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Planting a hanging basket
HERE ARE A FEW TIPS TO
GUIDE YOU THROUGH MAKING UP A HANGING BASKET
- Select the size of wire basket you want to use, the larger the basket the more plants you will be able to put in and the more colourful it will be.
- Choose a suitable liner, either a commercially available liner or moss. Line the basket with your chosen liner at this point it should be about 1" above the top of your basket. If using moss cut out a circular shape disc from a compost bag and place in the bottom, this will help with water retention (depending on basket size this disc should be big enough to come up the sides slightly).
- Fill with compost to about the half way mark and add water retention granules and slow release fertiliser, mix into compost and water well.
- Now you can add the side plants ie lobelia, impatiens etc, make a small hole in the liner or moss and insert plant root first through the hole you have made, remember that the roots must be sitting in the compost. A lot of side plants fail due to not being inserted fully through the liner and into the compost.
- Add more compost to about 1" from the top, but making sure compost is upto the edge of the basket at the sides only. You can now start adding your main plants, begin at the centre working your way out to rim and firming plants in. Ensure compost slopes into the centre of the basket this aides watering, but do not overfill your basket with compost, water in the plants.
- Now infil in spaces left with chosen plants ie, border lobelia, nemesia, impatiens or petunias etc.
- Once your basket has settled the liner or moss will have shrunck to fit your basket, any excess on a liner can be trimmed, any excess moss can be teased down the sides.
- Hang in a greenhouse or conservatory to grow and fill out. Harden the basket off before placing outside on a suitable bracket after the last frosts.
Guide to plant requirements on a 14" basket
Plugs of nemesia or border lobelia for height. Side plants trailing lobelia or impatiens. |
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