Today’s video features 7 ways to overcome the challenge of not having enough compost for growing food, and if you apply all of these 7 methods together you may be able to completely remove the need for compost at all, but that is a more complex idea I will explore at a later date. For now, I really hope this video gives you some tools and tips to allow you to still grow food successfully in the short-term if you ever run out of compost or feel like your plants need something a little extra. Thank you so much for watching!
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Something I can't quite wrap my head around with jadam is that I don't think cultivating bacteria and fungi that liquify plant matter is something I want to do in my garden…
Great tips!!
Thanks!
Huw, I've been flat-out binge-watching all your videos for about 3 weeks. I'm almost 42 and I'm just starting to garden! I was floored when I found out you only recently left childhood, with all you've achieved and your level of expertise. I consider you some kind of superman or new strain of humanity. Lately it's been clear that the world has been bifurcating into a heaven and a hell, and you're the heaven part. Your parents deserve to be pinned with medals and perhaps gifted with several countries to govern wisely, in return for the mind-bending success they had in raising you. You prove that human potential is limitless. People like you will lead us into an unrecognizably changed (for the better) Earth. Usually I feel very little hope for the future, but not when I'm watching your videos. You are everything!!!
If you have to buy mulch, straw from Tractor Supply/feed stores covers more area for cheaper than the dyed recycled pallets you get at the home improvement stores.
Tip to extract liquid from your garden fertilizer barrels.
Bend the metal handle of a sieve upright.
Push it into the liquid fertilizer and with a ladle gather the fertilizer.
Transfer it to a bottle with a funnel.
No debris No spills.
Use discarded kitchen utensils for various jobs in the garden.
Forks to release weeds.
Knives to separate plant roots to grow more plants.
Milk bottles for vertical planting. Using a mop stick and thread, the milk bottles. Then cut the front portion, the part I call 'the chest of the bottle', where your plants will be planted. Make two holes at the bottom front of the milk bottle. For further rows. Aline each milk bottle under the one above so that when watering the discarded water goes to the pot below. Have bottles with a sieve to collect the discarded water from each row.
These bottles will last for at least 5 years in the garden under full sun. Then they need to be discarded.
It gives utensils a longer life in a different part of the house. It works for me very well. Enjoy recycling.
Are you not just putting loads of anaerobic bacteria on your soil?
I want to love JMS and JLF but it is SO smelly. If I get it on my hands, they stink all day even after washing.
Where did you get those lidded blue bins from, what are they called … they're just perfect for tea making
Man, I'm jealous of how many beds, and how tidy your garden is. I've done so much to beat down Bermuda grass in my yard, but that stuff is just as bad as kudzu.
Could I apply JMS to a new compost bin to kick start the process?
Doesn't grass clippings first need to be dried a little before application as mulch?
Agree on the grass clippings. A 10 to 20 centimetre layer has been broken down and put to good use in about a month. The brassicas are growing like crazy!
Better to make some KNF with that comfrey. Best way to use that plant.
Huw ,where did you get them blue barrel from?Will it safe to use used barrel that had be used for cloths dye?
Love your videos but haven't seen any updates on PROJECT LEAC? is there some other place I should be looking?
Love your channel, Huw. It always makes me want to go back to my own garden as soon as possible. I’m fascinated about the jadam fertilizers. Do you know of any trials being done, to compare growth of plants with and without the help of these home-made fertilizers (or perhaps you’ve done some comparison trials yourself)?
Przydałyby się napisy w różnych językach…super kanał, dużo wartościowych informacji
Hey mate, are you sure Jadam is actually doing anything? I tried it a while ago and honestly didn’t find any noticeable difference in plant yield or health… maybe you can do an experiment comparison … cheers
Since watching your videos, I also do drop and chop and grass clipping but have to be careful to do it thinly as I have a slug problem. Also made a fertiliser with grass clippings. I also use comfrey a lot.
Every autumn I put seaweed on.
Hi Huw, watching you all the way from Western Australia. Just wondering, your fertiliser barrels I see have lids on. I thought you had to let the mixture breathe? I would prefer to have a lid on them, but just wanted to check with you. Thank you.
Wow nice
I grow carrots only in raised beds because my clay soil is too heavy for them, so Huw's ideas on meeting the plants with the available soil is reassuring.
Can I come live with you for a month and learn hands on!?
I'm not sure if you've made a video like this before, but if not could you make one about making the various teas and when/for what you specifically use each one. For example, I've seen your dock tea in quite a few videos but wouldn't know when you would use that compared to comfrey or nettle tea.
Sorry if this is a daft question but would hay do the same job as spreading grass clippings? I have raised beds but no lawn so I don't have access to fresh clippings