🌱 MY NEW EARTH BOXES ARE HERE! 🌽 TAKE A L👀K 🍅
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- Опубліковано 10 гру 2019
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I have my new Earth Boxes. This is the unboxing video.
How many Earth Boxes did I buy?
What color are they?
Which model Earth Boxes did I get?
Find out the answer to all these questions and more :)
alan
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I really like all of mine I have used them for years they last quite a few years. I got my first when they first came out. They were made for the fellow that lives up the road from us and it is a great product.
Yes, they are. Thanks for the confirmation!
I have 4 of them and have had them for 20 years. Still going strong. Wish I could attach a picture of my broccoli plants I have in them this fall, woo wee! They are huge and healthy, 6 in each box. Two are terra cotta and two are dark green. I don’t have a problem with heat with the dark green because the foliage of the plants shield it from the sun. I’m here in Arlington, just down the road from you. One suggestion: number the boxes and keep track of when you change out the soil. They say that you don’t need to change it but every 5 years or so, but I have found that it depends on what you have grown in them, some need changing earlier. Before I had the numbering system I was always guessing about when I had changed the soil out.
Oh, and I use the white side in the spring/summer and the black side in the fall/winter.
I LOVE MY EARTHBOXES, depending on what type of plant you need to consider what type of fertilizer the plant needs. Never use time released. I make my own mix with a compost,peat and inexpensive topsoil. I use 10 10 10 for my tomatoes and they go ballistic. A more Acidic soil for strawberrys hint hint. The best thing I love about this planter is no root nemetodes. I live in central Florida and go to the earthbox store several times a year, I buy the used boxes they have on the property for 20 bucks sometimes 15. They last forever. Check craigs list too, I have found some great deals. You are going to be surprised how healthy the plants grow.
I bought my daughter and her family a set of 3 in terra cotta color to use on the deck in their new home. Bought them during the pre-Christmas sale for 2022. When my Homz 17 gallon wicking tubs fail due to UV, I will replace them with Earthboxes as well (I can't find empty mineral feed tubs anywhere around here). If nothing else, for their durability, the Earthbox is a good buy, especially if you catch them on a sale.
yep... gotta catch them on sale
With FREE shipping if possible!!👍😎
Been using homemade earth buckets for a long time with great success. So simple and great for conserving water and fertilizer.
I do the same thing.. I learned from a YT video entitled Global Buckets.
@@PennsylvaniaPrepper that is where I got the idea. I just use buckets from local home improvement big box store or throw outs from restaurants and leftover 3/4" pvc from projects around the house.
Where I live, mosquitoes and squirrels are the very devil. So in my earth box I took a little piece of metal window screening and covered the inside of the drain hole, duct taped it in place, so it can still drain properly, but keeps the mosquitoes out of the water reservoir. As to the squirrels (and what extraordinary discipline I'm practicing to not curse the little bushy-tailed tree-rats) I got my planters set up, with the plastic "hats" as I call them, and the NEXT MORNING the hats on both planters were torn up, and the planting medium scattered about from the dadgum squirrels. So I made some protector "hats" out of chicken wire to put over the plastic bag "hats" to keep the squirrels from digging them up. Mercy, what little stinkers they are! At first I'd used 1/2" welded wire hardware cloth, which is very effective at keeping squirrels from digging up, but just gives little 1/2 inch holes for the plants to grow up through. So I switched to chicken wire, since it's got bigger holes for the plants to grow through. I look froward to seeing what you plant in yours, so keep us posted.
I've thought about doing the mosquito control you describe, but haven't thought about the squirrel "cage"... Great idea!
alan
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We’ve got some squirrels to keep digging up my Bean seeds. Years ago I bought one of those owls And placed it on a stick. The wind blows its head around . I had it near a strawberry plant to keep birds away however I moved it back to where my beans are growing and that stop those sweet little squirrels. Every year at the base of my garden I have little beans coming up from where they planted them.
If you paint the outside of these things, you can make them last for decades in full sun.
I live in south west VA and I have 1 of these and also a square 1 on wheels from Lowes'. They work great. I have grown all kinds of vegetables and herbs.I live in an apartment and these are great for me.
I have 4 I buy the the dolomite and fertilizer kit and use new soil every year. They are like having tomato insurance I know I'm gonna get tomatos from them my only complaint would be that I have to fill the reservoir twice a day but I had vines about 14' long
You can use a packing peanut or random chunk of styrofoam in the fill tube to see the water level if need be. Don't know if the tube is broad enough for a ping pong ball.
Rain gutter gardens are fun as well. same general principle.
No need, there are drain holes that prevent over filling.
They would probably be kick ass for strawberries
@Que Olive great news! Thank you!
Do you keep the Mulch Cover on them?
Seems like they would need to be uncovered for the strawberry vines to send out their runners and multiply themselves.
thanks,
alan
@Que Olive Great to know.
I think I'm going to do 2 of these boxes in strawberries!
thanks,
alan
When you tipped it up se we could see the inside, I noticed two holes along one side and in the center area. Are they the overflow hole?
Yes, the center hole is the overflow
It holds about 3 gallons of water
I think self watering buckets would be a HECK of a lot cheaper. Check out the many videos on YT.... my first was 'Global Buckets'
These were on sale. Not a lot more than if I try to make them myself. But, in the spring, I'll be planting a lot of wicking tubs in addition to the Earth Boxes.
I will be making comparisons to see which are better.
alan
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I have 51 and LOVE THEM!
Wow... FIFTY ONE?!?!
That's a LOT of Earthboxes
You may hold some kind of record :)
@@texasprepper2 I saw on UA-cam someone has twice as many as I have. I was given a lot of them. my nephew gave me a dozen my daughter gave me two my friend gave me three. I picked sone up at garage sales and on craigslist. At different places like that. I couldn’t afford to buy them all new. I accumulated then over the years and I absolutely love them. Heading to a video put out by Blane Whisnant they will last 50 years. Oh. I forgot that I won a earth box when the online Earth Box store had a contest showing your gardens.
@@sandreawhite7534
SEND ME THAT LINK!! 😃
@@texasprepper2 Are you talking about the link where Blake What said they would last 50 years? I watch so many videos I am looking and looking for that link when I find it I will send it to you. Now I will say I bought a root vegetable Earth Box and disintegrated within a season. I told them about it and they replaced it with a regular Earth Box. I’m glad I only bought one because I will never buy those again. I’m wondering if they change their formula or something. I’ve had my boxes for 8 years and some were used. I’ve had no issues whatsoever with them so I don’t doubt that they’ll last that long.
@@sandreawhite7534 Yes, I've seen Blake in several vids, but haven't heard him give a longevity estimation
And yes... they may have changed their formula... but hope not. It's such a good product
Carrots would be great to grow in them!
How do you water all your earthboxes, etc?
Like this:
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Nice video
Check out *Gardening with Leon* for all the wicking container info. (Seems like you are ALWAYS WAY AHEAD of me on everything but FYI just in case.)
I'm never ahead of you Og... except in THIS case:)
Been watching Leon for many months.
I'll be doing several containers using his "wicking tub" design.
It’s gotten very hard to sit and wait for you to get your point out. On and on
It happens with age...
Walmart is now selling an off brand of this
Ha ha ha… Sounds about right. I will check it out and see what I think about it. Thanks.
Go over to Gardening with Leon see how he does these wicking tubs for free to very cheap. If you have the money from your yt channel why not buy these kits kind free. Have a great week.
Sure... I love Leon's channel.
I will be doing a dozen or more tubs like Leon's.
I called him a month ago or so, and asked him some questions about doing fruit trees in tubs.
I have 16 earth boxes and have used them for years. They are indeed a great system for growing vegetables. I moved to North Texas about 3 years ago and of course established a new garden area. I have found that during the hot summer here my plants do very well with full morning sun. When I have placed them where they are in the sun all day they don't do nearly as well. My conclusion is that the boxes get too hot when exposed to the afternoon heat in the summer. Good luck with your earth boxes,Alan. Hope you have a bountiful harvest.
Good to know.
Question: What fertilizer do you use?
Since I didn't order the EB brand of fertilizer, I need to decide what fertilizer to use.
Do you use "time released" or regular?
If regular, how often do you apply it?
thanks,
alan
@@texasprepper2 I buy a small bag of tomato or vegetable fertilizer from Wal-Mart or one of the big box stores. I apply two cups evenly spread out in the furrow you make according to instructions. That lasts the whole season and when I remove the plants at the end of the season I always find some fertilizer left. One more lesson I learned the hard way, don't use hydrated lime or you might burn the roots of your plants.
Is the fertilizer time released or just regular fertilizer?
thanks
a
@@texasprepper2 Its regular fertilizer, 12-10-5 which if you were using in a conventional garden would be reapplied every 6 to 8 weeks. You don't have to do that with the earth box system as the plants get what they need as the water wicks up through the system throughout the growing season.
The instruction specifically state to NOT use slow release fertilizer.
You will have to forgive me for I feel asleep on my phone and hit the dislike button... but I quickly changed that after I woke up.... wonder if those other people did the same thing