Greenhouse vs Raised Bed vs Large Hole

Pics to come later making me a tea today for a couple of the gurls. It will be a balanced tea for sure going to plant vegatables after all plants are harvested. Going to try and extend the herd throughout the mild winter this year. keepem green dirrtyd

hey dirrtyd, should I keep my soil and add it to my garden for next year, or use it again. I know with toms, you shouldn't plant in the same soil, was just wondering if the girls would be the same?

I reuse mine I just add more of my dry ingredients back to it. Its not a science but it has been working for me. So you have to try thing out for your environment and see what works. I still learn new things every year growing. Next year will be the real test going to grow only six plants looking for ten pounds. keepem green dirrtyd

The serpentine layering a then and now shot enjoy. Next year if I try this will plant later for sure. Also a now and then of the raised bed. enjoy cpmments welcome dirrtyd

Well the gurls are all looking good for a Monday. The space queen is finishing up nicely glad i put this one in a pot next year definitely the ground for her. She smell just like bubble gum Bazooka to be exact. Everyone who smells her is amazed. The DQ is showing budsites everywhere now to feed her and get her to the finish line. If she does anything like last year it will be great she is 6ft wide. The purple erkel is looking gren and bushy looks like she will give some nice bud. The Mendo Purps is looking good also filling out her container nicely. The container gurls are getting pushed this year so I can see how much I can get from one plant. So far they all look nice and I'm very happy with the gurls. Pics to come Keepem green dirrtyd

good pics there dirrtyd. What do you mean by the container girls are getting pushed?

fumble said:

good pics there dirrtyd. What do you mean by the container girls are getting pushed?

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Meaning they are getting fed every other watering I water the container plants twice a day. So far the plants look good will know for sure come September when we start to see more defined buds. Keepem green dirrtyd

Experimenting with a tea for bloom need to add some K hopefully this soluble kelp will do the trick. Open to all suggestions if you dont mind sharing your brew with me. I probably have all the ingredients so please I'm listening. Just figured out the pumps I have do a great job bubbling. Keepem green dirtyd

What do you know about ironite? My buddy uses it says its good for the trace minerals or bacteria and he uses bone meal i think to. Pretty basic yet so green and so big! Whats up with the norcal dirt ha!

dirrtyd said:

Experimenting with a tea for bloom need to add some K hopefully this soluble kelp will do the trick. Open to all suggestions if you dont mind sharing your brew with me. I probably have all the ingredients so please I'm listening. Just figured out the pumps I have do a great job bubbling. Keepem green dirtyd

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Good evening Dirrtyd,
I have collected info about NPK ratios. This list in particular was sniped from another forum; hope I don't get slammed for posting it here, just trying to help a brother out.

Check out the potassium values for citrus skins.... my neighbor has a huge grapefruit tree, I'm gonna juice em and add vodka, then I'm gonna dry the skins and grind em for next year. Also need to do more burning of some key ingredients and save the ash. This year I added hardwood ash from my woodstove to many of my holes, soil tests so far (only a couple) indicate the ones with the added wood ash to have "very high" potassium levels and the plants look better in those holes, no doubt.

If I remember right the black ash is more beneficial so I ran all the ashes through a 1/8" hardware cloth to grind up the chunks of charcoal from the stove.
Since many of the high K ingredients on the list are in my worm bins, I have to wonder the NPK of the castings about to be harvested.

Sorry for the long winded post, Bourbon tonight

Hops

Alfalfa Hay: 2.45/0.5/2.1
Apple Fruit: 0.05/0.02/0.1
Apple Leaves: 1.0/0.15/0.4
Apple Pomace: 0.2/0.02/0.15
Apple skins(ash) : 0/3.0/11/74
Banana Residues (ash): 1.75/0.75/0.5
Barley (grain): 0/0/0.5
Barley (straw): 0/0/1.0
Basalt Rock: 0/0/1.5
Bat Guano: 5.0-8.0/4.0-5.0/1.0
Beans, garden(seed and hull): 0.25/0.08/03
Beet Wastes: 0.4/0.4/0.7-4.1
Blood meal: 15.0/0/0
Bone Black: 1.5/0/0
Bonemeal (raw): 3.3-4.1/21.0/0.2
Bonemeal (steamed): 1.6-2.5/21.0/0.2
Brewery Wastes (wet): 1.0/0.5/0.05
Buckwheat straw: 0/0/2.0
Cantaloupe Rinds (ash): 0/9.77/12.0
Castor pomace: 4.0-6.6/1.0-2.0/1.0-2.0
Cattail reeds and water lily stems: 2.0/0.8/3.4
Cattail Seed: 0.98/0.25/0.1
Cattle Manure (fresh): 0.29/0.25/0.1
Cherry Leaves: 0.6/0/0.7
Chicken Manure (fresh): 1.6/1.0-1.5/0.6-1.0
Clover: 2/0/0/0 (also contains calcium)
Cocoa Shell Dust: 1.0/1.5/1.7
Coffee Grounds: 2.0/0.36/0.67
Corn (grain): 1.65/0.65/0.4
Corn (green forage): 0.4/0.13/0.33
Corn cobs: 0/0/2.0
Corn Silage: 0.42/0/0
Cornstalks: 0.75/0/0.8
Cottonseed hulls (ash): 0/8.7/23.9
Cottonseed Meal: 7.0/2.0-3.0/1.8
Cotton Wastes (factory): 1.32/0.45/0.36
Cowpea Hay: 3.0/0/2.3
Cowpeas (green forage): 0.45/0.12/0.45
Cowpeas (seed): 3.1/1.0/1.2
Crabgrass (green): 0.66/0.19/0.71
Crabs (dried, ground): 10.0/0/0 (I personally just crush the shells with my foot)
Crabs (fresh): 5.0/3.6/0.2
Cucumber Skins (ash): 0/11.28/27.2 ( WOW!!!! Who knew???)
Dried Blood: 10.0-14.0/1.0-5.0/0
Duck Manure (fresh): 1.12/1.44/0.6
Eggs: 2.25/0.4/0.15
Eggshells: 1.19/0.38/0.14
Feathers: 15.3/0/0
Felt Wastes: 14.0/0/1.0
Field Beans (seed): 4.0/1.2/1.3
Feild Beans (shells): 1.7/0.3/1.3
Fish (dried, ground): 8.0/7.0/0
Fish Scraps (fresh): 6.5/3.75/0
Gluten Meal: 6.4/0/0
Granite Dust: 0/0/3.0-5.5
Grapefruit Skins (ash): 0/3.6/30.6 (And people throw these things away? Wow!)
Grape Leaves: 0.45/0.1/0.4
Grape Pomace: 1.0/0.07/0.3
Grass (imature): 1.0/0/1.2
Greensand: 0/1.5/7.0
Hair: 14/0/0/0
Hoof and Horn Meal: 12.5/2.0/0
Horse Manure (fresh): 0.44/0.35/0.3
Incinerator Ash: 0.24/5.15/2.33
Jellyfish (dried): 4.6/0/0
Kentucky Bluegrass (green): 0.66/0.19/0.71
Kentucky Bluegrass (hay): 1.2/0.4/2.0
Leather Dust: 11.0/0/0
Lemon Culls: 0.15/0.06/0.26
Lemon Skins (ash): 06.33/1.0
Lobster Refuse: 4.5/3.5/0
Milk: 0.5/0.3/0.18
Millet Hay: 1.2/0/3.2
Molasses Residue
(From alcohol manufacture): 0.7/0/5.32
Molasses Waste
(From Sugar refining): 0/0/3.0-4.0
Mud (fresh water): 1.37/0.26/0.22
Mud (harbour): 0.99/0.77/0.05
Mud (salt): 0.4.0/0
Mussels: 1.0/0.12/0.13
Nutshells: 2.5/0/0
Oak Leaves: 0.8/0.35/0.2
Oats (grain): 2.0/0.8/0.6
Oats (green fodder): 0.49/0/0
Oat straw: 0/0/1.5
Olive Pomace: 1.15/0.78/1.3
Orange Skins: 0/3.0/27.0
Oyster Shells: 0.36/0/0
Peach Leaves: 0.9/0.15/0.6
Pea forage: 1.5-2.5/0/1.4
Peanuts (seed/kernals): 3.6/0.7/0.45
Peanut Shells: 3.6/0.15/0.5
Pea Pods (ash): 0/3.0/9.0
Pea (vines): 0.25/0/0.7
Pear Leaves: 0.7/0/0.4
Pigeon manure (fresh): 4.19/2.24/1.0
Pigweed (rough): 0.6/0.1/0
Pine Needles: 0.5/0.12/0.03
Potato Skins (ash): 0/5.18/27.5
Potaote Tubers: 0.35/0.15/2.5
Potatoe Vines (dried): 0.6/0.16/1.6
Prune Refuse: 0.18/0.07/0.31
Pumpkins (fresh): 0.16/0.07/0.26
Rabbitbrush (ash): 0/0/13.04
Rabbit Manure: 2.4/1.4/0.6
Ragweed: 0.76/0.26/0
Rapeseed meal: 0/1.0=2.0/1.0=3.0
Raspberry leaves: 1.45/0/0.6
Red clover hay: 2.1/0.6/2.1
Redrop Hay: 1.2/0.35/1.0
Roses (flowers): 0.3/0.1/0.4
Rye Straw: 0/0/1.0
Salt March Hay: 1.1/0.25/0.75
Sardine Scrap: 8.0/7.1/0
Seaweed (dried): 1.1-1.5/0.75/4.9 Seaweed is loaded with micronutrients
Seaweed (fresh): 0.2-0.4/0/0
Sheep and Goat Manure (fresh): 0.55/0.6/0.3
Shoddy and Felt: 8.0/0/0
Shrimp Heads (dried): 7.8/4.2/0
Shrimp Wastes: 2.9/10.0/0
Siftings From Oyster Shell Mounds: 0.36/10.38/0.09
Silk Mill Wastes: 8.0/1.14/1.0
Silkworm Cocoons:10.0/1.82/1.08
Sludge: 2.0/1.9/0.3
Sludge (activated): 5.0/2.5-4.0/0.6
Smokehouse/Firepit Ash:0/0/4.96 (I put the ashes from my smoker in the pile)
Sorghum Straw:0/0/1.0
Soybean Hay: 1.5-3.0/0/1.2-2.3
String Beans (strings and stems, ash): 0/4.99/18.0

What a great list.

Gopedxr said:

What do you know about ironite? My buddy uses it says its good for the trace minerals or bacteria and he uses bone meal i think to. Pretty basic yet so green and so big! Whats up with the norcal dirt ha!

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From what I have read the jury is still out. I have also read that it is good . I have never used it my self. I have products with iron in them that I use in my soil mix. Hops thanks for the list I have seen that before there are a few running around depends on what forum. The gurls are looking good today. Keepem green dirrtyd

The buds on the two unknown plants are getting bigger and bigger. Looks like a few more weeks before they are done. The pistils have started to recede on some buds. It is sticky not a real strong smell yet. On that note the onions have been doing there job so far will keep weaving them through the fence around the garden. Will definitely take some pics today. Keepem green dirrtyd

pics are here comments welcome. keepem green dirrtyd

damn dirty those are blasting off!!! gunna be a sugary load for you!!

MediGrow530 said:

damn dirty those are blasting off!!! gunna be a sugary load for you!!

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Medi yes they will be a handful glad a couple will finish way before the rest. That way will have smoke and a break in between. Getting ready to run my drying lines here soon gooing to have four separate lines to hang branches on.Glad you liked the plants I enjoy your as well. keepem green dirrtyd

Hey d-
Looks to me like your going to need to put a Tune-up on that trim machine you got. Lots of trimming my friend!
TMB-

treemansbuds said:

Hey d-
Looks to me like your going to need to put a Tune-up on that trim machine you got. Lots of trimming my friend!
TMB-

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Funny you say that I just asked the wife for a few more bottles of Alcohol to give it a good wipe down before I start. Also going to get the 5 dollar hanging baskets from ikea. Will use them instead of the cardboard box in my drying process. keepem green dirrtyd

Awwww, yeeuh.
Good that you get some to work on early. That was my plan as well but the 'early' ones are maybe the least developed .

Hops

BTW, your stuff looks fab, to quote a british neighbor of mine.

Hops

Looking good dirty, snip,snip,snip! lol!

peace
doublejj