One of my favorite tips
for container gardening is to use mirrors in your garden to reflect flowers planted in containers.
So for this week's Home Matters Linky Party # 179 I thought it would be fun to find ideas
for container gardening since I'm more inclined to limit my gardening responsibilities to those that I actually might be able to keep up with through the summer months.
Fortunately, those little plants are PERFECT
for container gardening or small gardens inside and out!
Geranium are so versatile and they are perfect
for container gardening.
You picked some great flowers
for container gardening.
The plant is particularly good
for container gardening, and one of our specimens lived as a perennial for 4 years in a pot, but gradually lost vigor and produced fewer pods each year.
The bulb has a max coverage of around a 2x2 foot area, ideal
for container gardens and small setups.
Keep in mind, though,
that for a container garden to flourish, you need to provide the right amount of water and space.
«Perfect for pots» is suited
for container gardens, «Strictly roots» for raised beds and borders, and «Vertical vegetables» is best for smaller urban gardens and balconies.
Oh, I'm so excited to watch your garden grow: 0) My last «beautiful life» post was about our little collection of pots
for the container garden.
Not exact matches
I've watched men making bricks in equatorial sun from morning till night in exchange
for $ 10; women hauling five - gallon
containers on their heads and in each hand every morning to water their
garden - size farm; children rifling through trash
for recyclables to exchange
for a meal.
It is commonly believed that commercial potting soil is the best choice
for containers because many
garden soils contain too much clay
for use in pot.
If the reason
for using
containers is to expand the size of the
garden rather than eventually to bring the plants indoors, then size and appearance is not a problem and the gardener can use fairly large
containers such as plastic trash cans, wooden boxes or barrels, styrofoam picnic coolers, and the large plastic, fiber, or metal pots used by greenhouses
for shrubs and trees.
Once the plants are in the field or in
containers, it is important to get them the right soil
for great peppers (
for more information on soil, see «Planting the Pepper
Garden» here and here.
I LOVE almost all your recipes... Hard to pick just one, so, here's my favorite day of your favorite recipes: Breakfast: oatmeal and Phoebe's classic chocolate chip cookies, Lunch: butternut squash mac and cheese and classic chocolate chip cookies, Dinner: Heirloom tomato bruschetta (and I'm growing my own heirloom tomatoes in my
container garden) and Rosemary and garlic grilled lamb chops which are divine (and SO different from anything my mother — who really hated to cook — would have made
for dinner when I was a kid) and classic chocolate chip cookies.
As much as it breaks my heart, our beautiful, bountiful
container garden is just about kaput
for the season.
Don't use
garden soil
for containers unless it is thoroughly mixed half and half with the above mixture.
Here's my latest
garden update (http://takewithfoodblog.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/
garden-update-june/)... that was only two weeks ago, but the plants are already sooo much bigger than they were and I estimate that I'm around 75 cherry tomatoes and well over a dozen on the other plants A pretty healthy crop
for container plants, I think!
Even if you only start a
container garden for some herbs and a tomato plant, every little bit makes a difference.
Do a Google image search
for recycled
container gardening.
Try these ideas
for recycled
container gardening.
This makes it a good option
for seedlings, young plant sprouts, and small
container gardens.
The thing that I would do differently in a place like China is this: I would go
for planted roofs with
container gardening for food growing.
Aside from organizing your Christmas decorations, these
containers are ideal
for storing sporting equipment,
gardening tools, camping supplies, and other essentials around your home.
thanks so much
for hosting and featuring my
container garden.
The cylinder cement
container was going to be a candle holder
for outdoors on the lanai and the fluted
garden planter was
for the basil plant that Dean recently purchased.
This romantic
container garden happens to coordinate perfectly with my Pink Peony Wreath I recently made (this would also make
for an amazing Mother's Day gift!)
Browse the Home and
Garden Collection
for artfully designed floral and succulents, lanterns, vases, and
containers for the home and patio.
This post was super helpful as I'm currently planning out my first serious
container flower
gardens for my patio.
As I said in week 1, when I shared my curb appeal blog board, and week 2, when I shared a tutorial
for a beautiful shade
container garden, I have been working to beautify and add purpose to an area in my front yard.
Choose colorful mums, kale and other fall plants
for your fall
container gardening to warm up your entryway.
Before completely saying goodbye to summer, I had to share these
container gardening inspirations that are worthy of noting
for next summer.
A person might have been able to type in «
container garden» and very easily have found what they were looking
for.
Gardening tools, burlap, closet organizers, storage
containers used
for reno, green tape, sand paper, screw, bolts, floor stain and all supplies needed
for that project, shop vac?
Buy storage
containers for gardening tools, kids» toys and pool supplies and make sure your shed is neat and tidy.
For an alternative back - to - nature experience, Hau Eco Lodge at Citumang (Green Valley) offers a riverside
container stay or in the thick of Pangandaran's backpakerville, Adam's Homestay enjoys a somewhat rural feel in their lovely tropical
garden.
For Wynwood Walls
Garden, Goldman Properties commissioned the Spanish murals team of Pichi and Avo to create works on discarded, repurposed metal shipping
containers, and then stacked them on top of each other to create an installation sculpture.
Amanda Williams creates a site - specific installation
for The Arts Club
Garden Projects series in which she inserts a secondary fence that breaks away from the existing boundary, blurring the distinction between its function as barrier and
container alike.
Laurel Rimmer, Assistant Director of Wave Hill's Public Programs, has had
containers on her mind since demonstrating
for visitors last weekend how to create
container water
gardens.
3) Things like the Hortuba table and the Leopoldo City Vegetable
Garden offer space - efficient
container gardening for those without a plot in the ground to call their own.
A beer
garden made out of freight
containers on an empty plot turns out to be a lot more popular and better
for a city than a sad corporate atrium with a few cafe tables and a long list of don'ts on the wall.
An engineered growth media that has optimized performance characteristics
for intensive green roofs, rooftop
gardens,
container gardens and planters, designed
for long lasting and healthy plant growth.
Designed and built in The Netherlands
for a housing project in Amsterdam that was not finalized, the shipping
containers are being stacked in three - and five - story configurations, with stairways leading to the upper stories, and will feature solar roof panels,
gardens, and balconies.
Hi Chris — Once full, we put all the solids in another
container to sit
for several weeks and then we empty the composted remains either in the woods or in a friends yard /
garden, etc. depending on where we are.
Not only can you use the Ultimate Plant Cage in the ground, but it works in
containers and looks like a great tool
for soilless vegetable
gardening.
Big Bags a recycling standard The orange and yellow Big Bags used in Gunnebo's
gardens are familiar to any large town or city dweller in Sweden - these polypropelene bags (which are recyclable) fill the streets near construction sites yet are less intrusive and more easily picked up
for transport of construction debris to recycling facilities than the trash
containers used in other countries.
In her book Grow Great Grub,
garden writer Gayla Trail recommends this heirloom variety
for containers, and I second the recommendation.
While
container vegetable
gardening is well suited to growing food in small spaces, it can also be a great addition to any home, as the plants can be located where they will look and grow best (and where they will be the most convenient
for care and harvest), and can be used to extend the growing season as the
containers can be brought inside on cold nights or during a storm.
Finding the right location
for placing your
container vegetable
garden is important, because even with the best soil and the best seed, plants won't thrive without adequate sunlight.
Patios, balconies, doorsteps, roofs, and even windowsills can be great locations
for container vegetable
gardening, either on the ground or by hanging baskets or pots from walls or railings.