Plants and Flowers

Container Gardening (Part 5)

May 30th, 2007

Gardening tools
Regardless of the size and choice of your container garden, you’ll need appropriate tools, ranging from, but not limited to, watering cans, wrist-easy hand rakes, transplanting trowels, by-pass pruners and soil-testing kits. Many shops and nursery provides a great selection of quality garden tools, and you can even purchase that little garden gnome you’ve been looking for.
Plants for Container Gardening
When you’ve got the initial list of garden tricks, pots and tools, you just need the plants. Again, a word of warning: do not load your car to the brim with ferns and bamboo shoots, but start with a few of your favorite plants: pansy and marigold seeds and rosemary and coriander. And then in a month or so, you can add some broccoli seeds. There are thousands of types of container plants and flowers, and the following information should give you at least light sense of types of plants with which you could start.
Once again, take into account your climate and garden layout. And necessarily read the directions on packets with seeds. You may ask questions at your local nursery or submit inquiries online to your virtual nursery or favorite gardening website that helps you to discover whether one your plant enjoys the company of the other.


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