Since we’re talking budget-friendly containers today, check out this self-watering container. It’s like a stylish, Italian upgrade to the ubiquitous Earthbox. It isn’t normally free, I would imagine that the folks at CleanAirGardening.com couldn’t feed their families if they always gave their products away. But they have generously offered to send one LOTB reader their very own Deluxe Grow Box, how cool is that?!
What do you have to do to win?
Well, if you live in the 48 contiguous states, leave a comment on the LOTB Facebook Page or send me a tweet telling me how you’d use the Deluxe Grow Box. If you comment on or retweet someone else’s contest entry, I’ll double your chances of winning for being so nice. You have until Friday, July 2 at midnight PST.
Click on over to the Clean Air Gardening site to check out the photos. They show several different views of the container with different things growing in it that will get your idea juices flowing. I’ll pick one person at random to win.
Here’s the run down on what the winner will receive:
- A well-built, Italian-designed, self-watering container (33.25″ W x 14″ D x 13.5″ H) that can hold 18.5 gallons of potting soil.
- An easy to access filling port to allow you to add 4 gallons of water to the reservoir. Depending on the season, the water reservoir can keep water from 15 to 30 days.
- It also comes with a sturdy, 30″ high, heavy gauge wire that can support multiple vegetables, flowering plants, or climbing vines.
What are you waiting for?! Get on over to Facebook or Twitter!
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Would love to win this… I’ve never used any self-watering containers before and considering my tomatoes are having a tough time right now (can’t seem to figure out if I’m watering too much or not enough), that might just be the key! If I won, I’d center a large tomato and surround it with herbs, basil, parsley, and maybe some climbing beans. *crossing my fingers*
I’m in!
Right now, I’d hook it to the fence just outside my apartment and grow tomatos and herbs. I’ve longed to do this for years. When I (eventually) move, it would become the centre piece of my home garden. Teeny tiny yard, teeny tiny garden.
Just to reiterate, to enter the contest, you have to leave the comment with how you would use the self watering container on the Facebook page or tweet it. Leaving a comment here is not a valid contest entry.
I like all the “easy gardening” stuff available now, such as self watering this, autofeeding that, but I must throw this out there: if you have a container garden and can’t water it every other day, how are you insuring pest damage or disease isn’t sprouting? Of course people are busy, but I would suggest the point of container gardening is at least a small attempt to be self sufficient. Self watering stuff seems to kind of defeat the purpose of giving the finger, all-be-it a small one, to unnecessary consumer culture.