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Even if you have little or no gardening experience, container gardening is something you can easily do in almost any location. With container gardening, it doesn’t matter how much living space that you have; you can have a two-story house, or a studio apartment, and you will still be able to do container gardening at either location. If container gardening sounds like something you would like to try, use the tips and strategies in this article to help with your first garden.
Container gardens are more susceptible to excessive heat absorption; therefore you need to take special precautions. Even plants that normally like lots of sun may get too hot, as the container traps heat.
Sun Exposure
Plants that are grown in the dirt are somewhat at less risk to heat exposure than are those in container gardens because of the soil staying cooler. If you have plants that are sitting directly in the sun, you need to shield them when the sun is the hottest. You can alleviate some of the problem when you are careful about where you put your containers in the beginning. Just make sure you consider the heat issue when you locate your containers initially.
Safety Procedure
If you are elderly, or injured in some way, container gardening is still something that you can actively participate in. Gardening is often a strenuous activity, and at the very least it requires you to engage in activities such as digging, bending over and kneeling. For people who are elderly or handicapped, these actions may be difficult or impossible. We need you container gardening, you are not limited by the location of the garden as the garden can be moved quite easily. So people with limited mobility will find this very easy to do. As you can see, limitations that are created by regular gardening are not part of the container gardening process.
You will want to make sure your garden gets the lighting needed to prosper; especially when it is located indoors. Preferably, your garden needs natural sunlight throughout the day. When you are not able to give your plants the necessary light via the sun; it will be necessary to provide it in some other way. You can find grow lights that will help by generating heat much like the heat generated by the sun. If your plants are indoors and fairly far away from any windows that would provide sunlight; these are a great idea. In a last case scenario, you could plug in a 150 watt light bulb and add at least a little extra heat during the daytime.
Given the fact that folks more now than ever, are wishing to grow their own vegetables, herbs and such; container gardening will be a thing of the present and the future as well. Not everyone has a large yard in which to plant a garden, nor time to deal with the responsibility. We may all like to have and maintain a full sized garden; even though a container garden takes time, it will be time easily given.