My Experiences in Container Gardening

May 30th, 2008 by Garden-Magaziner

By CompostZiner

I have always found that my plants are much happier (ergo I am a better gardener), when my container plants are in clay pots. Unfortunately, it is exceedingly difficult to find a really stylish clay pot. Plants fail, tastes change weather is unpredictable. Still, you’ve got to put some thought into your container garden design. The great beauty is that container growing allows for much better defence against slugs infecting and eating the crop. I have seen people plant in their gardens one day, and have everything demolished by the next day, because overnight the slugs and snails wiped everything out. This is not so with container gardening as long as the container grown plants are physically isolated from the haunts of slugs.

I re-use my artificial potting soil from year to year. I dump it out of the pot. If you think a terracotta pot is your only choice for a container garden, you are also missing out on a world of creative containers that can add style and flair to your garden spaces. Just about any object that can hold potting mix and provide drainage can become a centerpiece in your container garden.

Mostly we recommend that you use/recycle items to “make” containers.

Siam Queen Thai Basil, is a lovely shot of color, with its green and purple hues, tall, upright habit, and smaller, more stylish leaves, this basil would be great in a windowbox or container garden. Herbs do especially well and can be grown right outside your kitchen door.

Technically, there is very little difference between “container plants” and “houseplants” which are plants grown in containers, just like the plants in my container garden outside.

It sounds more than a little preposterous to suggest that by blogging to encourage a love of plants, what we’re doing is a real solution to the larger environmental problems we’re facing, but it might be a tiny piece.