The Best Earthbox Support
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- Опубліковано 14 тра 2022
- Thank you for all the positive feedback on the EZ Earthbox covers video, this video continues the Earthbox ideas with a PVC based plant support structure that you can easily make.
Here is a link to the cutting instructions on Google drive: drive.google.com/file/d/1lQS2...
This support has worked great for me and I use it on almost every one of my boxes. You can easily change the height or number of top openings to accommodate different plants. The 24 inch supports have worked well for me.
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I've been struggling with trellis, cages, stakes for years with my earthboxes. This is excellent! You should market and sell them. I'm surprised Earthbox itself doesnt steal your idea and sell them. Anyway, thanks again!
they do, they litterly have their very own that goes with the boxes. 5 feet tall if I remember correctly
So thanks for this video. I have 2 older earth boxes that we have resurrected for growing tomatoes and chillies with the grand daughters. We have been looking for a simple support method and will use this design. From downunder in Australia.
And thanks for the cutting diagram as well. Very much appreciated.
I am sooooo happy you did this video!!! I cant wait to make these and by the way, the clamps i made after watching your video have worked great!!! Thanks for both videos!!!
You are so welcome! I'm glad the clamps worked well for you, my original ones are still going strong :)
And the clip method you developed is genius! Thank you for that too!
Thank you!
Many, many thanks for taking the time to show how this is done. I have two earthboxes that are already set up and growing with 3 peppers in each. Not sure that I'll try to build your frames now and add them or wait until next year. You rock!
Thanks!
Looks good! I appreciate the time you took to put this together! Hope everything is going well!! I've been wanting to get the earth box
Just get one of the original sized boxes - you'll be hooked!
What do you think would be the maximum height you can go to with the uprights? My tomatoes get a lot taller than 3 feet!
Has anyone grown watermelon that is what I am really searching for content.
I haven't tried watermelon in an EB but squash does very well.
@@GardeningSolutions I'm guessing watermelon will probably be ok as well
This is a nice idea thank you! What veggies are you going to support with this? For indeterminate tomatoes do you think you could build it 6 ft high? Any reason that wouldn’t work?
I use it for peppers and tomatoes. If you wanted to built it a lot higher maybe go with 3/4" pvc instead, no reason why that wouldn't work.
Might be a silly question, but can you get by with a "tight" assembly with no glue used so as to facilitate: (a) storage of cages between seasons and (b) flexibility to change out height pipes?
Yes, you can certainly do that. There's no real stress on any of the joints so it should stay together just fine. You could also glue the top & bottom sections and just leave the uprights loose so you can store easily or change the height.
Hello! Thanks for the video! I tried to open the Google drive link but it's telling me it no longer exists. Any way to get a copy of it?
Thanks for letting me know, I updated the link so please give it a try again.
Thank you so much!
Have you ruled out spray painting the PVC first and touching up the final product as needed? Seems like that would be efficient…
I'm sure that would work too but you would want to mask off the ends where the glue goes. Good suggestion!
Your 35 minute video how to make and show how to make PVC cage for the earthbox is a blessing. Thank-you.