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« on: January 03, 2012, 09:42:41 AM » |
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Hope no thinks I am a pansy - but somehow I got started trying to grow flowers. Maybe because I have like 25 earthboxes and I've been trying to find something to do with them?
Most of the flowers are very easy to grow:
1. Go to your local nursery.
2. Buy what they recommend.
3. Put the flowers in your earthbox.
So easy - even I could do it.
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kebaldwin
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« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2012, 10:02:36 AM » |
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Now Im getting fancy with winter flowers!
These look a little rough because they were just planted and it is winter.
If some of the bigger plants look like vegetables - they are ornamental vegetables.
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kathy
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« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2012, 10:21:45 AM » |
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Nice Keith....and I don't think you are a pansy....I do have a question though, no covers on some of the boxes?
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kath, gardening is my game, EarthBox is my fame.
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kebaldwin
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« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2012, 10:41:20 AM » |
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Sometimes I follow earthboxes recommendations - sometimes I like to experiment. Sometimes I get someone helping me and they dont wait for covers and such.
For flowers, I think earthbox recommends 3 cups organic fertilizer in one strip down the middle with eight flowers on each side.
I took the 3 cups of organic fertilizer, mixed it in to the top six inches of soil, and planted one big plant in the back of each earthbox and a bunch of little plants in the middle and front. IMHO - The pansies, violas, and such - look nice if planted close together and look bad if spread out. So I tried to cram as many in as possible.
In this case - I have so many plants - it would have been a nightmare trying to punch holes in the cover. And I am not as worried about weeds over winter as I would be over summer.
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John
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« Reply #4 on: January 03, 2012, 04:17:07 PM » |
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Nice work Keith!
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kathy
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« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2012, 09:06:47 AM » |
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Thanks for the response.....I don't have the climate to grow the flowers in fall and winter, but have had some beautiful flower EarthBoxes in the spring and summer!
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« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2012, 09:57:31 AM » |
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We have had some cold temps (down in the 20s) the last couple of nights. Flowers and plants look like they are drooping. Should warm up this weekend - will see if they bounce back.
They plant pansies, violas, and a hybrid all over around here. Usually they are always in some grid like pattern.
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HJM
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« Reply #7 on: April 28, 2012, 08:09:52 AM » |
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What a lovely display! I've tossed in some flowers into little areas on my Earthboxes to attract bees but your displays would make my neighbors very happy!
HJM
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