Container Gardening Guide
Easy, eye-catching and fun, container plants are a great way to extend your garden and dress up your outdoor area. We've got some great ideas for container planters you can easily make at home. Create drama at your entrance with potted plants flanking your front door, add some aromatic green herbs to the top of your outdoor table and adorn your deck with a grouping of striking shrubs, grasses and colourful flowers.
Tui Mobile Vege Patch
The Tui Mobile Vegetable Patch is self watering and a simple way to grow and support your vegetable plants.
The large growing area allows room for climbing plants as well as lower growing vegetables and herbs. Perfect for patios, court yards or small spaces.
This planter takes approximately 2 x bags of Tui Vegetable Mix 40L to fill.
Utilising your urban garden space
There are so many ways you can utilise the space in your garden to get the most out of it. Ezra (@diyplantman) shares his tips to growing vertically and the square foot garden method, to help you pack even more goodness in!
Tui Urban Oasis Planter
The Tui Urban Oasis Planter is a simple to use self-watering planter designed to grow and nurture your plants.
The large growing area allows room for climbing plants as well as lower growing vegetables, herbs and flowers. Perfect for patios, court yards or small spaces.
This planter takes approximately 1.5 x bags of Tui Vegetable Mix 40L to fill.
Small Spaces Gardening Guide
Whether you have a balcony, patio, courtyard or other small space, you can still inject some green into your life. Vibrant beautiful blooms, seasonal salad greens, flavoursome fruit and garden-fresh herbs are easy to grow in pots and containers. Make the most of your small space and create an oasis full of colour and fresh homegrown delights.
My Pride of Place: Caitlin's Small Space Garden
My garden was started because I wanted to bring greenery and life into an otherwise empty wooden patio. I started with four basic plastic storage boxes placed on top of benches that my super handy partner built for me. Since then, I have added more individual pots to the garden and it’s looking more like the cottage style garden I have always wanted.
Tui Outdoor Container Mix
Thriving container plants and hanging baskets brimming with beautiful flowers and foliage can add the finishing touch you need to perfect your piece of paradise.
Tui Outdoor Container Mix is specially formulated to provide the ideal balance of nutrients and water holding capacity to create the ideal growing conditions for your outdoor plants growing in pots, containers and hanging baskets.
This bag is recyclable through the soft plastics recycling scheme, it just needs to be clean and dry. Learn how to clean and dry your Tui growing media bags here.
Tips for small spaces
Finding the space to plant all the crops that you want can be a challenge, especially if you have an urban property or smaller garden area. We’ve put together top tips from our Facebook friends so you can get the most out of your space.
Renters Garden Guide
You may not own the property you live at, but you can still enjoy the goodness of fresh homegrown food. If you’re renting and the property doesn’t have an established vege garden, there’s plenty of ways to ‘grow your own’, no matter the size of your space. The bonus is you can take your plants with you when you move!