Transforming your garden with sustainable and creative solutions can be both rewarding and eco-friendly. One innovative approach is utilizing up-cycled pallet raised garden beds. This method not only repurposes old materials but also provides an ideal environment for growing various vegetables, including the versatile and nutritious Cos lettuce.
In this video, I show how I transplanted my Cos Lettuce starts (shown in a previous video grown from seed). The garden bed is an up-cycled used pallet stripped and made into a small raised garden bed. A cardboard base was used to stop the grass underneath from growing through. It will be enough to see it through the growth cycle of the Cos Lettuce. The pallet garden bed was filled with a mix of left over yard soil, some fire pit ash and fresh compost. The compost was made in a tumbler and is very fresh. Lets see how these baby Cos Lettuce grow.
Here is a photo of the bed with an added garden netting to keep the neighborhood possums and other wildlife out. They constantly eat my garden veggies.
Aaron has slowly grown into gardening (pun intended) after he turned 30 years old in the pursuit to become more sustainable and began the simple act of making compost from the household daily food scraps. Having been raised in suburbia and only having known a city urban environment, there has been a big learning curve in all areas of plants and gardening. Aaron now writes about his passion for gardening in all forms for this website and others and is truly a Plant Carer.
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