What was the mixture of stuff with topsoil? Vermiculite or sand or how did you mix your dirt?How did you fertilize?What did you plant? How did it do?(We are looking at Earth boxes for planting our small garden - because the deer, rabbits, etc eat our stuff and we can keep it out of reach by planting the tender stuff up on the deck.)
Yes I have. It worked well, however you should consider using any good quality potting soil mix in your planters. Use a water soluble fertilizer, such as miracle grow. The major problem is in hot dry weather you may need to water daily or even 2 times a day. Containers dry out very quickly. Don't over plant the containers if you get to many plants in 1 container your success rate will fall off quickly. Tomato's, peppers etc do well, avoid large vining plants unless you can provide a trellis support for them Good luck
no brake no gas and drive it like your life depended on it and aim for something soft. I have never had to deal with this suituation, but tire quality being what it is these days you should have something between the rim and the road. I suspect you wont have a lot of time to think about it, the survival instinct will kick in now would be a good time to talk about wearing all the protective gear everytime you go out.
I have 18 raised beds. The soil is composed of 80% commercial potting mix purchased from a local nursery and 20% mineral sand. The commercial mix is 80% composted pine bark, 15% spaghnum moss and 5% sterile sand.The beds are amended with greensand,rock phosphate ,bone meal, blood meal, milorganite and composted chicken manure. I live in Florida and mainly grow heirloom vegetables of all types. Heirloom variety vegetables seem to do better in rich organic soils than they do with chem fert. Judge your soil by your earth worm count. The higher the count ,the richer the soil.
