GENIUS!!! I have a natural wood area right outside my back fence, but I couldn’t even think of going outside to collect fallen leaves or forage for mushrooms or berries. What the heck was wrong with me?! THANK YOU! This video you posted right on time, as I am building my organic garden. It’s a bit of challenging, I think, as I live in Alaska, but you gave me such a good point on how to start it right from the very beginning. Thank you again. Please post more videos.
Just starting out a natural farming project, having zero experience, it is a bliss to watch a man at my age, in a company-free hymn to to traditional way of living / farming. You are the best man, respect from a new superfan XX
my uncle up until the day he got sick with cancer never rotated his crops in his garden, even grew spuds in the same place year after year and never had issues with disease or pests and always produced really good veges. for tomatoes at the end of season we would hack up the pulled plants, leave them to dry for a couple days, then clean out all the hay from the chicken coop and id dig all of it through the garden the tomatoes grew in then new hay on top till it was time to plant more plants. his tomatoes were absolutely delicious and produced more than you could shake a stick at. we used to eat them like apples as kids haha.
I'm so glad I watched this before I finished turning over my garden beds! I'll be fertilizing and breaking down last years dead plants to incorperate into the soil instead of pulling them up and tossing them into the weed pile.
Do not turn over the garden beds just aerate with a pitch fork. You do not want to disturb the microbes in the soil. Turning your soil will also bring all the weed seeds to the top where they can get sun and grow. pour all the organic material over it and cover with a black plastic or landscaping material. You could do this 2 or 3 months before planting or overwinter. I keep the landscaping material on all year even plant through it and use wood chips in the walk paths for a weedless garden.
I know a fellow who does natural hydroponics. He has a big, boggy pond that he uses as a reservoir, and adds JADAM style liquid to his feed mix. He does hybrid ebb and flow, and uses a secondary pond as his primary nutrient reserve. He tells me he has to adjust the mix DOWN with distilled water because it's so powerful. The ancients knew. :-)
I use everything as a natural fertilizer. Every kind of fruit and vegetable that gets peeled becomes fertilizer, there is no trash. Everything in the garden that gets cut, it goes at the base of my trees. It becomes natural compost to keep the moisture in the soil around the trees. Evaporation is good for the leaves but bad for soil. The ground around my trees are covered in leaves, fallen fruit, cut grass, cut branches etc. This really helps in a hot climate.
Thank you so much for the great recipe. I tried a similar about one and a half years ago and still have it. Didn’t use it because I was scared that it became too old. I will add few more nettles like you do and some moldy dirt and see what happens. I followed the recipe from the Jadam book with plants I had in the garden: nettles, tithonia Diversifolia, comfrey and hymalayain salt. It was stinking like crazy. Not sure the ratios I should use now since it’s so old, but I will add the dirt and more nettles and use it next week. I used the other Jadam recipe with the potato and leaf mold on a new flower bed and man! The results were amazing! The soil was literally white under the mulch with the fungi network newly formed in less than a week. Soil broke down, ready to plant and all the plants thrived. And I have a clay soil (South Carolina). I’m a firm believer in this Jadam.
I’m glad you tried the JADAM method and you liked it so much! I believe it’s a great way of gardening and learning not only about how to make a garden thrive but how nature’s working! The older the JLF, the better 😊
Your videos are so smoothly edited and high quality. I am definitely kicking up my natural soil inputs this year, with nettles, seaweed, wild comfrey and leaves. Hoping to experiment with compost tea as well!
@@SpicyMoustache Does this stink like comfrey tea? I’m thinking of making it today since I’m off to Epping Forest behind my house later. I’m hoping the addition of forest microbes will help make this liquid less smelly?
Great explanation of the Jadam practice with making of JNS. I am a medical plant home grower here in the USA, and I'm on my first batch of JNS. I used flowering parts from last harvest and vegetative leaves for what I'd like to think if as a 4-4-4. I took out the ppm meter and there was a reading. As if I was growing hydro. I got it to 750 ppm fed the plants and boy I wish I could show you pictures. Just the most beautiful frosty girls I've ever grown. I have combined the KNF fruit ferment called FFJ (fermented fruit juice) and I went from a non believer to I'll never use anything else again!
This is similar to a method I was shown. Except I didn't use leaf mould. I also used a lot more nettles. So fill a 10-12 litre bucket with nettles then get a log and pound them down (like a big mortar and pestle). Repeat the process until the nettles have reached at least half the bucket. Then add water until the bucket is about three quarter full, cover loosely, and leave for a couple of weeks. The end result will stink to high hell, but it's a great fertilizer and brings dead dirt to life. Don't use the fertilizer as is though. Dilute about 20% with water when feeding. Because it smells so bad, I dig a small hole or holes and water into the hole, then cover the hole with the soil I just dug out. You won't smell it afterwards.
That’s another great method to use it and it will work for sure! However, I recommend to add the leaf mould because it contains the same microorganisms that nature’s use to decompose the leaf falling on the ground. This will just speed up the process and you’ll be able to use it sooner 😊 thank you for sharing your way of doing it
He's done his homework and thought about sustainability. Don't worry too much about NPK, as long as your organic fertilizer has a good mix and balance of organic materials, rainwater and nutrients. This is quite sufficient - without chemicals - for the home gardener and sometimes for market gardeners. Look instead for what your plants need, and at what you need for your health and nutrition. In the summer months, enough organic compost bins and rainwater to sustain your gardens will produce green dung and fertilizer quite quickly. NPK is important, but so are the quality and nutritional contents in edible plants. For example, the run-off 'dark liquid' - sometimes wasted - from your organic compost bins, is one of the best fertilizers you could wish for. Don't waste it. Plants in close proximity to compost bins - and fertilized by their products - will thrive and become top quality nutritious products, especially for people who don't eat meat and dairy.
I've been rereading masanobu fukuoka's one straw revolution for the same concept also land race gardening..ive been working on saving seeds and growing without weeding n using this very method to build the mycrorhysals in the soil.i love the simple easy way you explain
A good and well edited video mate. Organic gardening is nothing new and neither are Jadam (early 1990s) or organic fertilizers. NPK (nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium) is not necessarily "over-complicated...depriving people of confidence"; it is vital for plants and crops which cannot grow without them. Gardeners and young people need to know this. For that reason, NPK is often considered to have the most important nutrients in agriculture. This has been taught in colleges and schools for a very long time as part of the education process.
Thank you for your feedback mate! I absolutely agree with you and I hope that over the next years we will be able to connect people a bit better to the ancient way of producing nutrients and nurturing plants.
@@SpicyMoustache More natural methods that are kinder to wildlife and to the environment 👍 Pesticides, chemicals and animal products are not so kind to nature nor to us humans. Keep up the good work and best wishes to you.
Thanks Spicy. I saw you on the Charles' IG feed, so I was a little suprised to find this video as part of my JADAM research. I am happy to have found this video, because I am on a journey to jadam
Awesome overview! I have 2 buckets of stuff that I started a little over 2 years ago that is just waiting to be filtered. I live in Thailand and regularly practice both KNF and JADAM amongst other things. Well done!
@@SpicyMoustache can you recommend any books on jadam or KNF? I’m looking to start implementing them in my allotment and your videos are great but I kind of need a step by step from the beginning to end if that makes sense… Thanks!
Looooove it! Thank you! Are there any precautions needed when using fertilizer and compost or compost tea? Is there a possibility of putting too much "stuff" in the soil??
Man this was such a great take/ synopsis of the book.. I like the anaerobic vs aerobic part of it and how technology and expensive purchases have overwhelmed common-sense practices (sucking the fun out of it) while draining wallets ... Also, is that why you left the lid on slightly cracked, to make anaerobic conditions?.. Instead of placing some sort of screen cover on the bucket to let air in.. Thanks again man.. This is a really great service to people looking to get into gardening.. I learned a lot from it
Hey, great channel, videos and content! Does it matter in what season you collect the mould? I wanted to make a tomatoe fertilizer now in the summer time and wondering if the season matters.. thank you!
For water, I could start collecting snow (we are close to breaking snow records, here) in my many buckets and use that water as much as possible to create the fertilizer.
I am looking for an organic fertiliser for my lawn, and as far as I can see, I should gather up some grass and soil from a forest and make a kind of soup to feed my lawn. Is this correct, and if so, what ratio should I use to feed my lawn? Thanks in advance.
Hi, I am a new subscriber of today :)…. I live in s. California. Not sure if we have nettle here. If we do have, probably don’t recognize them. You mentioned about making fertilizer from tomatoes, how? Do you have a video of that? Thx!
Hello, thank you for subbing! Just follow the same recipe I used on JADAM liquid fertiliser using the tomato plant and you’ll have a high nutritional fertiliser and full of microorganisms activity :)
Thank you I started t grow on a large scale in 1978 I never heard abut rotating I never did, I never had any problems I still don't, I have many perennials so where is the need?
You are the first UA-camr I watch the add to the end just to support your awesome work! Is there a possibility to support you other whise ? Greetings from Germany
I'm sorry, but again, you did a great job of teaching how to make it (I assume that I can scale up production for my farm) but not how to use it. Do you have a video on how to use these products? I have a 10 acre farm (about 4 hectares I believe) with clay soil that has been uses for decades for growing rice. The soil is basically dead. Can I use JDM and JMS to solve this problem or will I have to use chemicals and commercial additives?
There is no need to use chemicals. I’d suggest to use IMO and transform it into IMO3 or IMO4 to rejuvenate your soil. You can also apply other natural inputs like JMS in combination to IMO to re activate the soil web
I don’t have rainwater this time of year in Kansas it I do have pond water that came from the rain that collects mostly from my pasture where my cows run. No chemical fertilizers or pesticides. And I have a woodlot that I might find some dry leaf mould residue. Will it work?
Great video! Would this mixture underwater go anaerobic or produce methane/smelly gasses? When i was innoculating my charcoal, sources stressed the importance of keeping the water aerated with a bubbler so bad bacteria doesn't form. From what I understand this is a fermentation though, so I'm guessing the good anaerobic bacteria overpower the disease causing ones. Thanks again!
Hey, apologies for the late reply but your comment was lost in between other comments! Yes, they produce smelly gasses due to the fermentation process. It is recommended to embrace the biodiversity of the whole microorganisms activity without excluding anaerobic or aerobic. In this way, no disease will take over your plants.
Thanks for the video! I am currently experimenting with JMS and JLH and incorporation into Hydroponics. I'd like to replace "nutrient water" with something more sustainable and cheaper. I was contemplating trying JMS and/or JLH to replace nutrient water in my hydroponics system. The issue I may run into is I use varieties of plants that feed from the same nutrient water. I don't know if anyone's tried this but haven't found much on the internet to understand if it would be feasible. Thoughts?
Mmm that could be a really good experience. I honestly never tried to use hydroponics and KNF combined but in my opinion you’d need soil or similar substrate to inoculate and develop and good soil web which will multiply and thrive nurturing your plants. However, I’m completely unaware of any implication in the hydroponic field so it would be interesting to experiment :)
How can I recognize witch one is nettles plant in the wild? Does the plant have a distinctive smell? Can I grow it in my garden? Would it have same nutrients as the plant in the wild? thank you!😊
I made my one for the first time in what I think is a little too big for an experiment! I used an old 10000 liters tank.. it now stinks a lot! And my neighbor is complaining! Thank god I live in Thailand and I will not get sued! I sealed as much as possible but it still smells a bit. is it true that adding sugar will fix the smell? BTW the plants are looking amazing since I used it! I just would like to fix the smell. I will move the tank to another spot when it will be empty. It is too full and heavy right now!
Hi there! I've seen you on reddit for a while and just discovered your youtube channel! Thanks for putting out these informative videos. I have a question and a comment. When you harvest the nettles, are you extracting the entire plant? or just taking cuttings? Where I live (the westcoast of BC, Canada) nettles are just starting to pop up, which is my favourite time of year. As we live on indigenous land here, we take an offering of dried tobacco before we harvest anything from the forest and sprinkle it on the ground from which we take. Thanks again :)
Hello, thank you for joining the channel! When harvesting nettles, I look for new shots so the beginning of spring it’s absolutely perfect to harvest them. It’s really interesting about the offering of dry tobacco, I had no idea about it. Thank you for sharing 😊
Hello! I was watching the JAdam video from Korea and the gentleman said something about using leafmold, seasalt, and boiled potatoes. Have you tried that method? And what if you live in the desert? I don't have access to leaf mold. At least not around where I live. What I do have is Russian Thistle (the plant that creates tumble weeds). Those things are remarkable how quickly they grow
Hello, yes it’s called JMS and I made a video all about i on my channel. It’s a great method to collect and improve the amount of microorganisms in your soil. If you don’t have leaf mould you can simply grab a bag, stuff it with dry leaves and a few holes at the bottom. Keep it in a cool dark place and it will slowly turn into leaf mould. Use what’s around your area, no need to use the same things that I used ;)
@@SpicyMoustache Kevin at Epic Gardening was right. YOU ARE THE MAN!!! 💗💗💗 Thanks! Found some leafmold! And started the weed fertilizer with the tumbleweed plant. Have already started the other videos. 🤠
It’s great! There’s an input called FAA (fish amino acid) made using Korean natural farming. It takes a minimum of 6 months to make it but it’s worth the wait. I think it’s a really great thing to add to your garden 😊
I have a question regarding aeration. All the information I see is quite obsessed about aeration of soil, compost and in the brewing of composts teas. I know this is a different thing to compost teas. Are the leaf mould organisms suited to life in unoxygenatef water? I don't doubt the method. I've seen it work, I'm just kind of wondering how the two approaches are so different but get such good results
Well that’s a good question! It’s a combination of aerobic and anaerobic organisms but mostly anaerobic. The concept of using this is so the water goes deep into the soil. It has be studied that if you dig under your soil, the presence of oxygen decrease a lot by just a few cm. This means that most microorganisms thriving in your soil after the first layers of soil, will be anaerobic microorganisms.
Glad you put a timeline at the bottom, your words are hard to understand sometimes. I had no idea you were saying "Nettles"....be mindful of saying words carefully
Alessandro, you mention unchlorinated water in the final section. I have a community garden that uses city water at the spigots and where rain water collection might meet with resistance. Do you have any suggestions for how to ensure reliable access to unchlorinated water?
Boogie brew filter, especially if you are in the United States as a lot of water departments in different cities put chloramine in the water that has to be removed with a filter. It will not evaporate out of the water.
I would like to jump in here. My home is supplied by city, chlorinated water...i have made JMS in as little as 24 hours using it, without letting it sit for 24 hours to gas off. If you are lazy like i am....using chlorinated water may only set back the microbes 12 hours or so. Its probably better to let it off gas, but i water my whole homestead with it, because i have not set up rainwater collection yet, and have not yet had any problems with micro or macroorganisms or fungi.
Can I consume the different Jadam liquid fertilizers before using it in the soil? It has to be extremely good for our body to consume but will my body break it down before It absorbs the nutrients? I cannot find this information anywhere please help!
@@SpicyMoustache thanks! I've got some purslane that's been 'brewing' for over two weeks now, I'll give it a try next week. I've been on a once a week schedule, JMS, FPJ and now this.
In the case of commercial-sized agricultural plant sites - Crop residue from highly genetically modified or chemically treated crops, however, would likely lead to unknown soil impact with unpredictable long term effects... 🙁
If I cant use all of the solution at once, will it last for awhile or does it have a short shelf life? Let's say I have a pint left over, can I add a ton of brown sugar to it to make a paste to make it shelf stable like the LAB solutions?
It just gets stronger leave it in the bucket no need to do anything special. Can keep a bucket going pretty much forever if you just keep adding leaf mould and your plant material/water as you use it. There's a book called jadam organic farming if you want more info.
It is confusing. Huw Richards (Welsh no-dig grower + author) said 1:10 ratio into watering can after 2 weeks for Jadam made w weeds. Especially nettles. How can, after 7 days, Alessandra say, 1:100 ratio. Doesn’t make sense. Surely, after 7 days, it’s pretty mild. Mine’s (Epping Forest leaf mould, nettles + unchlorinated water mix) been 4 days in a bucket with lid & it doesn’t even stink - yet.
I want to know what would happen if I mix Jadam organic leaves fertilizer with leave mold and mix it with the Jadam fish fertlizer with leave mold will that be the ultimate fertiizer??? Or should I not mix the two? I have so many different fruit tree leaves in my Jadam fertilizer liquid but I'm wondering if I should also add fish???? What should I do?
First of all, not everyone wants to use their own pee as fertiliser for the garden. Second, it’s not easy at all! Pee is 4 times reacher in nitrogen than any other nutrient, this means that’s absolutely easy to reach toxic level for your plants in your soil. There’s not a precise dilution to be used and pee is not the same for everyone as the concentration of nutrients and other minerals changes depending on your diet. Using pee it’s neither good or easier compared to JLF.
@@SpicyMoustache so i will at the end of the garden season have lots of potatoe plants, the stuff thats thrown away, is that ok to chop up and put back into the garden ? i figured it would invite disease, thanks in advance
@@TheMississauga333 I don’t know how healthy Korean potatoes are but I wouldn’t do it with potato plants in UK (mind, ours are full of diseases + they are often not as healthy as our comfrey, nettles and dandelions). Best to compost-heat our potato residue - that’s my guess.
GENIUS!!! I have a natural wood area right outside my back fence, but I couldn’t even think of going outside to collect fallen leaves or forage for mushrooms or berries. What the heck was wrong with me?! THANK YOU! This video you posted right on time, as I am building my organic garden. It’s a bit of challenging, I think, as I live in Alaska, but you gave me such a good point on how to start it right from the very beginning. Thank you again. Please post more videos.
Just starting out a natural farming project, having zero experience, it is a bliss to watch a man at my age, in a company-free hymn to to traditional way of living / farming. You are the best man, respect from a new superfan XX
Thank you so much man! Congrats on your project, I look forward to hearing some updates from you 😊
my uncle up until the day he got sick with cancer never rotated his crops in his garden, even grew spuds in the same place year after year and never had issues with disease or pests and always produced really good veges.
for tomatoes at the end of season we would hack up the pulled plants, leave them to dry for a couple days, then clean out all the hay from the chicken coop and id dig all of it through the garden the tomatoes grew in then new hay on top till it was time to plant more plants. his tomatoes were absolutely delicious and produced more than you could shake a stick at. we used to eat them like apples as kids haha.
I'm so glad I watched this before I finished turning over my garden beds! I'll be fertilizing and breaking down last years dead plants to incorperate into the soil instead of pulling them up and tossing them into the weed pile.
Hey, apologies for the late reply! That’s great, they are absolutely awesome to be “recycled” for future use in your garden 😊
Do not turn over the garden beds just aerate with a pitch fork. You do not want to disturb the microbes in the soil. Turning your soil will also bring all the weed seeds to the top where they can get sun and grow. pour all the organic material over it and cover with a black plastic or landscaping material. You could do this 2 or 3 months before planting or overwinter. I keep the landscaping material on all year even plant through it and use wood chips in the walk paths for a weedless garden.
I love ur mindset
"Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better"
That’s it! This is a great point of view on nature! 😊
I just can thank you for keep making your videos mate, I admire the effort you put into each one to keep the highest quality possible!
Thank you so much mate, I’m happy you noticed it and appreciate your support 😊
I know a fellow who does natural hydroponics. He has a big, boggy pond that he uses as a reservoir, and adds JADAM style liquid to his feed mix. He does hybrid ebb and flow, and uses a secondary pond as his primary nutrient reserve.
He tells me he has to adjust the mix DOWN with distilled water because it's so powerful. The ancients knew. :-)
I use everything as a natural fertilizer. Every kind of fruit and vegetable that gets peeled becomes fertilizer, there is no trash. Everything in the garden that gets cut, it goes at the base of my trees. It becomes natural compost to keep the moisture in the soil around the trees. Evaporation is good for the leaves but bad for soil. The ground around my trees are covered in leaves, fallen fruit, cut grass, cut branches etc. This really helps in a hot climate.
Moro no Brasil e sou apaixonada por estes fertilizantes, gratidão ❤❤
Thank you so much for the great recipe. I tried a similar about one and a half years ago and still have it. Didn’t use it because I was scared that it became too old. I will add few more nettles like you do and some moldy dirt and see what happens. I followed the recipe from the Jadam book with plants I had in the garden: nettles, tithonia Diversifolia, comfrey and hymalayain salt. It was stinking like crazy. Not sure the ratios I should use now since it’s so old, but I will add the dirt and more nettles and use it next week. I used the other Jadam recipe with the potato and leaf mold on a new flower bed and man! The results were amazing! The soil was literally white under the mulch with the fungi network newly formed in less than a week. Soil broke down, ready to plant and all the plants thrived. And I have a clay soil (South Carolina). I’m a firm believer in this Jadam.
I’m glad you tried the JADAM method and you liked it so much! I believe it’s a great way of gardening and learning not only about how to make a garden thrive but how nature’s working! The older the JLF, the better 😊
Your videos are so smoothly edited and high quality. I am definitely kicking up my natural soil inputs this year, with nettles, seaweed, wild comfrey and leaves. Hoping to experiment with compost tea as well!
Thank you very much mate 😊 that’s great, especially comfrey and alfalfa are absolutely awesome for the garden!
@@SpicyMoustache Does this stink like comfrey tea? I’m thinking of making it today since I’m off to Epping Forest behind my house later. I’m hoping the addition of forest microbes will help make this liquid less smelly?
Empowering AND educating others - pretty powerful combination! Well done!
Great explanation of the Jadam practice with making of JNS. I am a medical plant home grower here in the USA, and I'm on my first batch of JNS. I used flowering parts from last harvest and vegetative leaves for what I'd like to think if as a 4-4-4. I took out the ppm meter and there was a reading. As if I was growing hydro. I got it to 750 ppm fed the plants and boy I wish I could show you pictures. Just the most beautiful frosty girls I've ever grown. I have combined the KNF fruit ferment called FFJ (fermented fruit juice) and I went from a non believer to I'll never use anything else again!
I know the feeling, it happens pretty much the same to me with vegetables! Thank you for sharing this 😊
This is similar to a method I was shown. Except I didn't use leaf mould. I also used a lot more nettles. So fill a 10-12 litre bucket with nettles then get a log and pound them down (like a big mortar and pestle). Repeat the process until the nettles have reached at least half the bucket. Then add water until the bucket is about three quarter full, cover loosely, and leave for a couple of weeks. The end result will stink to high hell, but it's a great fertilizer and brings dead dirt to life. Don't use the fertilizer as is though. Dilute about 20% with water when feeding. Because it smells so bad, I dig a small hole or holes and water into the hole, then cover the hole with the soil I just dug out. You won't smell it afterwards.
That’s another great method to use it and it will work for sure! However, I recommend to add the leaf mould because it contains the same microorganisms that nature’s use to decompose the leaf falling on the ground. This will just speed up the process and you’ll be able to use it sooner 😊 thank you for sharing your way of doing it
He's done his homework and thought about sustainability. Don't worry too much about NPK, as long as your organic fertilizer has a good mix and balance of organic materials, rainwater and nutrients. This is quite sufficient - without chemicals - for the home gardener and sometimes for market gardeners. Look instead for what your plants need, and at what you need for your health and nutrition. In the summer months, enough organic compost bins and rainwater to sustain your gardens will produce green dung and fertilizer quite quickly. NPK is important, but so are the quality and nutritional contents in edible plants. For example, the run-off 'dark liquid' - sometimes wasted - from your organic compost bins, is one of the best fertilizers you could wish for. Don't waste it. Plants in close proximity to compost bins - and fertilized by their products - will thrive and become top quality nutritious products, especially for people who don't eat meat and dairy.
Thank you for sharing this, appreciate your support. That’s a great tip about the compost bin!
You're welcome. Keep up the good work :)
Most informative gardening video on the Internet.
I've been rereading masanobu fukuoka's one straw revolution for the same concept also land race gardening..ive been working on saving seeds and growing without weeding n using this very method to build the mycrorhysals in the soil.i love the simple easy way you explain
A good and well edited video mate. Organic gardening is nothing new and neither are Jadam (early 1990s) or organic fertilizers. NPK (nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium) is not necessarily "over-complicated...depriving people of confidence"; it is vital for plants and crops which cannot grow without them. Gardeners and young people need to know this. For that reason, NPK is often considered to have the most important nutrients in agriculture. This has been taught in colleges and schools for a very long time as part of the education process.
Thank you for your feedback mate! I absolutely agree with you and I hope that over the next years we will be able to connect people a bit better to the ancient way of producing nutrients and nurturing plants.
@@SpicyMoustache More natural methods that are kinder to wildlife and to the environment 👍 Pesticides, chemicals and animal products are not so kind to nature nor to us humans. Keep up the good work and best wishes to you.
Thanks. I'm reading the book now. Your video is a concentration of the book. Good work. Thanks
I use, your idea, for my house.
Thank. Greetings from Ciudad Juárez. México
Hello, that’s awesome! I’m happy that you use it for your garden :)
Thanks Spicy. I saw you on the Charles' IG feed, so I was a little suprised to find this video as part of my JADAM research. I am happy to have found this video, because I am on a journey to jadam
Welcome aboard! =)
i just about jadam, love the free idea as well as great nutrition for the soil, keep up the great work.
Awesome, thank you for that common sense explanation! 👍
Awesome overview! I have 2 buckets of stuff that I started a little over 2 years ago that is just waiting to be filtered. I live in Thailand and regularly practice both KNF and JADAM amongst other things. Well done!
Thank you so much, I’m happy you liked it :)
2 years ago?? What would be the difference with a month-old FPJ ?
@@3bouldersurban653 I would think greater microbe population, but we would have to look under a microscope to be sure.
@@3bouldersurban653 its at its best at 2yrs.but yoy can start using after a month
Righteous, bro! 👍🏼
Thank you man! 🙏🏻
This is a great video! Thanks for teaching me about this.
I love your videos they make KNF and other natural methods really simple!
Thank you so much mate 🙏🏻
@@SpicyMoustache can you recommend any books on jadam or KNF? I’m looking to start implementing them in my allotment and your videos are great but I kind of need a step by step from the beginning to end if that makes sense…
Thanks!
Looooove it! Thank you! Are there any precautions needed when using fertilizer and compost or compost tea? Is there a possibility of putting too much "stuff" in the soil??
I’m happy you like it! that’s another great thing that I didn’t mention and thank you for asking. No need to worry about over fertilisation at all 😊
Man this was such a great take/ synopsis of the book.. I like the anaerobic vs aerobic part of it and how technology and expensive purchases have overwhelmed common-sense practices (sucking the fun out of it) while draining wallets ... Also, is that why you left the lid on slightly cracked, to make anaerobic conditions?.. Instead of placing some sort of screen cover on the bucket to let air in.. Thanks again man.. This is a really great service to people looking to get into gardening.. I learned a lot from it
awesome advice and research! Thank you for the video!
Thank you mate, appreciate it 😊
Great video. Thank you for sharing!
No worries, I’m happy you enjoyed it! :)
Very interesting, thanks for making 👍🏻
Thank you for checking the video, I’m Happy you liked it 😊
Awesome, I will try that too!
Sounds great, let me know how it goes :)
Discovered you recently, keep it up mate, well done
Much appreciated! Thank you for the support =)
I love being stung by nettles 😍🥰👀🌱
Thank you, very useful and interesting
Glad it was helpful!
Hey, great channel, videos and content! Does it matter in what season you collect the mould? I wanted to make a tomatoe fertilizer now in the summer time and wondering if the season matters.. thank you!
Great video, thanks a million. Is it ok to use this on salad crops, or do i need to be extra careful when washing them to eat, thanks.
Gracias, desde España 🇪🇦👏👏👏
Just stumbled on your channel and, I like it. You got my sub man :)
For water, I could start collecting snow (we are close to breaking snow records, here) in my many buckets and use that water as much as possible to create the fertilizer.
I am looking for an organic fertiliser for my lawn, and as far as I can see, I should gather up some grass and soil from a forest and make a kind of soup to feed my lawn. Is this correct, and if so, what ratio should I use to feed my lawn? Thanks in advance.
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Haha cheers mate! :)
cool! thanks so much. so, if i have a flower garden i could do this with the leafs of this same flowers to return the nutrients to them?
Yes, that’s correct :) plants at its Peak have all the nutrients needed to nurture the same plant from seed to finish
@@SpicyMoustache Cool!
Great video!
Hi, I am a new subscriber of today :)…. I live in s. California. Not sure if we have nettle here. If we do have, probably don’t recognize them. You mentioned about making fertilizer from tomatoes, how? Do you have a video of that? Thx!
Hello, thank you for subbing! Just follow the same recipe I used on JADAM liquid fertiliser using the tomato plant and you’ll have a high nutritional fertiliser and full of microorganisms activity :)
Thank you for making such a informative video. How often we have to use madam liquid fertiliser. Please advice.
I’m happy you like it :) it depends on the plant material used and on which plant. I’d suggest as a general rule every few weeks
Is there books you can suggest for jadam gardening?
Thank you I started t grow on a large scale in 1978 I never heard abut rotating I never did, I never had any problems I still don't, I have many perennials so where is the need?
You are the first UA-camr I watch the add to the end just to support your awesome work!
Is there a possibility to support you other whise ?
Greetings from Germany
Thank you so much mate, your support over my channel it’s more than enough and I really appreciate it 😊
I'm sorry, but again, you did a great job of teaching how to make it (I assume that I can scale up production for my farm) but not how to use it. Do you have a video on how to use these products? I have a 10 acre farm (about 4 hectares I believe) with clay soil that has been uses for decades for growing rice. The soil is basically dead. Can I use JDM and JMS to solve this problem or will I have to use chemicals and commercial additives?
There is no need to use chemicals. I’d suggest to use IMO and transform it into IMO3 or IMO4 to rejuvenate your soil. You can also apply other natural inputs like JMS in combination to IMO to re activate the soil web
Just found your Channel and want to try it .. have a question ... What other plants can be used beside Nettles ? They don't grow here . Great Info!
nice stuff man thanks
great video what dilution do i use thanks
I don’t have rainwater this time of year in Kansas it I do have pond water that came from the rain that collects mostly from my pasture where my cows run. No chemical fertilizers or pesticides. And I have a woodlot that I might find some dry leaf mould residue. Will it work?
Great video! Would this mixture underwater go anaerobic or produce methane/smelly gasses? When i was innoculating my charcoal, sources stressed the importance of keeping the water aerated with a bubbler so bad bacteria doesn't form. From what I understand this is a fermentation though, so I'm guessing the good anaerobic bacteria overpower the disease causing ones. Thanks again!
Hey, apologies for the late reply but your comment was lost in between other comments! Yes, they produce smelly gasses due to the fermentation process. It is recommended to embrace the biodiversity of the whole microorganisms activity without excluding anaerobic or aerobic. In this way, no disease will take over your plants.
Thanks for the video! I am currently experimenting with JMS and JLH and incorporation into Hydroponics. I'd like to replace "nutrient water" with something more sustainable and cheaper. I was contemplating trying JMS and/or JLH to replace nutrient water in my hydroponics system. The issue I may run into is I use varieties of plants that feed from the same nutrient water. I don't know if anyone's tried this but haven't found much on the internet to understand if it would be feasible. Thoughts?
Mmm that could be a really good experience. I honestly never tried to use hydroponics and KNF combined but in my opinion you’d need soil or similar substrate to inoculate and develop and good soil web which will multiply and thrive nurturing your plants. However, I’m completely unaware of any implication in the hydroponic field so it would be interesting to experiment :)
How can I recognize witch one is nettles plant in the wild? Does the plant have a distinctive smell? Can I grow it in my garden? Would it have same nutrients as the plant in the wild? thank you!😊
Great stuff although I would paint your containers black so they absorb the heat and speed up the process.
Good point, I might work on that next.
Just started a 1/3 acre organic garden
Should the JLF smell? Ours does!!!
Hey, that’s great to hear! Yes, it does smell depending on what you use but it will be well worthy 😊
Brilliant, nothing beats nature, it's perfectly designed. 💚 Sharing again on incredible edible Boscombe, thanks ☮️💟
Absolutely true! Thank you for your support 😊😊
@@SpicyMoustache thank you for fantastic content! It takes a village 🌟
I made my one for the first time in what I think is a little too big for an experiment! I used an old 10000 liters tank.. it now stinks a lot! And my neighbor is complaining! Thank god I live in Thailand and I will not get sued! I sealed as much as possible but it still smells a bit. is it true that adding sugar will fix the smell? BTW the plants are looking amazing since I used it! I just would like to fix the smell. I will move the tank to another spot when it will be empty. It is too full and heavy right now!
I was just in the forest getting a bunch of leaf mulch for jadam fish fertilizer and microbial solution
The leaf mold I harvested from the bush behind my backyard
tested at 100PPM very weak stuff but possibly
high in microbes nothing else good for tbh
It doesn’t have to be high in nutrients but just in microorganisms concentration
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Hi there! I've seen you on reddit for a while and just discovered your youtube channel!
Thanks for putting out these informative videos. I have a question and a comment.
When you harvest the nettles, are you extracting the entire plant? or just taking cuttings?
Where I live (the westcoast of BC, Canada) nettles are just starting to pop up, which is my favourite time of year. As we live on indigenous land here, we take an offering of dried tobacco before we harvest anything from the forest and sprinkle it on the ground from which we take.
Thanks again :)
Hello, thank you for joining the channel! When harvesting nettles, I look for new shots so the beginning of spring it’s absolutely perfect to harvest them. It’s really interesting about the offering of dry tobacco, I had no idea about it. Thank you for sharing 😊
Can u use compost instead of the mold or no?? Thanks
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Hello! I was watching the JAdam video from Korea and the gentleman said something about using leafmold, seasalt, and boiled potatoes. Have you tried that method? And what if you live in the desert? I don't have access to leaf mold. At least not around where I live. What I do have is Russian Thistle (the plant that creates tumble weeds). Those things are remarkable how quickly they grow
Hello, yes it’s called JMS and I made a video all about i on my channel. It’s a great method to collect and improve the amount of microorganisms in your soil. If you don’t have leaf mould you can simply grab a bag, stuff it with dry leaves and a few holes at the bottom. Keep it in a cool dark place and it will slowly turn into leaf mould. Use what’s around your area, no need to use the same things that I used ;)
@@SpicyMoustache Kevin at Epic Gardening was right. YOU ARE THE MAN!!! 💗💗💗 Thanks! Found some leafmold! And started the weed fertilizer with the tumbleweed plant. Have already started the other videos. 🤠
@@pandorafox3944 brilliant! Haha Kevin’s great and thanks a lot for the kind words! Let me know how it goes :)
How do you feel about fish emulsion?
It’s great! There’s an input called FAA (fish amino acid) made using Korean natural farming. It takes a minimum of 6 months to make it but it’s worth the wait. I think it’s a really great thing to add to your garden 😊
Can i water withbthis material the plants inside my house also? Like pilea, monsterra etc.? 😊
Sure, you can use it for any plant 😊
How much of this jlf would you use for lets say 100m2 area? Dilution maybe 1:200?
I have a question regarding aeration. All the information I see is quite obsessed about aeration of soil, compost and in the brewing of composts teas. I know this is a different thing to compost teas. Are the leaf mould organisms suited to life in unoxygenatef water? I don't doubt the method. I've seen it work, I'm just kind of wondering how the two approaches are so different but get such good results
Well that’s a good question! It’s a combination of aerobic and anaerobic organisms but mostly anaerobic. The concept of using this is so the water goes deep into the soil. It has be studied that if you dig under your soil, the presence of oxygen decrease a lot by just a few cm. This means that most microorganisms thriving in your soil after the first layers of soil, will be anaerobic microorganisms.
@@SpicyMoustache Thank you, sir!
Can tomoatoes be fermented like FFJ for bloom as well? It’s a fruit with rapid growth in my area lol
Sure! You can do it with tomatoes
Glad you put a timeline at the bottom, your words are hard to understand sometimes. I had no idea you were saying "Nettles"....be mindful of saying words carefully
I didn’t understand what was said about the powdery mildew , doe you add those leaves with powdery mildew back into the soil or do you compost them
Alessandro, you mention unchlorinated water in the final section. I have a community garden that uses city water at the spigots and where rain water collection might meet with resistance. Do you have any suggestions for how to ensure reliable access to unchlorinated water?
Hello Swae, sure! You should leave a bucket of tap water in open air for 24-48 hours in order to allow most of the chlorine to evaporate.
On a bigger scale Ibs totes are a good option . Holds 1000l or 275 gallons. You don't necessarily have to buy food grade.
Boogie brew filter, especially if you are in the United States as a lot of water departments in different cities put chloramine in the water that has to be removed with a filter. It will not evaporate out of the water.
I would like to jump in here. My home is supplied by city, chlorinated water...i have made JMS in as little as 24 hours using it, without letting it sit for 24 hours to gas off. If you are lazy like i am....using chlorinated water may only set back the microbes 12 hours or so. Its probably better to let it off gas, but i water my whole homestead with it, because i have not set up rainwater collection yet, and have not yet had any problems with micro or macroorganisms or fungi.
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can I just pour the mix straight, without diluting it?
Can I consume the different Jadam liquid fertilizers before using it in the soil? It has to be extremely good for our body to consume but will my body break it down before It absorbs the nutrients? I cannot find this information anywhere please help!
Can I use fruits from kitchen to make a hi potassium fertilizer??
Yes you can but use a single type of fruit and try not to mix up different kind 😊
So dilute it at 100:1? Thank you for the info ^^
Yep, 1:100 and ready to use :)
@@SpicyMoustache thanks! I've got some purslane that's been 'brewing' for over two weeks now, I'll give it a try next week. I've been on a once a week schedule, JMS, FPJ and now this.
@@jamestomlin5525 sounds brilliant! Your garden will greatly benefit from all this 😊
Has anybody tried using rhubarb leaves for jadam? I'm curious if they could also be used in their pest control liquid
Hey just watched this video and didn’t know if this kind of liquid fertilizer would work for a citrus tree or not?
Yes, it works for pretty much any kind of plant! :)
@@SpicyMoustache sweet thanks so much for the response!
Does it make more nettles grow in your yard if they are already in the yard
I’d receive them and nope it doesn’t encourage more nettles to grow
@@SpicyMoustache ok thanks keep up the great videos
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If I cant use all of the solution at once, will it last for awhile or does it have a short shelf life? Let's say I have a pint left over, can I add a ton of brown sugar to it to make a paste to make it shelf stable like the LAB solutions?
It just gets stronger leave it in the bucket no need to do anything special. Can keep a bucket going pretty much forever if you just keep adding leaf mould and your plant material/water as you use it. There's a book called jadam organic farming if you want more info.
@@captainsalmonslayer thanks! Really appreciate the reply 🤠
i have 2000 sq. ft of roof area. i need help to start my own farming.
Why is it only cool tattooed kids and weed farmers doing KNF? IMOs for everyone!!
Thanks for sharing
Haha I wish I was a kid but I guess it’s a compliment, thanks 😂 by the way, I just posted a full video about IMO 😊
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It is confusing. Huw Richards (Welsh no-dig grower + author) said 1:10 ratio into watering can after 2 weeks for Jadam made w weeds. Especially nettles. How can, after 7 days, Alessandra say, 1:100 ratio. Doesn’t make sense. Surely, after 7 days, it’s pretty mild. Mine’s (Epping Forest leaf mould, nettles + unchlorinated water mix) been 4 days in a bucket with lid & it doesn’t even stink - yet.
You are using a method that is supposed to be scientific, but then knock NPK, a scientific method for measuring nutrients essentially....
I want to know what would happen if I mix Jadam organic leaves fertilizer with leave mold and mix it with the Jadam fish fertlizer with leave mold will that be the ultimate fertiizer??? Or should I not mix the two? I have so many different fruit tree leaves in my Jadam fertilizer liquid but I'm wondering if I should also add fish???? What should I do?
If u read the book it is only good while there are bubbling going on.
If you read the book that JMS not JLF.
Why not just use pee? Seems easier
First of all, not everyone wants to use their own pee as fertiliser for the garden. Second, it’s not easy at all! Pee is 4 times reacher in nitrogen than any other nutrient, this means that’s absolutely easy to reach toxic level for your plants in your soil. There’s not a precise dilution to be used and pee is not the same for everyone as the concentration of nutrients and other minerals changes depending on your diet. Using pee it’s neither good or easier compared to JLF.
Took me a few seconds to recognize what language he is speaking.
when you speak 5 languages it might get a bit confusing with the accents
@@SpicyMoustache so i will at the end of the garden season have lots of potatoe plants, the stuff thats thrown away, is that ok to chop up and put back into the garden ? i figured it would invite disease, thanks in advance
@@TheMississauga333 I don’t know how healthy Korean potatoes are but I wouldn’t do it with potato plants in UK (mind, ours are full of diseases + they are often not as healthy as our comfrey, nettles and dandelions). Best to compost-heat our potato residue - that’s my guess.
Talking is too much!
Next time I need to explain something, I’ll try to use the sign language!
Thanks spicy stache yer a real beauty