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Container gardening is convenient for the elderly or the disabled, garages, who need easier access to up keep their gardens. Container gardening can be done on backyard, garages, tabletops, ledges, over the edge of a balcony and even on steps. This process, garages, can be very decorative as well.
Container gardening can be done in store bought, garages, containers or homemade containers. I like to go to garage sales and find some unusual items to grow plants in. My front yard has very poor, garages, soil for planting, garages, delicate flowers. So I leave that soil to my hardier plants like bushes and broad leaf plants. I discovered an old washtub at a garage sale one day and incorporated this into my garden for my flowers.
I simply drilled several holes into the bottom of the tub, then put in about an inch of stones to semi cover the holes so as not to lose too much of the soil. Then came the soil. This will depend on what you are, garages, going to plant.
All Purpose Mixture
2 parts good garden loam
1 part sand
1 part peat moss or other humus
1-teaspoon, garages, bone meal for, garages, each 5-inch pot of mixture
I plant most of my garden varieties using this mixture. If I plant, garages, in an area where there is a busy activity of bugs I will place a piece of window screening under the container as this seems to slow down their attack and it gives me a chance to combat their activities. By placing the screening under the container it holds the screening tightly to the container, as the, garages, weight of the dirt inside pushes, garages, down, garages, . This way it is harder for critters like grubs and slugs to get around the screening, a very handy tool.
Other ideas to name a few are, old watering cans, (these too can be found in garage sales), and coffee cans decorated by your children, which is a fun project for a rainy day, garages, . For this I give it a spray with any kind, garages, of craft sealant good for outdoors, or simply use these inside. Container gardening can be fun and quite rewarding.
Hi! My name is Nancy Merkle. My husband Joe and I are amateur gardeners. We live in the suburbs of Chicago. Needless to say our growing season is just six months at best. In the spring a little competition begins in the neighborhood with the neighbors. We make harmless bets as to who will have the first the tomato, the largest, and the best harvest. Tomatoes are a big thing with us suburbanites. We've even taken it as far as to see who can grow them longer in the fall. Of course our landscaping has become quite an important task to us also. While the men obsess over their lawns, the women have more important things on our minds, like flowers.
Through the years we have accumulated and shared our gardening secrets. It is a race do to our short growing season. But so many aspects of growing veggies are the same no matter your location. Here we are passing on to you are successes and secrets of gardening. We hope you will enjoy this as much as we have creating it. We are in the process of creating a blog. We will post how the neighborhood is progressing, so watch and grow with us. We would love to have you in our cyber garden space. Please visit us at http://www.gardengroupies.com
