Let's see those '09 gardens

I tried to get a gardening thread going a while ago:
http://www.cigarasylum.com/vb/showthread.php?t=12838

I have updates for it. We just had our (hopefully) last frost a week ago. It looks like you are ahead of me.

[jjirons69]

Originally Posted by BC-Axeman

I tried to get a gardening thread going a while ago:
http://www.cigarasylum.com/vb/showthread.php?t=12838

I have updates for it. We just had our (hopefully) last frost a week ago. It looks like you are ahead of me.

Chit, sorry Lance. Never saw your thread about gardens.

Originally Posted by jjirons69

Chit, sorry Lance. Never saw your thread about gardens.

Let's ask one of the mods if they will "cornsolodate" the 2 threads and have the best of both threads.

So with the number of containers growing almost daily I am well into the second batch of "Actively Aerated Compost Tea". The basic recipe for this tasty treat is 4.25 cups of quality worm castings per every 5 gallons of de-chlorinated water (let the water sit over night). For every 5 gallons of water I feed my little microbe friends 1/4 cup of unsulphured molasses (feeds the bacateria) and another 1/4 cup of liquid kelp (for the fungi).

We are talking aerobic here, hence the active aeration title, provided by a Super Luft Pump model SL-38 @ 18 watts with a flow rate of 1.34 cubic feet per minute connected to 4 air stones. Where not brewing some stinky anaerobic fermentation here.

This year I have kicked it up a notch or two by adding a wee bit of "archaic bacteria" in the form of mineral dust and some mycorrhizae plus humic acid, yum!






Can you believe this tobacco planting is going into it's 3rd season. That's right, it has survived 3 freezing winters and like a phoenix sprouts from the roots each spring.





Strawberries and some garlic, what a combo.

The fig tree is getting bigger and bigger!



Another tobacco holdover from last winter, already going to seed as it shares the ceramic pot with a fern. Other various plantings including artemisia, sage, oregano, astragalus, sweet grass, aloe vera.



The amaryllis are doing their thing and the olive tree cuttings I took last summer are starting to have new growth. I see a jade plant and hyssop. That there to the right is the grillin', chillin' & herfin station.



That's about all I got today.