Salad Bar Gardening

[Hudson_WY]

Here's an idea, that is working for us that we wanted to share. Our GH is too hot for salad veggies and bending over in the garden isn't ideal. So after looking at raised bed kits from different garden suppliers we thought, "We can do that." We visited a local manufacturer that makes plastic burial vaults for caskets. They had several damaged vaults and let us have a few damaged vaults for free. We cut the vault down to a height of 18" and drilled holes for drainage. We had some used and left over building materials from other projects so the bed was built at no extra cost. The photos tell the rest of the story. We located the raised bed that we call our "Salad Bar," on the east side of our GH where it gets lots of morning sun but not the hot west sun. We made just one to see how salad veggies would grow and now we're going to make a couple more to make extra growing space.