10-3-2011
I know it is still 2011 but I consider anything done after harvest that happens to the garden to part of the next year. The garden doesn't read the calendar no matter how many I leave laying around.
Next year it looks like our garden location will be the same as last year. I will be adding as many more buckets as I can. Hopefully around 50 or so.
I am happy with how MCY and YTB didi this year but all of our varieties have yet to pass a taste test. I know I will give YTB another shot and probably stalk harvest it next year rather than prime it.
About two weeks ago we dumped all the dirt form the buckets into a large pile and covered it with plastic for the winter. The garden is put to bed so to speak.
We still have some tobacco color curing. once it is all cured we will de rib it and bring it back to case for aging. I want to pile everything we have in the kiln at once so we only have the expense of running the kiln once. Some of our tobacco may be 6 months old by then so it may age all on it's own without the need of the kiln.
We did not add any amendments to the pile of dirt but do have a compost pile going. So far the plan is to just add fresh compost in the spring as we mix the dirt to go back in the buckets.
As some of the members here are aware. this past summer tobacco growing went from a garden to an idea of getting ourselves on a homestead by July 1st of 2013. SO far tons of ideas that we have to try out and learn about. a Rocket Mass wood heater is next on our list. as well as building structures from COB. Not really tobacco related but I still want to have the entire adventure recorded some where. I spent the last two weeks building a new top bar bee hive as well. I am not making much progress on the issue of affordable energy production. not on the scale we are going to want it. I am looking for a system that will produce 80 Kwh per day. doing it ourselves is looking like it will cost 30k. time for a second job I guess.
anyway next year is under way in that the planning is already getting done. I will not likely post a ot here until I start planting seed though. I shoudl log any decisions about varieties for next year.
I encourage anyone to add comments as to varieties to try for cigarettes as well as what we could be doing for the soil over the winter.
I am also looking for more space to grow in so plans may change drastically if I find a quarter aces somewhere.
I know it is still 2011 but I consider anything done after harvest that happens to the garden to part of the next year. The garden doesn't read the calendar no matter how many I leave laying around.
Next year it looks like our garden location will be the same as last year. I will be adding as many more buckets as I can. Hopefully around 50 or so.
I am happy with how MCY and YTB didi this year but all of our varieties have yet to pass a taste test. I know I will give YTB another shot and probably stalk harvest it next year rather than prime it.
About two weeks ago we dumped all the dirt form the buckets into a large pile and covered it with plastic for the winter. The garden is put to bed so to speak.
We still have some tobacco color curing. once it is all cured we will de rib it and bring it back to case for aging. I want to pile everything we have in the kiln at once so we only have the expense of running the kiln once. Some of our tobacco may be 6 months old by then so it may age all on it's own without the need of the kiln.
We did not add any amendments to the pile of dirt but do have a compost pile going. So far the plan is to just add fresh compost in the spring as we mix the dirt to go back in the buckets.
As some of the members here are aware. this past summer tobacco growing went from a garden to an idea of getting ourselves on a homestead by July 1st of 2013. SO far tons of ideas that we have to try out and learn about. a Rocket Mass wood heater is next on our list. as well as building structures from COB. Not really tobacco related but I still want to have the entire adventure recorded some where. I spent the last two weeks building a new top bar bee hive as well. I am not making much progress on the issue of affordable energy production. not on the scale we are going to want it. I am looking for a system that will produce 80 Kwh per day. doing it ourselves is looking like it will cost 30k. time for a second job I guess.
anyway next year is under way in that the planning is already getting done. I will not likely post a ot here until I start planting seed though. I shoudl log any decisions about varieties for next year.
I encourage anyone to add comments as to varieties to try for cigarettes as well as what we could be doing for the soil over the winter.
I am also looking for more space to grow in so plans may change drastically if I find a quarter aces somewhere.