VegTrug Raised Bed Planter

The Raised Bed Planter is the ideal raised bed for growing all your daily, use crops. A perfect grow, your, own companion for cooking, it fits perfectly on a patio or balcony; always within an arm's length of the kitchen.

The Raised Bed Planter stands at 80cm high, an ideal height that allows an easy harvest without the need for crouching down or compromising posture.

Made of durable 100% FSC® wood, the Raised Bed Planter 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: 7.48kg

Key Features

• Holds 110 litres of compost.
• Useful storage shelf below the bed.
• 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

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