Well done! And another Earthbox fan!
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The home office (and store) for the company is very near me, and loads of people swear they’re the only way to grow tomatoes in Florida.
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Im not using the bonnets this year. They seem to hold in too much heat. I cooked an entire box of herbs the first year I had my boxes (even white side up)
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I spent a beautiful spring morning doing some time-sensitive indoor projects. By the time I was ready to go out and do some transplanting, it was dumping ice cold rain.
No transplanting done, but I did make it out to the green house to seed another round of basil. I found I have two seed packages – one for 2024 and one for 2026. Note the price difference (2024 on the left/2026 on the right)! Maybe the difference is one is organic (I just noticed that)?
ETA: We did get our potatoes planted last week.
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Wow; That’s quite a difference!
I just came in from trying to water things, dreading the end of our rainy season, that I pray has not ended already.
I already have a few grape buds. Is that what they are called?
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And here it is…my $500 salad! (The rest of the year my veggies are free, natch)
Romaine, red romaine, kale, and microgreens. The cukes, tomatoes, and peppahs are blooming, so it won’t be long.
Just added another layer of compost to my potato bags…theyre growing about an inch a day at this point.
Just added green beans, a passionflower, and longevity spinach, as well as 3 bags with sweet potatoes that were sprouting their will to live.
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That’s a nice looking salad!
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Thanks! It was tasty, too…so much more flavor than from the store!
Beautiful! I’d be pretty happy for a salad like that from my garden.
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A beautiful spring day in the PNW. Here’s some early-spring garden photos:
Nobel Giant Spinach - 1 of 3 beds.
Jersey Knight Asparagus (look hard) - 1 of 2 beds.
Rainier (June bearing) Strawberries in the cold frame - 1 of 2. These will eventually be transferred in their pots to an open-air raised platform.
Italian plum - 1 of 2.
Shinseiki Asian pears - 1 of 3 Asian varieties. Raspberries in the background (far right).
High bush blueberries - 1 of 6.
Imperator carrots - 1 of 2.
Maestro shelling peas.
Greenhouse - 1 of 2. Here we have tomatoes (Oregon Spring, Ruby Crush), a wide variety of peppers (sweet and hot), and onions/shallots/leeks.
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Bravo! Can you remind me what you use to fill your raised beds?
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New for me this year, and shooting out of the dirt! Komatsuna (spinach mustard, two things I like).
Tarragon continuing to make me proud.
I’ve got tiny lettuce and sorrel and chard on the balcony too, and some peat pots started inside. This is the hopeful time!
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Sorry to hear (belatedly) about the layoff! We just had (another) one at my work yesterday. Terrifying.
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We use a combination of raised bed mix, compost, and worm castings, all purchased from the ag-centric gardening store. The older beds are so beautiful (dirt-wise); the newer ones are coming along!
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Isn’t it?? Spring is my favorite time of the year, for that very reason. The possibilities! Nature will deliver her hard lessons later on down the line. 
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Here’s hoping we can keep the optimism 'til August. 
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Nice! How long ago did you plant the asparagus? Crowns or seeds?
The bed in the photo is our newer one - maybe four years now since we planted the crowns?
I’ve tried asparagus from seed - it’s a long process. 
Thank you for the kind wishes! Happily Ive landed a new position and will start in a couple of weeks. Folks in my age bracket in this economy are not typically this fortunate, and its a good fit skillswise.
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