{"id":7884,"date":"2010-06-22T00:57:56","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T07:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7884"},"modified":"2010-06-22T01:00:21","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T08:00:21","slug":"tips-for-looking-after-hanging-baskets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/tips-for-looking-after-hanging-baskets\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for Looking After Hanging Baskets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"golden acre nemesia basket\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4718495810\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4020\/4718495810_62f6a7521a.jpg\" alt=\"golden acre gardens leeds\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These tips may seem commonsense but they are always worth repeating.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tips For Good Hanging Baskets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Water early in the day &#8216;and or&#8217; in the evening. Give plants a good drink regularly.<\/li>\n<li>After 4 weeks in the same compost the nutrients will be reduced and you should add liquid feed. I use half strength fertilizer with every watering.<\/li>\n<li>Many hanging basket plants will self deadhead but if you have zonal geraniums in the basket they will benefit from nipping the deadheads off.<\/li>\n<li>Turn the basket round, if one side near a wall for example, is growing less well.<\/li>\n<li>Look out for aphids on the soft lush growth.<\/li>\n<li>If you get unexpected gaps in leaf or bloom you can still\u00c2\u00a0 put in new plants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Hanging Basket Holidays<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you go on holiday you need to think about care of your baskets whilst away, even just for a weekend.<!--more--><\/li>\n<li>Irrigation systems are available designed specially for hanging baskets with timed water release but they can be\u00c2\u00a0 expensive.\u00c2\u00a0 Buy a\u00c2\u00a0  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=2283&amp;awinaffid=81944&amp;clickref=&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thompson-morgan.com\/plants1\/search.html?section=all&amp;search=&lt;b&gt;irrigation&lt;\/b&gt;\"> Thompson Morgan<\/a> Irrigation system from\u00c2\u00a0 this link.<\/li>\n<li>If you have a friend or family member coming to water the baskets make their life easy to encourage them to return.\n<ul>\n<li>Take the baskets down and group them together on a capillary mat if available.<\/li>\n<li>Keep them out of the full sun if practical.<\/li>\n<li>These actions help conserve water and make life easy for the time scarce watering friend.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Give them a granular feed before you go away.<\/li>\n<li>Do not complain when you return or you can loose a good friend. No one looks after your prize possessions as well as you (think you) would.<\/li>\n<li>Read more on<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/save-water-garden-with-a-friend\/\"> watering<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These tips may seem commonsense but they are always worth repeating. Tips For Good Hanging Baskets. Water early in the day &#8216;and or&#8217; in the evening. Give plants a good drink regularly. After 4 weeks in the same compost the nutrients will be reduced and you should add liquid feed. I use half strength fertilizer with every watering. Many hanging basket plants will self deadhead but if you have zonal geraniums in the basket they will benefit from nipping the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/tips-for-looking-after-hanging-baskets\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden-equipment-tips","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}