How To Plant Hanging Baskets

Select Strong Plants That Are Appropriate For Growing In A Basket.

The key with fertilizing hanging baskets is slow and steady. How to plant up a hanging basket. It doesn’t have to be orchid bark.

We Use Worm Castings To Fertilize All Of Our Hanging Baskets And Containers.

Lay a circle of polythene at the base to help retain water. Before retraining at the english gardening school, adam was an art director. Cut holes in the liner about 5cm (2in) above the base for trailing plants.

Take The Bolder Taller Flower Or Plant That You Are Going To Place In The Middle Of The Basket And Remove Some Of The Dirt That Surrounded It In Its Original Pot And Plant It Into The Middle Of The Hanging Basket.

You can use other material too—just don’t use dirt, soil, or houseplant potting medium. Unless you plan to include lots of voluminous trailing plants in your hanging basket, you may want to cut a few holes evenly around the sides of your liner, to allow some of the plants to grow outwards. Hanging flower baskets require a lot more water than even other container plants, especially the ones with fiber liners.

Wrap Paper Round The Root Balls Of The Trailing Plants And Push Them Through The Holes.

During summer, position your baskets where they get morning sun, but are shaded from the heat of the afternoon sun. Arrange large plants first and tuck in smaller plants around these, including trailing plants at the edge. Go for foliage plants, or mists of dainty blooms.

For Hanging Baskets, Plants Need To Be Full And Thick By Early Spring.

3) fill in orchid bark around the pots to secure them. When you plant your strawberries in hanging baskets and give them adequate
water and fertilizer, they will put on dense foliage but there won’t be any pockets of still air in which fungus can grow. It is important to fertilize in small regular doses to keep plants strong, without getting too big, too fast.