MotherLode Gardens 2016

[plantingplants]

Shcrews, does the cover crop wilt before the plants?

If you didn't water for a day, would they wilt? If not, how many days do you think it would take?


Another Q: I saw on your thread last year you have t-posts with t-posts attached to them to make them taller. Did you find that they were stable? How did you attach them together?

Also, you spoke last year about sending in tissue samples to a Humboldt lab. What lab were you going to or did send to? I'd like to get a test. I have a few plants that look like your yellow stunted ones from last year without the gnarled leaves (did you ever come to a conclusion about that with the soil tests you got from the stunted pot?)

 

[Shcrews]

Shcrews, does the cover crop wilt before the plants?

If you didn't water for a day, would they wilt? If not, how many days do you think it would take?

i dont know, ive been keeping the soil moist since planting. the plants seem to like it but i just dialed it back to about 40 gal per day because my hillside was turning into a swamp. they get watered once in the morning and again in the afternoon.

Another Q: I saw on your thread last year you have t-posts with t-posts attached to them to make them taller. Did you find that they were stable? How did you attach them together?

they were super stable. i pounded in one, then tied another one to it with bailing wire

Also, you spoke last year about sending in tissue samples to a Humboldt lab. What lab were you going to or did send to? I'd like to get a test. I have a few plants that look like your yellow stunted ones from last year without the gnarled leaves (did you ever come to a conclusion about that with the soil tests you got from the stunted pot?)

i wouldnt use them probably. maybe other labs

 

[Shcrews]

Hey shcrews looking good mate. I did mounds here last year for the first time I noticed they took abit more water than pots the same size. Have u thought about another layer of maybe mulch on top of ur cover crop?

the cover crop is the mulch

 

[Shcrews]

Gotta remember the "living mulch" is suckin juice to stay alive as well , so here`s hopin your mounds do as well as your containers last yr bro....water is life ....and.....cheap from da well....cuz....

The spice must flow..........

Over here on my bucket digging the scenery....won`t bother yas anymore....Hope this yr surpasses last yrs Harvey.....

Peace....DHF.........

you never bothered me brother. i hope the mounds do better too. plenty of water here

 

[FoothillFarming]

Just hit my dep Sky Lotus females with the pollen from the AOG. From what I am seeing, that would be a great cross.

 

[Top_shelf_farms]

Did you ever figure out the leaf issue?

 

[newtothiscoco]

on behaivor of fhf

 

[FoothillFarming]

Next try to google Living Mulch. You should yield the information your looking for there......

What Screws has is a living mulch, with his cover crop. Everything you explained above performs better with a living mulch, than just tan bark piled on the dirt.....

Mulch can create two types of environments for the soil life, bacterial and fungal. If looking for bacterial, use plant scraps such as lawn or canna clippings. If you want fungal, spread bark. For decay to happen with a mulch, you need air, water, carbon, nitrogen and the right biology. The ratio of carbon is very important. If you don't have enough N to break down the carbon, then the microbes will start to take N from the soil. This is why I don't like standard bark mulches. A living mulch balances these ratios much better, and harbors the micro life much better IMO.


Edit: Awe man, I didn't mean to make you edit your post. Your post was great, just not geared to a "living" mulch. Sorry if I came at you sideways, didn't mean to brother.

 

[milkyjoe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o55RGuELglI

 

[methods]

Shrews excellant thread. You brought me out of being a lurker LOL.

I had read that your girls have attracted gophers around the mounds.

I am located in the midwest. The easy button for us is to find bull snakes or gopher snakes ( same snake differant name depending on location) and gently open a fresh tunnel and place the snake at the opening. Lunch has been served up.

Here is info on them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullsnake

You may find them for sale in pet stores or out on your property or sourounding areas. They are not a harmfull snake to humans but death to the pests. They eat rats,mice,shrews,moles,and gophers. If have a chicken coop may find 1 near trying to eat eggs. BIG bonus they eat rattle snakes.

I know some are not a big fan of having snakes around but its nice to know if you have 6 or more on a couple arces of land that the pest population is being managed.

I have tried baits and traps and everything in between. I gave up found a few and bought a few bull snakes and after a year my yard is no longer tore apart or do I have a mouse in the house issue either.

Keep doing your thing shrews your a lucky man to have the passion and desire to keep this thread rolling and advancing yearly

 

[methods]

excuse me for not spelling your name right being new I cannot go back and reedit oops time to smoke another bud

 

[DAT]

are you taking sunrise pictures now? sweet!

 

[Sluicebox]

I save the wood ashes from my stove and sprinkle them on the gopher mounds. They go away after a week. What it does I think is drive off the grubs that the gophers are eating. Look into that. O'l timer turned me on to that a couple years ago and no gophers in my yard.

I wouldn't sprinkle it on YOUR mounds but on the gopher mounds and maybe a good issue around the base of your mounds. It will raise your Ph if applied near your roots. Perimeter is best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wynx1ukwdVA There is a vid of some crazy bastard hunting rabbits with deadly snakes in the Land down under. NUTS!

 

[theJointedOne]

Too much water brother, dial it back, you'll be happy you did

 

[Shcrews]

Interesting about the snakes. I'm tempted to look into them. I have a dog though, would they bite him?

Too much water brother, dial it back, you'll be happy you did

I've dialed it back from what I was doing. Now each plant gets 20 gallons in the AM and 20 in the afternoon , which is as low as I want to go right now with this heat.

40 gal a day doesn't seem like much for a 5yard mound in the summer

 

[Mendogrowing]

Haha, yeah my first thought was how much would about 50 of those snakes cost. I practically feel like I'm xeriscaping comparing my water usage, water is pretty tight up on my hill 5 gals a day is about my budget right now, my plants never wilt but I feel like it has to be a limiting factor. Definitely enjoying your thread over here

 

[rockymountainJ]

Damn seems im always playing catch up!! Lovely trees schrews!! Gonna sub this and catch up!! Again nice TREES!!!

 

[JVonChron]

we got rattlesnakes, king and gopher snakes around here. wanna borrow some shcrews? I just had a dog(pit) get bit by a couple times by either a King snake or a gopher snake. it was fine. it was much bigger than your dog though so i dont know if that size difference matters. but terriers love to get after vermin. If i recall you have a terrier? shit i walked past a rattle snake the other day tinkering around greenhouse never even noticed it, my partner came out and saw it. i was like oh sht i walked 1 ft. from that thing several times. all that being said we dont have any gophers mice etc...

 

[Shcrews]

yah my dog is like 15lbs yorkshire terrier. . sounds like you have plenty of snakes, send a couple over! gopher snakes huh that sounds promising. I've never seen a snake here. my spot is on top of a hill with lots of exposure and hawks n eagles flying overhead all day , so the snakes steer clear. cycle of life

Damn seems im always playing catch up!! Lovely trees schrews!! Gonna sub this and catch up!! Again nice TREES!!!

thanks, stick around. they are just big bushes now but in a few weeks will be trees for sure

 

[Shcrews]

2-Wave Hold Down (South Fork Seeds):

South Fork Kush (south fork seeds)

Zelda (swampboys seeds):

Blueberry Hashplant (bodhi seeds):

Ancient OG (bodhi)