Make your salads superior with Stewart Garden planters

Grow your own experts, Stewart Garden, offers planters as a fantastic alternative to buying salads at supermarkets, by growing your own vegetables without the need to dig up the garden.

Ready to eat salad leaves sold in the produce section of supermarkets may be convenient, but they’re expensive and go off quickly once opened.

Growing your own, on the other hand, allows you to pick the exact quantity and combinations you want every mealtime. Now is the time to get growing. A top-notch salad is bursting with shapes, sizes, textures and flavours.

It’s all made possible with Stewart Garden planters. Choose from a wide range of colours, styles and sizes to suit your garden or patio. Starting from as little as £2.99, Stewart Garden planters are easy to move around when full of compost and plants, making them adaptable, versatile and trouble-free.

High quality plastics make these planters durable and resistant to frosts and ultra violet rays. This means they’ll keep their shape and their colour whatever weather elements are thrown at them.

Growing your own produce is easier than you might think. Most varieties of lettuce are foolproof, so you can sow them anytime between spring and summer. In fact, with the right protection, they’ll give you tasty leaves all winter. For a continuous supply, sow a few seeds every four weeks.

How to grow salads in Stewart Garden planters

Here are a few general tips to get the very best from your home-grown salads. Use them in conjunction with the specific instructions on your seed packets.

·                  Choose a sunny or partly shaded spot of your garden, patio or balcony

·                  Fill your container with multipurpose compost

·                  Sow your seeds in short rows about 30cm (12in) apart

·                  When the seedlings are about 2cm (1in) tall, thin them out to give them space to grow. The distance will depend on variety, but it’s usually between 15cm (6in) and 30cm (12in)

Talking about salad leaves on daviddomoney.com, TV Gardener and Broadcaster, David Domoney says that “these are the ultimate container crops. Try sowing a mix for a range of textures and flavours – there are loads to choose from. Salad leaves are a cut and come again crop, meaning they keep growing as long as you keep harvesting the leaves. It couldn’t be easier.”*

Stewart Garden’s grow your own products, pots, watering equipment, propagators and garden accessories are available in over 1,500 outlets across the UK and Eire. These include DIY outlets such as B&Q, Homebase and Wilko and garden centres such as Dobbies, Wyevale and Klondyke/Strikes as well as over 600 independent garden centres.

For more information, visit www.stewart-garden.co.uk.

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*http://www.daviddomoney.com/2015/04/17/12-top-vegetables-for-a-container-garden/