Building A Container Water Garden

Once you choose a location for your garden, water containers - remember, 6 or more hours of direct sunlight a day, no overhanging trees and a nearby water source supply (and if you are using a circulation pump cascade) - get to the fun part. Most retailers of home and garden have all the necessary materials to create small ponds, including plastic containers - but is only limited by imagination and some basic rules in choosing a container for your water garden . It should be easy to escape. Must be non-porous. It should be deep enough to support the plants you want to grow. I saw that landscaping water use everything from old bathtubs with a variety of clay pots (with plastic liner) for large baskets (also coated in plastic). For a garden water container, not actually plant the plants in the bottom of the 'gap'. Instead, each plant was planted in their own separate dishes and submerged in water. Assemble your equipment you will need your containers, plants, bricks, clay pots, gravel, heavy soil, fertilizer pellets of aquatic plants and a garden hose. Pot plants if not already in the vase, pot your plants. Do not use soil, vermiculite or peat - each of which will be to wash the pots and water shortages. Instead, it takes a lot of heavy clay, clay-like soil. Fill the pot 2 / 3 with soil. Click a bar of fertilizer in the soil, then carefully spread the roots of the plant on the surface of the earth. Add a few inches of soil and tamp lightly, then cover with an inch of gravel. Repeat until all the potted plants. Arrange your plants in a container that is where the bricks are upper potted plants should be no more than a few inches below the surface. Stacks of bricks, terra-cotta pots or of building blocks in the vessel capsized and place pots on them to vary the height of the plants. Add a waterfall or fountain pump if you use one. If you add a fountain or waterfall, put the pump to the manufacturer's instructions. fill with water. Using the garden hose, fill the container with water until the pots of plants are submerged in a few inches of water. If "fill in the background" by dropping the tube at the bottom of the container and let the water level rise, reducing the risk of disturbance of soil and gravel in their plants. Enjoy. Do not forget that the objective of the exercise was to have a beautiful garden to enjoy fresh water. Be sure to put a bench or comfortable sitting rock nearby where you can enjoy the beauty of its own miniature pond every day.