Yes I've been thinking about that. Right now every 2 weeks I top dress. Eventually I'll run out of room doing that. I figure with no till, you keep adding to the soil you already have, never really taking anything out. Eventually it'll fill up. I've heard fabric pots are bad for organic though. They dry out too fast is what I'm told. It kinda makes sense.
I really like the idea of wrapping the sides of the fabric pots with plastic to help retain some water, but leaving a top and bottom band to allow for aeration/drainage
Maybe I'll try that.
So many gorgeous pictures in this thread. Amazing work sir. I love the cover crops!
Thanks it's a 6 seed blend
Is that something I can source online? Or would you suggest a visit to a local nursery? I'd love to do some cover crops on my soil plants! I just love the ambiance
LOL, most of my seeds except for the clover are just bought from Walmart. It's like $2 for a lifetime supply of lentils or mung beans or whatever.Is that something I can source online? Or would you suggest a visit to a local nursery? I'd love to do some cover crops on my soil plants! I just love the ambiance
Just for the record I suggest just leaving a 1 to 2 inch bottom band. I needed most to cover the top because the top 3" of your soil is where the action is happening. Also you don't want your top watering to wash over your soil just to spill out the top few inches of soil down the sides of the pot. I used plastic above my top soil line, in fact all the way to the top of the fabric and folded over it.
Smart. I think thats a great idea
My base wasn't plain peat moss, but instead I cheated and used "Pro-mix Organic Herb and Vegetable" growing medium. Pro-mix contains a surfactant (wetting agent) to avoid hydrophobic conditions when it's dried out. But if you're doing this properly your peat moss shouldn't dry out to the point of being hydrophobic to begin with even without any special wetting agent. This is what the mulch over top of the surface is for. As your mulch breaks down, you'll start to see an accumulation of decayed organic material on the surface (think humus layer) that never becomes hydrophobic even if you let it dry out completely (which again, you shouldn't). It's a temporary condition anyway until the biology gets going, the worms mix things up, and the peat moss begins to break down itself, especially near the surface where all the action is.
Looking great have you ever just grown anything in your pot just for fun I was thinking of adding some zinnia seeds just for fun on my next grow my wife may not approve if she finds out that I used some of her seeds tho lol
Everything grown is fun! In this pot I've managed to grow a couple pounds of ripe tomatoes with the cannabis growing. It was an indeterminate that was probably from the worm bin so I trained it up a corner almost all the way to the top of the tent until the weed crowded it out too much. My very first cover crop in this pot was a bunch of inoculated bush/snap beans. It produced enough beans to use as several side dishes.
I remember when people used to dunk the roots in ice water right before hanging to “shock the plant and send all the thx to the buds” lol.
I've not seen it personally, but I have read a couple threads on forums where others have apparently had the issue. I haven't seen anyone post a photo of the bugs in question though. Once in awhile I catch a dud... the hollow seeds, but usually I catch them before planting if I can help it.
I will try to post a photo if it happens again. The seed and the soil was surrounded by some kind of beneficial mites. I wonder if I am not planting the seed deep enough? Do you do anything out of the ordinary when you plant a seed? It looks like you prep a little area for planting.
Yeah I prep the area for the seed because just throwing it into a very thick 4" cover crop growing out of at 2" thick mulch might be a bad idea. lol