Specialty Gardening: Started tomatoes in DIY Earth Boxes ©, 1 by dmd1120

dmd1120 wrote:
Joe, this is my first year at gardening, nevermind using the self-watering containers! I really took on a big project with this, as I am just learning some great info on starting seeds and have built 6 DIY EB's so far, and am currently working on 10 more of them. I hope to have at least 20 by the time I'm finished. Luckily, it's still very early in the season here, so it's ok that I don't have everything completed yet.

For Mother's Day, I had built one of the DIY EB's for my Mom. I wasn't able to bring it to her until about 1 1/2 weeks ago, when I helped her to prep the box and place her tomatoes in there. I don't remember what type of tomatoes they were - I know she'd mentioned that she wanted Early Girl, but that's not what the tag had said. Anyway, I wish I had a picture from when we had first placed them in there, but they have grown to about 3 times the size since we'd planted them! Here's a picture from today of the tomatoes in my DIY EB. She had purchased the plants, but I really hope the tomatoes I'd started from seed will grow that nicely!