What'cha using for cover crop this winter?

HumboldtFTW

HumboldtFTW

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I've seen some amazing results in Humboldt of "no til" farming, using cover crops to keep the soil fungus alive, happy, and expanding during the off season.

What I wonder is what you are going to use as a cover crop this season?

I do know that I plan on adding a silica amendment and brewing up some BD #508, to help with making sure my next years crop won't ever get PM. Seems to be working well for my friends on the coast, so I thought I'd try it.
 
mwooten102

mwooten102

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I grow garlic and onion in my big beds and generally do leafy greens like collards, Brussels and done fave beans in my 30g smart pots. The soil in the smart pots is going on 5-6 years old.

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ForeverGreen42

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mwooten102 said:
I grow garlic and onion in my big beds and generally do leafy greens like collards, Brussels and done fave beans in my 30g smart pots. The soil in the smart pots is going on 5-6 years old.

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You reuse the soil for cannabis the year after when doing that? Like without amending bat guano, etc into them and without tilling/mixing it up?
 
HumboldtFTW

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ForeverGreen42 said:
You reuse the soil for cannabis the year after when doing that? Like without amending bat guano, etc into them and without tilling/mixing it up?
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Not the GP, but I've been working with plenty of farmers who are doing no-till or reduced tillage. Here's a great link from the California Water Stewards about soil management.

Up here in Humboldt, if you leave your soil alone long enough, and you are close enough to the forest, you might get some amazing synergy with the fungus and your plants. I've seen it myself, and it's quite amazing when your cannabis is getting feed from Redwood trees.
 
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ForeverGreen42

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HumboldtFTW said:
Not the GP, but I've been working with plenty of farmers who are doing no-till or reduced tillage. Here's a great link from the California Water Stewards about soil management.

Up here in Humboldt, if you leave your soil alone long enough, and you are close enough to the forest, you might get some amazing synergy with the fungus and your plants. I've seen it myself, and it's quite amazing when your cannabis is getting feed from Redwood trees.
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That's awesome dude! I'm out in the mountains in Colorado -- no redwoods where I'm at I know of :/ lots of pines though. That sounds awesome though! Think you can get just as good of results that way as opposed to mixing amendments and letting it cook over the winter? I didn't see the link? I would love to read it though!
 
backtracker

backtracker

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mwooten102 said:
I grow garlic and onion in my big beds and generally do leafy greens like collards, Brussels and done fave beans in my 30g smart pots. The soil in the smart pots is going on 5-6 years old.

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Neiman Marcus is selling frozen collard greens for 60 bucks a package, gawd damn I got a couple grand out there at those prices.
 
HumboldtFTW

HumboldtFTW

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ForeverGreen42 said:
That's awesome dude! I'm out in the mountains in Colorado -- no redwoods where I'm at I know of :/ lots of pines though. That sounds awesome though! Think you can get just as good of results that way as opposed to mixing amendments and letting it cook over the winter? I didn't see the link? I would love to read it though!
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Links on this forum like to hide and this one was hidden in the words "California Water Stewards" above. Here's the plain text of it: http://agwaterstewards.org/practices/soil_management/
 
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