Outdoor R Wayne's Outdoor Spring Spectacular!!!

[R Wayne]

 

[R Wayne]

Just wanted to post a pic of the only bed still producing veggies currently. We have kale, peas, spinach, some rapini broccoli, lettuces, carrots, arugula and a butt ton of cilantro. All very happy right now...until i eat them. Ive been harvesting a salad mix out of here a couple times a week for the last month. Gotta love crops that give you multiple harvests.

 

[R Wayne]

Wanted to show a quick example of how I top dress most of my plants, indoors and outdoors. Though my more expensive stuff gets used indoors. I also like top dress about every 30-40 days depending on my container size.

Here is the combination of what I use to top dress outdoors. Decided to pick up a bag of Bu's Blend compost for this run, $35 per cu.ft. It looks and smells great, nice and dark and full of nutrients. Testing G&B Organics products this run as well. I used their 4-4-4 to re-amend the soil before transplant. So far so good.

I took off the mulch layer first and then I add the Bud & Bloom Fert. 4 tbsp per container, per the directions, but that seems light to me.

Then mix it into the first inch of soil

Then add about a 2 inch layer of compost/worm castings on top. I use a 4:1 ratio of compost to worm castings and mix them well. Both seem rich in nutrients.

Then put the mulch layer back on, I like straw for mulch but will be sourcing rice hulls locally in the future.

Then water it in. Simple as that. Thanks for stopping by!!!

 

[R Wayne]

Sorry I have been neglecting this thread. To be honest I have been neglecting these outdoor girls. I really havent done much since I top dressed almost a month ago. I have been watering, though not very well. They are finall getting lots of sun, the temps are warming and they are stacking. Excited to see how well they produce with this weird weather weve been having in Southern Cali. Lets get to it.

ILGM - Blueberry. Small but smells wonderful.

Twisted Tree - Freebie (Michigan x Twisted cookies). Looking the best so far.

Atlas Seeds - Grease Gun. aka. Miss Droopy

Speedrun Seeds - Iced latte

Sort of hard to tell, but a tiny spider has made a home in one of the curled grease gun leaves. Been quite successful in catching some prey as well. Love seeing that wildlife. Catch those damned gnats.

Thanks for stopping by AFN!!!

 

[R Wayne]

I am sorry I have been so bad about updating this thread. We are coming to the end. I will be harvesting the two on the right on Wednesday. Seeing a lot of milky triches. Wishing the weather was better during this grow, but still glad I can produce something outside in the winter.

Blueberry, disappointed in her size. Smells great though

Twisted Tree Freebie

Grease Gun (coming down on wednesday)

Iced Latte (by far the frostiest of the bunch)

Thanks for stopping by AFO!!!

 

[R Wayne]

Harvested the grease gun and the iced latte about a week ago. Washed them with the baking soda and lemon method. They just finished drying and are in jars curing right now. Smoked a tester joint of grease gun. Has that familiar fuely dankness we came to love. Also sticky as hell and pretty smooth for only being cured for a day.

Grease gun

Iced latte there were a lot of dried aphids on this, even after washing, so most of it will be used for bubble hash.