Photo Essay: Container Gardens

Who says we need a large back yard to have a garden?kettle

1. You can squeeze in a enclosure grassed area anywhere. On your window sill, upon your balcony, upon a terrace, upon your patio, in your yard.

Photo: Holly Crawford

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2. Despite size restrictions, we can grow a number of vegetables (and flowers) in a enclosure garden. This list includes tomatoes, peppers, spinach, lettuce, herbs, onions, beans as well as potatoes (as seen in a photo).

Photo: Jonathan Wollny

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3. You can additionally use different types of containers, from simple terracotta pots to some-more dainty ones like this pair of old shoes. This is a good opportunity to recycle.

Photo: Lost_star

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4. When using radical containers cavalcade drainage holes in to a base. This prevents water-logging in a enclosure as well as saves a roots from rotting.

Photo: Kate (k8tron)

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5. As a order enclosure gardens require frequent watering. How most depends upon a size as well as element of a container.

Photo: Magda Wojtyra

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6. Plants in tyres, for example, lend towards to dehydrate quic! ker than in other containers.

Photo: Alister Coyne

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7. Because of a tranquil environment, enclosure gardening makes it possible to grow plants that have been not local to a region.

Photo: Pete Veilleux

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8. Container gardens have been a good arising to gardening. Once we get a cling to of it, we can go as funny or get as desirous as we want.

Photo: Wesley Chu

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9. When a continue is good, we can put a containers out. When a continue gets bad we can pierce a colours inside.

Photo: Ursula Murray Husted

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10. And when we move, your grassed area can pierce with you.

Photo: Lauren Jolly Roberts

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