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Gardening with EarthBoxes®

Saturday Seminar presents:
Gardening with EarthBoxes®

Debbie Green, EMGV

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
If you would like to view a particular portion of the video, here is the Table of Contents for the program with links.  The link will take you to the precise location in the YouTube video.  

  0:00 Introduction What are EarthBoxes®
  4:00 Basic EarthBox® components
  5:13 Accessories
  8:45 Why use EarthBoxes®?
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?
27:25 In-season maintenance
29:09 End of season/Overwintering
30:26 Crop rotation
32:27 Next season set-up
33:56 Long-term planning
38:18 Questions?

 

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