I love grouping my container plants according to garden themes. There are many themed gardens you can try planting. But a favorite garden theme of mine is the Salsa Garden!
First, you need a container sized tomato plant. Then, you need a large container with potting soil mix suitable for vegetables. You’ll want a variety of herbs based on how large your container is – in this case I selected:
- basil
- cilantro (see more about using cilantro for health)
- curled-leaf parsley (see tips for growing parsley)
Fill in the bottom of the container with soil until you reach the depth you want to plant your tomato at. In this case we used an Early Girl, similar to Valley Girl, with a medium-sized red fruit and compact growing tomato plant.
Once you’ve gotten the tomato plant in the middle of the container, fill in some soil around the outside and then add your herb plants. Remember that with these peat pots you want to make sure that the entire pot is under the surface level of the soil instead of allowing the pot edge to stick out. This will help make sure your plant gets plenty of water.
This simple container won’t take up a lot of room but could provide a homemade salad, or bowl of homemade salsa, even in a very limited amount of space.
I love this idea.
Thank you for allowing me to join your linky party. I also added a link / image to your GreenThumb Thursday on todays post. Great to connect with you – we have so much growing in common! Bren
I wish things weren’t so windy on my little mountainside property, I’d love to try this tutorial and grow some salsa herbs in our garden… even trying to do a container garden is pretty hard to do with the crazy Hawaiian trade winds that whip our neighborhood!
I love this, though! 🙂 You should share pictures when the plants are large enough to do the salsa!
Angela, I’m visiting from the UBC. What a great idea! I do relatively a lot of gardening, and I’m planting more and more edibles. But I never thought to group them as you suggest–how cool! Thanks!
This is such an informative post, have always been meaning to get my own container vegetable garden. Should be anytime soon 🙂
What a fantastic idea. The way you explained it makes even a black-thumbed, pre-novice such as myself believe I could make it happen, if I had ground to plant in. Shared on fb and Pinterest.
Love this idea – it will be great to have all the ingredients in one place!
Hi Angela – just found your site and blog. I have very limited space and even more limited full sun, so I have experimented with every kind of container you can imagine. I love my whiskey barrels, too, but never though of terracing them. How Mayan! I also am excited to find a site that embraces and promotes home-keeping. I blog about the economic and political reasons for reclaiming domesticity. I think it is important to have a ‘theoretical’ side to philosophy that can show non-believers facts and figures to support our lifestyle choices. Good blogging to you! Laurie