Yes and no. I'm not using Earthboxes but the ones from Garden Supply. Mine didn't come with any type of lid or plastic cover. I was thinking of putting plastic film down, then got to reading, then I thought about just the plastic mulch. So far I've done neither but have both. I'm thinking about using plastic film and regular old wood mulch (much cheaper). I keep hearing about this fertilizer strip; I just mixed my fertilizer (5-2-2 I think it was) throughout the box and don't really have a concentration of it anywhere. What I had planned doing was to either add liquid type of fertilizer to the reservoir or just add some to the top of the box later on (if I don't cover with plastic/mulch); if it seemed the plants were in need of it.
Right now I just read forum posts and try to learn how to do this, close to right, the first time.
