Every time you grow your own plants, every time they sprout from the earth through container gardening, you get a satisfactory feeling. Why? Because you knew their origination! With food poisoning in foods like vegetables, why take the risk? Many people are starting to grow their own produce instead of risking an ER visit.

If you’ve been thinking that container gardening is expensive or difficult to operate, you fallen to the same misconception that many people recently have as well. We’ll walk you through it, step by step, the process of creating your own container garden. For a nice example, we’ll be growing basil.

Step 1: Buy container gardening supplies, which entail (if you know where to shop, it’ll cost you around twenty dollars or even less to buy all the materials, especially if you possess a sunny spot for plants. If you don’t, then you need to utilize artificial light. This will add to about fifteen to twenty dollars to your varying purchases):

- 3 plastic pots w/h holes for draining at the bottom. Preferably, these will have trays below that catch dirt and water damage around five to six inches in length and five to six inches deep

- 1 bag of basil seeds

- A fairly small container of compost (organic)

- 1 very small bag of peat moss

- 1 small gardening spade (also known as a trowel)

- A small, versatile watering can and/or spray bottle

- A sunny windowsill or artificial source of sunlight

Step 2: Prep the soil by mixing a bit of compost with moss (5 parts compost and one part peat moss. For every trowel of moss, essentially place five trowels of compost). Measure three pots until they are around.5 of an inch from the top w/h the mixture.

Step 3: Place the basil seeds in the dirt, making holes 2.54 cm (1 inch) down in the centre of the individual pots using your fingers. Around three seeds should be placed in each hole, and buried with soil. Hydrate in small quantities with water, and place them under sunlight. The seed should sprout soon and once they are around two inches in height, promptly remove any other sprouts. This will permit you to have only one plant per pot.

Step 4: Watering regularly and maintaining them like any other plant will keep them alive. Look through soil for moisture daily. If the soil feels clay-like, water. If you want the basil to continuously grow, clip off the tip of the stock every few weeks and any branches.

There’s nothing more to it! It’s that easy, and that fast to start your own container garden. We only planted basil in this example. But you can branch out on your own: try tomatoes, peppers, thyme, roses, or other, as any will work with a few small changes.

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