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Container
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important element in container gardening is good soil. “Good potting soil is of vital importance to plants in containers, even more so than to garden plants, because they must survive and be healthy and happy in confined spaces under conditions of light, air circulation, moisture and heat that are often far from ideal and different from those prevailing in their native habitats,” says Ernst.
Buy packaged, sterile potting soil and look for soils that include added lighleners, to keep the soil from becoming too dense and impervious to water.
“Perlite is usually preferred for pot culture,” says Ernst, though vermiculite is also good; both absorb and retain moisture while they also aerate the soil for better air circulation.
Container Choices
Just about anything can be used to grow plants, as long as it has one or more holes in the bottom for drainage. Drill them if your choice doesn’t have those holes.
The choices for container gardening are myriad: clay pots, plastic pots, metal pots, wooden pots, ceramic pots, concrete tubs, wire-mesh baskets, buckets, old claw-foot bathtubs — you name it.
Plastic pots are often preferred because they can withstand extreme temperature changes and don’t break in extreme weather, says Jim Van Sweden, landscape architect of Oehme, Van Sweden & Associates in Washington, D.C., who has just designed an
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