Veggia farmer
Well-known member
Hello!
Have been growing in bed then beds for almost five years now. Same medium for all the time, just lesser when I went from bed to beds. One bed is 1,2 X 1,2 m and 40cm deep. I really love bed beds for its ability to be flexi in the way of nutrients and water usage. I have tried in some cases to see how long before I notice a thirtsy plant. It can be a long time. Myself, family and friends enjoi some of the good tastes and aroma too. Many say I have som taste and smell they never get anywere else. I enjoi it too. I started growing in just old manure with sawdust and some compost of hay, this ha been aged for a long time, years. I started to mix this with some peat, other compost, native soil, pasture containing mushrooms, michorizza, used a lot of straw as mulch, chicken manure, bonemeal, vinasse, molasse and so on... Result has good tasting herb..
Now.. I have a need to make it more effecient and then some people have been putting ideas in my head. Coco, some of them mentioned is something I should look into. I want a automatic watersystem anyway, so I could feed multiple times a day.
Then I thought of coco and run off. Im a real cheap ass, LOL, so what if I put pots on top of the beds and let the roots and run off water go into a sort of worm/compost bin underneath? Or is this me smoking Biker Kush and thinking I have great ideas?
Or, to just make the beds lighter make a mix of coco and compost?
Beds with just coco (perlite, leca(?)) feeding with no run off.
Yes.. I have a logical problem with run off, no where to go in a non problematic way...
Thinking about starting with 64 plants per bed, maybe more. Traditional SOG.
Have been growing in bed then beds for almost five years now. Same medium for all the time, just lesser when I went from bed to beds. One bed is 1,2 X 1,2 m and 40cm deep. I really love bed beds for its ability to be flexi in the way of nutrients and water usage. I have tried in some cases to see how long before I notice a thirtsy plant. It can be a long time. Myself, family and friends enjoi some of the good tastes and aroma too. Many say I have som taste and smell they never get anywere else. I enjoi it too. I started growing in just old manure with sawdust and some compost of hay, this ha been aged for a long time, years. I started to mix this with some peat, other compost, native soil, pasture containing mushrooms, michorizza, used a lot of straw as mulch, chicken manure, bonemeal, vinasse, molasse and so on... Result has good tasting herb..
Now.. I have a need to make it more effecient and then some people have been putting ideas in my head. Coco, some of them mentioned is something I should look into. I want a automatic watersystem anyway, so I could feed multiple times a day.
Then I thought of coco and run off. Im a real cheap ass, LOL, so what if I put pots on top of the beds and let the roots and run off water go into a sort of worm/compost bin underneath? Or is this me smoking Biker Kush and thinking I have great ideas?
Or, to just make the beds lighter make a mix of coco and compost?
Beds with just coco (perlite, leca(?)) feeding with no run off.
Yes.. I have a logical problem with run off, no where to go in a non problematic way...
Thinking about starting with 64 plants per bed, maybe more. Traditional SOG.
