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I got # 48 dug this week. It is in the logged land past 3DT. I used 1 bucket of Long Walk mix + 4 cups 13-13-13, 1 cup 10-10-10, 1 cup 5-19-12. Patch name is CE. Some land use issues have come up, so I won't be able to use the 3 hole LL trench. I wish I had waited a few days in digging that one...

A big hole will help, but number of hours of direct sunlight will have a big say in yield. I grow in trees, so anything over 8 oz is a good harvest for me.

This morning I added two holes near the patch where I cut the Wild Cherry. The food was the same as the holes above. I will add the other time release plant food when I bring in the plants. And I see I failed to name these patches. It will be WC or KP. This brings me to 47 holes. I need to add...

What can I say? I like round numbers, and 48 is nice and round. I set out yesterday with 3 bags of plant food premixed, planning to go to a small clearing I had seen back when I was scouting the woods past 3DT. But it would have been a long round about walk, and on the way there I remembered...

The ground is your friend. For water retention as well as stealth. A hole 24" across and 12" deep is 23.5 gallons. This is as small as I ever go. I try to dig some of my holes 36" X 18", or 80 gallons. It doesn't take that much longer, and you will see the results. Just do the math, {radius...

I forgot to mention a sad event that happened yesterday. When I was packing a bowl with CP1 in a wind storm for the traditional hit for each hole dug, I missed a seed. Didn't see it until I had already scorched it pretty good..Sadly, there are very few CP1 seeds.

I did do one more 3 hole patch. Each hole got 4 cups 13-13-13, one cup each of 10-10-10 and 9-6-12 TRPF and a cup and a half of 15-9-12 TRPF. This puts me at 42 holes, and I have no plans to dig anymore. But it is still a long time until spring, so who knows . . . Now for a long rambling...

I took a couple of well crafted photos of all the plant food bags laid out where you could read the numbers on each container. But I have too many cameras. Both of the SD cards I brought with me today are blank. I thought I had changed out the one from my outside camera, but I must have put it...

I have only used one really big pot, and like Jethro Bodine, it's smarts is in doubt. Late last summer I decided to make a big pot using 2X4" dog wire, landscape fabric and T-posts. I dug down about 9" to help with stability, but I'm sure it helped with water retention too. It is 54" across and...

We had a nice slow rain today, so I got out this morning and dug a few more holes. I had 10 gallons of the Long Walk mix already in the woods. But instead of doing the six holes planned for two sites, I did one 4'X5' trench for two plants, and I did two other holes in the same area. I had to cut...

I just read back through my first few posts and did a little arithmetic. I have dug holes in 10 patches. They are patches of 3, 4, 3, 3, 5, 3, 3, 4, 3 and 3 holes. Add all that up and it comes to 34 holes already dug. Since I had started out with a plan of 12 plants, I think it might be time for...

I went back down into the big woods, looking to dig three more holes. I walked due north from the fallen tree patch for about a quarter mile looking for sunlight, then jogged over 100 yards and went back due south for a quarter mile. The sunny spot I found was a couple hundred yards from the...

That does have a certain ring to it.

Alright, I looked up my soil mix notes. Here is what I used on the SOL patch. I can't remember if I add 13-13-13 and time release plant food when I dug the holes. {I was out when I did the mix} I will have to look at the soil in the holes and try to decide if I need to add it. 20 gal Mushroom...

Day before yesterday I used my truck to drop off my latest mix of Darro Dirt in a nearby wood thicket. I went back and got one hole dug in last year's SLO patch. Went back yesterday morning and got three more in the same area. These all were five gallons of the mix. I have the soil mix notes in...

I got three holes dug around the fallen tree above. It was too long a walk for even the Long Walk mix of Darro Dirt, so I used 4 cups 13-13-13, and 1 each of three time release plant foods. {I was able to take everything in a big backpack, so only one trip} I left all the leftovers in the woods...

Kind of like a bad wreck, it is hard to look away from Big Smo. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one watching.

Looking good. Thanks for all the good work. Back when I was a kid growing in the piney woods, when there was rain expected, I sprinkled the regular MG right on the ground. I grew in trenches back then, and I would just put it on one side of the trench. If the rain didn't come and it was too...

Today I dug three {single} holes near last year's BP patch. I used 1/3 bucket of the Long Walk mix, plus 2 cups of triple 13 per hole. {I don't have my soil mix notes with me, but I'll add those later} These are going to be transplant and forget plants, so I wanted to make sure there was enough...

I went down into the big woods yesterday to scout locations. The cover is so thick you have to find downed trees to get enough light. Luckily there always seems to be new downed trees.