#outdoor First grow. Need advice

[Indycar]

Bought a ride-on mower off a bloke a while back, and for reasons unknown to me he opted to throw in a walk behind rotary hoe as well. Probably the best freebie I ever scored.

 

With soil like that, Tunks. I'd wet it down or wait for the rain, and a day or two afterwards once the ground dried out and softened up a bit. I would grab any old potting mix and/or better grade soil, a couple of handfuls of chook shit, same again of dolomite/lime, and turn that all in with the rotary hoe, then heavily mulch 'n leave it as is for 3-6 months until mulch has broken down, then turn it all over again, sometimes with or without repeating the shit 'n' lime process, depending how much the clay appeared to have not broken down. By then Im ready to plant gardens/plants around the countryside. I suppose you could throw in some water crystals for the final turn to help with water retention. But it's something I haven't done yet.

 

Reason I mention this, it's about the only method I've found that helps to establish plants in that sort of country side. Otherwise it dries out in no time and is baked solid under the Aussie sun.

[Tunkers]

Bought a ride-on mower off a bloke a while back, and for reasons unknown to me he opted to throw in a walk behind rotary hoe as well. Probably the best freebie I ever scored.

 

With soil like that, Tunks. I'd wet it down or wait for the rain, and a day or two afterwards once the ground dried out and softened up a bit. I would grab any old potting mix and/or better grade soil, a couple of handfuls of chook shit, same again of dolomite/lime, and turn that all in with the rotary hoe, then heavily mulch 'n leave it as is for 3-6 months until mulch has broken down, then turn it all over again, sometimes with or without repeating the shit 'n' lime process, depending how much the clay appeared to have not broken down. By then Im ready to plant gardens/plants around the countryside. I suppose you could throw in some water crystals for the final turn to help with water retention. But it's something I haven't done yet.

 

Reason I mention this, it's about the only method I've found that helps to establish plants in that sort of country side. Otherwise it dries out in no time and is baked solid under the Aussie sun.

Yeah in all seriousness, it's evident of the half arsed noob effort we put in. I say we, because initially I did have a helper, and we rushed the plot, did fuck all prep to the soil and he fucked off to leave a lazy, terrified (but sexy) me to maintain.

 

Next year's will be better. Hopefully there'll be another comp to keep me interested.....

[pedro de pacas]

pedro has a rotary hoe, chook(lama, sheep, cow) poo, and mulch, but you need to dig a hole 3 foot deep, and make a compost hole out of it

[Indycar]

Bummer to hear that. I know what you're saying about 'rush jobs', most of mine turn to shit as well..

[Indycar]

pedro has a rotary hoe, chook(lama, sheep, cow) poo, and mulch, but you need to dig a hole 3 foot deep, and make a compost hole out of it

 

Yeah, that a method I've adopted lately, Dig a good hole first for the tap root zone and fill with potting mix, and then fluff up the upper about a metre square for the feeder root zone.

[Indycar]

Bung the plant in (fruit trees in my case), and mulch again.

[Weedmonsta]

True fucking that.

 

None of this shit

 

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Never growing weed outside again.

 

Until September...

come on matey,,you wouldn't expect to much trying to grow in that dirt....water helps a bit to outside...hahahaha ..

 

 

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[Tunkers]

come on matey,,you wouldn't expect to much trying to grow in that dirt....water helps a bit to outside...hahahaha ..

 

 

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That's why insides better. Haven't watered the buggers yet. They're swimming in the shit

[micmac]

Did suggest to u very early on there was a problem with that dirt, not gonna classify that as soil, just by their colours

 

 

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[ooodog]

Yeah in all seriousness, it's evident of the half arsed noob effort we put in. I say we, because initially I did have a helper, and we rushed the plot, did fuck all prep to the soil and he fucked off to leave a lazy, terrified (but sexy) me to maintain.

 

Next year's will be better. Hopefully there'll be another comp to keep me interested.....

Huh. You’ll see it just read Edited January 22, 2018 by ooodog