Product Spotlight: The Earthbox
By Michael Nolan
Here’s a scenario I’m sure you can sympathize with: A reader from Texas has been gung-ho every year for almost a decade about getting her home garden up-and-running.
She reads site after site and book upon book about overcoming the challenges of urban gardening and yet she still can’t manage to get more than a small yield from her efforts.
When she emailed me a few weeks ago asking for help and advice I really wasn’t sure what to tell her since I had never tried growing anything in the Lone Star State. My tenure in the state was almost entirely confined to the barracks of Air Force bases in San Antonio and Wichita Falls. I talked to a few trusted friends who grow all sorts of things in the unforgiving Texas heat and came up with a possible solution.
The Earthbox is unlike other container gardens in that it is entirely Read the rest of this entry »
