Tag: container-gardening
All the articles with the tag "container-gardening".
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Container Vegetable Gardening: The Pot Is a Closed System
Container vegetables fail when you copy garden-bed advice. A pot is a closed root-volume system. Get pot size, mix, water, and feed right.
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Perched Water Table: What It Is, When It Matters, What Actually Drains a Pot
Updated:Perched water table mechanics, when a drainage layer helps or harms (Rowe 2025), and what actually drains a pot. Substrate-by-substrate.
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Tomato Suckers: When to Pinch and When to Leave Them
Updated:An indeterminate tomato wants two leaders: the main stem plus the strongest sucker below the first flower truss. Pull every other sucker all season.
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Compost vs Fertilizer: Feed the Soil, Not the Plant
Compost feeds soil biology, biology feeds plants. Fertilizer feeds plants directly. The numbers, the mechanism, and why old potting mix isn't dead.