Things You'll Need:
- Garden plot
- Shovels
- Tomato plants
- Variety of pepper plants
- Onions
- Fertilizer
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Step 1
Understand your salsa. Do a little recipe research and know the basics of a good salsa recipe. Experiment with store-bought ingredients and decide what you think tastes best.
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Step 2
Know your salsa heat by researching different peppers and how much heat they provide to a salsa recipe. Check out the ingredients on the label of your favorite store-bought salsas to see what type of pepper they use.
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Step 3
Choose your salsa colors. You can plant salsa gardens according to color using yellow produce for a mild salsa, red for medium heat, and green for scorching hot salsa.
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Step 4
Select your salsa garden plants. Wonderful home-grown tomatoes and peppers come in a variety of heartiness and colors. Choose yellow, green and red tomatoes, then choose peppers in coordinating colors based on their heat index.
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Step 5
Plant your salsa garden in full sun then water and fertilize regularly to enjoy a bountiful harvest.
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Step 6
Enjoy the fruits of your labor by creating a number of different salsas as your harvest comes in. Search the Internet for different recipes.
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Step 7
Be creative with your salsa recipes and experiment with different heat levels by altering the amount and type of peppers that you add to your salsa.
