Organic
Vegetable Gardening Can Be Done Using A Container
Organic gardening lets nature take its own course using sunlight
and water to make the vegetables grow. Use organic seeds
and make sure they have been certified by the National
Standard for Organic Agriculture.
Having limited space in your backyard shouldn't stop you from
getting into organic vegetable gardening. This is
because you can work around it by putting them into
containers. Here are some of the advantages.
First, they can be brought either indoors or outdoors depending on
the temperature outside.
It also serves as great decor that can be displayed in the balcony,
the patio or on the kitchen table or by the windowsill.
You don't have
to buy a container to hold your vegetables because you
can recycle an ice cream container or anything else in
the house that you may have as long as it can hold soil
and provide sufficient drainage.
These are less likely to be attacked by weeds, snails, slugs or soil
borne diseases and are very easy to work with as long as
you maintain the right pH levels.
You might think that cleaning the container and putting in soil
from the backyard is the way to go but you are mistaken.
It is better to buy premium potting mix because it is
much lighter than soil and offers excellent drainage.
Given that the vegetables aren't grown in the garden, you have to
make sure that they receive the right number of
nutrients. You can do this by buying organic fertilizer
from the store and then following the instructions on
the packaging.
Take note that putting on too much can kill what you are planting
and you wouldn't want that to happen. Also, given that
there are many brands, you have to make sure that this
is ideal for what you are planting.
Vegetable gardening using containers requires watering them more
frequently. This is because the soil dries much quicker
compared to when it is planted on the earth. Aside from
water, you can also buy organic liquid fertilizers that
can be used for foliar feeding and drenching the soil.
To help you get started, here are some vegetables you can start
planting in containers. These include bush beans,
carrots, capsicum, eggplant, lettuce, and onions.
Just like regular vegetable gardening, these have to exposed to the
sun at least 6 hours everyday. If you live where it is
windy, make sure there is protection so it won't fall
off and hit the ground. You have to start somewhere so
try two or three pots then add more later on.
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