Plant a Salsa Garden!

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo – it’s the perfect time to plant that salsa garden that your taste buds have been yearning for! Tomatoes, onions, peppers, garlic, cilantro, and sunshine are the necessary ingredients. Easy to grow in the garden or pots (apartment dwellers with a sunny balcony – you, too, can grow a salsa garden), for best results provide 6-8 hours of sunshine each day.  Soil should be kept moist, never saturated. If needed, stake taller varieties of tomatoes at the time of, or soon after, planting.

There are many, many recipes for salsa – smooth or chunky, mild or ha cha cha! Once you grow the key ingredients, you can experiment and create your own ‘signature’ salsa. Have the chips handy!