Container Gardens
Can anyone give me advice on container gardening for tomato plants?
I live in Illinois and I love home grown Tomatoes. I don’t have the yard for a garden and would like to try growing them in a container. I’ve tried it in the past without good results and I’m hoping somone will have some good advice to get me started this year.
i know what u mean… i did alright but had major problems w/ tom. worms. This year i found at Home Depot & Walmart.. patio tomatoes.. We have 3 & they r doing really well & so far ( knock on wood) no worms. ( i keep a close eye) we even have a tom. starting so we r excited. I hate store bought tom. They jst don’t taste the same.
I have them in 12″ pots & they bush tom.. Golliath… in partical sun. I live in heat.. 115o & i keep them watered every day & sometimes twice. If they look wilted i’ll move more in the shade more for the day. But so far so good. I’ve had them 30day & less. ( my pup ate the other one so we had to move them UP on a table) I planted them in Miracle Grow Gardening Soil that has feeding in them plus i jst bought some continuous feeding food as well.
I hope u can get some now b/c the season is almost gone for garden plants. They need to b in the ground or pots rt during after Memorial day.. ( i had a hard time finding to replace after the pup ate them but finally did ) So run & ck u’r garden spots.
Container Gardens
Understanding The Facts Of Container Gardening
If you’re a garden buff, but have no space for your gardening appetite, don’t worry gardening isn’t necessarily knocked out of your grasp. In the usable space of your home say the balcony, patio, floor, or sunshiny window, you can make a container gardening, which won’t just give you pleasure but also veggies. So, are you prepared to begin container gardening yourself…
In the past, gardening was a privileged realm of the property owner. Today even the apartment dweller can grow his dream garden without experiencing any hassle. One’s ambition may be accomplished by container gardening, which implies gardening in a specialised container. Container gardening generates pleasures of landscape without weekly mowing. In the container, you can grow a few perennials, herbs, and even shrubs and small-scale trees.
Don’t think container gardening will be accomplished really easily. Container gardening also needs suitable planning exactly like that of conventional gardening. Planning consists of finding out your USDA zone (this can aid to identify the appropriate plant form of your district), number of daylight you’re obtaining in your flat, and lastly select your favorite kind of plant.
It’s always better to buy the plants from the closest nursery unless you have the right conditions to go for indoor seedlings. You shouldn’t keep the weak plants of the container gardening outside below 45° F temperature or in surging winds. Furthermore you shouldn’t leave the young plants through out the nighttime in the outdoors to get frost.
There’s a fake notion that all the plants grown in the ground will not grow in the container gardening. It’s not so. If you’ve any uncertainty, please try out an experiment on it. Furthermore, any container with holes for drainage may be employed for your container gardening.
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My son(5 years old)and I would love to start a home container tomato and cucumber garden.?
BUT we have No clue how to get it going?????
please answer if you really know how to get a container garden going from the very basics. Thank you for your time.
Also, we would like to use all organic materials.
good on you both, use a bag of potting mix , slit the middle and plant what ever plants you have,use stakes if you have to , min 6 hrs sun is needed, when finished you can use the mix by putting into pots for growing flowers, have fun , tou will learn from the experience.
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