Deck Top Salad Garden

Where does the time go? The daffodils are all abloom and the tulips are starting to peak their heads out. I can't believe my hyacinths are pretty much done. This is why I think everyone should garden . Time is going to fly and if you don't have anything beautiful to look at while it is flying by you are missing out.

Right now we have an amazing assortment of BEAUTIFUL plants in our greenhouse. I am getting so antsy to get in the dirt and play but it is still so darn cold here. Even my cool season plants will need a good mulching on most nights. Ho Hum, but I can container garden since I can move it in and out. So I put together the funnest little salad garden.

I took pansies, red sails lettuce, butter crunch, romaine, dill and cilantro and planted them in a 20" Bloom Master planter box. If you haven't used these they are super cool! I am excited just writing about them. They are really sturdy, Made in the USA (gasp!) and come predrilled with all these little holes just begging for a plant to be put in them. I planted the bottom row in pansies and then alternated the lettuce plants for color. In the top of the box I planted my herbs and some more pansies for color.

The great thing about this is not only can I move it if it is going to be cold but as the season gets warmer I can move it to a shadier location as well. I am so excited to start making salads off my little garden. For those of you who have never grown lettuce it is really easy and the leaf lettuce is so great because you just cut what you need leaving about 1" of the plant so that it can grow more crunchy little leaves for you to eat.

The absolute best thing about this Deck Top Garden is everything in it is EDIBLE. How fun is that? I have two cautionary points for you though, 1) make sure if you buy your pansies from a nursery or garden center that they have not been sprayed with anything 2) sometimes people get freaked out at eating a pansy with a face :) so flip it upside down-hee hee! Anyway this makes fun a really fun and cheerful planter box.

Happy gardening and ENJOY!