What I wouldn’t give to have farms and farm suppliers near me. sigh. City life.
Ordered this from Amazon… gonna try it on my container plants in veg this year. Haven’t decided on which organic concoction for flower yet.
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The six years I spent on the farm coincides with a 6 year break from consuming cannabis.
I had to keep my full time job in the city. My office was 70 miles away which, with major metro area rush hour, translated into 3 hours in the car every day. Then we had anywhere from 40-60 horses (the primary function of the farm was horse breeding), random other animals (dogs, cats, goats, pigs, donkey, cow, chickens, Sebastopol geese, Muscovy ducks), and the million other things you need to tend to on a farm. I didn’t have time to get high!
I’d sure love to have that opportunity again with a few changes…
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There’s an easy solution to that @Meesh plants your seeds in med June or so that way they only get a month and a half or so for veg time! Lol
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I truly believe your making more work for yourself by tilling more, any bits of grass that are chopped up are making more plants like comfrey the smallest bits can start more plants
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Well now, I have a jillion tomato volunteers and some weeds mixed in too
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I LOVE animals, just not sure I’d love picking up all of their poop. lol That would be like a cool summer job. Not sure I could handle it for long term. I’m such a city slicker.
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@Tinytuttle what do you think I should do then? My shoulder can’t handle the shovel
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Try this @Meesh get a heavy piece of clear plastic 10x10 when it gets hot out ( not sure what it’s getting to temp There water the ground place the plastics down and seal it With sand completely ( solarization) should killed every thing down to about 5-6”, temps from what Iv read IIRRCC can get up to 130+ or higher which bakes everything don’t know to much about Bermuda but I’d bet it wouldn’t make it!
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Higher some cheap labor! ( neighbor kid) But just try a small section that you might be able to handle and give it a try I don’t want ya to work harder!
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I would except I read it has to be over 80 consistently for a week for it to get hot enough underneath and we won’t be there until the plants are already in the ground. Highest we’ve had was 78 degrees out. It’s only mid 70’s here consistently right now
Edit Just checked weather. We had a warm week, going back to low 70’s for a straight 2 weeks right now.
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The area your talking about is pretty open to direct sunlight correct? Though it’s still cool in most areas it’s my belief that it’s more direct sunlight driven than ambient temps , try setting a temp gauge on your dash of your car with your window facing the sun for a few hours and monitor it and see what it gets up to, pretty much a same concept with with the windows rolled up try it this may be fun !
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Got this excerpt from Sunset Magazine…
Soil solarization takes advantage of the sun’s heat, trapped under clear plastic sheeting, to control many kinds of weed seeds as well as harmful fungi, bacteria, and some nematodes. The process is carried out in summer and works best in regions that have hot, sunny weather for 4 to 8 weeks straight; daytime temperatures above 80 degrees F/27 degrees C are ideal. Solarization isn’t very effective in coastal climates with summer fog, nor does it work well in very windy areas.
I don’t have 4 to 8 weeks right now, it’s only 70 and I live at the coast. Maybe next year I will skip a big grow, just do containers and solarize it in the summer. Right now I need a quick fix. Till, replant, cardboard and straw mulch.
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How about a solar oven without a bottom? Just move it around every day or so.
Cheers
G
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Nope stay away from that tiller ! I’d get a weed and grass torch burner before starting that tiller up again!
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Or maybe a giant magnifying glass with a welders helmet! Lol oh that takes me back to my youthful days of scorching bugs with a reading magnifier ! Lol
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I’d say get a goat and a small pen! Them fuckers eat everything! Lol
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HAW!!
I deleted a line about frying ants with a magnifying glass before posting, you know , trying to display proper public decorum… YEAH - Like that ever worked 
Cheers
G
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Lol they say great minds think alike!
I had a neighbor that had chickens in a little house he would drag around the yard. Bottom was open an they would eat the grass and bugs and poop and fertilize an area for a year then drag it to a new spot and let the chickens go to work while they gardened the old spot. Not gonna be able to get that done now…but a thought to share for next year maybe.
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