Pot Preparation for plants

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The basic of terrace gardening is to prepare a pot for the plant.

• Choose pots that are large enough for your plant, have drainage holes.If pot is porous its better.

• Cover the hole with stones.

• Then fill half pot with potting soil.

• Take the plant which you want to plant with roots covered  with soil.

• Cover the rest pot with potting soil leaving some space for watering.

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A fairly lightweight potting mix is needed for container gardening.Soil straight from the garden usually cannot be used in a container because it may be tooheavy, unless your garden has sandy loam or sandy soil.Clay soil consists of extremely small (microscopic) particles.It holds too much moisture when wet, resulting in too little air for the roots.Container medium must be porous in order to support plants, because roots require both air and water. Packaged potting soil available at local garden centers is relatively lightweight and may make a good container medium. Soil less mixes such as peat-lite mix are generally too light for container vegetable gardening, not offering enough support to plant roots. If the container is also lightweight, a strong wind can blow plants over, resulting in major damage. For a large container garden, the expense of prepackaged or soil less mixes may be quite high. Try mixing your own with one part peat moss/compost, one part garden soil and one part clean, coarse (builder's) sand, and a slow-release fertilizer (14-14-14(n-p-k)) according to container size.

Potting soil can be made at home

Mix the following material

* peat moss/compost-Gardeners use peat moss mainly as a soil amendment or ingredient in potting soil. It has an acid pH, so it’s ideal for acid loving plants, such as blueberries and 

camellias. For plants that like a more alkaline soil, compost may be a better choice. Composting is a simple way to add nutrient-rich humus which fuels plant growth and restores vitality to depleted soil. It's also free, easy to make and good for the environment.

* perlite- perlite provides optimum moisture retention for successful plant growth.When  perlite is added to heavy clay soils, water ponding and surface crusting may be eliminated. In addition, plant roots may more easily penetrate the perlite/soil growing media and develop more fully.

* Sand -Sand which builders uses in construction.

* garden soil - Normal soil which is clay soil.

Fertilizer you can put later on also not necessary to put while making potting soil.You can avoid perlite while making pot soil.

For sowing Seeds fill the pot full with pot soit and remove little of top soil and sprinkle seeds with distance and put the soil which you removed and water it softly and slowly.