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Massive Outdoor 2015 Northern Cali Grow,,,,

Everybody hit the nail on the head. I would add the rock dust in the fall. Basalt. I would also consider a last fertilizer application of some good fish fert, to help feed the microbes over the winter. The fava beans will work great, however add some...
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Everybody hit the nail on the head.

I would add the rock dust in the fall. Basalt. I would also consider a last fertilizer application of some good fish fert, to help feed the microbes over the winter.

The fava beans will work great, however add some winter rye as well. http://www.amazon.com/Jonathan-Gree...TF8&qid=1446646796&sr=8-1&keywords=winter+rye

or just add this pack to the fava beans. http://www.amazon.com/Fall-Cover-Cr...=1446646822&sr=8-1&keywords=winter+cover+crop

Also, Seamaiden is correct. 3 weeks is the minimum you should let the pile "compost" in the spring. 3 weeks works just fine for me, but I add ACT's to help speed up the process. If you need more information about ACT's, the best information I have found can be read here: http://microbeorganics.com/ Tim Watson, aka, Microbeman, is a great guy. He has really pushed the proper ways to make act's, and has video showing culture samples under a scope.

maybe I missed your response, but where did you pick up your trimmer? That was a great price for it.
 
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MendoGiantZ said:
So in the next week or so I'm gonna get the crew to stop working on snipping and get about 6 people and two of the really nice Rubbermaid wheel barrels with two wheels and start moving the dirt onto a 60 foot by 50 foot nice thick tarp. It will probly be about 2 to 3 feet tall or so. Then I'm gonna sprinkle a couple hundred fava bean seeds ( maybe more??) throughout the whole top service and wait for the rain to come and germinate all the seeds ?? Anything tricky about germinating the fava seeds. Then they grow and I get some fava beans to eat and in early march I should dig them all up and mulch it into the dirt and cover the whole thing with more tarps. Sorry if I sound redundant I just want to make sure I'm gonna do it right.
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I have found that all bean sprouts are incredibly tasty to all animals, so they're quickly decimated if birds or bugs find them. I would add something else in there to germinate in case something finds your favas.

Once they're germinated and growing well, yes, you can leave them in there until you get your beans, then till them under. The plant matter will decompose that much more quickly if it's chopped up a bit. And yep, then cover with more tarps to let it decompose and you should be ready to rock & roll next season.
 
#443
Nice. Thx @Seamaiden and @Bulldog11. I got my triminator at Santa Rosa hydroponics. It's on moorland avenue and it's their biggest shop of the two. I buy all my stuff there and I usually get a good deal on stuff if you need me to order it for you I'm down. Also I have a bunch of tricks my workers have figured out over the last three weeks on how to get it to run properly and the quickest.
 
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MendoGiantZ said:
I'm gonna sprinkle a couple hundred fava bean seeds ( maybe more??) throughout the whole top service and wait for the rain to come and germinate all the seeds ?? Anything tricky about germinating the fava seeds.
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Depending on our weather you way want to irrigate them to get them started. If we have another really dry winter you could end up not getting enough water to get them started. Most cover crops require little to no irrigation during the winter once established. I would strongly recommend mixing in other varieties of plants, such as clover and vetch, rather than doing just straight fava beans. Depending on how much wild life you've got in your area you may want to consider using bird netting over the area to keep the birds from eating the seeds before they can germinate. I've got so many quail in my part of Mendo that I can't ever direct sow seeds without protecting them, the birds will eat most of them up before they germinate.
 
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#448
Just ordered 80 yards for next season......I like to get cover crops on my new soil in the fall. I miss the spring rush that way also, sometimes leads to cheaper prices.


I found a fantastic video just made by my mentor (he does not consider me his apprentice) John Kempf on cover crops. Check it out everybody.

 
#451
I love rejuvenate. Expensive to order just one product, because of shipping. If you want another product, I recommend SeaShield and Micropak from them. Best fertilizer I have ever bought. It goes by acreage, so it lasts a very long time. If you go that route, and need help converting acreage to yards, let me know.

Edit: I turned 30 yards of native soil into lush dark organic rich soil with those products alone. I am getting all my soil tested in the next month, once I finish my harvest. I will post up my first soil test on native soil, then the current tests after cover crops and AEA products. Night and day differences.
 
#454
One spot is totally ready for cover crops. Still got the bigger garden left to empty all the pots. Everyone wanted a day of two rest before we start. Little did they know it's gonna rain and it's gonna make it harder. Oh well. Making serious progress- We are about 80 percent done with all of the blue dream and blackberry headband. Gonna totally finish those up then bust out all of the sour to hand trim.
 
#455
Alright alright. We did a couple big days of clean up and emptying all the dirt at the other garden onto tarps. I think I'm finally ready to so the cover crops. My good friend recommended harmony nursery here in Sonoma and if it doesn't have a lot of the stuff in their blend that everyone on here reccomend then I will get the one bulldog recommended online.
 
#457
Okay. Got a 50 pound bag of rock dust as well as a fifty pound bag of fish. I got 20 pounds or so of the mix they reccomended. It had peas winter rye and a couple other things. I added a couple pounds of fava beans as well. I dispersed it into two totes. One for each spot. I fully covered the area then watered it all in.
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friend said:
I luv the cool white dog :happy: garden buddies are the best !
Wishing you good grow karma
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Thx Friend.. Dogs are the best...

So the guy at the nursery said that the cover crops will sprout soon and slowly grow all winter.. He said in early spring that is when they will really start to boost and grow big.. He said I should cut the cover crops down with a weed whacker first to help manage the vegetation and then I can Till it into the soil easier.. I think i will do this around the end of march. I will add a bunch more fish meal, guanos, bone meal, trace minerals , chicken poop, and some other goodies at this time as well.... Is this when I should add the AACT and then cover the soil mound with a tarp and leave it until the middle of may when I normally plant my clones??? @Bulldog11 @Seamaiden
 
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