Container gardening tips
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Container plants dry out easily. Make sure to check them and water daily if necessary. The smaller the container, the more frequent the watering. If you are going away, have a neighbor check them. |
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Containers need to have proper drainage. The container you use needs to have holes in the bottom for drainage. Plants roots will rot in overly wet or water-logged soil. Usually, three or four holes will do. |
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Add fertilizer regularly. Frequent watering will wash out important nutrients. Try slow release fertilizers. |
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Rotate your containers in a circular motion every couple of days to provide even sunlight to all the plants in the container. |
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Aerasponics Technical Gardening Information
Plant containers, predominantly of the same functional and simple “crock” design (quadric cylinder), have been used for plant cultivation for over 4,000 years. Because the “crock” design is easy to fabricate, this straightforward model has gone unchanged for centuries. Unfortunately, the idea of confining a static volume of soil sets up a poor condition for aeration, especially in the interior core of the container. Amongst other vessel limitations, aeration is reduced as a direct effect of soil depth predicting that conditions decline as the container size is increased. Additionally, the cultivated
FORTUNATELY the solution is simple. Soil in nature is a natural medium for the growth of plants. It is an open, dynamic system made up of solids, liquids and gases interacting with living organisms (plants, microbes, animals), climate, and topology. Therefore our goal is to replicate nature and so our simple solution is to add an aeration chamber in the hypoxic soil zone. The results, a cross between hydroponics and a new hybrid process we call aerasponics (pronounced er-a-pawn-iks), have been outstanding.
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LIVE TESTS are proving outstanding growth rates and overall plant health. Preliminary marketing surveys establish the technology is easy to understand and proves strong consumer preference over older technology. |
AERASPONICS
New greenthumb Aerator™
Chamber
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