Help Selecting Gardner and Bloome Products for Containers
PacNorWreck
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PacNorWreck
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Comments (12)myoneandonly- Most of my containers ar 16". I have a couple of 20" ones as well. You're right - just about ANYTHING can be grown in a container! The plant (with a bad case of powdery mildew) behind the bench is a pumpkin plant. I actually grew 2 little pumpkins! Here's one - Last year I grew a cantaloup. June8 - There are over 100 containers. In the winter, most of them stay out there. I dig up the callas & dahliahs & store them in my mother's basement. The cannas & tuberose are over-wintered there as well, but they stay in the pots. Some things, like the geraniums I bring indoors. Most of the other perennials are hardy for my zone & just come back each year. While I'm technically zone 6, I buy as if I'm zone 5. I read somewhere years ago that one should lower the zone# by one when using containers. (when they are going to be left out) As for arrangement - I figure it out on paper. Although it's hard to tell in the photo, there's a path that winds from left to right (in front of the vine pole) back to the bench. You can see it better in this shot. This was mid-June '05....See Moreadding some new David Austins - please help on selection! :)
Comments (18)I only grow two Austins and one is a dog who despite the fact that his flowers are to die for (all three or four of them in as many years) has a shovel standing right next to him - so the only first hand recommendation I could make would be for Windemere - the color is very delicate, the blooms are lovely, the bush has filled out nicely in the same period of time that the other has languished and she is not stingy - the down side is the blooms seem almost like day lilies in staying power. However there are lots of them coming on all the time to make up for that. In defense of the other rose it is own root and my Windemere is grafted, which should initially make some difference but not as much I would think as I am seeing. I believe the slacker is just a dud - so I don't want to mention his name and cause his brothers to suffer, perhaps undeservedly....See MoreOrganic source of phosporus for bloom/fruit production
Comments (10)Alan ..... how did you use the rabbit manure? These plants are grown inside, under HID, in containers. As mentioned I suppliment the soil mix at transplant with granulars and they do great, but after several months from leaching and feeding the soil seems to get lean on the plants and I need a way to suppliment them through fruiting, and indefinately to be honest since the hot peppers are perinneals Ill keep them going as long as they keep producing. Rabbit manure doesnt seem to fit the bill here unless I was transplanting. Or do you suggest top dressing with it? I guess I could always make a tea too?? Im all ears for any suggestions along these lines. NJA - How do you suggest to use a bone/charcoal mix? Top dressing Im assuming ... but how much and how often (as a general guidline I realize plants needs vary). Maybe 1 to 2 tablespoons top dressed, once a month?? Most plants are in 3 gallon pots permenantly....See MoreHELP Please for Container Gardening Organically with Pro Mix BX
Comments (2)I like ProMix a lot. But you might be overthinking this, Lainey. In terms of necessity, the only thing you may HAVE to do for a small portion of the plants is mix in more perlite. I have grown everything you listed except the zucchini and canteloupe, and virtually all of them in plain ProMix. You can definitely use the worm castings, though. I currently using the ProBlend Grow you bought and have the Bloom, too. I also use Ca-Mg with it. But I bought these because I wanted Foliage Pro now and couldn't find it locally quickly. If you haven't opened them, I would exchange for Foliage Pro. Al (tapla) on this forum has written a lot about it and overall, I think it's really solid barring using 15 bottles to make your own. :) After using a good potting soil, amended or not, it's primarily what you and nature will do that will help it thrive or die. (WATER, NUTRIENTS OR SUN?) And as for your vermiculite, I personally hate the stuff and find no use for it at all. Depending on your highs, it might be a bit too warm for the leafy stuff except in rrally bright shade with slow growth. I know in my area of CA, I cannot grow lettuce except in early spring or really late fall. Good luck!!...See MorePacNorWreck
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