1. Understanding Container Gardening
If you are a garden lover, but have no space for your gardening appetite, dont 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 gardening,
which will not only bring you joy but also vegetables. So, are you ready to start
container gardening yourself
In the past, gardening is an exclusive realm of the landowner. Nowadays even the flat
dweller can grow his dream garden without having any fuss. Ones dream can be
fulfilled by container gardening, which means the gardening 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.
Dont 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 choose
your beloved plant variety.
It is always advisable to buy the plants from nearest nursery unless you have 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 in the outside to get frost it
out.
There is a false notion that all the plants grow in the ground wont grow in the
container gardening. Its not so. If you have any doubt, please do experiment on it.
Moreover, any container with holes for drainage can be used for your container
gardening.
Container gardening requires little budget in the initial stage. But it is having 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 as container gardening. In 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 pals.
Dont despair-if youre not having balcony or deck? Get nod from your landlord for
window boxes, a modern container gardening. It is highly possible to grow many
bloomy annuals year-round and 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 gardening since you have entered autumn. But
you can continue your container gardening by selecting the plants that are
withholding 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.,
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In order to extend the life of your garden from early spring to fall, you can replant to
match the conditions. Even you can contact some of the Americas best gardeners
through online to get design for your container gardening. They offer suggestions
such as caring and choosing for pots, how to grow tips for succulents, roses, and
bulbs, in containers.

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