This video is simply to inspire you and show how easy and cheap it is to make organic fertilizers from stuff you have in your home and around your community, just make sure you ask permission first. It is so simple to make and a great way to feed your vegetables in your garden. To know how to apply the fertilizer you can watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOxJmFch8uI
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I love your channel!!! We do the exact same thing and have great results! We have done it with chicken manure and a bit of molasses to speed up fermentation from wild yeast. Keep up the great work!
Great Info,have you considered using a aquarium pump with an air stone in the water to help with a more rapid break down? It would become a excellent root drench tea. Blessings & Peace!
This is a very informative and well put together video! Yes, I have made the compost tea fertilizer using horse and cow manures. I am very comfortable using it as I know that the people I get it from don't use a lot of animal medicines or antibiotics for their animals. They also are very particular about the feeds they give the animals. I am going to try mixing in more of the readily available free material that you have suggested…notably the nettles, willow leaves and lemon balms, as I have a lot of these. I have used the leaves of thistle plants before, too.
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Great video. Your suggestion for cutting up the weeds into the smallest pieces really does help a lot. I've done this method several times and it does work really well… Oh, and to answer your question, yes.. I have used aged composted cow manure as well as worm compost added to this weed tea. Basically, you can make a traditional brewed tea. I added the weed liquid into the bucket with an air stone and water, added molasses, and compost and let brew for 48 hours. Seems to work well either way… Thanks again for sharing this video. It's good to see other people follow this technique
would this cause a mosquito problem
That looks like a great way to fertiliZe your garden ! I'd be interested to see a small trial on it !
I just received a bulletin from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) for yet another organic product Recall. This wonderful seed food had been contaminated with an animal disease, Salmonella. Sometimes we have to think twice about adding animal manures to our gardens, they can be loaded with whatever disease or foods they ate. Here in the USA animal feed is now almost all GMO. But what is even more hidden is if the food they ate, or the field they were grazing had been sprayed at all with Glyphosate, Roundup, this transfers to their manure and can harm your vegetable plants, the most affected by hidden herbicides is Tomatoes. Glyphosate takes up to 174 days to begin to breakdown… I know you were saying your source you believe should be ok, but think of the factory farmed animals full of diseases and antibiotics that a normal manure at a store would contain. Thousands of animals all grown in tight quarters eating GMO foods, weakened immune systems. These sickly animals give manures are full of unnatural things and low in nutrients. Corporations are really fighting the halt of feeding factory farmed animals antibiotics here as it is creating super bacteria, because they know that if they don't give them large amounts of antibiotics constantly they would not survive. 80% of antibiotics here in the USA are fed to factory farmed animals. You see pictures of these weak animals being pushed into the slaughter holds and wonder why would that be considered a nutritional food? Why would anyone feed that to their children is beyond me, but that's another story. I stopped using manures years ago, no need. If I lived on a farm and gave my penned chickens weeds and veggies from the garden, I would use their manure, probably, but remember the ease of transferring disease. Products end up with them even though we have all these measures to prevent it.
Well done, Huw! I've made similar liquid fertilizer with comfrey but have never added manure. I like @***** 's idea of doing a small field trial.
Makes me want to make green fertilizer in an old blender in small batches to make a big batch or run a big pile over with a push mower and then put it in a container to ferment. Good video Huw! I give this video a green thumbs up!
Thanks for sharing the video. I use a similar mix myself and tend to leave it for several weeks and then strain in through an old fishing net. All the plant material then gets added to the compost bin.
I must say that I used to use it diluted on everything however I've been banned from using it on my garden as my wife finds the smell unbearable, I on the other hand really love it now as I appreciate it's natural benefits.
Thanks John
Thanks for sharing your valuable information
Thanks for sharing your recipe on how to make green tea, such a great resource around the garden. Thanks for sharing your fertilizer mix.
I really like your idea of making green tea. It makes a beautiful and gentle fertilizer.
I tried using "weeds" and allowing them to rot in a bag with punched holes over the Fall/WInter. The result was a rich looking sludge with lots of fat worms. I tried again allowing the "weeds" to rot in a bucket for two weeks. I diluted and applied to the garden but boy oh boy did it smell horribly. I didn't want my neighbors to hurt me so I didn't try it again. I am making comfrey tea again but only allowing it to rot one week. I will see how that works. Good video!
Brilliant. I do add rabbit manure sometimes, but not for root veg as they don't seem as sweet with the manure compost. Question, do you have any trouble with seed a germinating from your bolted cuttings?
Great stuff!!
Can i use this in a hydro system?
Growing tomatos for the first time in my home made hydro system and want to have some good nuts for my plants.
Thanks for the great video, keep up the good work!
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You can use a lawnmower with a basket to collect green materials.
hi there so ive done a manure and malaise tea i still have mine that i made 8 months ago i keep feeding it the malaise for food so the bacteria doesent die and it works good my plants stay nice and green and i dont use any airpump either.
WNever used manure but did use molasses when I sprayed it on my plants
I have bought bags of composted cow manure because I don't have access to animals. The cow manure did not really add very much to the compost tea, but it also worked fine as a tea by itself. I wouldn't spend extra money if you have access to all that greenery.
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Thanks for the video. Only comment is that it seems like a lot of work to cut up the pieces and long wait for the tea. What I've done is to simply place the cuttings on top of the ground as a mulch. That way, it helps hold in the soil's moisture as well. I understand that your goal is to make a potent fertilizer, so what you show does serve that purpose well. In the U.S. the Soil Conservation Service does soil studies of the entire country. It rates areas for suitability to farming and other purposes. The land most suited is called National Prime Farmland. In some places, the soil is composed of silt and other nutritious soils that are more than 5 feet deep in places. These are usually along river bottoms, the downside being many places are subject to flooding, though for most the probability in my state (West Virginia) is only about once every 100 years. Those would be the places to use if you can find them because then you're taking and using what's there and not having to fight nature. Most hillside land is generally too rocky and/or steep to cultivate without adding a lot of material to make it work, and doing things like terracing of hills in some places. It can be done, but is capital and labor intensive. I realize that chances are slim one will not end up having a piece of prime farmland without purposely paying a premium for it.
Hello Huw, Thank for sharing all you know about gardening. Can you give me the name of those plant you are using as plant Material for free Nutrient dense Organic Fertilizers please ? You didn't say the name of these plant or I didn't hear. Thank you so much . John
ur good looking .i wish i can meet u face to face
A handy tip for anyone looking to shred cuttings is to chuck them on the ground and run over them with the lawn mower. Great for the compost heap or for making liquid fertiliser.
Lemon balm is divine in a hot bath ..so heavenly and calming like a big cup of Tea for Your Soul x