New thread because the other is now to long. Here's some of today's pics:
Zucchini in lay flat coconut coir bags
My EB garden and more (part2)
carrots in a uncovered EB. Need thinning soon
Yellow summer squash in a covered EB
Summer squash, broccoli, and Georgia Collards in EB's
My tomato patch in coconut coir 5 gallon grow bags
3 seedless European Cuke plants in a 30 gallon tub of coconut coir
My own "Bob's Green Thumb Planters" with a Gypsy pepper plant and a Eight Ball squash plant
Another lookat those 3 EB's
English Peas popping out of a lay flat bag
My sweet corn planted in a 30 gallon tub. Tassels are out and silks are catching the pollen.
Collards in a 5 gallon grow bag
North side of my garden
South side of my garden
Gypsy peppers in a uncovered EB with top spray watering
Two other Gypsy's in 5 gallon grow bags
And last for today, a Icabon Eggplant starting to flower
See ya all
BocaBob
I looove the Ichiban Eggplant. They are so pretty and yummy!
Guess who has a brand new, homemade, BocaBob designed, automatic drip watering system?
Give up?
ME!!!!!
Hey Linda - Is the water flowing?
BocaBob
Im really jazzed about the carrots, I just didnt think I could do that. Have you done it before, and do you leave it pretty full of carrots, or how many do you get out of a box.
BocaBob: I'm coming to dinner in December, as I'll be in Ft Lauderdale, LOL Where do you get the grow bags from or do you make them? What about the laydown one? Also; why are the carrots uncovered in your EB? I need to know cause I'm planting them this next year myself. Those look like tomato trees not tomato plants> LOL Please keep me posted on the eggplant as it matures will ya? I jumped out there and planted 15 artichokes, 16 cauliflowers, 19 cabbages (variety), and 5 black beauty eggplants into extra large peat pellets today and put them in a labeled tray, covered them with saran wrap and put them on the grow light shelf, will wait till they start to pop up and then take off the saran and turn on the grow light.
joy112854
We've grown Pac Choy, Broccoli, Collards and lettuce in self-watering boxes. I now have Leeks and Gold Shower Tree planted.
Beautiful Pac Choy. How many did you grow per box
carolpen - I only hope my Pac Choy grow as good as yours!!!!! Here's mine in 2 different growing systems:
These are in Hydrostackers
and these are in a uncovered EarthBox
BocaBob
joy112854 - You are welcome to dinner anytime!!!!! The grow bags come with the coconut coir compressed in them. I am becoming a distributor next week. I have them being shipped down here by the importer up north. Same with the lay flat coconut coir bags. the carrots are a experiment that should work fine. I'm top spray watering them, and will thin them out to about 3 inches apart soon. I'm growing them in coconut coir like everything else. It would be difficult to grow carrots in a EB covered Just think how many little holes you would need. I have never had such growth from tomatoes in my life. They are now almost 8 feet tall, with tomatoes all over them. OK on the eggplant.
BocaBob
Here's a couple of pics from today:
Just alittle rain and boom. Check out these cukes. 5 are ready to pick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Leaf lettuce growing very fast
carrots in a Bob's GTP
English peas in a coconut coir lay flat bag
Silks on my corn.
Yellow summer squash in my Bob's GTP (Green Thumb Planter)
Vivian Romaine Lettuce growing indoors ready for outside planting
Leaf lettuce growing indoors
Susan - Keep posted. Lots of info coming on the coconut coir. You are welcome anytime. When growing things like carrots, I don't see any reason why if you top feed with nutrients a open EB should produce just fine.
bocaBob
gardenglory - 1st time growing carrots this way. Should work just fine. I will thin to 3" apart real soon
BocaBob
O wow, are those blocks from bio sponges. I swear by them for my daylily seedlings. Do you have them stuffed with coir and it doesnt fall thru when floating.
gardenglory- No, not form bio sponges. What you see is pretty big. The black block is a 5 gallon grow bag with compressed coconut coir in it ready to be re hydrated. The bag opens up(look below) The white block is 3 feet long with a sheet of coconut coir in it .When dehydrated it gets about 6 inches thick. The brown block is 5 kg of compressed coconut coir and when dehydrated will expand to 55 lbs (3 cubic feet) of usable growing mix. I will be selling all three in the marketplace on the web site real soon
O, sorry, I was refering to the styrofoam block floating in the green tray with the lettuce.Whats in those holes ?