Plant Pot Garden

Bags of salad are one of the most wasted food products in the UK with 178 million bags thrown away every year!

It’s estimated that 40% of all bagged salad is wasted, often because of spoilage, overbuying, and cosmetic standards by retailers.

How can you avoid all of these? Grow your own! Growing your own food, however little, instantly connects you to how our food is produced.

One of the simplest things to grow at home is salad leaves. You can take however much you need when you need it no matter what it looks like.

Local chef Rowen Halstead has provided a step-by-step quide to growing your own plant pot garden, so why not give it a try!