Building A Container Water Garden
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It must be easy to drain.
It must be non-porous.
It must be deep enough to support the plants you want to grow.
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For a container water garden, you won't actually be planting the plants in the bottom of the 'pond'. Instead, each plant will be planted in its own separate pot and submerged in the water.
Assemble your equipment
You'll need your containers, plants, bricks or terracotta pots, gravel, heavy soil, aquatic plant fertilizer tablets and a garden hose.
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If they're not already in suitable pots, you'll need to pot your plants. Do not use potting soil, vermiculite or peat moss ' all of which will wash out of the pots and foul the water. Instead, you want a very heavy, mud-clay like soil. Fill the pot 2/3 full with soil. Push a fertilizer tablet into the soil, then carefully spread the roots of the plant over the surface of the dirt. Add a few inches of dirt and lightly tamp it down, then cover with an inch or so of pea gravel. Repeat until all of your plants are potted.
Arrange your plants in the container
This is where the bricks come in. The tops of the plant pots should be no more than a few inches below the surface of the water. Stack bricks, upended terracotta pots or construction blocks in the container and place pots on top of them to vary the heights of the plants.
Add pump for fountain or waterfall if using one.
If you're adding a fountain or a waterfall, situate the pump per the manufacturer's directions.
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Fill with water.
Using the garden hose, fill your container with water until the plant pots are submerged under a few inches of water. If you 'fill from the bottom' by dropping the hose into the bottom of the container and letting the water level rise, you'll reduce the chance of disturbing the soil and gravel in your plants.
Enjoy.
Don't forget that the point of the exercise was to have a lovely, cool water garden to enjoy. Make sure that you place a bench or comfortable sitting rock nearby where you can enjoy the beauty of your own miniature pond every day.
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