Earth Box, tall enough?

[rzr]

Will this string system be tall enough for supporting the plants?

[feldon30]

Which varieties are those?

[Suze]

Originally Posted by rzr

Will this string system be tall enough for supporting the plants?

Unless your plants are determinates, no. What varieties are they?

[MikeInCypress]

Even Determinates can get 5' tall. So unless these are dwarves it is not high enough. i was going to do something similar except with 8'h fence posts. I was going to hang rewire on the fence with about 2 of the rectangles being above the posts. and the bottom 2' open. I would have the wire between 2 ros of tomatoes.

[tumbleweed]

rzr - I hope so, that is how I am planning to do it. am going to try plastic clothes line instead of nylon. will let them climb up and over.

good looking boxes, are they the real mccoy or home-made. like your use of duct tape to seal the cover.

good show.

[rzr]

Those are homemade earthboxes based off of Joshu's instructions for the most part.

From left to right:

Cherokee purple, Cherokee purple, Sweet 100, Better Boy.

I have 3 more boxes that will be there soon, they will have

Sungold, Sungold, Sunsugar, something, black cherry, kelogs breakfast.

[rzr]

I just measured it. 3'4" from the base of the plant to the top string. hmm, I guess I need to find taller posts.

[Suze]

Maybe you could make a cage for your EBs like Earl did.

http://www.tomatoville.com/showthrea...0173#post50173

There is a person in Florida on Dave's Garden that makes these enormous towers for his EBs out of PVC pipe. I believe he designs them so that the EBs sit on top of the base, thus weighting the whole structure down.

[rzr]

Maybe I should, but I really like the string idea. I am going to see if I can get some tall steaks somehow. Or maybe build it with wood.

[bydsign]

Originally Posted by rzr

Those are homemade earthboxes based off of Joshu's instructions for the most part.

From left to right:

Cherokee purple, Cherokee purple, Sweet 100, Better Boy.

I have 3 more boxes that will be there soon, they will have

Sungold, Sungold, Sunsugar, something, black cherry, kelogs breakfast.

You're growing what?


My Sungold plant grew taller than 7 ft!

[RDUN]

I would say you are definitely going to need to rethink this system for the Sungold and Black Cherry. The two on the right are both Sungolds from last fall. The fence behind the tomatoes is about 9' tall.

[Tomstrees]

WOW ! Nice plants & sysytem !!!
Looks like you got plenty-o-maters !!!
Good growing ~

Tom

[Earl]

I wouldn't worry if they're tall enough, I worry about if they're strong/sturdy enough. If you can lay atop the string and it doesn't sag, then it strong enough for 12 plants. :-)

[rzr]

Good point Earl, I've thought about that. Those strings are very strong, they are not going to sag much, especially after all 5 plants are up there.

I have an idea to tie wrap some 9 foot 2 by 4 boards to those metal posts which will give me the heigt I need. I'll post a picture soon with the modification.

[mresseguie]

rzr,

I bought two 10' long t-posts last year with pretty much the same idea in mind. I pounded them 2 ft into the clay. They work like a charm. 'Course, I'll probably never get them back out of the ground-they're sooo solid.

Good luck.

Michael
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