Growing and going full tilt No Till

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THanks Tika incredible day putting up the High Tunnel and talking with the USDA about Urban Farm Programs. In North Wisconsin they grow lettuce outdoors in 17° weather in the high tunnel heated only with thermal compost. 😳

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Thanks GreenhouseEffect , I just placed an order with mountain organics for their sampler of tonic’s and the citrus tonic looks like it’s going to be my IPM.
I didn’t water them at all yesterday except for the babies, I gave them a couple of light spray on top. But The problem is with Kinky and the 20 gallon container.
Getting all that soil saturated I may of over done it.

I defoliated them super heavey so light can pass through to the surface. Practicly lolipoped 3 of them, used a ton of leaves for mulch. Then I accidentally left the light on an extra 3 hour's. 😳 In rhis case it can’t hurt. I’ll see how it goes if I need the Diatomacious next week when all the girls are going out doors for a day while I get inspected in my apartment one more time. time

[GreenhouseEffect]

Man, that Neil Young song is out there! Can't believe I hadn't seen that one before! Careful not to eat Bananas before hanging out with the bees, apparently they don't like that smell at all, and makes them want to sting. That's what I happened to hear the other day, at least.

[GreenhouseEffect]

I don't see why not, as long as it's not during flowering, should be fine. Your not dealing with fungus gnats are you? If so, drying out the soil surface during watering will make them go bye bye. Diatomacious earth also sends em to there rightful place of being fresh organic nutes.
If you can put them out on a balcony or something for a little while, you can take a fan and sprinkle DE in front of it, to completely coat everything, especially the undersides of leaves. Let it sit for a day or two, then give a good watering with either compost tea, or plain water if they don't want more Nutrients. after one or two " foliars" the DE will rinse off the tops of your leaves, and leave behind a nice protection layer underneath. You want to do this BEFORE flowering, ask me how I know!! I knew better, but couldn't help myself on that one!

[Tika]

Great growing stuff ...CONGRATULATIONS on your scholarship! Bravo. great music. Remember and love it all 🌟🤗🥃

[Paracelsus]

Ain’t life grand? I just came back from a high tunnel workshop. Seems we might be able to get a high tunnel to extend the growing season in the community garden. I also just today got a full scholarship for September’s intermediate Permaculture Design course. I am over the moon.

[Deadhead91]

Try captain jacks dead bug brew for organic gardens it’s what I’ve used and works great and found nothing wrong with using it.

[GreenhouseEffect]

Oh, man, that's beautiful, love the variety of nature going on there, specially the fungal fruits mixed in.

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It’s an old muddy waters song

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[oldjarhead100]

holy sh t I haven't heard that song since I was a kid thanks for the memories lol

so I had a plant that went droopy over night so I flushed it with about 3 gallons of water got lots of run off ph was good at 6.7 but ppm was though the roof 4200 now I really need to get my meter checked out I messed it up the other day and I dont trust it , after I took the readings I calibrated my ph meter it was off a bit then didn't recheck the ph of run off I plan on flushing it some more today until I get ppm right

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I’m starting to have a few extra notsees gnats hovering around. I don’t have an air pump for tea, but I do have Kelp and Neem, I can buy mint and cilantro locally but not sure if it’s organic, so it probably isn’t.
I was thinking mint mulch after a Neem & Mint Folier. Are there any problems with doing that???

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Today in Genesis Community Garden Bronx (GCGB)

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From the first American album