Recycled Organic Living Soil (ROLS) and No Till Thread

[RedCarpetMatches]

No clue DANK. Check this out tho.
[video=youtube;cc_Ez95jiSQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc_Ez95jiSQ[/video]
That's just part 1.

 

[Steelheader3430]

^ Wow red thats an amazingly informative video. Great song too.

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[RedCarpetMatches]

Yeah awhile back DANK posted fungi farming with bahiagrass...just another idea I stole from him lol.

 

[Steelheader3430]

YES HE WOULD! I would really love to live next door to him. Even if it was a cardboard box!

Say I've got a lot of this growing on my property was wondering if anyone knows what it is and if it is useful for anything?

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DankSwag

http://www.kingcounty.gov/environment/animalsAndPlants/noxious-weeds/weed-news/feb_08.aspx

http://www.oregon.gov/ODA/plant/weeds/Pages/profile_herbrobert.aspx
It's useful for keeping your old lady busy come spring.

 

[foreverflyhi]

Hey so about the Bahia grass, ive read that there are diffrent types, is it safe to say they all act the same in terms of mycho production? Or is there a specific one? Also if i add these for undersowing in my not till, could it potentially add mychos to my mix? Or do i have to grow bahia grass in mass to get what i want?

 

[Mohican]

Looks like Strawberries in the first pic and Cilantro in the second pic.

 

[DANKSWAG]

http://www.kingcounty.gov/environment/animalsAndPlants/noxious-weeds/weed-news/feb_08.aspx

http://www.oregon.gov/ODA/plant/weeds/Pages/profile_herbrobert.aspx
It's useful for keeping your old lady busy come spring.

So it looks like I have good useful weed in the geranium Herb Robert (of Sherwood Forest) seems to be a medicinal plant that you can eat leaves fresh or make tea.

I think I may want to test a foliar spray out of this or even a tea and give it to "test" plant to see what occurs..

Not sure what to do with the buttercup, anyone?

DankSwag

 

[DANKSWAG]

No clue DANK. Check this out tho.
[video=youtube;cc_Ez95jiSQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc_Ez95jiSQ[/video]
That's just part 1.

Interesting....

 

[Steelheader3430]

I just googled their descriptions. We have tons of nettle up here in the PNW that's good for nitrogen I read. That buttercup is right outside my door too.

 

[DANKSWAG]

Looks like Strawberries in the first pic and Cilantro in the second pic.

They kinda do uh?

Good thing mushroom hunters don't go by looks like and those that have sometimes don't live to tell about it.

Before I personally consume what reported to be a healing herb with great medicinal power... I'm really gonna make sure I have Herb of Robert of Sherwood Forest of England of European Continent of the Planet Earth of the Milky-way Galaxy of God's Grand Universe!

DankSwag

 

[DANKSWAG]

I just googled their descriptions. We have tons of nettle up here in the PNW that's good for nitrogen I read. That buttercup is right outside my door too.

I was looking for nettle in my yard neighborhood when I came across the butter cup and herb of Robert
I am going to have to broaden my search for nettle....

DankSwag

 

[Steelheader3430]

The nettle is dying off. I still have some around due to the mild winter we've had.

 

[RedCarpetMatches]

I want to grow plants to feed my plants, but that would be even more room and electricity. Damn it DANK, give me some ideas. Wish I lived somewhere warm with a bunch of land. Go all Mo on it.

 

[SpicySativa]

The only way to net a positive benefit from growing plants to feed plants is if you are growing them in the ground. Sure, legumes and other nitrogen fixers will assimilate nitrogen from the air, but all the rest of the nutrient accumulators need the nutrients to be present in the soil. It doesn't make much sense to buy nutrients, feed them to nutrient accumulating plant, then feed the nutrient accumulating plant to your indoor garden... All you are doing is unnecessarily shuffling nutrients around, not accumulating them from the earth. If you have land where you an plant things like comfrey and nettle straight in the soil, you will be reaping a positive benefit from their nutrient accumulating ability.

 

[DANKSWAG]

The only way to net a positive benefit from growing plants to feed plants is if you are growing them in the ground. Sure, legumes and other nitrogen fixers will assimilate nitrogen from the air, but all the rest of the nutrient accumulators need the nutrients to be present in the soil. It doesn't make much sense to buy nutrients, feed them to nutrient accumulating plant, then feed the nutrient accumulating plant to your indoor garden... All you are doing is unnecessarily shuffling nutrients around, not accumulating them from the earth. If you have land where you an plant things like comfrey and nettle straight in the soil, you will be reaping a positive benefit from their nutrient accumulating ability.

Hi SpicySativa,

I hope I understand what you said, forgive me if I have my wires crossed...

I think you have a point if your point is on purchasing nutrients.

However if one is feeding their homemade compost to plants in which are used for their natural use as well as becoming compost thereafter to benefit a primary crop, it would be recycling more then shuffling. If the secondary plants produce something beneficial beyond accumulating nutrients fed it would seem to me that would be an addition a bonus so it would be recycle +.

Anywise that is how it seems to me. I agree I would purchase nutrients to feed plants that I could just give directly to the plants I really want to feed, because whatever the bonus aspect that plant would give to the other as a compost it will give whether I buy nutrients to feed it or feed it compost which is free. Again that is if I understand the point you are making here.

DankSwag

 

[SpicySativa]

Sounds like you get my drift.

Basically I just meant think it through and make sure the benefit outweighs the cost. If you already have extra compost, pots, and a little sunlight, sure, fill up some pots and grow yourself some comfrey, yarrow, etc... It probably isn't worthwhile to waste electricity growing beneficial plants in your grow room.

 

[RedCarpetMatches]

I have some house hold leds with a nice spectrum, extra reflectors, pots, etc. My prob is space. Maybe I can give some horsetail, alfalfa, nettle, etc to my old neighbor to keep her busy lol. Give her a bokashi rig too

 

[DANKSWAG]

Sounds like you get my drift.

Basically I just meant think it through and make sure the benefit outweighs the cost. If you already have extra compost, pots, and a little sunlight, sure, fill up some pots and grow yourself some comfrey, yarrow, etc... It probably isn't worthwhile to waste electricity growing beneficial plants in your grow room.

I get ya, ya except for my Aloe plants they love the veg 24 and leds shinning on them. They sit on the edges of the lights so I am getting most from my lights in that I am finding Aloe to be a great plant to have nearby and ready to harvest at a moments notice!

DankSwag

 

[DANKSWAG]

I have some house hold leds with a nice spectrum, extra reflectors, pots, etc. My prob is space. Maybe I can give some horsetail, alfalfa, nettle, etc to my old neighbor to keep her busy lol. Give her a bokashi rig too

That's awesome your getting your neighbor to grow your mulch and generate compost for you... freaking awesome.

I should start a community garden of edibles and aesthetic plants and get the local farming community to contribute and presto an incognito source of prime compost and cover to expand material resources without being given much notice.... ...note to self get bulbs in ground....

DankSwag

 

[RedCarpetMatches]

That's awesome your getting your neighbor to grow your mulch and generate compost for you... freaking awesome.

I should start a community garden of edibles and aesthetic plants and get the local farming community to contribute and presto an incognito source of prime compost and cover to expand material resources without being given much notice.... ...note to self get bulbs in ground....

DankSwag

Now you're stealing my ideas lol. Imagine all the compost generated for a neighbor hood.