I love my Click & Grow smart gardens, I grow can grow salads & herbs and fruiting plants such as tomatoes, wild strawberries, peas, peppers, chillies etc organically 365 days a year.
The plants look after themselves pretty much, just ensure that the water tank is full and the garden will do the rest for you, meaning you can even go on holiday and not worry about it. The lights go on and off automatically ensuring exactly the right growing conditions for your plants.
One of my smart gardens, growing rocket, green sorrel, tomatoes, oregano, romaine lettuce and green lettuce.
Plants do have a certain shelf life within the garden as their roots will grow and fill the cup meaning eventually they will become potbound and expire. However you can increase their lifespan and how much they produce very easily.
When plants are getting large, such as herbs, tomatoes and wild strawberries, I plant them on into larger pots and put them on my window sill, this increases the lives of the plants encouraging them to continue growing way beyond their life in the smart garden. I currently have various herbs, a couple of tomato plants and wild strawberries on my window sill from which I have been harvesting produce for several months.
Herbs such as thyme, mint etc can be planted out in the garden and although they will die off in winter, they will come again next Summer. The same goes for wild strawberries and green sorrel.
You can see in the images above how well the plants continue to grow when potted up into bigger pots. My wild strawberry plant is covered in strawberries and we have been enjoying fruit from it for weeks now.
When I pot plants on from my smart garden, I get a suitable pot, put compost from a grow bag into the pot as this has nutrients in it to help your plant to continue to thrive. I remove the plant with its soil pod from the Click & Grow plant cup and gently rub my fingers down the sides of the soil to loosen the roots, this will help the plant to extend it's roots into the new soil and realise that it has more room to grow, plant the pod into its new pot.
Then water the new pot and make sure you water lightly every day to keep it moist for the first few days until the plant has become accustomed to it's new pot.
Since planting into a bigger pot, my Basil plant has become a bit of a monster, the leaves are the biggest Basil leaves I have ever see, nearly as big as my hand (see image below). The leaves despite being enormous, still taste amazing with the added benefit of only having to use a few leaves at a time.
Basil leaves the size of my hand Mini red tomatoes
I can highly recommend investing in a Click & Grow Smart Garden, growing your own produce in your own home organically 365 days a year, is as easy as buying the pods which containing smart soil with all the nutrients your plants need to thrive plus the seeds of whichever plant you choose, putting them in the smart garden, filling with water, plugging the smart garden in and then watching them grow.
To read about other benefits of a Click & Grow smart garden see my 'Working with a Smart Garden' page at the top of the screen where you can read my other posts re smart gardens.
If you are interested in buying a Click & Grow smart garden, enter my discount code JACQUI10 at checkout in the Click & Grow store for a 10% discount or click on this link,
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Recipes using my smart garden grown produce, click on links for recipe details:
Cauliflower Couscous with fresh herbs (herbs grown in smart garden)
Ham Hock & pea salad with quail eggs & edible flowers (peas, salad leaves, herbs & edible flowers grown in smart garden)
Roasted aubergine with saffron yoghurt (basil grown in smart garden)
Ottolenghi tomato yoghurt (tomatoes, oregano & thyme grown in smart garden)
Warm salad of peaches, parma ham, mozzarella & basil (Green sorrel leaves, rocket, basil, mint, red chilli & edible flowers grown in smart garden)
Warm cherry tomatoes with goat's cheese & thyme oil (cherry tomatoes & thyme grown in smart garden)
Seafood stew with fresh herbs & alioli (chillies & herbs grown in smart garden)
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