Container Gardening Is For Everyone
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Article by: Steve Silk Container gardening , Start Your Seeds Indoors For A Jump On Spring Planting is for everyone. Whether all your gardening , Water Conservation in the Garden - Use a Rain Barrel to Harvest Rainwater is done on a deck, , Water Conservation in the Garden - Use a Rain Barrel to Harvest Rainwater in window , Outdoor Lighting Fixtures Increase Safety and Decrease Expense boxes, even if you have an eighty by fifty foot garden, , A Modern Day Glove Affair plants , Save Your Fish -- Heron-Proof Your Pond in containers will always have their place , How to Clone with Success - can always be used to highlight, illuminate, accent and decorate , Outdoor Lighting Fixtures Increase Safety and Decrease Expense your out-door living areas and places , Landscaping Lighting Techniques of visual prominence. Metal pans, clay urns, terra cotta pots, , Outdoor Furniture Cushion Replacement- Redesign Your Outdoor Space wine tubs, wood , Planting Your Garden boxes, bath tubs, glass , Kill 'em or Cure 'em : Moving Houseplants Outside for the Summer bowls, wire baskets, sisal rope planters, cement hollows, hyper tufa hand crafted , Succulent Crassula Tetragona: Drought Tolerant Plants for Dry Garden Landscapes or Easy Houseplants containers and broken crocks - to mention a few, all work well as planters. Real wine tubs are excellent because they are already naturally 'cured' so resist rot. Redwood and Cedar are the most expensive woods , What Does A Brassia Orchid Plant And A Spider Have In Common? but they last wonderfully well outdoors, , Create Your Own Special Herb Garden need no weather , What Does A Brassia Orchid Plant And A Spider Have In Common? treatment beyond a quick spraying of a preservative and are a pleasure to see, but beware. Many ready made planters are built of solid cedar on the outside , Do You Know About A Bamboo Orchid but use toxic treated pine on the inside. , Patio Awnings Add to Your Outdoor Fun Look for a sickly greenish yellow color. , Garden Accessories If it doesn't look inside , Straw Bale Culture Technique like the same wood , Teak Outdoor Benches- Fantastic Seating for Your Patio and Garden on the outside, , Learn About Herb Gardening - Get the Natural Facts! don't buy it, or put a liner in it. Liners can be made of metal, , What Does A Brassia Orchid Plant And A Spider Have In Common? fiber glass , Do You Know About A Bamboo Orchid or plastic, , Growing Great Strawberries none of which is ideal because they don't breathe but all of which will work. If you use a liner be sure to provide holes for good drainage. Redwood planters are often dyed and that dye is questionable, as are those planters' method of binding, (often flat , What to Feed Your Fish During Colder Winter Months metal bands which break before the wood , What to Feed Your Fish During Colder Winter Months has deteriorated.) If you choose a planter of this kind, you will do well to give it extra support before the binding breaks. When selecting or making wood , 6 Factors that Directly Decide the Landscaping Design of a Home Garden planters keep in mind that the more soil , Bare Root Roses, What To Look For When Buying surrounding the roots , Planting Your Garden of the plants , Save Your Fish -- Heron-Proof Your Pond the less tendency there is for desiccation and for freezing so keep them as large as space and pocket allow. Terra Cotta pots , Forcing Bulbs for Indoor Bloom: Even 'Brownthumbers' Can Do It are better than glazed clay or plastic pots , Buying or Building Your Own Water Fountain because their permeability allows the passage of air. , Patio Ch Covers If you have a particularly pretty glazed pot, , How To Waterproof a Canvas you're better off planting in a plain pot , A Few Simple Facts About Purple Martins and putting that inside , Create Your Own Special Herb Garden the decorative one. Container Making With a little labor , Camellias you can make your own attractive pots , Patio Chair Covers and basins. Here's how: If you have access to a level of ground: Dig a hole to the desired depth of pot , Cattleya Orchid Plant - Why They Are Not Popular you want. Take a plastic , A Few Gardens Built By The Moghuls container, ( a child's bucket, a water , This Is How You Grow Sprouts jug with the pointed end cut off, etc.) and put a round hole or two in the bottom. Coat the outside , What Does A Brassia Orchid Plant And A Spider Have In Common? with vegetable , How To Waterproof a Canvas oil and place , How To Plan A Garden it upside down in the hole over a mound of earth , Bare Root Roses, What To Look For When Buying leaving, about two inches evenly all around between the container and the surrounding soil, , Popular Adirondack Chairs - Everything You Need To Know and between the top, which will become the bottom of the pot, , Water Conservation in the Garden - Use a Rain Barrel to Harvest Rainwater and the ground. Into the holes of the container place , Start Your Seeds Indoors For A Jump On Spring Planting snug fitting dowels or sticks extending above ground level. (The cement is going to go over the bottom of the plastic , Outdoor Furniture Cushion Replacement- Redesign Your Outdoor Space container and the dowels will stick through it, for drainage holes.) Purchase a bag of sackrete, (a ready mix of sand, , Hedge Trimmers Are Tools Not Toys gravel , Landscaping - Maintaining A Landscaped Garden and cement), and a small bag of peat moss. Mix a batch of sackrete, (follow directions on the package, making it the consistency of thick soup), adding a couple handfuls of peat, and if you like, of soil , Landscaping Lighting Techniques for an earthier look. Pour this mixture into the hole and over the top of the plastic , Roman Concrete - How They Did It container being sure the sticks are protruding through, and tamp it down. When the mix becomes firm, but not hard, carefully twist out the sticks. When the concrete , A Modern Day Glove Affair is hardened, (there are different kinds of mixes so read the bag label to see when this should be), remove your pot , A Couple of Good Places to Buy Lawnmowers from the ground. The plastic , How To Ensure Early Bulbs Bloom, Year After Year container should slide out readily. Wire brush or hose off the pot , A Few Gardens Built By The Moghuls and plant , Growing Great Strawberries it up. If you don't have access to a level of ground: Get two cardboard boxes, one of which fits into the other with about an inch or two of space between all around. Unless they are very strong, reinforce them with tape around the sides and over the corners. Smear some vegetable , Bare Root Roses, What To Look For When Buying over the inside , Lazy Fish Worries of the larger and the outside , Easy Lawn Care - Use Clover - Ditch the Pesticide of the smaller. Cut several candles each to two inches in length and fix these to the bottom of the larger box, evenly spaced. Make the mix as described above and fill the larger box to the tops of the candles. Place the smaller box inside , Teak Outdoor Benches- Fantastic Seating for Your Patio and Garden the larger, resting on the candles, and put a little weight in it. Work the sackrete mix between the boxes to whatever height you want the sides of your container to be. If necessary you can put small blocks of wood , Hedge Trimmers Are Tools Not Toys between the two boxes to keep the spacing right. When the concrete , What to Feed Your Fish During Colder Winter Months mix is hardened, pull away the boxes. If the candles don't easily pull out of the bottom you can drill through them. Experimenting with these two methods you can fairly easily make a variety of shapes and sizes of attractive containers. Designing With Containers If you are grouping containers together, such as on a deck, , Hedge Trimmers Are Tools Not Toys a variety of sizes gives the best look. Aesthetically, you are better off with say, one large container and two smaller rather than three medium sized pots. , Landscaping Lighting Techniques In addition, they needn't all be on the same plane. Put a few on benches , Buying or Building Your Own Water Fountain or tables or inverted pots , Water Conservation in the Garden - Use a Rain Barrel to Harvest Rainwater and if possible, use hanging baskets and wall , Outdoor Furniture Cushion Replacement- Redesign Your Outdoor Space planters as well. All manner of old tubs and basins can be effective design , Roman Concrete - How They Did It elements in a container garden , Hedge Trimmers Are Tools Not Toys and as with size, a variety will give a richer look than will a collection of pots , A Few Gardens Built By The Moghuls all of the same kind. Do have a repetition of textures, however, as overly eclectic can look too busy. As with containers, a variety of plants, , Outdoor Furniture Cushion Replacement- Redesign Your Outdoor Space from small ornamental trees , How to Clone with Success through shrubs , Bare Root Roses, What To Look For When Buying and vines to perennials , Buying or Building Your Own Water Fountain and annuals , A Couple of Good Places to Buy Lawnmowers creates the most satisfying container garden. , Forcing Bulbs for Indoor Bloom: Even 'Brownthumbers' Can Do It The idea, generally, and if space allows, is to create an environment, , Garden Accessories an little ecosystem comprised of members from several plant , Landscaping - Maintaining A Landscaped Garden groups. Hanging baskets contribute to this effect too, bringing the garden , Kill 'em or Cure 'em : Moving Houseplants Outside for the Summer upward and allowing it to reach downward. A future edition will be dedicated to hanging baskets and wall , Create Your Own Special Herb Garden planters. TO BE CONTINUED To Read More Articles by Steve Go to www.landscape-design-garden-plans.com FREE REPORT ON LANDSCAPE PROFESSIONALS Keith Davitt is an award winning landscape , What Does A Brassia Orchid Plant And A Spider Have In Common? designer with projects nation-wide and the author of four garden , Hedge Trimmers Are Tools Not Toys design books. To download a free, comprehensive report on landscape , Teak Outdoor Benches- Fantastic Seating for Your Patio and Garden professionals and how to , Patio Chair Covers identify which of the seven different categories is best for you and your garden , Home Landscaping Etiquette needs go to, http://www.landscape-design-garden-plans.com/landscape-design-report.html |
  
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