Intro to Container Gardens: Home Gardening Tips, Ideas & Advice

Series Summary

Gardening can be a fun and aesthetically pleasing way to help integrate your home with its surrounding environment. Using native and exotic plants, you can create a landscape that compliments your backyard and adds a sense of new life and freshness to your everyday routine. And no matter what climate you may live in, garden greenery is good for the environment, gets you outside and moving about, and teaches you just a little bit about life.

So everyone get out your green thumbs. In this free container gardening video series, get tips, advice, ideas and help for easy planting and garden maintenance. Learn how to put the right plant in the right pot, give it the right soil and watering conditions, put it an appropriate sunlight and watch it flourish. Our expert gardener will give you a course in creating the right container garden for your local environment. Take notes, and then create the garden of your dreams.

Video Transcript

"Hi! My name is Scott Reil and on behalf of Expert Village, I would like to talk to you about container gardening. One of the things that has gotten a lot of interest in gardening circles over the past couple of years is container gardening. There are a lot of good reasons for it. First of all, containers are a type of gardening you can do anywhere. Even if you are in an inner city, an apartment dweller with nothing but a balcony, container gardening offers a way for you to get your hands dirty and into the world of gardening. Also, it offers you a chance to be artistic with more than just the plant. The containers themselves have artful, colorful, mediums that you can play with any number of different ways. So no matter where you live, if it’s out in the country or if it is in the city, container gardening is a great way to spice up your patio, your deck, your apartment balcony, wherever you live. Let’s look at some different ways we can use container gardens around our houses. "