TOOLS FOR CONTAINER GARDENING
The idea of container gardening is that we can grow plants using containers and not necessarily have to plant them directly into the soil. They still grow immensely, as if they were developed into the ground. The containers find various expressions of usage by different gardeners, horticulturists, and planters in general. The containers can be referred to as either plant pots, plant containers, or nursery containers. Below is a list of tools that are very useful in container gardening.
- Hand Trowel: It looks like a miniature version of a garden spade. And this is the most helpful tool of all. They are used for digging soil, mixing fertilizer with the soil, moving seeds, mixing compost or mulch, and leveling out the soil for balance. It can even be used for dividing tubers.
- Gardening Gloves: Gardening gloves are supposed to serve as protector for our hands just like a medical doctor wears gloves while dealing with anything in the hospital. It is the same for doctors of plants when dealing with their garden.
- Containers: Containers are primarily the major material in container gardening, as that will hold the soil and the plant together. Choosing the right nursery containers has a lot to do with our crop doing well. HC companies is the home for various containers you will ever need in their various shapes and size.
- Watering can: Sufficient supply of water is needed every time for proper container growth, and that is the purpose of watering can. Once the plants are in their nursery containers, watering can is used to supply water to various plants in the containers.
- Bypass Pruner: It is also known as Garden Shears or Pruner. It is used to cut woody stems and small branches and to harvest eggplants, bell peppers, and tomatoes from the plants.
- Hand Cultivator: It usually has about three or more prongs at one end, and on the other is a hand grip. It is used for tilling nursery containers and raking soil; it can also be used for taking out weeds.
- Soil Scoop: This particular tool is similar to pet food scoop and another vital tool in container gardening. It is used for shoveling compost, fertilizer, and soil from the bag into the container.