How To Make Liquid Fertiliser & Black Gold
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- čas přidán 5. 06. 2014
- One of the most effective ways of feeding your plants is with liquid fertiliser. Nutrients are easily absorbed through the roots and leaves when you apply a liquid fertiliser.
Our summertime recipe is made up of comfrey, stinging nettles and cleavers (bidibidi). This combination is high in potassium and low on nitrogen which is exactly what hungry summer-fruiting veges like tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, aubergines (eggplants), zucchinis (courgettes) and melons thrive on.
We make up 200-litre drums, but for a smaller garden you can use a container that’s around 20-litres in capacity. Push the green material down as hard as you can into the container till it’s full to the top, add water, put a lid half-on (so the gases caused by the fermenting process can escape) and leave for a month. At this stage it will be a black liquid. You may notice hoverfly larvae when you take the lid off - they are totally beneficial for your garden.
After a month or so give the mixture a stir. The woody material that you dredge up can be used as a mulch. Dilute the liquid to the colour of weak tea and apply to the leaves as well as roots of plants. This mixture will almost double a crop of potatoes.
A winter recipe will include fish heads, animal manure along with seaweed and weeds like puha, thistles, plantains and cleavers. This winter brew is good for kale, silverbeet and other green leafy vegetables which need nitrogen rather than potassium that summer veges like.
Another great way to feed your soil is by applying what we call Black Gold. There are three ingredients in Black Gold: coffee grounds, seaweed (preferably kelp - the big straps - because it has many more minerals than seaweed) and an animal manure. We suggest you make it in a black plastic rubbish bag to attract the heat. We layer in firstly coffee grounds, then kelp, then animal manure, then repeat till the bag is full. Don’t seal the bag as we want air to get in. Leave it in a sunny place and every now and then turn it over to aerate. It’ll take about 6 months till it’s ready to use. - Jak na to + styl
I stumbled upon something similar to this by accident. I had a 5 gallon bucket sitting behind my shed that had been filled with the leaves during fall and then water and snow over the winter. I dumped that slush on my lawn and for months I had a small patch of the greenest grass I have ever seen in my yard! Now I leave buckets sit and fill up instead of turning them upside down.
A good method but be careful of mosquitoes!
yamatoman tenshin fall and winter baby. Not many skeeters in Rochester Ny at that time. Got a 50gallon drum this spring I’m gonna experiment with this year.
Reading this during lockdown
Hi .is it any particular leaf
@@yamatomantenshin4908 if they would stay there and die it would actually be beneficial
Lovely! Appreciate it bc I'm just starting the veggie garden.
Right to the point, no distractions.
And very generous on your part.
Thank you.
Rebecca/ Puerto Rico/ The Caribbean
Loving seeing a local doing tutorials on organic gardening.
I also enjoy how you avoid all the stupid stuff most channels do, wasting time, taking forever to get to a point at all, begging for likes and subscribes under a minute into a video before anyone knows if they're even worth watching at all.
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Amazingly helpful, straight to the point and easy to understand and follow. Keep up the good work.
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What a healthy garden! Bravo for permaculture. Wish all food was as lucky to get this care!
Permaculture - otherwise known as gardening.
This is one of the best methods for fertilizing large gardens. Great video - keep up the good work.
Can you boil the plants in water then use the water the same day?
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Put comfrey leaves in a blender with water and blend. Then dilute the mixture with water and pour on soil around plants
@@tedmcgee6825 Agree with the Reformation's response below :)
I agree
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I love his right to the point, and clear easy to understand. Great job!
Thanks thanks. The best compost tea video. I have ever seen so far thanks for helping
God bless you. Thanks thanks
Thank you so much. Amazing video - learned alot from you!
Nice to see you doing that. I do the same on my garden using a blender, mixing with water and it works very well.
Best Regards from Brazil.
Great explanation...can you spray it on leaves
If you live in a place that gets snow during winter, it would make sense to spread this on your garden before the snow settles, and as the snow melts it's water takes all the nutrients into the ground.
Or in the Fall leave the leaves and they can be beneath the snow.
Better yet chop it up and mix brown raw sugar and let it Ferments add to water after fermenting and feed that way. KNF aka Korean natural farming builds great microbe growth in soils and compost.
Great stuff, thanks.
I've been doing something similar using a wormery, ie composting in the top part and using the liquid that drains through. I found it's miraculous! And I think it's because the liquid contains billions of bacteria that will act on all the vegetable content in the soil to break it down to nutrinets that the plants can use. In other words acts a a catalyst to break down the organic material that's already in the soil.
I have all these items, but only a small garden, but filling black bin bags is perfect
Nice and perfect combination of nitrogen and carbon.
Thank you for showing use of cow manure.👍👍
Organic Gardening I call them poop soup , I use worm castings and agitated water and cow manure and agitated water. One year I’ll use cow the next worm etc. happy growing
wonderful instructional, thank you so much!!
Thanks for the tips, I love growing hot peppers!!
Really good show.First time i saw your chanel today.U sound kiwi, i'm from land of wombats and magpies.
You are still answering questions from 2yrs ago, magnificent, not many do this. U show care towards your viewers , a rare quality. Will check some of your others .
Waaauuuhh...!! Just what I needed 👏👏👏✨👏🤩
Very good video….short but straight informative thank you 🙏
Thanks roe the advice and tips from the UK
Mahalo nui loa!!! Thank you for sharing!!!
Thank you. Most informative and helpful.
Best compost video I have ever seen by far!
No it isn't.
Yes it is.
Great video... new subscriber and will be sharing. With what is going on we all need to grow food as soon as possible. Thanks for the video; will be watching the rest of your videos daily. Everyone needs to be growing food and learning survival skills in these times. Take care everyone. Keep learning and keep sharing everyone.
Ah, no bs video finally. Thank you
Yes!
Nah we dont use bs we use vegetable compost
I thought about how to make my own.. and seeing your concoction.., I now reckon this liquifying method is a double bonus because I will place all my weeds into a barrel and let them stew.., O and I won't need any weed killer poison. 🤗
Poppies are Killin it
Thx . We are learning. going to try it.
I add molasses to get it fermenting. Using a paint stirrer helps to really break it up once it becomes soggy.
Very good! I also do composting. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for the method and formula
Excellent for Cannabis as well Definitely using for my garden this run
This is better and there is no chemical thanks for sharing it, God blessings. :)
The weed fertilizer works excellent. I used any weeds I could pull up when I lived in the city, pretty near to downtown. I let it fester, gave it a good stir every week or so. I bubbled, boiled and smelled so appropriately nasty, that I had to store in the neighbour's yard, as I had an upstairs deck, and the neighbours in my corner building all had smaller yardlets. If I could do this in the city, anyone can. I could noticably see all my plants take a growth leap, esp. my stangnant tomatoes.
Really nice, informative, and useful video, my gardening brother. Thank you.
Do you recommend a particular system to add your mix to a home irrigation system? If using 20 liter bucket for home, would i still set the top loosely on it? Also, what could i add for a mosquito or bug control if i could?
Thank you for sharing how to make a liquid fertiliser you are truly awesome and wonderful ^^
Brilliant video learnt a lot well done!
Exellent straight forward video. Just what is needed. No me me me.
Thanks
Came across this on accident.. gathered the collection of leaves on my roof that were already old damp and dried out.. put them in a bucket, forgot about it, and it sat out in 4 days of rain.
I noticed it smelled like shit, but in a way I knew my plants would like lol
I was about to say the same thing.... boy did it smelled like a rotten corpse! a big swarm of flyes suddenly gravitated towards the bucket!
You should go and take a compost class, not only it is a faster decomposition it will also teach you how to avoid that bad smell
@@rutsoluo Its a myth anaerobic composition is just as good as aerobic. Look into jadam farming, everything you need to grow a garden is in your backyard.
@@devoywilliams3956 well said brother
Love it! A fellow dank tank fertilizer maker! Nature is a wonderful thing and it’s our duty to emulate! Subbed!
verygood thank u verymuch
Thank you so much I use to make with only banana peel n stems... I ll definitely try this.
Excellent! We eat about 40 pounds of bananas every two weeks! Do you notice any problems with bees around your banana liquid compost? I had an apiarist friend sho said bananas mimic the attack pheromones of bees and so I should be careful with bananas and composting. Any words of wisdom?
Thanks a lot! My only question for you or anyone with experience here is, how often can I use the organic liquid fertilizer rich in potassium in my tomato, cucumber, pepper, zucchini, and watermelon garden? Thanks
Great information, thank you.
Thanks looks so easy I will try
Great idea and probably even better with a small aquarium pump bubbling to keep it aerobic and thus exponentially increase the beneficial microbes.
Yes good idea. Our stirring it for 20 seconds one way and then 20 seconds the other for a reasonable period of time before using is our attempt to aerate it.
I can smell this video from here
Pritesh Yadvendu i feel like the smell stays on me all day after handling any manure 😂
@@andrewh25 lol I hear that!
😂
My manure bucket is filled to the top with water and there is no smell
Good thing plants can't smell and that most veggies/fruits are formed NOT touching the soil and the root veggies are washed carefully and furthermore don't put this or similar on veg that will be harvested within 12 days.
This is brilliant
Great! Am in Zambia. I want to start producing this on a large scale
Except for using the plastic garbage bag . . . everything was great. A hard-plastic food grade container/bucket would be much better than the petro chemical garbage bag which would break down fast and pieces would be in the garden !!! 06/10/2021
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This is perfect every spring my yard is full of weeds from winter rains that I couldn't pull up during the winter because it was too muddy to go out
And I have chickens and every few weeks I have to clean up their coop but my dad always throws the straw and poop because none of us has the time to do anything with it.
Now with this method I can process all of it into usable fertilizer and compost.
Thanks for sharing 🥰
Here for Covid-19/depression prep. I know I'm not alone. Great video! Adding it to my favorites to reference.
same here
I hope seeds become the new currency, I regret not picking up a couple varities of tomato.
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That would be awesome! I'd love to go to a trade and barter system and cut out the middle man.
Brilliant information.
Thanks
This is good info but Comfrey is high in nitrogen and Can burn foliage directly. My only add on to this would be to inoculate the container of weeds and such with IMOs better know or found in your local leaf mold. Indigenous Micro Organisms. Will increase the speed of the decomposition and continue to balance the soil food web in the garden. Just my thoughts. Thanks.
I love this video.♥️ I am also using chicken and goat manure, soak it with weeds and use it for my plants. God bless you fellow.
Very informative my friend, i will be using that idea for my garden
Worm tea, and compost tea works great too!
Agree! :)
Thank u.
I really love to watch your videos
Nice content. Let me try this at my small scale balcony plants.
No, I won't let you.
Very succinct video 👍
Great video!
Hi, I started with chicken manure. It works fantastic. we call it "chicken stock". Be carefully you must delude it! Later I added weed and kitchen waste and made it also in a 20 l bucket, then later in a 120l drum. I can not use compost, because we have here in Namibia termites. Now I started with hydroponics and I want to use it there also.
We are just starting a chicken manure tea. Mind sharing your recipe?
Natural works...
Question: After a month of it sitting and you start to use it, do you then continue to add greens and water into the drum?
Yes and yes. In fact you can probably use the liquid fertiliser after only 2 weeks. It will have broken down sufficiently by then. And yes, keep adding green stuff to your container and more water to keep it topped up :)
VERY HELPFUL
Can I use worm castings instead of manure for the black gold ?
Very good information!.
great content thanks
Good stuff man
Sea weed/ kelp are thousands of kilometres away from my garden. I add tiny amounts of sun dried sea salt as per JADAM methodology.But I’m not getting whatever else likely adds to the mix. Any suggestions for this landlubber to replace seaweed? Or is the slat sufficient. I also add a tiny amount of rock dust for mineral replacement. I add the sea salt and rock dust to my teas as well.
Let it set longer, it gets better as it ages, also in accordance to jadam you'll want to add a handful of leaf mold
Question. Will this work for aeroponics and/or other similar applications?
Thank You.
Great tea!
Wow, fantastic please can I apply this method to oil plantation
If you add a air pump to get the water moving you will get beneficial bacteria instead of waste. You must have air in the mixture or you will get a lot of nasty bacteria that are not good for the garden. It is possible for the beneficials to overtake the bad guys but it's better safe than sorry
Yes, great idea. Thanks for adding this :)
the amount of knowledge here. amazing!
Hi, you mentioned not adding tomato leaves, and from the other comments I can see it's because they are toxic. I googled this and there seems to be even some uncertainty about whether tomato leaves are toxic in the first place (unless you eat large quantities). But my question is, actually, even if they may be toxic to humans, wouldn't they still be breaking back down into base nutrients in the water over time anyways? Or are you saying it'd be toxic _to the plants in your garden_ as well? Thanks!
tomato contain lot of alcaloid SOLANINE,it would do us harm, but it breaks down in the soil ..
Some plants cant even be planted next to each other because of the chemicals in their leaves and roots. Just google "what not to plant together" and "companion planting" and youll find out all the combos that are good or bad.
My initial thoughts on why not to use Nightshade family plant leaves was because it allowed fungus harmful to Nightshade plants to thrive, and then you'd be putting it on your tomato plants which could get them sick. This is just a guess and I'm too lazy to look it up 😏
@@said.skopal So no tomato leaves or stems in the compost water but can you put them on the compost pile and allow them to break down with the other garden waste?
@@aunttiasbackyard5028 yes
Thumbs up and subscribed. Great video. Thanks.
Have you had it tested to see what proportion of nutrients it is made of?
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Hi there great video.. could I do the same thing to add for grass fertilizer? So.. grass clippings top up with water weight down leave for 5 to 7 days and then put on my lawn as a feed? Thank you
Yes you can and it would keep much less grass seeds from entering your garden. Just be mindful of the power of this fertilizer and inoculate the batch with your local microbes from some leaf mold.
Thank you
Hmmm. I think I will try a mosquito screen over the top of my stinky black gold.
I'm going to start a bucket today!
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Very informative
In your opinion would the use of freshwater aquatics weeds be useful in general mixture you build in ghost video?
i have a raised compost tub with werms in it that i wet daily. the run off from this i collect and water my garden with. my compost tea is composty....
Thankyou so much
beautiful
Thank lots Sir.,....,
This is really good information - would it be ok to use garlic mustard as a base? It is an invasive here and I am wondering if I could use the bounty to help desired plants?
Eat the garlic mustard
Aren’t you concerned this turns anerobic when sitting for such a long period?
it is 100%anearobic.. probably provides the same nutritions though a lot of them a i hear are flying of with the smell.. i would say its more or less black agic.. great feed, though not an extra for a wide spectrum of soil airbased micro- life, more for feeding herbs on rockwool..
Is anaerobic good or bad?
@@ChristopherJones16 Elaine Ingham is a respected authority on this subject.. she really does not like anaerobic bacteria on a field, nor salt..nor herbicides pesticides etc to much sun on a soil is not helping the "good guys" to.. .people make compost tea to.. its the same thing only with a lot of air bubling in the proces.. thats the stuff you can really spray on your plants and it can heal skin-diseases to, i heard..
I am interested to learn how make this wonderful work of how to make fertilizer. thanks.
Thank you so much for sharing this! Quick question if you please, how often do you apply the liquid fertilizer?
Once every 4-6 weeks during the growing period :)
Thank you 🙏
@@organicediblegarden9061 what about using the pesky dandelion? Been digging them and throwing them away. Could I use them?
@@attitudeadjusted9027 Yes good :)
@@attitudeadjusted9027 dandelion root makes a wonderful caffeine free coffee
Sir in my country the Gamal leafes is so popular for liquid fertilizer, I don't know what name in other country, but please try, that is really good one
This guy's good! Dont have any of those ingredients around here though.
*The residue from the herbicide Grazeon in animals who fed on hay is a real concern for some respected growers now as it passes right through the animals digestive track. Something to take into consideration if thinking about using manuer from hay fed livestock.*
the process of composting puts all those chemicals through that many reactions, that they are rendered inert. worm chemicals that stock is fed may affect worms entering your compost at first but will be eaten by bacteria/ fungus like the rest
Thanks
Hi Rob. Any advice please on how you prepare/grow strong comfrey, please? I have loads of plants growing through my garden, but most are not strong.
Sorry for not replying earlier - we missed this one. It seems like you might have been asking this question in the Southern Hemisphere winter. If so, comfrey is perennial and dies down in winter, then springs into life in the spring and summer. It does need a bit of feeding to get it going though - sheep pellets, chicken manure - a fertiliser full of nitrogen :)