How to Plant a Container Garden?

The materials that you will need before you can plant your container garden are planting container, potting soil, pottery shards, plants, sheet moss or mulch and saucer or tray (if the pot is going to be on a wood surface.

Place pieces of pottery that are broken into the bottom of the container so that they will cover our your drainage hold. Because doing this will help keep the soil from washing out of the drainage hold.

Next, you will need to put the potting soil in your containers bottom. After this, you will need to take your plants and figure out where you are going to place them in your container.

Put the plants where you want them to be tin the container and surround them with potting mix, their root balls should be 1/2 to 1 inch below the top of the container. After this, you will need to finish by putting the potting soil in to fill up all the space. Press down gently in place to get rid of air pockets.

  Next, cover the soil with moss or mulch, whichever you choose to use and this helps with retaining moisture. Water thoroughly. Tank your container outdoors and place it in the shad for a few days, so to help with the plants being transplanting.

If you are going to place your container garden on a table, you will need to put a saucer or tray beneath it.

When you are interested in having a container garden, there should always have a big enough container so that there is plenty of room for all of your plant roots and you need to have good drainage so make sure you have plenty of drainage holes in your container.