BLACK KOW MANURE/COMPOST GROW TESTED AGAINST OTHER BRANDS
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Black Kow Manure/Compost is mixed 25% into play sand, and then 3 types of seeds are planted. The same mixture is made from Chicken Manure compost and from Evergreen Cow Manure/compost. A control of 100% play sand is also planted. The results are fascinating for this test.
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Thank you so much! I used Black Kow in my garden this year because I heard nothing but good things about it, WRONG!! My whole garden was stunted, I first thought that it was because of the crazy weather here in Mi 6B cold to hot in a heartbeat. I watch some UA-camrs complain about Black Kow but it was already too late for me. I now have to figure out how to amend my garden soil for next year. Thanks so MUCH for your experiment!
Yep, paying $6.50 or more a bag for wood chips and bark and sticks and rocks and sand maybe mixed with a bit of cow manure that barely is getting better results than play sand was eye opening for me. I'm rethinking my whole gardening methods now. Thanks for watching.
I've been sifting my dirt for years because I noticed the increase in wood products in EVERYTHING. I'm honestly at the point of just buying construction sand (NOT leveler) and peat moss and using just that... half the bags of "dirt " are just wood now, lol.
If you have good, loose garden soil mix, just amend with a slow release fertilizer and mulch. Repeat and add mulch a necessary.
@@stanleymcrae5952 Thanks for the info!
Oh I now wished we had used Neptune also. I have been using Black Kow the last 5 years and have had the worst gardens I have ever had.
I added manure mixture to my seed starting mix and had a really hard time getting the beans and peppers to sprout. Other things sprouted ok, but I won't be using it in the seed starting mix next year.
I buy my soil at a local place that sells it. They mix it themselves and it's really good. I can buy a whole trailer full or a full scoop for $48. I'm not an experienced gardener by any means but my plats are growing like weeds. Loving your channel by way 🎉
Yes, some of the local folks that sell compost or soil know they need to sell a good product or folks won't return. Thanks for watching.
so it looks like sand plus fertilizer would be the best seed starter. that was going to be my experiment for spring.
I have been making my own seed starter mix for several years just using garden soil and bagged compost products. After this experiment, I'll just use homemade compost and garden soil, and I will also use more sand. Thanks for watching.
Interesting 🤔
Black cow killed my plants
I do wonder if some batches have manure from cows that ate grass treated with herbicide, as my test shows some plant stunting.
Just saw your channel. What zone are you in? I’m interested in how those sweet potatoes do growing with your corn. I have a small backyard garden so mixing and succession planting is necessary to get foods for the freezer. Thanks
Thank you. I'm in zone 7 in N. E. Georgia. Unfortunately, my wife went to harvest stems and leaves to eat, and to pull the rooted vines out of the soil so the original planting roots would make larger potatoes, but she forgot that I had planted those in the corn also, so she ripped most of the ones that were in the corn out of the ground and harvested the vines... However, the original 40 something slips I planted for the "turn 1 sweet potato into 100 sweet potatoes" video, are still thriving and I will harvest in late September, so be looking out for that video, as I will dig the remaining 3 or 4 corn spots up then as well.
@@TheBackGardenYard thanks! I’m in zone 7b Memphis I’ll be watching
i always just use a chunk of raw fish in the pot. just before planting.... never have issues of any kind with this method ... no matter what vegetable I plant in it
I have feral cats, possums, and raccoons that would dig up all my plants if I did that, lol. But as I always say, whatever works for you, as there are many ways for garden success.
Great test. I wonder if the bean seeds are still in the one that did not grow at all. Maybe you thought you planted them but did not or an animal got them.
I did not dig around in the empty container to look for the seeds. However, when I planted my green beans this year, I used Evergreen in the rows and had to plant twice to get a good stand. I thought maybe the seeds were bad, but now I believe it was the manure mixture. But I know that in the test they never came up as I checked on them twice a day, and would have noticed a disturbance in the top of the sand/manure mixture.
A while back I started listening to Gary Matsuoka's lectures about the potting soil and topsoil industry over the last 60 years. we've all fallen away from how plants grow (in dirt, with decaying matter on TOP of the soil) and instead focus on their "needs" (fertilizer, "nutrition") to the point of oversaturation and overconsumption. Black Kow doesn't exactly have herbicides, but what happens is it becomes very anerobic (sometimes has very low pH) and has a lot of stuff that builds up, which is toxic to plants. Thats the kind of stuff that causes ROOT ROT and is best not mixed into soil directly (I hear squash and "heavy feeders" like it?), so if anything its better as a top dress.
I actually have tried using it as a top dressing, but it attracted huge amounts of "rolly polly" bugs and slugs when I used it that way. I also tried planting directly into the Black Kow used 100% as an additive down the row, and the bugs destroyed the roots. So when I used it the last few years, I would put it in my rows, then till it in very well as a soil conditioner, and as I mentioned in the video, I also used 10-10-10 to feed the plants. My gardens have been very successful using this method, but after this experiment, I believe I could have likely plowed in wood chips and bark, which I can get for free, and likely had as good of a garden just using the 10 10 10 . I also had beans come up this year that looked exactly like the beans in the video, in the manure mixtures.
They ended up making a good crop, however I think they would have sprouted much better if I had just planted them in plain soil, and fertilized later. Thanks for the post, maybe if I mixed the manure mixture with garden soil, then top dressed, that would work and keep the bugs from taking over? We just continue to learn, don't we?
@@TheBackGardenYard I noticed the mention of 10-10-10, I use Dynagro Green and Bloom but at separate times of the growing phases (maybe every two weeks, i don't have a real schedule). I've dug in Black Kow a couple of times and with lackluster results even with foliar feed, and I know the situation you're talking about. It's true about learning, even when we think we know everything about a subject, something will always take us my surprise.
Hi, thank you for showing us this. Looks like making your own compost is best. Black Kow has gotten really bad, homestead heart gardening Channel and some others lost whole crops after adding it in the garden. I make my own planting mix for my containers and am at a loss of what amendments to use in my planting mix😒
I agree. After this test and the manure test videos that I linked at the end of this video, I am really thinking that we are mostly paying big money for ground up bark and wood chips, with a little manure mixed in. I am also thinking, as several folks have told me, that the cow manure may contain herbicides that the fields were sprayed with to rid bad weeds, as the green beans looked very stunted as they came out of the ground in the manure mixture. I may repeat this test next spring, using different bagged soils and potting mixtures, just to see how they do. Thanks for watching.
be careful if you make your own compost with anything like chicken, cow, or horse dung that has been fed with standard brand-name feeds or sprayed hays. I've learned that NON-ORGANIC chicken feed has herbicides inside of it (I found out the hard way).
Thank you for all of the work you did to put this together-very interesting! I have switched to mushroom compost when I can get it because the evergreen and black kow weren't giving the results that I have had in the past. Great video-thanks for sharing.
Thanks - yes I was very curious myself about how this would turn out. The results made me wish I had done this test years ago, lol. Thanks for watching.
Black kow is 95% wood chips this year . Prior years it was 80% real cow Manure compost with 20% sand and wood chips. I dont know why or how they are getting away with this . I am very disappointed this year ,
@@cubanb5401 It certainly has changed over the years. Likely they had to change the formula in order to service all the big box stores that now carry their product.
Wow thank you for the video and information.
Thank you back. Yes, this was the hardest video I have made yet, but I feel it was likely one of the most important as for showing important information.
Great vid & info. So now I’m thinking would bone & blood meal be better?
I have always used the compost products to build up my soil, as I started out with about 90% clay and sand in the garden. I have always used 10 10 10 or similar fertilizers throughout the growing season to "boost" my plants, but now I realize that most of the nutrition they were getting was coming from the fertilizer and not from the compost, except that that I make myself in my own compost bins. So the bone and blood meal would likely be better, but you still will need a supplement of extra nitrogen, imo.
@@TheBackGardenYard same Alabama red clay
at what time do you add bone or blood meal? and why would you use one or the other for certain seeds or plants? I dont know anything about these ammenders thanks
@@aeastman59 These are slaughterhouse byproducts from animals and I don't use them. I would google them as there is a lot of info online about them. They are good additives for slow release fertilizer, and the bone meal should be added before you plant, and adds phosphorus and calcium to the soil. The blood meal would be an organic nitrogen booster for the plants and I'd add it after the plants are up. Be sure not to use too much of these products, as they break down over 3 to 4 months. Also make sure to mix it in well with the soil, don't just throw it on top as it could attract animals that might dig in it. The products are expensive, but if cost is not an issue and you want to stay organic, you might want to try them.