Category Archives: Gardening

It looks like the first lettuce sprout is breaking through the soil. It’ll be interesting to see how they do. I like winter (although it would be more fun with snow) but I’m looking forward to spring and our new garden efforts.

Our best basil plant is coming back since I cut it off. I thought we’d seen the last of the basil but I guess not. Maybe I needed to cut it more often. It’s an indoor plant in a container. I decided to see how it does. If it grows well I guess we’ll have […]

I think we’re going to scale our porch garden to five EarthBoxes initially. We’re not sure how much sunlight they’ll get so we’ll start with a smaller number and then add more if we want to expand.

Yesterday I mapped out our little porch. It’s only ~11’x6′ space. I figured we could fit ten EarthBoxes into the space out there and still have a walkway out the slider. I think we’ll be planning for the spring. If we can figure out what we want to grow then in the spring we’ll order […]

The only thing that I grew this year was some basil in a container. It didn’t do all that well. This next spring I want to try an EarthBox and grow multiple herbs. Hopefully it’ll work better. Even so the last of the basil was good. I used it with last night with some homemade […]

I came across EarthBoxes while reading the Path to Freedom site. An EarthBox is more than a simple flower pot container. It has an integrated watering, fertilizing system. They claim that it’s a nearly fool-proof method of growing plants. I think it’s interesting looking at the Path site because you can see them actually putting […]