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verses afternoon-only sun, so if you have to choose between the two, morning sun may be better.
Disguise your greenhouse as a tool shed, or similar structure, by using only one wall and
a roof of white opaqued plastic, PVC, Filon, or glass, and using a similar coloured material for
the rest of the shed, or painting it white or silvery, to look like metal. Try to make it appear as if
it has always been there, with plants and trees that grow around it and mask it from view while
allowing sun to reach it.
Filon (corrugated fibreglass)or PVC plastic sheets can be used outside to cover young
plants grown together in a garden. Buy the clear greenhouse sheets, and opaque them with white
wash (made from lime) or epoxy resin tinted white or grey and painted on in a thin layer. This
will pass more sun than white PVC or Filon, and still hide the plants. Epoxy resin coats will
preserve the Filon for many more seasons than it would otherwise last. It will also allow you to
disguise the shed as metal, if you paint the clear filon sheets with a thin layer of resin tinted light
grey. Paint will work as well, but may not protect as much. Be careful to use only as much as
needed, to reduce sun blockage to a minimum.
Dig a big hole, don't depend on the plant to be able to penetrate the clay and rubble
unless your sure of the quality of topsoil in the area. Grassy fields would have good top soil, but
your back yard may not. This alone can make the difference between an average 5' tall plant,
and a 10' monster by harvest time. Growing in the ground will always beat a pot, since the plant
will never become root bound in the ground. Plants grown in the ground should grow much
larger, but will need more space for each plant, so plan accordingly, you can't move them once
their in!
You may want to keep outdoor plants in pots so they can be easily moved. A big hole
will allow the pot to be place in it, thus reducing the height of the plant, if fence level is an issue.
Many growers find pots have saved a crop that had to be moved for some unexpected reason
(repairman, appraiser, fire, etc.).
It's always best to put a roof over your plants outdoors. When I was a lad, we had plants
growing over the fence line in the back yard. We started to build a greenhouse roof for them,
and a cop saw us hauling wood, thought we were stealing it (which we were not) and looked
over the fence at us and our lovely plants. We were busted, because he saw them. If he had seen
a shed roof instead, there would never have been a problem. Moral of the Story: build the roof
BEFORE the plants are sticking over the fence! Or train them to stay well below it. Live and
learn...
When growing away from the house, in the wild, water is the biggest determining factor,
after security. Water must be close by, or close to the soil surface, or you will have to pack
water in. Water is heavy and this is very hard work. Try to find an area close to a source of
water if possible, and keep a bucket nearby to carry water to your plot.
A novel idea in this regard is to find high water in the mountains, at altitude, and then
route it down to a lower spot close by. It is possible to create water pressure in a hose this way,
and route it to a drip system that feeds water to your plants continuously. Take a 5 gallon gas
can, and punch small holes in it. Run a hose out of the main orifice and secure it somehow. Bury
the can in a river or stream under rocks, so that it is hidden and submerged. Bury the hose
coming out of it, and run it down hill to your garden area. A little engineering can save you a lot
of work, and this rig can be used year after year.
GUERRILLA FARMING
Guerrilla farming refers to farming away from your own property, or in a remote
location of your property where people seldom roam around. It is possible to find locations that
for one reason or another are not easily accessible or are privately owned.
Try to grow off your property, on adjacent property, so that if your plot is found, it will
not be traceable back to you. If it's not on your property, nobody has witnessed you there, and
there is no physical evidence of your presence (footprints, fingerprints, trails, hair, etc.), then it
is virtually impossible to prosecute you for it, even if the cops think they know who it belongs
to.
Never admit to growing, to anyone. Your best defence is that your just passing through
the area, and noticed something you decided to take a look at, or carry a fishing pole or
binoculars and claim fishing or bird watching.
Never tell anyone but a partner where the plants are located. Do not bring visitors to see
them, unless it is harvest time, and the plants will be pulled the same or following day.
Make sure your plants are out of sight. Take a different route to get to them if they are
not in a secure part of your property, and cover the trail to make it look as if there is no trail.
Make cut backs in the trail, so that people on the main trail will tend to miss the cut-back to the
grow area. Don't park on the main road, always find a place to park that will not arouse
suspicion by people that pass on the road. Have a safe house in the area if you are not planting
close to home. Always have a good reason for being in the area and have the necessary items to
make your claim believable.
Briar and poison oak patches are perfect if you can cut through it. Poison Oak must be
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