Companion planting

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CapnBligh

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I am trying out marigolds and catnip. Separate containers but in the same space. I have always planted marigolds in my veggie gardens as sacrificial plants. Seems to work outdoors, the pests seem to prefer those over the vegetables.
 
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living gardening

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There is always the classic book Carrots love Tomatoes. Every plant will have a different effect on your ladies. I have Diakon and Scarlet Rose radish in two pots along with crimson clover (which is an annual, that means only once), snap peas of differing kinds, fenugreek, sage, parsley, and carrots.
I put things in that I would like to eat and serve a purpose. Radishes will stay in the soil (eases compaction). The peas and clover are my nitrogen fixers.
The herbs are in there to see if it may change terp profiles.
I put a spouted auto seed in my soil with a million other plants (15gal) and it is doing quite well.
In my off cycle pots I have peas and oats quite dense. I've already cut the oats down once and left it lay as green manure. All five pots grew very nice plants for a first cycle. My duff layer is coming along very nicely.
Also wanna look up the meaning of a trap plant and what they attract. I love Nisturcium, just not enough to bring in aphids from a commercial corn grow . . .
 
go go kid

go go kid

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  1. Cerastium
  2. Sunflower
  3. Marigold
  4. Alfalfa
  5. Red clover
  6. Chervil
  7. White clover
  8. Peppermint
  9. Lavender
  10. Coriander
  11. Chamomile
  12. Yarrow
  13. Dill
  14. Lemon balm
  15. Sweet basil
  16. Borage
all benafit growing cannabis in some way, mostly as pest pravention, ie the bugs will attack the companion plants and stay away from your plants when grown outside. but ive herd conflicting reactions to bird shit on your lovely ladies, some say its good (obvious for nutritinal bird shit fertilizer) but others saying you can get some nasty illness from the bird shit. can anyone clear this up for me.
 
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CapnBligh

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living gardening said:
There is always the classic book Carrots love Tomatoes. Every plant will have a different effect on your ladies. I have Diakon and Scarlet Rose radish in two pots along with crimson clover (which is an annual, that means only once), snap peas of differing kinds, fenugreek, sage, parsley, and carrots.
I put things in that I would like to eat and serve a purpose. Radishes will stay in the soil (eases compaction). The peas and clover are my nitrogen fixers.
The herbs are in there to see if it may change terp profiles.
I put a spouted auto seed in my soil with a million other plants (15gal) and it is doing quite well.
In my off cycle pots I have peas and oats quite dense. I've already cut the oats down once and left it lay as green manure. All five pots grew very nice plants for a first cycle. My duff layer is coming along very nicely.
Also wanna look up the meaning of a trap plant and what they attract. I love Nisturcium, just not enough to bring in aphids from a commercial corn grow . . .
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I forgot about that book. It is very informative!
 
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living gardening

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Do your research into that you war planting though. Plants like mint and lemon balm can take over a space making it hard to get some small plants/seedlings going.
 
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CapnBligh

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Hell yeah they can. I learned the hard way about mint. The kid likes it so I keep it in a pot and treat it like an annual.

I was thinking about trying white clover in pots with the pot. Have you had any issues doing this? We used to cover crop with that in the garden and let the chickens go to town out there. Free manure, just rotate them around haha
 
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CapnBligh

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go go kid said:
  1. Cerastium
  2. Sunflower
  3. Marigold
  4. Alfalfa
  5. Red clover
  6. Chervil
  7. White clover
  8. Peppermint
  9. Lavender
  10. Coriander
  11. Chamomile
  12. Yarrow
  13. Dill
  14. Lemon balm
  15. Sweet basil
  16. Borage
all benafit growing cannabis in some way, mostly as pest pravention, ie the bugs will attack the companion plants and stay away from your plants when grown outside. but ive herd conflicting reactions to bird shit on your lovely ladies, some say its good (obvious for nutritinal bird shit fertilizer) but others saying you can get some nasty illness from the bird shit. can anyone clear this up for me.
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I know a few outdoor growers, none of them have ever mentioned an issue with bird shit. Deer however.. fuckers eat everything.
 
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living gardening

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I'm hoping that JS (JADAM Sulfur) will deter them. If not I'll make JWA Jad . . Wetting Agent with hot pepper oil. My best friend has a hard on for growing super hot peppers. I just have to make it until I can get my chems made. Any advice to keep deer away? I heard they are repelled by the smell of blood meal. I found out that the squirrels are totally turned off by blood meal. Just gotta try not to bring the yotes' to the garden. I have a couple of barn kitties that get all the mices, and babbits, and squirrelies. I gotta keep them around.
I was thinking of trying passive area denial tactics. Like using a barrier of field stones for uneven ground that they would rather walk around than walk through and have an electric fence just over the line so if they jump the barrier they get shocked. Good to have ideas, better to have the ability to execute them . . .
 
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CapnBligh

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You can't lose the barn kitties!

She tried hotwire but the deer just jumped over it. The whitetail up here will hop an 8' privacy fence like it isn't there. I know she tried a multitude of things, finally settled on a twelve gauge and a couple of dogs. She always has venison..
 
Lastmanstandin31

Lastmanstandin31

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living gardening said:
Funny . . .The pres of my gun club is a barber. That would be easy.
How do you use it? All over, certain spots?/!
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Just sprinkle all over the ground in a circle around the plant field.
You can use fishing line also. Deer can't see it so when the run into it it spooks them and they run the other way.
 
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living gardening

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I was told about the fishing line but my aunt said they will walk through it. She said they did that to the electric fence wire more than a few times. I may just try a little of everything. do some blood meal, some hair, and the fence. The place will smell like a chinese work camp . . .
May try spreading OLD lacto veggies. I have that in spades.
 
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