When people think about either adding to a garden, or for those who do not have a suitable area to plant a garden, many people consider using a container garden where you grow plants in smaller containers commonly made from plastic or fabric. Plastic containers can be used for a container garden, but you need to make sure that the plastic is food-grade, meaning that it is safe to store food in and that chemicals in the plastic will not leach out into your soil and thereby enter your plants. You do not want to grow food thinking that it will be healthy for you and unknowingly have them contaminated with a cancer-causing chemical that leached into the soil from the plastic. All plastic contain
There are a lot of people who swear by drip irrigation for watering their gardens, and there are others who say to never use drip irrigation in your gardens. Let's tackle that question today and see what drip irrigation is, and if drip irrigation is actually the best way to go or not. Drip irrigation is a means of distributing water to crops directly at the base of the plant and is often used in an effort to conserve water by not spraying water on the paths in between rows. This is done by having pipes or plastic tubes to direct the flow of water directly to the base of the plants instead of watering areas where your plants are not growing like pathways and in-between plants. One of the bene
