This video is so true! We travel each year for a few months and miss our backyard salads very much. So we have been planting a mixture of salad greens, mixed lettuce, parsley, chives, celery, spinach and a must is spring onions. These all go into two long plastic pots ($2 each) We get these started from seed while still home. They keep us in fresh salads for 3 to 4 months while travelling in the caravan in the outback where no fresh items are available. Boy are we popular at campfire get togethers with fresh salad. The pots travel well under the caravan table on non slip matting.(empty tray first) Easy to move around outside either chasing the sun or hiding from the wind. We use our shower water so need no extra water. Pests - yes we do have problems from kangaroos sometimes so slip them under the van each night. If it's rabbits we lift them up onto the outside table. These also keep us going until we can knock the home garden back into ship shape after being away for so long. Will never travel in the van again without our garden!! Tip on spring onions - plant very close together and only use the green tops as these regrow fast. If you are able to replace these with a brought bunch every 4 - 6 weeks you will never run out. You can garden and travel!
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Walter Saleem
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11:44, 13 February 2010
I have no sound system in my computer please send som written material, how to grow salad in pots. Thanks
Shirley
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18:51, 05 March 2010
This video is so true! We travel each year for a few months and miss our backyard salads very much. So we have been planting a mixture of salad greens, mixed lettuce, parsley, chives, celery, spinach and a must is spring onions. These all go into two long plastic pots ($2 each) We get these started from seed while still home. They keep us in fresh salads for 3 to 4 months while travelling in the caravan in the outback where no fresh items are available. Boy are we popular at campfire get togethers with fresh salad. The pots travel well under the caravan table on non slip matting.(empty tray first) Easy to move around outside either chasing the sun or hiding from the wind. We use our shower water so need no extra water. Pests - yes we do have problems from kangaroos sometimes so slip them under the van each night. If it's rabbits we lift them up onto the outside table. These also keep us going until we can knock the home garden back into ship shape after being away for so long. Will never travel in the van again without our garden!! Tip on spring onions - plant very close together and only use the green tops as these regrow fast. If you are able to replace these with a brought bunch every 4 - 6 weeks you will never run out. You can garden and travel!
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