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9 Awesome Healing Medicinal Plants for Your Container Garden
Healing medicinal plants can easily be grown in containers on your porch or patio. You’ll have a healing medicinal garden right at your fingertips! You can cut and dry the plants for future use for making medicinal teas and for culinary uses.
Growing plants in a container prolongs the growing season. Why? Because it allows for portability. A plant can be moved indoors when the temperatures dip below the plant’s cold tolerance. People in wheelchairs or who have mobility issues, can easily access larger containers.
What types of containers?
Containers can be any size such as old bath tubs, sinks and toilets are great containers because. Why? They provide a range of growing areas. Other containers are glazed ceramic containers of various sizes from medium to large.
Clay pots aren’t as good because they wick away moisture quickly. They need to be watered more frequently than pots made from other materials. These pots also crack and break with the expansion and contraction of freezing soil. These need to be emptied and protected from moisture during the winter in temperate climates.
