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Flip the script on your hanging basket and create a patio planter in minutes
Within minutes, you can transform your hanging basket into a patio planter
Question: If I miss the spring planting season for my patio planters, is there a fast-growing solution for beautifying my patio for summer dinner parties?
Answer: So your spring was busy and, before you know it, it’s June and guests are coming over on the weekend. You want your patio looking bright and beautiful; your planters, however, are barren, and quickly planting up some small annuals for colour is just not going to cut it. What now?
Head down to your local garden centre and pick yourself up three things: a lovely hanging basket, a large bag of planter-box soil, and a box of granular 6-8-6 fertilizer.
Garden centres always have a great selection of lush and colourful hanging baskets in June, or anytime spring through mid summer, for that matter.
What we’re going to do is take that hanging basket and “drop” it into your container on your patio.
Wim preps the container before placing the hanging basket plant inside
You’ve now created a masterpiece. Your guests will think that you’re a brilliant gardener, and you and I will be the only two who have to know about this little trick.
Which fruits and vegetables grow best in patio pots? When is the best time to cut back rhodos?
These are just some of the 100+ burning questions that garden expert Wim Vander Zalm answers in his frank, friendly and often funny bestselling new book Just Ask Wim! Down-to-Earth Gardening Answers.