These Organic Foliar Sprays Will Take Your Garden To The NEXT LEVEL
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- čas přidán 5. 08. 2024
- In this video, I share 2 organic foliar sprays that will take your garden to the next level! Foliar fertilizing is a cheap and efficient way to correct nutrient deficiencies in plants. These two organic fertilizers make foliar feeding easy, and you can foliar feed dozens of plants in mere minutes!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 How Foliar Feeding Works
1:32 Organic Foliar Fertilizer #1
3:48 How To Apply Foliar Spray
5:20 Organic Foliar Fertilizer #2
6:44 Applying Liquid Kelp With ULV Fogger
7:57 Application Frequency & Where To Buy
9:06 Adventures With Dale
If you have any questions about how to use foliar fertilizers or organic fertilizer products in general, have questions about growing fruit trees or want to know about the things I grow in my raised bed vegetable garden and edible landscaping food forest, are looking for more gardening tips and tricks and garden hacks, have questions about vegetable gardening and organic gardening in general, or want to share some DIY and "how to" garden tips and gardening hacks of your own, please ask in the Comments below!
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0:00 How Foliar Feeding Works
1:32 Organic Foliar Fertilizer #1
3:48 How To Apply Foliar Spray
5:20 Organic Foliar Fertilizer #2
6:44 Applying Liquid Kelp With ULV Fogger
7:57 Application Frequency & Where To Buy
9:06 Adventures With Dale
You, Sir, are an excellent teacher. I appreciate the detailed thoroughness.
One of the best gardening channels on here. He breaks down a lot of long running garden myths and information that is not accurate.
Thank you so much! I really appreciate it.
The kelp has so many benefits I would use it along with the fish fertilizer. Over the years I have moved over to the more concentrated powdered kelp fertilizer from RAW. Because it lasts longer and is cheaper and stores better. Also I had a record pumpkin grower once tell me you can foliar feed anything as long as it is under 250ppm. Just fyi, and of coarse never foliar feed when the sun is up high.
I may give the powdered stuff a go after I run out of this. Feeding through the roots is labor intensive. If I can perfect means of foliar feeding, I can literally fertilize my entire garden with my ULV fogger in 10 mins. That would change everything.
Absolutely love using kelp as a foliar spray. You see results immediately! I even spray my seedlings with it and what a difference it makes. You definitely want to use 1tbsp per gallon or you will burn your plants. Thanks for the info!
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the heads up! Never used it for that... 😁
That cordless fogger is such a great tool I’m definitely going to add that to my tool shed!!
I highly recommend it. It is great for pest control, disease control and fertilizing.
Thanks for your video. Very informative 👏. Love watching Dale ❤
Thank you!
Helpful post. Thanks!😃 I think Dale was peacefully sunbathing when dad came to play football.😄
Dale LOVES that spot. That’s where the sun puddle is. He lays in it for hours, only to shift as the sun moves throughout the day. Even on a cloudy day, he will lie there.
Thanks again for sharing with us
You’re welcome!
Very interesting information. Thank you!😊👍
You’re welcome!
Hey I just use a hydrolyzed fish fertilizer. It doesn't smell nearly as strong. I also use Fish + Kelp many times with my Tomato and Vegetable fertilizer for a little more of all the goodies. Good video.
Thanks! Whatever style of concentrate you use should provide good results.
This is new to me. Wow!
I’m glad the video was helpful! 😊
I have started putting a little of the fish emulsion in with my BT when spraying for cabbage worms figured it couldn't hurt. So far wife hasn't complained of smell so until then I will keep doing it haha
I use this brand called sea magic for a foliar spray and the plants love it. That little 8oz packet made a gallon of concentrate, and in turn I use a couple of spoons of that in a 2gallon can. Used it all Spring and Summer! I still have plenty for the remainder of the fall and winter.😊
ETA: 1oz packet, not 8oz!
it is helpful. Thanks !
You’re welcome!
The third option is worm casting tea. I'm partial as a worm farmer lol. My worm farm uses liquid kelp on the bedding. So I get the benefits of both.
There are other ways to create foliar feeds, but these are probably the easiest and most readily available that are organic. Aerating your own mix is certainly an option.
Sound advice, as usual.
Thank you!
Thankss. I am.going to try this...
Glad it was helpful!
Not sure if you covered this before but can you do a video covering both granular and foliage fertilizer schedule for potted citrus?
I have a video on fertilizing citrus here: czcams.com/video/uhZ6gslBoVw/video.html
Containers have a limited microbiome, so you want to focus on soluble fertilizers, mainly. I would not grow citrus in containers purely organically, in my opinion.
Great work. Very helpful to us.. what the natural pesticide you used?.. can we make it ourselves with natural ingredients?..
Nice
Thank you!
Any liquid kelp that is black/dark brown is just a rehydrated alkali extraction of kelp which can be bought cheaply in multiple places as a dry powder. Really just expensive water. A brown kelp extract that is extracted by pressure, not a strong base, will give the most benefits. The dark stuff its basically a weak potassium supplement that provides some micro-nutrients and potentially some hormones, though many are destroyed via the extraction method and drying.
Try humic and vulvic acids. Tiny pots equal tiny harvests. And this boy is a yankee, he ain’t from NC. Needs to learn his area, ugh, spraying during day- ignore this guy, make a compost tea with worm castings solve this problem.
We use fertilizer for tea plant and mixing solid fertilizer with foliar which used by most. But we don't mix and spray like if it is vegetable or grain crops. Tea plant need more and more nutrients then others.
Spirulina,Seamoss powder, potassium silica. I add other things, but this would be a good standard foliar spray.
Where did you find a Coffee tree?? Wow...I want one! 😊😂❤. Give Dale a hug!!!!
I have them linked in my Amazon Storefront under Bare Root And Live Plants.
I like to use hydroponic nutrient with a bit of super thrive and micro nutrients.
As long as it is water soluble, it should work well.
Good video, thanks. Thoughts on Agrothrive? Fish base emulsion with a more pleasant smell(at least to me). Have you tried as foliar feeding fertilizer in the past?
I haven’t used that product, but I don’t think it really matters what brand you use. They’ll all have a benefit.
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Dilute the fish fertilizer with water till its thin as you want and it would be safe for the foger and by the way asome videos love them
It probably would work with the fogger, but I would rather not risk it. It is quite thick, and the fogger sprays very fine. All it takes is for one mistake in the processing to clog it up. When using a product like fish emulsion, I don’t expect it to be problem-free and perfect. At some point, there will be debris in it.
@@TheMillennialGardener makes sense and that fog would definitely spray that fish smell all around town lol
I've heard the phrase "weekly weakly" for fertilizing. 😉😀
That's good advice.
Can you combine foliar fertilizer and traditional fert?
Question - do you do foliar spraying and apply fertilizer to the roots of your trees at the same time, or do you do stagger the fertilizer application process? I live in zone 10a and still have a ways to go before things go dormant here. By the way, your fig trees have made an amazing comeback after you had to severely cut them back after that boring insect invasion. Well done!!
@J Birdsong So there are salts in the fish emulsion?
Foliar feeding is a legitimate way of fertilizing your plants, so it can flat out replace a lot of your fertilizing. I do think some traditional fertilizing of the soil is necessary, because you need to feed the soil microbiome and all the worms. However, to me, if I am foliar feeding, that counts as a fertilizing routine. I would rotate them, to best answer your question.
There is salt in everything natural. Fish have salt in them, and it is made of fish. Don’t worry so much about “over salting.” You just don’t want to over-fertilize in general.
@@TheMillennialGardener Thanks for the clarification. I've been using fish fertilizer after having started watching your posts late last year. It works wonders! I also us G&B organic Citrus/Avocado fertilizer as a topsoil feed.
@@TheMillennialGardener Makes sense. Thank You!
Nice! Out of curiosity do you apply foliage spray the leaves of your fig trees?
Thanks!
You certainly can. I usually direct fertilize my figs at the roots, because they are heavy feeders. Next year, I may experiment with both methods.
Can you share your fig fertilizing routine sometime? I have a few fig trees and they are heading on year 3. I’m ready for some figs!
When do you foliar feed fruit trees?? I just bought pomegranate peach lemon orange tree plum tree n a tangelo tree. There 3 years old not big maybe 4 feet there from a nursery. I'm gonna use down to earth or microlife which both are organic. There a 6- 2 -4. For foliar feed neptunes has a seaweed fish that ubcan use as a foliar spray. It's 2-2-2
So I use kelp foliar every two weeks. Is fish fertilizer good for when tomatoes, peppers, cuqs are blooming. I always thought it was high nitrogen but maybe not?
i think you should only add 5ml per gallon for fish fertilizer. you will def burn them at 1table spoon per gallon.
Just came across your channel looking for info on Meyer Lemons. Glad to find your channel. What part of NJ?
I live in North Carolina. I was born in Atlantic County, NJ, but I moved out of NJ 18 years ago.
Welcome to NC! I lived in Salem County (Woodstown/Cowtown) until I was 15 then moved to Wilmington in 1980.
My neighbor laughed at me till we did a taste test....
Kelp applied around figs and mulberry... They were exactly the same ... Mine were sooo sweet ‼️
Cheapest kelp found was San Francisco Herbs ... I must be sweeter because I take kelp too‼️
To bad it doesn't work on people like that 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Fish sauce is also fermented can i use them too? 🙃
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Thanks for watching!
Amazon shows the ULV fogger as unavailable/out of stock, with the caption, "we don't know when or if this item will be in stock." Bummer. However there are other models available on the site.
I have a different model linked, which as far as I can tell is basically the same item in a different color.
You ever heard of Willard Water? 60 minutes did a story on it in 1980.The video is here on You Tube.
What do you think about neem oil mixed with it
I don’t use neem oil. I’ve found it to provide no benefit and be only harmful to my plants. I have a video on neem and why I don’t use it (foul odor, bad taste, scorched leaves, etc.): czcams.com/video/FTpCxlI7nu0/video.html
@@TheMillennialGardenerman it's a life saver my way
Apparently, Alaska brand is no longer organic - all i've been able to find is "Fish Plant Food" rather than Fish Fertilizer and on the label the Fish Plant Food is not considered organic. I can't find the Fish Fertilizer anywhere. It sounds like they don't really have control over what metals end up in the fish product they use and they had to change the wording on their product
I don’t think it matters. “Organic” is just a government label. My understanding is they changed facilities, and it’s the same stuff but the government hasn’t given them the stamp yet.
@@TheMillennialGardener Thanks for the info! I didn't think it mattered much either, but I couldn't find any info about the change so I was a little curious.
What will happen to the plants or vegetables that don’t like wet leaves
What type Citrus and avocados do you have that grows outside because I am in Birmingham Alabama and I would like to grow those species if I can. Can i?
I have a lot of videos dedicated to those trees and how to grow them in Zone 8 in these playlists:
czcams.com/play/PL1gY7BoYBGIG1w1u_K6CDIhfsqG8dMnPj.html
czcams.com/play/PL1gY7BoYBGIEwNvlpSq5wSnyKDK2_v5wv.html
I am collecting, using and selling rabbit urine for foliar feeding.
You may want to be careful due to leaf burn. That will have to be quite diluted.
@@TheMillennialGardener 4-1 or 5-1 are the ratios I've been seeing, at intervals of around a week.
I won't see the results until next spring, but I've got some fruit plants that could sure use it.
I thought my rabbit manure had gone moldy after getting a little moist. Turns out it was just a thick mat of mycelium, in 4-5 days.
Teach dale to catch frizzbee
We’ve tried. He won’t fetch. The frisbee wasn’t of interest to him. He likes toys he can chomp down on hard and that squeak.
Avocado grows outdoor in NC?
Not without substantial effort. An avocado could never survive anywhere in NC unprotected long-term.
How much worm killer to your water
It depends on the product. You need to read the instructions. Different brands are all different.
There's no way that such a tiny amount of fertilizer like 1tbp is enough nutrients and minerals for adult plants when diluted in a gallon of water.
That's like eating half a peanut and thinking it's enough nutrition for a person.
Something just feels off with that.
Plant absorb way more nutrients during a foliar feed. So it shouldn't be nearly as concentrated, to be honest I would have diluted it more.
A normal application is only 2 Tbsp per gallon at the roots. Keep in mind, when you fertilize the roots, a lot of the nutrients are lost and drain away. That isn’t the case with foliar feeds. You don’t need a lot.
@@TheMillennialGardener so if I take a bath in this stuff ⁉️⁉️⁉️
Millennial explains it. Foliar sraying in daylight burns plants. Plus the nitrates in animal waste are very unstable. As for one gallon er 1-4 l plants, no way. Look up supercroping.
No
Plants have no method for absorption through the leaves. It doesn’t rain fertilizer so why would a plant evolve to absorb through the leaves?
Go spray your plants with some kelp and then say that. They react almost immediately. Foliar feeding is highly effective and I used in every type of growing. It's easy and impressive to see the results. This is how people grow 2000 lb pumpkins. It is also how you instantly correct difficencys.
Furthermore the carbon dioxide plants absorb through the air, from their leaves, is a nutrient that plants absorb... through the air.
@@jimriley9697 to ok
It actually does rain fertilizer. Lightning converts inert N2 gas into soluble forms of nitrogen that plants absorb through their leaves. That “smell” after a storm is from raining fertilizer. Plants can and do absorb nutrients through leaves provided they are water soluble.
@@jimriley9697 we are trying to get The Millennial Gardener on the giant pumpkin wagon in 2023, haha.
Too complicated
You add 1 tablespoon of fertilizer in a gallon of water and spray. It doesn’t get any easier.
@@TheMillennialGardener you right, watched it twice :) thank you