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If you love salsa in the summer, planning your garden around salsa ingredients is a smart idea. Here are tips to plant a salsa garden that will provide plenty of ingredients for fresh salsa all summer long.
How to Plan Your Salsa Garden
Select an area that receives at least 6 hours of sunlight a day. A 4×4 foot raised bed or square foot garden will grow plenty of ingredients for fresh salsa. A trellis on the north side of the bed will provide extra room for vining tomatoes to grow without shading the other plants.
See How to Build a Square Foot Garden
Divide your raised bed garden into one-foot sections to make it easy to map out the growing area so you know where to plant everything in your salsa garden. Beginning at the back of the bed:
Row 4: Tomatoes (3) along a trellisRow 3: Peppers (4) in front of the tomatoes 1 per square footRow 2: Onions 9 per square footRow 2: Garlic Fall planted garlic = 6/square foot / Spring planted Garlic = 9/square footRow 1: Cilantro 9 per square foot
Start onions, peppers, and tomato seedlings from seed under lights or purchase transplants from your local nursery or garden center.
10 Steps to Starting Seedlings Indoors
Onion sets, garlic seeds, garlic chive, and cilantro seeds are also available online or at your local garden center.
What to Grow in Your Salsa Garden
The basic ingredients that go into salsa are tomatoes, peppers, garlic, onions, and cilantro.
Tomatoes:
Select meaty indeterminate varieties of tomatoes with good flavor. I like using paste tomatoes such as Amish Paste, Juliet,
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