How To Plant Up A Container Garden

Choose a Container Based on Your Climate Budget Space and Style.

How to plant up a container garden. For larger containers use a relatively coarse soilless planting. You can mix it up by creating seasonal container gardens too. Use shades of lavender chartreuse and yellow to create a soft and dreamy garden flower pot.

Container gardening really is all about the containers and choosing the right size for each plant is essential to ensure that you can grow a healthy and productive container garden. For containers up to 1 gallon in size use a houseplant soil mixture. This should be anywhere from 3 to 6 depending on the depth of your plants roots.

Place plants in containers. Once your plants are established begin regular feeding with a plant food formulated for the type of plants in your container garden. An easy step-by-step container display Step 1.

Start by adding your soil of choice to your container by filling it so that the bottom of the container is covered up. Like peas tomatoes need a support system. Almost any plants that grow in the ground can grow in a container including trees shrubs herbs vegetables annuals and perennials.

As you plant make sure not to compress the soil. Purple and yellow container garden plants. Fill in with additional potting soil as needed.

On the surface it is not that different from gardening in a typical landscape garden bed. Add your soil and plan your arrangement. Fill the soil back into the remaining space so that the plants are tucked securely in place.