How to Plant in Coconut Fiber Hanging Baskets

Make sure your coconut fiber liners fit your existing wire baskets, or purchase wire baskets in a coordinating size. If using sheeting, cut a circle wide to fit into your wire basket and press into place.

Select and purchase healthy plants at a local nursery, or use your own seedlings. For eye-level baskets, select a mixture of trailing and standing plants. Baskets hung higher than eye level should contain trailing plants and shorter, rounded cultivars.

Use a knife or an awl to punch a few holes at the very base of your basket for easy drainage.

Cut between 12 to 24 slits--depending on the size of your plants and your basket--around the perimeter of your basket with a sharp knife. There should be three rows of slits, 3 to 4 inches apart. The top row should be no less than 3 inches from the top and the bottom row 2 to 4 inches from the bottom.

Fill your basket with potting soil up to the lowest row of slits.

Remove your plants from their original containers by gently tapping on pots or lightly squeezing flexible containers. Unwind and trim strangling roots.

Insert plants into the bottom row of slits that have been cut into the basket, taking care not to break the stems.

Fill your basket with potting soil to the next row of slits, lightly tamping down until all roots are covered.

Insert plants into the middle row of slits, allowing root balls to rest on the layer of potting soil. Add soil up to the next row. Do the same with the top row.

Place remaining plants at the top of the basket, filling in with potting soil. Tamp down lightly so the soil is firm, not compacted.

Hang your basket, and water thoroughly.