Here are a couple before and after photos of my expansion of the garden. The 1st is a 4' x 16'. This year I expanded to 18' x 20'. I am glad to get rid of the chicken wire.
Everything is growing pretty well. I put the walkway in for the wife, she can get to the herbs without getting into my beds. As much as I like the fresh vegetables, it is having fresh herbs/spices for cooking every night that I look forward to this time of year.
I just always threw tomatoes in the ground and hoped for the best. I seen this video on another forum, followed the directions and now my tomatoes plants are producing big time. For those of you who did not know, follow these directions and see if you get the same results.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJgA4n-sCE8&feature=player_embedded
Here’s what I’ve got so far in my “garden”. Not so much a garden, but homemade earth boxes. I’ve got one box that has a Habanero, Jalapeno and Red Chili pepper plant. The plant in the plastic planter was another Habanero that I planted in the box, but it wasn’t growing like the others, so I took it out. Both plants were the same size when I bought them. Both have the same soil too… You can see the difference between Earthbox vs. regular planter…
The second box has two Eggplants and two Okra plants. The Eggplants have shot up and are about 3x’s the size when we originally bought them. The Okra’s are getting too crowded by the large Eggplant leaves. They are starting to sprout okra, but they’d probably do better in a box by themselves.
The third box has a single cherry 100 tomato plant and a few bush/green bean plants. The picture doesn’t do the plants justice. The tomato plant has exploded and is full of cherry tomatoes. The beans are bushy and have produced enough for two dinners so far, with plenty of left overs… They are starting to crowd each other out, so next time I’ll separate them, but they’re doing good despite being crowded.
All of these plants were planted in early March. The peppers and tomato came in 4” pots and the Eggplant came in 6” or 8” pots (if I remember correctly) and the beans came in a 6 pack 2” pack.
I’ve got a super hot pepper plant (not pictured) in a 5 gallon bucket, but I think I’m going to build another earth box for it since it seems that it’s not doing very well in the bucket. I’ll post pics when I replant it and again when it starts producing….
Post up how you did the earth box. i know there are instructions all over the internet, but would be interested in how you did it
