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Cosmo spring garden

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@Cosmo spring garden, yes i do; somewhat different than most but tea none the less. My setup allows me to catch everything so i’ll place a lid on a bucket full of “stuff” and invert it over another bucket and slightly open one side; allowing the clean urine to drain into another bucket. To a five gallon bucket of urine i add 1 cup of molasses, 1 cup of liquid kelp, 1 cup of em-1 (essential microbes) and 1 cup of oat flower; then the lid goes on and it ferments for a bit. Usually a week will do it and at that point it doesn’t have a bad smell and seems to keep forever.
i’m still using off of a couple gallons from last year and it’s still fine.
i blend it with water 50/50 and use it for everything. Typically i’ll use it once a week on any and everything. This spring it was useful during the time i grew the starts.

online- there’s numerous articles from folks in south africa using it as a fertilizer (soil drench) a foliar feed and as an insecticide!
my only experience is as a soil drench but cant say enough good about it!

kind of long winded, but you asked!
Swing by some time; i’ll send you home with a gallon!😳 im pretty liberal with this stuff.
Thank you so much for the detail explanation! I've heard of using compost tea as an insecticide and would like to try that. Visiting Alaska is my #1 bucket list item! It would be like me to come home with a gallon of rabbit manure tea 😆.
Another question, what does your rabbit set up look like? We have one bunny now but are planning to get few more next month and want to build a permanent set up for them that will also make harvesting the manure easy. I would love to see your set up!
 

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I’ve mentioned my split pot transplant method previously but today; while populating the greenhouse i decided to photograph the event. Pictures worth a thousand words thing.
1. Hole chopped out to shape of pot and tape removed from around bottom and one side.
2. Pot lifted into place, leaving bottom lay to the side.
3. Shell of pot removed.
4. Very minimal back-fill needed AND notice the intact root ball as seen from the top!

Living in Alaska, we’re always looking for an edge on the season and tomato’s are an iffy item if grown outside. As you can see; i get quite large starts; successfully moved into the greenhouse; BEFORE the local nursery’s are even open for the year!
p.s, this is not the largest ones i’ve done this with. One year they had to be triple staked just to carry them out of the house. 😳 This is about right; these seeds went in the ground on February 21st.
 

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The greenhouse is planted and i’ve got a month before much will happen outside. The trays that dont look like they belong; don’t; they’ll go away once things open up outside. This is normal timing for us, the 13th one year, the 15th one year & the 23rd another year.

that white stuff you see around the perimeter, is snow! Getting better all the time though! Night time temp’s right at 63f (in the greenhouse) and the daytime vacillates between 63 and 90! Once i tie the dehumidifier back in and get the water commissioned all systems will be go! Right now i run a hose up the hill and take it in of an evening.
 

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New life everywhere i look right now!
 

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I learned something today. Im all into the parthenocopic thing as far as cucumbers go and have a variety that excells in the greenhouse. What i didn’t know is that some summer squash possess this trait also.
within a couple days of transplanting some, i noticed one fruiting at a very young age. Package said “early producer bla, bla, bla” but i was not expecting what im seeing. This got the imagination going and a couple net searches provided some insight And it’s more common than id imagined.
Anyway, at this rate it’ll beat the bush beans which are flowering and usually give us beans before Mother’s Day!
 
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I can't believe how huge your tomato plants are! When did your seeds go in? Is your flowering bean plant from a transplant, or was it direct seeded and just growing super fast?

Your greenhouse is just so gorgeous! 🥰
 

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Thanks @heirloomgal for the kind words. The tomato seeds went in on Feb21st. The beans are transplants as is everything in the greenhouse.
i am using a slightly modified nutrient regime this year and am reallllly excited with how it’s going.

Last year i used the rabbit wine consisting of a 5gal bucket of rabbit urine to which i added 1 cup each of liquid kelp, mollassas, Em1 and oat flour. This brew was left to ferment for a couple weeks then bottled in gallon jugs. I used it diluted and applied it with a water can a couple times a week.
At the same time i was playing around with the Espoma tomato tone in granular form as a top dress. Not being big on the top dress method i decided to change it up a bit.

From the begining this year i‘ve been using the wine with a cup of the tomato tone granules added. In the greenhouse i add a qt of this concoction to a 2.5 gallon water can and apply it liberally to everything once a week. It takes less time to put together than it took to write this and all the ingredients are readily available and affordable.
Time will tell if it’s gonna prove out but all indications look favorable!
 
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