Make Your Dream Garden A Container Garden!
Jul 2nd, 2010 by Myarticle

You have now got a great alternative if you are worried about the space restriction around your home for a garden of your dream.If you do not have enough space to set up a kitchen garden then there is a better option awaiting you- the container garden.You will need to sweat a little more when you want to develop a container garden in comparison to the ground garden, Get plastic bags or fiber or mud pots and fill in it with the mixture to grow plants. The most significant advantage of creating a container garden is that  it saves a lot of space when compared to.

Preparation Of Container Garden

The pot must be chosen according to the size of the plant.The pot should have wide opening and should have facilities for proper draining.Mud pots will require minimum number of holes where as ceramic pots and plastic pots will require large number of holes to drain the excess water. There is no problem of taking plastic bags and sacks for creating a container garden.Fancy shaped containers will give a attractive appeal to the garden.Secondly the gardener must find an appropriate location to place the pots.As sun light will be unavoidable for vegetable crops and flowering plants the arrangement should be made in such a way.

Potting Mixture

Potting mixture can either be made from home or buy from market.House hold compost or a mixture of soil, sand and fertilizer can be used as potting mixture. It is required that the mixture shall be chosen in accordance with the kind of plant you are growing.It is better to add brick pieces in the container to facilitate drainage. Moreover, you can use light colored pots in the hot climate area to reduce heat absorption as well.

Which Plants to Select?

Vegetables as well as flowering plants can be developed in containers.Vegetables like spinach, radish, carrot, garlic, onion, cucumber, broccoli and tomato can be used for container gardens. Pepper can also be grown in container gardens. While vegetable cultivation in containers will help you gather fresh and organic vegetables for your use, the growing of flowering plants will refresh your mind. It will make the mind happy and lighten up the days.

Nourishment

It is no doubt that it needs more effort to maintain a container garden when compared to in-the-ground garden. In order to make a good healthy container garden, you must use fertilizers and pesticides and weeding out in time.However, it is needless to say watering plants regularly is a must thing in maintaining any garden.You need to ensure that correct amount of watered is given to plant pots as excessive watering or scare watering can both be harmful for the plants to grow healthy.

If you are a lover of gardening and wants to know various alternatives in creating a garden for your home, please do check out here on Create a Beautiful Landscape.

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