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Comments (16)I've included a link below to a fantastic article on container soils and how water moves through them. The article also has recipes for free draining mediums you can mix yourself. I think the 511 medium would be perfect for a half barrel. It would be worth your while to begin again, drilling the necessary holes, placing some mesh over them, and using a more durable, free draining soil that will hold up well and give your plants' roots better aeration along with excellent drainage. It really helps when you know what the purpose of soil is, and what plants actually require... and Al's article in the link covers it all. It dispels some old wive's tales, gives excellent and very pertinent information, and if there's anything you don't understand about the concept of a more durable, fast draining medium, please feel free to ask us! We're all here to help! :-) I use the recipe for Gritty Mix in all my long term plantings, which would be my house plants, and I'm going to use the 511 medium for some large patio pots I have outside. Some will contain annuals, and others will hold my Japanese Maples and other trees, or roses. Either way, the larger pots get wheeled back inside the unheated garage at season's end. I'm waiting on pins and needles, too, for the nicer weather of spring to stay with us a while! I'd like nothing better than to get all the plant material out of the garage! Happy Gardening! Here is a link that might be useful: Soil Recipes Included......See MoreDrip, Sprinkler, or Bubbler? Wine Barrels
Comments (5)That's exactly what I got, the 6in spacing 1/4in. I left it in there on the first barrel and it actually looks like it's working (better). I have not experience with this stuff - does it need to 'break in?' I also put up a dual-fan setup on the next 2 barrels. It's sort of working (a familiar story...) - you can see, the water is getting out there but it's also getting the trunk wet (no no) maybe from wind or splashback. Looks like I will go back to the drip and see if that works....See MoreShrub for wine barrel?
Comments (3)You could try a rainbow leucothoe (multicolor leaves, white flowers), which is what I'm growing (although in a smaller container). Other possibilities include cherry laurels which has white flowers (eg., 'Otto Luken'), pyracantha (white flowers, red or yellow or orange berries), just about any evergreen holly (meserve, opaca, crenata, glabra, etc - you need male/female pair for berries), daphne (fragrant flowers), hardy camellias (rose-type flowers, and if moved to a protected spot due to the reduced hardiness of containers, tea camellia), aucuba (speckled leaves, white flowers, red berries with male/female pair). Lots of choices!...See MoreRose in half wine barrel with no bottom?
Comments (10)Hi, I read about the half barrel idea here a week ago or so when I was frantically trying to rectify my misguided attempt to dig a hole under a tree for my newly arrived Cecil Brunner rose. I quick ran out to a local garden center and they sold me an old half barrel. I took a chisel and hammer to it and gently knocked out the bottom. I nestled the bottomless half barrel in the soil where I had started digging and put in manure and then a mix of top soil and peat moss as per Heirloom instruction which always have worked for me. The tree is a very old, on its way out, Norway maple which I have had pruned back to conserve it. There is a split in the tree some 10 feet up and then branches. I am thinking of putting trellis at the bottom to get the rose started. So far the little thing is doing great. I'll post a couple of pictures. The rose is planted on the south side of the tree. Good luck with your rose! Here is a link that might be useful: newly planted climbing rose in a half barrel...See Moretsugajunkie z5 SE WI ♱
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