I set up my stack&Grow today (couldn't sleep) (but the vicodin is working) 1st pick - full of coconut coir ready to plant.
BocaBob
Stack&Grow for you to see
I had some romaine lettuce seedlings and Bok Choy (in the center)
bob: Nice are these the ones you are going to be carrying on your website?
joy
Bob, how big are the stackngrows? Like how deep and how wide? Are they similar in size to the EzGros? And is what is pictured one of the self watering?
Yes, this is one of the verticals I may carry. They are 24 inches in diameter. The whole unit is 14 inches high. It is not self watering, you have to water each pocket. Excess water does drain into the large base. It's totally different then the EZGros. It looks like flowers and herbs is the best for this growing system.
This message was edited Feb 8, 2009 6:25 PM
Decisions, decisions, decisions. Im still trying to decide on what to plant in the stack and grow. Im leaning toward everbearing strawberries, something perennial. Then again.........maybe little gem marigolds in the pockets and a nice pot marigold in the big center pocket. Those little gem marigolds are supposed to stink real nice....smells like lemon.....and are edible. Calundula (pot marigold) petals are also edible and jazz up the looks of a salad. So it is a choice between edible edible's or edible flowers. Sigh!!! gardening requires good decisions.
Devota.........on those strawberries you are planting in the EZgro pots. If you are worried about them next winter (I think you mentioned that before), just take the whole pot and plants of their poles (actually a stob) and put them down in a garden bed and mulch or whatever you were going to do to protect them in the winter. Next spring, just dig them out, pot and all, and stick them back up on their stobs. No transplanting....they never leave their original container. Those EZgro pots seem to be indestructable. Mine are at least 4 years old and still going strong........look like new.
Jaywhacker: There are some flowers that just stink good and you don't eat them, my mom was right, a way to man's heart is through his stomach. LOL I don't think I could eat flowers. LOL
joy
Joy......those are edible flowers. Lots of flowers are edible.........nasturtium leaves are nice.........pansies are so so.
Jaywhacker: People used to eat Possum too; but come on now buddy, eating flowers, oh well John the Baptist ate insects too hey? LOL Just kidding eat all the flowers you want, please don't eat the ones in my garden though I don't think they are edible, canna lilies and daffodils and echinaceas; but I like them lots.
joy
Jaywhacker, I will do that with the strawberries. I have had everberring in a flower bed and they were easy but not productive after the second year and of course I think now that the mothers should have been replaced by by the daughters from time to time.
What do you mean "used to eat possum" Joy? Some of us may still enjoy a roadside snack now and then.
Devota: My mom used to eat possum, she used to shinny up the trees after them when she was a kid, today, you don't dare, as they have been fed so much garbage, who knows what the possum ate that you are ingesting. When I was about 23, after hearing about my mom's possum hunting escapes from one of her sisters, some friends of mine and I decided to catch a possum, we did, and I called my mom to find out how to kill and cook it, she went right through the roof with me, told me if I was hungry get my butt over to her house, not to do nothin to the possum but let it go as since we lived in the city at the time I didn't want to eat it. I always did live a little on the wild side, and the reason my parents had wrinkles and gray hair long before their time. But, hey I'm adventurous and will try anything once.
joy
Okay, Joy. Just kidding.
Devota: Darn, thought I got to experiment with something new again. LOL
joy