Earthbox Disaster!

peebee · June 22, 2017

My coworker who is doing an EB for the first time put in the wrong medium, I've learned. Instead of a potting mix (and I specified Promix), he went to Armstrong nursery where an employee there professed no knowledge of EBs but recommended a PLANTING mix which is recommended to be mixed into native soil in the ground

. So no wonder the soil in this EB is rock hard and the tomato looked ok at first and set a couple of fruit but is not doing so well now.
What can be done at this point? Anything?

June 22, 2017	#1
peebee Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Southern CA Posts: 1,714	Earthbox Disaster! My coworker who is doing an EB for the first time put in the wrong medium, I've learned. Instead of a potting mix (and I specified Promix), he went to Armstrong nursery where an employee there professed no knowledge of EBs but recommended a PLANTING mix which is recommended to be mixed into native soil in the ground . So no wonder the soil in this EB is rock hard and the tomato looked ok at first and set a couple of fruit but is not doing so well now. What can be done at this point? Anything?