3 Easy Tips For Successful Container Gardening

Here are several tips for creating a wonderful hanging basket or container this summer.  The first is to use an artificial soil composed mostly of peat moss.  Good soils such as Fafard or Pro-Mix use perlite, peat, and other ingredients to produce a soil that won’t compact over the summer.  Actual garden soil compacts and turns into concrete under the pressure of regular watering.  And when it does, plant roots stop growing because they require good open spaces to move into and absorb nutrients.  Difficult, compacted soils do not grow good plants so usually do not use genuine soil within your containers.  I re-use my artificial potting soil from year to year.  I dump it out with the pot. Chew it up with a shovel to cut up all last year’s roots and add approximately 10 % by volume of compost. The compost increases air spaces and gives plants a boost in healthy nutrition.

Feed your plants weekly.  Nitrogen, the engine of plant growth, is water soluble and as you water your containers from the top the dissolved nitrogen is leaving through the bottom.   I use a fish-emulsion liquid feed with seaweed to offer all of the trace nutrients my plants demand and recommend it highly.  You can use any liquid plant food (like Miracle Develop or Shultz) to promote growth.  Compost tea may be the Cadillac of liquid plant food and in case you make your personal compost tea, your plants will respond with bigger and far better blooms too as increased vigour. 

And finally, no matter the size of the container, it can be crucial to soak it all of the way to the bottom at each and every watering.  Continue watering until water emerges from the pot bottom.  This ensures the roots can reach all parts with the container and develop correctly.

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