- FAQs for first time gardeners
- About the Planty Garden
- What is a Planty Garden in a nutshell?
- Hi, I'm Jelle
- What can Planty Gardening do for you?
- What is a Planty Garden exactly and how does it work?
- The Planty Gardening system
- Growing vegetables in your Planty Garden
- Sowing in your Planty Garden
- About where to put which vegetables and crop rotation
- Plant, sow, or pre-sow?
- Harvesting as long and efficiently as possible
- Mistakes beginners make in the vegetable garden
- What isn't a Planty Garden
- Square Foot Gardening: the starting point for Planty
Almost all information about plants has been included with the plants in our free app. So, you don't need to remember it.
View the MM app
- FAQs for first time gardeners
- About the Planty Garden
- What is a Planty Garden in a nutshell?
- Hi, I'm Jelle
- What can Planty Gardening do for you?
- What is a Planty Garden exactly and how does it work?
- The Planty Gardening system
- Growing vegetables in your Planty Garden
- Sowing in your Planty Garden
- About where to put which vegetables and crop rotation
- Plant, sow, or pre-sow?
- Harvesting as long and efficiently as possible
- Mistakes beginners make in the vegetable garden
- What isn't a Planty Garden
- Square Foot Gardening: the starting point for Planty
The Planty Gardening system
To make your vegetable garden a success, your plants need 5 things: air, water, sunlight, nutrients, and room to grow.
With the Planty Gardening system, you give them everything they need in a smart way. You can skip the tiring, sweaty work that a traditional vegetable garden demands and get bigger harvests per square meter.
How does it work?
How does it work?
You give your plants this:
- sunlight
- water
- nutrients
- air
- room to grow
Without all this:
- lots of digging
- endless weeding
- figuring out what kind of fertilizer each plant needs
- a sow/harvest calendar
- producing too many crops at once
- pesticides or insecticides
- tons of gardening gear
- spending all your free time
How? Here's how the Planty system works, step by step:
The garden box
Let's start with your vegetable garden box. You can make it yourself or get a super-durable MM-Hero or MM-Bamboo from the shop:
Place your vegetable garden box anywhere that gets at least 6 - but ideally 8 - hours of sunlight a day: in your yard, on your terrace, or on your balcony.
- sunlight: ✅
Weed mat
Next, put your weed mat on the bottom of your garden box:
If your box is placed directly on the ground, this stops weeds from growing up from the bottom.
So, we can check weeding off the list:
So, we can check weeding off the list:
- endless weeding:❌
The best soil mix: our MM-Mix
Next, fill your box with the best vegetable garden soil mix: the MM-Mix.
This mix contains a few important ingredients:
Vermiculite: a granular natural mineral that retains water and air.
This mix contains a few important ingredients:
Vermiculite: a granular natural mineral that retains water and air.
- water: ✅
- air: ✅
Plant food: pure nutrients for your plants.
- nutrients: ✅
Fibers - like brown peat, cocopeat, and wood fibers: they make the soil mix loose and airy, so it doesn't sink down and get compacted.
These ingredients ensure a perfect pH balance for your entire garden.
These ingredients ensure a perfect pH balance for your entire garden.
(For the connoisseur: compost with vermiculite would be too alkaline.)
Our soil mix works great with all your plants: from vegetables to flowers and small fruits. So, there's no need to add special fertilizers for each type of plant.
Because whatever you put in our soil mix grows well. No need to add other composts or other extras.
Because whatever you put in our soil mix grows well. No need to add other composts or other extras.
- figuring out what kind of fertilizer each plant needs: ❌
Plus: this soil mix just won't quit: you never need to replace it. We've been using ours for more than 10 years now 🙂
Our soil mix works great with all your plants: from vegetables to flowers and small fruits. So, there's no need to add special fertilizers for each type of plant.
Because whatever you put in our soil mix grows well. No need to add other composts or other extras.
Because whatever you put in our soil mix grows well. No need to add other composts or other extras.
- figuring out what kind of fertilizer each plant needs: ❌
Plus: this soil mix just won't quit: you never need to replace it. We've been using ours for more than 10 years now 🙂
That's because the ingredients work well together and keep working.
The soil mix does become more compacted over time and your plants consume its nutrients as they grow.
So, every now and then you have to freshen it up. Simply top off your garden box with a layer of fresh MM-Mix and extra nutrients (MM-Plantfood). These all-natural products are made to work perfectly together.
Never having to replace the mix is super environmentally friendly.
Go ahead and compare our soil mix with other potting soils and the like: most of the time, you have to replace them and add all kinds of fertilizers and composts.
The soil mix does become more compacted over time and your plants consume its nutrients as they grow.
So, every now and then you have to freshen it up. Simply top off your garden box with a layer of fresh MM-Mix and extra nutrients (MM-Plantfood). These all-natural products are made to work perfectly together.
Never having to replace the mix is super environmentally friendly.
Go ahead and compare our soil mix with other potting soils and the like: most of the time, you have to replace them and add all kinds of fertilizers and composts.
Buy 1x and refresh it once in a while
That's not just better for the environment, but also better for your wallet 😉
Plus, it saves you the trouble of having to hunt down the right kind of compost for each plant and haul old soil mix away.
Plus, it saves you the trouble of having to hunt down the right kind of compost for each plant and haul old soil mix away.
What about all that digging and sweating?
We're not into that.
With regular vegetable gardens, you have to dig them up every year to aerate the soil and work in fertilizer. But in a Planty Garden, you don't.
Because you use garden boxes and never walk on it, the soil mix doesn't get so compact: it stays nice and airy for longer. The quality of the MM-Mix also helps. All you need to do is top it off with a little fresh mix every so often.
With regular vegetable gardens, you have to dig them up every year to aerate the soil and work in fertilizer. But in a Planty Garden, you don't.
Because you use garden boxes and never walk on it, the soil mix doesn't get so compact: it stays nice and airy for longer. The quality of the MM-Mix also helps. All you need to do is top it off with a little fresh mix every so often.
- lots of digging: ❌
Make the most of it
Okay. So far you invested in an MM-Hero or MM-Bamboo garden box or garden table. You've got the ideal MM-Mix and are ready to go. Let's make the most of it 🙂
The secret to a successful Planty Garden is to use every square centimeter of your garden box. So you get a varied and plentiful harvest.
I'll show you how:
The secret to a successful Planty Garden is to use every square centimeter of your garden box. So you get a varied and plentiful harvest.
I'll show you how:
Continue reading:
Uitleg MM
- What is a Planty Garden exactly and how does it work?
- The Planty Gardening system
- Growing vegetables in your Planty Garden
- Sowing in your Planty Garden
- About where to put which vegetables and crop rotation
- Plant, sow, or pre-sow?
- Harvesting as long and efficiently as possible
- Mistakes beginners make in the vegetable garden
Planty system
- FAQs for first time gardeners
- About the Planty Garden
- What is a Planty Garden in a nutshell?
- Hi, I'm Jelle
- What can Planty Gardening do for you?
- What is a Planty Garden exactly and how does it work?
- The Planty Gardening system
- Growing vegetables in your Planty Garden
- Sowing in your Planty Garden
- About where to put which vegetables and crop rotation
- Plant, sow, or pre-sow?
- Harvesting as long and efficiently as possible
- Mistakes beginners make in the vegetable garden
- What isn't a Planty Garden
- Square Foot Gardening: the starting point for Planty