The EarthTainer Reviewed at Sunset Magazine Today

[rnewste]

Review by Jim McCausland of Sunset Magazine.

http://freshdirt.sunset.com/2010/03/...crop-ever.html


Raybo

[azgirl]

Awesome!

Still trying to get my hubby to make a couple of these for me. lol

[rnewste]

Originally Posted by azgirl

Awesome!

Still trying to get my hubby to make a couple of these for me. lol

azgirl,

You tell Hubby that: "A Happy Wife...Means A Happy Life", and that he better get on the stick and get those 'Tainers built for you, Pronto!!!

Raybo

[Zana]

Raybo,

Sounds like you've been married for awhile....and have learned well....

Congrats on the great review! Well deserved. I'm wondering whether I'll have the time and space to put some of these. Might actually be "allowed" by my siblings...sighhhhh. Long story, but they won't let me turn the backyard into a jungle anymore with all my pots/containers. Too much of a hodgepodge for them, perhaps. But if all uniform, like these, might get away with at least some.

Zana

[rnewste]

Originally Posted by Zana

Raybo,

Sounds like you've been married for awhile....and have learned well....

Well, we were married in 1972 on Thanksgiving Day (how appropriate) - - but don't ask me what number is our next Anniversary this coming November.

Talk your siblings into building a few EarthTainers for you - - they will be very happy with the production from them.

Raybo (counting backwards on his fingers to 1972)

[Zana]

Originally Posted by rnewste

Well, we were married in 1972 on Thanksgiving Day (how appropriate) - - but don't ask me what number is our next Anniversary this coming November.

Talk your siblings into building a few EarthTainers for you - - they will be very happy with the production from them.

Raybo (counting backwards on his fingers to 1972)

Raybo,

Last year when the house (my Dad's - where I live with him) was put on the market, the sibs insisted that I wasn't allowed to grow anything other than flowers in containers...and very limited at that. The flower beds in the backyard are not that large and not really conducive to growing tomatoes (not enough sunlight - too much shade). The prime locations for full sun are on the concrete patio around the pool. Go figure. Sighhhhhhhh. The funny thing was the self same sibs that put forth that edict, were also complaining about the lack of supply of great tomatoes from yours truly last year. The few that I got away with growing (dwarfs in small containers where they were surrounded by flowers) were killed off by late blight, or yanked by the sibs. The only other indeterminates I managed to plant were at a surrogate garden that was plagued by a tomato snacking dog and late blight.

I'm in serious withdrawal, can't you tell?

As for getting those same sibs to build the earthtainers for me....I won't hold my breath. Sighhhhhhhh....

Zana

[azgirl]

You tell Hubby that: "A Happy Wife...Means A Happy Life", and that he better get on the stick and get those 'Tainers built for you, Pronto!!!

Very true....and he knows it!! LOL. I can't complain, he does so much other stuff for me and honestly just hasn't had the time. I may just have to move it up on his priority (read "Honey-do") list. Maybe if I stress how much water I will save by having these instead of everything in the ground.......

Well, we were married in 1972 on Thanksgiving Day (how appropriate) - - but don't ask me what number is our next Anniversary this coming November.

Thanksgiving is a great day to be married. It was my parent's anniversary...and they celebrated 47 years together before my mom died. AND....my husband and I will be married 22 years this November. YOU will be celebrating 28

Thanks for sharing your Earthtainer with us! (and I hope to have one or two or three soon).
Melissa

[Zana]

Originally Posted by azgirl

Well, we were married in 1972 on Thanksgiving Day (how appropriate) - - but don't ask me what number is our next Anniversary this coming November.

Thanksgiving is a great day to be married. It was my parent's anniversary...and they celebrated 47 years together before my mom died. AND....my husband and I will be married 22 years this November. YOU will be celebrating 28

Thanks for sharing your Earthtainer with us! (and I hope to have one or two or three soon).
Melissa

I believe that's 38 years in November...lol...but if it only feels like 28...no problem too.

Z

[desertlzbn]

YUP that was the year I was born in May though

[rnewste]

Originally Posted by azgirl

Well, we were married in 1972 on Thanksgiving Day (how appropriate) - - but don't ask me what number is our next Anniversary this coming November.

YOU will be celebrating 28 Melissa

Yep, I knew the number ended in an "8", but wasn't sure it was 28, 38, or 48 (feels like the later)

Raybo

[amideutch]

Well, we were married in 1972 on Thanksgiving Day (how appropriate) - - but don't ask me what number is our next Anniversary this coming November.

I hear you Ray, mine was 16 Dec 1971. I used to buy my wife a red rose for every year we were married on our anniversary. When I hit 30 I told the wife I was going to start over again.

Nice writeup in Sunset Magazine. With this new found celebrity status when are you going to find time to grow maters. Ami

[rnewste]

Ami,

I am now all planted in as of yesterday with 34 tomato plants; next will be the Peppers and then corn seedlings.

I am amazed at how many emails I get from people who live in Apartments or Condos who want to grow their own vegetables - - but couldn't without SWC solutions.



Actually, I owe it all to Earl who inspired me with the Aeration Bench dialog, and who taught me how these things really work.

Raybo

[Barbee]

Well how about that?!?!
WTG Ray!

[mtbigfish]

Raybo
Thanksgiving is a lot better than Halloween 1970 - wife taught school and didn't want to work the carnival set for that month so we set our date for that weekend - didn't realize until a few days before we were married it was Halloween
So after we got back from dinner the night we got married we got the first "Trick or Treaters" and at least I never forget our anniversary and yes I am the last "trick or treater"
Dennis

[azgirl]

That's what I get for trying to do math with a migraine. I know better. LOL
Math and migraines don't mix.
Melissa