With the difficult time that many regions have experience last year, many vegetables prices hit peaks rarely seen before. This is bad news on the "hip pocket!"
The good news is that you don't have to pay high prices. You can have great pleasure in growing your own chemical free vegetables at home. If you live in an apartment or have little space Garden, growing in containers is the way to go.
What you need to start growing container vegetables?
Types of containers
Almost any container can be used, as long as it is deep enough. Some people use boxes of vegetables Kaylite which they pick up their green grocer; others use wooden boxes. Synthetic pots, buckets, pots ceramic and terracotta pots can be used, but be aware that with the last watering can be tricky because clay is porous and draw moisture from the soil.
If the container is deep enough, you can even grow root crops such as parsnips, carrots and turnips.
It is a good idea in warmer climates to use a light color container - otherwise you may risk "cooking" the roots of your plants. In cooler climates, containers of dark colors will be absorbs heat and help to warm up the roots.
Containers with self-watering systems are useful - but all containers must have holes for drainage and preferably a saucer to remain standing in, or the drain-off can discolor your floor.
Soil preparation
Buy a good quality, well-draining potting mix. It must either be a coarse texture or mixed vermiculite. If the potting soil does not include fertilizer inside when buy you, you will need to add some. Use a general NPK mix and ensure that it is carefully and evenly mixed. It is better not to use it the garden soil, because he will be compact in the pot and your plants will grow not well - particularly root crops. It is probably not well drain and may contain weed seeds.
Some gardeners like add additional manure their container (instead of fertilizer). Most of the manure will do that add a small amount of nutrients - for me, it is preferable to also add fertilizers. Adding manure, you need to use very, old well ventilated manure. A great tip is to create a mixture of 10% rotten manure and 90% of the water and let it steep for a week. After a week, mix approximately 20% of the tea of manure in a watering can and apply to your container plants. Be not tempted to increase the ratio of greater than 20%, because you can burn your vegetables. Similarly, fresh manure is deprecated because it will burn your veggie plants young tender, and although obviously it not pleasant smell that!
Once your vegetables are planted, you can top your nutrients using liquid fertilizer every two weeks. If using this approach, using a dominant fertilizer of nitrogen for the first 6 weeks and then go to a dominant fertilizer of potassium in the last 6 weeks. Dilute and apply according to the instructions on the label. Other products such as emulsions of fish are good for maintaining your potting soil texture and also add amino acids - in need of your plants.
The establishment of your plants, the use of algae will help establish roots. Either incidentally, algae are steps fertilizer - without fertilizers have been added in the mixture in a bottle! Algae contain natural plant growth hormones.
Sunlight
All the vegetables require Sun - usually 6 hours per day. However, if you live in a hot climate, you may have your plants in the middle of the day to avoid sunburn in the shade. In cooler climates, you need to try and warm your plants - to put in the Sun in the day and bring back the night. Never extinguish the Sun plants without first building.
Watering
It is probably the most difficult part of container gardening - to achieve the right balance between too much water and too little. In warm climates, you may have to water twice a day, while in the cooler only once per day climates. Always check by pushing your finger into the soil until your team to see if it is wet all the way down. Growing vegetables consumed large quantities of water - especially when they begin to flower (if they do), or that they reach their maturity.
Good drainage is important, therefore, always ensure that containers have drainage holes so that your plants do not sit on the soggy ground.
Plant varieties
You can grow almost any vegetable in a container. Limiting your single factor is the depth of the container.
Good luck and have fun!
Lucia Grimmer is the principal author of better sales of books how to grow juicy tasty tomatoes and how to cultivate large potatoes.
Lucia Grimmer is a world-renowned expert in diseases of plants and nutrition to form professional producers, agronomists and horticulturists. She won the award for his technical papers and regularly conducts tests on a range of crops to improve performance and the fight against the disease.
Co-author Annette Welsford is also a horticultural background, but his true skills as with taking complex technical information and representing it so that even novice gardeners think it is easy to understand.
Their books are considered "bibles" that authorities on tomato growth and growth of potatoes and have sold thousands of novice and professional gardeners in 82 countries and were presented to the television, radio and major publications gardening on 4 continents.
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