0 3 Easy Tricks for Successful Container Gardening

3 Easy Tricks for Successful Container Gardening - Listed below are several strategies for creating a wonderful hanging basket or container this summer.  The first is to work with a false soil composed mostly of sphagnum.

3 Easy Tricks for Successful Container Gardening

Good soils such as Fafard or Pro-Mix use perlite, peat, along with other ingredients to generate a soil that wont compact within the summer.  Real garden soil compacts and turns into concrete under the pressure of standard watering.

When it lets you do, plant roots stop growing simply because require good open spaces to go into and absorb nutrients.  Hard, compacted soils usually do not grow good plants so not use real soil within your containers.  I re-use my artificial potting soil from year upon year.  I dump out of the pot. Chew it using a shovel to reduce up all a year ago’s roots and add approximately 10 % by volume of compost.

The compost increases air spaces and gives plants an increase in healthy nutrition.

Feed your plants weekly.  Nitrogen, the engine of plant growth, is water soluble and since you water your containers through the top the dissolved nitrogen is leaving on the bottom.   I use a fish-emulsion liquid feed with seaweed to supply each of the trace nutrients my plants require and recommend it highly.  You may use any liquid fertiliser (like Miracle Grow or Shultz) to promote growth.  Compost tea is the Cadillac of liquid fertilizer in case you create your own personal compost tea, your plants will respond with bigger and better blooms and also increased vigour.

And finally, regardless the size of the container, it is very important soak everything the best way to the bottom at intervals of watering.  Continue watering until water emerges through the pot bottom.  This ensures the roots can reach every part in the container and grow properly.