It might help make the world a better, greener place to live if the "backward farmer" read some endorsements and reviews of the EarthBox and others like it. I sometimes wonder if extension agents have Internet connections.
I have no connection to the EarthBox company whatsoever and my positive endorsement is generic to include many other sub-irrigated grow boxes such as the Tomato Success Kit, the Garden Patch Grow Box and home made versions.
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This is a review by a well respected reviewer on Epinions.com.
While it's a bit late to get an EarthBox and start a garden now (at least here in the Midwest), it's never too early to start planning for next year! The EarthBox is a simple concept and design that I wish I had thought of myself. I have been harvesting beautiful, tasty tomatoes grown in my EarthBox for weeks and am already planning next year's "garden".
I first found out about the EarthBox while reading an old gardening magazine. I don't recall the name of the magazine but it rated the EarthBox one of the great new products of 2001. I had been holding onto the magazine for a while so I just heard about it in 2006, right in the nick of time. For the last 6 years I have been trying, unsuccessfully, to have a veggie garden in my yard. I had a nice 6 x 10 foot garden bed with rich, beautiful soil, but it was just a bit too shady and mosquitoey and it never really worked out for me. Last year was the first year I didn't even try to create a veggie garden and I really missed it, even though it never worked out. And then last February I read about the EarthBox and decided to give the veggie garden one last chance, but on my deck this time which gets full sun for most of the day. I ordered one EarthBox the very next day. I was able to grow huge, beautiful tomato plants right on my deck and have been harvesting fresh, tasty tomatoes for several weeks now.
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