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Tips and Tricks / Re: Trellis design gallery

« Last post by rotor on August 04, 2022, 10:23:29 am »

well it happened last night. storm came in and tossed my tomato box with the 7 foot support. Woke to a box on the side wheels off and the bar clamps broken. I need to make something stronger while keeping the box able to roll around.

I do wish the bars on the earth box trellis would seat deeper into the wheel outrigger part.

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My EarthBox / Re: gardendoc's Urban Nano Farm 2022

« Last post by CathyM on July 27, 2022, 08:34:42 am »

@Kbore, I have no indoor light source other than a very bright south window. I started the lettuce outdoors by winter sowing, then transplanted them when they got big enough and protected them with row cover when it was necessary.

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My EarthBox / Re: gardendoc's Urban Nano Farm 2022

« Last post by gardendoc on July 25, 2022, 05:28:24 pm »

If you mean for the propagation shelves I use LED shop lights from Walmart

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My EarthBox / Re: gardendoc's Urban Nano Farm 2022

« Last post by Kbore on July 25, 2022, 11:37:02 am »

@CathyM,
Im starting a lettuce box.  What is your light source for your lettuce box?

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My EarthBox / All Organic EarthBox?

« Last post by Kbore on July 19, 2022, 11:33:24 am »

I am new to the Earthbox environment and setting up 2 EBs for a 100% organic* grow.
Anyone here doing an organic EB?


*
@ Hand crafted soil containing 10% garden/ lawn compost
@ Vericompost top dressing
@ Organic dry fertilizer
@ Ph'ed tap water (my city water is 9.3)

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Introductions / Re: Wow

« Last post by Kbore on July 19, 2022, 11:22:30 am »

I'm new to this forum as well.
A community should interact, and you're the post before me so, pleased to meet you.

I'm growing indoors due to my wooded city lot having very little direct sun, and tons of Black Walnut trees (toxic to the nightshade family, of which, tomato is a member).

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Questions and Answers / best plants for the earth box

« Last post by rotor on July 19, 2022, 10:49:41 am »

This year is my first year growing from EB. I planted Tomatoes and peppers in three boxes.
One box all peppers red yellow and orange. They are all like small trees 3 ft high and tons of fruits.
second box has one tomato plant and the rest peppers. Finally the third has two cherry tomato plants and I thought a small petunia between would be cool. That box is out of control huge. One petunia plant is five feet high just as big as the tomatoes. I should say the petunia was a climbing variety but had no clue it would be so big. I also heard petunias help with certain pests. Who knows but it was on my deck so it looks good.
All these came from seeds.

The point of this is I would like to see a thread with best ideas for planting in these boxes. I would like to now from  experience what plants thrive and which don't. Whether its related to size depth or whatever.
My plan is peppers, tomatoes, beans, corn, and possibly watermelon, onions, and garlic. 

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Questions and Answers / Re: bigger box

« Last post by rotor on July 18, 2022, 07:13:11 pm »

I know it costs to bring new die sets on line. I would bet they would have demand for a larger box.
A quick look on home depot they sell a lot of boxes between 3 ft x 2ft and 4 ft x 3 ft seems an average size. 

I would love to hear what others think.  I plan to buy a few more boxes for next year as the three boxes I have now are going extremely well.
I might try and buy a larger box and make something.

Love to hear the discussion on this

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Questions and Answers / Re: Watering frequency for tomatoes

« Last post by rotor on July 18, 2022, 06:40:15 pm »

Sorry was thinking Blossom drop. Didn't have my coffee yet ha

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Questions and Answers / Re: Watering frequency for tomatoes

« Last post by gardendoc on July 18, 2022, 09:42:57 am »

Blossom End Rot is only caused by inconsistent watering that interrupts Ca availability. To get more sciencey, the inconsistent watering causes a depletion of the apolplastic pool of water soluble Ca2+ within the cells of developing fruit. This happens when the developing fruit are very small prior to visible symptoms.

Now the EarthBox system provides a consistent root zone moisture level and many time only the first fruit will develop BER. This is primarily the incidence when using garden center transplants where it is common for the grower to limit watering, resulting in the transplants receiving inconsistent (wet/dry cycles) before the home gardener even buys the transplants.