Tag: container-gardening

All the articles with the tag "container-gardening".

• Container Vegetable Gardening: The Pot Is a Closed System

  8 Jun, 2026

  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.

• Perched Water Table: What It Is, When It Matters, What Actually Drains a Pot

  Updated: 3 Jun, 2026

  Perched water table mechanics, when a drainage layer helps or harms (Rowe 2025), and what actually drains a pot. Substrate-by-substrate.

• Tomato Suckers: When to Pinch and When to Leave Them

  Updated: 11 May, 2026

  An indeterminate tomato wants two leaders: the main stem plus the strongest sucker below the first flower truss. Pull every other sucker all season.

• Compost vs Fertilizer: Feed the Soil, Not the Plant

  29 Apr, 2026

  Compost feeds soil biology, biology feeds plants. Fertilizer feeds plants directly. The numbers, the mechanism, and why old potting mix isn't dead.