My landlord, his wife and I decided to do a little grow, since it became legal in Germany on April 1st 2024.
The garden hasn't been taken care of for a couple of years now. We started by cutting alot of bushes and will continue to do so. Everything stealing light and nutrients from the plants must go.
We dug holes loosened the soil and put it back in. We layered rock dust, compost, horn chips and horse manure every 20-30 cm. Although we found a couple of worms, we put worms/worm castings on top of every hole and worked them into the first 10-15 cm. Holes 1-3 are bigger and deeper (~120 cm/800 liters) and meant for the Passion #1. Holes 4-9 (~70 cm/140 liters) are for the auto strains. We plan on doing two runs with auto strains while the Passion #1 will be ready in Sept/Oct. I don't expect much from the first run of autos, but I want to get a good feel for the spot. It will largely depend on the weather anyways.
The soil additives from left to right, top down: horse manure, poultry manure, worms/worm castings, compost, horn chips, rock dust (80% andesite).
The poultry manure is for the flowering phase.
The seeds were put between paper towels on April 2nd. All seeds germinated, the ICE auto were the slowest.
Well done Germany πππ
Hopefully your neighbour country with the same flag colors follows quickly but I doubt it
Gonna follow along with your grow too.
It's a very nice spot u have chosen π
Good luck everything looking amazing , personally I would've just made the holes and fill them up with pro mix special for weed and plenty of Vermiculite ,usually the direct earth is not so good for them (autos') but as you did it looks sweet and organic ,loving it ! Happy growing , GG Germany so happy for ya'll, a whole chapter of exploring begins
@Boomer911, Thank you! I thought about putting fresh soil in the holes, but that would have meant getting roughly 3,5 cbm of soil, thats 3 trips with my small trailer. Also I would have needed to make a home for the 3,5 cbm of soil I am replacing. The plan is to steadily improve the soil we have. We will mulch eventually, that should help.