Apartment Gardening

by GlacierGuyMT




Apartment Gardening



By “Butch” West


Feel you cannot backyard if you live in an apartment? Properly, you can!

Area: Great locations for apartment gardening are balconies and patios. Also windows, or hanging baskets, in the middle of the space are good locations for your plants. Some criteria for these areas are leak and wind protection for your neighbors, floors, and partitions. Tarps or plastic sheeting are a couple of points that will operate for leak protection.

Containers: Apart from the conventional nursery pots, which can often be found for free at a regional nursery, just about anything at all can be utilised as a plant container.

Some ideas for containers are:

ü Old socks
ü Soup & sandwich containers
ü Gentle consume bottles
ü Traditional nursery pots
ü Egg cartons
ü To go cartons from eating places
ü Plastic shoe box size containers
ü Rubbermaid sort storage containers
ü Earth Containers
ü Square Foot Containers
ü Cleaning Wipes containers
ü 5 (five) gallon buckets

Be positive to place drainage holes in the bottom of your containers. Typically the lids of containers can be used as drip trays and often even as watering trays. Some men and women use a layer of gravel or other drainage substance instead of poking holes.

Soil: Don’t use just any soil and don’t get it from the

nursery chairs