Yet more tomato plants

wormgirl · May 26, 2015

Veering back to the original topic, I bought a Mortgage Lifter yesterday. (More?!?!?!) At least, this one I bought because it looked to be very vigorous and in great shape (unlike the KB I "rescued.") On the bright side, the nursery gave me two awesome used nursery pots, approximately 8 and 12 gallons respectively, for free just for the asking. But then of course the extra plant meant I needed to buy one more bag of mix - which I forgot, and now will have to return next weekend when I want to plant beans and cukes. DANGER.

And to touch back to the Earthboxes, I noticed a lot of the self-watering planters at the nursery are made now by that same "novelty" company. They are nice looking, but quite expensive and you don't have access to the res. You just top water and hope you aren't drowing your plants. (I noticed a lot of these lately.) But, they might be worth a try, if they are basically using EB technology. I have no experience with SWCs so I resisted temptation, for now.

May 26, 2015	#16
wormgirl Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Tacoma, WA Posts: 245	Veering back to the original topic, I bought a Mortgage Lifter yesterday. (More?!?!?!) At least, this one I bought because it looked to be very vigorous and in great shape (unlike the KB I "rescued.") On the bright side, the nursery gave me two awesome used nursery pots, approximately 8 and 12 gallons respectively, for free just for the asking. But then of course the extra plant meant I needed to buy one more bag of mix - which I forgot, and now will have to return next weekend when I want to plant beans and cukes. DANGER. And to touch back to the Earthboxes, I noticed a lot of the self-watering planters at the nursery are made now by that same "novelty" company. They are nice looking, but quite expensive and you don't have access to the res. You just top water and hope you aren't drowing your plants. (I noticed a lot of these lately.) But, they might be worth a try, if they are basically using EB technology. I have no experience with SWCs so I resisted temptation, for now.