woah mike is there ewt you cant grow out there
, awesome way to be self supported food wise. all them fruit and veg look super healthy
cali blues pic looks crazy good to.
Thank fam! Long post/ few videos, I live in vineyard / orchard country, wineries every 2 miles, my backyard was an old riverbed, grabbed a video of our back through the trees. Its SUPER sandy loom, like one side of my yard if you dig up then replace the medium and water it turns into quicksand in the hole, but amend that with some compost, topsoil, manure, and tons of saved peat moss from past indoor runs and homemade compost out back, I dig a 5 gallon bucket sized hole for each plant, amend it, put back into the hole, each year will be a repeat empty hole, amend, replant so the soil surrounding the holes should be super inoculated with all the mycos and organics I put into it, these have been amended with Tru organics
my fruit trees (peach / nectarine) got hit hard with peach leaf curl so that killed off most of the leaves so no fruit set, caught it too late, but there still about a year to 2 early for full fruit set anyways so Cooper fungicide here I come
we’ll round 2 they’ve already been hit a few eeeks ago and have some new growth but they’ll all come around around the year 5-6 mark the cocktail fruit trees up front fruited pretty damn heavy for such small plants so fingers crossed those give us a bit this year no idea what type of fruit set as it hold 6 types but we’ll find out! I know the peach brach got he leaf curl so that branch is wiped out (really cool seeing how it affects the nectarine / peach branches only but leaves the other types alone) I’ll grab some videos tomorrow if I remember
My compaost is about 80% composted dark leaf some last fall’s leaves, I repeat the cycle every year saving then reusing. Upside to the heavily amended holes, I don’t have to rotate crops as the soil is fully re-amended after each cycle and no soil nutrient depletion as I continually top dress and feed Alaska fish fertilizer, once every 2 weeks I hit them with a half dose of jacks 20-20-20 to make sure they have eveything they need, so I’m not fully organic out there but close enough. The bi-monthly feeding of jacks won’t be enough to hurt the soil biology from what I’ve read about it. Supposedly even weekly would be fine as well. This year I choose TRU organics tomato and vegetable feed (granulated, slow release) Then bone meal, coast of Maine earthworm castings, some coast of Maine kelp extract, some got the coast of Maine fish bone meal and some got the Espoma organic bone meal, the homemade compost, a store bought compost /manure mix as well as some plain topsoil per hole, it takes awhile
When I’m not busy in the tent I always have plenty to work on
I usually prune a row of tomatoes per day before or after work to keep up with the garden chores
Couple videos
Garden
Behind the fence / river looks like some squirrels have been using my fire pit bench to eat acorns on
And the zucchini and berry patches, i think I was talking to
@TreeBee or
@Rama777 (my stoned ass can’t rememeber
) about PM on cucurbits. To be honest this dosent look like PM, after looking closer this appears to be more of a leaf bleaching from the sun, nothing wiping off and it appears to be the foliage itself that lost color not white Pm on top
I've got 4 serrano and 3 jalapeno. I'll keep the peppers frozen as I harvest until fall when I'll let the rest on the plants turn red so I'll make a lot of green and some red sauce that doesn't burn your ass the next day
