Organic Growing Books?
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whitebb2727
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First book you need to read is "Teaming with microbes". By Jeff lowenfels and Wayne lewis.
Richard Drysift
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True living Organics by the rev- not really in depth but a primer into one simple style of organic growing. A short afternoon read but does contain several organic tea and soil recipes to reference
foreverflyhi
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Teaming with nutrient
mr sunshine
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green_machine_two9er
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All suggested are good reads.
To slightly hijack but on topic has anyone read organic marjiuana soma style. And if so how is this book college textbook price. Used lowest I coul find is 40$. And one read it and recommend, or nt?
To slightly hijack but on topic has anyone read organic marjiuana soma style. And if so how is this book college textbook price. Used lowest I coul find is 40$. And one read it and recommend, or nt?
Dr. Who
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Ah Soma,,,the white rasta.....very good book! You can learn about some simple grow tactic's right on his site.......
green_machine_two9er
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Damn right it works! Wow thanks! Was getting ready to buy this myself.
BarnBuster
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greasemonkeymann
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If I may add, and at the risk of sounding like a broken record.. PLEASE check out any and ALL homesteading sites.
I'm serious, waaaaaay more shit there than you'll ever need to know, not to mention if you are sorta an organic head, homesteading is probably interesting to you anyways, or I am just a nerd... but I digress.
google or bing or whatever "homestead gardening"
and get some coffee.
ALLLLL those other recommendations are golden also, but for some people that can get a lil overwhelming... by microbial populations, mychorrizhae, and such.
And we all know that for beginners it's often TOO much information that causes issues, and then "over" tending to their plants, tweaking things every day because of being too eager/overzealous
(we've all been there)
Keep it simple.
for me, the biggest thing was a simple quality humus source, compost or ewc, in my case the compost is like gold, makes the entire process almost idiot proof.
Less peat, more compost, more aeration, slow release nutrients mixed in months prior with the compost, no aging needed, partial no-till, re-mix with compost every third or fourth run depending on container size and strains.
green_machine_two9er
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Hey greasemonkeyman. I have a handful of no till pots started. 10 gallons. Do you too dress with anything besides compost? I wondering when I should mix in some new nutrients on top if ever. Also I'm a bit concerned about the soil becomin to "tight". Almost hard.
greasemonkeymann
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Ahhh soil tension! Yes, that can sometime be a problem in organics
I topdress with comfrey shavings, worm castings, and the "tops" of the old pots that are waiting for the next run, when I say the tops I mean the all the aeration that has accumulated over the grow.
But I only do that if I think it needs it, it's not everytime.
If the soil tension is too much, you may have too much peat and EWC in it, kinda why I prefer more compost rather than castings.
A good thing to use to fix that is oyster shells, like the stuff they use for chickens, or horticultural sand. Plus they sorts kinda control the PH, not as much as oyster flour though.
Or the usuals, perlite, vermiculite, rice hulls, etc.
green_machine_two9er
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I was looking at the chicken style oyster shells. It says 15-20% oyster. The rest I'm guessing is calcium carbonate coral or something. Think that's ok?