Essential Greenhouse Gardening Supplies for Bountiful Crops by:Michelle Torres

Greenhouse gardening is not that different from other types of gardening when it

comes to the kinds of tools and equipment you need to have in order to be successful. From simple hand tools to flower pots, there are all sorts of types of supplies that you can get in order to help maintain your greenhouse. It all boils down to how much money, time and effort you want to put into greenhouse gardening.

Greenhouse Gardening Essentials

Greenhouse Education

Some of the most basic supplies you will need for greenhouse gardening are educational materials. Unless you attended an agricultural college, chances are you could benefit from learning about greenhouse gardening. A few books on greenhouse gardening, for example, can save you all sorts of time and frustration in the long run. The Greenhouse Gardeners Companion is one of the most comprehensive and highly recommended.

Gardening Containers

Some of the supplies that you should obtain for your garden include containers for your plants. Whether you choose pots for your plants to grow in, or trays that allow room to grow multiple plants, because you're not planting directly into the ground, you must purchase containers. There are even elaborate tray systems that interlock and are designed to be used together for certain types of plants.

Quality Soil

Good, healthy soil is also necessary for greenhouse gardening. One of the advantages of gardening in a greenhouse over a traditional garden is you can hand-pick the type of soil you are going to use. You can pick soil based on the consistency, types of nutrients, or suitability for specific types of plants. You can match your soil to the type of plant you will be growing. Any given greenhouse might use several kinds of soil.

Tools of the Trade

You will also need a supply of tools for successful greenhouse gardening. This would include things like garden hand tools. It might be a small shovel, a trowel, a digger, spading forks, and pruning tools. (All of these tools are the same kinds of tools you might use with a regular garden.) In addition, you will want to have a system for delivering water to your plants, whether that is a simple watering can or an elaborate sprinkler system.

Protect Your Skin

You will also need personal supplies for greenhouse gardening. This will include a good pair of gardening gloves, or preferably, several pairs of good gardening gloves. Not only do gloves keep your hands and nails clean, they help protect your plants from germs you carry into the greenhouse. You will also want to have clothes that you can get dirty if you need to, and you may want to have a hat. Even though a greenhouse is enclosed, the sun's rays can still get affect your skin.

Feed the Need

Plant foods and fertilizer are also important supplies to have in a greenhouse. You need to be able to provide your greenhouse plants with the kinds of nutrients they need. Greenhouse plants must be supplemented with nutrients that they can't get otherwise because they aren't out in the ground.

Greenhouse gardening can be a rewarding hobby or even a profitable business if you know what kinds of supplies are necessary and how to use them. Successful greenhouse gardeners utilize gardening supplies to yield bountiful crops year after year.

About the author

Michelle Torres has nearly 20 years experience using and designing greenhouses and is an avid gardener. You can find additional useful greenhouse information at http://www.greenhousecatalog.com

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