It's growing season, and I've been spending weekends in our family garden outside the city, but when I'm in town, I have very little room for growing anything. Container gardening is one way of dealing with a lack of outdoor space, and Apartment Therapy writers have put together many How To's on the subject over the years. Here are some of the best. Enjoy!
1. How to Plant a Super Easy Tomato Container Garden - If you want to grow tomatoes this summer, now's the time to plant them. Rachel Wray at Re-Nest gives a super simple guide.
2. How to Plant a Terrarium in a Jar - Terrariums are hot right now. Here's how to make your own for pennies.
3. How to Grow a Salad Greens Windowbox Garden - Guest blogger Maria Finn wrote this how-to for an edible indoor garden.
4. How to Re-Pot Your House Plants - Helpful tips on how to move your plants into a bigger pot from Tanya in Boston.
5. How to Make Can Planters - Laure in Los Angeles made these beautiful tins from old tomato cans.
6. How to Make a One-Pot Indoor Herb Garden - This post went up on the Kitchn three years ago and it still keeps resurfacing. A great guide for cooks who want to grow their own herbs.
7. How to Start a Container Garden - Tips for growing lettuce, arugula, tomatoes, and herbs.
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Comments (7)
You should check out these new plant containers on the market... (my friends just started the company out of Petaluma)
They are really great for your plants because they naturally aerate the root system, thus no need to change the pot. They are really inexpensive too, the One Gallon is around $4 and 70 Gallon is around $60.
They are made of an outdoor fabric so they are incredibly durable and really nice looking.
http://geoplanters.com/
(It looks like they are working on the website, but there are images of the pots)
Container gardening is the only way to go in the city and love filling container gardens with edible plants - you've inspired me to grow some container garden lettuce.
Also have been wanting to try out the 'gutter container garden' - inventive solution for small spaces:
http://www.tiphero.com/tips_1696_container-gardening-for-small-spaces.html
We did some succulents for our window sill and also using an Aalto Vase...
see them here:
http://blueantstudio.blogspot.com/2008/07/succulent-planter.html
http://blueantstudio.blogspot.com/2008/07/aaltosucculents.html
enjoy!
joelpirela.com
i have been container gardening on my balcony for 3 years now and it has been going great. I do all self watering containers which makes my life easier.
i have a bigger planter from agardenpatch.com
It is pretty much the same as an earthbox but cheaper, and it works great. Holds 4 Gallons of water.
I also have various shapes and sizes of self watering ones from walmart.
The thing is though you need to use a light and airy potting mix in them (no dirt!) and the mix just wicks the water up as needed. There is no over watering, no drying out, it is perfect. It is made of mostly peat moss and i add extra percilite (or however that is spelled, white volcanic mineral)
This year i have a tomato going, basil (for pesto and to keep the horn worms away!), 1 red pepper, 1 orange pepper, snow peas, and going to plan the herbs and flowers tonight.
I have tried three separate fern terrariums and ended up with three separate dead ferns. :-(
I tried a community garden, but since we were new applicants, all the good spots were taken up by experienced gardeners who had seniority. We had a plot next to the woods in the back, shady corner. The only thing that didn't die was the chard and basil, which made us HUGELY popular with the local rabbits!
I went back to containers. I've done tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, and herbs with great success. My favorite was the chocolate mint pot- it smelled so wonderful on my Virginia balcony!
Shameless plug: but if you need any more tips or garden care... check out my blog at brooklynplanting.blogspot.com. This winter I'll be doing some interior planting workshops to help get people back into growing their own herbs or flowers.