Thanks grow bro
glad you are getting your girls in the ground. There going to love it.
Hey smokey
Yeah the weather here is up and down all the time. As you watched my grow last year it's just all over the place here in the spring. I'll bet the @greenhornet has a lot of funky weather up there in his area. He's up in the tip of the thumb of the mitten of Michigan. He's got water on both sides of him.
But we get a lot of unusual weather because we got big Lake Michigan to our West so everything that comes across from Wisconsin gets changed a little bit before it gets here usually.
Like we get something called lake effect snow all the time here in the early winter and early spring and any year that the big lake doesn't freeze up good.
Do you have any farms around you where you can get manure?
Sheep shit works particularly well goat, horses, cow, pigs, and chicken all those manure"s... shit I bet even kangaroos shits got some kind of quality to it.
Mixing the manures along with the yard waste table waste pretty much anything that's organic that will break down in time is good to make compost with. Mix that with your native soil and keep stirring it all the time and you'll have compost before too long and that makes the best soil you can get. Taking and transform your native soil into some awesome soil.
Just before you plant Add some vermiculite to that P Stone lava rock or azomite and a few other amendments blood meal bone meal humic acid Dolomite lime or garden lime and a little bit of Epsom salts occasionally here and there along the way and you'll have some pretty good soil.
you don't really get winner winner down there anyways so you can probably make compost year round. ompost doesn't make to well when it's freezing.
Hey GTG@Smokefromau
Yeah Smokey I forgot to mention to the super cropping and Topping is a great thing to do put on your plants. It gives you stealth and allows the plant to get more sun to the bud sites which creates more yield I just want to let you know that bro
Hey SmokeyHey GTG
It would be wilder up where Greenhornet lives for sure and colder. Lake effect snow can dump heaps of snow, i think Tug Hill? the Snowiest area. It was madness last year so wet there for you. I can see the Great Lakes would moderate the climate for sure due to there immense size.
I can see your girls are lucky and snug in their Greenhouse, love the soil looks great. I have chicken poo, 5in1( fish and kelp, plus manures), and there is farms around that might sell bags of horse or cow along the road on the way to the mountains. I added Kangaroo shit to the garden, its nice and grassy, just like a cow or horse or sheep. Winter isnt that cold i cant grow certain vegetables, so a compost year around for sure. I will scope a nice site, i assume not too much sun or full shade. A good tarp bottom and top of soil or bins also maybe, though tarp would make mixing easier Thanks Bro for the help and advice with the soils
Once the little photos get up a bit one is almost 1ft (30cm) I could try topping (cutting the top to form 2 cola) I removed a few fans from the autos to give sun access to buds.
hey GTGHey Smokey
Yup ready this year. Mostly LoL.
The soil is real nice. It's a foot deep all over the grow area and where the plant's are at. I dug down another foot plus some. So the holes are about 25 inch's. I dug that all out and put in a new soil building pile. To replace that soil I put in the surrounding soil in the bottom of that hole then the plant and then backfilled it all with the rest of my soil.
Then built up the soil like a raised bed around the plant's.
So now I've dug out some of the soil in between the rows about 8" inch's. And soaked the ground in the whole grow with all the rain water from my house rain collection barrels from all the rain from last two nights of long lasting showers. Slow rain run into the grow cage on the ground and soak it good
So next will be to put paper down on the ground and put wood chips on top of that.
I'm banking on using less water and dealing with less fungus
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Sounds like a good plan with paper and mulch to keep from dying out too quickly. I will be doing the same for the spring summer grow. No worries for super cold weather in Sepetember, even end of August is warmning usually. Sun is always an issue with the bottom of the yard, but cant put the greenhouse around the house. I thought with the greenhouse near the shed i could run someday maybe solar panels to power the fans, and also extent grow area towards shed. witha tarp when things get wet or crazy. Autos will stay on the grasshounds, but may try inground auto grow to see how it performs
Hell yeahhey GTG
... Going into the ground with you'r home made soils is the best. You'll thank yourself for growing this way.
Hell yeah
Just dig down about a 18 inch's or so by at lest 3x3 per plant. Removing the old soil and replacing it with your costum soil and maybe a boarder around the side's. To help keep back pest that travel in the first few inch's of the surrounding ground.
Thanks for that info GTG. Good idea with the soil pets, and it also looks neat with a border. Around 3ft (1metre square per plant) and i think 18inch is about 50cm. Be an exciting Spring for sure, might even have some clones or keep mother plant, to save cranking more seeds.
