You Should Love Gardening With Grow Boxes
When I moved into my second-floor apartment downtown, it was the first time in my life that I didn’t have a yard. I have no grass to call mine. I don’t have the dirt to plant flowers and vegetables and play.
1. The perfect garden for renters
As you can see from my long list, Grow Packs allowed me to enjoy a garden without a garden on my roof and balcony. Fellow apartment dwellers, Grow bags make it easy to grow vegetables, herbs, and flowers while you rent. If you move, you can carry one bag at a time with your garden, even in the middle of the growing season.
2. Grow Bags Portable
And speaking of portability, because of their sturdy handles, Crow bags are easy to lift and move. The bottoms of the fabric slip easily on surfaces that are smooth and flat. Even large bags like my 20-gallon growing bags can be easily moved.
This is incredibly important if you grow near tall trees or buildings in a small area. As the season progresses, I can move my bags every day to improve the amount of sunlight. At the end of the growing season, my mayor can bring the lemon tree inside very easily.
3. Air Pruning
What is Air Pruning?
This is a great reason to grow in Crow bags. Here's what happens when you grow plants in a plastic or terra cotta pot. The roots grow until they hit the sides, but once they stop growing. They keep rolling around inside the pot.
Very soon, you have a rooted plant.
If you grow anything in containers that will last more than a season, for example, lemon trees or blueberry bushes, this is a big problem. You need to constantly increase the size, trim the roots and replant your plant.
Not so in Crow bags. Because the fabric is so porous when the roots reach the edge of the pot they feel the wind. Due to this, the root sends a signal to the plant, causing the tip of the root to drop slightly and push more roots out of the middle.
This natural process indicates that you have an absurdly strong and healthy root system, which will lead to healthier and more drought-tolerant plants.
Even if you only grow stuff in a growing bag for one season, take tomatoes as an example; Pruning the roots in the air will give you a healthy plant. Now add mycorrhiza to that mixture and you can get an even better yield.
4. Use growth bags to attract pollinators or to supplement planting
As you grow in containers, things like sub-planting can be tricky. But, Grow Packs are easy to use. You can attract more pollinators to your container garden.
Take marigolds for example; Numerous plants function well with these cheerful orange blossoms growing nearby. Take two packs of 1-gallon to grow bags and plant some marigolds in each. Now place them next to your tomatoes, eggplant, basil, and cabbage.
You can plant other small flowers and nest bags growing around your container garden to attract nearby pollinators.
5. Grow bags are better than window boxes
When I started looking out the window boxes of my balcony, I was shocked to see how expensive even the simplest options were. Once I added the hardware needed to hang them securely from my rails, I was easily looking for two hundred dollars!
I sat on my balcony and grew some herbs in 2-gallon grow bags so I got the idea that I could hang them on my balcony posts.
6. Grow Bags are an inexpensive and instantly raised bed option
If you want to grow vegetables in raised beds, making them can be a big change to start with. Do not misunderstand me; They are best if you have the money and time to invest. But sometimes, raised beds may not be the right option.
Grow bags offer affordable and almost instantly raised bed options. Stack your bags and fill them with your favorite soil mixture. For an instant and portable bed, you may want to carry 30-gallon size bags from end to end.
The best feature of these raised beds is that you can tear or move them at any time Lam. Need to cut where your garden is? Easily, slide it out of the way.
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