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You can choose any pot for your organic plant, any shape, material and size as long as you think the pot is suitable for the plant. Therefore, you do not actually need to buy in stores, but you can use anything such as bamboo, bottle, bucket, plastic bag or even paint container, make sure you clean them first. You can use them for your organic plants, no need to purchase a new one, or source out thrift stores, garage / yard sales for recycled pots!

Bamboo for instance, you can cut it 15 centimeters long with diameters 10 centimeters, cover one side with iron sheet or plastic, then it is ready to use. It looks even more unique and natural. Or perhaps you can create your own design, try to use plank. This one is normally called, container planting.

Pot measurement used for organic plants may vary, this will depend on the plant. Mostly depend on their different types of root, single main root and clump. For instance, cabbage and celery, you can use 15 centimeters depth with 10 centimeters diameters, spinach is more suitable in 10 centimeters depth. Tomato and chili are best in 20 centimeters depth with 25 centimeters diameter.

Many people think that propagate plants can not be used in a pot, like cucumber, this is a false opinion, you still can plant it in a pot. But first you need to make a ‘propagator’ using wider pot than above measurement, at minimum 30 centimeters diameters and 25 centimeters depth, or you can use a bucket. Meanwhile, the ‘propagator’ is quite simple by cutting thin a bamboo into 3 pieces, measure at 0,5 (D) x 3 (W) x 90 (L) centimeters. Do the following steps:-

· Cross the 2 pieces thin bamboo
· Tie together the cross middle base, you can use wire or thin rope
· Then bend it, so it has 4 ‘legs’ and hold it
· Take the other 1 left thin bamboo, circle it around the 4 ‘legs’, tie it together so the ‘4 legs’ stay still
· Put the 4 ‘legs’ into the pot bottom. Your ‘propagator’ is ready for your propagate plants.

More tips and interesting information are inside here http://www.gardening-organic.net

By: Lanny Sanggaya a management team member of website http://www.gardening-organic.net and http://www.all-for-pets.com 

Humans once lived closely with the world around them. These days our gardens are the only contact most of us have with the natural world. You need only look at children's faces when they pick their first apple to realise how deep in the human psyche is the need to grow things.

The salad you ate for lunch yesterday may have used more fossil fuel than you used all week. Your snow peas were probably flown from Zimbabwe; your vacuum-packed greens were probably brought from China, which was where the garlic came from, too. Your salad's "energy miles" also included the fuel needed to grow it. That salad probably used more water than you did, as well. (Only about 3 per cent of water use is domestic). What's the use of turning off lights and cutting back on travel kilometres if your beans came from China?

Aha, I hear you chorus, impossible! I've only got a balcony and 10 spare minutes a week …

Impossible? Of course not. Self-sufficiency on a balcony...

http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/selfsufficiency-on-a-balcony/2007/04/23/1177180569548.htm

Gardening without a garden

http://ecobites.com/diy-recycling-projects/834-diy-gardening-without-a-garden