OT-Earthbox progress

Cpt'n Cook

The Earthboxes are really starting to kick in. Cucumbers Peppers and Eggplant. No peppers or eggplant ready yet but Cucumbers galore.

The regular garden is doing well Tomatoes are six feet tall and climbing, zucchini plants are so big its hard to find and pick them. Beets and Carrots producing well and the pole beans are reaching for the sky.

It has been a good growing year here in Central MA.

bayouegger

I love your rain catching system! Too smart!

I have a question about your zucchini, this is my first time ever growing any veggies and I planted about 7 tomato plants and 1 pepper and 1 zucchini. I have tons of flowers on the zucchini but no fruit. Someone told me you need to plant 2 plants a "mate". Is this true?

Great looking plants, thanks for sharing.

Steve

Frank from Houma

Excellent. Green Egg and Green Thumb.

gdenby

The Earthboxes (tm) look interesting. My garden is along the south side of my house, and because the house needed painting, my only planting this year was in a number of containers sitting out at the edge of the usually cultivated area. Over all, they have not done too well. The leeks are going pretty good, but everything else is rather stunted, even with twice the water I'd usually give an in-ground plant.

So, congrats on a fine situation. For myself, now that the painting is done, I'm getting ready for a late season planting.

Cpt'n Cook

That's a good question, I am not sure. We generally plant four total in two hills. I know it does take them a little while to start producing female flowers, give it a chance, check it out and see if there are any flowers attached to little baby Zuccinis if they turn yellow and shrivel up they have not been pollinated. All plants have both male and female flowers.
I have always planted them in little hills like they say to do and the roots were always exposed by rain, watering, whatever, this year I planted them in kind of dished out in the dirt and they are huge.

Cpt'n Cook

Green rain barrel too!

Cpt'n Cook

They work great, they are a bit expensive but you can find directions on the internet for making your own. This is my third year using them and they are still in good shape.

thirdeye

moved to correct position in thread

thirdeye

I'm jealous....We had a very cold May and I'm running about 45 days behind schedule. I still have green tomatoes...

AzScott

It's great to see the progress of the Earthboxes. I just bought 7 of them with the automatic watering system this past week.

Cpt'n Cook

I now have to water mine every day, when they were smaller you could go 3-4 days. These guys now can really drink. They can go through a full 55 gal rain barrel in 4 days. Hoping for a nice thunder storm tonight to get a rain barrel re-fill.