Let me show you how I made my own EarthBox. The Earth Box is the ultimate container garden. It’s been a proven design for decades and there are few clones out there that come close to the EarthBox. I think THIS one is the closest to the Earth Box design that I’ve seen on YouTube. Although these are made from fiberglass totes that I had on hand, they can be made from the simple totes that you can buy at Lowes, etc.
Watch how I make them and follow the gardening segments on this channel to see if they do as well as the EarthBox.
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29 Comments
Have you done a comparison video yet?
I love Leon!!!!!
Where is your overflow hole for your homemade earth box??
Need to put end caps on the pipes to keep mosquitoes from going down in there and breeding!!!
Okay I saw a use no liquid fertilizer on the earth box web sight. Is that BS or can you add an organic liquid fertilizer as suggested by Gardening with Leon?
What did you do to copy the Earthbox covers? That's an important part if you hate pulling weeds.
I was looking up Earth Boxes on YouTube and came across a channel "John form Growing Your Greens" that said at Lowes they were having a sale on Growums, a child's version of the Earth Box to teach children how to grow a garden.. He got his for 9.99. I watched the video and it is almost the same. It is purple instead of dark green, but still the same size, but you do have to put the bottom tray together. It comes with seeds he didn't use and instead of potting soil it came with coconut core, which he added amendments to. Never could see a date on the video.
I really appreciate your review of your experience with wicking containers and this earthbox clone. I would have gone through literally the same steps you have and probably come to the same conclusion you did. I have a 90-gallon stock tank out back that I was considering converting to a wicking bed. But I'm really happy I saw your other video and went with an EarthBox instead (small scale first!) Mr Leon sounds like he knows what he's talking about, but the EarthBoxes are so cheap that it doesn't make sense to "gamble" making your own.
I've only had mine for a day, but I'm pretty confident I made the right choice based on your advice!
Thanks for sharing this I'm gonna make me one of those
The sull. Feels like home. 😂
Buy a tub with a lid drill holes in the lid for roots cut 2 bigger holes place small plant box to wick up water place small blocks under lid to support lid Inside box place rocks them soil in box run pcv pipe to feel water
Thank you for sharing! Can i ask you your thoughts about using just peat moss in place of the wicking soil?
This looks like a lot of time and effort in an attempt to save $30. After what you spend in time and money in materials it seems like buying an earthbox is the way to go. 😅
Anything you use to plant in you can put bedliner on them and they'll last longer
You can use cable ties to put screen material over the ends of your corrugated pipe.
I'm not a pro on these boxes but one thing I did see maybe you're missing is a overflow pipe / drain maybe 2inches up from the bottom of some sort that allows the water at the bottom of the box to escape so you don't overfill with water??
Where you place the drain is important it must be below the soil grade enough to create the air barrier to air prune the roots.
Tks for sharing this method
The flaw with using any plastic tub or tote is it is NOT uv protected and will break down in the sun. You will just have to keep rebuilding them as they get brittle n break down from the sun. It may be worth the time and effort and cost. Idk, that’s up to you. But if u want something that last 15 years plus, Ull have to find containers made of UV resistant material or just buy a Earth box anyway
This made me think, "…so easy a caveman can do it"…!
Earth box seems to be the best and long lasting.
An Earthbox here in Canada costs $100 each, so I'm converting some old raised garden containers with these tips! Lining the boxes with pond liner to water proof them. Fingers crossed 🤞🏻🤞🏻 Thanks so much for the in-depth explanation!!
Your video was simple and easy to follow. I like how you gave credit to Leon. There so many copy cats on you tube building same stuff and not giving Leon credit. Thanks.
Your voice reminds me of Matthew McConaughey.
So with the earth box you never water or feed the soil directly from the top and you would always water through the pipe can you liquid feed through through the pipe too?
Do you sift your media each year to get rid of old roots, leave them in or replace the potting mix each year?
Now, two years later, I just looked up Earth boxes on Amazon and they're $66. Them's some pretty costly tomatoes I'd say.
The holes in the earth box (root air pruning bottom) look large to prevent the soil from going through to the water reservoir. How big are those holes; and what kind of soil doesn't go through them?
How do you think an old cooler w fine mesh screen as a barrier would work?