The EarthBox is a program intended for growing fruit, vegetables and herbs in small spaces. It is made up of a plastic box with a watering system, growing medium and an elasticized compost cover. You can purchase casters and a trellis attachment to get this. You supply plants and the soil. It’s frequently used where folks do not have garden area, such as on flat patios and balconies. At 29 inches by 14 inches, and 11 inches deep, surprisingly it has sufficient space to grow vegetables that are massive like corn to maturity.
Assemble the EarthBox according to the instructions which consists of installing the aeration screen in water and the base in 1 corner. If you have them, install the optional casters. Place the EarthBox after all danger of frost has passed. Shield the floor with plastic sheeting because water runs out of the base of this EarthBox.
Pour 2 cubic feet of container growing medium into a bucket. You may use any brand, although the EarthBox company sells packaged mix because of its platform. Add water mixing with a trowel, to create the growing medium.
Pack a small sum of the growing mixture into each of these two corners of this EarthBox not insured by the aeration screen. This water will be wicked up into the container properly. Don’t place into the water fill tube.
With growing mixture to two inches below the 12, fill out the EarthBox. Distribute 1 pound of dolomite across the surface of the ground. Insert mixture that is growing up to the rim of this EarthBox. Mix growing media’s 3 to 4 inches to disperse the dolomite evenly throughout this layer.
Dig at a trough. Pour 2 cups of artificial fertilizer or 3 cups of organic fertilizer evenly into the trough. Corn wants a whole lot of nitrogen, therefore use one whose first number is 15.
Top off the EarthBox together with the growing mixture that is remaining and mound it up about two inches. Stretch the compost cover within to cover the soil, black side up. Slip the edges that are elastic beneath the rim.
Cut an X into the compost cover with scissors about two inches from the corner. Cut four additional holes about 6 inches apart down the long side of this EarthBox. Cut five more holes on the side of this EarthBox corresponding to the position of the first row. Push on a corn seed into each hole 1 / 2 to 2 inches deep into the ground.
Pour water into the fill tube till it runs out of the overflow holes close to the base of this EarthBox. You’ll need about 3 liters of water for the first fill. Add water every day before the seedlings are about 4 to 5 inches tall. After that, water.
The ears of corn when they are full of with a white liquid along with kernels comes out when you squeeze one with your thumbnail.