These plants are growing right now as you're looking at them. It's a vegetable garden in warm and sunny South Florida where these plants can look like this just a month ago in March.
The gardener and publisher of An Eyeful blog has discovered the many benefits of a sub-irrigated (aka self-watering) box garden. She has done us all a public service by posting many photos of her garden.
I started using containers that are watered from the top planting tomatoes, carrots, lettuce, radishes, potatoes, peanuts, cucumbers, peppers.
I am now in the process of planting tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, kohl rabi, okra and peppers in homemade sub-irrigated boxes.
I had experimented with a couple earthboxes a few years ago and found them to produce vegetable plants the were twice as big and yielded 2 to 3 times the amount of vegetables per plant as my traditional "water from the top" boxes.
Making my own is both financially feasible and it allows me to have many more boxes than if I bought them readymade.
I'm hooked!
We need the help of all the artists, designers, writers and other open minded people we can find to overcome the massive amount of out-of-date and often inaccurate information published by our institutions.
History shows that change will be very slow in coming from these ultra-conservative organizations. So, it's up to us as individuals to do what they are not doing.
I encourage you to thank this artist and gardener by checking out her art. Perhaps you will find something you like for your home. She obviously knows how to create garden greens to eat and to admire.
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