Later, after people discovered that it had nutritional value, it became a very popular wild vegetable. Now Portulaca oleracea has also become a kind of "expensive vegetable". It costs more than ten yuan per catty! Why don't we plant it in a flowerpot? It has the characteristics of weeds. It lives when touched with soil. It grows crazy quickly when thrown into a flowerpot. Later, if you want to eat it, there will be ready-made ones.

Potted purslane is very easy to raise, if there is no seed, we can directly use its branches cuttings, cuttings from branches, strong growth of strong plants selected, cut into sections, each section has 3-5 nodes, a section in 10-15 cm.

The flowerpot used for cultivation of purslane should not be too small, the diameter is more than 30 cm, purslane has strong adaptability to soil, suitable for cultivation in various fields and sloping fields, potted plants are better in loose fertile neutral and weakly acidic soil, the temperature is 20-30℃, and the cuttings can take root and survive for about a week.

Portulaca oleracea likes high humidity, with sunny nature, potted maintenance at home to its sunlight, it is very resistant to waterlogging, so do not worry too much about its rotten roots, and Portulaca oleracea is also very drought resistant, sometimes ten days did not water it also has no problem, the key 2 o 'clock more sunshine, more watering can make it crazy, very easy to raise.