Experiment 2

Here are pics from this morning. Everything is growing a warp speed. I think the Earth Boxes have a slight advantage at this point. I report, you decide.(If you watch Fox News, you know what that means)

BocaBob

Here are Summer squash, cukes, and beans

New batch of leaf lettuce ready to harvest

Here come the flowers!!! I guess I need to put on my bee wings cause I haven't seen a real bee around here in years.

Sweet corn, you can almost see these things growing!!

My newly expanded outside the pool plot with 5 new EB's

watermelon plants doing just fine

My single eggpalnt is now 4 feet tall

a better view of the corn and some lettuce

Boca Bob,
Your veggies are looking great. What do you use for fertilizer?

Fair and balanced gardening!

LOL!

Dean_W - I use Fox Farm Hydroponic products for the Hydrostackers and good old 6-6-6 for the Earthboxes.

BocaBob

Thanks, BocaBob, they look like they enjoy what your giving them.

Bob,

My strawberries have been planted in the EZGro for a week and all have broken dormancy and have a new leaf or two. I'll take a couple of photos at two weeks. So far, so good.

David

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David- I can't wait to see your pics!!!. My strawberries will be shipped March 10.

BocaBob

Here are some pics from today 2/23

This is a eight ball squash that I pollinated myself two days ago. Hope I did good!!

Here is my watermellon in a Earth Box

My first Black Beauty eggplant!!!

and here is her mommy

lots of summer squash in hydro-stacker

squash and cukes in a EB

Boca Bob, your potted garden makes me very envious But I have to stop and remember that maybe you will be envious of me this summer when i am gardening in our nice weather!!!!!!!! Your garden looks lovely and happy.

Donna, in snowy cold Wash.

corn growing great

different view of the corn

Long view down the pool

More pics next week

Thanks for looking

BocaBob

Donna- When it is 100 degrees and 100% humidity this summer, I will be VERY envious of you and your garden.

BocaBob

Bob,

I said that I post a photo of my EZGro once the plants started to grow. Here's a composite showing the whole planter and a view that's a little closer to the plants. I put a little bit of coarse bark mulch on the top layer because it was losing planting media from hard winds. At this point, I'm watering by hand, half a gallon twice a day. I hope to set up something automatic later this spring.

The strawberries were dormant sets when I planted two weeks ago. The strawberry plants are 'Eversweet', a day-neutral everbearing plant. I ordered them from Stark Brothers Nursery in Missouri.

David

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Dave- JUST BEAUTIFUL !!!!!!! When I get my strawberry plants in, will you give me a step by step how you planted them?

BocaBob

So your pool is completely enclosed, and that keeps out bees?

LTiton - Maybe, but I haven't seen any bees around for a few years. Half of my garden is outside the pool also, so if there are any bees, hopefully I will see them.

BocaBob

Dave,

Show some more pictures of your gardening area, please.

Boca Bob, I didn't go back and reread this thread, did you tell us where you got your great looking container. I would like to try one of two. Would appreciate an address if you have one. TIA

Donnna

Bob--Instructions for planting the strawberries are fairly straight-forward. Let me know when your strawberries arrive. I didn't do anything too special, but I'm willing to share what I did.

Dean_W--I'll take a couple of photos in a day or two. It was a great weekend to be outside in the Austin area!

David R

Here's a couple of mid-week pics

Just picked my 1st eight ba zuc. It's for dinner

BocaBob

Sorry, that was eight ball zuc, here's another shot of it

Here's another one from a different plant

Here's the yellow ball squash type

Here's my eggplant almost ready



See ya Saturday with lots of pics