EarthBox Setup Videos
Watch our videos to assist you throughout your EarthBox setup and growing processes to make your container gardening experience even easier! You can also take a look at some of the projects and other community gardens that we've been a part of in the past.
Quick Reference Videos
Setting up the EarthBox® Original
A quick, animated guide on how to set up the EarthBox Original gardening system.
How to Replant an EarthBox® Original Gardening System
A quick, animated guide to show how to use a replant kit for your next growing season.
Setting up the EarthBox® Junior™
A quick step-by-step overview for how to set up and plant a single row of herbs or lettuces in the EarthBox Junior gardening system.
Setting up the EarthBox® Root & Veg™
A quick step-by-step overview for how to set up and plant seedlings, bulbs, or seeds in the EarthBox Root & Veg gardening system.
Assembling the EarthBox® Staking System
This 15 second video shows a quick step-by-step process on how to set-up the Staking System on your EarthBox Original container.
Winterizing the EarthBox®
This 30 second video shows the simple process of how to winterize any EarthBox system.
Planting a Single Row Crop (EarthBox® Original)
This 60 second video shows the step-by-step process for planting a single row of vegetables or fruits in the EarthBox Original container.
Planting a Double Row Crop (EarthBox® Original)
This 60 second video shows the step-by-step process for planting a double row of vegetables or fruits in the EarthBox Original container.
The Garden to Table Experience
Farm-To-Table with EarthBox®
Know where your food comes from by growing it yourself! Growing your own healthy food is easy with any of the EarthBox gardening systems.
Tutorial Tuesdays
Planting a Single Row Crop
EarthBox Customer Advocate Sarah Koppenhaver demonstrates how to plant a single row crop in an EarthBox Original container.
Planting a Double Row Crop
EarthBox Customer Advocate Sarah Koppenhaver demonstrates how to plant a double row crop in an EarthBox Original container.
Replanting Your EarthBox®
Former EarthBox GM Frank DiPaolo demonstrates how to replant your EarthBox using the Replant Kit.
Assembling the EarthBox® Staking System
Former EarthBox GM Frank DiPaolo demonstrates how to assemble the EarthBox Staking System. Note staking systems no longer use straight connectors; there are now crimped end poles for a direct fit.
Winterizing the EarthBox®
Watch us guide you through the steps needed to prepare your EarthBox container garden for the winter months.
Assembling the EarthBox® Automatic Watering System
Watch the steps required to assemble your EarthBox Automatic Watering System.
Assembling the EarthBox® Garden Stand
See how to assemble the EarthBox Garden Stand, which provides the perfect height for picking low-growing herbs and produce.
Assembling the EarthBox® Staking System Extension Kit
Watch how to assemble the EarthBox Staking System Extension Kit, which provides 2 more feet of room to grow for vining crops. Note staking systems no longer use straight connectors; there are now crimped end poles for a direct fit.
Assembling the EarthBox® Protective Nettings
How to install a frost cover, bird net, or insect net to your EarthBox gardening system.
EarthBox Projects and Profiles
Ann's Class
Award-winning teacher Ann Cruikshank teaches science with EarthBoxes in Manatee, FL.
Brick City Urban Farms
John Taylor and Lorraine Gibbons use EarthBox to turn a vacant lot into a thriving farm, bringing fresh local produce to the 'food desert' of Newark, creating green jobs, educational and job training opportunities.
EarthBox Commercial Applications
Hoss Morgan tours Whisenant Farms in Florida where the EarthBox is used for commercial production of organic tomatoes.
Green My School: Rosa Parks Elementary
Students at Rosa Parks Elementary School in San Francisco, CA received an EarthBox garden as part of green makeover from CBS EcoMedia's Green My School Contest.
Green My School: Dirksen Middle School
Students at Everett M. Dirksen Middle School in Calumet City, IL received an EarthBox garden as part of a green makeover from CBS EcoMedia's Green My School Contest.
Indian Shores Community Garden
Mayor Jim Lawrence and Bob Brotherton of Brotherton Engineering open the first ever city-funded EarthBox community garden for the town of Indian Shores, FL. This garden uses EarthBoxes to overcome poor soil and to make gardening more accessible to the seniors in their community.
International EarthBox Day
NYC Parks & Recreation celebrates International EarthBox Day in Union Square Park.
Rick's Rooftop
Rick Bayless from PBS's Mexico: One Plate at a Time talks about the importance of freshness and local produce in his EarthBox garden on the roof of Frontera Grill in Chicago.
Two Dog Nursery
Over the course of sixteen months, Jo Anne Trigo went from planting her first EarthBox to becoming Los Angeles' only certified organic veggie nursery, offering bi-weekly EarthBox classes.
The Growing Connection
50 X 15: Chiapas
The Growing Connection joins Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) in their initiative to connect 50 percent of the world's population to the internet. In the small villages of Oxchuc and San Juan Chamula, The Growing Connection builds EarthBox gardens while AMD builds computer labs.
Earth Day at the U.S.D.A.
The Growing Connection participated in the USDA's first Farm to Fork Festival on Earth Day. The festival unveiled the new People's Garden on the grounds of the Whitten Building, the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in Washington, DC.
Google Garden: Planting
Executive Sous-Chef Jennifer Johnston leads a team of volunteers to plant an EarthBox garden on Google's campus.
Google Garden: Harvest
Rebecca Jepsen from Santa Clara County Master Gardeners helps Jennifer maintain and harvest the garden.
Stalks in the City
Through a collaboration between The Growing Connection, the NYC Police Athletic League, and Cornell University, school children in NYC plant corn in EarthBoxes to be used in General Motors' ethanol vehicle display at NextFest.
You Say Tomato, I Say Tobago
The Department of Agriculture in Tobago uses EarthBoxes to solve their food security problem.
Planting with Blake & Dorothy
EarthBox inventor Blake Whisenant shows Dorothy Dillingham-Blue how to plant an EarthBox.
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Blake's Tips & Tricks
Cutting Back
Blake and Dorothy answer a question about when and how to cut back eggplant and tomatoes.
Multiple Crop Layouts
Blake and Dorothy answer a question about which plants grow well with others in a multiple-crop EarthBox.
Organic Fertilizer
Blake and Dorothy answer a question about the difference between organic and traditional fertilizer.
Perennials
Blake and Dorothy answer a question about replanting perennials.
Refertilizing
Blake and Dorothy answer a question about refertilizing a tomato plant in an EarthBox.
Replanting Seeds
Blake and Dorothy answer a question about replanting seeds in an EarthBox.
Screened-In Tomatoes
Blake and Dorothy answer a question about pollination and sunlight when growing tomatoes on a screened-in porch.
Strawberries
Blake and Dorothy answer a question about planting strawberries and fertilizer.
Tomato Ailments
Blake and Dorothy answer a question about blossom-end-rot and other common tomato ailments.