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2022 Outdoor Gardening in the Northeast
- Thread starter OG_NoMan
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And the season begins today
Looks like your season started months ago by the look of them trunks!!!
Nice timing and wishing you a prodigious harvest!!
Looks greatAnd the season begins today. This year we have grape ape, natty b, smackerz, cherry cookies, headband, 2.0, blue dream, gg4, blueberry muffin, white truffle, cali sour vally, mendo breath, and lemon cherry gelato.
OG_NoMan
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It has been a couple of weeks and they definitely have their feet under them now. They are growing very well and are very healthy at this point with some minor leaf damage from Beatles on a few plants. Nothing to worry about for now. Have had to water more this year than the past 2 combined. Have only had one good rain storm since they were planted.
Looking good. No deficiencies, but healthy lush growth! Hope the strong storms stay away. Would be nice to have a weekend off watering. How much are you watering. How are you doing that? Watering the entire area or just the plants? How long, how may gal? They need about 5-10% of the soil volume in water according to recommendations I saw, so thats 75 gallons water at 10% for a 10x 10 area 1 ft deep of soil.
OG_NoMan
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I treat it like it's one giant pot and water it accordingly sometimes a deep watering sometimes lighter
. I use a hose and my house water, nothing special.
Like the way you have everything framed Looks like it’s been designed by a specializing in natural setting landscape architect
with the tree in the middle and all
with the tree in the middle and all
OG_NoMan
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Every year it's something different. Took a good bit of rabbit damage to most of the plants. Lost 1 big branch of blue dream. Don't know if I'll get a harvest this year but 
they're not dead yet. Definitely fencing in next year.
It's been 5 days since the damage and they're still growing well.
they're not dead yet. Definitely fencing in next year.
It's been 5 days since the damage and they're still growing well.
Rabbits are ruthless. Sorry to hear that. Need to go hunting.
Glad they are still doing well after 5 days, thats a good sign. Rain and cool temps will help.
Definitely need to put up a fence. Its not too late to put one up I guess. Hope they pull through! As long as something is connected, cannabis can regrow the vascular tissue after damage.
Glad they are still doing well after 5 days, thats a good sign. Rain and cool temps will help.
Definitely need to put up a fence. Its not too late to put one up I guess. Hope they pull through! As long as something is connected, cannabis can regrow the vascular tissue after damage.
This is what I use, works applied at monthly I think it says. Initially shorter interval between applications. I do it weekly sometimes when they are young or during high rabbit pressure times when I have seen recent damage.
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With the rain the rabbits and animals seem to come out more. I am going to have to put some of this down again soon. Gave me a cheap lesson!!! 
Do you have dogs? Dogs lay scent and can hunt around the garden. Human urine can be used for repellent too as well as other things, just mark your territory with scents to repel. The fence is the solution though. I do both repellents and actual fencing.
Do you have dogs? Dogs lay scent and can hunt around the garden. Human urine can be used for repellent too as well as other things, just mark your territory with scents to repel. The fence is the solution though. I do both repellents and actual fencing.
laszlokovacs
Well-known member
Damn that sucks. I'm just over the from the mass border and I cant throw a rock without hitting a cottontail, I see at least 3 or 4 a day. Hopefully they didnt girdle the plants but it doesnt look too bad.
I am lazy and havent put up fencing around my vegetable garden yet and havent lost a plant to rabbits yet. About 65+ tomato/pepper/eggplant seedlings all in ground that havent been touched. You see that type of bark scraping in winter on fruit trees from rabbits when food is scarce... the rabbit that did that might be hungry or just being an asshole.
I think I get by because there is so much clover in my lawn and the rabbits love clover and will eat that over the funky chemically tomato and cannabis plants. To me tomato stem rubs smell like cocaine and I dig it haha.
Im gonna try establishing some clover in my plot, mostly cuz I'm just copying what I saw chunkypigs do and I saw a rabbit running out of my weed plot a few days ago and have been fretting and this post got me thinking I gotta do something. From the pics it looks like you got a thin layer of woodchips on your soil or its kinda bare with weeds pokin through. If you convert the space between/around the clover it might help... a fence wont hurt thats for sure though. Very good that they have continuted to grow though!
I am lazy and havent put up fencing around my vegetable garden yet and havent lost a plant to rabbits yet. About 65+ tomato/pepper/eggplant seedlings all in ground that havent been touched. You see that type of bark scraping in winter on fruit trees from rabbits when food is scarce... the rabbit that did that might be hungry or just being an asshole.
I think I get by because there is so much clover in my lawn and the rabbits love clover and will eat that over the funky chemically tomato and cannabis plants. To me tomato stem rubs smell like cocaine and I dig it haha.
Im gonna try establishing some clover in my plot, mostly cuz I'm just copying what I saw chunkypigs do and I saw a rabbit running out of my weed plot a few days ago and have been fretting and this post got me thinking I gotta do something. From the pics it looks like you got a thin layer of woodchips on your soil or its kinda bare with weeds pokin through. If you convert the space between/around the clover it might help... a fence wont hurt thats for sure though. Very good that they have continuted to grow though!
Clover is used as a green mulch/cover crop to prevent soil erosion and prevent weeds from growing. Clover is a legume which is able to fix N and improve soil fertility. Its best to have bare or regular mulch as the clover competes with the plants. Clover may actually attract rabbits, but yes, if they have a food source they may be less likely to target your plants. Planting clover may not necessarily prevent rabbit damage in my opinion.
OG_NoMan
Not Veteran
Yeah, at this point the damage is done and I can't kill myself putting a fence in this year as I want it to look nice. Just hope there's enough intact to heal themselves up. Sprayed the bases with lost coast plant wash just to try and keep bugs off the bare wood and also try to change the scent/taste. Every year you learn more. I just hope I don't have to buy flower as its been years now.
