MactheHoople
420 Member
My brothers and sisters,
My name is Kelly, a 60-year old retired/disabled U.S. Navy Sonarman, sometime photo-journalist, and a 6th grade school teacher on a long sabbatical until I can get my body fixed...again.
I'm growing for the first time. Candy Cane, Northern Lights, and Early Miss.
I choice these for their ease of growing and, hopefully, their resistance to mold as I live on the central Oregon Coast in the Siuslaw Forest and it's a rainy, damp place most of the time - except right now...it's 73 degrees and beautiful.
It's my intent to grow them outside but I'm wary as we have lots of pine trees - duh - and I do not want the soil pH to get out-of-wack.
I just found out the community well water has a pH of about 8.0 and full of natural salts which, I find in my research, will kill most plants so I'll be using creek water instead.
I'd appreciate any helpful insights if any of y'all have thoughts on growing in such a wet environment.
Cheers to all,
Kel
My name is Kelly, a 60-year old retired/disabled U.S. Navy Sonarman, sometime photo-journalist, and a 6th grade school teacher on a long sabbatical until I can get my body fixed...again.
I'm growing for the first time. Candy Cane, Northern Lights, and Early Miss.
I choice these for their ease of growing and, hopefully, their resistance to mold as I live on the central Oregon Coast in the Siuslaw Forest and it's a rainy, damp place most of the time - except right now...it's 73 degrees and beautiful.
It's my intent to grow them outside but I'm wary as we have lots of pine trees - duh - and I do not want the soil pH to get out-of-wack.
I just found out the community well water has a pH of about 8.0 and full of natural salts which, I find in my research, will kill most plants so I'll be using creek water instead.
I'd appreciate any helpful insights if any of y'all have thoughts on growing in such a wet environment.
Cheers to all,
Kel