Garden Anywhere Box and Social Media

Last year I took over 100 daily harvest pictures from our garden. It started on June 16th  with 5 squash, including a yellow and green one that we called, "Squa-chinni".  I didn't even use a basket. I just set the squash on a table and took a picture. 

Three days later, I grabbed a basket 1. because I love baskets and have quite a few and 2. because I had more to harvest than 5 squash. Twelve, to be exact. Big, beautiful, shiny green and yellow squash that became yummy Blu-cchini Muffins, Pasta and Squash ribbons and other yummy kitchen treats.

 And so it began...my daily garden harvest pictures. No two pictures are alike because no two daily harvests are alike. From June to November, almost every day, I took over 100 daily harvest pictures. I decided to compile my pics into one easy, accessible place. I have them on my FB page, but you have to scroll through lots of pics to see them all. Now, with my Garden Anywhere Box Pinterest page, all of my pictures are in one place. http://www.pinterest.com/gardenanywhere/garden-anywhere-box/

 

In other news, my son, Leiden, set up a Garden Anywhere Box You-Tube channel. There are only two videos so far. One is a 30 second slide show of some of my daily pics set to the tune of "The Typewriter." The other is Leiden's amazing, wonderful, educational and entertaining video that he made explaining how Garden Anywhere Box works.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TsHj353w_U

 

Here are just a few of my daily harvest pics from last summer. It is amazing how many veggies we were able to harvest...from a box!

You can garden in a box. You can garden in your socks.

You can garden here...or there. You can GARDEN ANYWHERE!

Where is your anywhere?

 

HOT! HOT! HOT!



Chocolate Bell

Cherry Hot Bell

Carribbean Blend

When it comes to peppers, do you like no spice,  a little spice or a LOT of spice? Check out Pepper Joe's. They have sweet, mild peppers, like Chocolate Bell or Sweet Crimson, hot peppers like Chipolte Jalapeno, Cherry Hot Pepper or Fire in a Box. This is a pack of 11 different habanero peppers including Carribbean Blend.  HOT! HOT! HOT!

But, that's not as hot as Pepper Joe goes! Pepper Joe's carry's the HOTTEST pepper on the planet. It's not the Ghost Pepper commercially grown at around 970,000 units of hot on the Scoville scale, but they do carry those seeds.  The hottest pepper is called the "Carolina Reaper" with a Scoville rating of 1, 569, 000. Now that's HOT! I bought some seeds just for fun. I guess I'll make my own pepper spray...lol!

Carolina Reaper

 

Pepper Joe's carries an even HOTTER pepper called the Peter Pepper. It's an X-rated pepper. I did not order any of those. My basket would blush. I just wanted to give you a head's up in case you come across it in your search.



No Contest! FB Does it Again...

You know, I totally get having to pay for advertising. FB is a business. It is also a free service. For that I am grateful, but advertising on FB is expensive! We have paid for advertising a few times when we could afford it.

We are a small family-operated business. Our kids make the boxes until we can afford to have them manufactured. My husband has a "real" job while we are working to make a go of this business. We really do believe that GAB will change the way that people garden and the way that people see gardening. FB could be a big help in spreading the word.

It is really frustrating .to be told that we can not do give-aways on FB.  Before the FB clamp-down last year, I saw our numbers hit over 25,000 views in one night. Soon after that, we were lucky to have 50 views. When I pay for advertising, itls like they open the flood gate and people see our page. When we don't pay, there is barely a trickle.
 
I was excited the other night that so many people responded to our (unpaid) post about a box give away. Your comments really warmed my heart. I believe that there is a need for our product. FB is one way to share what we do with others, but FB is not the only form of advertising that we use. It's just the easiest for me. I'm not a big fan of Twitter. I've tried tweeting, but I really like FB for posting pictures of what I'm growing. Twitter just doesn't feel the same to me, but I'm willing to give it a try again. Garden Anywhere Box is on Twitter, but I think I only have like seven followers. If I switched to giveaways on Twitter, you'd have to find and follow me to stay informed.

We are working on other sources of advertising and should have a youtube channel for Garden Anywhere Box. In addition to our little gardening gnomes that make the boxes, we also have amazingly talented artist gnomes. This part of the family is busily making cartoons that teach about the boxes. I'm really excited for you to see these cartoons. They are funny and educational. 

I'll try doing a give-away on Twitter. I'll put a link on FB in a couple of weeks. You'll have to find me on Twitter or it will be a contest between seven people...:)

Thank you for your support as we try to share our business with others and spread the word about an easy way to garden. No weeds. Less water. Portable. Garden Anywhere Box-gardening for our future.