Understanding Container Gardening

Container Garden

If you are a garden lover, but have no space for your gardening appetite, don’t worry gardening is not necessarily out of your reach. In the available space of your house say balcony, patio, deck, or sunny window, you can create a container garden, which will not only bring you joy but also vegetables. So, are you ready to start container gardening for yourself…
In the past, gardening has been an exclusive realm of the landowner. Nowadays, even the flat dweller can grow his dream garden without any fuss. One’s dream can be fulfilled by container gardening, which means having a garden in a special container.
Container gardening gives delights of landscape without weekly mowing. In the container, you can raise some perennials, annuals, and even shrubs and small trees.
Don’t think container gardening can be achieved very easily. Container gardening also requires proper planning just like that of traditional gardening. Planning consists of finding your USDA zone (this will help to identify the suitable plant variety of your zone), amount of daylight you are receiving in your apartment, and finally choosing your beloved plant variety.
It is always advisable to buy the plants from your nearest nursery unless you have the right conditions to go for indoor seedlings. You should not keep the tender plants of container gardening outside below 45° F temperature or in soaring winds. Moreover, you should not leave the new plants through out the night on the outside before the threat of frost is gone.
There is a false notion that all the plants grown in the ground won’t grow in a container garden. It’s not so. If you have any doubt, please do experiment on it. Any container with holes for drainage can be used for your container garden.
Container gardening requires little budget in the initial stage. It gives you low maintenance with good satisfaction. Container gardening requires little fertilizer and water, according to the specific needs of the plants.
There is numerous pot growing vegetable varieties you can use in container gardening. With this type, the vegetable plant requires only sunlight and water. Providing these two things can easily help you get fresh vegetables for your ratatouille or salad. You can get more satisfaction by serving these varieties nurtured by your own hands to your beloved family.
Don’t despair-if you do not have a balcony or deck. Get the nod from your landlord for window boxes, a modern container garden. It is highly possible to grow many bloomy annuals year-round as well as indoor vegetables in your sunny window. There is another type of garden called community gardens, which will satisfy the city dwellers.
There is no need to end your container garden once you have entered autumn. You can continue your container garden by selecting the plants that can withstand the frost. The common plant varieties that stand up to the frost are Eulalia grasses, Mexican feather grass, Cornflowers, Lavender cottons, Jasmine, Million bells, Stonecrops, etc.,

In order to extend the life of your garden from early spring to fall, you can replant to match the conditions. You can contact some of the America’s best gardeners through the web to get designs for your container gardening. They offer suggestions such as caring and choosing pots, how to grow tips for succulents, roses, and bulbs, in containers.  http://www.freegardeningadvice.info/understanding-container-gardening