| Harvesting tomatoes, while Red peppers are ripening.. |
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Over the last two weeks since I posted the monthly article about growing tomatoes and peppers in an Earthbox. We have been harvesting about a half dozen tomatoes from our plants on a daily basis. Our peppers have starting to turn from Green into sweet Red peppers. With this being the second year we are growing vegetables in our earthbox, we learned a couple of lessons from last year. 1. Keep the tomato plants trimmed, remove any branches that don't have flowers on them. This helps for a number of reasons, one of which helps the plants concentrate on putting all of it's energy into the tomatoes instead of into useless leaves. Also, by removing excess branches and leaves from the plant we have kept down the size of the plant itself. Obviously tomato plants are suppose to be big and spread out, but we since we have been trimming the tomato plant the tomatoes themselves have been riping faster than last year. 2. Make sure that the water we put in the Earthbox water reservoir is cool and not warm. Last year there were a few times in which water from the faucet outside was put directly in the earthbox without checking the temperature. When warm water is put into the Earthbox, we noticed that the plants would be showing signs of stress. This year we've made sure to let the warm water out of the hose, before filling up the Earthbox water reservoir. Here's some of our latest photos from our Earthbox and some of the tomatoes that we've harvested recently.        
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