Salad raft £37.00

Product Ref: 0354

Want to grow lettuce but perhaps you hate weeding or don't have a garden? The Salad raft, from the original Hydroponicum range of hydroponic growing kits, gives you a continuous supply of fresh salad leaves all year round. Some varieties of salad leaves are ready to start picking in as little as three weeks from the seedling stage. With successional planting it's possible to crop two lettuces a week during the summer months. Cut-and-come-again salad leaves (such as rocket or Chinese mustard) can be picked continuously.

Simply sow your seeds in the minipropagator provided, then transplant them into net pots filled with clay pebbles.  These then fit into holes in a polystyrene raft which floats in the growing tray filled with liquid feed. A low-powered air pump keeps the nutrient solution well oxygenated allowing healthy white feeding roots to grow directly into the tray. Simply replant a seedling every time you harvest a head of lettuce.

The kit has everything to start you off, including full instructions. All you need is some seeds of your favourite salad leaves, a brightly-lit site indoors (conservatory, greenhouse or just a windowsill) with enough space to site the tray and a mains power supply nearby.

We always have seeds in stock for a range of lettuces, herbs and unusual salad leaves suitable for growing in the raft kit.
When you need to re-stock, Refill packs are available for this kit.

The kit contains:
Tray
polystyrene raft, pre-drilled with 8 holes
8 x 2” net pots
2 litres clay pebbles
Air pump
75cm air line
1” air stone
1 litre bottle of General purpose 1
1 litre bottle of General purpose 2
30ml measure
minipropagator
instructions