Earth Box

Earth Box (container)

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Use case: Two Earth Boxes fill quadrant one of the 10x10 tent — one recycled, one fresh 3.0

Specs: bottom water reservoir with overflow, corner wick zones, food grade plastic, food grade plastic mulch cover included, holds approximately 2 cubic feet of soil

Model: Earth Box (standard)

Supplier: buildasoil.com

• Ep 010: Jeremy walks through assembling caster wheels, screen insert, fill tube, and cover; defends the rectangular shape and plastic cover as part of the system's 'magic'; says he has affordable Earth Box packages on buildasoil.com without the trellis/fertilizer extr

Mentioned in: ep 010

Earth Box caster wheels

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Use case: Wheeled base for the Earth Box so it can be moved around the tent

Specs: four wheels, two have locking casters

Model: caster kit

Supplier: buildasoil.com

• Ep 010: Jeremy flips the Earth Box over and pushes the casters in by hand. He notes you can line the locking casters on the same side but he never uses the lock

Mentioned in: ep 010

Earth Box plastic mulch cover

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Use case: Bungees over the top of the Earth Box to lock in moisture and allow mounding of compost under the cover

Specs: food grade plastic, holds up to Colorado altitude UV for years, reusable year after year

Model: mulch cover shower cap

Supplier: buildasoil.com

• Ep 010: Jeremy initially disliked the plastic cover but now considers it essential because it lets you mound compost high while keeping clean reservoir water underneath

Mentioned in: ep 010

Earth Box fill tube

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Use case: Lets water be poured in from the top directly into the bottom reservoir

Specs: breathes through design, no angle cut needed, sits in bottom corner

Model: water fill tube

Supplier: buildasoil.com

• Ep 010: Jeremy drops it straight into the corner hole, unscrews the nozzle later so he can water faster when roots hold soil together

Mentioned in: ep 010

Earth Box trellis kit

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Use case: Not used in this build

Specs: optional add-on

Model: trellis accessory

Supplier: buildasoil.com

• Ep 010: Jeremy mentions the trellis kit as part of the 'extra fertilizer' Earth Box package, telling viewers they don't have to buy it — BuildASoil offers an affordable Earth-Box-only package

Mentioned in: ep 010

Earth Box website

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Use case: Reference for manufacturer-recommended Earth Box use

Specs: the manufacturer's own instructions

Supplier: earthbox.com

• Ep 010: Jeremy mentions that the Earth Box website says to keep the reservoir full and avoid compost — the no-till community breaks both rules

Mentioned in: ep 010

Earth Box 3.0

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Use case: Running two halitosis plants in quadrant one as the feature container for comparison

Specs: fill tube and reservoir system, one cubic foot soil capacity, sub-irrigated planter with bottom reservoir

Model: 3.0 (front) and standard Earth Box (back)

Supplier: earthbox.com

• Ep 011: Jeremy encourages gardeners to try Earth Boxes, says they're fun and many methods work with them, but BuildASoil's house rule overrides the manufacturer's — reservoir must go dry between waterings when running BuildASoil living soil.

Mentioned in: ep 011

Earth Box (recycled)

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Use case: Previously-run Earth Box rebuilt after a Max Stomper cycle; now growing cannabis in quadrant one alongside a new unit for comparison

Specs: holds roughly 3 gallons of bottom water, reservoir with overflow, single bag of soil per unit

• Ep 012: Jeremy shows worms with tails poking up making castings, says it is still moist and heavy from its last water, and deliberately does nothing to it today as a contrast to the new 3.0 that needs care.

Mentioned in: ep 012

Earth Box 3.0 (new)

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Use case: The fresh Earth Box set up in a previous episode that is getting its first full top-dress and bottom watering on camera

Specs: bone dry down the reservoir tube, fresh build from previous episode, mycelium visible on the surface, no feeder roots yet established, predator mites visible on the surface

Model: 3.0

• Ep 012: Jeremy says 'only one bag of soil in each of these and they're already outpacing these seven and a half or ten gallons that are over there'. He spends most of the practical section topping it up.

Mentioned in: ep 012

BuildASoil Earth Box

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Use case: No-till container growing

Specs: running second no-till cycle, self-watering reservoir container

• Ep 018: Quadrant 1 is an earth box that already grew a Mac Stomper cycle, then cover crop, then compost chop-and-drop, before the current plant.

Mentioned in: ep 018

Earth boxes

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Use case: Quadrant four container system — vegetables and flowering cannabis; watered via Chapin doses every other day

Specs: bottom reservoir watering system, used for lettuce, peppers, tomatoes and cannabis in the 10x10 quadrants

• Ep 024: Jeremy mentions the earth boxes multiple times — instructions for them are a Chapin-full every other day, and he's considering whether to keep them or replace them in the next cycle.

Mentioned in: ep 024

Earth Box sub-irrigated container

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Use case: The Earth Box comparison quadrant — home to Halitosis #1

Specs: sub-irrigated self-watering container system, used as one of the 10x10 comparison quadrants

• Ep 041: Halitosis #1 was grown in the Earth Box between the two 3x3 plants. Jeremy considers a possible swap for Season Two — running Earth Boxes again or jumping up to 20-30 gallon containers instead.

Mentioned in: ep 041