Basket for planting flower bulbs: significant disadvantages, not always noticeable at first glance,
Appeared on the market so much know-how for gardeners that we can only have time to look at and study the new items! Today we talk about plastic basket for planting flower bulbs in the flower bed:
This device is made of plastic with large holes. A wonderful idea: put the onion in a container, dug up, removed.
Flowers grow dense pile that looks good. When cleaning, do not have to scour the earth: here they are, all the bulbs in one place. If you wish, after flowering basket of spring plants it can be transplanted into a nook, and the place of the same tulip - same age, to a flower bed is not idle.
But not everything is so clean with these baskets.
Let's start with the subjective: a matter of taste and quantity
Part of gardeners who have tried planting in containers, remains dissatisfied with the outward appearance of the plant. If the fans are happy baskets strict geometric form, the lovers of naturalness emphasize: "Not that!".
Society tulips or daffodils, outlined a strict boundary, devoid of natural naturalness. For example, found the photo on the Internet:
Well, when you put a dozen or tulip bulbs. And if a lot of them? How many baskets have to buy and to dig?
cash costs, time and effort
Containers for bulbs made out of cheap plastic, are not so expensive. But then again. Gardener, has an enviable collection of plants, to such devices and may be ruined.
Whatever advertising promises, and put (or rather - dropwise) bulbs in containers harder and longer than the old-fashioned way. You must first dig, and then - to load the soil back. If you buy a special land - again, money spending.
When the time will pass flowers to get the container from the beds have to make some effort. Men's health is not difficult, but the pensioner with aching joints procedure is unlikely to bring pleasure: damp earth, roots wrapped tightly stuffed into a container. We'll have to swarm, taking little by little.
And they think the mouse?
One of the points of advertising campaigns, This invention provides: the mouse will not gnaw bulbs! Perhaps a couple of lazy individuals holey plastic and scare. But gardeners are familiar with the invasion of rodents on the beds is not by hearsay, you should not lie. This design does not provide reliable protection:
Let's calculate how much gnashing of sharp teeth need to eat a ridiculous obstacle to the coveted food?
Replacement and substitution again
It is said that the plastic does not decompose for decades. Of course, the container for favorite daffodils evaporates during the year. But it will become brittle, broken and unusable again. Wrong move shovel - and fragile plastic article goes in the trash. And yes, it is also environmentally unfriendly.
Buy quality thing in our time, at a low price - a great success. Products made of good quality plastic can last for years, but they are hard to find. Where more common consumer goods, attracting a ridiculous price.
Anguish - not always a friend
We have already talked a lot about people. About tastes, "appetite" in a number of colors, money and human resources... What lives in baskets onion itself?
By responses, very hard to calculate the normal number of bulbs for planting in one container. Besides onions tend to move in the soil (e.g., due to the water jet from the irrigation and other reasons, known only by the colors). As a result, the surface grows into the wall, because of what deteriorates. Especially hard for the plants, giving the kids a lot.
Health favorite colors can also be not all right ...
The soil in the container at least in part, but it is limited. It should be got rot or virus - with high probability, will have to save all the little family already. For the same reason the bulbs intended for planting in the basket, it is necessary to carefully select and process fungicides for prevention.
I think that the growers concerned should make a "trial Prikope" one of the container and to draw conclusions for himself. After all, the best advisor - personal experience! The article was interesting? Please put "Thumbs up" and subscribe to the channel. Thanks! Also I recommend that you read: How to revive the ground after potato. Fertile again, again a great harvest!