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The summer heat provides challenges for all types of gardens, but especially container plants. Potted shrubs, flowers, and herbs dry out more often because they're supposed to use potting mix, which is made to increase aeration and drainage, but in turn, that can make the soil dry out faster. | The summer heat provides challenges for all types of gardens, but especially container plants. Potted shrubs, flowers, and herbs dry out more often because they're supposed to use potting mix, which is made to increase aeration and drainage, but in turn, that can make the soil dry out faster. | ||
"Container plants are like houseplants with a view—they rely entirely on us for everything they need to survive," Tabar Gifford, master gardener and partnership cultivator at American Meadows and High Country Gardens, says. "With limited soil volume and exposure on all sides, pots heat up faster, dry out more quickly, and are more vulnerable to temperature swings." | "Container plants are like houseplants with a view—they rely entirely on us for everything they need to survive," Tabar Gifford, master gardener and partnership cultivator at American Meadows and High Country Gardens, says. "With limited soil volume and exposure on all sides, pots heat up faster, dry out more quickly, and are more vulnerable to temperature swings." | ||
=====Kerry Michaels===== | |||
[https://www.thespruce.com/kerry-michaels-847732 by Kerry Michaels the spruce] | |||
Kerry Michaels wrote about container gardening for The Spruce from 2008 to 2016. After a move from Manhattan to rural Maine in 2001, she discovered she wasn't that great at landscape gardening, but could grow almost anything in a container. | |||
She has both written about and photographed gardens for professional publications, including "Growing the Northeast Garden," and "A Gateless Garden: Quotes by Maine Women Writers," both in 2015. She was Garden Editor for the James Beard Award-winning magazine ChopChop. and was head writer and producer of a CD-Rom, Country Living Style. She has written about gardening for Discovery Channel, Small Gardens, A&E, Weekly Reader, Disney, and Sesame Workshop. | |||
