What's your recipe for a great salad? All good chefs will advise to start with the freshest ingredients and what could be better than fresh from the garden? You might argue there's no time or you don't have enough space. It doesn't matter because you can grow a garden in containers, either indoors or out.
"It's possible to grow a wide variety of salad greens, as well as small carrots, tomatoes and peppers," said gardening expert and entrepreneur Nancy Jane Wilkes, president of NJ Supply Ltd., distributors of Nancy Jane's Stacking Planters. "Container gardening is popular with many population segments and allows anyone to garden, even without a yard."
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According to Wilkes, Nancy Jane's Stacking Self-Watering Tubs, introduced this spring, are perfect for growing a vegetable garden or even strawberries. The size is the largest of the planter line, and the Stacking Tubs package features two or three interlocking tiers. Each tier has three spaces for plants and is made of heavy-duty polypropylene and resists fading and cracking. One three-tier set of Stacking Tubs measures 24 inches in diameter and 28 inches high. There's room for nine plants in a space that is just 2 feet in diameter. The tubs can be stacked as high as 10 layers and feature patented self-watering grids that keep plants healthier between watering.
In planning your tub garden, Wilkes suggests considering the following varieties for successful salads:
* Lettuce: Buttercrunch, salad bowl, romaine, dark green Boston, ruby, bib, oak leaf, mustard cress, baby leaf spinachy, curly endive (frisee), lamb's lettuce, radicchio, little gem and red mustard.
* Spinach: Dark green Bloomsdale, melody, America, Avon hybrid.
* Tomatoes: Tiny Tim, small fry, sweet 100, patio, Burpee's pixies, red bobin, sugar lump, toy boy, early girl, saladette.
* Peppers: Sweet banana, yolo wonder, long red cayenne, bell boy, keystone resistant, California wonder, new ace, red cherry, long red cayenne, jalapeno, Thai hot.
* Green Onions: Beltsville bunching, crysal was, evergreen bunching.
* Onion: White sweet Spanish, yellow sweet Spanish.
"With a little imagination, there's quite a variety of salad ingredients you can grow in the Stacking Tubs to serve as main dishes or sides," said Wilkes.
Nancy Jane's Stacking Planter Product line is available in four main colors -- original terra cotta, moss green, Tuscany and stone. Specialty colors also are available.
Stacking Planters are available through QVC, and at nurseries and garden centers across the United States. For more information, or to order online, visit www.Stackingpots.com.
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