Nursery-bought plants

The easiest way to start a garden without all the fuss of seeds, separating, finding the right climate and acclimating the plant is to go to your local hardware store or nursery and purchase the grown plants in pots. They vary in size and heights as well as varieties, all depending on when you pick them out. In the early Spring, usually, the nurseries will have "just sprouted" seedlings to more fully grown ones, that may already be budding or have tiny fruits or vegetables sprouting out.

Begin with your comfort level. If you feel that you may be a little clumsy with such delicate small plants, start with a hardier specimen that's a little larger and looks like it can take a few accidental whacks! Take it home, give it some water, and let it sit outdoors, unless there is a possibility that the weather might just frost over.

You can leave it at that if the pot is big enough, but if that plant looks like it may be growing, or its pot just isn't decorative enough transfer it. Give it plenty of water and talk to it! Wouldn't you like to be soothed if you were just wrenched out of a nice, warm bed, and shoved in some unknown place in something slightly cold and not as comfortable? I would.

Try it, it's easy. Soon you'll have herbs, flowers, fruits and vegetables galore. You'll also find that you're getting to be more comfortable planting and gardening.

Try A Container Garden

There are many advantage to having a container garden. One is that you can have beautiful flowers and delicious plants all year round. You can also have one without having a large garden or even a large space. Container gardens have less chance of having pests ruin your work and can add beauty to a space.

Putting your plants in a container means that you can move it into your home and bring it out for the appropriate season. For example, I have a Meyer lemon tree that I've planted in a large container and in the summer I place it out onto my patio so that it can receive the benefits of the sun and rain with hardly any fussing from me. During the winter, I pull it in, close to a window but I set up a lamp so that it can get the heat and sun that it needs.

Container gardens are a great way for you to keep a garden all year round and who doesn't like fresh plants in the middle of a dreary winter, to cheer up the environment?