Last spring desperate for some easy to pick salad greens I came up with the novel idea of creating small salad gardens in ex-wool bags. We've got an overgrown subtropical back garden, shaded by bamboo, avocado trees and banana palms – I wanted somewhere sunnier and within easy reach of the kitchen.
So here's my garden recipe:
- Buy bags inexpensively from Mitre 10
- Line with recycled cardboard - you can get this from Mitre 10's outdoor bins
- Fill with a mix of compost, and potting mix or vegetable garden growing mix
- Add some blood and bone
- Plant seedlings and water several times a week in the summer
Our 'wool bag' gardens are in a spot that gets sun 70% of the day. We pick rocket, mizuma, silverbeet, lettuces, basil, spring onions, chives, kale, cress, nasturtiums, puha, parsley, and coriander all year round! Along with cherry tomatoes, peas and strawberries in the summer.
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