unusual container... lobeila grow

[Riz]

salaam...

I was walking past a house on my street and i saw this in the front garden, i asked the lady if can have it and she said of course...... :)

its an old green chest ( metal) i am going to use this as a container and maybe put some bedding plants inside it, but first i have to drill some holes inside the chest for the excess water...so it drains out

[Riz]

i drilled around 8 holes inside the chest....

[Riz]

can you see the holes...

ill be getting some multi compost soil, maybe tomorrow and ill have a look at the range of bedding plants they have to offer at B&Q and i will give you an update as soon as i plant them.....

[Sakeena]

how do you assess how many drainage holes you need because to me it looks like you need more holes in that trunk/chest.

if you look below, with this bucket i drilled quite a few - 8 big ones and 8 slightly smaller ones (who said holes can't be pretty)

[Riz]

That is very pretty sakeena, what are you going to plant in it ?

[Sakeena]

^^ that is where the raspberry cutting is buried

the plastic containers that grapes, tomato etc come in are quite handy as seed trays or even as a plant container and they already have holes.

you can plant in almost anything from an empty baked bean can to a pair of old wellington boots, all you needs is sun, seeds, soil and water

[Riz]

you can plant in almost anything from an empty baked bean can to a pair of old wellington boots, all you needs is sun, seeds, soil and water

yeah you can, i have even seen an "old bath" a friend of mine uses to grow vegatables inside it.. i think its a cool idea using containers around the house.... :cool:

[Riz]

I had so many things to do this week, I need to get some soil for the container,, and some slug and snail pellets..

[Riz]

an update on the chest..

well i finally managed to get some soil from B&Q.. i had some iris,tulips in containers ( really root bound) and i planted lots of them into the chest and gave them a really good watering, not much to look at as yet, but inshallah when the iris bloom they will look magnificent

ps.. i was thinking of getting some "plug-ins" ( trailing lobelia) like some jewelry overflowing the treasure chest... ;)

[Riz]

you can plant in almost anything from an empty baked bean can to a pair of old wellington boots, all you needs is sun, seeds, soil and water

absolutely.

[Riz]

Another update on the chest.. i got hold of some trailing lobelia and planted the little "PLUG INS" they have doubled in size in the last few days...

[Riz]

the trailing lobeila is doing really well in the treausre chest....

[Riz]

its looking like a treasure chest now..

[Riz]

blooming garden

[Riz]

its been raining hard since yeterday and the treasure chest is blooming..

[Riz]

same pic as above but a few weeks later on with the great weather the little lobeila is blooming....

[Riz]

i dug out some lupin bulbs and placed them in the treasure chest along with some iris from last season..

I bought some lobelia seeds, 2 packs

colour cascade mix
sapphire trailing

the seeds are so tiny, i scattered lots in the treasure chest and gave it a decent watering.. i hope they germinate, i sowed some in a germination tray as well and left it in a warm room :)

[Riz]

no sign of the lobeila seedlings yet.. but the lupins are getting bigger...

[Riz]

the seeds i germinated indoors in a seed tray, are doing well :)

[Pashmeena]

awwwn! the treasure chest idea is very nice! Do these flowers smell good? :D

[Riz]

no they don't smell of anything.. but they look amazing, just like droplets of colours trailing down, ( usually grown in hanging baskets...

[Riz]

i was walking down the street and i saw this outside someone's house along with household rubbish ( so i just took it) i checked to see if there was a cobra coiled inside luckily for me it must have died a while ago :)


looks like a small laundry basket, it a cloth lining inside it so i cut that out and the plan is to grow some trailing heavily perfumed dwarf sweet pea and lots of other perennials i bought from the net last week..

I had an old clay pot that was broken so i smashed it up in small pieces to put in the bottom of the basket

[Riz]

Now its filled with compost and i sowed some sweet pea seeds straight inside and will probably add some more seeds later on :)

[Riz]

i have sowed lots of dwarf sweet pea and lots of other things...... and the treasure chest is blooming too :)

[ze leetle elper]

Really good ideas Riz, how cool do those containers look now mashaAllah!

[Nife180]

Looks like the Lupins have taken over, I like your creativity with your containers. I may start a garden in a small plastic kids pool! :)

[Riz]

the lobeila seedlings have been repotted from the seed tray into clay pots, and i am glad to say they are growing really well, they must be the smallest seeds i have ever germinated .

i also added some more tiny flower seedlings into the basket :)

[farah]

those lobeilas look great, the close up called dsc000106 is very nice, brilliant idea mash'Allah to brighten up the garden how long did it take for them to germinate?

[Riz]

the lobeila only took a week to germinate :)

[Riz]

nice couple of warm days and the lobeila is thriving after being re-potted...

and the lupins and the iris are doing rather well in the treasure chest :)

[~Obsidian~]

Update?

[Riz]

its all green at the moment, but really healthy and growing rapidly :)

the lupins in the treasure chest are looking great too, even though that area of the garden gets the least amount of sunshine per day....

and of course the lobeila in pots are growing too, at first i thought maybe i put too many seedlings in each pot, but i like the affect of lots of flowers growing in small pots,, seems like they will be bursting out :)

[Riz]

pics of the lobeila and sweet pea in pots, really blooming :)

:GreenThumbs:

[Riz]

the treasure chest :)

[Riz]

nice and healthy..

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/IMGP1409.jpg

[Riz]

ornamental grass flowering, it feels really soft.. the cone will get bigger too

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/IMGP1546.jpg

[Riz]

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/IMGP1544.jpg

[farah]

mash'Allah the grass is such a good idea

[Riz]

^ the grass is ornamental farah and the flowers are really cute, when they get bigger ill take some snaps..

[Riz]

the trailing lobeila is really vibrant and healthy.. its really starting to trail down now, and the dwarf sweet pea is looking very healthy too, and i have used zero nutrients or fertilizers.... no flowers at the moment though.........

the basket is also looking vibrant and the sweet pea , the ornamental grass has started to flower and trial down from the sides of the basket :)

:cheerleader::cheerleader::cheerleader:

[Riz]

:butterfly3:dwarf sweet pea :butterfly3:

[Riz]

ornamental grass in basket

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/ornamenta.jpg

[Riz]

plenty of flowers shooting all over the place

[Riz]

looks really cool in real life :) the dwarf sweet pea are slowly opening up inside the basket.

[Riz]

the ornamental grass came out better than i would have thought, just waiting for the dwarf sweet pea to bloom and then there will be a great contrast in the basket, they are nice trailing down the sides of the basket.




http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/ornamnetalgrass.jpg

[Riz]

some of the dwarf sweet pea are flowering ( not all) and they smell really awesome too :)

[Riz]

some pics taken today

[~Obsidian~]

Pretty! Do they attract loads of butterflies then?

[Riz]

^ lots of bees i noticed :) not than many butterflies

the basket is really brimming now, it looks even better in real life :)

[Riz]

a group pic of the basket, lobeila and sweet pea...

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/basxx.jpg

[Riz]

lobeila in pots

[Riz]

some colour in the garden.....

[Riz]

sorry about the quality of the pics :)