🌞TSD's 2023 Scrog Under The Sun🌞

[TSD]

We got the tomatoes and peppers out of the greenhouse today.

We still have some potted blueberry plants in there. I have terrible luck with them. It's not the soil either ... its the birds. They hack them to death and use the twigs to build their nests. It took me a couple of years to actually figure out what was happening...

I have bird netting now and the two that remain from a different planting are protected.

I know, I was thinking of how I could rig up some nets, I know the birds love them. My uncle was an amazing gardener, he grew giant blueberry bushes, well trees really, at my Gram's house. They must have been over 10x10 feet and like 20 feet long, he was like 6'5 and needed a ladder to reach the middle. He had a whole net system to keep the birds off, but also let the pollinators in in spring. My little 5 year old self would go inside the net and just stuff my face with blueberries in a little secret blueberry house. It was amazing. After both he and my Gram passed, my other uncle sold the house and the new owners chopped down the Blueberry forest and made it lawn. I was so sad. People suck lol.

 

[steamroller]

I'll hopefully be making a blueberry cage soon for our 5 blueberry bushes.
My wife just got them last year and they are flowering so?
For us it was the chipmunks eating stuff last year. She actually puts out a bowl of blueberries for the birds at the feeding station.

 

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Been working on this little project for the last week when I've had time. There was a Choke Cherry tree there. Last year I got fed up with it. It attracted powdery mildew like crazy, and was a favorite incubator for aphids... and it's not far from my ladies. When it was smaller I'd just spray it, but it was 20 feet tall and spreading like crazy, they spread up from the root like poplar trees... so the chainsaw came out last fall. A couple weeks ago my neighbor came and dug up the stump/ root system with his tractor. So. Many. Roots. I spent hours pulling out all the broken up bits. Raked it out, fixed my rock circle that the tractor demolished. Planted two blueberries and two roses, both with thier preferred type of soil in the holes. Added mulch and pea stone with a ring of dirt outside where I scattered perennial and annual seeds for pollinators... hopefully something grows or I just have a stupid ring of dirt for no reason. I didn't measure or level anything, because ain't nobody got time for that. Added a cheap birdbath till I can find a nice antique one. Added the hummingbird feeder and my card playing gnomes for the final touch. Probably add more rocks at some point when I have an urge to lug rocks up from the river. I'd like to know how many pounds of rock I've moved since living here lol. Need to fix the outer part a d re line the weedwhacker... but it looks way cooler than that damn diseased choke cherry. View attachment 3472View attachment 3473

This looks really Super!!! Well done

 

[Bandit420]

Lovely projects you have going TSD! I'm tuned in and watching for sure.
I recently got into CoM lobster compost too but am using it to brew compost teas. Really good stuff and every plant that gets it becomes a very a happy plant.
I also have those same worm castings. Those go into my tea brew today

 

[TSD]

Lovely projects you have going TSD! I'm tuned in and watching for sure.
I recently got into CoM lobster compost too but am using it to brew compost teas. Really good stuff and every plant that gets it becomes a very a happy plant.
I also have those same worm castings. Those go into my tea brew today

I bought the xtreme compost tea per CannaGranny's recommendation, have a batch brewing now for when I transplant.

 

[TSD]

Sonofabitch. Get it together Mother Nature, I've got shit to doooo!

 

[Kopper1013]

Good ole NYS gotta love it Looks like I might have lost some veggies in last weeks frost….that’s what I get for jumping the gun I guess

 

[TSD]

Good ole NYS gotta love it Looks like I might have lost some veggies in last weeks frost….that’s what I get for jumping the gun I guess

I've planted a few things, and now I'm covering a few things lol. Failed on hardening and have a bunch of fried leaves. Oh well, gotta be tough to survive in this swamp witch's garden.
Meh those fans are like 3 months old at this point... they'll make plenty of new ones.

 

[Member Requested Deletion]

Sonofabitch. Get it together Mother Nature, I've got shit to doooo!View attachment 3582

Looks like what we had last Thursday, I hope its the last of it. Mother Nature must know We got plants to grow

 

[Rootsruler]

Sonofabitch. Get it together Mother Nature, I've got shit to doooo!View attachment 3582

HA! Now I don't feel so bad about being the dumbass that put his girls out too early!!

 

[TSD]

HA! Now I don't feel so bad about being the dumbass that put his girls out too early!!

My girls are still in pots, but they're going out soon. Put them in the garage last night. Put out some flowers and such early.

 

[TSD]

Looks like what we had last Thursday, I hope its the last of it. Mother Nature must know We got plants to grow

37 Wednesday night, but hopefully that won't mean frost.

 

[Member Requested Deletion]

37 Wednesday night, but hopefully that won't mean frost.

They just changed our forecast to 37 . Michigan is so fickle. 2 days ago it was no lower than 45 for ten days. Well i just walked to the plants and told them to suck it up buttercup

 

[Cool_Beans]

After this week night temps will finally be in the 50s here. June 5 is next full moon, I usually plant outside right around then. 110 day growing season give or take.

 

[GoodShit97]

37 Wednesday night, but hopefully that won't mean frost.

Same here, 36 Wednesday and 37 Thursday. Im done covering stuff til fall so if it frosts, i guess they get hit with frost. Its 1.2 miles to walk to my plants and back so i dont go out there very often. Like twice a week right now, but once things get rolling ill go every other day.

 

[CannaGranny]

We are finally past frost here but having abnormal temp drop at night. Just like early spring as soon as the sun drops so do the temps. It’s actually gorgeous weather for working up my outdoor beds. Sunny and seventy with a mild southwest breeze.
@TSD did I tell you to throw a tablespoon of molasses in your tea? I do. Kick starts the crap out of microbial growth. You will see it foam up. That tea is kind of hot. I follow behind it with a plain watering.
Looking forward to keeping up with your lovely grow!

 

[dragonsflamegenetics]

I know, I was thinking of how I could rig up some nets, I know the birds love them. My uncle was an amazing gardener, he grew giant blueberry bushes, well trees really, at my Gram's house. They must have been over 10x10 feet and like 20 feet long, he was like 6'5 and needed a ladder to reach the middle. He had a whole net system to keep the birds off, but also let the pollinators in in spring. My little 5 year old self would go inside the net and just stuff my face with blueberries in a little secret blueberry house. It was amazing. After both he and my Gram passed, my other uncle sold the house and the new owners chopped down the Blueberry forest and made it lawn. I was so sad. People suck lol.

yea they do. Had a similar experience at a rental - built 48 hügelkultur beds and had all sorts of beneficials and native pollinator plants and spent 6 years building soil there...and first week we moved out the neighbor came thru with his equipment, flattened everything back out, and grass was replanted.

 

[TSD]

On today's episode of
"MacGyver Shit with TSD"
Shade cloths!

MATERIALS:
Sheets
Metal fence posts (my scrog posts)
Hair ties
2 joints and a bubbler (gardener's choice)
Classic rock Playlist (gardener's choice)
No patience

METHOD:
I dunno man, whatever works.



So today is my only work and child free day this week, so I put my garden ladies in their holes and rigged up some shade cloths. Cut off the fried leaves, and much like @Farmerdave told them to buck up and grow, or die. Honestly it's the sun more than cold that they need to acclimate to. Maybe by next year I'll have a little greenhouse.
Planted most of them at an angle to assist the scrogging... angles are important for a good scrogging, as we all know.
Two more to put in at second location, I guess they can stay in pots a bit longer.
Two more to put in for my dad.
Six in the garden and we're off.
I'll post pics of them all In a few days when they are settled in.

 

[TSD]

@CannaGranny added a bit of molasses to the last half of the tea and will split it between them. I did follow with a very diluted tea, poured a few cups on, let it soak, followed with about 2 gallons with 1 or so cups tea... also brewed a 5 gallon bucket with one pouch... shouldn't be too hot hopefully. They can take a lot to get watered in, so I'll add more plan water in a bit too.

 

[TSD]

Also added 30 million of these guys to the holes a few days back.
Sprinkled the roots with xtreme mycos and watered in with extreme tea. Since this is supposed to be a diary I suppose I should add these things. Time for one more bubbler.

 

[Cool_Beans]

Love the yard and garden, beautiful spot you got there.

 

[TSD]

Love the yard and garden, beautiful spot you got there.

Thank you!

 

[dragonsflamegenetics]

And so it begins....blessings to the crop

 

[moe.red]

Love the yard and garden, beautiful spot you got there.

When I grow up I want to be as good outdoors as T.

If I had land....

 

[freezeland]

I'd be at every concert that was remotely something I would enjoy if I lived that close lol. I've seen Godsmack, Neil Young, Dave Mathews and Willie Nelson at Spac... and all the openers, but who can remember all of those lol.

I met Dave Matthews on a flight to Sydney Australia when I was in the Navy. Gave me a back stage pass to his show there in Australia. Cool guy.

 

[TSD]

When I grow up I want to be as good outdoors as T.

If I had land....

Thanks... we shall see, some years are a crap shoot lol... but the almanac forecasts a hot dry summer, so hopefully it's a good year... it's a lot easier to add extra water than to fight with nonstop rain. Just like wine has great years and mediocre years, so does outdoor weed. I try to mitigate Mother Nature's temper tantrums, but there's only so much I can do.

 

[TSD]

Spent about 9 hours outside today, I'm pooped. Got a good start on tanning my legs, up until the place where I had hiking boots and tall socks on.
Got most of my big flower bed done, a few planters too. Sunflowers for stealth by the front are popping up and I even saw a hummingbird at the feeder, didn't take long for them to spot it's new location. About 100 more projects, but it's a start.
Gonna be cold tonight... poor fuckers better buck up cause I'm done covering shit. I don't have time to take it all down tomorrow and I'm not getting up at 5 am. Nope.

 

[Observer]

I'm in on this.
Cliff Claven; " It is a little known fact that when a branch is over bent and a knuckle forms it is actually beneficial and the plant pushes more towards that branch."
I snapped some right over and they turned back up, held a good bud and a lighter!
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Yup I usually pinch and bend to form knuckles

 

[TSD]

Oh sweet 9 pound 7 ounce baby Jesus, why do you forsake me?! Enough with the cold already. Someone tell Mother Nature to burn one and quit freezing shit.

 

[MysticEpipedon]

Oh sweet 9 pound 7 ounce baby Jesus, why do you forsake me?! Enough with the cold already. Someone tell Mother Nature to burn one and quit freezing shit. View attachment 4141

Are your plants outside already?

I once planted, and a day later, we had snow flurries. The plant leaves turned white, and I figured we'd have to replant. But then they just started growing again.

 

[TSD]

Are your plants outside already?

I once planted, and a day later, we had snow flurries. The plant leaves turned white, and I figured we'd have to replant. But then they just started growing again.

Yes and they're already pissed that I didn't harden them long enough. Cut a bunch of toasty fans off. Getting ready to go put my makeshift shade cloths back up before I leave for work.

 

[TSD]

Here's some nice sun fried leaves. White bleached ones are the Cinderella XX, she's a sensitive one I guess. The Zookies threw out some anthocyanins in response to sun stress, which makes sense, as my Zookies from last year was practically black at harvest it was so purple. I know better and I still do these things lol. I partially blame the hubs because I had him move them in the afternoon after the shade had shifted, before they were in ground, since I was at work... I have a feeling they got a few more hours of direct sun than I had planned on... oh well, they'll grow out of it.

 

[GoodShit97]

One of my problem children got hit with frost once already this year and has a bunch of white leaves too.

 

[TSD]

One of my problem children got hit with frost once already this year and has a bunch of white leaves too.
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Is what it is. They throw out so many leaves outside once they get growing, I'm not too worried about it. Mine are like 3 months old at this point, so many of those older fans are less efficient and near the end of thier life cycle anyway.

 

[4Plants]

I'm sorry about the frost. I was just looking at the weather and bitching about it being in 50s this weekend. I guess I don't have as much to complain about now.

 

[TSD]

I'm sorry about the frost. I was just looking at the weather and bitching about it being in 50s this weekend. I guess I don't have as much to complain about now.

Yeah the Northeast weather can be a real bear... an angry, old, bipolar bear that just woke up from hibernation ready to fuck shit up.

 

[GoodShit97]

Is what it is. They throw out so many leaves outside once they get growing, I'm not too worried about it. Mine are like 3 months old at this point, so many of those older fans are less efficient and near the end of thier life cycle anyway.

For sure. Pretty soon i gotta strip down my GSC so she gets better airflow, shes pretty thick

 

[TSD]

I'll manage to take pics and do an update soon. We've gone from frost to 90 in a little more than a week, these poor girls are getting toughened up fast. Too hot for any gardening this afternoon, we headed down to the river to cool off after school today.
Planning on a nice quiet watering, smoke/coffee sesh tomorrow morning after I drop my son off at school. Gonna be another hot one, calling for 93 and sunny. Might mulch the ladies and wet the mulch to keep them cool and extend my watering time when necessary. Still 2 of my own and 2 for my pops to plant... been too hot and I'm too damn busy.

 

[Rootsruler]

My too early girls are starting to reveg......they look like shit!!

 

[TSD]

My too early girls are starting to reveg......they look like shit!!

Oh well, let em ride. Mine are just pissy from the weather and my lack of proper slow hardening... I think they're coming around though.