Time to start tossing.

Now Christopher is eating lunch.

At 2:31 pm.

So it's looking good for the Bad Mother of the Month Award in July, too!

Back shortly.

In the meantime, this is an EarthBox.

EarthBox Investigation

The two plants came from the same nursery, on the same day, and were the same size when we planted them. The EarthBox is directly next to the patch of earth where the other basil plant is planted, and the two plants get the same amount of sun, rain, etc.

The basil plant in the earth is scrawny, not too healthy looking, and stands 10 1/2" tall.

The basil plant in the EarthBox is a bush.

It is 14 1/2" inches tall, and is so huge and fleshed out that Ed is going to cut it back because he's afraid it's blocking the sun for the green bean plants that are also growing in the same EarthBox.

Not that the green bean plants look like they need any help. They're bushes, too.

The tomato plants in the tomato EarthBox look like the stalk in Jack and the Beanstalk, and we've got corn stalks barrelling up-up-up out of yet another.

I just ordered more EarthBoxes.

Here is a web site that tells you how to make a homemade Bloggers.EarthBox.

What I want to know now is how to duplicate the EarthBox technology for indoor plants in small pots.

update

Here's a line from a satisfied customer:

"Quite a new wave of gardening. We are having so much fun with our 'MONSTER' tomato plants.”
Mary M. Forestdale, MO.

It's true.

Our EarthBox plants look like the kind of thing you see in those Fantastic Island—type movies, where the actors shipwreck on an Island Time Forgot and every living thing they find is 10 times bigger than it's supposed to be.

It's only July 1 and I'm already wondering how on earth I'm going to use all the basil I've got. (I'm pretty sure I remember where my gazpacho recipe is, so that's a plus.)

Oh wait.

Gazpacho takes fresh parsley.

Not basil.

So I have to find my pizza recipe.

It's probably in the same place we left the rulers.

Well, thank heavens we didn't grow cucumbers. There's another customer quoted on the site shown standing on a ladder next to a cucumber plant that's about 8 feet tall, maybe taller. He says that from June 20 to August 18 he picked 105 cucumbers. The biggest one was 16" long. That's just gross.

update July 24, 2005

Green beans & basil don't mix?


SummerProgramUpdate (measurement skills)
MeasurementAdviceFromCarlL

EarthBox investigation with Christopher
adjustable reservoir for indoor plants
EarthBox reminder
self-watering pots and planters from Denmark
hydroculture
sub-irrigation

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