Can anyone recommend a simple but reliable irrigation system for pots? Never put one together before but I will be doing this for Mom for Mothers Day. 20 pots should be...
This morning I got to thinking about last year's efforts to keep the tomato plants cooler. Some of you might remember that last year in addition to shade cloth, I decided to...
I started it last night with an 18 gal tub I had emptied, and today I got two more tubs, to make more. Of course they don't sell the same brands, sizes, and all that that...
Just curious as I don't often see posts about self watering containers except the Earth box and I'm wondering if anyone here has tried any commercially sold ones like the...
My tomato season is over. This year I planted my tomato plants in 20 gallon grow bags filled with MG potting soil. Plants grew very well and they looked very healthy. But as...
Hi everyone, it's almost time to start up my Earthboxes for the upcoming season. I'm all out of fertilizer, I've used Ecoscraps till now but wondering what you all have been...
I'm looking to see what kind of container mix I can make without adding anything that is not on my property. I have tons of compost and leaf mold. I use probably 300 gallons...
Yesterday Pickles was poking around in Pinterest and ran across this piece about trellises. I've been using the t-post and hog panel (we call it hog wire or field fence)...
I have had some type of self watering containers made with expanded clay aggregate on the bottom and the soil separated with landscape fabric. These have been working fine...
Tomato-debaters! I'm eyeing three different soil mixes to fill the top ~6 inches of my raised beds. They are each substantially different, and bring different things to the...
I had a 6 year old SIP, made from a 14 gal Rubbermaid tub, become very brittle (yet the other 14 gal is not nearly as bad, and the 18 gal Rubbermaids are still in perfect...
I have been tomato gardening for 10 years. My first few years tomatoes were amazing, disease free and huge. I had bought the best vegetable garden bed soil I could afford,...
I currently use 1/2 irrigation pipe to support frost cloth and netting over my 4' wide raised beds but I want something that will be useful to run down all or just part of a...
Several have said use nitrogren the first half or start of the seasopn and then more potassium second half or there abouts. when do you make the switch?
Hello! I admit I only recently heard the term interplanting and thought at first it must be something different than companion planting. I don't think it does.
This is my first year using an EarthBox, I had to try them due to Fusarium in the main garden. I followed instructions exactly, using Sungro Professional Potting mix,...
Aside from dwarfs, what varieties do you like in an EB? This year, I'm growing several varieties that look like they are perfect fits for an EarthBox. Yes, you can grow...
These pics are from 2015, 2016, and 2017. (Nov. and Dec.). They sell EB and plants and accessories. This is where the late inventor, Blake Whisenant was based. He gave little...
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