No gardening for me right now, until the wound on my palm closes up. And now that it’s forbidden, weeding & mowing suddenly seem much more attractive. The cherry blossoms have fallen, the lilac trusses are starting to open, and with any luck there will still be a few six-paks of pansies and allysum available at the local garden center this weekend…
Farhad Manjoo at Slate wrote a highly enthusiastic review of Ray Newstead’s EarthTainer system for tomatoes. I’ve been very pleased with the Gardeners Supply Company’s self-watering troughs during the last two growing seasons — even during a week-long vacation that turned out to be the only bone-dry spell, the plants in the troughs stayed hydrated & fruiting while those in the regular pots between each trough withered. And I’ve been crowding 4 or 5 tomatoes into each planter, supported on tomato ladders, which is far from optimal but there’s very little sunlit space in my yard and I always order too many plants during the dreary February catalog season.
Anybody here have experience with building and/or using Newstead’s EarthTainers? How complicated is the construction? Have your harvests been satisfactory?
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