Thursday, March 8, 2018

Gardening How To: Transplanting Your Potted Plants

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Hello everyone, a lot of people are not sure as to why they should transplant their potted plants. The reason is that as time goes by perhaps 6 months to a year your plant reaches it maximum growth. Your plant is a living thriving being and needs constant food and minerals to keep growing and producing fruit or flowers as the case may be. As your plant reaches maturity inside it pot the roots use up all of the space available to expand and grow. This causes your plant basically stop growing and producing more and more leaves, flowers, and fruit. If transplanting does not take place your plant will not be able to take up vital nutrients and water because of the compact state their in. This is the reason for transplanting you plants.

The first gardening how to step in transplanting your potted plants is to find the garden planter or pot that you desire. The key here is to select a pot that either has pre- drilled holes or a plain pot where you can drill your own holes with a knife or electric drill. You may prefer to add small pebbles such as river rock at the bottom so that the soil does not compact over your holes, and you get the necessary drainage of water out. Garden pots come in all colors and sizes under the rainbow. You should select a new pot based on you old plants roots.

The second step to do is to remove your plant root ball from the existing pot by using a knife and running it along the outside diameter of the soil ball in the pot. Once this is complete apply a gentle tap on the bottom to your pot to loosen up the root ball even further. Gently lift out the plant from the pot and examine the compacted roots. You must free up this existing root ball by gently pulling and separating the roots all along the bottom of your plant so that you can see free roots dangling from the bottom of your plant.

The third step is to get your newly selected pot with the new drainage hole and fill it with new
organic potting soil about half way in the pot. You don't have to compact it down. It will settle on it's own.Take your existing plant and place it in the new pot and make sure it is properly centered it the transplanting pot. Cover the exposed root ball with the remainder of your potting soil up to the crown or stem of your plant. You can now pat down the soil a bit. Your plant is now ready for a cool drink of water! Pour enough water in the pot so that you see it drain down through the drain holes on the bottom . This indicates that your plant is okay and ready to grow and thrive until it out grows it's new home.

Thursday, March 1, 2018

Organic Vegetable Gardening

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Hi there, Welcome to Grow Organic Vegetable Gardening. I hope to help you with all of your garden questions and issues. A Lot of people ask what is Organic gardening? To me the term organic refers to natural  gardening in quality rich soil without using harmful chemicals in the soil or on your plants. I have learn that the start of organic gardening begins with the soil.
Let me paint a picture for you. In nature-- the forest there are many trees and leaves. These trees grow over time and then a lot of the old leaves die and fall to the forest floor where they eventually mix with the soil and various microorganisms break down these leaves into the soil. This break down along with animal waste produces the best rich soil available . My friends this is Organic soil at its finest. We Organic gardeners attempt to duplicate nature by trying to create the best soil we can.