This is my first grow, and I've been reading all of the material about to grow and such, but I recently realized that perhaps the best place for a personal small garden is my back yard. I live in the city, so it's highly fenced in, and while other buildings do look onto it, there are other plants throughout the garden and the strains should blend in nicely.
As I said, I recently changed my growing location, so I wasn't entirely sure how to go about this. I decided to do a test run. I took a few of the Early Special and Mixed Sativa seeds, compliments of Dr. Chronic's (shipped in just a few days), and simply planted them in the soil that had already been layed out. It was a professionally setup garden, and I just planted alongside the other plants where there was space and should be some sunlight.
My question is this: what are the best things I can do to improve growth? Science is not my specialty, horticulture in particular, so I'm just trying to live and learn. Thanks.
Note: Planted May 09 - I understand summer cycles are not ideal, so any way to improve upon that as well? Next batch I was thinking of veging inside, then transplanting outside.
As I said, I recently changed my growing location, so I wasn't entirely sure how to go about this. I decided to do a test run. I took a few of the Early Special and Mixed Sativa seeds, compliments of Dr. Chronic's (shipped in just a few days), and simply planted them in the soil that had already been layed out. It was a professionally setup garden, and I just planted alongside the other plants where there was space and should be some sunlight.
My question is this: what are the best things I can do to improve growth? Science is not my specialty, horticulture in particular, so I'm just trying to live and learn. Thanks.
Note: Planted May 09 - I understand summer cycles are not ideal, so any way to improve upon that as well? Next batch I was thinking of veging inside, then transplanting outside.