Tag: container-gardening

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

• Bottom Watering Plants: When It Helps, When It Hurts

  22 Jun, 2026

  How to bottom water plants, how long to soak, and when it backfires. Houseplants and container veg, the salt-flush rule, and which mixes wick.

• 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: 21 Jul, 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.