subject: Important Ideas For Gardening In Pots [print this page] Although growing plants in containers is not difficult, there are a several strategies that need to be taken care of before your plants can easily succeed.
Allow me to share a few straight forward hints for gardening in pots.
First of all, use a superior standard planting soil for the growing medium in your plant container. Potting soil including perlite, peat, as well as a wetting compound, is going to be a superior, nutrient-rich growing medium to have your plants off to a superior start.
Garden soil from your back yard may very well shrink and turn concrete-like subsequent to continuous watering. If this takes place, the plant roots may cease growing as they must have a superior, friable, soil to allow for the roots to progress and for soaking up food.
You should never use fresh compost. Compost will quickly shrink and may very well harbor insects, disease, or non-composted material that will rot the roots of your potted plants. Unless you are desperate, try and not re-use the spent potting mix from last year's planting, or plants past their best. That's no better than using flat batteries in some type of device, specifically, it is a waste of time.
Superior potting mix is reasonably priced, so do your plants and yourself some good, get hold of replacement soil. If you persevere using old planting mix, you are going to want to feed your plants more and more frequently. The potting soil from used up plants, is better put into the compost container, to ultimately be reconditioned that way, to be blended with the coming year's potting mixture.
Do not feed your container plants too much. This could bring about a plethora of leaf material, or long sappy growth which is quickly destroyed and vulnerable to insect invasion. Fish-emulsion, or seaweed-extract, can deliver all the vital compounds plants have to have and it is highly advised to use it.
Emulsion plant foods boost good growth for healthy plants. Including a little bit of slow-release, fertilizer beads, may address the plant's requirements on those times that the emulsion is forgotten.
When watering plants in containers, no matter the dimensions of the pot, make certain to saturate it totally each time. It doesn't mean that you continue adding water, up to the point it runs from the bottom of the container. A much more effective means of ensuring that the plant has enough water, is to either saturate the whole pot in a bucket of water, or, if the pot is too large to be shifted - water it numerous times through the day.
These few basic suggestions for growing plants in pots, are going to allow you to have up healthy container plants.
