Choosing Better Container Garden Soil

Plants growing in containers often use nutrients very quickly, so you should add fertilizer or compost regularly. You can buy water-soluble compounds or liquid fertilizers such as fish emulsion. With watering and drainage every day, you may need to fertilize about once a week.

Read the packaging of the soil mixtures carefully, as they vary in composition depending on the type of plants you will be growing. For example, you would not use an African violet soil mix, for tomato plants.

You can create your own container garden soil mixture by purchasing a bag of potting soil from the garden center. One general example of a good soil mix, is one part potting soil, one part peat moss and one part coarse sand.

This basic recipe can be adjusted depending on the types of plants you intend to include in your containers. For example, certain fruit, like tomatoes, eggplants, potatoes and peppers, are considered heavy feeders, so for every three gallons of soil recipe, you may add half a cup each of fish meal, bone meal, kelp meal, and garden lime.

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A Better Garden With Home Composting

There are now many places where municipalities or larger bodies of government have made it mandatory for people to compost. They have done this by providing both funds and by punishing those who put out too much household garbage that includes compostable and recyclable materials.

Though it may be difficult to adjust at first, remember that composting is really something that can benefit you and your garden. These benefits can also be direct, something you will see more immediate than other initiatives.

Home composting can save you money, as many collection services begin to charge people who put out too much rubbish. Their reason is to reduce costs, but also to encourage people to use other disposal methods that are more beneficial to the environment, like recycling.

Money comes back in your pocket in other ways. Creating more compost means less waste, means less garbage with compostable and recyclable materials.

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Growing Plants Indoors With Hydroponics Gardening

You need to find out which plants will grow well in this type of environment for your gardening success. Vegetables such as cucumbers and peppers are usually a good choice, and you can grow a variety of herbs with hydroponics gardening.

Growing you own herbs and vegetables can add a special touch to your cooking with fresh produce when you need it, and you will definitely taste the difference when growing your own fresh produce.

To start hydroponics gardening, you need a hydroculture pot with double walls. You also need a ceramic container or a container made of opaque glass. If you need to display one plant at a time, you can place the plants in a colored glass vase or a glass that is filled with decorative gravel or marbles.

Now, you need to anchor the roots of these plants, and one option is to use vermiculite. If you cannot find vermiculite at your local gardening store, you can anchor the stems of plants in a sheet of thin plastic and let the roots hang freely.

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