If there was kind of plastic basket that I would bet on becoming more popular in the years to come, it would definitely be plastic hanging baskets. With the increasing prices of homes around the country many home owners with green fingers have taken to what is known as vertical gardening – a spin off of the term ‘vertical farming’ except they are using hanging flower baskets instead of cutting up sides of a mountain to get some soil ripe for planting.
There are many benefits to using hanging plastic baskets in your home from adding color and vigor to your place to providing a support system for kitchen gardens grown as a novelty. Instead of going into the many benefits and uses of plastic hanging baskets, I will instead focus on how to accomplish what these baskets do best colored with my tips and the pitfalls that you should avoid while doing so.
One of the first things you need to do is decide what size plastic baskets you want, how many of them you plan on using and what variety or species of flowers each one is going to get. Without that information, it is going to be extremely tough to get some semblance of structure and planning to your basket flowering process and failure to plan is the fastest way to ensuring that your flower baskets fail and that is something neither of us wants.
Once it comes to planting your seeds, you need to plant them in a certain fashion as shown in the attached figure. While you can use your configurations these are the one that are the result of many horticultural experiments and have proven to be one of the, if not the best way to plant a hanging flower basket. You will also need to make sure you select plants that have the same growing cycle and velocity. This will make it easy for you to maintain and trim these plants when the flowering season begins. Another notion that must be paid heed to is the size of the plants that you are using to get your basket set up. You don’t want to use plants that are too large in size as this will make it difficult to manage them when they grow larger than the basket itself.
With the plant placement schematic that have been placed above, you need to make sure that you plant the tallest plants in the middle and the smaller, trailing plants at the edges. This will give your plastic hanging basket a nice full look when it is time for the flowering cycle. This system gives a lot of aesthetic appeal to your basket as it ensures that you get a fuller, taller look instead of a flat basket which looks nowhere as great.
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