Cooking & Baking

2naSalit

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Tue Jul 4, 2023, 01:44 PM

Jul 2023

A grape crate (~28"x12"x8&quot that I lined with several layers of newspaper, all the way up the sides covering the openings between slats, filled it with soil and planter spinach, two kinds of lettuce and some radishes. The radishes are iffy but the leafy stuff is doing great. For individual herbs, I just use an 8" pot and plant a few seeds for things like basil and parsley.

The crate may come in for the winter, I'll put it on an old end table with a water catch tray below it and keep growing the fast greens like lettuce and spinach.

That's my greens box experiment this year.

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What's a good, low-maintenance option for a small herb garden/grow box? [View all] eppur_se_muova Jul 2023 OP

I would just use regular cheap plastic pots or buckets. Kali Jul 2023 #1

I live in zone 8 and grow most of mine in my flower beds Major Nikon Jul 2023 #2

"terrace style vertical planter rack" and Google worked wonders! eppur_se_muova Jul 2023 #3

I have... 2naSalit Jul 2023 #4

FWIW, my tips: Don't put (pepper)mints in the ground - invasive spreader! Backseat Driver Jul 2023 #5

Heed the advice of Backstreet Driver Retrograde Jul 2023 #8

put on your calendar NJCher Jul 2023 #6

Here's what I have in pots on my upper deck Jilly_in_VA Jul 2023 #7

I've lately had luck with small plantings of cilantro Retrograde Jul 2023 #9

Basil is an annual Retrograde Jul 2023 #10

We have herbs Danascot Jul 2023 #11