There are a dizzying array of plant feeds available, and they all seem to have different benefits! So how do you know which is best for your crops?
In this video, Ben reviews the top 5 organic fertilizers, explaining which work best for each type of plant and when to use them for best results.
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Great video interesting i am just trying some chicken manure pellets for my Rocket potatoes, first time i have used them so be interesting to see how they improve my veg. The last few years been getting a lot of small potatoes. Also we seem to get some green potatoes this last few years even though they are well covered with soil. Why ?
Great video!!! I just would like to double check?? Would i be able to grow vegetables with just manure an d compost??? As i feel like this is a very sustainable option 🙂 im trying to look into permaculture and natural ways of gardening 🙂
Have you any experience with alfalfa?
seems like you just read the description of the packaging… no real insights
Dog manure and cat guano are not recommended.
I have recently started taking a spade full of my compost soil and putting it in a 5 gallon pail filling it with water, mixing it with my spade and pouring the water on my plants. I live on an acreage and my water is not chlorinated. I am hoping this takes all the water soluble nutrients from the compost dirt and transfers it to the area's I'm watering. I'm interested in what you think of this. Thank you
Brilliant video very good top tips are use blood fish and bone, as a new Gardner and it’s working well for me, can I give my plants are banana tea drink as well as using a plant food to top up
I bought blood fish bone & put it round the base of some plants, & dug it into the soil, but foxes love it . What’s an alternative please to this, so plants stay in the soil & are not partly dug up?
Thank you. So helpful.
use english yer foriegn kant
I'm brand new to gardening/allotment work. Acquiring one 2 weeks ago.
Your channel is fantastic I love your videos Ben. Thanks.
Ever used bat guano?
Hi I am new to all this and with your help it has helped me out a lot thank you.
Love watching your video’s wish you could go more in-depth with some of your video’s thank you
What are your thoughts on fish emulsion?
Very nice
Thanx Ben
can you use all of them in a mix or are you supposed to use just one of them?
How about worm cast?
Hi, very nice video. I make my own like Jadams, labs and fermented plant juice.
I always use nettle tea. I jank weeds and chuck them in there too. As it breaks down it smells awful but I dilute it and add it to the second round of watering after the plants have had a good soak first. Also, make sure to harvest nettle before any seeds mature. I have learned that the hard way lol
I love fish, blood and bone for general feeding and liquid seaweed added to my watering schedule once a week. I have the seed now to grow comfrey from next year to take the cost of the seaweed out of my budget. I do give my brasiccas a chicken manure feed once each season and fruit trees bonemeal in the spring
I know about nettle tea… but is there a benefit to putting pulled weeds and other green garden waste matter into a bucket of water to decompose in a similar way and then mix with water to be added to plants? I've been dropping my green garden waste (typically weeds or leaves that are a bit bug damaged) into a bucket of water with the notion that as they break down they should add nutrients to the water which may then be able to be used to help fertilise the garden… does that sound like it would work?
We use fish emulsion, compost, & blood meal.
We encourage worms, as well.
Do you have any particular recommendations for indoor chillies?
This was awesome dude, you're like the David Attenborough of plants…very informative and so easy to listen to…got to give credit to you Poms where it's due…you know how to do informative nature documentaries, it must be in your dna…you're also pretty handy @ producing good bands and your comedy is alright too (although both the latter I attribute to you having such shit weather- trust me I've lived there) but we're still better at cricket in my humble opinion …greetings from down under. Thank you for your videos Sir.
You are confusing synthetic v organic (soil association) and organic v mineral (inorganic). This video is a mess.
If you were to choose just 1 fertilizer for your whole garden would it be chicken pellets? Would that be ideal for everything? Tomatoes, squash, peppers, lettuce, kale, beans, flowers, etc.