My roof top container garden

Welcome back Readers, We have come to the end of February, but the plants that I had planted somewhere around October for my fall garden are still in bloom. This fall garden was a total success for me. Each time I look at the flowers and the plants I feel all my hard work has been paid off. It seemed very difficult for me at the beginning, but now the plants are taking care of themselves. To my surprise this year there was no pest attack on them at all and the saplings that I had planted have developed into very healthy plants. Every year some of the saplings die because of pest attacks or strong sun rays burn their tender leaves, or even if they survive these conditions they do not grow into healthy plants due to the lack of nutrients in the soil and have a stunted growth which results into less flower and attracting more pests  ultimately affecting my other plants. This year I took care of all the minute things from the beginning. The very first thing that I did was e...

It is really a very hectic job to prepare our garden for the fall. A lot of work completed in my garden recently. Preparing the containers, adding compost, visiting the nursery to grab some seedlings, planting them into the containers, adding some mulch to it, and then watching them grow up and finally bloom. I have already prepared my planters. Dug out the soil and added some fresh soil mixed with dried cow dung in 1 : 1 ratio (I rather make layers of soil and compost). I prefer to leave some space in my containers so that I can add some more soil and compost later when the plant starts bearing some buds. Last weekend I visited the plant nursery and bought some seedlings. Asters, geranium, cosmos, snapdragon, verbena, celosia, petunias, vinca, pansy, dianthus, carnations, salvia, gazania, calandula to name a few. Planted all these seedlings into the containers and finally added some mulch ( dried straw and leaves). Now I am just eager to watch them grow and bloom. Below are some ...