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The Herb Garden is the ideal raised bed for growing all your daily use herbs. A perfect grow your own companion for cooking it fits on a patio or balcony; always within an arm's length of the kitchen. Its eight individually lined pockets prevent aggressive herbs from fighting one another for resources and allow them to grow in harmony. The Herb Garden stands at 80cm high an ideal height that allows an easy harvest without the need for crouching down or compromising posture. It holds 40 50 litres of compost. Made of durable 100% FSC® wood the Herb Garden is perfectly suited for outdoor use. A water based food safe preservative ensures all your crops are healthy and ready for cooking. VegTrug is a sustainable lifestyle brand focused on bringing grow your own to everyone. Dimensions Width: 78cm Depth: 58cm Height: 80cm Weight: 8kg Key Features Holds 40 50 litres of compost. 8 divided pockets prevent aggressive plants from fighting. Comes with 8 pre formed liners that safely biodegrade. Comfortable working height. Why grow your own? High demand from supermarkets has lead over the decades to a round the clock growing industry that prioritises constant availability of all produce regardless of seasonality or location. In order to keep up with this demand almost all growing worldwide winds up being consumed extremely far away from where it was grown; strawberries from New Zealand in European supermarkets for example. Growing on a massive scale to support global demand requires planting supporting and managing millions of acres of resilient hardy produce which are rarely the tastiest varieties. To guarantee freshness this produce is either frozen or shipped extremely quickly via air freight a carbon footprint impact that is increasingly hard to ignore for non essential foodstuffs like those strawberries. Pesticides too need to be employed to manage those millions of crops that cannot be individually tended to. All this comes before the increasing levels of evidence that some of the packaging our food is shipped in is potentially harmful to us in the long term with some plastics failing to remain chemically inert over time. So with that in mind... growing your own a few metres from your back door eliminates all of this. Your food's journey is known to you the pesticides you use (or don't) are those you chose for yourself and the mileage from plant to plate is... well as far away as your balcony might be! Growing your own for yourself your family and your neighbours is increasingly a viable option for food shortages and with some luck could become an essential way in which we sustain ourselves. But where to begin? If you agree and are eager to begin... where do you begin? Please find some guidance below and click through the links for all the kinds of produce you can start growing in your VegTrug! Vegetables fruits and herbs are all perfect candidates for planting in your new VegTrug. How To Grow Your Own Fruit How To Grow Your Own Herbs How To Grow Your Own Vegetables
