Container Gardening

In a sense, all gardens are container gardens. Just some containers are bigger than others. We can start by learning a little bit about ecology. A container garden is a mini ecosystem. To make a container garden work, you have to pick plants that “get along together.” This may be a new concept to some people, but just think about it for a minute. Not all plants need the same amount of water, or sunlight or even the same nutrients in the soil. It is a beautiful rule of nature, perhaps just like all fingers of a human are not equal. Let us now ponder upon few important facts of a container garden.

As long as you remember that container gardens are plant communities, and you make sure that your plants have common interests in how much sun they get, and how much water they get, you can have a successful container garden. The very way that we human need food and water for a living, keeping in mind that plants are living species, therefore for a successful making of a container garden one must give special attention to the sunlight and water needs of a plant.

When designing a container many people dwell on plant colors and plant heights, rather than on the needs of the individual plants. You wouldn’t plant a water lily in a window box, now, would you? Drainage is an issue to most plants. Make sure that the container garden has proper drainage for the plants you choose. The second most important factor of plant compatibility is the Ph of the soil. There are plants that thrive in alkaline soils which would kill other plants. Similarly, there are plants that would die in acidic soils.

Pick compatible plants and you will find that if your plants are happy with their neighbors the gardener can also be happy with them.

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