I am starting this blog to share with you an idea that my husband has been perfecting to make gardening easier. I’m all for that since I’m rather a “lazy gardener”. A few years ago, I talked him into buying some “Earth Boxes” so that I might have a small garden that would not get washed away in a rain or overrun with weeds. Here is a picture of one of our first attempts at growing cherry tomatoes.
After observing the design of the box he said, “I can make one of those”. Indeed he did. He made a lot of them. He made his own design out of a Rubbermaid tub and some tubing and called it a “Grow Box”. The boxes worked brilliantly. We had a bumper crop. Over time, he’s tweaked his design to make it more efficient. He has designed a watering system to add to the “Grow Boxes. This is an amazing invention which he hopes to market and make millions so that we can move to Carmel and he can play golf at Pebble Beach…a girl can dream, can’t she…
He is calling his company, “Garden Anywhere”. With a box or two or three…or more…you can grow a bumper crop of tomatoes, beans, cucumbers, squash, or whatever you want. We’ve grown corn, okra, cantaloupe, sunflowers, cabbage, etc. in our boxes. There is no weeding and no washing away when it rains. The boxes also save on watering. There is a reservoir in the box that waters from the bottom. No more wasted water. Fill them once a day (twice if it’s hot). It just takes a few minutes. But that was not good enough for Larry. He saw a way to make improvements again.
With his watering system, you can have as many boxes as you want all hooked up through small tubes, a rain barrel to hold the water and a float system to tell when the water level is low. The watering is done automatically. Talk about lazy…I mean brilliant! This watering system is perfect for people who want a garden, but want to travel, or maybe have health problems that limit what they can do in a big garden or are just lazy like me. You can be gone for a week and still water your garden. You don’t have to dig in the dirt or pull weeds. Just get the boxes ready with potting mix and plant your seeds or plants. Add some fertilizer, water and cover the top with black plastic. You are good to go. Sit back and wait for your harvest. This watering system is great for pets, too. You can water your plants and include a watering dish at the end for Fido. Fresh water daily… My husband hopes that through this design, he can help people find or recapture a love of gardening and make it as painless as possible. In the world today, you don’t know what is in the food you eat. If you grow your own, you’ll know.
Here is another picture of the cherry tomato plant an excerpt of a previous post that I made a few years ago: It's been about two months since I planted my Earth Box Cherry Tomatoes. They are way taller now and need tomato cages to support their growth. My daughter just harvested the first tomato a couple of days ago. It really has been a breeze using the Earth Boxes. Next year I want to get started earlier and be able to harvest more. This year all I planted was tomatoes, beans and a watermelon plant. While the beans are doing great and the watermelon plant looks green and healthy, I don't know if I'll get any harvest from them. I planted pretty late in the season. The picture was taken two months ago. Look how they've grown.
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