I also do a dome on my seedlings. It does help shed the helmet. I will spray the stubborn ones to help… sometimes the spray bottle knocks them off.
Crappie is excellent but I wish we had walleye close. I use to go up north walleye fishing every summer with my grandfather. Walleye is hard to beat but so is crappie. It is just like bluegill, just a little cleaner and not as fishy. I’d never pass a bluegill fillet, the 3 we are talking about are my favorites but I do like me some flathead or channel catfish
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What’s your soil mix Bullskinner?
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That is a tough one to answer @Rogue. I reuse my soil…just keep amending it. If you can find last year’s journal, Bullskinners Hillbilly Grow show, which I regrettably didn’t finish you can see the soils I bought to freshen up my soil. I also have a worm bin and am constantly composting. Over the years I have added every organic supplement you can think of. I think in large pots it could do a grow start to finish but I do feed with Mega Crop and cal-mag every so often, it just gives them a boost.
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Everything I have going now has just had 1 light feeding
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I reuse my soil too, I keep adding chopped up organic matter into my pots: banana peels (phosphor & potassium) and all kinds of kitchenscraps, nettles & dandelion for minerals (calcium), tree leaves, malted barley, seaweed, alfalfa, wormcastings, basalt, etc. That’s what I started with.
But from now on gonna use only stuff that’s growing in my garden or in the neighbourhood at least. Doesn’t make sense to buy amendments anymore. Outside I do the same with grassclippings, got a couple of bales of hay from a local farmer to cover my raised beds, makes a huge difference when it comes to moisture, I hardly ever water. My pots haven’t seen water in 23 days. Central Europe here.
And I can get my hands on free horse manure, so that’s awesome too.
Horse owners like to see me coming, less work for them!
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Sounds like we have a lot in common. My family has always had horses and horse manure is my #1 ingredient in most of my compost. I also use a lot of sheep and rabbit. Most of my greens from the kitchen go to feed the worms, they do love a little horse manure too. My composting is about to jump into high gear with everything getting green. I have a big tumbler and all my garden scraps go in it plus anything else I can gather. I make a pile and hit it with the mulching push mower, rake it up and in it goes. That allows me to have a finished batch every 30 days.
You are right, there is no need to spend a bunch of money on supplements or soil. It’s a trade off I guess…lol. Instead of having to work to afford it I would rather spend that time gathering all I need and luckily I’m in an area to supply almost everything I need.
I mulch most my garden too. Besides what you mentioned it really helps keep tomatoes from cracking…like they will do after a dry spell when you get a good rain. It keeps the moisture level a lot more consistent.
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Well after hunting those mushrooms I realized I had forgotten about my seeds. I had mushrooms on my brain and had a friend heading back to Texas I sent all the bagged mushrooms with leaving Saturday morning.
I dang near waited to long. But the all look good. I ended up with 100% on the 10 GGDP and the 5 Space needle. I also dropped 10 BC Pinewarp and 8 of them have popped.they have made it in the dirt and most are up
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I also received a letter in the mail. I cannot figure out who it’s from. I’ve searched my DMs and still no clue. My memory is shit and I’ve done several trades here lately. I came out of Cali. Anyone recognize these?
I think a few of the seeds may be fine but several are cracked or just destroyed. Not sure of the strain
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And the garden is coming to life. I have potatoes and onions coming up. The next month is going to be a busy one. I’ve got a lot of holes to dig in still
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Ouch, that hurts to look at bro.
On the upside, your garden is looking good so far.
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Thank you Sir, yeah those seed did not fair well, not figured out what strain it is yet, but I’m sure they are something I asked for and I really appreciate whomever sent them, I just hate it when they arrive smashed. I think we need a tutorial on how to ship seed. 2 of my last 5 shipments have had cracked seed and I hate it when good seed get ruined
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There is a thread about using coin flips.
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Nice and Thanks for posting. I have just switched from vials to coin flips and hose washers. It was over $4.00 to ship the vials in a padded envelope. I can do the coin flips for the price of a stamp.
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I would still recommend shipping non machineable. It’s 15 cents more, but piece of mind when the seeds avoid the rollers all together.
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Agreed but I really like the idea of just dropping them in the box. In a small town where I live, with the laws in my state I have to keep a low profile…not cause any suspicion. I went to school and am friends with the post master and the guy who does the transaction.
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Everything looked great when I saw it. I just like the added protection, and I’m in a legal state. That makes a difference.
I grew up in a small town, I get that.
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The JOTI beans are all breaking ground and shedding the helmets. I’m going to run Blackberry Breath, Gods Grand Double Purple and Space Needle outdoors. Plus I have some BC Pinewarp courtesy of@Donnie coming up.
Here are my clones. They are all looking good. I’ve got another 6 Cookieland from @Purple-N-Hairy I’m going to drop. I hope to run it close to home in pots. I think it will probably need to bring the in once they really start to swell due to mold. Then I will be done popping seed until I start the autos.
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Glad to have you along for the show Sir
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