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A hanging basket that grows food or flowers can be expensive if you buy it but you can quickly create a beautiful basket at home at no cost for a natural garden, upon organic lines and recycled materials. Plus, follow this plan and you won't need [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] to water it!
Minimal watering means less labor. And you can be confident that your precious plants won't die in warm weather. Forget about water-absorbent pellets. There's a better way to construct a hanging eco-basket for free and fast.
If you can't obtain a wicker basket, find any recyclable pot that can be camouflaged in decorative cloth. If necessary, hold the compost in place by lining the basket with nylon stockings. They last for ever. You might also use moss from a lawn or big leaves like rhubarb or comfrey. Even discarded coffee sachets.
Build a watering device into your hanging basket
This idea is important! Drop in a pot for water. Find a small sturdy polythene bag, the sort that won't degrade. Pack it with some durable water absorbent thing. Hydroleca or perlite are perfect. True, they're costly but you can clean them after use with hot water and use them again and again.
Here's another idea for an absorbent filler: barbecue charcoal. It reduces acidity in the pot. Later, [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] it [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] can be washed, dried and burnt on your barbie!
Drop that plastic water pot in the hanging basket, but leave plenty of room on every side for compost. Top up the bag with water. Make sure there's a deep layer of compost above it.
Drop in your transplants above the water reservoir so that, over time, their roots [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] will grow into the watering pot. Moisten the compost lavishly.
You can now go on vacation for a fortnight. Your basket will flourish.
Use the bottom and sides of the basket as well
It's very easy to customise your basket - and irrigation device - to grow plants from every surface of the basket too. To do that, we should use a [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] more robust pot than a baggy.
Halve a plastic milk or soft drinks bottle so you have a [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] small pot. Add charcoal again or any inert absorbent thing that's not heavy. You can even use loft insulation 'wool'. Now cut holes around the basket for the plants.
What's the best way to water those transplants? This is a great idea: lead a few capillary ribbons from the water pot [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] and then add your compost.
Two more gardening tips: Don't purchase capillary ribbons or mats! Just take shoe laces or strips of window sash, or slice lengths from a nylon sock or pantihose and twist them. Water will seep along them. Avoid a fibre like wool that quickly degrades.
Twirl those ribbons about the base of [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] the transplants. Top up the inner pot with water and drench the whole basket as well. All plants will then receive enough water across the season. Unless the weather's very hot, the eco-basket will not need watering for a week or more.
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It's possible to raise a vast amount of beautiful blossoms - and salads - in a big hanging eco-basket. A good tip is to get a discarded ten pint plastic tub. Restaurants and builders can offer you plenty of these, free.
Check that they once held food stuffs or contents equally harmless - but watch out for poisons! Punch holes in every side copiously.
Maybe the keg has a handle already but you can readily suspend it with string or rope. Disguise the keg using a length of attractive rug or other decoration.
One more idea to get a no-cost basket is those large polythene nets typically found holding vegetables or fruit. Look for a discarded fisherman's net next time you're at a beach, and it will look highly attractive too.
Needless to say, you don't have to grow flowers alone in an eco-hanging basket. Why not cherry tomatoes? They even grow well upside down!
Upside down tomatoes? It's a [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] very smart strategy because it gives you two places to grow - above and below. Push the tomato seedling into the bottom of the basket [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] and hold it in place securely so it can't drop out under its heavy crop. You can then grow herbs or little vegetables above the basket and all around it.
Design your hanging baskets like this and your watering chores are over. Of course, that's a boon if you've suspended those baskets high overhead. If you spot gardeners purchasing baskets, murmur in their ears 'plastic milk jugs and pantihose'. Sure, they'll decide you're crazy, but who's crazy - really?

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