Hello, I thought I would run my method by you. I am starting some auto Bruce banner outdoors in containers.
My soil is a base of organic garden soil, which i amend with root stimulant, micro nutes, coconut coir, worm castings, Perlite/Vermiculite
Epsom's salts and molasses. I use garden soil over potting because the garden soil is loser and drains much better. I have a lot of trouble with too much water here on the Gulf of Mexico.
I use the 4 gal black smart pots or cloth planters. At the bottom of the pot, I will add a layer of gravel for stability. Then a few inches of soil, a nice layer of worm castings, then fill to about 3 inches. I water the hell out of them a couple of times the day I fill the pots to get it all good and settled. Next day I plant the seeds.
My father always planted on certain days according to how his family had planted. Valentine's Day, he planted potatoes. With a little study, I realize he was planting my the lunar cycle. I have kept up the practice. I think the best days in August will be the 7th and 8th. I also use the tides because of my nearness to large bodies of water. The Mississippi River in Baton Rouge still reacts to the tides. Being less than a mile from the River, and 50 to the gulf, I figure the water in the ground must fluctuate similarly. Seems to work. Anyone else planting by the moon. I wonder if you are in the high desert, Montana etc... if the tides or the moon would have any effect on the seed, with the water table so low? I dig down more than a foot, the hole will begin to fill with all this rain. Used to be I could dig down two to three feet before water. Hell, at flood stage, water will come up in people's yard 1/2 mile away. I have test the lunar thing by planting on three seeds on the best lunar day and three on the best day for underground crops. Same seeds two different harvest. The lunar days ones produce 40% more. Would test again but hate to waste the seeds.
Remember what John Lennon said. 'The love ya git is equal to the love you give, yeah sha' (paraphrased) to southern. Do good Be kind to all, razzoo
My soil is a base of organic garden soil, which i amend with root stimulant, micro nutes, coconut coir, worm castings, Perlite/Vermiculite
Epsom's salts and molasses. I use garden soil over potting because the garden soil is loser and drains much better. I have a lot of trouble with too much water here on the Gulf of Mexico.
I use the 4 gal black smart pots or cloth planters. At the bottom of the pot, I will add a layer of gravel for stability. Then a few inches of soil, a nice layer of worm castings, then fill to about 3 inches. I water the hell out of them a couple of times the day I fill the pots to get it all good and settled. Next day I plant the seeds.
My father always planted on certain days according to how his family had planted. Valentine's Day, he planted potatoes. With a little study, I realize he was planting my the lunar cycle. I have kept up the practice. I think the best days in August will be the 7th and 8th. I also use the tides because of my nearness to large bodies of water. The Mississippi River in Baton Rouge still reacts to the tides. Being less than a mile from the River, and 50 to the gulf, I figure the water in the ground must fluctuate similarly. Seems to work. Anyone else planting by the moon. I wonder if you are in the high desert, Montana etc... if the tides or the moon would have any effect on the seed, with the water table so low? I dig down more than a foot, the hole will begin to fill with all this rain. Used to be I could dig down two to three feet before water. Hell, at flood stage, water will come up in people's yard 1/2 mile away. I have test the lunar thing by planting on three seeds on the best lunar day and three on the best day for underground crops. Same seeds two different harvest. The lunar days ones produce 40% more. Would test again but hate to waste the seeds.
Remember what John Lennon said. 'The love ya git is equal to the love you give, yeah sha' (paraphrased) to southern. Do good Be kind to all, razzoo
