Forest Garden 1.8m Pressure Treated Wooden Deep Root Planter

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Create fantastic focal points to display your plants with our selection of garden baskets, plant pots, planters, and sleepers. Add character to your garden and enjoy the versatility to move your favourite flowers and shrubs around throughout the year. Available in heavy-duty wire, willow, or rattan, our hanging baskets are a great way to brighten up your space. Take Canadian gardener in 2016 for example. She won an award for her huge record-breaking Echeveria ‘Mauna Loa’ which weighed over 13 kg and was nearly two feet wide. Her secret? A very deep pot, providing her plant plenty of room to grow and the right resources to thrive. Wooden planters are made from treated FSC wood to ensure rot resistance, the choice is enormous with some positioned on the ground, others raised on legs so they are accessible to everybody, then there are plantladders, raised beds and trellis planters, and hundreds more styles, types and designs to choose from.

If using to grow food produce we recommend lining the bed/planter with a membrane before adding the soil. Features and BenefitsIf you’re growing plants that prefer acidic soil, then a high humus content is preferable. You can mix compost into the top layer of soil to help feed your plants and keep them healthy.

According to Dictionary.com, garden planters are "a decorative container, of a variety of sizes and shapes, for growing flowers or ornamental plants." Deep-rooted succulents are essential for resilience. Their extensive roots reach down into the soil. The pot’s depth affects how deeply the roots grow. Cacti, Agave, Senecio, and Aloe Vera require deeper pots for their roots to thrive. But, succulents like Echeveria, Haworthia, Crassula, and Sedum have shallow roots and need smaller pots. Optimizing your pot depth in proportion to your succulent leads to healthier plants with abundant flowers. This prevents unfavorable effects such as stem elongation restriction and root formation limitation. Research from the University of Vermont ag college suggests that pots with a minimum of 4 inches deep let succulents root correctly. Also, shallow-rooting species like Haworthias and Gasterias should be grown in shallow bowls or trays, not in conventional pots. Be careful not to overwater the newly repotted plant. Make sure it gets adequate sunshine, otherwise it won’t be able to photosynthesize properly.

60cm Wooden Garden Planter

Fibreglass is a popular choice for large planters because of its lightweight, durable, and weather-resistant properties. Wood chips are good for annual planters. Wood chips improve drainage but will also start to rot due to the anaerobic environment along with being constantly moist. As the wood rots away, it will compact and eventually stop proper drainage from taking place.