Almost Harvest...

We caught a spot of good weather this week. I didn't even have to lower the sides of the cold frame. I'm real cautious about night time temps around here. If the weather app says 40F plan on 25F. This week, temps stayed above 40F except last night when it went to 33F.

Aside from that, I'm still trying to flush excess nitrogen from the plant. I flushed with PH 6.5 water for about half the week. Then I increased the water PH to 9.8. The idea being that at higher PH less nitrogen is available to the plant but phosphorus becomes available to the plant again after 8.5 PH.

So, I'm no chemist. This is an experiment. I've been experimenting a lot this summer. Including aerating my water in a 1200 Liter/ 300 Gal IBC tote, adding Humic acid, worm castings and molasses. I'm trying to create a bacterial soup (much like a river) to breakdown the organic nutrients mixed into the soil at planting.

I think its working... what do you think?

All advise welcome from my fellow steemians!