If you’re growing plants then you would cut a slit from the edge of the cover to the spot indicated. If you’re growing seeds you cut out a round hole so you can drop the seed(s) onto the growing medium below. I chose to grow romaine lettuce (a terrific and tasty blend of red and green romaine called Renee’s Caesar Duo from Renee’s Garden Seeds) so followed the instructions to cut out eight holes evenly spaced around the perimeter of the cover. So the GrowBox comes with a special blend of fertilizers and nutrients and a cover that inhibits weed growth and retains moisture. To make that happen you need to provide ideal growing conditions to support a lot of plants. The point is to grow as much as possible in as small a space as possible while minimizing the amount of work required. The GrowBox is intended for intensive cropping, also called square-foot gardening (see our review of the Garden Stamp for another way to do this). If there are dry patches or areas in the container, it won’t be able to adequately wick moisture from the reservoir up to the plant roots. To ensure that the growing medium is nice and moist, the instructions ask you to fill the planter only halfway full with potting soil or growing medium, then fill it with water, and then put the rest of the growing medium on top before watering it again. Then fill it all the way to the rim (or even above the edge) and water again.įollow the instructions carefully to add the growing medium to the GrowBox.
Be careful when you do this as the edges can be very sharp and I ended up cutting my finger on one of the pins.īe sure to water the potting mix thoroughly when the GrowBox is only half full. I found it difficult to remove the four pins (meant to secure the cover into the growing medium) from the bottom of the planter box to which they were attached.
No tools are required to put the GrowBox together but you may want to have some sturdy scissors on hand to separate some of the plastic parts.
The box also includes a sheet of very detailed assembly and planting instructions, complete with photos. Everything you need to grow plants comes packaged in one box, except for the growing medium (potting mix) and plants or seeds. The GrowBox arrives in two pieces that you have to fit together, including the 4-gallon water reservoir and the planter, as well as a Nutrient Patch cover. Note the pins and flaps in the bottom of the planter – those need to be separated from the surrounding plastic. The planter (left) snaps onto the water reservoir (right).
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