Container Gardening Making Your Own Earthbox

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1. about inside the home want do you do?
2. Nice Video. What is the white Visqueen for? Your's is the first I've seen with visqueen.
3. They make a red plastic cover , that is for tomatoes. I think they call red mulch ? I'm not sure
4. I'm a grower w 22 Earthboxes. Benefits to Earthbox:
   1. Food grade construction
   2. Durability
   3. Educational support from the Eb company and their forum. Some of the forum members have higher education in horticulture.
   
   A friend of mine followed the above instructions. Within 2 years grow boxes were destroyed by weather. I've had my Earth boxes since early 2011. They still look and work like new. sometimes cheap is expensive! I know people who have had them for 20 years and they're still growing strong!
5. Papercrete construction, i'll let you know outcome. Thank you for good, inspiring sharing. Hari Rama
6. I was thinking sure what ever - Until you showed your past success. Great video. Thanks!
7. That is a really nice design @CrashbladeKnives
8. Hi, in your FL climate, how often do you typically have to add water to these? Thanks for posting this, btw.
9. FYI Check out the alternative type of 'wicking barrel etc. at RobBobs Backyard Farming. on his You Tube channel.
10. What a great idea and an even better system. Might suggest light straw mulch rather than the vis-screen whatever color you might think. Living in Townsville North Queensland Australia, we average temperatures of low to mid 80 during the winter so keeping plants cool is a skill we all need to learn mighty fast. A bale of straw or hay (straw has seed in it sometimes) is cheap and much cheaper than any of the ground cover manufactures screening materials available. Hope these boxes worked well for you.
11. Thanks for posting. Two questions: 1) why isn't the lid that sets inside, above the reservoir, buckling and breaking under the pressure? 2) how much soil gets down into the reservoir through all the holes in that lid above the reservoir? :)
12. :)
    Cool, but I just don't get these "false bottom" designs.
    
    My understanding of wicking beds (Earthboxes work on the same principle) is that there should be a porous barrier between the soil and the reservoir. Without that barrier, the soil must have filled the reservoir in your box. That drastically reduces the volume of water in the reservoir.
    
    Also, does the bottom feeding planting basket (at 2:30) support the middle of the platform / "false bottom" supporting the weight of the moist soil, and preventing the false bottom from buckling and breaking?
    :)
13. Thanks for your video, I made two this year and they turned out really well for peppers and tomatoes. I'm going to build 10 more for next year.
14. i have two pots not earth boxes. On one of them, i"ve planted a hibiscus which is still small, four cucumbers which just germinated a week ago, and some peppers (california wonder) which have just germinated a few days ago. In the other pot, i planted a bean plant , idon"t know which type and it has just started flowering. My family has planned a trip which will be very far for a week and i need to make these pots self watering systems. PLEEEEEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!
15. are you concerned that the containers are not food grade?
16. What's the purpose of the big cup in the middle with the circle cut for it? 
17. why do you put the PVC pipe for?  With all the holes, can't you directly water the dirt?
18. Can you do a review on your puzzle ring? +CrashbladeKnives 
19. I see the video was made 2013, so how did it all turn out?
20. Just watched your video, great idea but I was wondering if you cover the soil with bark mulch directly or over the white/black cover would it keep the soil cooler? just a thought, let me know what you think. Thanks!