Seven Lazy Ways to Make a Hanging Basket for Your Home Garden - Fast

Seven Lazy Ways to Make a Hanging Basket for Your Home Garden - Fast

You don't need to buy a hanging basket. Why? Because it's so easy to make one yourself. You can grow flowers, nutritious vegetables and even small fruit organically above ground, with no need of a garden at all! And you can make a basket that waters itself, using the simplest strategies of sustainable gardening.It won't matter if you forget to water the basket for a few days, because your plants will be safe. Nor should you ever buy gadgets to water your basket. You can make a simple hanging bio-basket as quickly as it takes to read this article.You've seen the standard commercial baskets, woven out of wire or wicker. But you can recycle any suitable pot or container that's weather-resistant. If it's ugly, paint it in subdued earth colors - or wrap it in sacking. If your basket is a net or cage, you must stop the compost leaking out. Find some old nylon garment like socks or stockings. Cut it into strips and lay them around the inside of the basket. A totally natural option would be some big leaves like rhubarb or comfrey, even used tea bags.An eco-basket is self-wateringDon't trouble to moisten your basket more than once a week. Just find a small strong plastic bag. (It's nice to recycle something that's so hostile to the environment!) Fill it with any absorbent substance that's inert and not heavy.Even charcoal works fine. You can always sterilize it at year-end in just-boiled water and use it year after year.Put your water reservoir in the middle of the hanging container. Sift in some good compost, preferably home-made, so the bag is entirely enclosed with that good rich growing medium. Make the entire basket very moist, and especially the reservoir.Add your plants on top. The roots will soon grow down and discover that water haven below.Now your mind can be at peace. Those plants should do well, all by themselves, despite a warm summer.How about a basket that grows food and flowers on every side?If you want to cultivate flowers or herbs at the sides and bottom of the basket, it's best to use a more durable water pot than a bag.No problem. Just take a plastic cola bottle or the like. Slice it in half so you have a pot. Fill it with that absorbent stuff you used before. And put it in the basket. Cut gaps into the sides of your 'basket' so you can push in the plants you want to grow.It's now a simple matter to keep those plants well watered, in all weathers, even at the base and sides of your basket. How?You just have to use a few natural gardening ideas! You can bring water to your plant roots with capillary cords that you make yourself. Just take a shoe lace or a spindled strip of nylon fabric. Soak it well. Drop one end in water and it will feed water to its other end, even uphill. But avoid degradable materials like wool.Now you just run those capillary 'laces' from the reservoir to the base of your plants. That's a good tip for plants grown indoors, as well. Make sure the pot and compost are very well watered. Your plants will then thrive and you won't have to go near the basket with a watering can for several days, even in high summer.How to find your outer 'basket'The cheapest basket can be any big 'plant friendly' container that you already have. An old cake box? A litter bin? A plastic wash bucket? Another good source of free 'baskets' is the food tubs thrown out by canteens and pubs.Just make sure that their contents were innocuous. Cut gaps in every surface for drainage, and also to insert your plants.Some tubs will come with their own handles. If not, it's easy enough to hang them up with rope - then decorate them with burlap or some woven fabric.Of course, you can find big plastic nets everywhere in supermarkets. They are very cheap and come with a bonus of free potatoes or fruit! Fishing nets can often be salvaged from beaches, if you live by the sea.Why grow only flowers in your hanging bio-basket? You could always raise tomatoes - upside down. Yes, upside down!Insert the tomato root ball in the base of the basket and hold it in place with struts of wood or stiff plastic. Otherwise the plant will fall out when the fruits form! You can then grow flowers, herbs and saladings of every kind in the top and sides of the basket.Why not try a hanging bio-basket if you have better things to do than water your plants regularly? This idea is a blessing if you have many baskets and some of them are difficult to reach. Build a basket this way and it will both feed you - and enchant you.

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