Try Organic Gardening

With organic container gardening, you can transform a roof, patio, balcony, or tiny yard into a garden overflowing with natural beauty. You can also put weather sensitive plants in containers, so it is easy to move them indoors when the weather gets colder.

Plants are protected in containers from bugs and other pests that crawl on the ground. In your garden bed, slugs would quickly take over your beautiful flowers, but with containers they will be less apt to do so. Root eating pests can also be deterred from container plants when you use organic soil.

Take care using plant foods and organic fertilizers on your container plants, that you do not over do it. In containers, the soil is more concentrated and any foods or fertilizers may burn the roots.

You can also move container plants from place to place with ease. This allows you to keep young, fragile plants in a sheltered area, moving them once they are stronger to a more prominent area.

With containers, you can change the arrangement of your plants as they grow, keeping your display beautiful and well organized, with larger plants in the back. This way, every plant can be seen, and plants that may grow larger than anticipated will not take over your garden.

A container garden is an inexpensive gardening method. If the container has good soil and holes for drainage, a plant will thrive. You can drill holes into barrels, rain water tubs, buckets, or kitchen and bathroom sinks or tubs, for a rustic planting container.

In order for your garden to be organic, you will need to pay close attention to the materials in your container. Chemicals may trickle down into the soil if you use certain types of plastic. If you have a wooden container, be sure it has not been treated with inorganic weatherproofing.

Choose the size of your container based on the plant you want to use. Pick something that will be as wide as your plant will be once it is fully grown and make sure it is tall enough to accommodate the plant’s root system. Fruits like strawberries and tomatoes as well as several varieties of vegetables, can be grown in containers.

You will need to water your container plants more often than if they were in a garden or flower bed. Plants in the ground are able to get water that is buried deep into the ground, but container plants cannot. Have a friend or neighbor water your plants each day if you go on summer vacation for more than a few days.

Organic container gardening allows you to have flexibility in your planting and can allow you a wide assortment of fruits, vegetables, and flowers even in a very small space.

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