Hey, everyone, welcome back! The seeds are currently in their solo cups and sending their tap roots down into the soil. While they work on getting stronger and growing their first set of leaves, aka cotyledons, I will be working on taking our beat-up old greenhouse and making it into something worthy of a few cannabis plants.
This structure was left here by the previous owners and has been in a state of disrepair. This last winter, its tattered plastic greenhouse cover came ripping off and flapped in the wind for a solid month before it was warm enough to do anything about it. Let’s say it’s seen better days.
Over the past two weeks I have taken the time to rip out all the weeds that were in the beds and lay down paperbags to prevent them from returning.
There is catnip happily growing, and im going to leave that. It’s good for cats’ health, and it’s good for anxiety ridden dogs, and I definitely have both, lol.
We had soil and seasoned manure dropped off last year, and our neighbor brought us some unused hay bales. I spent a few hours amending the soil with coco coir, manure, and about 5 lbs of worm castings. I also added some Super Soil Organic concentrate. I topped all of this with dried grass and hay.
Am i at risk of burning my plants with all these amendments? Maybe, but it’s been raining here for about 3 days, and if Mother Nature has her way, it’ll rain for 7 more. So you see, my plants won’t be going in the ground until late next week. The soil will have been drenched enough to dilute everything and allow it to reinvigorate the goodness knows how old soil.
I do all of this with the intention of creating a happy living soil that holds moisture well for the plants. The manure and hay will act as soil protectors. They will hold in moisture, feed the plants, and prevent soil erosion. The manure and hay will also break down with time, adding more vital nutrients to my soil for seasons to come. I will also be utilizing mycelium when I plant.
This all may sound like a lot, but it’s all with the intentions of less work and clean, happy, healthy cannabis plants.
I am not adding plastic back to the greenhouse. I added deer netting to the bottom 4 feet to keep the animals, mostly chickens, out. The greenhouse gets too hot in the summer to actually utilize it, but it’s the perfect size for my medical cannabis grow. So, keeping the plastic off and deer netting up makes it a completely useful space. It needs a few boards fixed, but all in all, it’s structurally sound. I live by the fix and reuse mentality, so I couldn’t see this proper greenhouse go to waste.
Check out the YouTube video to get an in-depth view of this soon to be cannabis greenhouse 😀
Stay tuned to the blog as I update the greenhouse and get the barrier and floor installed and beams fixed.
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