Hello friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside I am jenny and today I am going to get a jump
on my late-spring early-summer hanging baskets so what I'm going to do today is this is a perk of
having a greenhouse I will admit that right what I'm going to do today is I am going to go ahead
and plant my hanging baskets that will go across the front of my house and ones that will go on the
back of our house I have done this for the last couple of years because we do have the greenhouse
space I can go ahead and plant the hanging baskets leave them in the greenhouse until the threat of
frost has passed they start to grow and get really happy and then when the time is appropriate I can
come ahead and take them out and hang them on my porch and i have these gorgeous hanging baskets
now if you don't have a greenhouse obviously I completely understand that
but i did think this might be fun for you to watch because i've never filmed me doing this before but
i thought maybe this would be helpful for you if you're like me and you're starting to plan um your
beds and your containers and your hanging baskets and you want a little bit of inspiration and maybe
you want to learn how to create your own hanging basket so that is what the goal is for today
i have on our front porch i have four hanging baskets and on the back porch i have
two i'm gonna do one recipe for the front and one recipe for the back just because that just kind
of satisfies that i can use different plants and makes me very happy both of these hanging baskets
have come from kinsman garden company if you've been around me for any length of time
you know how much i absolutely love their products one probably the main reason is extremely high
quality products they will last you for years and years and years this is going to
be my third year using the ones on the front porch and these are my original cocoa liners
they have lasted this long they are not worn out they are not thin and they still look good
why spend money on replacing them when i don't have to so one huge reason why we love kinsmen
um what i'm going to do is go ahead and get started on this one this is the one
that will be on the front porch last year i shared with you a little tip trick that i learned from
reading one of the gardening magazines and about putting compost in the bottom of containers i'd
already made up my hanging baskets last year but i'm going to do it this year so i have my compost
i have the good old land and sea that we love and adore
so what i'm going to do is i'm going to show you step by step on for one basket for each the front
and the back and then i'll just put the other ones together so this is a hanging basket that
is i'll give you the exact dimensions on the screen but i'm going to say it's probably 14 to
16 inches in diameter and you can see the depth on it it's pretty you know it's not it's not a
wimpy hanging basket by any means i'm gonna put my landing seat in the bottom about the bottom third
and then i'm going to top it off with the proven winners potting soil
the reason that you're putting compost not compost on the bottom is because once the roots
of the plant hit that layer it's an extra shot of energy form retains moisture the whole nine yards
when you're dealing with your hanging baskets you want to get the biggest hanging basket
that you can find for your space that it allows and you want to fill it completely all the way
up with potting soil do not put anything in the bottom especially with hanging baskets
don't put anything in the bottom that where you're trying to save on potting soil right because that
is going to um kind of bite you in the rear later on in the season because you want as much
soil for your plants as possible holds the moisture it holds the food and so forth now
what we're going to do is we're going to use three different kinds of mini vistas
i have got mini vista indigo i have got mini vista white and what i am doing here we're going
to use a total of six plants in this hanging basket this one's a little long but she's fine
put her in there and then we're going to use mini vista violet star which is down here on the bottom
you can clearly tell that these all i think all three of these maybe all three of these
were started at different times that's why i'm going ahead and doing this now
so that they can catch up with one another when you're using multiple plants
the best way to kind of make sure you have even distribution of the flowers is to plant
the same plant directly across from each other so my mini vista indigo
is directly across from each other my mini vista white is directly across from each other and many
vista violets start okay so they're all in line with each other that way when they start growing
you'll have you won't just have a blob of white here and a blob of dark purple over here
so there we go that's what you do and at this point basically you just plop and plant right um
here we go
if you do not one have access to proven winners near you like you're you don't you don't have
garden centers that don't have it you just can't um you can't find the proven winners that you want
you can always of course order them online proven winners does ship there's other
companies that also ship proven winter plants creekside is not one of them so we do not ship
but i would encourage you to check out proven winners because they have this really neat
product it's called a flower pillow and a flower pillow basically is a pre-made recipe like this
they have it's like close to 30 different recipes i think that they have available on their website
they have all these recipes that are pre-made for you and they come in these little plastic
trays that you pop out of the tray and you just plant it directly in the middle of your hanging
basket or a container or if it allows you can also put it in the landscape years ago when jerry and
i were first getting into proven winters and i saw these flower pillows and i was very intrigued
by the whole thought process of this so i ordered two different ones and oh my goodness that was
the neatest thing it comes to you in this great little container they're all filled out as a total
of i believe five different plants are in this little flower pillow and essentially they are in
a um a little mesh bag that kind of reminds you like a tea bag and so all those roots will just
grow right through it and i literally took the flower pillow took it out of the plastic container
and put it in the middle of my container and within a very short amount of time i had this
massive gorgeous mixed arrangement that lasted me all season long so if you have if you're
interested in that if if it's too daunting for you to try to think about one either coming up with
your own recipe or you can't find proven winners i really would encourage you to go check out those
flower pillows they they're really fun so here we go we got one last one this is the mini vista
white now you know you can prune your petunias so i'm going to come in here because little white
here for some reason she was just a little eager beaver and got a little ahead of the game so i'm
going to just prune her back just a little bit so that she can get a little bit more compact and not
be quite what we call leggy in here that way she's more in line with everybody else and she won't
you know outgrow somebody too fast we want them all to grow together when you're choosing
your containers your your recipes rather you want to find plants that kind of have the same growth
habit you don't want one that's a slow grower and ones that's a really super vigorous one
they don't play well together very well all right now again ta-da it's all done
here at the beginning you're like okay it's not really spectacular but that's the point
right that way it can grow and be very happy and get all friendly and intermingled with each other
here in the greenhouse come our last frost date is april the 15th once that april 15th date comes
then i can take this beautiful hanging basket is all filled in together nice and full when
it is spectacular and immediately hang it on my front porch and it will be gorgeous so i've got
this one done i've got four more to do it's going to be the exact same method
i'm just going to bada boom bada bing and get them knocked out and then we'll
do the ones for the back porch which is going to be a completely different recipe
so
all right so we got the four hanging baskets for the front porch all potted up and they are done um
and so now we're gonna move on to the back porch a little bit of a different container
still really about the same diameter at the top this has a nice flat bottom therefore
i don't need the bucket to hold up my container so i can just put those down
and basically we're going to do well not basically we are going to do the exact same method
fill up the bottom third with compost
and the top two thirds with potting soil
you may have noticed that i did not add any slow release fertilizer to these containers
i'm not going to do that yet because one i'm using the proving winter's potting soil so it
already has the slow release in there then we're also going to be hanging these in the greenhouse
so it will be on their the greenhouse cycle of water and fertilizing
so these are going to have plenty of food via the greenhouse now once they move to the back porch
front porch then i will go ahead and add my slow release in there and begin my
regimen of the proven winter's water-soluble fertilizer because food equals flowers now
in the back this is again is going on the back um porch right there at the patio and if you've been
around for very long you know that that patio i'm trying to stay in those very cool light
colors because we are mostly only out there either very early in the morning or
really night like evening night time i won't even say late afternoon because it is so extremely hot
right there so when we are out there the light conditions are very low so i want bright colored
flowers that will reflect either light from the landscape lighting or the fire pit it just
makes it a cooler environment and the plants actually show up better as opposed if i were
using that indigo it wouldn't show up very good at night so again we're going to repeat
and use the mini vista white petunia in here they're going on opposite sides of each other
i'm going to do a little bit of a different thing here and right in the beginning you may
be going well jenny that just looks odd you have to trust me on this my thriller for this container
is going to be the diamond frost euphorbia i have used this a gazillion times landscape
containers hanging baskets and it will get nice and big and very airy it will
intertwine with the petunias and just give it a little bit of height in here gorgeous presence in
the container what i'm also going to use is right here beside of me and this is the white night
alyssum lobularia all the same thing sweet alyssum and you can tell that it is
they like to get friendly with one another um
trying not to rip oh we just had to do it all right so these are obviously a trailing plant
you say well these are leggy not really they are a major trailer so we're going to put them
on opposite ends from one another so we have this all white container this is what we call
monochromatic mono meaning one chromatic color one color
so all white white and green is going in here that's what we're going to do i'm going to plant
this one and then i've got the other one to do and then i'll meet you back here in just a second
do
so
okay my friends so i have got the back porch hanging baskets all planted up i've got little
pollinators just all over the white night and the diamond frost so much fun obviously i will keep
you up updated on how both of these planters are doing i did go ahead and water these two
baskets in because they are sitting upright so i can get them well watered in the other four
once i get them up into the production greenhouse and get them hung up then i will get the hose and
water them in as well so really the maintenance on this right now is just hang them up in the
greenhouse they'll be hooked up to the irrigation fertigation system so they'll get plenty of food
and water on a regular basis nice warm sun and they should just take off and be quite happy
again we're looking at probably four weeks in the greenhouse until i'm able to move them out
but yeah super simple check out proven winter's website if you're interested in
those flower pillows i will have all of that linked in the video description so you can
check those out if you're interested go go get you some they are a lot of fun i really enjoyed
the two that i had gotten a couple of years ago lots of fun um but again remember check out the
proven winners website if you have a plant that you know you want to use for me it was
the mini vista white like i knew that i wanted to use the white petunia because it's not as
vigorous as say like snow drift i tend to like the petunias a little bit better than caliber coast
don't ask me why i just do maybe it's because the blooms are bigger for a hanging basket
so i just went there checked out their website went to minivista white scroll to the very bottom
where it says recipes clicked on recipes and then they just give you all sorts of fantastic options
um using that particular plant and they do that with all of their plants so you can look at that
but yeah hope you all have a great day hope you've learned something been a little bit inspired
if you can get outside and enjoy the sunshine it is wonderful as always thanks so much for
joining the creekside y'all have a fantastic day and we'll see in the next video bye friends