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Water Your Plants
Even when you are gone!
In the Garden...
Insert a large pot in the ground so the container is just outside the root zone and its top is just above the soil level. Wad up a piece of cloth and stuff it good and tight into the drainage hole in the bottom. Then simply fill the pot, or pots with water and walk away. The cloth acts like a kind of reverse wick, releasing water to your tomato plant or rose bush in a slow, slow dribble.In Hanging Baskets and Container Gardens...
As lovely as hanging baskets and decorative containers can be in the summer, they are notoriously difficult to keep watered. Because of the small, limited soil volume in the container, they dry out rapidly. In warm, windy weather watering must be done twice daily.Roorbach's hanging baskets are all planted with "Rain-Gel", an acrylic co-polymer expandable gel. Starting out in a crystal-like form, the "Rain-Gel" absorbs available water to twice its volume releasing it back into the soil as it drys. "Rain-Gel" is available at Roorbach's Garden Center this year. Try it in your own container planting at home and see the difference in growth that a continuous water supply can make | ||||
Ground Covers
An alternative to bark mulch
While driving through a northern suburb of Chicago recently, I noticed more ground cover than bark or chip mulch. Used around trees, between shrubbery, and along driveways, a ground cover provides the same "edging" effect for easier lawn mowing as bark chips. Think of ground cover as living mulch. Like mulch, they reduce erosion, protect woody plants from lawn mower damage, and cut maintenance drastically, especially on banks and other hard-to-reach areas. The best of them grow quickly and densely enough to inhibit weeds without being invasive.Ground Covers recommended at Roorbach's
PachysandraAjugaIvyBishop's WeedVinca Minor
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