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While not too dry most years, I do grow in sandy soil. All the weed I have grown was in the ground, so not much help on grow bags. But I did grow tomatoes and peppers in grow bags in small swimming pools. You cut drainage holes about an inch high on the pool walls, then install a float valve...

I made it to town for supplies, so I re-mixed the Darro Dirt. To every 5 gallon bucket of soil, I added 1 cup each of time release plant food, 13-13-13 bulk fertilizer and vermiculite and half a cup of perlite to the hot mix, and all that but the triple 13 to the mild mix. We had a nice rainy...

When I saw the OP I was composing a comment telling how I filled twelve 5 gallon buckets in the back of my truck and drove down this three trail road. . . . . . . Never mind. I do use a pitcher pump in an old shallow well down in the river bottom that my Daddy and Granddaddy used back in the...

When I was learning to grow, and old timer told me to dig my holes as big as a # 2 washtub. That's 15 gallons. I haven't always dug them that big, but they sure do seem to do better when I do. Something else he said, was to never plant closer together than 4 1/2-5 feet. You want to give them...

Thanks for that info. I have been thinking about growing tobacco again, so if I do, I'll use precaution. I gave up cigars 12 years ago when I stopped smoking weed, so I might just give it a pass anyway. If I had it around, I would want to spin one up. I'm thinking about getting completely away...

I had been out of the game for 11-12 years, and started to get the itch back last summer. I lost about 10 so-so strains, and three really good ones to a broken freezer while I was on the wagon. I tried some of all of them, but nothing popped. I have a cousin whom I knew did a little growing, so...

Nice looking sprouts. I'm down here in Northwest Florida. Not sure if that stuff would work or not. I had to use a garden pesticide spray and/or sevin dust to get rid of them. There is a moth that lays the eggs on the leaves. The worms are tiny when they hatch, but get as big as your finger when...

I will let you know how it does. I ran some pepper plants under the lights in 32 oz yogurt containers {in the milder mix} to see how long the soil would last with the small pot size. It did run short, but the plants had got huge and produced a lot of pepper by then. Even using the hotter mix...

Looks like it is starting to flower. You can put it back into veg by using a couple of CFL's in a 18/6 cycle. If not, soon you will have one very skunky little bud.

No, not cut worms. These are what we have always called tomato worms. They eat the leaves and stems of several kinds of plants. Here is one from last year's pepper patch. They will clean you out in a few days.

Since I always get asked, "what is mushroom mulch?", I will go ahead and put this here: The precise composition of mushroom compost varies from source to source, but in general it is composed of a customized mixture that includes hay, straw, spent brewer's grain, peat moss, chicken manure...

I grew a few tobacco plants about 15 years ago. The main thing I learned was that what we had always called tomato worms are really tobacco worms. The few smaller, weaker plants I had left at my parents house survived because the chickens kept the worms off them. The big, strong plants in my...

Larro here, from Northwest Florida {also known as Lower Alabama}. I have been out of the game for 11-12 years and with Fl looking like it might pass a constitutional amendment allowing medicinal weed in the next election cycle I got to wanting to stick my toe back in the water. A few You Tube...