Maintaining Your Container Garden

Container gardening is becoming increasingly popular and is a great way to add color to patios, grow herbs or vegetables and make it easier to add depth or landscape. Follow these steps for your container gardens beautiful and flourishing. As with most gardening articles, you will have to listen to the importance of proper watering. These plants are in a small compact area, and they can easily become distressed if not taken care. These kinds of gardens need to be often watered, sometimes even once or twice a day especially if the weather is particularly warm or hot. Also be sure to water all of the soil and not just around the edges. If the soil dries out at a quicker than normal pace, it might have too many plants in it, and some may need to be transplanted to another container. Also fertilizing these gardens on a regular basis will provide happiness and health of each plant in the container. If the soil is limited and lots of watering were going on, sometimes a slow release fertilizer will keep nutrients inside while growing season. You can also add the water-soluble fertilizer once every week or two to help the plants and soil remain healthy. In addition, regularly pruning of your plants will be required. Remove dead flowers or leaves to help produce new growth and keep disease down in the plants. It will help keep the plants and flowers healthy as well and keep them looking quite perky and alive with no drooping. Since container gardens normally container plants and flowers that are annuals, another you can do to keep your garden looking alive and beautiful is to change out the plants according to the season. At some point, the ones currently in there will have had their time, and you can remove these and add new life and growth with different plant. Also, prepare for the cooler months of the year. These kinds of gardens need to protect from freezing weather. You can bring these inside and keep them growing, or you can add these to your compost and use for fertilizer in the spring months of the year. Either way, you will come out good. Make sure to take these steps to ensure a healthy and happy container garden.