1stop Organic Gardening

Here’s a way to have some salad greens right at your back door. You can even grow them in the cooler months and bring them inside at night if there’s a likely-hood of frost. Use a large container; this one is about 60cm (24inches) diameter. Fill it to about 5cm (2inches) from the top with a good quality potting soil.

Sprinkle with whatever seeds you want to grow in your salad container. This time I’ve used spring onions, several types of lettuce, rocket and radish. Cover with seed raising mix. Make sure your soil is quite moist so you only need to spray with a bottle for the first week to keep moist. This way your seeds will stay where you put them.

If you sow too thickly it doesn’t matter, because you can just gently pick things and use them quite small to thing them out.

This is my container just three weeks after sowing the seed. Of course you could pot your container with seedlings rather than seed. You’ll be harvesting in no time at all. But up until recently it’s been really hot here, so I knew the seeds would germinate and grow quickly. It’s much cheaper if your save your own seed – almost free!

If you’re new to organic gardening, my Organic Food Gardening Beginner’s Manual will get you off to a great start.

It’s great to have organic salad veggies available right at the back door any time of year.

Happy Organic Gardening, Healthy Living…

Julie

Filed under: Uncategorized, vegetables on March 30th, 2008