Solution for Tiny Yard

July 12, 2010 | Posted by HomeZooka.com

The following home trend post, have a title ‘Solution for Tiny Yard‘. Park or garden in a container or a container garden is the solution for those who enjoy going to the park, but only has a small farm or even none at all. Currently, the remaining open land on housing-average housing is very limited. So sometimes the desire to have the park should be “conceded” by the need for additional space for family activities. Rather than be used as parks, the remaining land owned houses are often built to expand. So, should the desire for gardening was buried deep inside? Apparently not! Park, still can be had-even in mini-size in a container.

British
Park in the container or container garden idea came from Europe, rather than England. There, the people are famous gardening hobby. ‘ve Probably heard about the English garden or English-style garden is famous is? This hobby can be distributed easily on rural houses broad leafs. But when they migrated and settled in the city, residential lots available are flats or apartments. Because getting to the city center, land and house prices more expensive. As a result, the remaining land for gardening has become narrower and sometimes none. Problems they face, not far different from what we experience, is not it? For gardening hobby, this park maniacs they anticipate the narrowness of their common land. And finally, created a container garden.

Value Plus

• Although small, the real garden in containers has many advantages for the planters. Here are some of them.
• Easily treated. Because of its small size, the easier care and do not eat a lot of time such as caring for a large garden.
• Construction cost cheap. Because the Mini, the cost to purchase the plant certainly cheaper than a regular garden. Cost handyman can also waived because you can make your own.
• Can transferred/placed everywhere. In the edge attic window, on the terrace, or on the stairs, all right. If placed indoors, you can remove it once a week to get a light. If bored, its position can be exchanged.
• Save water. Because only one umbrella, the use of water so it is not too extravagant.
• Save fertilizer. Similarly, fertilizer use, become more efficient than the ordinary usage of the park.
• Net. Especially if you use hydroponic growing media and not the soil.

Prototype
This container garden in its form is a combination of some of the plants are planted together in one container. How to plant it certainly was not in vain, to produce gardens arranged beautifully. There are three basic forms that can be used as a benchmark in regulating the composition in a container garden.

• High – skinny
• Round – full
• Low and / or multilevel

But the experiment still legitimate when forming composition in a container garden as desired. Perhaps the style of flower arrangements can try to apply in the garden tilled.

Plant
Composition models such as the above mentioned earlier, will affect the type of plants used. Does the plant high-long physical shape, fat, rounded, or dangling. However, regardless of the chosen plants, there is one thing that must be obeyed if you want to park within the container succeed / survive. Terms that are, in a container, choose the types of plants that have characteristics and needs that are relatively similar. For example, if you garden in containers will be placed in the shade / protection, use the kinds of plants that do not require full sunlight. Do not use a combination of plant buff shade with flowering plants that need full sunlight. Or if you do not have much time to flush, use succulent plants or other types of cactus.

Treatment
Treatment in the container garden is quite simple. For re-potting (replacing the soil or pot with the land), do it when the roots of plants have grown to meet the container. Marker, plant growth usually begins ugly; plants become thin or lazy flowering. The soil used to garden in containers, preferably textured shaft or crumbs. To get this kind of soil, can be prepared by mixing ordinary garden soil with manure or humus which many ornamental plants sold by traders. If plants in containers have started badly, immediately replaced so that the appearance of the park remains vibrant. Especially if you use the seasonal flowering plant shrub species. Usually when replacement every 3-6 months.

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