Dec 31 2008
Saving by Making Your Own Pot Garden
Planting has always been my past time. It gives me joy in seeing my plants bloom everyday. I am fond of orchids since they grow flowers for a long time and you will really not get tired of looking at their blooms. I have also collected hibiscus of different colors because they are so easy to take care. Once their flowers bloom it never goes out of blooms each day. Once the orchids reproduce I actually barter or trade it with other orchid specie with my friends so I can have a new collection. You can also sell them if you like. It is really not easy to take care of them but once you learn the trick on how to raise them you will really learn to love them and let them grow. Since they are aerial it takes time to spray them so their roots will absorb enough water and nutrients. You actually need to give spray some orchid vitamin and minerals. You also spray them with insecticide. Then a week after you can spray them for blooming.
In this ecenomic depressing times I am thinking of planting vegetable garden in pots. Never a day that I don’t use vegetables for cooking. So making a small vegetable garden will be fun. I need to take the following considerations since I will be planting in the pots.
1. The kind of vegetables that can be grown in containers.
2. The kind of containers that I will be using. I have learned that any type of containers will be fine may it be clay, wooden or plastic pots. Just make sure not to use dark colors since they absorb too much sunlgiht which will not be good for the plants.
3. Buying a good kind of pot soil, compost bark, spagnum peat moss, perlite and fertilizer. I have learned from my research that garden soil should be avoided since it has insects and pests that might eat away the vegetable sprouts.
4. Placing fiberglass sheets under the pots to keep insects and bugs away from the vegetables. This will prevent from soil spillage too.
5. Expose plants to adequate sunlight.
6. Your vegetable garden will be growing in no time and you can use your harvest right away fresh and crisp right into your own kitchen.
