Packing Plant Gift Basket Soil

Video Transcript

"Today we're building a plant basket. We've got our basket. We've lined it with four mill plastic sheeting. We've added our plants after we added a base of soil. And now we're adding more soil so that we can pack our plants in. It's very important to pack these plants in very tight. Plenty of soil all the way up to the neck of the plant and push that soil down and get it packed in there. The plants do really good that way and your water, if you water them without packing them, all the soil will pack anyway and then you'll have to add more soil later. But I prefer to add it right now and get it taken care of so that I don't have to go back and do any maintenance on this basket. Okay so now we have got that all packed nice and tight. And I'm going to trim the plastic sheeting within just leaving a one inch rim around the basket because we'll use that rim of plastic to keep the water from leaking out when we water our plants. We're going to, oops, got a leak, wasn't watching. And that should do it."