Did you plant a wood pallet garden this year? How is it doing? I was planning on harvesting my romaine lettuce earlier this week but now I think I’ll just harvest it tomorrow and make a big Cesar salad to go with our Father’s Day BBQ.
When I harvested the endive lettuce, I decided to cut it off at the base of the plant and left the roots intact because I wanted to see if I could grow another head of lettuce. Have you ever tried this? Do you think it will work?
Check out the strawberries! Do you see the runners starting to form at the end of the pallet?
And last but not least, the celery. The celery won’t be ready to harvest until fall, but it sure is fun to watch it grow. Our pallets sit in a shaded area of our garden, and if there is one thing celery loves, it’s shade.
It doesn’t matter if you are gardening in a traditional plot, containers, a greenhouse, towers or wood pallets, gardening is cool. Anytime you can get outside and get a little dirt under your fingernails, it’s a good day
~Mavis
Want to learn more about wood pallet gardening and how I put mine together? Click on the pallets above and it will take you to my first pallet garden post of the year. You’ll also learn what to look for when choosing a pallet.
m @ ransom musings says
When I lived in wa, I would harvest by picking the outer leaves only; plants will keep growing though fall (although there may be some bolting in Aug)
Sarah says
Silly question! But how do you keep all the slugs out of your pallets? I’m pallet gardening this year for the first time, and it has turned into a slug habitat! I’ve been successful in keeping them away from my plants…but everyday I go out there, there seems to be 100s of new baby slugs…everywhere.
Terry says
Give them a sprinkling of salt…
Katie C. says
I have one pallet, and I’m adoring it! Everything grows so well there. Honestly, I threw a bit of everything in because it makes up 1/3 of my garden space. Thanks for the info on them, otherwise I wouldn’t have known or had so much fun gardening!
Kat says
When I harvest lettuce, I just pick the leaves from the outside of the plant. One head will produce for several weeks that way. I keep on picking from the outside until it goes to seed or is too hot for lettuce.
Terry says
I call it “cut and come back”. Works for lettuce, cabbage, all the leafy stuff. I think you stress the plant too much by almost killing it then expecting it to grow back. But that’s my opinion…
Mindy says
I love the look of these – so neat and tidy!
Julie says
when i began reusing my salad (cutting the base of a bought salad and putting it in the ground so it could grow again), my mom told me that when they were growing salad, they used to cut them a little bit higher than the base and it would grow back!
she lived on a farm and they always did that so i guess that if it doesn’t grow back, next time let a little part of the salad also on the base and it will…..as my reused salad does 🙂
Linda says
I cut my green onions off and they come back!!
Johanne says
This might be a silly question with a logical answer but I haven’t thought of it yet so here goes…. How do you keep the dirt from spilling out of the sides of the pallet? Please someone answer this. I so want to do this but can’t make myself until I understand all the ins and outs.
Johanne
Laura Kohler says
I saw your pictures unattributed here: http://www.woohome.com/garden-2/22-ways-for-growing-a-successful-vegetable-garden
Mavis says
Thanks so much for the heads up!
Deborah says
Where do you get the pallets? I would love to use these for my garden this year.