Hanging Basket Lining

Here is a great guide to help you make the right selection when considering suitable hanging basket lining for your hanging baskets.

Introduction

There are a few possible reasons why you have landed on this page:

• You are wanting to know more about hanging basket lining and what gives the best results

• You are hoping to PURCHASE HANGING BASKET LINING

• You are looking for tips on how to fit a basket with hanging basket lining.

This page can offer help and guidance on all these options, ensuring you understand what it takes to create a great hanging basket.

If you wish to get straight to the point of your personal query, scroll down to the part of the page that you wish to read more about when considering hanging basket lining.

Hanging Basket Lining and what gives the Best Results

Growing hanging baskets and the creation of hanging baskets is a Great British tradition that many keen gardeners do religiously every year. For some, hanging baskets are part of their garden display all year around.

If you are serious about growing plants in containers such as hanging baskets, it’s good to understand what helps the plant sustain healthy growth.

There are many aspects to consider when creating a hanging basket, such as:

• Plant selection
• Local weather conditions
• Basket positioning in the garden (amount of exposure to sun or wind)
• Feed and aftercare

These are just a few things to consider, but this page is to help you understand more about Hanging Basket Lining.

To put it simply there are only a few key features that determine whether a certain material is a good or bad Hanging Basket Lining. Opinions may vary on this, if you consider things such as appearance as being a major concern.

However, with our family being in the business of making thousands of hanging basket over the years, this is what we know makes a hanging basket lining successful.

Key Characteristics of Good Hanging Basket Lining:

• Allows Drainage
• Good Moisture Retention
• Strong and durable
• Thin flexible Material

Additional Considerations for Hanging Basket Lining:

• Ability to Side plant
• Can’t be taken by Birds
• Easy to assemble
• Speed of assembly

…These are pretty much all the things that need to be considered. Read below for more detail on the reasons why these things matter. This will hopefully help provide you with the information you need to make a difference to your hanging baskets in the future.

Hanging Basket Lining Drainage….

It is one of the most fundamental aspects of a successful basket liner. It’s common knowledge to most gardeners (but may be news to others), that water needs to be able to pass through planted containers and shouldn’t be totally stopped from draining.

Water becomes stagnated when it sits in a certain place for too long and this is harmful to the roots of plants and trees.

Hanging Basket Lining needs to offer good drainage to keep your plants in tip top condition.

Fibre type materials, sphagnum moss, coco coir are better than plastic sheet for instance, as they allow drainage in all areas of the basket, not just where you might pierce some holes.

Hanging Basket Lining Moisture Retention…

It may seem a bit confusing, but along with allowing water to drain, it’s important to hold on to moisture so that the compost doesn’t dry out too quickly. Otherwise you will find yourself watering all hours of the day in the hotter months.

Good hanging basket lining has the ability to both drain and retain moisture.

Strong and Durable Hanging Basket Lining…

From the fitting of the lining, to the end of season use, your basket will have a lot to deal with. Being filled with compost and plant. Becoming wet, then dry. Plants becoming bigger and bigger..

The lining of your basket does need to withstand all of this and still be intact at the end of the year. You do not want to use a hanging basket lining that breaks away easily and fails the contents half way through.

Thin Flexible Hanging Basket Lining…

Now some people may disagree that this is a key characteristic to a good hanging basket lining material. However, we find that the more space the plants have in the container, the better.

Some people keep small hanging baskets, but if you are lining these with a thick matted coco coir, you will soon realise that there is very little room for the plants within.

Make the most of every bit of space you have with a thin liner. Don’t overfill with plants and you should have more success.

As previously mentioned, there are a few other things that many of you will feel are important. So please read on to hear about other considerations needed when choosing hanging basket lining and whether or not it will work for you.

These next few items don’t apply to everyone, but each will make a big difference to certain individuals or businesses who can relate to these issues.

Ability to Side Plant

You can make simple hanging baskets or be more adventurous and crave better results. Side planting is often used to produce a fuller display of flowering plants.

This technique can be very tricky with certain hanging basket lining and very easy with other.

Same applies to the results. Some lining allows good results and others are not so forgiving.

The key to good side planting is that you don’t allow the contents to fall out through the gap made, plus that this doesn’t increase the drainage too much.

The hole created for the plant needs to be as small as possible and the lining needs to be strong enough to not breakaway once a hole is there.

Birds Can’t Steal Your Liner!

This may sound odd to many, but for others who have a large population of nesting birds close by, this can be the most important factor in selecting hanging basket lining.

Some liners look perfect for laying down on, so is there any wonder why they take it?

Select a liner that doesn’t break away or you may suffer this problem in the future.

Easy to Assemble Hanging Baskets

Like anything, some people find filling a hanging basket more difficult than others. Experience is usually the way to find out whether a basket lining is easy to install or not. However, if you find a supplier that have online demonstration video’s on how to fit the liner. This may help you gauge whether the liner is for you or not.

Speed of Assembly

This will apply more to commercial businesses, such as nurseries and garden centres. You are making hundreds of baskets a day, each may be bespoke at the customer’s request. Speedy production is key, leaving more time for watering and aftercare.

You may want to offer a simple coir lined container, or you may want to offer a more advanced basket to make a big impression.

Some hanging basket lining material allows quick assembly for the best results.

If you are making a lot of baskets, time trial your assembly on a number of different liners, check the results and make the informed choice.

Purchasing Hanging Basket Lining

There are a number of hanging basket lining materials to choose from, we hope the information above has helped you understand the difference between good and bad liners.

The Amateur’s Answer Hanging Basket Lining System is our own product. And with our family business experience of making many thousands of baskets over the years, we have developed this product to fulfil what we believe are the key criteria of a successful hanging basket liner.

There are of course alternative products out there, such as coco coir and sphagnum moss to name just a couple. However, to achieve successful growth with good drainage and water retention, maximising your planting space with a thin, flexible and strong liner that is easy to fit to any type of basket quickly, the Amateur’s Answer Hanging Basket Lining is the best option all round. Plus, this liner is one of the most competitively priced products on the market.

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Looking for Tips on How to fit Hanging Basket Lining?

As suggested in the text above, creating your own hanging baskets can be made easy. Selecting the right product helps.

Above, highlights many of the key aspects that need considering when choosing hanging basket lining. The best example of Hanging Basket Lining that we know of is the Amateur’s Answer Lining system. So, in this section we will show you how easy it is to fit hanging basket lining.

Lining a Hanging Basket Using the Amateur’s Answer Hanging Basket Lining

Place your basket on a large tub or bucket to be able to spin it around, remove chains, then do the following…

Step 1

Step 2

Half Fill the basket with compost, then add a handful of slow release fertiliser and mix in.

Fill the basket to the top with compost, then pull the liner out evenly to remove material overlaps.

Step 3

Carefully, apply the included elastic band over the top of the basket to secure the liner.

Again, pull out the liner to remove overlaps in the material, whilst keeping the band at the rim of the basket.

Step 4

With sharp scissors, trim the material to within 7cm (2.5”) of the top of the basket. No need for accuracy at this point. The following steps will leave the basket looking neat.

Step 5

With one hand, draw some compost away from the edge of basket, allowing you to fold overhanging material back inside the basket with the other hand.

Spin the basket around on the bucket and continue this process until all excess material is neatly folded in. (as seen in Fig 6)

Step 6

Your basket can now be used to top plant.

If you wish to side plant, like creating a ‘busy lizzy ball’, use some coins as markers, showing where to apply plants.

Step 7

Place six evenly spaced coins around the top of the basket. This keeps a guide for where you will apply plants in the sides of the hanging basket.

Step 8

About 4cm below one of the coins, cut a small slot just large enough to fit a small cell plant through. Create a cavity, by pushing two fingers into the hole, ready for the plant. Try not to make this too big, as that may cause an excessive drainage condition.

Step 9

Push a plant into the hole. Remove the coin and press firmly from above.

Continue at the same height, below the remaining 5 coins and apply additional plants.

Step 10

Between each plant apply a further 6 side plants at a higher level (approx. 2.5cm from the top). This will fill the sides up nicely, with evenly spaced plants.

Step 11

Between each of the higher-level side plants, install a plant in the top of the basket (approx. 25mm from the edge).

Add another four top plants to the space in the centre.

 

Your hanging basket is now complete. You can now fit the chains by popping through the material in the correct locations.

If it is too cold to hang the baskets outside, leave the basket on the bucket in a green house and water daily.

Online Instruction Video

If there is something that didn’t make sense about this video, or you find it difficult to visualise how this works, when looking at these photo… Click Below to see a helpful online tutorial, with all the steps explained fully.

Conclusion

I hope that you have found our guide to choosing the right hanging basket lining useful. Whether you choose the Amateur’s Answer, Coco Coir, Sphagnum Moss or any other lining for your baskets, we hope that this information will serve you well.

For more helpful information regarding hanging baskets, please see some of our other Blogs that you may also find useful….

WHEN TO PLANT A HANGING BASKET?

WHAT ARE THE BEST PLANTS FOR HANGING BASKETS?

HOW TO CARE FOR A HANGING BASKET

HOW TO MAKE A LARGE HANGING BASKET

SIDE PLANTING A HANGING BASKET WITH LARGE CELL PLANTS

CREATE A TROUGH PLANTER