The Portable Tomato Garden
What does a Portable Tomato Garden include?
The Portable Tomato Garden includes a Patio variety of tomato, a mix of lettuces, some will have well established herb celery, and more. Each Portable Garden comes with plant tags for what you see, and what you don’t see, because some items have been seeded directly into the pot to give you the most hassle free extended harvest possible.
Tomato – Patio Tomato
A Patio Tomato plant is a determinant. This means it will only grow to a certain size and will produce an approximate amount.
* Height: 2′ to 3′ tall
* Dense growth habit may need support
* Red fruits
* 3 oz to 4 oz fruit size
Lettuce – Black Seeded Simpson
A heritage variety of loose leaf lettuce that is heat tolerant. Tender, and delicately flavored, it’s been a favorite for over 100 years.
* Loose leaf variety
* Heat tolerant
* Light green ruffled leaves
* 42 days to harvest
Lettuce – Seed Savers Exchange Mix
This mix of cutting lettuces provides a variety of colors and leaf types for a tasty and colorful harvest. The varieties include:
* Amish deer tongue
* Forellenschluss
* Lolla rosa
* Red Salad Bowl
AllStar Gourmet Lettuce Mix
A Johnny’s Selected Seed mix that includes darker reds and greens even under low-light conditions. Ruffled edges and unique leaf shapes for a fancy appearance. This mix includes:
* Green and red oak leaf varieties
* Green romaine
* Red romaine
* Red leaf lettuces
Herb Celery
Also known as cutting celery, it has a stronger flavor than stalk celery. As a biennial, if it is over-wintered indoors in colder climates, it will produce seed it’s second year.
Herb celery leaves are used in salads, and the leaves and stalks used in soups, and stews. Like it’s wild forebears in the Mediterranean, herb celery has a more bushy habit, unlike stalk celery.
Mizuna
Native to East Asia, Mizuna is also known as Japanese mustard greens, spider mustard, or konya. It adds a mild peppery flavor to salads, stir-fry’s, pasta dishes, and soups.
Mizuna is related to other cruciferous vegetables, including broccoli, cauliflower, kale, and Brussels sprouts.
A little known historical fact, is that Mizuna was grown as part of an experiment on the International Space Station.
Beet – Bull’s Blood
An heirloom variety of beet. This variety is grown mostly for the deep burgundy leaves to add to salads, although the small root is also delicious and nutritious.
Roots are attractive with candy-striped zoning when sliced. Leaves are ready to eat in 35 days at the baby stage, and if you’re interested in eating the root, it will be ready to harvest in approximately 58 days.
Pea – Little Snow Pea Purple
The dwarf-sized vines of this little snow pea fits perfectly in containers. It growth stops at 2 feet tall.
It’s flowers are not the typical white, but a beautiful purple.
For pea shoots, maturity is reached in 10 days. The pods mature early and have a crunchy bite.
Parting Thoughts
As people come and go in apartments and rental homes, I read and heard many talk about how they would love to have a garden but didn’t have the space.
Or they did not have the continuity of land since leases and rental agreements often start just after mid-summer to mid-September, based on the school year. Having been in this predicament myself, and with a mission of increasing health and food sovereignty, I began experimenting with portable gardens.
Most want tomatoes, and with this plant at the center, all other plants were chosen to complement the growing space and how the harvest could be prepared for a tasty and healthy meal. If you have any thoughts to share about plants you’d like to see in a portable garden, send us a message and let us know!
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