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    Thrifted Colander Turned Lettuce Planter

    Published by Pam Kessler | 183 words. · About 1 minute to read this article. - 22 Comments

    What do you get when you cross a bunch of lettuce plants

    Planting lettuce in a colander - use coffee filter as a liner, fill with potting soil and plant your favorite lettuces.
    with a vintage thrifted colander?

    Planting lettuce in a colander - use coffee filter as a liner, fill with potting soil and plant your favorite lettuces.

    A lettuce bowl,

    Planting lettuce in a colander - use coffee filter as a liner, fill with potting soil and plant your favorite lettuces.
    that is apparently not all that original of an idea.

    When I thought of putting these lettuces in a colander, I thought I was being so creative. Such a perfect mixture of my love of vintage thrifted items with my love of gardening.

    Plus you have the tongue-in-cheek uniqueness of growing your food in the very thing you should be washing it in later.

    Planting lettuce in a colander - use coffee filter as a liner, fill with potting soil and plant your favorite lettuces.
    Then I was looking through a friend's blog the other day and she showed two colanders on her patio that she had planted with herbs.

    Planting lettuce in a colander - use coffee filter as a liner, fill with potting soil and plant your favorite lettuces.
    I guess it's one of those things that prove that nothing is an original idea anymore?

    Or maybe I have just seen this somewhere before, stuck it in the depths of my overcrowded mind and mistook my memory as a unique creative thought?

    Planting lettuce in a colander - use coffee filter as a liner, fill with potting soil and plant your favorite lettuces.
    Oh well, I actually planted this whole container of lettuce for Ben anyhow. He doesn't seem to mind if it's "been done before" or not. Guinea pigs are great like that.

    Planting lettuce in a colander - use coffee filter as a liner, fill with potting soil and plant your favorite lettuces.

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    1. [email protected] Free A-Z Blog

      June 18, 2014 at 11:31 am

      I love the idea. I have some herbs that I could plant in my colander. It's new to me. Do you start from seed ?

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      • Pam Kessler

        June 18, 2014 at 1:47 pm

        I used seeds one year and it seemed to take forever and a day to get to the harvesting stage 🙂 So now I just buy them from the garden center.

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