🕊 - Outdoor Growing Adventures With Your Friendly Neighbourhood Pigeonman - 2021/2022

[Pigeonman]

That’s the ultimate hope

[Shadey]

I have never seen one over here, I was thinking maybe its due to snow load. In the UK most are made with a small brick wall on a foundation up to 3ft high, and then a wooden frame construction with glass built on the wall and secured to the side of the house. They use a fair bit of heat to keep warm in winter, even in the UK’s mild climate.

I used to work for a guy who had a company that built them.

[Pigeonman]

Yeah something like this:

I’d collect black food grade barrels and line them along the middle of the greenhouse, fill em with water and use them as the watering sources and as heat sources. Daytime they heat up the water and at night the heat releases. I figured I’d also need to build in heating flooring, lay down the piping on-top of foam insulation sheeting and then theoretically run the hot water from the barrels through it at night

[Shadey]

Yeah similar, but in the UK people just sit in them, and dont grow plants in there lol.

[Pigeonman]

Been too long since last update but the weather was so hit/miss here that things are looking up again outside.

It was too dry and hot and now it’s super humid and hot so there are so many insects competing for food i’ve had to spray Safers End All on a lot of things to convince them to eat elsewhere.

Of my 4 plants outdoors, the only one that fully exploded was the WW X CO which was also the only plant with 100% fresh Promix BX.

I reused last years soil for the other 3 after treating it with h202 to kill off anything that may have survived overwintering. Since the 3 plants are not developing as vigorously as the ww x co I ammended them with 1/2 gallon water each with Superthrive mixed at 1/4tsp per gallon and a few days later the 3 are taking off.

Lesson learned and i’ll use fresh mix next year and add the old soil to the compost heap.

White Widow x Critical Orange

UK Cheese

Gelato (Larry Bird 33)

Kosher Kush

The rest of the garden is doing great as well! Will post those images later on.

Thanks for checking in, happy growing!

[Pigeonman]

Garden Update!

Apples:

Apples:

Brugmansia(s) & Mugwort:

Geraniums, Morning Glory, Datura Metal, Angry Gnome, All Lives Matter.

Brugmansia Porch:

Creeping Jenny Baskets, Pollinator Roadside, Sugar Maple:

White Mullberry (berries were delicious this season!):

Cardamon (new shoots coming):

Paw-Paw 2:

Meyer Lemon:

Calamondin Orange:

Key-Lime:

Paw-Paw 3:

Eureka Lemon:

Dwarf Date Palm:

Paw-Paw 1:

White Grapefruit (sooo many new shoots!):

Persian Lime:

Ruby-Red Grapefruit:

Makrut Lime:

Red Sheppard Pepper:

Garden Huckleberry:

Garden Huckleberry (SQUARE STEMS, similar to Salvia Divinorum):

Hops, Geranium, Sweet-Pea:

Rose Hedge:

Tea Rose Hedge, Cherry Tree, Iris, Arbor:

Tea Roses:

Arbor with Sunflowers and Lupins:

Wildlife Pond with Creeping Jenny:

Cucumbers:

Tomatos (Above ground):

Scarlet Runner Beans, Romanesco Broccoli, Shepperd Peppers:

Collard Greens, Dinosaur Kale:

Lone Poppy:

Cranberry Beans:

Romanesco Broccoli & Kale:

Amarinth? I think? Seeds given to me by my Indian neighbour who brought them from his homeland:

QUEEN OF HERBS:

Tomatos (in ground):

Herbs, Medicinals & Dyes:

White Currants:

Red Currants:

Red Currants:

Gooseberries:

Pollenator Watersource:

Clawfoot Tub Lillies (there’s a shubinkin goldfish in there eating any insects that dare):

Mugwort:

Bay Laurel:

Scotch Bonnet:

Guava:

Olive Tree:

Olives getting bigger!":

Plumerias (loving the heat and starting to come back):

Jasmine:

Mosquito Geranium:

Crown-of-thorns & Night Blooming Jasmine:

Broadleaf Thyme:

Blue Dauber drinking away:

Croton:

Roses & Insect water source:

Thanks for checking in! I’ll post a few more tomorrow

[keene]

Hi beautiful, one observation, I would remove the Wisteria before it is everywhere, its very invasive and
runs roots all over crazy. I have 150 year old+ Cedars that have Wisteria blooming on top in spring, I cut the vines with a chainsaw, they just keep coming

[Pigeonman]

Thanks for the warning @keene but this makes me even more excited as what you just said was my hope for where it is planted. The laundry pole needs to be corrected to 90 degree eventually, but the intent was to have the vine take it over and the line itself IF the plant wanted.

I did this years back with Hops and it was amazing!

[keene]

Yes you have the right vine it will take the laundry pole the flowers are stunning. For my property its not a good player, quite vigorous and difficult to change your mind as they are resilient as hell. I have another spreading vine my wife planted and notice its popping up out of the grass all over. I’m more busy growing stuff and not rooting out stuff, too nice and fun to watch these auto flower hybrids grow like crazy

[Oldtimerunderground]

It’s like Noah’s Ark, but with plants

[Pigeonman]

Well Holy-Shart you were not kidding @JohnnyPotseed about the Superthrive as a weekly dose to get things rolling.

I mixed down 1/4tsp per gallon and gave each of the ladies 1 gallon and held of on the watering for 24hours; which I then resumed my usual feeding sched.

So the results are clear as the day currently is:

White Widow x Critical Orange:

UK Cheese:

Gelato (Larry Bird 33):

Kosher Kush:

Superthrive must be blessed by Rabbi’s because the KK freaking loves it so much it grew so strong and fast since starting to use this stuff it has lifted out all the LST staples HIGH into the air!

(*It was hanging about a foot above the soil line )

Thanks for checking in! Much love from mine to yours!

[Foreigner]

The WWxCO is looking nice and bushy!

[JohnnyPotseed]

Glad you gave it a try cuz. i wouldn’t steer ya wrong!

[Pigeonman]

Yeah I only topped this thing once, then LST it with a few bends; everything else is all due to your solid genetics mixing there buddy. I did strip the lower canopy and it’s got lots of airflow. Y’all can’t see it in the image but trust me.

@JohnnyPotseed ; looking at your grows I doubt it!

[Pigeonman]

It’s sunny so I can take a few photos! It’s been dreary, dark and raining the last few days and the plants have been thankful.

Kosher Kush:

Must not be a Frum, as we can see her ankles & legs!!!:

Gelato (larry bird 33):

White Widow x Critical Orange:

Check out the gams on this lady:

UK Cheese:

Biggest Olive on my tiny Olive Tree:

Pomegranates are starting to show up:

Garden Huckleberry is getting HUGE:

Flowers of the Garden Huckleberry (edible nightshade):

Berries of the Garden Huckleberry (edible nightshade):

When compost heap, why not potato?:

There is a reason for the Potato Blossom festivals:

I’m glad we have a tool for picking all of these, jam to be made (red/white currants):

Aussie Oxheart Tomatos are living up to their rep:

Thanks for checking in! Happy growing!

[Pigeonman]

SO MANY RASPBERRIES JAM IS BEING MADE:

[JohnnyPotseed]

Glad you gave it a try cuz! It does show in the product growth from almost the first day.

[Pigeonman]

Wait until my end of week photos! The Kosher Kush is doing what I hate it does indoors and STRETCHING TO THE SKIES LIKE AN OLYMPIC GYMNAST!

[Shadey]

It all looks really good man, a lot of our shrubs and bushes have grown more this year than the previous 2 put together.

[Art_Vandelay]

Just picked all my black raspberries and tried a “easy no gelatin recipe” uses less sugar and made syrup instead delicious syrup but very hard to spread well very easy too easy to spread. What’s your technique? Might either recoil and add pectin or gelatin.