Bingo! Looking at getting a barrel and keeping some compost tea going this year.

I make some alfalfa/corn meal teas. I bought a pretty big aquarium pump and supplies to make compost tea this year.

More info , please .

alfalfa/corn meal teas...HOW???...what proportion...???

It's very simple. I use a couple cups of alfalfa pellets and a couple cups of whole ground cornmeal. Get the cornmeal from the feed store it's much cheaper there. I just put the pellets in a 5gal bucket, but I put the corn meal in panty hose because it's so fine and makes it easier to strain later. Fill the bucket up with water and put a lid on. Let it sit about 7-10 days. Careful when you open the lid. The smell is powerful. I then get a real fine paint strainer and pour the tea through it into another bucket. I then use it as a ground drench to water and/or as spray.

Spread out the strained alfafa bits in the garden, flower beds etc.. It's basically alfalfa meal at that point.

I'm not a rose plant guy. But when I was reading up on Alfalfa teas in the past it seems lots of people use it on their roses with really good results.

The cornmeal is optional. I just like using it because it has antifungal properties.

hey Derek, what's the difference in melting the alfalfa pellets in a bucket of water and pouring the juice on the ground and just spreading the pellets on top of the ground and working it in the soil???

Pellets breakdown slowly. Once they kinda swell up and burst they are turning into Alfalfa meal and the breakdown process continues. But you have to be careful with mixing pellets into the soil. When they swell and burst turning into meal they put off a lot of heat and can burn tender non established roots. It's best used as a top dressing. I tend to stick to 10lbs per 1000sq feet ratio with pellets. Some things like corn meal, soybean, cotton meal more is better. But Alf less is better in the pellet/meal form.

The tea pretty much eliminates the hotness since it uses all it's energy per say in the bucket. Leaving all the good stuff in the water. Plus alf is naturally high in sugar and microbes, good fungi, etc love sugar so the liquid gives them a quick easy feeding.

A lot of people will add sugars, yeast and other stuff to teas mixes and add an aquarium pump to it to really get it active and rocking. The aerated teas is my main experiment planned for this year.

I don't grow weed but I tend to read the weed growers forums when I'm searching around for formulas and techniques. They use a similar approach that I do and those people know their soil and what to feed it and all that mess.

RIP lil' onions.

Don't give up on them for at least a couple weeks they may surprise you. Just for grin'S I dropped 1 in my tube setup check out the root growth in a couple or 3 weeks !

Ghost and habanero starters and tomatoes on the grow t5 lights work for me .

Nice setup! Did you build that? Might have to try feeding the plants Shiner

i had some freeze back to the ground...thought they were gone...replanted...then had a double crop...just burned the tops back to ground level...

i haven't looked at mine yet

The tops went white and kind of shriveled.

Looking at seeds. What varieties of tomatoes do best in Texas?

i buy Porter plants...they are a variety that came from Stephenville...non-acidic...will live thru the summer and produce until frost

other guys can give you more info of other varieties