How To Make Free Liquid Fertilizer From Almost Anything with this Ancient Method
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- Could you feed your plants without buying any fertilizer?
This is how we feed a garden for free with fermented plant juice, AKA Dave's Fetid Swamp Water. I thought I was clever, but the Koreans were hundreds of years ahead of me.
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If there was a fertilizer shortage, would you still be able to grow a garden? Do you know how to turn weeds into fertilizer? Today you'll learn how to make your own liquid fertilizer/compost tea from readily available materials, like weeds, chicken manure, food scraps and more.
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I started doing this, and my 6 year old is obsessed with it.
He found a container and started his own. He also asks every day if it's been 2 weeks yet... it's been 3 days😂
That is awesome!
My kids like to brew their own, too.
Thats cute.. haha.. its a great hobby i guess.
That's hilarious 😂
That's awesome!
I started making your fetid swamp water this year and it seems to be working. Although the neighbors kind of wonder where the awful smell comes from.
Join them in looking confused and make suggestions as regards whatever manufactoring plants are local, or suggest a dead animal along a roadway. That's what I do.
@@goldengryphon I love that!
You have to water it down when you use it.
@@hohohohehehe6910 it still smells for a while
The bodies 🤣
I filled a 200 litre barrel with green thistles added some sugar and filled it with bore water. Gave the brew an occasional stir and after 4 years drained the liquid and fed the garden. The liquid was like a well aged wine. A pleasant smell and a nice golden colour. The debri in the bottom , < 50 litres , was applied as a mulch. It had a pleasant, fermented smell like a good, aged vinegar. The plants responded immediately with vigorous growth.
4 years?!
Sure there's some way to catalyse it down to 1 year with almost same results. Please do share if n when you stumble on it. TY
OK so my 6 week brew is still good.. thanks for the info
OK so my 6 week brew is still good.. thanks for the info
@@cravatenoire3269 My 2 week old swamp water gave my plants vigorous growth as well. I collected leaves and stuff from plants/trees around my property and added kitchen scraps. Within that 2 week period, 2 small plants literally sprung up twice the height of the others after I fed them swamp water. It works!
I'm Korean, yes, and when I was growing up, we used to make a lot of fertilizer this way. David, thank you very much. I'm learning a lot!
You were on replay five times in our house when you said"you are going to die no matter what you do" my great grandkids loved it and went into hysterics! Lol
Yeah that was random and hilarious 😆
I introduced this method to my niece and nephews. They are crazy about it. Every time they're over they pick more stuff to put in the barrels and they love watering plants with it!
So called “shortages” are no longer an instrument of manipulation. Thank you!
Robots R Us
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you got it with *shortages*
It feels good to not be dependent on whatever company wants to charge or wether they can keep up with demand. I now make my own compost and now I will try this fertilizer out.
Shortages are a real thing. No need to go all conspiranoic.
I've been doing this for years. It works really well. One thing I will say is handle with cation. Rubber gloves and protective gear. Allways wash well after you handle bacteria rich compost.
I've used compost tea and barnyard tea ever since the 70s, when my grandfather started teaching me how to do a garden. Love this. Thanks, Grandpa Mike.❤RIP
I’m starting my first veggie garden in raised beds in 2024. I have easy access to quail manure and have heard I can make manure tea by leaving it in a bucket of water for 24 hours. Can I use this weekly on my veggie garden?
I learned this by accident. I heard that grass & weed clippings in water made an excellent fertilizer so i dumped a bunch in a bucket- and forgot about it for a couple of weeks. When I remembered to check on it, it smelled so foul that I thought it was ruined, so I dumped it out on the back edge of a planted bed. A week later, I realized that in spite of the smell, the stuff was gold.
Man, I call mine Devil's Pee... It stinks, but it is a miracle growth and health booster I had never imagined. Borage, comfrey, dandelion, nettles, rabbit poo, weeds, and whatever I get. Fruit trees go crazy. The longer the fermentation, the better the results. Great video! Thanks forbyour honest advice. From Cusco, Peru.
LOL! Love your comment & sharing 😀👍 Many thanks!
I would love to visit the ceramics museum in Cusco, and see the elongated paracus skulls.
@@bryantcolby4038 Our country is surely crazy, but marvelous. There are so many places to visit, such varied and delicious food to eat and amazing historical sites that make it a must visit. Paracas is surely curious and Cusco has little hidden gems beside Machu Picchu. I am happy to live in tbe Andes and enjoy a relaxed lifestyle.
Love the name, very appropriate. I'm a "gagger', when I get a whiff, I gag & pee down my leg---i know TMI😂😂😅
I’m in southern Ohio, been gardening many years and can’t seem to get my hands on any comfrey. Kinda crazy.
My Chinese mother in law makes this stuff and leaves it for months. The only thing that might kill you is the smell.
So glad this is on CZcams. I almost trashed my 2 week old swamp water because other youtubers said don't keep it that long. Loved this video and so glad I can keep my swamp water forever because it's surely working for my plants!
Watched documentary from NHK and they have a scientist who switched to organic gardening, he packs plant clippings, leftovers, etc, into barrels and layers with a bit of salt like making sauerkraut. Lets it ferment for a few weeks and adds all the contents to his fields. Gets great, organic harvests and the soil is recharged
link pls
salting the land? sounds tisky
@@perillat99 I don't know. In the documentary, it didn't look like he was adding much salt to the layers. Just enough to encourage lactofermentation of the vegetative matter he was layering
@@catchthis7563 sorry I don't have a link. It was a cable TV documentary.
Here's the link to that documentary: czcams.com/video/rvHJKqU-mZo/video.html
This is gonna bring me back to when I was a kid making 'potions' with random stuff. Also I love that you gave credit where credit is due !
Lol I was getting the same feeling, did that as a kid as well.
Yeah me too. Awesome times!
Me too, haha. We were doing what we were supposed to be being taught to do. God bless!
I did that too! I never heard anyone else say they did as well.
I've made more potions as an adult
I'm a fisherman and I had this Styrofoam cooler where some fish went bad and I ended up letting it sit for months, I didn't know what to do with it so I dumped it where my flowers grow. Later on those flowers looked amazing
That is fantastic.
If you add molasses it would be wonderful. It become fish MOL.
I can imagine this being a good strategy during the winter. Start a barrel in Autumn and by Spring you have a brew with a few months under its belt. You could also continuously add more stuff and top off the water to make a perpetual soup.
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Do you actually have to remove the stuff once it has been there for months and you took the water as the nutrients have been sucked out or it will decompose untile disappearing?
Yes heat May smell
Perhaps, though the rotting process slows down a lot in cold weather. And, of course, the liquid in the barrel could freeze solid and ruin your barrel.
@doloresreynolds8145 yeah the busted barrel is my concern. However freezing the mix will make it decompose faster in the spring as freezing plant matter bursts the cell walls in the materials just like ice does to buckets. The busted cell walls give more surface area for the microbes to consume it faster and allow the solution to absorb more nutrients.
Adding urine to the mixture is hugely beneficial too. It's actually how fertiliser was made made prior to modern methods, this same method but you use urine instead of water, leave it for months, and BOOM potassium/ammonia/sodium/etc nitrate (see what I did there?), obviously this was how to make black powder back in the day too.
yes but today your urine is full of heavy metals. hopefully you don’t have mercury amalgams ….
@Andrew you could then add rabbit urine rather than your own. Very popular in use here in Kenya
@Andrew I doubt it will kill anything. Urine is dirty specifically because it is such a great growth medium for bacteria.
Love this idea- Liquid fertilizer!! I started using liquid fertilizer using banana peels and kitchen scraps and it make a huge difference in my potted garden! Thank you for sharing!
We are going to start a potted garden using the tubs from cow feed. Please share the recipe.
I live in an apartment with no yard, just a driveway. There is an area against the house that I set up with buckets for my garden. My compost bucket has holes drilled all over the bottom and sides and is stacked into another bucket with no holes. Every once in a while I water the compost and the bottom bucket collects a beautiful brown concentrate of minerals and good stuff. I pour it into my watering container and fill the rest with clean water to dilute. It's a great system.
This is an excellent video and info for liquid fertilizer making. I did exactly the way you did in a 100 lt container with partially closed lid for about 10 days while I was vacationing in Philippines last summer. The villagers were observing me, looking at each other and covering their noses and shaking their heads each time (5-6 times a day) while I was mixing the 12 different kinds of grass mixture. When it was ready I convinced a relative to use it on his plants. He reluctantly did. Then? He began begging me for more of this miracle free of charge mother nature's gift fertilizer.
After I returned home, they used the remaining fertilizer, and shocked to see the results. So yes, it does work wonderfully.Thank you very much for sharing.
I found your original “fetid swamp water” video years ago and have been using the concept ever since. I have had wonderful results from it. A lot of people have said anaerobic is bad, but I figured once the anaerobic swamp water is incorporated with an aerobic environment then the anaerobic bacteria die and become plant available nutrients. Love the content bro 🤘🏼
Anaerobic isn't bad, it's just very soluble and can run off, so it's more of a fertilizer than something that is feeding soil organisms long term like aerobic compost.
(Aerated compost tea I see no use for.)
A gardener once told me that anaerobic soil bacteria can produce compounds that are toxic to certain plants. I haven't learned any more about that, but I suspect it might be the actual reason why we dilute these fertilizer teas rather than it being 'too strong'.
If Anaerobic was bad then a product like Teraganix EM-1 wouldn't be such a powerful retail microbial for 80(I think) years. They have very few aerobic bacterium and the whole lactobacillus family is also anaerobic. No argument here just a little sharing of knowledge
Many/all? microbes are pleiomorphic and can change form from spore to bacterium to fungus and back again depending on the environment...which would include the oxygen content, of course. So maybe the swamp anaerobes die or maybe they just adapt.
Also in the biological economy a lot of the good guys eat the bad guys. That is, I've found that the leftover solid material from this process is quickly eaten in my worm bin. Although I haven't tried this with meat yet...
@@stefflus08 I use wood chips composted chips leaves peat moss there's never any runn off gets sucked up never any over fertilizing
"There is nothing new under the sun." Poignant, true and something we human beings keep ignoring consistently. Thank you for highlighting this gem from the old world.
That's from the Bible :D
You deserve your name David The Good. This is really a very practical and good idea indeed. We can skip the bad smell by using water lines that feeds directly underground. Soil bacterias neutralise the bad odor. Thanks.
what do u mean ?
Tried this method this year, plants are doing great, used mostly tomato leaves and arum lily leaves plus the weeds that I collect in the garden 😊
It's true, i did this around 3 months already and the result is awesome. It's make me start to love organic farming more and more 👍
would like to try this one. fertilizer nowadays cost so much
This is one of those bits of knowledge that just makes sense to me beyond an intellectual level. Thank you for sharing, I WILL be doing this.
I like to figure out easy ways to avoid buying things. We have abundant riches at our fingertips if we can see them.
I like using a 5 gal paint strainer bag inside a 5 gal bucket to brew compost tea. They'll last for years if rinsed well and sundryed after each use. Happy growing!!
That's amazing and hilarious that you invented the "swamp water" fertilizer without knowing it was already a thing. That's just confirmation that it WAS brilliant!
I was watching a horticulturist talking about microbes and ferments and he said that it doesn't matter if it's aerobic tea or anaerobic tea. "Even if the microbes do nothing else but die when you add them to the soil they will feed the soil!"
Could you please send the link to the video? I’m very interested. Thank you!
Very practical method. We also use this process in the farm: all the herbs, weeds and bananas stored in barrels with molasses. Gold mine. Love the video mate!
With water? How much molasses? Thanks
How much molasses?
You could feel the love in his teaching. Respect you bro 💯
Thank you
I don't care what people say, I've used this method for years and seen nearly dead plants that I neglected spring back to life after one feeding. It just works! I have a batch that's a year old now that I mixed and forgot about, curious how well it's going to work. Might just let it go until spring 2023 and use it then. I keep mine covered, covered but leave a crack in the lid to allow air exchange. The bonus of a crack is I usually get black fly larva on the top floating/rotting bits. I just mix them in for extra proteins. Plus whatever insects and roaches go in to feed leave tiny manure behind. All a plus ️
"But your plants don't have noses, and they don't care!"
That just did it for me!!
Thanks so much!
My friend and I each made a barrel of swamp water. She had buzzards circling her house for days. 😂 Gotta be some good stuff.
1. Use the smell to catch the vultures.
2. Put vultures into barrel.
Repeat
Thats when You know it's gonna work
I saw a video where someone was doing something similar to this, but with a few additions:
1) They put an angled tube towards the top of the container pointing down
2) On that tube they hung a bucket that was covered with a mesh to keep birds and critters out of the bucket
3) There was a spicket at the bottom of the container
The reason they were doing this was to encourage flies to go up the tub and lay their eggs inside. When the larvae were big enough, they would wiggle out of the container and fall into the bucket to be collected and fed to the chickens. The spicket on the bottom was to collect the "swamp tea" for the garden.
Be sure there is no one close to living next to you. This smells bad within a 1,000-metre radius. My comment is personal from experience. I still feel the smell.
I love it! I started doing something similar kind of intuitively, then met another person doing something similar and here I see you with many years of experience using it and expanding my knowledge by sharing yours. Thank you so much. God bless you.
Thank you. God bless you too.
Hi David, I just wanted to tell you that I enjoy your company. I got too old to do much gardening now but I still enjoy it through you. Love your beautiful family and lifestyle and even the music too. May the good Lord bless you all, see you in heaven, Pam
I look forward to meeting you, sister. Thank you.
Awwwww, what a sweet comment , and reply!!! MAN, Heaven is going to be so wonderful filled with beatifull KIND sweet thoughtful and wise people!!! (Not to mention The Most High and His Son!) How blessed we already are with simply KNOWING what is to come! What a Father we have!!!! HalleleuYAH!!!
I been composting everything! I watched your videos and I now also make my own swamp water 🤣. My garden is loving it! Thanks
GOOD WORK!
I've started using duck water. Hella nasty but with it i make magic happen. I can take any and all near dead, dry, sick looking plants from a garden/box store and pop them in the ground and pour this unholy concoction from Grandfather Nurgle at the base of them right before night fall. Standing at attention by morning is the usual result.
No rodent raccoon problems? Would be grand if they didn't like the smell. Would be wonderful if gophers or moles didn't like it either and made new homes somewhere else...
@@davidthegood come pick up some breadfruit here in Jamaica
This is one of the best you have done, as you already know it really is nothing more than common sense. Thanks for all the videos you do.
Cool tidbit if you only have an open container, you can add tadpoles to your swamp water! they DEVOUR mosquito larvae. Thanks for the Amazin tip/advice that got me started on my swamp tea journey!
An answer for my anxiety as a newbie gardener! 🙏 thanks
Great video. 😊👍 Humble advices: 1)Remember to thinn out the 1 liter concentrated fertilizer with 10 liter of water (or roots will suffer/die). 2) if possible watch out for greens with seeds (sew via a cloth when mixing the fertilizer to prevent spreading seeds of unwanted greens). 3) Recommend nettles fertilizer (full with minreals). 😊
I mean, I'm pretty sure the seeds would rot, as long as you don't add them only like a day before you use the pot. Treat it like curing compost.
But it seemed here that David made it very clear that he takes the mineral water directly from the barrel into his watering can and then waters his gardens. Said nothing about diluting (which does take more water and more time), and he’s been doing this for ten years. ?
I usually don't dillute this kind of liquid compost and my plants are growing like crazy. It's not nearly as strong as concentrated fertiliser you buy
Thank you for giving us this treasure. You have given something so important.❤️
Thank you for this! I am brand new to gardening and this is what I have been doing but on a smaller level since we are starting from seed (basement garden). I did it just because it seemed logical, then found you! Lol Thanks!!! 🤙
Last year we had a garbage can full of yard waste that had been collecting water and fermenting. My teenage son dumped it over. As he was retching in the corner from the smell, I lamented that I could have fed the garden with it. Thank you for this video. It's gonna feed lots of gardens!
Plant where the water got into
Thank you, it drives me crazy how hard people make when it comes to composting.
Yeah I did a JADAM liquid fertilizer last year for the first time and loved it. Let it go over winter, hit my garlic with it and they shot up out of winter dormancy. Strong stuff
This blew my mind ! I just started growing my own food this year and it been extremely fun . I Never every though of doing this and i look forward to so it. ❤
I do a variation of this with weeds and alfalfa cuttings from my yard including some fresh vermicompost and molasses. I do it overnight rather than for 2 weeks and drop in 2 large airstones pushing air from a beefy air pump. It works great for a nutrient hit for my garden. On my farm in the late 80s-90s we made anaerobic fermentations with weeds, lactic acid bacteria, fish etc. One thing of note is that the really long term (1 year+) fermentations were apparently more concentrated but also lost the 'stink' .
We used these fermentations in tandem with aerated liquid extracts (compost tea). We made a 4500 litre ACT maker with multiple airlifts and 95 CFM air pump. This was pumped out directly through our irrigation system. By the way, compost tea is a much higher quality made without the panty hose or bag.
I fermented tobacco leaves now for a month and today my dad collected them in bottles to use it as pesticides. I just did it on own idea and don’t know why I did it but now when I look at this it gives me hope and goose bumps.
Here in the Philippine mountains, we've also been doing this for as long as we can remember! Since we were young, we saw our parents and grandparents doing this. We've been taught to do this. We rarely buy commercial fertilizers! This method is pretty much just like copying how nature does to nourish the earth. However, just a tip of advice, be careful not to use leaves or anything from Gmelina trees as they are not good for other plants. There's not many studies about it, but you can see that other plants that are near the gmelina tress die. Better safe than sorry!
Found your video last year while starting my "grow" found a large trash can with a lid I let it fester for a month or so and OMG it is amazing they grew like never before and everything else exploded so I went and picked up a 55-gallon barrel with a lid. Filling it with snow for the water for the next batch next year while this one cooks for another season.
I had some fruits (figs) and other stuff in a container, actually forgot it, and of course rain came down.
I wondered how long this guck could be kept as ND actually be usable. Your video said 2 years, perfect! This guck is a year old, so now I don't have to strain my back dumping it out, just use it and grin.
Thanks 👍.
Awesome.
Awesome.
Awesome.
My grandfather got fish and put it into buckets for fertilizer 50 years ago. That bucket had to stay far from the house But a tuna can dipper beside a tomato plant, great stuff!
I also learned this liquid compost solution from a Korean farmer. They also use rice scraps left over after making rice wine and use them as as a compost. It works really well and also deter any types of diseases for my gardening plants. It is amazing solution used by Korean farmers for thousands of years.
I have been making nettle and weed water to feed my lawns since around 2000 and it truly works on everything
This is what I was looking for. A simple solution with great results. Thank you.
Been doing it for years. I use manure because we raise organic beef. The liquid on the leaves does help keep bugs away. I also use a sugar sourse such as molasses and a aquarium bubbler. No science here, I don't have time. It works for me. Been gardening all my life.
Just today, I received a barrel with a wide lid and I didn't wait a second to realize this project. David, God bless you. 🤸❤️🎉
Mine's about 3 weeks old; Scott Head did a show about you and your swamp water. I got a barrel and started some. It sounded great to me.
This is the bedrock/cornerstone of our fertility program, too.
Last year we moved to a new place and didn't have enough of our own fertilizer, so I bought a gallon of fish emulsion to help get some of our beds started - good grief, I had sort of forgotten how expensive that stuff is! Last summer I made darn sure to make enough swamp water to just let it set over winter and be ready for this spring.
Is it OK if it freezes solid?
@@SENILE_TYRANT as far as I know, yes. But I can't say for certain. It would be interesting to have a lab test it when it's a month old, then after a year, after having been frozen, etc.
@@dogslobbergardens6606 thanks
Actually the best liquid fertilizer with immediate application has been practiced by the Chinese for thousands of years...mix urine with 20 times the amount of water!
Urine contain all the nitrates and nutrients plants need.
the best! chinese got this pot just for urinate. then they use it for plant by mixing it with water. Boom... all good, everything good. In fact most fruits in asia ( apart of japan and korea ) are from China. The price is extremely cheap and quality is good, locals can't compete with them
WOW, this is a whole level or 3 above what I've been doing with my composting, but I'm game for trying this... Thanks for the video.
I tried this and it smells like a dead animal, or a lot worse! My wife told me not to open it up when she was around. I have been using weeds, limbs, kitchen garbage (minus animal waste) Can it get too rotten to use?
Great video. Shows how important microorganisms are for almost everything!
Plus, academics are now saying that anaerobic amendments induce a relative reduction (from an electrochemical perspective) state to the soil environment, which greatly mobilizes plant-available minerals compared to highly oxidative states. Example: Reduced nitrogen (ammonium) vs oxidized nitrogen (nitrate, nitrites). Veggies utilize ammonium directly and must convert nitrate/nitrites to ammonium before they can access the nitrogen. It's the same with many if not most mineral salts. They ionize and become plant available in reduced environments. Dave's Swamp Water (or any KNF technique) most likely provides fertilization through providing micro-foods for the soil biology but also enhanced minerals availability. I always have a tub of rotting greens going in my garden; but I usually dilute it 1:20 or so before drenching onto the soil/leaves.
Thank you, all the info , I was searching for, you answered. Big thank you on the Kudzu part, I have a bucket stuffed with water and Kudzu, that has been enjoying the hot weather of Alabama. Thank you again for answering all my questions.
When i started gardening I relied on the store bought fertilizers. I decided to ferment the weeds and water with it. I wait until I get that mangrove type smell and I know its ready. This combined with home made compost has taken my veges to the next level. Without meat products Id water just like water, no problems at all. Great video!! I garden, grow and eat to save money and give food away. Love it!!
Perfectly said! I absolutely agree 100%! It’s a lost skill of sorts to think as you’ve said. Well done 👍🏻
Great! I’ve been doing this for years too. A word of caution: some plants are toxic or poisonous as is the case with the lantana we see at around minute 3. The whole plant including the flowers is toxic and shouldn’t be used at all. Same with the solanaceous family (tomato leaves, potato leaves, eggplant leaves, tamarillo leaves, Cape gooseberry leaves, etc) among others. Just wanted to put that out there.
I make a micro nutrient solution kinda like super thrive out of the extra vitamins I have around d the house I put magnesium iron zinc calcium vit b d3 E some potassium and even one for hair that has even more in it all into a gallon bottle and filling half full with hot water shaking it leave it for a day then add remaining water to top off then I add this to my 15 30 15 or 5 1 5 when fertilizing it works great
So, it's wrong to grow vegetables where tomato plants have died and decomposed? How would you know where it's safe to plant if you don't know what has grown there before?
They are only poisonous to eat. If you let the plants decompose in a chamber like this, they should be fine.
@@CausticTitan This is what I assumed, but wasn't sure. Thanks
@@jesusmywholehaschanged I don’t know about growing vegetables. This liquid fertilizer is extracting the nutrients and other particles from plant matter thus I would absolutely never put in any part of lantana or tamarillo leaves, stalks, etc. I mean, it’s not just the good stuff that’s extracted. A lot of soil has been contaminated with lead by previous generations of humans. There’s so much we don’t know. So I just wanted to put that info out there because this I know.
This works great I started this in my back yard in a rain barrel I have it propped up and it had a spicket at the bottom. Just take a mason jar full of this swamp gold and add it to my garden watering can with water in it.. Amazing who needs fertilizer
My wife uses all the banana skins and eggshells we generate and keeps them in a water solution for a month. She then mixes it with compost tea and dilutes it about 10 to 1 and it still stinks to high heaven but the plants love it!
I'm glad I found this video. I've been doing this for a few years now. Works great. All plants love it. (including the refer)
Thank you for making this simple and less complicated.
this is hysterical..i have a compost barrrel with stinky water in it currently have been doing this method for decades grass and comfrey are so good in this!! You have inspired me to add more things to the zeus juice!!
If you have no idea what to do , but still want natural fertilizer ....... Grab some grass clipping - Put it in a bucket - add water to cover - wait a week .....
then put a cup of the clippings water in a watering can, and fill the rest with some water, and water what ever you want. The key is grass clippings are full of Nitrogen like a shit tonne.
Just a tip it stinks bad , so like he said a bucket with a lid is preferable. BTW ive done this for about 15 years, works great for me. Just top up with water to cover when it gets low , amazing how far a half bucket of loose Grass clippings will go! ...... Years even!
Only plant i dont use it on is Carnivorous plants , or then they dont make their traps , and the amount of Nitrogen will probably kill them, they are used to places with no Food at all , other than what flies around them 😉
Grass clippings is the easy way , but if you foolow this Vid , it will healp everything. Different plants store different nutrients , so a mix is way better. My suggestion is just if you have no real garden in the city and just have lawn clippings as waste.
KNF is all the rage in cannabis growing at the moment. I haven’t tried it yet, but I’m glad to know other people like yourself get great results. Thanks for the info
...interesting to see your excitement. most peoples think I am nuts for doing this...I've been doing this for 40 years from grass clippings too long wide blade grass and Clover Clover works really good but you got to cut it up to half inch to an inch long and then put it in a blender and make some good chlorophyll water and then soak the pulp to get the rest of the chlorophyll out of the fiber and the fiber makes good soil mix my tomatoes just eat it up.
I try not to get too carried away because of the mold Factor if you're going to put all that kind of stuff in.
Have fun and happy making silage.
my tomaters reached 7 feet tall ...last year...water 3 times a week with chlorophyll water. fiber mixes well with dirt also.
You're right. I've done it with old cabbage leaves, green manure, and sunflower leaves. It smells (temporarily). The long term positive effects are well worth it. I water at the base of the plants.
Greatful for the info. I'm starting a garden from scratch and don't have time for a conventional way of creating my own gold dirt. Only at our farm part time. Many thanks!!!
The ability to breakdown meat, dairy, and acids is the big advantage that anaerobic composting has. I inoculated my compost with "Bokashi+ root zone innoculant." Didn't smell too bad, and had BIG effects on my discarded bones, cheese rinds, etc.
I tried Bokashi and got flies indoors. Now I just empty the bucket into the outside compost regularly.
no name rid-x looks and smells just like bokashi
Thank you brother. Have a great day!!
Done this for 12 years common sense abkout time people got back to nature they should realise fertiliser has not been always available.
@@noelhamilton8332 I know we’re do they think its come from, I bet miracle grow is laughing at people
Wow, what a great video, I appreciate you posting this:) Bless you, your family and your garden.
Hey David, I'm from the Caribbean and can only do containerize planting. There's plenty of Bush and weeds in my community, especially moringa. Your video on free fertilizer is super wonderful. Thanks David the Good.
Thank you. We used to live in Grenada. I loved it.
Moringa is the BEST 👌🏽
I'm sure the excess moringa will make for good fertilizer
Moringa is a super food. Don’t waste it on this. I take moringa powder as tea, in my oat meal, use the leaves 🍃 as tea leaves, on my smoothie, chew the seeds.
I use any other material for the natural fertilizer but not Moringa.😊
Greetings brotha. We here in the expat community on Taveuni Island Fiji are always sharing your posts. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experiences!
I made FSW this year for the first time and it’s working good. I also poured a 5 gallon bucket of it in my compost. I figured it couldn’t hurt.
What is fsw
@@LuisC7 it’s ‘fetid swamp water’, David’s name for the liquid fertilizer
@@cathywco ahh ok!!! Does it work well?
Nice going David. Grateful to meet up. Loved this...
I have really poor soil, so I'm doing this to "feed" biochar. I need to build up soil for planting, and I want to thank you for the video. The information is very useful.
Hah! I knew that, but had forgotten about it! Thanks for the refresher, and I promise to use this knowledge only for good!
We use weeds and what ever we can get that is organic, no car fumes ot other fumes that may get on the plants, we also some times have to grow our own weeds. But We use a 50 gal with a lid and all the weeds go into the 50 gal. and we add water, ours is well water so now chemicals in the water we also do not use chemicals on this place. We let this mixture set for 3 to 4 days and use 1/4 cup we call ours stinky water, to a 5 gal bucket. One day i was on the tractor cleaning brush near the dirt road and i kept seeing this black shadow pass over head, I stopped the tractor and looked up and a big buzzard was circling around looking for what ever the smell was, Than I seen my wife with a 5 gal bucket placing the stinky water on the cucumbers and squash. Guess the buzzard was looking for a meal. Stay sage. This mixture sure does work, All free nature at work.
That is amazing.
I am surrounded by long needled pine trees and tons of pine cones. Can they’ve harvested for fertilizer?
@@michellewilding9698 I use pine needles also, I either put them in the stinkey water or just place on top of the ground with the other mulch, also I use the pine cones as barbie cubes in the barbie pit to cook your food. Have fun.
Back in the 80s, while stationed in S.Korea, I watched them flood their rice paddies with rain water and human waste that was pumped from the outhouses in the village. There is nothing so beautiful as emerald green rice paddies as sunrise
I will certainly try it. Thanks!
I use the same thing with a different method. I use 2 regular sized pails, with 1 to hold the liquid and the other pail with holes to drain out the rotting materials. I stacked the pail with holes on top the other pail. I'll add in urine or beer for it to rot as well. Then cover it with a pail lid. Once it's done, I'll remove the pail with holes and pour out the rotting materials into the compost bin, and the other pail is left with just liquid without the rotting materials. Good stuff
This sounds to me like a much better idea. Thanks.
@@RodM.Peters just make sure you drill holes all along the sides of the inner pail as well, not just the bottom. This helps to drain easier. I fill it up with mostly kitchen waste and dead leafs from the garden. I'm not too bothered about filling it full with water at the first go. Just pour in urine and gray water over time. The result is some powerful stuff. Give it a shot
For my first go at composting Im leaning doing this route. Very simple and I'll learn and expand from there. 2 5gallon buckets simply with holes drilled in the one. I have a pond nearby which I think would be a good idea to use that water because of the microbes.
I love your video! This is so precious as it gives us an alternative way to live in a sustainable way
I learn so much from you, I super excited to meet the homesteaders October 28th and 29th. We are not homesteaders but we love the concept and lifestyle. We live in Florida and are trying hard to live self sustainably. I'm sure we'll get some really good idea's from visiting your homestead.
I appreciate your method of educating. Easy to follow and makes a lot of sense.
Love your channel! First time first year gardener here at Holy Springs Alabama. We Would love to take a field trip to your farm for homeschool some day! We are prepping our beds this fall after your videos this year! Definately going to use the compost tea!
I ordered the compost book. Should be arriving any day now! ♥️ I'm excited!
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Compost like how our gandmas did do not require any rocket science that only available in books. You just dump everything into containers or soil and let it rot.
It is old recipe known in Poland since hundreds of years (possibly): fermented nettles. The procedure is similar to yours except we put only nettles. It is both a nutritional solution and a natural insecticide, great for tomatoes, potatoes, cucumbers etc. Not recommended for onions, garlic and legumes. 10 l of water / 1 kg nettles, 2-3 weeks of fermentation. When it's turning brown-ish means it's ready. Dilute 1:10 for watering, 1:20 for spraying.
This is an idea I had suspected but had only been using old milk bottle containers. Now I'm gonna look for a bigger barrel like yours buddy. Thanks so much for posting this video.!!
i like the idea of doing this in old milk containers. i had collected several but never used them.