Container Garden Ideas, For When You're
Short on Space

Making a container garden is a fantastic choice to grow plants when you're short on space. You can use a patio, deck, or even balcony space several floors up.

These gardens can be enjoyed inside the home too, using a broad assortment of plants and flowers that will brighten up your home or provide you with some food or herbs.

Nearly any plant or flower can be raised this way.

Plants that grow big will take larger containers.

If you buy bushes, shrubs or trees, you will, after a few years, need to transplant them outside into the ground.

You can avoid the transplanting issue if you use miniature assortments.

Different types of containers are available to suit your home's or garden's decor. These include wooden boxes, wooden and plastic barrels (cut in half horizontally, or vertically and laid on their sides), 5 gallon plastic pails, and concrete planters.

If you use concrete ones and you live in a cold climate, ensure that the containers are light enough to move into the garage or garden shed to protect the plants.

The Most Common Types of Container Gardening

• Herbs in the kitchen or sun room.
• Annual or perennial plants on the patio or within the home.
• Vegetable gardening on the deck, patio or balcony, even gardening potatoes and bell peppers.
• Special gardens, such as salad gardens.

Fixing a Garden Center Container Garden

For some people, their first exposure to container gardens is when they purchase an attractive, lavish display of plants at a garden center. These are commonly filled to the brim with new flower blooms, or crawling vines that flow over the side.

Some people end up with dead plants just a couple weeks after purchasing the arrangement, and they become frustrated about the short life span of the plants. The answer to this is easy enough.

If you purchase a container that is jammed full of flowers and greenery, it probably has too many plants. They don't have the space they require to grow and flourish.

To keep any container's plants alive for a long time, ensure that they have enough room for their roots. Many plants have much bigger or longer roots than others. Those plants will need bigger containers ready for transplanting when the need arises.

If you like the look of ready-made container garden, you can keep it growing and good-looking in your home by transplanting the plants into a new, larger container.

You might need to break up the plants a bit if they're all matted together, but you should be able to make the arrangement look very close to the way it was when you purchased it in the smaller container.

The bigger pot will provide the plants extra room for their roots to spread and grow. And your new garden will keep looking beautiful for a very long time.

As the plants keep growing, you may need to transplant them to other, larger pots. Or separate the plants and make many smaller container gardens.

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