What I Use instead of Miracle Gro. plus Free HomeMade Fertilizer!
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❤️. My dad who loved gardening passed away last year. He developed dementia and he obsessed on weeding the gardens and yard, and would often talk out loud while he worked. This year I am coping with the loss of both parents last year by planting a garden. I am most looking forward to enjoying a great harvest of tomatoes and squash, two of dads favorite garden producers! I chuckled to myself as I noticed I talked out loud a few times while I was pulling weeds! The Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree!
Blessings and prayers for you Leah!
I lost my Mama 12 years ago and the garden was the perfect place to cry, to laugh, to learn to smile again as I worked through loss, growth, and eventually to allow healing to take place. May your good memories fill you as you talk to those seeds and weeds! And may your garden bring forth good things to fill you.
@Leah pitman I’m so sorry for your loss. I lost both of my parents ( my dad in September 2021,) I lost my 49 year old brother to Glioblastoma brain cancer in March 2021, 6 months to the day before my Dad. My Dad was a gardener my whole life. I believe I’m really dealing with this with gardening as well. I know exactly how you feel. I even put his garden gate on my garden. Try to have fun and find joy in our garden. It’s my therapy for now being the only one left of everyone I grew up with is a really odd feeling. Take care
I've survived till now thanks to nature and gardening, just love it so much, I also talk to all of them, every day 😊 hello beautiful, wow you grown up!
Basically I talk like if they are people, but I understand they don't speak but they answer back, in beauty and taste 😍😋 my dream is go back home (one day 🙏) to my roots or better lay my own roots, as basically all my family is gone...
Keep all the seeds, give them, sale them, and spread them all over... real seeds are rare those days.
Carry gardening 💯👍❤️
My sincere condolences for the loss of your parents.
You know what ..I always talk out loudly when I am in my garden, because I keep chatting to the plants and pollinators, lol
I'm gardening alone this year. My husband recently passed away, and we gardened together for 40 years. He did most of the work in the garden, but I was his companion, and learned what I could. At this point, doing it alone, I realize how many questions I have for him. I so appreciate your videos and I'm learning a lot. Thank you. (I still wish he was here to garden with).
So sorry for your loss but I'm sure you learned a lot from him so your garden will flourish. He is with you in spirit.
@@dorothymatthews6690 Thank you for your kind words. Being in the garden this year is very bitter-sweet.
So sorry for your loss. I truly understand wanting to ask the husband questions.
@@Soccermom1018 Thank you.
He is there . Nothing is as hard as missing those we dearly love, especially at times we used to share with them. I miss my father in the garden. I talk to him. You will find moments where you know he is still with you just in a different way. Mine brought me a rose that was my favorite and has not been seen since he planted one forty years ago. One showed up as I left the garden center a few weeks ago. I talk to him all the time about how to garden etc. Your beloved husband is with you and I wish you many beautiful days in your garden. 🌷💕🌷
I am a single mom with 4 children and recently lost my sister so now I'm raising her kids too. So I am on a tight tight budget these days! Having said that I'm all ears. I love watching your videos and ideas. My goal is to grow as many organic fruits and veggies as I can for these kiddos and to teach them along the way. Thank you for making your videos and doing what you do to teach us the way of organic gardening. We love you! ❤️
As a child living in federal housing projects, the city of Boston gathered 'potential' juvenile delinquents and transported us to the country to work on a dirt farm. At first I hated it, but over time I learned to love it. Today at 73 I still love my garden. I do maintain a worm farm and harvest castings.
"Dirt farm" made me chuckle😂😂❤❤😊😊
Would you share what are some of the tips of raising worms and harvesting castings please?
It a whole lot to it google vermicomposting. You do need compost worms, not just any worm. Compost worms work in the top 3” of soil. Can start in a plastic bin with soil, peat, compost, shredded cardboard and shredded paper. Feed every few days to a week with kitchen scraps. Keep bedding fairly moist and ouila! Worm castings in a few months. I actually have my bins inside my house. Uncle Jim’s Worm Farm to buy worms
My girlfriend went to a Boston school program that allowed kids to work on a farm. She enjoyed it. When harvest time came, they sent her home with many bags of produce. She gave my family several bags & gave other neighbors bags. I had wished I was eligible for that program. I would have learned a lot.
@WeArePoleGem yes yould have learned much. At first I hated going to the farm, but now I ALWAYS have a garden. I use drip irrigation, hydroponics, raised garden beds, 3 apple trees, 3 blueberries, 2 grape vines, asparagus patches, and strawberry patches. All because I was sent to the farm as a potential juvenile delinquent. I did learn much.
We dropped well over $1000 into plants, bushes,& trees this year. We just hope our fruit trees & bushes make it. After 2 years of my wifes' MS diagnosis I was able to get her excited about doing a garden this year. 20+ strawberry, 9 blueberry, 3 peach, 2 fig, 3 raspberry, 3 blackberry, & 1 mulberry. I look forward to my wife enjoying gardening again this year & years to come while she can.
Sending prayers
Please read up on the benefits of sunshine and supplemental vitamin D-3 and K-2 on MS. Dr John Campbell has a youtube channel that is very educational. The time outside should help her.
@@auntypat1492 most definitely as it will help heal your worries and hurts. Outdoors. Sunshine. Growing things. Best medicine in the world. Prayers for you and your precious wife. 🌷💕🌷
For the ms diagnosis look for an herbalist.
My parents were remembered by more people than I rrealized for their gardening and the abundant crops they shed abroad, made me happy, miss them so much. They lived well into their 80s, had both got incurable cancer, both miracules lived and were cancer free, healthy till God took them home. I know, because I led them to the Lord, they were always good people,, they just got saved.
I was rescuing & caring for sea turtles in Baja and had a vision. A few hours before 2000 I was in Alaska, met the man of my dreams, hand built a home & garden. 2010 he died & I tragically lost everything. Transplanted to st. John VI.
Building a home & garden. Irma/Maria
wiped it all away. I've been floating on a boat since. Barely making it through covid, in November my dad died, my best friend was murdered and I gave up. For the last 6 months I truly believed I would die with out living my dream of home and garden. I just turned 53 and decided not to give up & try again. I am looking for land and will one day soon be growing a garden, I'm looking forward to that!
Found your channel today, liked & subscribed, took notes, and will be buying your companion planting book.
Thank you, you have helped me rekindle my passion for growing in a garden. 💞
I'm so sorry for what you've been through. I'm glad you're here and wish you luck. You can do this!
@@NextLevelGardening ahhh thanks
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@@cocomarch8019 You have been through so much, I am sorry, it sounds unimaginably hard.May your dream come true and healing through gardening be with you. Blessings from Australia, going through hard times, too. I will think of you as I sow my sweet pea seeds on St Patrick's Day, tomorrow. 🙏🍀
I'm so sorry to hear what you went through. . .
"Blessings" song by Kari Jobe your way!
If you see empty plot with good soil near your area. Ask them to plant a garden in exchange of anything you grow on their plot. I heard this is practiced in certain European countries. Maybe there's community gardens or farm for market?
Gardening is great therapy from almost anything.
A friend of mine raised chickens when she cleaned out the coop she'd bag up the poopy straw for me in a big black garbage bag...I'd fill up a large storage bin with water put the poopy chicken hay in a large plastic clothes hamper that had the openings all over, I'd submerge the hamper with hay into the storage bin with water...let it soak for a few days lift the laundry basket out which caught the rinsed hay leaving what I called "chicken poop soup" used that for watering my rose bushes and wow! My rose bushes were beautiful and healthy! 🌹
I am a container gardener. It is very hard for container gardeners because they need a fresh source of organic material to keep the microbes alive so they can feed the plants and maintain a living soil. This has been the most interesting video I have seen on fertilizers.
Living in Texas, I planted our garden early March and already have harvested many vegetables. As the hymn says " I come to the garden alone, while the dew is still on the roses. And the Voice I hear falling on my ears, the Son of God discloses. And He walks with me and talks with me..."😁
Love the song !!
I love that song. It makes me think of my Dad
Love that song❣️
One of my favorites ❤❤❤
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I helped garden on the farm seventy years go and have gardened all over the United States ( career moves). My garden is over four thousand square feet. My compost is is complemented with pond algae with marvelous results. Gardening is a humbling experience and fights depression and ennui . Most of the produce goes to the food shelf as I live alone after my wife died and the kids are grown. Never too old to learn .
How do you use pond algae as fertilizer, and how do you collect it? That's a amazing large garden. Can grow most of your food on 4000sq feet. And have plenty left over.
What you are describing is a farm. You produce and distribute food, that is verbatim a farm
Move next to me! =)
I call life security not job security any more
4k square feet is a mini farm! 😉
It's great that Neptune has found such a wonderful use for what it used to discard! Thanks for your non-poison approach!
I have 3 bunnies, all girls.
Got them specifically for their "Bunny Berries ". I made manure tea with a 5 gallon bucket. Filled 3/4 full of Bunny manure the filled with water. Every time I passed it I gave it a stir.
Very good information. Thanks
Me too 😂
As an empath who sometimes suffers from anxiety, the madness of this world can be overwhelming. My remedy is working in the garden where I feel grounded in peace and joy, knowing I'm helping create a tiny piece of heaven right here in my corner of the world. I love hanging out with the plants, birds, bees, butterflies in the cool of the morning and the excitement of seeing the plants grow and thrive. It's as magical as the first bean plant I planted as a child and let's face it, we can all use a little magic in our lives.
Lay off the fruit loops!!!
I envy you. I’m now disabled and have no energy for gardening or anything else.
I used to get “peace” from my garden and now I struggle to keep one plant alive. It’s a calandiva and it was a gift when my Frenchie dod passed. I’m terrible with flowers and now it’s sick with root rot and I’m doing everything to propagate the plant since it means so much to me.
Keep your health. Don’t stress about anything.
Be well and have peace.❤🌼🥰
You didn't mention human urine as a FREE fertilizer.
If you're not on meds which would be contra-/indicated
@@MegaTattoo69 Welcome to the crunchy woo-woo part of CZcams. When the revolution comes, they'll be the first to starve as they clutch crystals and plant by the light of the moon.
@@mildredwilkins5781 Correct, Mildred. One human's annual urine output contains enough NPK and micronutrients to grow them enough wheat to bake a loaf of bread for them every day for 14 months.
The thing that happens in my garden that makes me smile, is when you walk out in the morning to check on your plants and it seems that they have grown 4” over night. The wind is moving them around and there is green all around you. Good stuff!
This is my first vegetable garden. I'm hoping it goes well!
What a lovely image. Thank you for that. Apartment dweller, my 'garden' is pots and buckets, and I haven't experienced that 4" phenomenon, yet. ;)
This is my first garden using containers. Since I have mobility issues, I am starting small with tomatoes, potatoes, cucumbers, and a few herbs. I am listening to all your videos as I need lots of advice.Hoping for a great harvest. Thanks so much.
I agree! Nature's balm!
Just recently read that a breeze in the garden helps plants grow. So, gently glide your hands over the plants.
I am a beginning gardener. I have started my own fruits and vegetables and am looking forward to working in the garden and learning from it. I was ill from strokes and in an assisted facility for many years and am now ready to go on with, and enjoy life in my happy new home and garden.
I haven’t raised a garden for 45 years
I am now 66 years old and can’t wait to prepare my garden this year
Great video
Thank you and God bless 🙏🙏🙏
What I am most looking forward to in my garden this year is the quiet of being outdoors with the plants and the birds, which is so calming and grounding. It has been long hard winter, so this soothing time in the garden is something I really look forward to. Plus I look forward to the joy of eating and sharing home grown vegetables.
Thank you so much for being clear and simple!
My first year gardening, I am 73 so never to late. I am just hoping to get a harvest. I am so excited. I am starting some seeds and some plants. I have some Tomatoes, kale (very tiny plants from seeds), squash, sweet peppers and sweet potatoes. My grandfather had a garden every year and he grew lots of stuff, I wasn’t interested then but now I am going for it.
Seed starting is still the one thing I have problems with (I usually buy seedlings, I think called 'transplants' in the US, ie baby plants). But I think I will need to buy a heat mat and perhaps some grow lights to start them indoors. Brian has a great video on grow lights and seed starting (I forget what it was called). So hope your new venture has proved successful - it does take a few seasons to nail down the preferences of some plants, particularly in your own climate and micro-climate, your garden position, etc.
Welcome! It's great fun!
Best wishes for a productive garden!
Aquarium water works miracles!
My parents were green thumb gardeners and I remember the large amount of vegetables we grew and gave away in our small community. We always had enough to take us through the winter and until next growing season despite the fact it seemed we fed half the community. Mom was always saying take this bag of xxx to such and such and off on my bicycle I went. I learned from Dad, and later on learned much from Jerry Baker (now passed away)...his simplistic gardening books are priceless in my opinion. In any event, I have picked up a few tricks from you and say one is never too old to learn...thanks! I remember my old high school agriculture teacher saying chicken manure was the best NPK...
Blessings to you and your mission. I am retired and is a caregiver for my daughter whom is on life support. Gardening in a small space backyard and sharing and encouraging my community to grow food has created a therapeutic environment for me. People of all ages (babies to elderly and people whom have never touched soil). Gardening has given my daughter the will to survive and remove depression. God’s blessings are being showing through the garden. My goal is to continue to touch lives and show miracles through growing. I will never stop. I visit nursing homes, assisted living facilities, church groups, started in my community a community garden last year and it is great, I could go on. Gardening is fun and relieves stress. Helps people have hope! I love growing varieties and 90 % of my growth is from seeds. Any support that I can receive would be a blessing.
Beautiful!🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️
@Jeri Brockington hopefully I can be a blessing to you. I am a heart patient with a blood disorder and low blood pressure issues for about 15 years. Slowly my mobility went from swimming 40 laps 3 times a week to barely being able to walk up steps. I started watching terrace gardening in 2019 after a hospitalization and started planning. I literally can only do a little here and there per day but my first all out attempt is this year. Tons of trial and error but I'm learning from my mistakes. Hubby took sick late last year and had to retire. He has a couple of procedures to go, but hopes soon to be able to do more than water the plants.
I like the theme of your project, helping people help themselves which affects health in a positive manner. I can't bless you financially but maybe this idea will help.
Get all pictures, video and testimonials from participants and make a few infomercials for your YT page. Include ways to donate. Then ask YT content creators to participate by including your infomercials as PSAs in their videos to help support your project.
Best of luck you you and all the people you are helping. Stay blessed and don't give up!
I had severs depression 15yrs aog ; but doing home gardening helped me to recover a lot as l lives by myself after l bought a wooden house in a place without tap water ; so l developed stratergies to collect & store rain water & use my waste water & grow my own garden to have regular food supplies for myself , thank for sharing ; we arenever to old to learn something new
I actually made my own 'hydrolyzed fish fertilizer ' last year from online recipe! It took several months, but worked great. I was amazed that all bones, etc, were dissolved by the enzymes. Next time friends/ family go fishing, I'm sending a bucket to collect all the scraps/cleanings😉
Good idea if you can contain the smell while it's cooking LOL
What I’m looking forward most in my garden is continuing to learn how to be successful in harvesting, then canning, all I can as I’m very new to having a garden. I’m almost 67 years old and have never had a garden. I truly feel it very well may be the only food available at some point in the future.
@nextlevelgardening ; WORM VERMICOMPOST REPORT: I started an Urban Worm Bag last September, starting with 1 lb of red wigglers. It’s very easy and very low maintenance once you get it “going”. Two weeks Before your worms arrive, you prepare a bedding and inoculate it with 1cup compost and 1/4 cup of vegetable food scraps. This will inoculate your starter bedding with bacteria so it’s ready to consume by your wigglers. Bedding is as simple as high carbon corrugated cardboard, shredded with a paper shredder. It’s simple and low maintenance and the vermicompost is the bomb. I’m harvesting my bin this week (compost harvest). My worm population has grown 5X!
In our cold winter climate, composting is difficult. Vermicomposting allows me to use my kitchen scraps to feed the worms, and I can later harvest the castings to use in the garden. Win-win
This year I'm looking forward to my 4 year old daughter really diving into the garden. She's even been scolding my husband when he forgets to throw his apple cores in our compost collector.
I'm retired now and building a new garden. As a grandma, I'm looking forward this year to harvesting a bumper crop of tomatoes and peppers and beans, just like my grandma used to do. Not just for the harvest itself but to teach my family about self reliance. I'm re-learning how to grow things with the help of Next Level Gardening. Thank you so much!
You might also like Living Traditions Homestead channel. They are fantastic teachers also.
@@pamelaremme38 I agree.
I am suggesting
Momma Js Country Gardening
She is retired and brings small space gardening with big growing results.
Have fun in gardening
I haven't planted a garden in years. But l am this year along with many kinds of fruit trees. I look forward to your advice.
I am a beginner gardener. I had my first garden last year which came out good but found i had room for improvement on almost everything! I stumbled onto your channel and found that i am addicted to it. You are a wealth of information. Very easy to understand. I have my paper and pencil ready when you are on. I am trying for the first time composting and raised garden beds. I am so excited for the spring I can barely wait. Thank you for helping me understand what my garden is trying to tell me. I truly appreciate your help. Thank you Susan.
This video was my inspiration to go down the "worm tea rabbit hole" and I am glad I did. I now do a batch of aerated worm tea about every 3 weeks and get great results. Next on my agenda is my own vermiculture set up to enhance my composting efforts and make my own worm casting so I know I will be getting the freshest stuff possible. Love that rampant bio-activity!
That's great!
I started my.own worm bins and I highly suggest a guy here on youtube called AV. He responds to comments as well. Good luck!
@@dana102083can you pls post his page. Is it just "AV" ?
Is the worm tea instructions in this video?
I have never had a garden myself, only “helped” my dad. I’m looking forward to learning this year as I do it myself. Thanks for all the great info. To someone new to gardening, you are a wealth of info!
Same here.
Last year was terrible to garden. I had pain in my feet, the heat in the middle of June in Washington state burned all my tomato flowers and just starting veggies. I was very discouraged and thought that I will take a break this year. Your videos helped me to change my mind. Your info about fertilizers is one of the best on CZcams now. Thank you.
Yes, gardening in Washington state last year was a bit hot. Keep on, and hopefully all the rain this spring translates into more moisture reservoirs in the soil. I am collecting as much as I can in sealed and open garbage cans (fish in the open ones like my 100 gal horse tank. No longer have the horse.) Good luck to you! Gardening is crucial this day and age. His videos are great!
So far my garden has gifted me with a close encounter with a mole and a snake the snake crawled between my knees as I kneeled in the garden and a mole who I actually poked as I checked the soil and a white gold pendant necklace with a star sapphire and 3 diamonds I am not lying. As far as plants go I have sweet potatoes white potatoes snap peas growing nothing else is making it before the pill bugs get them squash and tomatoes a no go but still trying and loving it I am in zone 9 enjoy your company and your content thx for sharing oh I am 71 and this is my first garden opportunity /grin love and blessings
Clear, concise, and straight to the point. Love your content. I’ve never subscribed to any gardener video sites but I’m never disappointed with yours and you seem like a genuine good person. Thank you for all the great education. I never get tired listening to your videos!
I'm looking forward to teaching garden classes to homeschool students. It's really pushing me to learn all I can and put a lot into garden planning..
This year I'm looking forward to having healthy soil this year. Last year I did have a single worm in my soil. This year so far just digging around, I've seen a few. I planted all the herbs to make a true Puerto Rican sofrito so I'm praying all the herbs grow plentiful to share with family, friends and strangers!
I LOVE YOUR SHOW!
Last year was a disaster for me here in Houston. My vegetable crop produced nothing except a tomato the size of a cherry. No, it wasn't supposed to be a cherry tomato. LOL Now, I am watching just about every video on CZcams that covers container planting. My sister just moved in with me and is in charge of the compost bin. She is a bit scattered, but I let her have free reign. I am going to order some products from Neptune and pray that I have more to harvest this year.
It was the heat. It is getting worse every year. I am getting some shade cloths to put up at rhe end of July so my garden doesn't fry.
♥ For my birthday I received a stair-step above ground garden. Since I am now wheelchair bound at 73 I have had to give up my larger yard to try my hand at container farming and I'm very interested in following you and tying to these learn these mysterious ways! My neighbors call me The wheelchair gardener.
I'm a first time gardener and I'm just super excited to have homegrown tomatoes!
I’m still waiting for my tomato 🍅 but I already have some yellow squash. I also have flowers on my tomato, Armenian cucumber. I just planted the bell pepper 🫑. And most of all my flowers 💐 have grown and blooming. Everything is from seed except bell pepper 🫑.
I am looking forward to just seeing my garden flourish this year. I put in 4 raised beds about 15 months ago, and the difference between last year and this year is amazing. The soil is healthier, making everything happier!
Gardening sooths my soul, in addition to feeding my body. I'm looking forward to a much better and bigger harvest than in recent years, thanks to tips like we were privileged to hear in this video. Thank you Brian!
People say I'm crazy calling gardening my therapist but it's just that it sooths my soul and feeds my body.
I am looking forward to tomatoes, as usual, this year. It is my all time favorite from the garden. My 'go-to' fertilizer is comfrey tea. I let it sit a couple weeks, then strain it into gallon jugs and refill the bucket for the next round. This way I keep a continuous supply all summer.
You had me at THE SIP of your manure tea! 🤣 Good one! For my homemade fertilizer I accidently let my kitchen vegetable scraps sit outside in buckets too long and with the rain it started decomposing. Then it started smelling so I put straw over it, because it was close to my neighbor's fence. I didn't know what to do with it until I found out it's called fettid tea! It's how Koreans used to make their fertilizer. My plants seem to love it.
Haha that’s how they make cabbage too!
Synergy2222 I do that to all the weeds that I remove from my garden. I gather them and keep them in a sealed bucket to kill off the seeds. When I have a substantial amount, which would have dried up/wilted after a few months, I fill the bucket with rainwater that I collect and seal for about 3 weeks or more. I then use the liquid sparingly like one cup weed solution to one gallon water. My garden loves this which I feed to the whole plant. The used up weeds now can go into the compost bin.
@@alinedeleandro123 Interesting I gonna have to try that instead of making your usual weed tea that smells like complete crap.
@@rickytorres9089 Oh it still smells like ass and death...that's why they call it "fetid".
After moving 3 times in a year, I finally have a house I can call my own and have been busy prepping my garden areas. I have been making wonderful discoveries as I clean out old garden beds. I love including my littles in the growing process and look forward to the delight in their eyes when they see new growth from the seeds or starts that we have planted.
Fresh tomatoes my favorite! Also my figs have doubled this year. 💖
Yours is the only channel I've encountered where people bare their souls. It's your calm voice and excellent advice. There are some sad stories out there!
I am most looking forward to gardening without a full blown drought like we've had this year in TX. City water is ok but rain is what a garden needs the most. ❤️
I am a ‘new’ gardener looking to take my gardening to the next level- WITHOUT Miracle Grow. I have had less than stellar results the past 2 years. This video has opened a whole new world of microbes, fertilizer and soil building. Let’s get this garden party started! Thank you very much!
My three year old granddaughter is my constant companion in the garden. Last year she fell in love with cherry tomatoes. This year she helped plant potatoes. We are getting new potatoes and they’re her new favorites. I’m looking forward to the yellow squash and zucchini coming in to see her expressions when she tries them.
Love the videos! I'm looking forward to Springtime and getting started with prep & planting. I enjoy the creative to planting the new garden and watching for new sprouts popping up! 😀
Oak is also an amazing material with many uses in the garden! I use the leaf litter from my Oak lot as mulch in some beds as well as compost. The woodchips from old rotten Oak is also powerful stuff! Happy gardening and thanks for sharing the tips 💖✌️😁
What I'm looking forward to most from my garden this year (besides eating what I grow) is everything I know I'm going to learn. This is only my second garden (tripled in size from my first) and I've already learned so much since I first got into gardening last summer. I can't wait to keep working and make this into my dream garden. My goal is to be able to have a full salad made entirely from things I've grown a few nights a week. Then next year I want to expand again and maybe get into being able to store/can some things. Someday (probably a few years down the road) I want to be able to feed my family from my garden instead of the grocery store. You're videos are so helpful!
I went from "haven't grown a garden in 8 years" directly to "bought all the canning jars and supplies and hope to feed my family from my garden" all at once! Congrats on the expansion and welcome to the addiction that gardening can become!
I'm looking forward to seeing what my worm castings will do for my garden! I can't rave enough about vermiculture!! I have a small space and could never successfully do traditional composting. But I have my worm bin in my little townhouse! I set it up back in January with coconut coir and shredded paper in a $15 tote. I bought 1 lb (~1000) worms. I did my first sift last month and got 3 gallons of worm castings. I've read it's more effective to use castings more like a mulch so I refreshed all of my perennials with it and I'm adding it to all my new plants. I should be able to do another sift in July for another refresh of all my plants.
Congrats. 1000 worms will get you off to a great start.
BTW- You're referring to the vermicompost(manure) as castings which isn't technically accurate... Castings are the eggs that will result in future generations of worms.
Be sure to place your bin on a hard surface or pan so that the inevitable spills won't mess up your carpets.
I recommend letting your worms re-ingest the compost as long as possible. Although vermicompost can be used immediately as soon as a couple weeks from when the good is given to the worms, I've found that 3 month old vermicompost that has been re-eaten by the worms several times is even better.
Although I've also mixed vermicompost only into the top layer and that's good for certain types of plants and plantings, I've also redone entire beds by amending the entire bed of soil down to a couple feet. Both are good and what you do depends on what you are trying to accomplish...simply for the current planting or for future years as well.
@16:52 that line about, "you ain't seen nothing yet," and the look you give the camera -- absolutely cracks me up every time. Had to replay it multiple times. So, so funny. Thank you for not only for getting my thoughts going with gardening ideas... but for the laughter. Very needed!
Great comment!
I'm looking forward mostly to the relaxing time in the garden. Working in the dirtt and caring for my plants is so enjoyable and gives me nature time which I believe improves health in itself. Not to mention the wonderful goodness of those fresh picked vegetables, especially tomatoes. Thankyou for all the good information on fertilizers. I learned alot.
❤️ What I'm looking forward most in my garden this year and years to come is more diversity and yield of product. One of the things I enjoy most about my garden is being able to give my neighbors great wonderful organic food. I've been doing this for a number of years and everybody I give it to really appreciate it.
From the sun,,,is for everyone. Thanks is a nod of respect. It is much better to give than receive.........as long it is yours to give
This year I'm most looking forward to experimenting with growing vertical, with several different climbing plants. I started my babies indoors this year for the first time! Peas, Cucumbers, beans, sweet potatoes, melons, gourds, including watermelons and pumpkins! I'm also hoping to continue to expand further out into our back alley, possibly collaborating with a neighbour also keen on the project, to convert space currency supporting weeds, into space for sunflowers, and corn!
I have made my own compost tea and used the aquarium filter to super "steep" it overnight and applied it to my garden and no kidding, all my vegetables blew up. Everything was bigger, healthier, greener and produced more fruit/vegetables. It takes time to make compost tea, however I'm looking forward to trying Neptunes Tomato & Veg liquid as well as the Kelp Meal product and see what a difference it makes on the second half of my plantings this late summer August. What's worked for me so far has simply been the rich compost my neighbor brewed from his goats manure and hay. He tills it over and covers it with a tarp and it is ready in three months.... wallah. Organic magic. BTW, I totally love your videos and have learned so much because you relate in a simple down to earth manner. And you almost had me going when you drank the "manure tea" at the top of the video. FUNNY!!
That's one way to use a disgusting used aquarium filter. I wonder if I can just go to a few pet stores around here (they are of course the big boxed ones) to let me have them for me to as sustainably as possible obtains this. Instead of going the obvious route of having a tank of fish.
Im jealous of your access to a fish ecosystem! I make worm castings tea for my cannabis plants indoors. I brew with a bubbler in a dollar store veggies bag: worm castings, gaia green 4-4-4 mix, epsom salt, molasses, Fish!t, kelp extract, diatomaceous earth. Ive also added whey from making yogurt (careful as its acidic) but the plants loved it! I usually brew it no longer than 48 hours. I also add bti mosquito dunks intermittently preventatively. I dilute it for young plants. Compost is so good if you can get a safe and trustworthy source!
Been watching a while now and have really picked up a lot of helpful tips and information. Really looking forward to this season garden for some fresh tomatoes and especially peppers that I use in my family’s past down recipe for chow chow and relish. Thank you for what you are doing
My Mom recently passed away at 98 years old, and I am creating a brand new garden in her honor! I haven't had a vegetable garden in many many years, and I'm so excited to be doing it this year. I am truly inspired by your videos and your story, and I'm taking so many notes in hopes to have the best vegetable garden ever! Thank you so much for your great videos, you really have a gift!
Love that. How wonderful to have had her for so long!
What a great way to honor her memory and may you reap a bountiful harvest! Hope you win the contest as well!
I grew garlic for the first time this year and recently harvested 78 bulbs. Also looking forward to digging up sweet potatoes.
Im looking forward to expanding our small business and experimenting with new composting ideas next year!
What I am looking forward to the most is following along with you by watching your videos to have the healthiest garden and plentiful harvest to preserve, share and eat! Thank you for your channel and this community.
I’m a newbie, first vegetable garden this year, so I’m just looking forward to seeing what comes up, and learning a lot from the inevitable multitude of mistakes.
I've been gardening for 2 decades. I still tend the school of hard knocks. Learn new things every year. Bless you on your efforts gardening! MANY will be losing much weight for doing nothing. (famine) Think BIG! Put in as many beds as you can NOW. You will see a year or two down the road you have made the right choice. Best of luck to you, from eastern Pennsylvania.
I’ve been at it 40 years and have a green thumb! But, you never stop learning. My advice. Work on the soil. Good soil=heathy plants. Learn to compost, and hot compost. Save and compost leaves in the fall . Grass clippings, (as long as no herbicides are used). Good luck! Happy planting!
I've been excited to seed sow this year. I'm like a little kid as I go out and check the progress each day. All kids should grow plants from seeds - great lesson in patience and anticipation!
It's so exciting to see the sprouts pop through. Just yesterday my peas started coming up!
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❤ I’m looking forward to my first year of gardening in Florida, but also nervous… this video was extremely informative! Thank you
I'm looking forward to watching my daughter learn and enjoy seeing the fruits of her labor as she helped me tremendously this year. Her love of gardening is growing each day as mine had many years ago.
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Both sets of grandparents were big into gardening, largely out of necessity but they gave a large amount of it away free to people in their communities who needed it. I think seeing that connected me more to all of this a kid. Im really looking forward to optimizing my production to continue with that legacy. I really enjoy feeding my family and friends with what I grow and sharing with others what I've learned so they can do the same. I love the idea of being more connected to my food and, I think if everyone did a little we could rely on each other more strengthening our communities and pivot away from our dependance on big ag.
Yes it's going to be crucial to the planet's health
Blood meal, bone meal and Alaskan fish oil "morebloom" is my favorite goto for organic fertilizer. Compost with chicken and duck manure, compost tea and jadam ms is what I've been focusing on last year, along with adding larg amounts of organic matter to the soil to star the bed. Using nearly rotted logs leaf litter and mulch. Getting bigger and better each year... don't ruin your pillow case use an old shirt.
Thank you so much for that fertilizer information to make that tea... and so many different kinds ...
I am definitely looking forward to using some of these DIYs fertilizers on my garden this year.. thanks again looking forward to Happy Garden this year.
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Been using pond and fish tank water for years. Great tip! Looking forward to fresh tomatoes. Nothing beats homegrown.
I have "gardened" for years but this is my first year starting my garden from seed. I have previously left my garden in natures hands and have had underwhelming results. With what I have learned from your videos ,I am really looking forward to a bountiful harvest.
You’ll learn from your mistakes. I did. My top recommendation is more sunlight exposure to seedlings. With practice and patience you’ll figure it out.
I am looking forward to building some more girth to my overwintered pepper plants. A couple of the Tabascos are going to be 5 years old this spring. By Christmas I hope to repot them to become Bonsai. I'm playing with sone 2- and 3-year-old Habaneros. They will stay small due to pruning and pot size, but the Tabascos are in large pots and trying to get some real tree trunk look to the stems. Thanks for the education on nutrients.
I grow my chili peppers in kratky method hydroponics, they love it (way more successful than when I did it in soil).
Oh! When you took a swig of that tea I laughed out loud and snorted. That was a great unexpected bit of potty humor. Thanks😅!
I am excited to start gardening again after a 5 year gap. It's a wonderful way to be closer to what is real in life, and a great stress reducer. I got 2 of the extra high corrugated metal beds and one is already planted, one more to go. I was lucky to find a neighbor with heirloom tomato starts, and a local school with more neat varieties of tomatoes and peppers, and am eagerly looking forward to the wonderful flavor and nutrition of homegrown produce and herbs again. Your channel has become one of my favorite resources to catch up on the best practices and changes in gardening. Thanks so much!
Thank you for your hard work on these videos! Your work helps us newbie gardeners be a bit more successful…..running to get my notebook to take notes! 😊
You're very welcome!
@@NextLevelGardening LOL - I have a notebook for his videos, too!
I just found out today that coffee grounds are an excellent food for your earth worm family! I have a separate worm breeding bin so I can keep the coffee grounds out of my garden. I heard fresh grounds are not consistent with a healthy garden until the earth worms have digested them over a few months. Love Neptunes harvest products thanks to you! My indoor gardens, Greenhouse potted plants and outdoor raised beds are loving the ocean nutrients here in the high desert. Thanks so much for the informative videos!
Yeah i prefer to give it to my worms as well!! I think it gets credit but can also mold or be inappropriate and change pH too much. I found so far the only thing to hurt my worms was too little water!!
My husband just bought me a small greenhouse and I’m so excited. I’m looking forward to being able to garden after several surgeries this past year where I won’t have to work hard but will be productive and grow food! Thank you for sharing your experience and wisdom! ❤
This year what i look forward to the most with starting my garden is actually getting to do it with my daughters. These past 2 years have been rough for them so i am excited to be able to start a fun project with them that we can continue to do with each other throughout the season! Plus fresh food on the table!!
My dad and I are doing a garden together the first time since I was a young boy. He is 79 and I will be 55 next week. Really looking forward to doing this with him. I have a raised bed garden at my home and have had a terrible time with squirrels robbing my tomatoes they will cut right through a netting so. Going to move most of my gardening to my dads. Wish us well. Thanks for the very in depth information I find them very well put together a lot of info and not boring.
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This will be a great memory some day!
Thank you I know our time is limited and I want to be able to help him do what he enjoys. He has always love raising a garden.
I am most looking forward to seeing my “garden” healthy and thriving this season. I was incapacitated mid season last summer and my garden became a hot mess with little harvest. I do all my gardening in raised containers, so I am excited to try the Neptune Fertilizer and seeing a bountiful harvest of tomatoes, peppers, and beans midsummer.
And thank you for this video! It was the best overview of fertilizers I have seen to date.
I am a new gardener this year started in January,
moreover, 😢all I look forward to is learning all I can with smart you tubers like you, and keep bad bugs out of garden as much as possible, in addition to successful growing three or four plants at a time each year.
I'm looking forward to having fresh produce! I haven't had a garden for 10 years and I've moved growing areas and startng from scratch with terrible soil. However, as a nurse in a pandemic with high stress and disillusionment, digging in the garden to prepare the beds, starting the seeds, watering.... helps calm my mind. Therapy andfresh food!!!
Right there with you! I too worked as a nurse with Covid pts., and found such great "therapy" in my gardening!
Ditto this. Lost my job and when one door closes another one opens. Found a little homestead, terrible soil and was late planting last year. Decided to go with a no till method and work the dirt like I did years ago when I amended my backfill backyard annually till I had some awesome garden beds. The best therapy was talking to myself in the garden. My safe space to sing and no one ran screaming. Enjoy your garden.
For chicken manure you can throw it into a 5 gallon bucket cover the bottom with maybe an inch or so fill the bucket up with water and just leave it sit out in the sun after about 2 weeks just pour it in with your plants my friends Grandma used to put the lid on it but still cracked open and this is how I learned it. It was especially awesome for my strawberry patch.
Cover the bottom with what?
@@katarinakat4302I’m guessing cover the bottom with the manure
Yes sorry just seeing this. Cover the bottom of the bucket with about an inch of the chicken manure and fill the bucket the rest of the way with water...
@@katarinakat4302cover the bottom of the bucket with the chicken manure then fill the bucket the rest of the way with water... 😊
❤ today’s Thursday I hope I can still be in the drawing. I’m really looking forward to using all the information from your CZcams videos and starting my garden and planting it. I’ve always been the green thumb in the family but the past several years work has kept me from the garden this year. I’m back and I’m looking forward to seeing my garden flourish.
Thank you for all the great info! Really trying to help my mom get her garden going in a hot desert climate hostile to gardening, lol. Can't wait to share all of this with her. 💕
Tomatoes don't grow well in really, really hot desert climes! I lived in Las Vegas! But there are a few varieties of tomatoes for that type of place, so seek those out for the best chance of success.
What I learned, tomatoes (and lawn grass) stop growing when they are too hot all of the time. Even if watered properly.
I'm moving back to Vegas soon and am thinking of installing two green houses, with air conditioning. With enough solar cells/panels I can run a very small ac units to help modulate day time tempetures so i can grow a nice Beef Steak or Mortgage Lifter tomato, without putting my power bill sky high! I'm going to try anyway! And I want to grow some orchids and pansies, too! Plus, with the green house I can house my lemon and grapefruit trees for the winter, as Vegas does freeze a few days every year. They even had a good snow this past Valentines day, 2023! Lemon and grapefruit trees don't mix well with snow and freezing temps but I want to try! (The solar panels can also help heat the green house at night during the coldest month, 'for free', sort of!) Or is heating and air conditioning green houses a clear indication of impending insanity?
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I’m really looking forward to finally starting a garden this year Brian. Your video’s have encouraged me to try growing my own veggies. I’m 74 and recently retired so now I’ll have time to have a legit garden. Tried growing patio tomatoes in pots before with little success, hopefully the Neptune product will help! Thanks B🙏
How about checking out Robbie and Gary Gardening Easy.....she's amazing and her ways are super cheap. Good luck.
I tried growing tomatoes in pots without any success. This year they are in the ground (with all the chicken manure from my girls), and it is going really well. Having sampled my heritage varieties this year, I can see I will have to repeat this every year now! Utterly delicious.
Brian, everytime I watch one of your videos, I learn so much! Been following you for a couple of years now and my garden has definitely shown improvement each year.
I'm looking forward to a great crop of pickling cucumbers this year. My grandchildren love them and go straight to the garden when they arrive. They eat them right off the vine!!
Thank you for the breakdown of different types of fertilizers. I either use fish emulsion or trench composting for my personal garden beds. There are compost bins at our community garden.
This year I am looking forward to seeing the results from the new garden beds my husband made for me. He made four rectangular beds, two tall boxes with an arched trellis for our runner beans, and three beautiful round beds (one with a trellis). So happy with them. Thanks for all your great info!
I am just beginning gardening, and I've learned sooo much and still have so much to learn. Thanks for the help. I'm hoping for a beautiful, healthy harvest soon!
Doing a raised garden for the first time and am loving all compost and fertilizer gems, as well as all the planting/care advice. Can’t wait to see the results.
What I look forward to this year is building my soil and growing a good array of vegetables! Been learning how and on my way! Thank you for educating us 😊
Best of luck!
I have 2 tomatoe plants and this is all new for me and I am learning so much from your videos!!! Mine are in 5 gal pals ...
This year, (my third gardening season), I'm growing 10 new tomato varieties, 4 new peppers, 2 new watermelons, even some green beans planted in there, which I learned from your videos. I'm a couple weeks away from my first Dr. Wyche tomato. I was two weeks behind in transplanting due to 4 weeks in a row of tornadoes. But, with this insane heat wave we've had the last two weeks, my plants have launched forward and caught up to where they should have been.
I so look forward to your garden coming alive, Brian.
Thank you again for all your useful information! This is my first time having a veggie garden and have been using Neptune's harvest products on your recommendation and am so excited to be finally growing my own tomatoes along with other vegetables. It is a learning process and want to thank you for explaining everything the way you do. Looking so forward to my first tomato sandwich!
Last year was my first time trying to garden. I watched hundreds of videos. I've found yours very helpful. Thanks for the guidance and wish me luck as I go hog wild this year.
I do Vericomposting- for about 3 years now. my plants have been amazing! I do make tea with castings adding some molasses and use a bubbler. I feed about them about weekly and bring the tote into the house in the freezing Nebraska winters . I do restart the bin about twice a year. Separating the worms into a new bin w fresh bedding. I have loved the process and the results. I have only purchased the worms once.
I'm looking forward to watching my new cucumber tunnel getting covered. Each of the last 3 years I just try expanding and improving what I grow, how I grow, and how I use what I grow. Channels like yours have been a big help in that regard.
Can’t wait for my 2nd season growing tomatoes vertically. Last years harvest was great, but with my new changes this year, learned from this channel, it should be even better.. love this channel and all the Neptune Harvest products I have been using!👍
Rebuilding our raised beds. WE love our fresh food - thanks for all you help us with.
I use to buy this type of stuff for my garden. My niece was an Alaskan who fished for salmon. She told me that all around the river, it was lush and green, and at the top of the falls, the lush green went back far and wide. It was because the spawning salmon would die in their efforts to make it to the top to spawn. Then a friend asked if I wanted the heads and guts when he cleaned his catch. I immediately thought of dead salmon rotting and told him YES. He would bring me the mess from his catch and I would always throw a head or dipper full of slivering slippery fish guts into the hole, put a handful of dirt over it, pop my plant in on top and finish up. My neighborhood was in awe of my huge beautiful roses covered from top to bottom in blooms. My dogwoods were gorgeous every spring and everything in my flower beds would grow huge and profusely. Anytime I was outside working, at least one jogger or walker would stop me to ask about my gardening skills. When asked how I did it, I would tell them I just dug a hole like everyone else. I never told anyone but my sister who lived a state away what my secret was. I live in another state now and it's the here. And I still won't give up my secret to the neighborhood here. I like having the most beautiful flower gardens in my hood.
That's not fair, we need to share what we learn to benefit others and future generations.
I’ve only re-started my veggie garden after years of not doing one, and find your videos very helpful and down to earth. I have 6 raised beds- 4’ x 8’ and am in the process of adding several no till beds. Although my house is located on land that I’ve been told was formerly some of Milton Hershey’s farm land, in many places it has thick rock deposits a couple of inches below the soil level. I am adding a layer of cardboard covered with grass clippings, 3” of screened topsoil & 3” of mushroom soil. Hopefully this will give me a good planting base.