Saturday, December 29, 2018
Gardening is a fun thing to do it can reduce our stress level and keep our mind fresh. Planting vegetables is not so difficult, everyone can do it. You can test yourself right now by putting the seed on the pot and supply with water and the sunlight as their energy. If you are serious, you can develop your garden and sold the product on the market, its good to raise side-income right?
Vegetable Gardening in pots
It’s well known that planting in pots is one way to anticipate the land space. However, many people don't know what plants can be planted in pots, and make them grows later.
One type of plant that can be grown in pots is chili, tomato, and vegetable plants. Vegetables with a fast growth period. In addition, the demand for the vegetable needs are very high, we can solve this by planting a lot of vegetables in large pot. The following things can be considered:
1. Selection of seeds
There are several considerations when choosing the seed plant, have known their history, it is from a healthy plant or not. Of course, we have to adapt the seeds we choose to the home environment where the seeds will be cultivated. For a quite hot place area, vegetable seeds such as lettuce, spinach, eggplant, tomatoes, and chili can be chosen. As for the area with high temperatures, choosing cabbage or carrot would be nice.
2. Preparing The Media (pots, storage box, etc)
It is recommended to use a pot that made by the clay material. The function is to maintain the temperature around the plant. The pot good characteristics are:
• Support the roots growth
• The bottom of the pot must be quite open for the water access
• Not so heavy and easy to move
• Strong enough for the weather, and hard to be broken.
The types of pots that can be used are like: clay pot, plastic pot, porcelain pot, cement pot, old tires pot, and bamboo pot.
3. Mixing The Plant Component
Planting media in pots is the mixture of soil, manure, and of course chaff. Comparison of mixing is 1: 1: 1. This component is a must have, you need media to grow your plant, you can try to mix out the nature component to be the foundation of the plant
4. Seeding
Seeding needs to be carried out in other platforms before being transferred to the pot. Prepare another platform made of plastic and put the planting media into it. Seeding is only carried out on certain types of seeds. The seeds that need to be carried out are small-sized seeds, for example, tomatoes and chili.
If the seeding platform has been prepared, put the seed in depth of 1cm inside the component media. Cover the seeds with compost, so it looks like quite buried now. Do watering supply regularly and make sure the seed is got the water too. When the seed has grown his leaf then it was a sign for the seed to be moved out into the pot (need solid media to hold roots and leaf)
5. Transfer planting techniques in pots
For the best result choose the most healthy and perfect seeds. Remove the seeds carefully and don't damage the seeds. Put the seeds into the planting media holes, then make sure the water and fertilizing supply sufficient.
6. Watering techniques
Watering in pots is adjusted to the needs of the plant itself. If the size of the plant is large and its growth fast, it is necessary to do a fairly watering supply. If the plants less water, the plants will not growth perfectly. On the other hand, the water used for watering is clean water. Do not use dirty water or polluted water.
7. Fertilization techniques
Mostly fertilizers in organic vegetables are manure and compost. Meanwhile, fertilizers for non-organic vegetables can be used for, KCL fertilizer (potassium chloride), and NPK fertilizer. Fertilizers can be given within a week with good enough watering supply.
*Other things you must prepare is insecticides, to protect the plant from the insect, but place it safely its dangerous things especially for the kids.
The Benefit Of The Pot:
1. Can get the maximum results The trick is to make a shelf to put the plants on it. The shelf can be by the wood or bamboo material. If you need more solid material you can use an iron or stainless steel frame. But to make it, you need to put your money out, its not cheap material, wood or bamboo much more efficient I guess
2. Develop our sense of creativity by painting the pot or put some sticker on it. So our garden looks more beautiful with the touch of the pot color
3. Didn't take too much space, you can used hanging pot, or the large pot to save the space, so you can put the other things even you are lack of space