Step Right Up to the Salad Bar

Photos by Richard Webb, London, UK

Richard Webb, in London, sent me these photos. He is obviously a creative and handy Brit and I thank him for sharing his work so openly. He calls his growing cabinet a "salad bar". Good name! 

I might have written the caption as "Belly Right Up to the Salad Bar" but what many of us are trying to do is reduce our bellies. So, maybe we should say "Step Right Up to the Belly-Shrinking Salad Bar". 

Note that there are sub-irrigation plastic bottle planters inside the cabinet. There will be a separate post about them. 

There are hundreds of thousands (or millions) of city dwellers that could use something like this in the dead of winter (or all year round for that matter). 

Potential sources of plant cabinets are IKEA, thrift and second hand stores. Consider armoires, wardrobes and other cabinets. There is much room for creativity here with great potential for a healthy reward. 

Has anyone else done something like this? 

Comments

[Chance]

What a great idea - a grow room for salad...do the CFL bulbs provide enough light? Thanks for posting this.

[Greenscaper]

I don't know what the foot-candle (or lux) reading is but it sure looks like there's enough light for growing/maintaining herbs. See today's post showing the plants.