How EVER could I have missed this thread??
I've grown many,many plants in ground, 5-gal shop buckets, patio containers and EBs for the past 5/6 years. . . .
I have very little planting ground. For the first few years, I lived in a small apartment in the city: ground for planting was restricted to a "border" 3 feet wide around the front and one side of my apartment strictly for flowers less than 3 foot tall. Hence, my Tomato Jungle was born! I filled my back patio with various containers so completely, there was only a torturous narrow path for me to harvest my bounteous tomato crop!
That first year was an experiment, if you will, of growing various tomato varieties in 5-gal shop buckets. The next year, I switched out some of those buckets for large patio containers for indeterminant varieties of tomatoes. Then along came the EBs: I kept a few buckets and I still grew indeterminant tomatoes in the patio containers.
Then I moved to my new mobile home out in the country. My new landlord has NO restrictions on my gardening; in fact, he LIKES my gardening passion as it improves the look of the property and I give away all of my excess organic produce to my new neighbors(and he and his family live right next door!). I made my in-ground planting area raised beds in a "border" 3.5 foot wide all the way around my new home: the width *I* determined! I bought more EBs and expanded beyond just flowers and tomatoes: sweet peppers, eggplant and watermelons just last year. The peppers were grown in the large patio containers, since they preferred to dry out between waterings; Eggplants and tomatoes were grown in EBs as they preferred consistent water. Although the watermelons (Sugar Baby and Little Darling) were touted to have short vines, they were grown in the raised bed as a precaution: good thing, as short was NOT my experience!! (A fellow gardener related HER experience growing Sugar Baby watermelons in an EB: she harvested two very small, but sweet, melons.)
My computer had serious problems and I lost the entire sub-folder for the early years of gardening. I've included a few EB photos. (Please ignore the printed dates: I only recently learned how to have the correct date printed on the photos!)
2017 Tomato Jungle
2018 Tomato Jungle
2019 Vegetable Jungle
PS Were you aware that at
https://earthbox.com there is a very active forum, etc?
