Topic by Hex

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What was the mixture of stuff with topsoil?Vermiculite or sand or how did you mix your dirt?
How did you fertilize?
What did you plant?
How did it do?

(We are looking at ''Earth boxes'' for planting our small garden - because the deer, rabbits, etc eat our stuff and we can keep it out of reach by planting the tender stuff up on the deck.)

  Reply by Couture

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Have you ever tried 'tub gardening' or 'raised gardening'? How did you like it??

If you're looking at the real ''EarthBox''s, they have a website that might be useful in answering ur questions, also: http://earthbox.com/consumer/what_is.html

The site explains how the box works, what soil & fertilizer to use: http://earthbox.com/consumer/instructions.html

They also have a FAQ page & a forum where u might find additional questions & : http://forum.earthbox.com/
. or ask a question yourself. The forum also has an area where other folks have posted pictures of their EarthBoxes.

*~ Good luck ~*

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Have you ever tried 'tub gardening' or 'raised gardening'? How did you like it??

Yes I have. It worked well, however u should consider using any good quality potting soil mix in ur planters.
Use a water soluble fertilizer, such as miracle grow.
The major problem is in hot dry weather u may need to water daily or even 2 times a day. Containers dry out very quickly. Do not over plant the containers if u get to many plants in 1 container ur success rate will fall off quickly.
Tomato's, peppers etc do well, avoid large vining plants unless u can provide a trellis support for them
Good luck

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Have you ever tried 'tub gardening' or 'raised gardening'? How did you like it??

I have 18'' raised beds. The soil is composed of 80% commercial potting mix purchased from a local nursery & 20% mineral sand. The commercial mix is 80% composted pine bark, 15% spaghnum moss & 5% sterile sand.The beds r amended with greensand,rock phosphate ,bone meal, blood meal, milorganite & composted chicken manure. I live in Florida & mainly grow heirloom vegetables of all types. Heirloom variety vegetables seem to do better in rich organic soils than they do with chem fert. Judge ur soil by ur earth worm count. The higher the count ,the richer the soil.