How To Select Pots for Your Container Garden
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0.000 HBDHow To Select Pots for Your Container Garden
Container gardening ideas, are all over the internet. The challenge is to come up with a container garden plan that suits you the best. There are a widespread collection of containers available for your container garden. From small-scale house-plant pots to sizeable boxes and planters. Equally varied are the materials from which they are made. Containers can be anything, wood, glass, clay, aluminum, bamboo, straw, plastic, fiberglass, terra cotta, tin, cast iron, zinc, copper, and brass. Each of them has pros and cons. ### Where Can You Grow Plants:  Containers are not only limited to the circular pots and tubs, there are modern and ultra-modern forms. Square, rectangular, triangular, hexagonal, and octagonal. You can also use old iron kitchen pots, kettles, pails, jugs, casks, vases, crocks, jam tubs, barrels and nail kegs, Japanese fish tubs, aged sinks, bathtubs, bamboo soy tubs. Then there are containers such as driftwood, wheelbarrows, donkey carts, spinning wheels etc. There are also bird cages, decorative well heads, animal figures, and Strawberry jars. Even tar paper pots, handled by garden centers and florists, are worthy if painted or veiled to upgrade their exterior. Any of these can be used in your container gardening ideas. If you believe you container might spoil the looks and aesthetics of your interior use paints to upgrade the exterior; use woven baskets to conceal. ### Where to find your container supplies? Begin with what you possess. If you explore cellars or basements, attics, garages, and sheds, you will doubtless encounter objects of interest. Old-fashioned pots and kettles, usually sold in antique shops at rural auctions or observed at old New England inns, have much attraction.  Different container garden ideas to ponder are old cookie and bean jars, pickle and other types of crocks, wash tubs, coal pails, jardinières, and ceramic bowls. For drainage, scatter a thick layer of substantial pebbles or shattered pieces of pots or bricks at the bottom and then moisten plants with care. In substantial containers, drainage material should be many inches thick. Where rainfall is hefty, be certain to keep garden containers without drainage outlets on porches, below awnings or the under sizable eaves of houses. With pails and old galvanized wash tubs, holes can be easily punctured at the bottom. ## Characteristics of the perfect container: 1. A container needs to be attractive, even if it is not an object of art. 2. Should be sturdy and able to resist all kinds of weather. Make sure the pot is heavy enough to withstand wind, does not rust, and doesn’t crack in extreme heat or cold. 3. It should be fast enough to hold a sizeable quantity of soil. 4. It should have super drainage facilities through holes or various openings at the bottom or sides. **Prevention of rotting:** Resistance to rot is another requisite. Use rot resistant redwood planters if you are interested in wooden containers. Western cedar, and Southern red cypress will require to be treated with a wood preservative. Also your container should be portable so you can move your container garden is another quality, and sometimes a safety precaution, of portable container gardening. Smaller containers are ideal for cultivation herb container gardens. If you plan to plant an herb container garden be imaginative. Here are some container garden ideas for herbs that go great together. * For an Italian selection try Sweet basil, Italian parsley, Oregano, Marjoram and Thyme. * For a pleasing scented container use Lavender, Rose scented geranium, Lemon balm, Lemon thyme, and Pineapple sage. * For amazing salads try Garlic chives, Rocket, Salad burnet, Parsley, Celery. * If you love French Cooking! use Tarragon, Chervil, Parsley, Chives and Sage. Any of these will liven up your meal and please your family. **[Read more about container gardening.](http://gardening-abc.com/container-gardening-a-great-motivator/)** Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/gardeningabc/ Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/packedgarden Join Us on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLbiN758u1PC5Za0vCHHQlQ