Learn how to set up a thriving container garden the right way! 🌱 In this video, we cover why potting soil (not topsoil, dirt, clay, or manure) is essential for healthy plants. I share tips from years in garden retail on choosing quality soil, avoiding common mistakes, and picking the right plants. 🌸🌿 Plus, I walk you through planting a beautiful summer container with favorites like Silver Falls, lantana, sunpatiens, Misty salvia, and coleus. Don’t forget—fertilizer and a good first watering are key to success! Watch till the end for all the expert tips to keep your plants thriving all season.
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here we have a healthy awesome container garden set up for success done the right way with the right potting soil No top soil no clay none of that nonsense Don’t put manure in the pot Put that in the ground and you watered it in well you picked the right plants you picked quality plants and this thing is going to look awesome all season long This may sound like a boring subject but if you’re paying good money for plants listen up because it’s important Hey everyone I’ve been in garden retail my whole adult life ever since I was a teenager And there’s one thing I see every year that bothers me that I wanted to take a minute to share to make sure people don’t continue doing this There is a soil out there called potting soil And you want to use potting soil not top soil not dirt from your yard And here’s why Potting soil has a great consistency for root growth And while plants grow great in the ground earthn soil is not great in a pot It’s compacted and it drains very slowly especially clay So when I see people use top soils or clay the plants that they grow in there almost always look hungry or don’t drain well and they end up drowning during heavy rain events That’s why potting soil is the stuff to use We have our own potting soil here at Groovy Plants Ranch Let’s take a look at what good potting soil looks like There’s a lot of options out there for potting soil And if you skip the soil part you’re really just wasting your money because your plants aren’t going to perform as well as they could So what does a good potting soil look like It should be loose and fluffy This white stuff in it is not styrofoam It’s called perlite We don’t like the products that often come in green or yellow bags that have slowrelease fertilizer in them We prefer to use one that does not is a lot of those box store soils sit on the shelves for a long time And the way slowrelease fertilizer works is it slowly releases over time and if those bags at that warehouse are ever exposed to the elements that that fertilizer can begin releasing So you don’t actually know how much fertilizer is in that soil there may be too much or there may not be any at all To some of you you may have done this a million times A lot of people are just getting into gardening So I just wanted to share So I filled up my container about the depth of one of my hefty bigger vigor pots here So I’m going to make a quick container with some of my favorite annuals here First up is my spiller This is silver falls and my butterfly attractor Here I have orange flame shamrock lantana I like to say every plant has a face And in this case this plant has a really good forward-facing look here So I’m pointing that forward as this is the vantage point for that container garden And here I have a sun patient This is compact lavender And then I’m going to do my favorite misty salvia and premium colas are my jam Electric lime charged up This is a full sun colas Very late to flower Look at those roots And there you have it So you would just take a little bit fill in the gaps around the sides There you go There’s your recipe for an awesome summer container garden Now what do you do once you’ve potted them up Make sure you use fertilizer when you water your plants It’s probably the second thing I see This might actually be the number one thing I see people not do that they should do after they spend their hard-earned money on plants So you mix that with your watering can Put your fertilizer in first your water after and then you do a nice watering in of that container garden That first watering is the most important to make sure all those dry areas and air gaps get filled with potting soil because little baby roots don’t like exposure to air Go figure And water until it starts dripping through So there you have it