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schuylaar said:
I like basil and mint..what do you think would be good for first timer?

and @Rob Roy
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That's more "her" department at our cave, but if you grow mint, consider a container if you don't want it to spread and take over a garden.
It's pretty prolific once it gets going. Why not grow both?

Seems like spider mites like them some basil too. Careful bringing outdoor plants back indoors if you don't want your indoor garden to "catch a mite virus". As a precaution some people change clothes before working in the indoor garden after being in the outside garden. Mites, aphids etc. love to hitchhike.
 
schuylaar said:
Colorado..and I would describe the soil as mud.
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Then pick a patch, like a 10 sq. foot area & amend the fuck out of it.
Get 8 cubic feet of peat & 6 bags of dehydrated manure and dig it in or use raised beds & you'll be good too go
Have fun digging :)
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Rob Roy said:
Careful bringing outdoor plants back indoors
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Never, ever, ever bring an outdoor plant into a grow room.
I had a broken foot 4 years ago & couldn't walk for around 4 weeks & let my wife run my grow & she brought an outdoor plant into the room & infected the entire grow with thrips & mites which basically killed my grow
I treat my grow area like a operating room, because once your infested it's a bitch to get rid of them.
 
Jimdamick said:
Never, ever, ever bring an outdoor plant into a grow room.
I had a broken foot 4 years ago & couldn't walk for around 4 weeks & let my wife run my grow & she brought an outdoor plant into the room & infected the entire grow with thrips & mites which basically killed my grow
I treat my grow area like a operating room, because once your infested it's a bitch to get rid of them.
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I built a shelter on the back deck last fall, put a heater and a spare light in it to finish off an outdoor plant as a bit of a project. Once they go out they never come back inside and it was trimmed on the back deck and dried there too. The plant was for a buddy and he took care of it outside and never came near the inside grow after either! I don't use pesticides, I use precautions instead.
 
The epidemic is deteriorating the ability to distribute food supplies. While we knew it in an abstract way, this is real:

One of the largest pork processing facilities in the US is closing until further notice

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One of the largest pork processing facilities in the US is closing until further notice

One of the country's largest pork processing facilities is closing until further notice as employees fall ill with Covid-19. The closure puts the country's meat supply at risk, said the CEO of Smithfield, which operates the plant.
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"The closure of this facility, combined with a growing list of other protein plants that have shuttered across our industry, is pushing our country perilously close to the edge in terms of our meat supply," the meat processor's chief executive, Kenneth Sullivan, said in a statement Sunday.

No one would be wrong in pointing out the moral failings in our industrial pork production system. But still, we aren't ready for it to come to an abrupt end either. Smithfield simply HAD to close it's operation because coronavirus was becoming an epidemic in its workforce. The same issues will affect egg farms and longer term, farm field workers simply have no means of getting to and from work or working the field while maintaining social distancing guidelines.

We might miss the days when the produce section was full and TP was scarce. It's looking as if the longer term situation will be the opposite.
 
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