andIhalped
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Thoreau famously (at least among those that read Thoreau) listed all of his expenses building his shack near Walden Pond, in an effort to convey how simply one could live.
Not my purpose, but I tracked all expenses for my simple outdoor grow (which also included lots of tomatoes, peppers, basil, oregano, mint, thyme, and kale). Unlike Thoreau, I won’t list all expenses here, but they were super minimal: local quite cheap seeds, local, very cheap steer & chicken manure spread out in the winter, a bit of lime (soils here are pretty acidic), a DIY calcium supplement, plus a weekly thin topcoat of my own cold compost. That’s it---I don’t use any pesticides, mycocides, or any storebought fertilizer of any sort.
…all told, the grow ran me about $68, including water. Bottom line cost per gram of dried trimmed flower was about $0.22/g & that does NOT include the 3 quarts of very stony fan leaf oil or the 2 g of xlnt trim hash.
This year’s no aberration—past coupla years, my grows have run pretty close to the same—about $0.30/g dried trimmed flower
My light touch with fertilizers might have affected my yield, but I’m not out to maximize that. I always grow far more than I can use, including what I supply for free to a relative with seizures, so I always end up giving away more than half of what I grow annually.
But I don’t think my approach affected yield much, because the rest of my garden really pumped out the produce… and the quality was absolutely off the charts!
It’s been good every year, but to quote Captain Beeheart, “this is the best batch yet.” I love outdoor grows!
Not my purpose, but I tracked all expenses for my simple outdoor grow (which also included lots of tomatoes, peppers, basil, oregano, mint, thyme, and kale). Unlike Thoreau, I won’t list all expenses here, but they were super minimal: local quite cheap seeds, local, very cheap steer & chicken manure spread out in the winter, a bit of lime (soils here are pretty acidic), a DIY calcium supplement, plus a weekly thin topcoat of my own cold compost. That’s it---I don’t use any pesticides, mycocides, or any storebought fertilizer of any sort.
…all told, the grow ran me about $68, including water. Bottom line cost per gram of dried trimmed flower was about $0.22/g & that does NOT include the 3 quarts of very stony fan leaf oil or the 2 g of xlnt trim hash.
This year’s no aberration—past coupla years, my grows have run pretty close to the same—about $0.30/g dried trimmed flower
My light touch with fertilizers might have affected my yield, but I’m not out to maximize that. I always grow far more than I can use, including what I supply for free to a relative with seizures, so I always end up giving away more than half of what I grow annually.
But I don’t think my approach affected yield much, because the rest of my garden really pumped out the produce… and the quality was absolutely off the charts!
It’s been good every year, but to quote Captain Beeheart, “this is the best batch yet.” I love outdoor grows!
