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Container Gardening - Ideas for a Container Garden
 

Container Gardening

Container gardening is popular for a number of reasons. For those with limited space, people who are in rental properties and others who wish to creat a 'different gardening effect' growing plants in pots, planters or containers provides a solution to many problems.

Choosing the container or pot for a container garden.

Plants grown in containers require similar conditions to those growing in nornal gardening conditions, (in the ground) the main requirements are appropriate soil conditions, space and a cool root run and the right amount of sunlight. The sunlight part of the equation is determined by position, the choice of container is important with other aspects. Consider the following points

  • small containers in the garden tend to heat up and dry out more quickly than larger ones
  • containers used for gardening require adeqaute drainage and should not be placed in garden beds or patios without being raised above the ground. Drainage holes can easily be blocked.
  • large containers can become very heavy when filled with garden or potting soil and then watered, always make sure that any structure supporting containers is strong enough to support the weight of a full container.

 


 


Growing Vegetables in containers.

Container Gardening with Vegetables is a very popular and plants such as, tomatoes, lettuce climbing beans and many other vegetable can easily be container grown. Remember that vegetables generally require a large amount of fertilizer and regular watering. Many potting soils used for container gardening will not have enough nutrients to promote and sustain strong growth so be prepared to fertilize conatiner grown vegetable on a regular basis.

Containers tend to dry out more quickly than a normal garden, consider water saving techniques such as mulching the top of the conatiner and adding water saving additives to the soil used.

Growing Herb Gardens in Containers

Very similar to vegetables except that some herbs such as rosemary and thyme do not require as much water as others such as basil and parsley. Herbs are great for container growing as well as in the garden.

  



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