Magic Carpets: Instant Edible Gardens with Roll-out Seedsheets - Gardenista
Photography via Seedsheet.
While housesitting a farm for a friend in Vermont, Cameron MacKugler experience growing organic fruit and vegetables.
I literally dropped my harvest and sprinted into the farmhouse where I grabbed some kids’ crayons and sketched out the first version of the Seedsheet,” he says.
You roll out a Seedsheet on a raised bed, window box, or garden and just add water. After the seeds germinate, you can continue to water in the usual way.
A 5-by-10-foot Vegetable Seedsheet is impregnated with corn, bush bean, zucchini, and kale seeds and is $125. Seedsheets come in several sizes to fit spaces as small as a window box (1 by 3 feet), or as large as walk-on garden plots (10 by 16 feet).
The 10-by-16-Foot Vegetable Seedsheet is $199.
Seedsheet uses an algorithm to calculate the optimum planting distances for each plant, which in turn should produce the maximum yield for each plant.
Carrots benefit from a weed-free environment.
Seedsheets are also available pre-seeded with flowers.