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The rains always perk my plants up. We have several rain barrels where we can save it
and use for watering them later on.
Sorry you can't get them in the ground yet Cam. Wow, up to 25 degrees below normal?
Maybe you'd better look at larger pots? JK, just hope you're able to get them in-ground soon enough.
lol @ the larger pots, my next post will relate to that comment I guess.
I tried that rain barrel thing and it didn't work for me for 2 reasons.
1. It rains enough around and even during droughts its #2 that gets me.
2. Two 55 Gallon Pales only lasted a few days in hot weather. So I learned I need a lot of water, like a well or something.. lol
Also I'm in the woods and the last thing I want is standing water around even with a cover.
Because they cant get into the ground yet they are already depleting the soil nutrients in the cups. Leaves starting to get pale green/yellow. Notice a couple of leaves got sun scold even with just 1 hour only. Patience and Slow process.
So ....... instead of transferring to bigger pots .... time to feed ...
Don't yell at me. I try to do everything organic but because I have this on hand and its worked in the past, why not.
24-8-16. Hope not too strong.
Can you tell its raining outside?? 14 of last 22 days has had precip.
Nitrogen
• Essential for foliage or blade growth
• Produces lush, tender, green leaves (or grass blades)
• Builds resistance to adverse environmental conditions
• Deficiency results in a yellow-green color and little to no growth
Phosphorous (available as phosphate)
• Stimulates root growth
• Accelerates the maturity of plants
• Promotes development of flowers and fruits
• Remains in the soil quite well
• Deficiency can result in slow or stunted growth
Potassium (water soluble potash)
• Builds drought, heat and cold hardiness
• Helps disease resistance
• Deficiency can cause weak stems and/or slow growth
I'm certainly not against using MiracleGro. I've done it many times.
I bought one of those organic tomato fertilizers at Home Depot a few years back, the one called 'MaterMAgic.'
It's shaped like a tomato.
Anyway, upon opening, it turned out to be alfalfa pellets.
10.00 bucks for a fistful of alfalfa???? I'll never do that again.
So I just buy large bag of alfalfa pellets at farm store,
let them rot into my compost, and use that as fert. It works wonders.
10.00 bucks for a fistful of alfalfa???? I'll never do that again..
Yeah, that's the other thing. I'm not selling produce so there is no return on that expense. My Compost soil is organic and that's good enough. I really only feed once a year. The other thing I will do is spray for diseases if they happen and I would use non organic for that too.
Except Blight. All natural for that but has to be sprayed every week and on the underside of the leaves which can be a pain!
Step 1: Mix 3 tablespoons baking soda with 1 gallon of water.
Step 2: Mix in 1 tablespoon vegetable oil. This helps the spray to stick to the leaves.
Step 3: Mix in 2 drops of dish soap to help emulsify (mix) everything.
Step 4: Spray on tops and bottoms of leaves till dripping
Fava Beans, Broccoli Rabe, Cauliflower, Potatoes. Snap Peas in the back
Potatoes looking amazing. They are tall enough to start covering them back up now. You can bury them and they'll push through. I pushed the straw aside to let the sun warm the cool soil easier.
Done. I wonder if the rabbits will make a nest in there again
Garlic doing good from the top. Bulbs planted in November
Onions . Notice the big gaps. I filled them in with extra Onion starts I had left over
8am and the sun is coming higher into the sky. Temps in the upper 50s and everything is wet from yesterdays 0.36" of rain
Fig Tree Dead? I would of thought the Historic cold/snowy winter last yr would of killed it, not the warmest winter on record. LOL
Radar Loop last 2 hrs. Keep in mind this is with the sun up. Lake Effect snows & scattered convection from instability in the region. You can see where the snow is falling.
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