My old style herb garden

madvixen

I love using fresh herbs in my cooking but they're so expensive to keep buying. I've tried freezing them but they always end up falling to pieces and leaving the freezer coated in herbs (it makes the freezer smell good though). I'd love a herb garden but a) I have a postage stamp of a garden and b) I live in married quarters so planting things is difficult. So I needed something compact and portable. I did some internet searches for small garden planting and came across the idea of using recycled shopping bags (Very MSE) and here is my result

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I used a large shopping bag from dotcomgiftshop (using the recent 10% code as well), a £1 bag of compost from B&Q and some herbs and the whole thing has cost me less than £10 and will keep me going for ages. I'm really tempted to try the same technique with veggies when the weather improves.

cornishchick

I love it, I've been looking in to patio growing, veggies in pots and vertical bottle gardens, lots of info on pinterest and YouTube,
Would the hessian type bags Work? I have loads of the aldi ones.
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S_Wales_Saver

This looks great. I'm presently collecting bottles to use as a vertical garden project with 5yr old DGDs and I think I'll have to add this one. Also going to make pizza pot (bush tomato plant, pepper plant and basil grown in a large pot) :j

madvixen

cornishchick wrote: »

I love it, I've been looking in to patio growing, veggies in pots and vertical bottle gardens, lots of info on pinterest and YouTube,
Would the hessian type bags Work? I have loads of the aldi ones.
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I don't see why it wouldn't, they might even be better than these ones as they have lots of gaps for ventilation and drainage.
I love the bottle ideas but my next project is going to be using an old pallet for salads :rotfl:

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VfM4meplse

Great thread! I usually have a thriving range of potted herbs in my east-facing kitchen window sill over the summer. I'm just about hanging on to my basil - do you think it will come back now the days are getting lighter?

The rosemary was dying so I gave it to my mum to look after at the start of the year.....a week later it was in the rudest of health!

Linda32

That looks great, it looks like it should be in Country Living magazine. :T

meritaten

have you got mint in there? if so, be warned it will take over the whole bag! Rosemary too I see, its a shrub type plant and will last for years in a decent size pot. the others will live quite happily together.

Need2bthrifty

What a great idea.

I have quite a few herbs in pots but also used an old wicker laundry basket - spray painted it, lined it with a black refuse bag (punctured for drainage) put a couple of large stones in the bottom to weigh it down and put in some strawberries plants - had a good harvest and got some good runners/new plants off them too, so even more strawberries this year

TravellingAbuela

That looks so pretty! I have grown veg in the Poundland collapsible plastic garden refuse bags in the past but that looks so much nicer! Can I spy basil in there? If so how on earth are you managing to keep it alive outside! I can't even keep it going in the kitchen!! I have other herbs outside in a large squat tub and they grow on quite happily (but, as meritaten suggests, I have the mint in a separate pot!)

madvixen

TravellingAbuela wrote: »

That looks so pretty! I have grown veg in the Poundland collapsible plastic garden refuse bags in the past but that looks so much nicer! Can I spy basil in there? If so how on earth are you managing to keep it alive outside! I can't even keep it going in the kitchen!! I have other herbs outside in a large squat tub and they grow on quite happily (but, as meritaten suggests, I have the mint in a separate pot!)

Alas, there's no basil - I've tried growing basil indoors and I killed it so I gave basil up as a bad job :rotfl:

The mint and the rosemary are both in their pots which I've then "planted" into the bag. Hopefully this will stop them taking over the bag.

Thank you so much for all the lovely comments, they'e really made me

Willowpop

This looks brilliant! I know what I am making when the weather warms up a bit!:beer: