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Moveable Feast
Skip the mums this fall and go for food instead!
Eddie says vegetables and herbs are a fresh alternative to filling fall pots!
"Small space gardening - container garden - if you have real limited areas in your yard is a really good way to grow vegetables and herbs, you can bring them right in close to the house under the patio, on the front porch and so you'll have a really nice aesthetically looking pot, but you still have something in it that you can take to the dinner table with you," he said.
Follow these steps to make a salsa pot:
1. Start with tomatoes. Put it off center in the pot.
2. Next plant your peppers.
3. Incorporate some flowers that are compatible with veggies and herbs if you want that splash of fall color.
Marigolds are a good option.
4. Then plant your cilantro.
5. Fill in the spaces in the pot with soil.
6. It should get six hours of sun a day and water it every other day.
The fun doesn't stop at salsa! Eddie says using tomato, basil, parsley, oregano, rosemary, fennel and chives you can make a 'pizza pot.'
"We added marigolds in here too just for a splash of color - marigolds have a natural insect repellant quality," Eddie said.
He says most veggies are compatible, but you don't always have to mix and match them.
"You can plant just one type of plant in one pot, like a full pot of bib lettuce - looks great, " he said. "The bright lights, you can plant one pot of that and it's aesthetically pleasing cause each stem is going to have a different color - orange yellows and red plus it's edible."
"The beauty about herbs again, the more you trim on them, that's what you do you clip the leaves off to use those - the fuller the plant gets."
When the temperatures drop, you can just move you pots inside!
"As it gets cooler, they get sweeter - there's a term for that, they call it frost kissed," Eddie said.
When you're putting together your movable feasts, Eddie says its imperative you make sure the variety you're planting is for a container - otherwise you'll have some really big problems!
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