Potted Plant Culture - Essential Guide for Potting Plants Successfully

Download or read book Potted Plant Culture - Essential Guide for Potting Plants Successfully written by Dueep Jyot Singh and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of Contents Introduction Choosing the Right Pots Potting Season Why Re-Pot a Plant Potting Operations Preparing your Pot How to Do the Potting Best Soil Natural Manures Fish Scrap Green Manure Compost Leaf Mold Using Turf Using Old Mortar Liquid Manures Soapsuds Traditional Quick Composting Formula Rules of Manuring Watering of Your Potted Plants Washing of Leaves Drainage of Your Potted Plants Conclusion Author Bio Publisher Introduction Once upon a time, human beings were fortunate enough to have huge rolling miles of land in which to build their gardens and to cultivate their farms. However, in the last two millenniums of civilization, the wide-open spaces have become congested into concrete jungles and the open gardens have been shrunk into pocket handkerchiefs – sized backyards. So is it a surprise that more and more people who are interested in gardening are looking for alternative ways and places in which they can grow flowers, trees, shrubs, and herbs of their own choice. And that is why container gardening, especially gardens grown in pots and containers have been a godsend for a majority of people down the ages.