Gardening With EarthBoxes®--Debbie Green 2-2021

This is a talk by Debbie Green, an Extension Master Gardener Volunteer and experienced Earthbox® user. Debbie covers planning, planting, watering and other maintenance, harvesting, overwintering, and long-term strategies for using these types of growing systems. If you crave growing your own veggies, herbs, or flowers, but limited space, poor growing conditions, contaminated soils, or past failures with container gardening have discouraged you, learn how to succeed with EarthBoxes®.

Although Extension Master Gardener volunteers don’t endorse commercial products, these boxes are the result of research to develop a growing system that manages water and nutrients for optimal plant growth.

Table of Contents
0:00 Introduction
What are EarthBoxes®
4:00 Basic EarthBox® components
5:13 Accessories
8:45 Why use EarthBoxes®?
Planning
12:25 What can you grow?
14:05 How many boxes do you need?/How many plants per box?
14:33 Where can you put them?
16:30 How many plants?
19:09 Initial set-up
20:40 Central concern: Watering/Watering System
24:13 Questions?
Maintenance
27:25 In-season
29:09 End of season/Overwintering
30:26 Crop rotation
32:27 Next season set-up
33:56 Long-term planning
38:18 Questions?


Resources:
What/how to plant:
https://earthbox.com/media/wysiwyg/PD...
Instructional videos:
https://earthbox.com/videos
EarthBox® recommended planting media, lime, and fertilizers:
https://earthbox.com/approved-for-ear...
Container gardening—useful for thinking about location and plant choices; defer to EarthBox®
Instructions for planting medium/lime/fertilizer/watering practices:
https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/extensio...
Buncombe County Extension Master Gardeners blog:
https://www.buncombemastergardener.or...