My outdoor garden 2016

William Shatter

William Shatter

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Sup guys and gals, figured I'd post a little journal here for my outdoor ventures. This is the first time ive ever grown vegetables and shit. My experience has been limited to cannabis but I'm a quick learner.

I've been building up my beds over the last yr with carboard/ leaves/grass clippings/ manure/ seaweed/ mulch/ compost and top soil. Just transplanted my strawberrys and a few other berries in the one bed.
I have sweet pea sprouts outside aswell as another kind of pea I cant remember the name cuz im stoned lol. About 20 or more so far.

My spinach has sprouted as well as the arugula.

I've started a variety of seeds indoors and will be moving more outside soon.

So far I have Oregon spring & golden nugget tomatoes, watermelon sprouts (forget the variety), sunflower, kale, basil (from which were started indoors)

Transplanted a bunch of Oregon spring maters and basil in the greenhouse with a cpl regular blueberry (cannabis) sprouts
Kale will be going out soon as well.

I have a shit ton of virginia tobacco in pots and will be building a bed for them soon. Tomorrow hopefully.

& I will also be growing chantrelle mushrooms, corn, carrots, radishes and a few others im forgetting.

Cpl other cool things I have in my indoor cabinet are lemon trees, im hooked on sprouting lemon seeds and growing them lol, Ive got about 4 so far. I'll most likely be keeping them inside for the most part tho. I did however throw one outside in y greenhouse. In a pot. See how she does. image.jpgimage.jpgimage.jpgimage.jpgimage.jpgimage.jpgimage.jpgimage.jpgimage.jpg
 
iHearAll

iHearAll

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Soil is looking fanfuckintastic.

Heads up on the kale and tomatos. Watch their leaves like a hawk. I get a moth infestation during the summer and although it ignores my dope, it eats my tomatos, kale, and cabbage. Also if that kale survives let it go through the winter and keep eating the oldest leaves and topping off the flower.
 
William Shatter

William Shatter

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iHearAll said:
Soil is looking fanfuckintastic.

Heads up on the kale and tomatos. Watch their leaves like a hawk. I get a moth infestation during the summer and although it ignores my dope, it eats my tomatos, kale, and cabbage. Also if that kale survives let it go through the winter and keep eating the oldest leaves and topping off the flower.
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Thank you! I put a lot of time into that soil so far haha, it should do me good tho i'd imagine. My only worry is pests like you've mentioned and cheers for the heads up. Moth infestation hey? Ill definately be keeping an eye out. Have yet to put the kale out there. But tomatoes are surviving, only been out 24hrs at this point so not much to report. I did however cover them in that white mesh like fabric. I also built a make shift lil greenhouse environment for my tobacco. Just turned a fold out table upside down, put the plants on the bottom side of the flipped table and then wrapped it in poly plastic. Ghetto as shit but it works haha. Ill have some pics tomorrow when the suns out.
 
William Shatter

William Shatter

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Far as pests tho so far all ive noticed are some spiders and worms, I know worms are good tho right? certain ones obviously, like the red wigglers or whatever, they dont eat leaves do they? just shit in the soil and what not?
when my tobacco was in there something was eating the leaves like a worm or a snail or somethin tho, bites were big.
 
iHearAll

iHearAll

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William Shatter said:
Far as pests tho so far all ive noticed are some spiders and worms, I know worms are good tho right? certain ones obviously, like the red wigglers or whatever, they dont eat leaves do they? just shit in the soil and what not?
when my tobacco was in there something was eating the leaves like a worm or a snail or somethin tho, bites were big.
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Yea worms are fine. If it has legs itll probably be a pest. Spiders are good too. Try not to kill them. Unless you have it out for them. But yea theyll eat bugs. That moth lays eggs on leaves and a small green catepillar hatches to destroy leaves. Insect netting does wonders against them with low plants like canbage. Im going to see about growing tomatos horizontalally to fit them under my row covers. Picking them off takes a good while
 
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Yodaweed

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iHearAll said:
Yea worms are fine. If it has legs itll probably be a pest. Spiders are good too. Try not to kill them. Unless you have it out for them. But yea theyll eat bugs. That moth lays eggs on leaves and a small green catepillar hatches to destroy leaves. Insect netting does wonders against them with low plants like canbage. Im going to see about growing tomatos horizontalally to fit them under my row covers. Picking them off takes a good while
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That's called a cabbage worm/ cabbage moth and they are nasty, they eat the heck out the leafs.
 
William Shatter

William Shatter

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Thanks for the heads up everybody, Ill be keepin an eye out for sure.

Little picture update.

First Pic is the shelling peas, 2nd is my lil bay tree, 3rd is some kale, 4th & 5th are my lil makeshift greenhouse. 6th is my strawberries, 7th is rasberry, blueberry & cranberry. 8th & 9th are watermelons (sugar baby) & 10th are more maters, golden nugget variety.
 

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Larry {the} Gardener

Larry {the} Gardener

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The garden is looking great. Especially that soil. My soil is sandy, and I use cardboard, mushroom compost, leaves and wood chips to build it up. But I have a two acre garden, and so far I've just improved a small fraction of that. My in the ground garden that is up so far is green beans, sweet corn, pink-eyed purple hull {field} peas, soybeans, field corn. Planted in the ground, but not up yet is, Armenian cucumbers, Charleston Gray and Crimson Sweet melons, Acorn squash, banana cantaloupe, 2 kinds of regular cucumbers, straight neck squash, crook neck squash and zucchini.

I also have peppers, tomatoes, sweet corn and some onions is pots and grow bags of soil mix in my RNRGGS {red neck rain gutter grow system}

I've grown tobacco before, and you will have to be on the lookout for these guys. {horned tomato worms} They will eat your plants in a hurry.

 
William Shatter

William Shatter

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I would love to have that kind of land, im just working with a small front yard, urban farming, im making a small rooftop garden as well, and there is a big un-used city park which is basically my backyard, i plan to fix up a little area back there and call it a "community garden". Thanks for all the tips!

I just started germinating a bunch of mandarin orange seeds, Im gonna start them indoors under lights like i did with my lemons, hopefully get some sprouts..

also got some thai basil out there now, more sugar baby melons starting indoors, got more radishes going out. Tobacco is growing like crazy now that the weather is better, i definately had that out too early and almost killed a bunch of it. I had way to much to begin with tho so i wasnt to concerned lol.
The basil in my greenhouse looks like complete shit.. leaves are turning kind of silver almost.. does not look healthy at all..
 
William Shatter

William Shatter

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thumper60 said:
I would pull those early maters,let the plant get bigger,looking good
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yea? ive been thinking about pulling everything in the greenhouse, nothing is doing to well in there, the left side seems better, bigger growth but thats where the early bloomers are, like 6 plants, and then the right side theyve barely grown a foot tall, some smaller, and the basil is still lookin like shit in there, there were all started under lights and transplanted tho.. the ones i direct seeded in my other beds are doing better.. corn is growing real nice, i got radishes ready, strawberries turnin red soon.. some of my tobacco has started to flower, ive topped a bunch of the others that started to flower because it will promote bigger leaf growth, I want the other flowering ones to go to seed tho..
what else.. somethin is eating the fuck outta my melons and cucumber/zuchinnis.. i had like 7 sprouts and they got devoured lol
 
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Ovah

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How much light does a tobaccoplant need, cant find any information on the light cycle?
Im going to try to grow tobacco for the first time indoors in a growtent (60x60x160).

What kind of soil would you recommend for a beginner?

Best regards
 
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