http://www.WisconsinGarden.com – – – Having a container garden allows nearly everyone the opportunity to grow something you enjoy. Whether for its flowering beauty or your taste bud, there is little excuse for not having a container on your porch, patio, or even the entrance to your home. If you’re after something dramatic, a container garden allows many plant and color options to employ as thrillers, fillers, and spillers, Even if you don’t have a lot of garden space, containers still allow you to create a vertical garden area for both determinant and indeterminate vegetable plants, herbs and fruit. Whether utilizing a large decorative container of even a plastic milk jug, creating a container garden isn’t difficult, it’s really a matter of priority, purpose, and price.
Container Gardening
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I like cilantro in my salsa garden…yummy!
Buddy (our dog) has started eating the blooms on our lilies. He is such a veggie dog!
The wheel rims are back! I love the rusted coloring. What a beautiful and great way to repurpose them. They will look even better when those Chinese lilacs take off.
Rick you have such a great eye for using the normal for another purpose. The cinder blocks will look great against the contrasting landscape. Another creative way to repurpose something.
Lynn and Rick, the garden is looking lovely as always! I have some large trees with exposed roots that I would encorporate into flowerbeds. Could you do a video with instruction on how to create a flowerbed around a mature tree without harming the roots? Good luck with all of your beautiful container gardens!!
This year I added the absorbent material in disposable diapers to the soil in my hanging flower baskets. ( I saw it on the university of YouTube.) It really works! I also mulched them with grass clippings. I don't need to water nearly as much. I would never use it on vegetables. Your gardens are so beautiful. You have inspired me to plant more flowers (especially perennials). I do mostly veggies but I love to see your flowers.
cocoa shell mulch is POISONOUS!!!…Never use it if you have animals!!!
Additional FYI on tomatoes: If you want a larger amount of tomatoes at one time for canning on fewer plants–grow Determinant. If your style is to can a smaller amount multiple times over the summer or for table use–grow In-determinant. In-determinant tomato crop tends produce more consistent through a longer season (good span to harvest for eating). Most of the older varieties are In-determinant. Determinant tomatoes were designed with farming harvest in mind. With a Determinate tomato the flowers 'determine' the length of the terminal vine, then may produce side branches and they do tend to ripen faster, mostly because they had fewer leaves. In addition to the size of the tomato plants, Determinant tomatoes are designed to give a heavier crop at a 'determined' time (good for the farm harvest or for canning). They may need succession planting to continue producing with volume. It use to be that it could make a big difference in how many leaves they produced and when you will receive your first fruit, but hybridizing is changing that.
If you have an extra RR rim, it could be a solution to your aggressive herbs.
Please do not use cocoa bean mulch. Smells good, but is a poisonus!!!! I am surprised that it is even sold. Great ideas on this video! I love the train rims.
I had not thought of the difference between the clay vs plastic pots.
Thankfully, I don't have many clay pots and have only lost one due to breaking in the winter.
Your garden is so very pretty.
Thanks for sharing!