How To Create a Spring Salad Box Container

Celebrate Spring with a Salad Box Container

How To Create a Salad Box Planter

By Alex Mitchell in the Beginner’s Garden

Grow your salad right out your window! All it takes to grow a perpetually delicious salad bar is an outside windowsill and containers.

Take one large window box with drainage holes, add a layer of crocks to the bottom of the box, and fill almost to the top with all-purpose potting mix and voila, you’re ready to go. For a sunny windowsill…

You will need:

• 1 packet of radish seed such as ‘French Breakfast’
• 1 packet of arugula (rocket) seed
• 1 packet of mixed lettuce seed 30 minute

Instructions:

Roughly dividing the box into three portions, thinly sprinkle the radish, arugula and lettuce seed onto the mix. Cover with a thin layer of mix, water well and place on a sunny, sheltered windowsill. Keep moist. When the seedlings emerge, thin the radishes to 1 in. (3 cm) apart. Harvest by cutting the arugula and lettuce leaves above the smallest new leaf, and the radishes by pulling them up when they are big enough to eat.

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