EarthBox: Creating Gardens for Happy Plants and Even Happier Green Thumbs!
Gardening with an EarthBox is one of the easiest ways to grow fresh food at home. You can have a garden anywhere with this type of container garden system. Ideal for difficult growing zones—whether it be hot, tropical USDA zones 11-13 that have sandy soil or cold climate zones with short summers and poor soil—EarthBox has you covered!
An EarthBox is a self-contained garden system that is almost maintenance-free and enables you to grow double the amount of produce as a traditional container garden. (Heck yeah!) Enjoy eating fresh, homegrown food year-round with this productive gardening system!
Small and Portable
An EarthBox is small (29″x13.5″x11″) and ideal for use on a patio, balcony, porch, deck, or rooftop. But don’t let the small size fool you into thinking you’ll have a tiny harvest! Because of the efficient design, fresh food can be grown constantly in the container, so it’s always produced.
This container garden is also portable. You can have an outdoor garden during the warm months, then bring the container inside when it gets cold for an indoor winter garden. The portability also makes it easy to create ideal growing environments. Let’s say you have a few places for plants, but none of them get the requisite six hours of sunlight a day. Normally, this would spell doom for plant-parenting dreams, but with EarthBox, it’s no problem! Simply move the containers as needed to follow the sunshine throughout the day.
The small size and portability make these containers perfect for growing food in an urban location where outside landscape space may not be available.
Grow Anything, Anywhere!
Grow anything you want in these efficient gardening containers. You can grow all types of vegetables, herbs, fruits, and flowers and surround yourself with living greenery year-round. Use the Earthboxes to create a calming green space in your outdoor area. Being a plant parent is a soothing and rewarding pastime, especially when you see those first blooms or harvest those first fruits! And as an added bonus, the flowers on the garden plants will attract and feed pollinators, and that’s a win-win for everyone.
#savethebees, please #plantmilkweed for the monarchs. #thebugs say thank you.
You’re In Control
Even when everything else in life might seem to spiral out of control, you’re still the master of your own garden! It’s always a comfort to feel firmly rooted. (Get it?!)
You control the amount of water and plant food. You don’t have to rely on rainfall to water the garden plants, and you won’t have to use harmful chemicals to control pests. This is an organic gardening system that is sustainable, and the containers will last for years.
There are several EarthBox systems to choose from, and one will be just right for the type of plants you want to grow and the space that you have available.
The Ready-To-Grow system comes complete with growing medium and plant food. All you have to add are your choice of plants and water. Other systems come with just the containers and instructions on how to create the perfect growing medium that will keep plants healthy and productive.
If you follow the instructions and select the right plants, it’s almost impossible to fail.
The Right Plants
What should you grow in an EarthBox? Easy. Grow what you like to eat!
EarthBoxes can support all the popular garden vegetables and fruits, like tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, beets, broccoli, cabbage, corn, pepper, melons, blueberries, and squash. The various containers include some that are extra deep so root vegetables, like potatoes, can be grown.
Select bush and dwarf varieties of your favorite plants to maximize the growing space in each container. Using succession planting and crop rotation will enable you to keep food-producing plants continuously growing for a year-round harvest.
EarthBoxes also allow plants to be grown closer together. Their website offers growing guides and how to get the most produce from these unique containers.
The Magic of the Box
So, how do Earthboxes work?
A 3-gallon water chamber is at the bottom of the container, and there is an overflow pipe that makes it impossible to over-water the garden plants. (As an overprotective plant parent, I desperately need this feature, LOL!!)
On top of that is an aeration screen that separates the water chamber and growing medium, creating small air pockets for the plant roots.
The growing medium (either purchased from the company or made yourself following their instructions) will contain lots of peat. Peat is a sustainable product that is harvested from peat bogs, and it acts as a wick for moisture. The peat will keep the moisture down in the growing medium near the plant roots so thirsty plants can easily access it.
The peat-based growing medium also prevents soil-borne diseases and provides a nutrient-rich environment for plant roots. Dolomite, calcium, and magnesium will be added to the growing medium. These three trace elements help to keep plants healthy and prevent blossom end rot. Plant food is also mixed into the growing medium.
Of course, you’ll plant your preferred seeds in the growing medium, and then their roots will develop and grow downwards towards the water and air.
A mulch cover, which is included, is double-sided and can be used year-round. This cover helps prevent evaporation and protects the growing medium from being disturbed by heavy rainfall. The mulch layer has a white side and a black side. The white side protects the tender plants from heat, and the black side stimulates plant growth.
Use the EarthBoxes to create plant beauty, grow food, create a living privacy screen on your balcony, or create a fashionable pollinator garden. Whatever or wherever you use these containers to grow, they will help you be a successful gardener! We give EarthBox two green thumbs up!
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