<h1><span lang="EN-US">How to Plant a Shoe Rack Garden with Herbs and Vegetables</span></h1> <p>Hi, I&rsquo;m Laura. &nbsp;I work in Marketing for Scotts Miracle-Gro and we&rsquo;re finally frost-free here in Ohio so I&rsquo;m really ready to get started on some gardening projects. &nbsp;You can see I live in an apartment, so I was scoping out some ideas on Pinterest for stuff to do in smaller-spaced gardens, and I saw some really cool ideas for hanging shoe rack gardens. &nbsp;I saw a lot of vertical ones, but here I have a shoe rack I haven&rsquo;t used in years and I&rsquo;m thinking I&rsquo;ll lay it flat on the ground and use some smaller vegetables.</p> <p>This is going to be just like any other container gardening project except you have to pick the right plants for something this size. &nbsp;So I measured it out. &nbsp;It&rsquo;s about 1 foot deep and then the squares at the top are about 5 inches wide on each side, so I&rsquo;m going to try to stick to some smaller vegetables and also some herbs and some leaf lettuce and spinach, and I&rsquo;ll have kind of a little salad garden.</p> <p>So the important thing is using the right soil, so I&rsquo;m going to use potting mix because this is a container garden. &nbsp;I&rsquo;m just going to start filling up each of these holes. &nbsp;So this potting mix is pretty wet but that&rsquo;s okay. &nbsp;That just means the bag was sitting outside and we&rsquo;ve had a few rainy days, and it means I&rsquo;m not going to have to water my plants down quite as much whenever I plant them. &nbsp;And we are using potting mix because even if it&rsquo;s a shoe rack, it&rsquo;s still a container so we need something a little bit looser that&rsquo;s going to drain pretty well. &nbsp;I don&rsquo;t think I&rsquo;m going to even need to add drain holes to this, though, because the cloth is pretty thin and I think the water will be able to go through it.</p> <p>So I&rsquo;ve drawn out a plan here of what I want to fill these ten boxes with. &nbsp;On this side I&rsquo;m going to start with some cucumbers, and those I&rsquo;ll eventually need a stake for because they&rsquo;ll grow up pretty tall. &nbsp;Then I&rsquo;m going to do some carrots, green onion, basil, two things of spinach, and two things of lettuce, and I filled the dirt up a little more on those since they&rsquo;re shorter plants.</p> <p>So it doesn&rsquo;t look like much now. &nbsp;I have a lot of seeds in there and just a few little seedlings, but I&rsquo;m ready to put this in a really sunny spot so that these can grow up and I can start eating a fresh salad with my shoe rack veggie garden.</p> <div><br /></div>