By Richard Kitsmiller
Sometimes, there just is not enough to give the yard green thumb out of the crisis it craves. Maybe you live in an apartment ... Or perhaps your garden is full and you still want more plants. If you have a patio area and fill it with green foliage using container gardening.
If you have a front or rear yard open space container gardening can be a solution to this problem that did not know you had, and Barry Baha syndrome! Below, and I have outlined the tips gained from years of experience with container gardening.
• It is logical to invest in high quality fired ceramic pots for your garden containers and these do not absorb water and crack in winter. The alternative - the fiber glass and plastic utensils, the new can work well if you choose high quality. These can be very light and difficult and will last for years.
• smaller pots restrict the root growth and provide little moisture reserve, be sure to match the size of the container on your plants and then increase by one or two, remember that the plant will grow larger soon. Plan to increase the volume and be ahead of the problem of many of the container garden enthusiasts face.
• Sanitation is very important. Drainage holes should be 1 / 2 inch or better in terms of size. Use of the screen and put a layer of gravel at the bottom of the pot to prevent soil loss and improved sanitation is always a good idea. I use coarse plastic screen designed for ponds. Bonsai pot screen also works well. Select the screen window of the past as they are small holes, and was easily fill.
• containers with lighter colors are best if you live in a warmer and more customers for your containers will be in direct sunlight. Lighter in color to reduce the amount of heat absorption. Roots that can reach more than 100 degrees in direct sunlight because it will lead to weaker growth, the acceleration of drying plants and dead.
• Place the container until the brick and tile, wood or strips. There is also a wheel stands available. This gives the bugs have no place to hide, and help to improve sanitation.
• plants that grow longer and bigger and spread in need of a broad base for balance and stability in the wind. Plans for the future, keeping this in mind when selecting container.
• soil mix and use is important. The use of soil quality and move away from the regular garden soil. Chunky mix of style to keep soil loose and good, but can reduce the depletion of water that requires the ability to retain water more often.
• Note of caution learned from my experience - no place for the United Nations wood chips, compost in the soil of your container, and they leach nitrogen where they decomposed and stunt growth plan through the reduction of nitrogen available to your plants. I have learned this through years of weak growth for my own garden container.
• Research appropriate container plants in the bedroom of your local or online, and those that can handle the heat, cold, dryness possible growth in the container.
• The presence of the fine structure of the root is much better suited to long-term growth of the containers. Examples, Japanese maple, a plant with the roots very fine, the oak tree - the roots of a plant coarse and usually take advantage of the long roots. No one is much better in a container and then on the other. If you are dedicated and determined, you can grow more in any container terminal. Just visit the Bonsai Exhibition and I think that this would be for sure. Bonsai can be attractive and will seduce you if you visit the bonsai exhibition or show. You've been warned.
• Make sure to check your plants daily for adequate moisture. Container plants need water, and monitor every day.
• Expert tip - get one of those investigations and use of water meters for your home and container terminals. I turned to my wife online expert who no longer have more than watered plants home with one of these. The best 10 bucks I ever spent before.
• Use of water-soluble fertilizer (I use miracle grow at half strength) every 3 weeks to maintain the nutrient rich soil for your plants. The alternative - slow release pellets are good for 6 months from fertilization with a single application. I love these things, and I use low nitrogen type of dynamite called lowes ether or Home Depot. The name of the dumb but good things.
Tip on the best possible way I can give you the best for container gardening
Insert your container garden to your automatic sprinkler system. Do this by adding one or two new departments, if necessary, to feed water to each of your container with drip irrigation pipes. Sometimes you can just take advantage of existing services quickly and easily, but should the water ever day or every two days. However you choose to do so, just to get this done.
Drip tubing of small diameter can even be the run-up right through the drain hole at the bottom of your large containers. I run my drip tubes in this way the plants are larger, and then use 2 or 4 or even 6 small drippers arranged in a circle in each container. Use a minimum of 2 to drippers on small containers. In this way you have drippers backup in case one gets on the same chord.
The result of Rasters upper drippers soil then cover with a layer of gravel every color so it looks very nice and drippers can not be seen. This keeps you beautiful container pleasing to look at and also keeps the darn cat of thinking plant your large containers is a square cat.
Expert tip from me, after years of experience using drip irrigation, are not used to regular drip filter, buy a whole house water filter is designed for home and run the water system through this, and then on your system, drip. Yes, access to model a large expensive but not one with Shell and clear (in the growth of algae and clear examples), spend 50 dollars on this and smile as you exit. You just do not something very smart. Yes, I know what I think of you, but will not fill the water drippers due to a bug save hundreds of dollars in replacement cost of plants over the years will be container gardening.
Part 2 of this tip - replace all your drippers every 2 to 3 years. Rasters - a few dollars, and the large container terminals - hundreds of dollars. You decide! Trust me, just do it - Replacement Rasters also advised.
I can tell you the tails of woe about the loss of plants and see my beloved 6 foot tall Japanese maple wither and almost die because I thought the drippers should last forever and never need replacement. See, even if it did not follow my advice about home water filter used on your system, drip is another enemy in sight. Hard water can lead to blockage of metals and building your Rasters. Happen, so as to replace those that Rasters also advised. Life on your yard will be best for you and your plants.
Container Gardening - just do it
I went out to your yard and enjoy the green foliage, which was once only naked yard space is very rewarding. The only way to become a great container gardener is to start immediately. The use of space you have, you have the time and knowledge you gain with each new container terminal. You and your friends will be amazed at what little effort and little green thumb will do to treat "Barry Baha syndrome".
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