Container Gardening

When buying seeds of any type you should always make sure you buy seeds that are of a really high quality. Low quality seeds can effect germination as well as cause the plants that do grow to be weaker than they should be.

I buy my seeds from a number of places which means I get a good selection of different varieties to grow as well as a good price.

I personally use Dobies Seeds, Kings Seeds, Real Seeds, Unwins, Thompson and Morgan, and Suttons Seeds and all of them are great companies and a must when buying seeds.

Don’t get me wrong there are loads of seeds companies who sell great quality seeds but you should always check to see if they are a well known brand. The well known brands all sell great seeds or they wouldn’t sell there seeds!

You should always just check the quality of the seeds before buying them.

Container gardening is so easy and it is fantastic for people who are new to gardening. Beginners often find getting started the hardest step, but without taking just a little action and getting started you will never have the allotment or garden you dream of.

Just growing a few vegetables in containers can be enough to inspire you to get growing and have your own superb garden. Just planting a few lettuces, tomatoes, radish or the like in containers is enough to get started. Once the seedlings have grown a little you will find that the satisfaction is massive.

As a beginner you don’t want to jump in at the deep end, keep it small and manageable to start with. Once you have some experience however small creating the perfect container garden, allotment or back garden will be so much easier.

The key is just getting started, so that is something you should do. Sow a few seeds today, dig the new allotment over tomorrow!

Simple!

When starting a container garden you have to make a detailed plan of what you are going to grow and exactly where you are going to grow it. This is really important as when growing in a small place you want to be able to grow as much in as little space as possible.

Have too many plants and you will waste them, have to little and you garden will look empty. It’s that simple!

When I am planning my container garden I use a piece of graph paper and draw my garden (or wherever your growing) to scale. I then create a list of what I want to grow and the idea quantities I want to grow them in. Then I begin to draw the plants on the graph paper and continue playing and changing with the design until it is complete.

It’s a really simple technique that you should try and test before starting your container garden.