My earthtainer and global bucket

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I have followed with great interest Ray's postings on his earthtainers. I bought an earthbox from the earthbox folks and have been reading their forum recently. Also looked at the global bucket website.

So it was clear to me that you have to exactly follow the directions at the very least when you first start growing in this type of container.

However, in my global bucket, I did not use the cap, but put about 2 or 3 inches of a cypress mulch I got. I just wanted to see how it would work.

My global bucket cost me in material about 5.00, whereas the earthbox was about 40.00 with shipping.

So far, they are doing great. I used the new tomato tone as my organic fert, and are putting once a week a teaspoon of FloraNova grow in a gallon of water for the snack and pouring that in the watering tube. I plan on switching to the FloraNova bloom when I start to get blossoms.

The plant in the global bucket, is a Pervaya Lubov, and there is only 1 plant in this container. The plants in the earthbox are, on the left, Al-Kuffa, and on the right Bush Goliath. All 3 are doing very well. The PL is getting ready to get a blossom.

These have been in their containers for 16 days.