Hanging Lettuce pots from OrganicGardening magazine

M

marilynfl

Moderator
Take two moss-lined half-circle hanging baskets. Remove hanging wires. Pack both semi-spheres with good potting soil, soak dirt and wire both together to make a full sphere. Wrap wire around longitude lines. Add chainlink to re-hang....remember that the ball will be heavier now with the added soil.

Poke a hole through the moss into the soil and insert lettuce seeds (follow the depth noted on the seed package). Repeat over the entire sphere. Hang is a sunny spot and water daily. Pick lettuce and replant as needed.

 
Not entirely related, but... Crate and Barrel has herbs in bags. All you do is open them, water, and

wait a few weeks (9, I think). The bags stand upright. The branch I was in had basil and oregano, but no mint. smileys/frown.gif

 
Marilyn, thank you for posting this.

I am so bad at envisioning the final result without pictures. And I'm in construction! Thank goodness I have plans to go by or I'd have some funny looking buildings on my resume.

 
You're most welcome, dj. And if the houses turn out odd-looking, just tell folks that

you work for Dr. Suess and the Whoville building council.

 
Marilyn, Thanks! I'm going straight to Lowe's at lunchtime to buy materials

I had been planting my lettuces in planter boxes that I keep up next to my solarium and in regular hanging baskets, because if I plant it in my garden, the rabbits, chipmunks, squirrels, groundhogs, birds, etc, etc, nip the shoots off as soon as they emerge. This method looks like two of them would supply all the lettuce I'd need.

 
an idea

I was looking at this again and thought that it would be really hard to get the center soil of the ball saturated in the hot summer, short of soaking the thing periodically. So I was thinking a small plastic tube with some holes drilled into it, inserted into the top to the center, would allow a conduit for getting water to the center. This would allow the roots to develop deeper and help prevent the ball from drying out drastically on really hot days if only the outer edges are getting saturated with surface watering.

 
What a great idea. Imagine how well this would work on an apartment balcony as well. Although

most deer couldn't reach that high anyway.

Thanks Marilyn.

 
also, the water would settle towards the bottom of the ball. perhaps make the chain to clip on both

top and bottom so it could be rotated and the water could then dispurse the other way? does this make sense? the top would otherwise tend to dry out, I think.

 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top