I went out and spent about 7 hours working in the 2 gardens yesterday. I got my secondary fence put up for the vegie garden which is where I plan to run most of my auto's mixed in with the tomato and pepper plants. Im curious if growing around different things such as fruit plants, pepper plants, or herbs might change the terps in the cannabis. Any hows I wanted to share some of the amazing view I get down at my grow pen...I got a few pics of my water source also the creek that flows through my yard that I pull water from. Ive had the tarps down killing off the grass under them since the snow melted I still have to grab some cardboard from work so I can cut some holes in it and grow the plants up through the holes so I dont have to do any tilling this year and hopefully no weeding either. I had a bunch of left over camo burlap I laid down to my plans are to cut holes in that also and grow up through it. I am going to get a bunch of wood chips for covering the cardboard and burlap to also help with weeds and bugs probably cedar chips I have read they work good for a deterrent. Anyways I made up a bunch of grow cages yesterday for tomatoes and peppers and what not got the fences fixed up I had to add a few posts as I had them too spaced out and the fences were drooping. I have been charging the soil with used coffee grounds and happy frog fruit and flower already I still need to get to the grow store and pick up a few things but for the most part these gardens are just about ready to go since this year I am going with a no till style in both gardens that has already saved me a bunch of hard work..
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Its a pretty good sized garden this year dont think Ill need to go much bigger any more...I've got a bunch of left over chicken fence and I'm thinking about making some kind of elevated platform out of it to try to use to grow my melons on top of instead of letting them grow right on the ground. Maybe cut a hole in the center of the fence so the plant can grow out and have a raised platform about 6 to 8 inches off the ground made from the chicken fence that the vines can then grow out on to. Last year I had bugs eat into my watermelons on the side that was resting on the ground which has triggered this thought about the raised platform with the chicken fence to grow out on to. But maybe just the cardboard and cedar chips will do last year they grew right out into the grass which I think was really the problem. Ill be double caging the marijuana plants this year that I plan on growing big as last year I had an OG Kush that got knocked over because it got to big and I had a heavy rainy windy night that pulled it down about 2 weeks early on me ripped the 1 cage and the trellis netting out along with 6 bamboo poles so this year double cage if not triple cage on the big girls. I still have a few more cages to build and I have to make a swing gate door for the outer cage so a little bit more work but all in all I'm ready to plant hopefully in 2 to 3 weeks i'll be in the ground for the 2020 season !!!