Container gardening

[Muhammad Arif Khan]

Last spring I visited Irfans home his potted annuals were wonderful. I was so impressed that I decide to go for container gardening in full steem.
I am using 2 parts river sand, 2 parts bhall, 1 part leaf compost and some cow manure and a little NPK 20-20-20.
The result is quite satisfactory, to me.
A 14 inch pot of Marigold


Arif

[rabia]

Beautiful....add some more pictures of other flowers as well...

[whitetiger297]

beautiful

[Izhar]

Sir, you mentioned to use crushed bricks for hippeastrum, can we use it in perennials??.. in my opinion, for annuals there is not much problem in using conventional mixes like 2 part soil (balu mitti here) with 1 part manure, this mix when supplied by a little NPK is good for 4-5 months (a period in which most annuals complete their life cycle here) but for perennials there is a marked decline.. especially for a flowering/fruiting perennial like Gardenia, rose, lemon..

I will be reverting to container/small bed gardening by this year.. need to develop a good mix with proper air porosity, water holding capacity and buffered acidic pH.. and by using the locally available stuff..

[Muhammad Arif Khan]

Izhar you are right.
For perennials I am using crushed brick mix

I add coarse brick crush for bulbs having thick roots



And add leaf compost if desired.
Leaf compost heap


I add chemical fertilisers and not the cow manure.

[Izhar]

Limiting factor for me is that in Karachi we dont have red bricks (i will look for it at the kumhar parra), you get these crushed bricks from kiln?

[Muhammad Arif Khan]

Beautiful....add some more pictures of other flowers as well...

Other colours




Lillium on its last legs



Last of the Iris


So long

[whitetiger297]

Mashallah fantastic
More pics plz