Container gardening is a straightforward strategy to incorporate crops into your life, even in small areas. Should you present your crops with the proper quantities of water, air and meals, they’re going to thrive.
Here is what it’s essential create a container backyard:
Container: Something is usually a container, so long as there is a gap for drainage and its sufficiently big to deal with your crops.
Location: Earlier than you choose your flowers, herbs, veggies or no matter you need in your container, take into consideration location — the place you are going to put your pot. Some crops do properly in shade, others want full solar.
Soil: Keep away from utilizing soil out of your yard or backyard as it could comprise pests or ailments. As an alternative, use a potting combine designed for container gardening.
Choosing crops: Select what you want within the colours you want. Something goes! And when you observe the “thriller, filler and spiller” methodology of planting, your container will probably be fabulous. The thought is to select one sort of plant for every of these phrases.
- Thriller: Choose a taller plant with a “wow” issue. Your point of interest. Some decisions embrace spikes, coleus, dahlia, astilbe and salvia.
- Filler: These crops will fill out the house round your focal thriller plant and add colour. Some decisions embrace begonia, lantana, impatiens, calibrachoa and browallia.
- Spiller: Spiller crops drape over the perimeters of your container. Select choices akin to, ivy, wave petunias, vinca, potato vine, creeping Jenny, fuchsia and bacopa.
Create: Assemble your masterpiece by beginning with the thriller, then the fillers, adopted by the spillers.
Water: Water proper after you plant. How typically and the way a lot water you will want will depend on they forms of crops you used, the fabric of the container (some could also be porous, which permits for evaporation) and climate. A great way to guage is to poke your finger within the potting medium and if it is dry all the way down to your first knuckle, give your crops a drink. In summer season, I water my exterior containers virtually daily, particularly when it is sizzling and dry.
Container gardens can by tremendous small, big or something in between. One pot of crops can brighten your room, increase your temper, decrease stress and supply a chance so that you can develop into a nurturer of nature.
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Bustani ya kontena ni mbinu ya kuingiza mazao katika maisha yako, hata katika maeneo madogo. Ikiwa utapa mazao yako kiasi cha kutosha cha maji, hewa na chakula, yatakua vizuri. Hapa ni nini ni muhimu kuunda chombo nyuma ya bustani: chombo: Kitu ni kawaida chombo, kwa muda mrefu kama kuna pengo kwa ajili ya mifereji ya maji na yake kubwa ya kutosha kushughulika na mazao yako. Mahali: Kabla ya kuchagua maua yako, mimea, mboga au chochote unachohitaji katika chombo chako, fikiria eneo - mahali utakapoweka chungu chako. Mimea fulani hupata vizuri katika kivuli, wengine hutaka jua kamili. Usitumie udongo wa nje ya bustani yako au bustani ya nyuma, kwani inaweza kuwa na wadudu au magonjwa. Badala yake, tumia mashine ya kupanda mimea iliyoundwa kwa ajili ya bustani ya vyombo. Chagua mazao: Chagua kile unachotaka ndani ya rangi unayotaka. Kuna kitu kinaenda! Na unapotazama mbinu ya kupanda "thriller, filler and spiller", huenda chombo chako kikawa kizuri sana. Wazo ni kuchagua aina moja ya mmea kwa kila moja ya misemo hii. - Thriller: Chagua mmea mrefu zaidi na suala la "wow". Sehemu yako ya kupendeza. Baadhi ya maamuzi kuambatana spikes, coleus, dahlia, astilbe na salvia. - Filler: Mazao haya kujaza nyumba karibu na mmea wako wa thriller focal na kuongeza rangi. Baadhi ya maamuzi hutia ndani begonia, lantana, impatiens, calibrachoa na browallia. - Spiller: Mazao ya Spiller hufunika mipaka ya chombo chako. Chagua aina za mimea kama vile ivy, wavy petunias, vinca, vines ya viazi, creeping Jenny, fuchsia na bacopa. Kuunda: Kukusanya kazi yako ya kipaji kwa kuanza na thriller, kisha fillers, iliyopitishwa na spillers. Maji: Mnywe vizuri baada ya kupanda. Kwa kawaida, kiasi cha maji unachohitaji hutegemea aina ya mazao unayotumia, muundo wa chombo (baada ya baadhi inaweza pia kuwa porous, ambayo inaruhusu evaporation) na hali ya hewa. Njia bora ya kuamua ni kuingiza kidole chako ndani ya chombo cha kuchanganya, na ikiwa imekauka hadi kwenye knuckle yako ya kwanza, weka mazao yako kunywa. Katika majira ya kiangazi, mimi hunyunyizia maji vyombo vyangu vya nje karibu kila siku, hasa wakati wa joto kali na kavu. Bustani za kontena zinaweza kuwa ndogo sana, kubwa au kitu fulani kati ya hizo. Mchuzi wa mazao unaweza kuangaza chumba chako, kuongeza hasira yako, kupunguza mkazo na kutoa nafasi ili uweze kuwa mtunzaji wa asili. Kwa maoni au dhana tofauti za kipindi cha podcast, barua pepe Viv Williams katika [email protected]. Twitter, Instagram, Facebook na vivwilliamstv