Earthbox Container Home Gardening Kit
June 18, 2009 by national
Filed under Product & Book Reviews
Earthbox is an innovative approach to container gardening. You can double your yields of vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers with less fertilizer, less watering, and no weeding at all.
During uncertain times there are a handful of industries and products do well, and for some very good reasons. Among them, home gardening tops the list.
Just $50-75.00 invested in seeds and fertilizer can yield about $1500 worth of produce, which is a significant return on your investment. It takes a little bit of time and effort, but it’s not difficult, and during an emergency it can provide a fresh, nutritional source of supplemental food for you and your family.
The Public News Service quotes the National Gardening Association (NGA) as saying that they expect a nearly 20% increase in personal home gardens across the U.S.this year. In fact, the NGA says at least 9 million Americans will grow vegetable gardens for the first time ever in 2009 and an estimated 43 million Americans will plant their own personal vegetable gardens this year.
During World War II, Victory Gardens were a common sight. These gardens consisted of small plots of land, allotments, tubs of soil or sections of lawn prepared to grow fruits and vegetables so that private citizens could utilize some of their own food supply, in order that the nation’s farmed goods could support the war effort. It’s been estimated that these urban gardens produced about 40 percent of the produce consumed in the United States during that war.
Surprisingly to many people, it doesn’t take a lot of land to produce a robust, productive vegtable garden. Thanks to products such as Eartbox, many people with little or no land at all are able to grow incredible gardens in some very unique spaces such as driveways, garages, rooftops and elsewhere.
Container vegetable gardening is becoming increasingly popular and Earthbox makes it easy, enabling people with little gardening experience to become successful and confident food growers.
