I planted plum and brugnon stones few weeks ago.

After cutting my tomatoes in the air pots, I did not remove anything from the soil.

The root system of the tomatoes will structure and nourish the soil in the pots by decomposing naturally until next spring.

Then, I will get plum rootstocks shortly after which I plant in a young orchard.

This post was edited by Neili on Dec 2 2023 07:14pm

Very well done. A lot of people pull the old plants. Best to cut and leave them. Wooohooo!!

Clone propagate them get dozens more trees ❤️

converting my golf cart roof to solar

will be regenerative cart. might never need to be plugged in according to my maths. we'll see.

Good job bud

Really good idea

yeah the secret is using a boost solar mppt.

most traditional solar controllers step down voltage of solar array.

since i only have room for one big panel to act as the golf cart roof, i will use a mppt boost and increase voltage to charge cart battery bank.

UPDATE.

still haven't had to plug in the golf cart.

I think you need to loosen soil in container more for it to grow and not yellow. I have a question. How many plants can I grow with one big bag of potting soil or garden soil at Walmart? I am talking about one tomato, one watermelon, one cucumber plant.

This post was edited by Haoqdlam on Feb 10 2024 08:22pm

Above all, do not use 100% potting soil but a mixture of several soils, for example, for a tomato plant, which is a plant that requires a lot of nutrients, it will need a pot of approximately 50 liters, so plan at least minus 45 liters of soil in total.

The best mixture in my opinion is a mixture of 25% forest soil (first 5 inches at the surface of the forest cover of the soil under the leaves) + 30% potting soil + 25% garden soil (to decompact well if clayey ) + a little sand (5%) + a little well-decomposed manure (5%) + a little compost (10%) and finally a layer of dead leaves on the surface of the pot (4-5 inches).

If you don't have any of that, a mixture of 50% garden soil + 50% potting soil may be suitable, the reason is that garden soil allows the soil to be decompacted, bringing in bacteria and worms in particular : it is in fact a way of fertilizing soil that is quite young with old soil.



So ultimately the simplest way is 25 liters of potting soil + 25 liters of garden soil in a 50 liters pot, for a single tomato, you can choose a vigorous, grafted hybrid variety, plants already a little large in pots in a garden center, they are hybrid graft on wild rootstock which gives a lot of fruit and which can also getting big, it's not a problem with a 50-70 liters pot, you can also choose a 75 or 100 liter pot, in this case you will obviously increase the doses of soil.

For 1 watermelon plant, you need more, because they are also plants that requires a lot of nutrients, in fact you need a bigger pot in my opinion they can get really big , let's say 90 liters pot, but 100-120 liters is better.

For 1 cucumber plant, same or more than tomato, 70-80 liters, because this is also a plant that requires a lot of nutrients , and when it's a bigger pot, it's more nutrients.



Finally, you can add a natural fertilizer diluted in the watering can:

- based on natural wood ash (ash from barbecue charcoal for example, be careful not to take just any ash, it must be ash from natural wood and no other element),

- coffee grounds are also not bad but only once composted so it will be effective the following year, 1 year later (once decomposed),

- you can also use nettle manure (just do macerated nettle plants in water for a certain time (there is the recipe on some sites it is very simple),

- nettle manure can be used, only if necessary, as a spray on the leaves to repel pests. Flowers and aromatic plants around plants can also be helpful in repelling certain insect pests.

This post was edited by Neili on Feb 10 2024 09:47pm

Well done