Easy Organic Gardening || FERTILIZERS + INSECTICIDES || making garden calcium with eggshells
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- čas přidán 27. 04. 2023
- Sharing our favorite organic fertilizers and pesticides for growing chemical free flowers, fruits, and veggies, plus a quick tutorial to make your own calcium for the garden using the JADAM method for WCA.
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I'm so happy you're getting into Jadam! Please share more as you go!
I'm so happy you're getting into Jadam! I just got a batch of JMS going - Please share more as you go!
Plants click and the unhealthier they are, the faster the click. I have direct composted for decades with such great success and super healthy plants that there is no way I am changing my methods - ever. Direct composting also eliminates the need for compost piles and if buried properly (tamp the covering soil slightly with the shovel) does not attract rodents. I always use any plant and tree prunings debris at the bottom of the pit that slowly moves across the garden bed as I compost kitchen scraps etc.
I told Rosita today that i need to get some clicking plants in the ground. It was high time to get the poor things planted. 🥴 The clicking thing is so fascinating to me! I’d be interested to learn more about direct composting. Is that different than the lasagna method? We do a little lasagna on as many beds as we can every fall to let them break down over winter, and the beds we get to have the best soil in spring!
@@rootdesigncompany Direct composting is a bit closer to the Hugelkulter method, except it is not in a raised bed. Basically what I do is this. I have 4ft x 8ft beds that are ground level. I dig out the beds 12 to 18" deep for one third of the bed, mounding the soil on the other two thirds. I put all big plant debris like branches and prunings at the bottom of the bed. Each day I add kitchen scraps and small plant debris into one tiny section and then mound some of the soil back onto it and work my way through the bed that way. The composting works well below grade and therefore does not affect any newly planted seedlings other than adding a bit of heat maybe to the soil. It also keeps the soil loose.
An added benefit is that with all the added plant and kitchen matter, I end up with about 2 garbage cans of soil left over from each 4x8 bed that I use to pot up dafs, tulips and pre-started dahlias that I thensell. Absolutely no soil purchasing. I also leave a minimum of 4, preferably more, garbage cans of soil with lids on over the winter to "condition" via freezing and thawing, to be used in the early spring in my seed room for seed starting. This means that aside from not needing to fertilize, there is no change of soil when the seedlings go out to the garden beds and the seedlings have no transplant shock.
The soil, while composting the debris is loaded with worms that add their own benefit via worm castings. The birds love the healthy soil and easily take care of most of the weed seeds and bad bugs. I could go on forever.
@@EvelynM-vlogs wow this is amazing. Now I have to learn more and see if I can implement this in my beds.
@@EvelynM-vlogsthank you!!
Love, love, love these videos. So well done and informative. Please keep them coming. Your gardens are absolutely lovely! 🌼 🌸 🌻
Well thank you!
Same words here. Love your channel girls!
This year I am making Comfrey and Stinging Nettle Tea (fertilizer)
This year I an trying biochar activated by my own organic compost and other nutrients. I spread it onto my grow areas last fall. I’m excited to see those results. Happy grow season! 🌱☀️
I want to try biochar, too! I’ve heard about it, but I don’t even know what it is! Lol (googling now)
@@rootdesigncompany …..biochar has an incredible story.
Thanks for sharing! I’ve been really interested in Korean Natural Farming but haven’t dug into it. Now I’ll have to try it!
I learned something new again 😊 I enjoy watching your videos. I’m trying cut flowers this summer and we’re putting in a large kitchen garden. I’ve stuck to vegetables for the most part. 😊
Ladies, I enjoy your videos so much! They are so helpful and full of wisdom. Thank you!🤍🌿
You’re welcome! Thank you for watching!
Great tips, I just dry my egg shells and zap them in the blender and sprinkle, I hope I’m doing it right.
Inner chemist, love it! Your JADAM method is interesting. For decades I've just dried and ground my eggshells into powder.
Yeah, I’ve heard that works, too. :) Sounds way easier. How do you grind them to powder?
@@rootdesigncompany a coffee/herb grinder is what I have used…
LOVE your videos.
It is my understanding that Sea Grow is NOT ORGANIC, though it does have some natural ingredients. Also had a label warning about known carcinogens until the previous administration removed that labeling requirement.
I work at a nursery. We recommend people do not use it on edibles. I don't use it at all personally.
Good to know! Thank you for pointing that out. Do you know what’s in the SeaGrow that’s carcinogenic?
I do not. I asked a couple of managers at the nursery. They don't know, either. It used to have that label that says "known to cause cancer in the state of California." Proposition 65. The list of chemicals is pretty long, so I haven't gone through it.
We will be making compost tea with comfrey with an aerated bubbler and fertiliser using manure (same bubbler method). We also make LAB (lactic acid bacteria). Love the eggshell idea😊
That sounds interesting! I want to make my way to all of the acronym brews eventually. :) Compost Tea sounds easy, but I don’t have an aerator. 😏
@@rootdesigncompany you don't need one, it just speeds up the process🙂
Do you have a link for the essential oil and neem oil recipe?
Please tell me more about using Dr Bronners on beetles?! Do you spray it with a specific ratio of soap to water? Thanks
So much!
I’m wondering the same. I use the original Dr Bronners Castile soap regularly in sprays with oil… maybe I should switch to the lavender one!
I think the recommendation is to use one teaspoon to 1 quart? A google search can verify. It doesn’t take a lot, but knowing me, I used more than recommended because i was hot under the collar about the beetles. 😅 You can burn your plants if the soap is too strong though. I spray directly onto the beetles in the evening. You will need to keep applying weekly and after it rains to control infestations, so it’s a bit of work, but WORTH IT.
I think the Peppermint soap deters a wider range of insects? But Lavender works, too!
@@rootdesigncompany I am absolutely thrilled to try this. I had another farmer friend say she plants marigolds about 10 feet from her dahlia beds & the beetles are attracted to the marigolds much more than her dahlias! Thank you!
Very interested in the peppermint soap for my roses. Could you share when and how your use it for those miserable japanese beetles?
I’ve had the best success spraying an infestation of the beetles in the evening with a dilution of 1 tsp/quart of water. You have to spray it right on the beetle for it to work, but I’ve seen them perish in less than a minute doing this. You’ll need to spray weekly and after it rains.
@@rootdesigncompany Thanks! Ordered a bottle! I made LAB for powdery mildew. Jenny Love uses it once a month to minimize it.
Very interesting video. I would love to get into KNF more but haven’t found a great resource. Any recommendations?
I’ve heard of it on podcasts like Jennie Love just had a episode recently.
I look for CZcams videos and podcasts about KNF and Jadam. Some are more knowledgeable than others 😉 but I’ve decided I have a whole garden to experiment with this year, so I will do some research out there, too. I heard Jennie Love’s podcast, too!
Epic Gardening did a CZcams video on JADAM. My problem is the smell.
Always enjoy Jennie Love and Hew Richards as well. Who I’ve also learned a ton from is Bare Mountain Farm. So fun!
I'm so happy you're getting into Jadam! Please share more as you go!