I don’t have much gardening experience beyond sticking a few annuals in the ground each year, but I decided to try vegetable gardening this year, on a very small scale. On the advice of a friend who knows a lot more about this than I do, I got two Earth Boxes and planted them this weekend. I’ve been assured that they are almost foolproof. Assuming you can follow directions to set them up properly and that they get enough sun, the rest is pretty easy. A below soil irrigation system means that as long as you keep the reservoir full, you can neither over- nor under-water the plants.
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Behold, tomatoes on the left and cucumbers on the right. (Ignore the weedy mess that is our “lawn”–we inherited that when we moved in last summer.) They aren’t much to look at yet, but I have high hopes for my fledgling vegetable garden.
About two hours after I planted the Earth Boxes, the boy came into the kitchen and noticed the tomatoes I had purchased earlier that day at the farmers’ market. He was disappointed when I told him that no, they had not come off the new tomato plants
