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    Potted Plant Culture: Essential Guide for Potting Plants Successfully
    Potted Plant Culture: Essential Guide for Potting Plants Successfully
    Potted Plant Culture: Essential Guide for Potting Plants Successfully
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    Potted Plant Culture: Essential Guide for Potting Plants Successfully

    By Dueep Jyot Singh

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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMendon Cottage Books
    Release dateMar 4, 2015
    ISBN9781310755620
    Potted Plant Culture: Essential Guide for Potting Plants Successfully

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      Potted Plant Culture - Dueep Jyot Singh

      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.

      Pots and containers can be of any size, shape, natural material and dimensions.

      Pots are absolutely necessary for the cultivation of some of the choicer kinds of plants, as well as for seed sowing. Experienced gardeners down the ages set out rules of successful gardening. It was more sensible to sow seeds in pots in sheltered places and wait for them to sprout into seedlings rather than broadcast all the seeds outdoors on well-prepared seed beds.

      For thousands of years, utensils of earthenware, as well as clay pots have been used as containers to contain plants as well as seedlings.

      Once upon a time, it was very easy for you to go to the market, and ask for a number of these containers from the friendly neighborhood potter, who would be kept busy throughout the year, making and firing the pots and containers for you and the rest of the people in the town.

      Avenue trees in formal gardens are still being grown in pots, like they were done millenniums ago.

      However, the quality of these pots would vary a lot, in many parts of the globe, as regards the durability and steadiness of the material from which they were made. Some of these remains have endured for more than 5000 years, turning up in archaeological digs as shards.

      Some hundreds of years old earthernware wine jars have been found under the sea and to have survived shipwrecks with their priceless content of wine and even fish sauce – garum-still present, in them. So one could only praise the experienced potter who made such sturdy and long-lasting pots.

      Choosing the Right Pots

      So just imagine that you have found a place where you can get clay pots and containers for your plants at a reasonable rate. Some are going to break to pieces

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