If you are not an experienced gardener, container gardening really is the easiest way to get started. you can literally start with one pot. In the spring, you could even just go and buy bedding plants that are already in flower to start your garden.
Terracotta pots look good in most situations and are also good for the plants. They offer some protection from the extremes of temperature and are porous making it hard to over water.
Add some broken pot shards or gravel to the bottom of your pot to aid drainage and top up with a general compost, easily obtainable from garden centres. Never use garden soil as it may contain weeds, disease and harmful insects.
Thoroughly water your plants before planting in your pot. Gently firm down the compost to about an inch below the top of the pot to allow for watering and your instant garden is ready. You just need to water regularly through the summer. The fertilizer in the compost will last for 4 to 6 weeks. You can add slow release granules when you plant or start to use a liquid fertiliser weekly.
As soon as the danger of frost has past, your container can go outside. You can enjoy an abundant display of blooms through the summer.
Monday, 17 March 2008
Sunday, 16 March 2008
Container Gardening - Instant Gardening
Container Gardening is perfect for the modern lifestyle. It can be adapted to suit the space and the time you have available and your physical ability. If you are an experienced gardener, it can help you to carry on gardening into old age. It is an easy way to create an accessible garden for the less able. If you are not experienced, it is one of the easiest ways to start.
Container gardening is the nearest thing you can get to an instant garden. You can start with just one pot and then add to it as time and space allow. The great thing about containers is their mobility. It you don't like a particular combination, move something!
There are virtully no limits to what you can grow in containers. Flowers, foliage and berries for year round colour, your own fruit and vegetables and more exotic plants such as orchids. Once you get the bug, you can let your imagination run riot.
For more information get this great FREE Container Gardening Secrets report.
Container gardening is the nearest thing you can get to an instant garden. You can start with just one pot and then add to it as time and space allow. The great thing about containers is their mobility. It you don't like a particular combination, move something!
There are virtully no limits to what you can grow in containers. Flowers, foliage and berries for year round colour, your own fruit and vegetables and more exotic plants such as orchids. Once you get the bug, you can let your imagination run riot.
For more information get this great FREE Container Gardening Secrets report.
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