Tips for Moving Garden Planters & Containers

Series Summary

Gardeners around the world use containers to enhance the look of their garden space. They can add height and dimension and create more garden space. Window boxes and hanging plant containers are a great way to add ornamental flowers to your home or garden. In some areas of the world, there simply is not enough room or suitable soil to grow a garden. Gardening containers such as clay pots and terra cotta boxes are great for controlled gardening.

In this series of videos, our expert shows examples of the best clay pots, decorative planters, and flower boxes for a container garden. When considering a container for your plants, it is important to get the right size pot or box for the type of plant that you are planting. Container gardening is great for all kinds of plants including herbs, flowers, and even some smaller trees. Learn how to keep fresh dirt in your flower pot and incorporate proper draining techniques for optimum growing conditions. If you prefer to grow your garden plants from seeds, get valuable tips from our expert in these videos. See examples of decorative pot holders and learn more about underground pots and containers. Watch these instructional how-to videos and start a container garden of your own!

Video Transcript

" Hi, my name is Peggy Robertson on behalf of Expert Village.com. Today in this clip I would like to give to you a little tip on how to move a heavy plant without throwing your back out. Now for me I don’t have a garden in the ground as much for vegetables because I mostly have to do my tomato plant in a pot in my patio. They get pretty big and they get pretty heavy. The way I found to be able to move them around to get sun evenly on all sides is to use a little device like this that has wheels on it. You find these at the garden stores. They come in plastic and wood. You put your big plant on them and then you can turn them around so you get full sun on all sides and you don’t hurt your back if you have to move them from one side of the patio to the other. You just push them along. They go great. If it is in your house and you have in front of your window and have to move it to vacuum around, we just push it and it moves. It saves your back because you know how heavy these are when they are full of plant, dirt and water. Now small plants like this one are also heavy especially in clay. With them I get away with using something like a Lazy Susan. I put this on a Lazy Susan (oh, that is heavy) like that and I can just turn it around. any side to the sun. Even sun so I can get an even all day long. Great back saver, I tell you and your plants love it because they get sun all around. "