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On warm days there’s nothing more satisfying than a fresh salad, straight from your garden – especially lettuce in all its fabulous forms.
But not everyone has the space to dedicate an entire bed to salads, which is where growing vertically comes in! When space is in short supply, you can always grow upwards.
Making and then planting a simple tower of salads is an ingenious solution to lack of space. It’s a fun project that all the family can get involved with and will create quite a handsome feature in its own right. In this video we’ll take you step by step through how to make one and explain all you need to look after it so you can enjoy the longest possible harvest from it.
For more on growing lettuces: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Aj-wqC8REA
Or try lettuce and other salads leaves in containers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xpT2jcTdV8
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An easier way to make the planting holes is with a small lighter or torch.
why "peat-free" potting soil?
Thanks so much for this great idea. I have used your app for planning and planting my new vegetable garden and its coming along nicely. Regarding the salad tower what was the mix you used for potting?
Hello, thank you very much for the video, just exactly what I needed 🙂 but could you, pretty please :)), explain a little bit more about your tomatoes and Tropaeolaceae shown at 0:37 min growing from that tube? Pretty pretty please 🙂
Awesome!
This is awesome. A flower tower. Converted to lettuce. I can't believe I have never tried this. I have been growing petunias like this for close to 20 years. I line mine with black fabric, weed barrier type. I have even used regular cloth, but it ripped mid season the year I tried that. I also use perforated black hose, like we used for a drain line to our water pond, filled with gravel to add water to the tower. The weight also helps to keep it in place in the heavy windstorms we get here in Ohio. I am so glad that I decided to watch this. I have been thinking about actually building a lettuce wall on my fencing, but wasn't thrilled with the idea of screwing heavy cedar to the old privacy fence…..now I think I will just order some more 5 gallon nursery pots for more towers. Dude, you rock.
lettuce know how you get on.
I like this!!! For sure doing it!!
Great insight
Lettuce know how you’re doing!
Great! Love your lessons, my garden is in Las Vegas, but with 30% shade, I’m having success.
Thank you.
"Let-us" know how you get on…excellent turn of phrase!
Hi there, GrowVeg bro'. Love the 'Heath-Robinson' salad tower. Another whacky idea that makes sense. Not all of us have a housebreaking pair of bolt snips, though!! Side-cutting pliers or cheap tin snips might do the same job .Have you priced new hessian sacks lately? Phew! Keep the ideas coming. Thanks for the vid. I loved it. Paul
PS – I'm with Seubriena below – what is there not to like??
Where do you find the sheet? I can't find anything online.
This is brilliant!!!
This is a very good idea. I'll make this next time. Thank you for sharing.
I'm growing my salad in 3 foot long rain gutter attached to the side of my deck railing. The gutter is attached to a 3 1/2 inch wide board to keep it sturdy.
Thank you for sharing your ideas ..
Thank you so much for this idea, i'll do one tomorrow.
Just a thought.Why not start filling the tower to the level you want your bottom plants to be, feed the seedlings through the holes then add more potting mix up to the next level of holes, plant more seedlings & continue to the top. That way you aren't damaging any roots. Love the videos & the lots of info.
Question: you made a point about food-grade plastic, then suggested the potting mix bags. Are these food-grade also? Thanks. PS — Love your vids!
what is 'food grade polythene' and what if we can't get hold of it? Thank you.
“Lettuce know how you get on”. I can see what you’ve done there!
I love this idea! I seem to have so many problems growing salad plants in a bed (Still a beginner gardener here haha) So this may help me out quite a bit!
I made this and put strawberries
Do you have any suggestions for even watering of taller towers of this style?
Thanks you ..Very well explained buddy
It's not cheap, but my son got me two Greenstalk planters for Mother's Day last year. I love them so much.
They rotate (if you get the right base) and you can move them seasonally to get better or less sun. And the self-watering feature is fantastic. I grow all my salad and annual herbs, plus a smattering of smaller cooking greens like chard.
On one tower, I just planted spinach, mache and those sort of shade tolerant small greens on the shady side and got extended seasons and didn't have to turn the tower at all.
This year, I'm going to plant Japanese salad turnips which are harvested rather small. If you like baby carrots (by variety or picking them when they just are getting chubby), you can plant those too. Or radishes, I suppose, but I intercrop so many of those in the raised beds, I don't need to put them in the tower.
No butt of malmsey required, lol. "Put them in the tower" sounds a little dire!
I'd say the only thing I'm sad about is that they are also expensive in terms of soil — we moved from California to Virginia this year and I had to toss the good potting mix in the towers for the move, and wash them down with bleach solution (a responsible measure I did with all my containers to both save mover fees but primarily to reduce the import of pathogens to my new home, 5000km away).
But this is a great option! I love the idea of reduce/reuse/re/upcycle!