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Gardening Supplies For Your Containers
from: gardenersWhile avid gardeners want to have a whole tool shed of gardening supplies,
the average container gardener requires just enough to make their patio or deck
garden a jungle of blooms. More and more individuals are discovering the joy of
container gardening as people retire and downsize their single residence
housees for apartments, condos, and town homes. You do not have to give up
gardening just because you do not have a backyard. Container gardening is a
lovely hobby and all you need are a few good supplies.
Pots and Planters
The great thing about container gardening is the architectural look of
different containers. If you prefer an Asian themed container garden, there
are containers that have the feng shui look. By doubling a useful
decorative planter box with a huge plastic or clay pot hidden inside of it,
you could rotate containers and plants and switch the appearance of your garden in
an instant. If you plant directly in the decorative container, it is often
harder to change out plants.
Be sure the pots have good drainage holes to allow moisture to drain out. You
could keep the dirt in the pot from escaping through the drainage holes by
adding gardening supplies of small stones, a coffee filter, or convex pottery
shards to your list to cover the holes in the pots sufficiently from the
soil.
Potting Soil
Purchasing dirt might seem odd to add to your gardening supplies list when there is
dirt everywhere for free. But, the dirt around you could contain pests,
bacteria, or fungi that will affect the health of your plants.
Therefore, store purchased potting soil is one of the most important gardening
supplies to get. The potting soil will be made up of fertilizers,
pesticides, and water absorption particulates. Companies often bake the
potting soil to get rid of potential pests and diseases. Potting soil is
usually very inexpensive and pays dividends in the health of your plants and the
lack of weeds.
Plants
Depending or where you reside, different plants will be healthier than others in
your gardening zone. Do a little research to learn what gardening zone you
are in and what plants are hardy outside if your container garden is
outside. When purchasing plants with your gardening supplies, be creative. You
could have more than one kind of plant in a container, or you could bunch
different container plants in a bigger planter box. Adding annuals to
perennials will assure splashes of colour when the perennial blooms die down.
Gardening Gloves, Spde, and Elbow Grease
Container gardens are the easiest to grow. You simply take a small hand
spade, or some gardeners call it a trowel, and after you have added some soil at
the bottom of your container for the roots to have room to grow, you then
balance the new plant in the hole and add soil around it with your spade.
Others prefer to fill the container with dirt and then make a hole for the
plant. Either way is fine but the hand spade is one of the essential
gardening supplies for container gardening to complete this job right.
Often times cutting the bottom edge of the roots spurs the new plant to grow
more roots. However, you plant them, most plants prefer to remain at the same
surface soil level they were in the pots you bought them. Make that be
your guide for how deep to plant them. With all the creative gardening
supplies for container gardening available now, there is no reason anyone
can not have a garden at home.
Andrew Chin is the recognized authority on the subject of gardening supplies. His web page Gardening Supplies gives a wealth of information and resources on everything you will need to learn from gardeners. All rights reserved. Articles may be reprinted as long as all the content and links remains intact and unchanged.