Earthboxes Indoors

[GenesistoRevelation]

Hello,

I'm halfway into getting everything together in my economy apartment for growing Swiss Chard and Bunching Onions under grow lights. Soon I'll be able to get together the last items to fully outfit my planned arrangement.

My question is, does anyone here have experience with Earthboxes? They are a self-watering pot, and from what I've seen around they are highly rated. I bought 2 recently, and am going to use them at least initially for this indoor vegetable garden.

I don't like that you only plant one row at one edge of the pot, and add fertilizer at the other side; I was planning to intensively grow many plants in them, but it looks like from the instructions they can only handle a few plants per pot, in one row. I had to change plans to 3 chard plants per pot, and a few bunching onions in between, but I don't know if even the bunching onions will be too much, as the instructions say that the box can only handle 3 swiss chard plants alone.

Anyone have any insights on this? Thanks for any help in advance.

 

[Greenhorn]

I do not have any experience with Earth Boxes, but I have tried one or two less then conventional growing methods.I would suggest either go with what they suggest and if you have room add another standard pot or container and do manage it conventionally and compare results. The other thing you might do if space is limited is use one of the boxes as suggested and use one conventionally. While using one conventionally might be expensive as your not using it to it's fullest intent, it will allow you to evaluate effectiveness and have additional plants in case one or the other methods does not work out. That's all I got, maybe someone with practical experience will respond.

If your using the earth boxes because your going to be away for periods of time and not able to attend to the plants then you can ignore all of the above

 

[GenesistoRevelation]

Thank you Greenhorn . It's a good idea to try one filled with plants and one according to the manufacturer's recommendations. I happen to have bought 2, and thought about growing one with Chard and Bunching Onions, and one with only Chard, to see if the two plants being companion plants could show a benefit, but it might be even better to go ahead with my plans in one pot of many more plantings than recommended of carrot, bunching onions, and chard.

Then again, I'm very new to gardening, so my experiment could go down the tubes. It may be wisest to just try one with only chard and one with bunching onions and chard, to evaluate my own ability to keep plants alive, at this stage. But, my ambition has me considering the idea of growing many more. I'll think and pray about it more and see what ideas come about. There are so many options in gardening, which is something I'm really liking about it, going into it.

I'll keep the boards posted on what comes about.