Regarding the "slow start" with the fish heads: Its important to understand that speed of growth doesn't necessarily indicate better performance. While the fish head plants didn't grow as tall it first, they had greener leaves. This indicates a higher chlorophyll concentration, which was better supported by the nitrogen content of the fish. Because of this, the greener plants were better able to produce food than the no fish head plants, so they didn't have to spend more energy growing taller and could instead put more energy into establishing leaf and flower buds as well as a better root system. This allows the plants to be stronger and more productive in the long run. The no fish head plants had to invest more energy in growing taller in an effort to collect more sunlight. Furthermore, increased flowering and fruiting is supported by phosphorus, which bones are pretty high in and potassium helps grow better roots. Also lots of iron from blood, which supports both photosynthesis and respiration (converting sugars/starches into energy). One of the reasons that fish waste is used rather than other animals is that fish rots a lot faster, thus releasing nutrients more quickly without causing damage ("fertilizer burn" and bacterial "infection") to the plants. If you had used, say, chicken heads, without composting them first, the nutrients they contain would not be released nearly as quickly and the rotting process would have likely damaged the plant's roots.
This more informatively represents exactly what I was thinking. Though in my mind, I was likening the fish-less plants as having more freedom to grow because they lacked the nutrients available in the fish-plants, so they could fulfill biological processes more quickly. More specifically, I'd equate the process along the lines of carrying a nearly empty bucket is easy (fishless plant) but when you have a bucket that is full, it takes more time/energy to carry it (fish-plant). This may not make sense to others, but it works in my brain lol
@@jimmyjambon9206 Composting is always best, really, even with fish heads. Fortunately, you can get fishmeal, bone meal, blood meal, etc already composted and ready to mix into your soil, as well as composted manure and regular compost. It takes at least a year to make your own compost, and it has to be turned (mixed up) and watered every month or so during growing season to give good quality. You also should NOT put meat scraps in your compost pile, since it'll attract animals, will stink and can introduce pathogens. Also, you should also get your soul tested to see what nutrients it needs before deciding which particular amendments to use, such as blood meal for low iron, bone heal for low calcium and phosphorus, etc.
As a chef working professionally, who understands the amount of food wastage we as a society foster, this video makes me very happy. Thank you for sharing!
the issue with closed loop zero waste systems is it gives us to much power and out put this is why we are trained to belive there is waste at all; and prevented from using certain wastes or having a certian amount of animals to produce the valuable fertilizer.
As a former farmer I am still stunned at the waste, produce not selected because it was not "perfect" or (as a cook) noticing the huge amounts left on restaurant plates.
My dog passed away, and we buried her in our backyard, and planted some roses above her grave as a testament to our love for her, and for how much beauty she brought to our lives. The roses grew so well! Recently, a pet chicken died, and I buried her next to the roses and the roses blossomed again. It's about 10 feet tall now.
@@Dman6779 Chickens that die of old age don't taste very good. I personally butcher egg hens once they stop laying, and they're really only good for stew.
The root growth was stunted because you created 'hot' compost. When Native Americans did this, they planted the fish in fall, giving time for decomposition to happen. Then, they would plant their vegetables in spring. Thank you for your hard work and observations!
@@sasfishadventures9729 compost that hasnt fully decomposed. Usually very high concentrated load of chemicals in a state that pseudo poisons the plant from nutrient overload.
Hi, Mark. When the Native American Indians used to grow the Three Sisters (corn, beans and squash) together out in the desert, they always buried a fish in the mound where they planted the seeds. People have been doing this for thousands of years. It's proven to work.
when the English first arrived in NAmerica, their crops wouldn't grow in the sandy soil near the shore and many settlers died of starvation. the natives taught them to bury fish in their fields and this one trick allowed the settlers to flourish. the settlers thanked the natives by killing them and stealing their land.
Nope. There is little evidence of fish being used to grow crops prior to European contact. Squanto probably learned to bury fish under the crops while he was in Europe and taught it to the pilgrims and the members of his tribe when he came back.
@@bvbxiong5791 Settlers just practicing the culture the natives have practiced for thousands of years, of genociding eachother and then claiming that land is theirs simply because nobody else who lived there is alive to say otherwise
@@bvbxiong5791 Are you under the impression the Native Americans were just a bunch of Tree-Hugging Gardeners? Because it is plainly well documented that the majority of these Tribes practiced war, genocide, and enslavement as well... Welcome to the Old World cupcake- everyone did it.
You take over 8 months to create a full detailed video experiment for us to learn and enjoy. Most people wouldve said the fish head didnt work because it grew slower at the beginning and posted a video earlier. Keep up the amazing posts
"I'm no scientist." "For the last couple of decades I've been conducting experiments and that's how I find things out." You just described what a scientist does. You don't need a fancy degree to do good science, you just need the will and effort to conduct these experiments
That kind of thinking can get you in a camp for Re-education. 🤪😛😜😝 ᛏ Who is those, them & they in the back? It's the struggle. Documented in history and secret societies. Pushing ideaoligies that define our future. INFILTRATING CONQUEST THROUGH MANHANDLING, REQUIRED GUIDANCE , ANTI NATURAL SELECTION, DECISIONS OF EMOTIONS WITH VANITY. FORCED APPEASAL TO SOCIAL JUSTICE AND NEUTRALITY, AND PEACE AT ALL COST ...Including prostrations. While being dependant with emotional safety and diversity for unity as legion. VERSUS ALLURING RENAISSANCE, CIVILITY, FREEWILL WITHIN A BALANCE, INGENUITY AND CODE OF CONDUCT. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PERCEPTIONS WITH A DISTINCTION BETWEEN HUMAN ANIMALS AND BEINGS. PEACE WITH STRENGTH...All parties stand tall. While being independent with compassion to kindred for unity as Tribal. The struggle is real. The dark consciousness is the real cause. Laugh all you want. But it fits the world view puzzle. All the way back to sumarian tablets. It's like two parents arguing and trying to get the child to choose. With the dark feeding us things such as WE ARE ONLY HUMAN... WE ARE THE SAME , We are victims and fighting back as a Samaritan is evil and vigilantism. Everyone's voice matters beyond concideration... However, ideas must be approved & requiring leagalnese or a doctorate to be qualified. BS. The core thought IS being a distinction between human animals and human beings: CHOOSE. STILL GRABBING THE BLUE PILL? RELAX TO THE MOVIE "JOHN CARTER".. Even non-fiction can have insight.
Actually tomato plants are kinda carnivorous.....The leaves have tinysharp hairlike structures ....Insects get killed on contact and fall near roots where they are absorbed.... ..It's always been
Unfortunately, the reality of veganism is absolute, denial. Planting vegetables require a lot of animal bi-products to grow efficiently (yes, feathers, bones, fish scrap, manure, that's ALL animal bi-product.) -In the movie The Lion King, where Mufasa explains "When we die, our bodies go in the grass, and the antelope eats the grass. So we are all connected to the great circle of life." Actually has more truth than most people realize. But no, Vegans want to believe they have no relevance to the food chain, so they must think they are gods or fairies or something.
Reasons I love this channel: 1. The commitment you put into your videos and backyard project 2. The genuine joy and the passion we see in you 3. On point content, less yapping and more on demonstration 4. Dad jokes. Lots of it
I couldn't say it better Hernandez. "Hey, I'm just a backyard food-gardener hack, who's tryin' to have some fun... ...dig it?" Mark really has no ego, does he? I arrive to spend a few minutes and lose hours here, just learning and laughing.
As a recently graduated scientist, I can explain the results found. The intact fish head has lots of nitrogen (N) in it, but it is all plant unavailable (it is solid in the remains). Then organisms start breaking the fish head down, but the microbes doing most of the work require N to grow. So the growing microbes are stealing N from the tomato plant (that's why they were smaller initially). But then the microbe colonies reach a tipping point where they are breaking down more N than they are consuming, so the N becomes plant available and the tomato plant starts benefiting from all that nitrogen. In the end, just know that a little fertilizer along with your fish head will make it all work out much better.
I was going to write something similar 😁 I’ve used fish frames and heads for many years and the results on multiple plant types are awesome. I read somewhere many years ago that there is also valuable quantity of P (phosphorus) in fish and seaweed. P (along with K - potassium) is critical for maximum flower and fruit production. So if you plant the fish heads a little deeper under your plants, you’ll reduce the N deficiency early on as root mass is developing, yet all the N, P and most K will become fully available just as the plant matures. Priceless 👍🏼 Another hack...add blood and bone with a sprinkle of lime at the time of planting seedling. This mitagates N loss to microbes and ensures your soil is ‘sweet’ for the best start
Gifhary Syidhqa Hamim Wanna know some messed up history facts? A lot of lush places use to be battlefields. And yes, nature devouers and the wheel turns. This is why I would like to be buried with no coffin. I would like some type if blu or violet flower on top. I think that would be my last gift from sweat and blood. 🙂
Everything you say is totally 100! But those BONES are terrific throughout the growing cycle for the roots. Tomatoes relish a continuous supply of something like rock phosphate or bone meal or eggshells for the P in NPK. This ensures that their roots will be strong, the plants will produce plenty of flowers & fruit, & they will be less likely to get blossom end rot. The no-fish-head tomatoes probably had initial greater access to phosphorus than the others, as he said the soil was good at the start. But the no-fish plants possibly just ran out...that's what it looked like to me. Obviously the fh plants still had the skulls in the hole, but root hairs and microbes will dissolve bone more slowly than flesh. Tomatoes don't need that much N in comparison to their love of P. I might plant the head an inch or two below such a small seedling. As you said, a bioactive soil is essential (why they love to sprout in compost piles). No doubt your description of the activities of the soil bacteria interacting first with the head, then with the roots, clarifies much of what occurred on this timeline.
I have been using a whole fish and an egg for about 10 years now with incredible results. When everyone else’s tomatoes are struggling, mine are usually thriving. Thanks for reinforcing my theory!
First off, when I said my theory, I certainly didn’t come up with this practice. My grandparents used eggs in the garden and I know if they did, they must have had a good reason. Calcium helps combat blossom end rot and eggs also add much needed nitrogen. It does take quite a while for the eggshells to break down, but when you grow in the same beds year after year I believe it keeps your soil consistent.
Thanks for your comments. I dig the hole at least a foot deep and put the fish and one egg in the bottom, then I take a spade and break them up a bit. One other thing that I have been doing the last couple years is to water with a diluted mix of water and black strap molasses... Seems to make them much sweeter😉
5:47 As an engineering bachelor's I can say that using scientific methodology for your experiment makes you more of a scientist than 2/3 of academic professors.
Exactly! I am a scientist myself and I found out that what he is doing is better than most of other scientists are doing. No offence to the other scientists, but most of them are doing a lot of experiments which is not practical to the real world. They are concentrating too much on one part and ignored the rest's factors. That is the reason why so many scientists have different results and contradict to one another. They have the brain but do not have the experiences to the real world. I prefer both, academic and practical result as one.
My grandfather would bury one dead fish in every hole before planting his tomatoes. Every year he had big, juicy tomatoes. He never did anything besides the fish and water.
@@orrgazmo Get a fish swimming in a fishbowl, then plant that in a hole, then put the roots of a pre-started tomato plant into the top of the bowl. You have to support the stem from the sides so it won't flop over. It's fine if the water is a little muddy, especially if you're using a catfish. Come back here a few months later and let us know what happened.
I'm sure the soil you brushed back over looked even more healthy and brown and full of goodness than it started out as - it reminds me of the documentary on the symbiotic relationship between Canadian big forests - salmon - and bears - and how bears catching salmon and munching on them on-land and leaving the bits behind to become fertilizer is an important feature in keeping the forests alive.
An addition to that relationship was discovered in the last few years: wolves too catch salmon but don't eat them at the forest edge the way that bears do: they go roughly 100 metres into the forest to eat their catches. This results in a second band of more vigorous tree growth near the streams.
Michorrizhae travel nutrients underground to Redwoods away from the water, way inland... I don't know how far, but its astounding! Trees ask for the nutrients and the michorrizhae comply for the sweet sugar the tree provides, and they form chains for miles!
I wasn't going to grow tomatoes because I moved to a place with no garden...but in one of my containers of soil, a bunch of tomatoes came up...late. Not getting much sun, they aren't growing fast. Thank you for reminding me about the fish! That'll work.
When I was a child my father grew 4 beefsteak tomatoes is the same spot year after year and would put the heads, guts, scales and tails in hole about 18 inches down. It worked every year I can remember.
Some of our (Australia) river systems have been inundated with introduced European Carp for many years. Bounties have been placed on their capture resulting in an industry that processes the Carp into garden products. There are commercial products available at reasonable prices that work very well.
@Imran nawaz I live on the east coast of USA. The carp in my river tastes like mud... but also has so many tiny bones. Do Pakistani carp have a lot of tiny bones? The catfish are very good here. And bass.
@Imran nawaz... I saw a man who spent a fortune cleaning up his pond... but he showed it was possible. 30 years ago you could see your feet to the bottom of my river from your waist. Now your feet disappear before they are covered. Boats. Farm runoff. Land and forest degradation. Wish I had a time machine. Or could go live in a unknown tribe.
Humans are omnivorous so, humans pretending to be herbivores is the same as going back to stone age - the irony is, back then humans used to eat everything in order to survive. LOL
Actual Mayan communities here at the Yucatan peninsula still do this. Ancient Mayan cities even buried their dead fellows at their milpas for religious reasons first, but after noticing results similar to this video, they kept doing it regularly to get better results.
@@phamdinhhoang1998 We use to call ourselves Maya nowadays (not Mayan or Mayans), in a generic way for all our original civilizations. However, before conquistadors we called ourselves Itzá at the northern low lands (where I'm from), Kish at the southern High lands, and few ones at the western highlands, not as Maya as us but very related to us, or us with them, call themselves Winik.
@@doubleheadedeagle6769 I fully agree. You are totally right. However my point was nowadays some Mayan communities still do this. Their dead ones are buried where they will grow a Milpa without any coffin or preparation, only their clothes.
Yes sir, I've been putting fish bones, guts, and what's left of a fish filet for years. I concur it works. Been doing it for 17 years. Enjoy your video thanks
I run several aquaponic systems, and about a year and a half ago I lost 25-30 lbs of good sized catfish (12-18" long) due to a pump failure. It was very sad, but I did not hesitate to put their remains to good use. I dug out the center of my cold pile and threw them in the very bottom, and then covered them back up and watered the pile. Within 6-8 months they had completely broken down (with the exception of a couple catfish skulls here and there, those took a while longer to decompose). I had never seen compost that rich in my entire life. It was pure black gold. I ended up using it in an organic hydroponic system as a compost tea and got some of the most insane growth I had ever seen out of my plants. It's truly remarkable how rich in nutrients fish carcasses are, and I would HIGHLY recommend using them in the garden.
Waste not, want not! My Dad used to send me out fishing for bullheads (basically a small type of catfish) specifically so he could chop them up and bury them between the rows in his garden.
The only fish waste you should bury is the entrails (not the roe, since it is delicious) the bones and skin make great soup/stock material and the head has the best cuts of the fish on it: the cheeks and the collar. If the water where the fish is harvested of substandard quality, i would be more selective about what fish I keep.
@@samsadowitz1724 Good advice. My wife and I, however, don't care much for roe and I find the cheeks too dense for my liking. The collars though are never thrown out and are always grilled via different recipes. As far as the water quality, of course that's just good common sense. Also, I freeze fish in ziplock bags filled with water. I find they keep very well that way even though they take up more freezer space that vacuum sealed. When it's meal time, the water provides great fertilizer.
@@anunentitledmotivatedmille7731 Different times. They were garbage fish that competed with the bass and perch. Nowadays they do a good job of eating the invasive zebra mussel, and they're still fun to catch, so we toss them back.
@@fahadus hello there. I meant to say.. we take the guts and innards, feathers or skin, whatever it is that we do not use from the animals burry that and plant a tree on top of it.
I can tell you guys, this is the best YT channel to watch during lockdown. I even started my own container garden a couple of weeks ago with okra, bokchoy, mustard, potatoes, bellpepper and had germinated a squash and watermelon. All of which are doing pretty great in spite of hot weather. Thank you very much Mark for the inspiration.
I come from a family of gardening fishermen. The fish entrails, skin and all, were always buried in the garden, which generally produced around 400 quarts of canned tomatoes in various forms, with plenty for eating off the vine.
My dad used to put a hole next to his tomato plant with a pipe then stuck a full mullet into the hole head first and put dirt back over it. Worked amazing
That's right. The ethical way is to have your ashes filled in a biodegradable urn which comes with a sapling of your choice which then can be planted. :-)
After watching a similar YT video, I planted a couple of hedge plants to replace dead ones. I planted them both on top of tinned sardines (in brine) which I buried in the soil. Both plants are growing really well.
Nice experiment. It makes sense to me. I used to go fishing with my late father and he always made sure to bury the fish heads and entrails in our garden.
Yeah there’s a film, but also science.. the nutrients we or any thing that could fog a mirror,releases on death is amazingly potent for plant/veg growth hence why you can by blood/bone infused soils and fertiliser.
My grandfather use to do the same and his tomatoes were always amazing.He also used to make a liquid fertiliser from left over bits of fish and prawns and seaweed, it smelt awful but he swore by it.
He said he’s just a backyard planter trying to learn new things good stuff the man just living the best life learning from growing seems like such a peacefulhobby
Instead of a Fish Head, I placed dead Fish bait bought from a local sporting goods store and put under the Tomato Plants. We had an awesome Harvest. We left the frozen fish bait out in the Sun to Rot before planting. Thanks From Canada.
I've heard that the native Americans had a rule that for every stalk of corn you grow you bury one fish. I assume this means fish frames and guts after the meat is eaten. But there is no doubt that the direct high nitrogen output of a decomposing fish would promote growth over one that didn't have that nitrogen rich food at it's roots.
I was taught the fish head trick when I was a kid. I was always taught that you bury the fish frames, heads etc well before planting your tomatoes. This gives a few months for the fish heads to break down and stabilise the concentration of nutrients. Planting straight away increases risk of burning your plants. It's no different to composting really. I would say the stunted growth in the beginning was due to the fish being too fresh. I always throw prawn shells and fish scraps into my compost.
My parents have always used the remains of the fish we catch during the spring spawning runs here in Wisconsin. Never had a bad season even when the neighbors next door had. My parents knew it works
“A win-win for everyone. Except for the fish, I suppose” 😂 Had the same energy as “For the good, of all of us - except for those who are dead. Now there’s no sense crying, over every mistake. You just keep on trying, ‘til you run out of cake...”
My Grandmother had me pour fish emulsion around the tomato plants every other week while they grew. It stunk, but she said it was the best fertilizer and the safest to use. She knew best.
@@shawnhowell156 Europeans had been farming for 1,000's of years before coming to the America and they knew about using fish and manure as fertilizer before landing the Americas. Squanto MIGHT have taught a bunch of city folk how to use fish as fertilizer but he wouldn't have been teaching farmers anything they already didn't know. In other words it's probably a pop culture myth like the Noble Savage, Manifest Desitiny etc.
When I was a kid my next door neighbor was half Leni-Lenape indian...he would bury entire fish in his garden. He had the best tomatoes and corn in town !
Yup, most Natives used fish for natural fertilizer since there weren't domesticated livestock manure until the explorers arrived. Additionally, any large game that was killed would be harvested completely which did not leave anything to use as composted spoiled natural fertilizer. All that was left was fish :)
Not just the southwest, but among most farming tribes especially on the coasts. Europeans used the same technique. Also using every part of the animal including the blood. Indigenous is for all of us, we are all indigenous. Europe, Asia, Africa, Americas, Oceania. Our climates and nature may be different but the way of being close to the earth was all that anyone had "anywhere", it was the only way of existing. Over time, factors and factions have worked to separate people from that connection, some more recent than others. But knowing that everyone came from a connection to earth means we all have a path to get back there.
@@betsyhernandez9996 True, but what about the large herds of non-domesticated Bison. There had to have been lots of available waste piles available for them to use, unless they simply didn't know about grazing animals' manure fertilizing abilities.
Waffle Warrior - That's such an old and boring thing to comment. All the kids are commenting using that script style format and it's just pathetic. Try using your own brain to say something.
I fished Jupiter Inlet for 10 years. My left over finger mullet (after deceased ) would be placed under my cherry tomatoes with a simple hand spade. Insert spade at approx 45 degrees, lift up just enough to slip fish into crevice, and remove spade. I found amazing improvements after just a few days. By the end of the week, the plants were roaring. Loved it.
This is my first view on your channel and I am sure there will be many more. I truly loved that you prepared the video over months to show actual results and what people can expect. Great content!
Finally, after months of searching and sleepless nights I have found someone to answer my question of what happens when you bury a fish head under a tomato plant.
Interesting. Family has a cabin at the lake, and there are forever fish washed up on shore - next year (a bit late now to plant much in this climate) I will have to make use of this. I imagine that the head is the only part used in the video because the rest of the fish was used for food; but the ones that wash up on shore aren't for eating, so you could use the entire fish.
i did a lot more bowfishing when i was a kid for carp(it's a rough fish and invasive species where I live} would just burry them in the neighbors garden for them in the spring and run a tiller over them after I had a bunch burried.
A lot of plants will grow quicker as a stress reaction to low nutrient availability, in an effort to get to seeding as soon as possible, but they will obviously not be as healthy or nutrient dense as under standard conditions. Maybe that is why the non fish head plants grew quicker but were more yellow..
I think it's more likely that the early stages of decomposition would absorb nutrients from the soil so starve the plants a bit, then as it continues, nutrients would be released back into the soil and become available to the plants.
He digs up what is left of the fish and says there is no smell at all from the fish - and puts it up close to the camera so we can all have a sniff. I took a sniff and sure enough, he's right - I couldn't smell anything. This guy is pure gold. ;-P
Very good information thanks for creating this video and sharing it, as a kid raised in Maryland my chore was to plant and tend to our garden , dad would have me burry fish heads under many of our vegetable plants so I got to spend my morning caatching fish from our pond then placing the heads in the ground as i planted and for lunch we ate the catch of the day.
No background music video is best cuz you can hear the nature
N i love it this is the way ofthe future!
Love those bird chirps, squeak, and bug buzz sounds ...
Agreed 💯
Plot twist.
Those nature sounds you heard were actually artificially made so it is still considered as a background music video.
100pie 0eater: I love the sound of a tomato plant growing.
1,000 years later Scientist discover a fish head and assume this whole place was one under water
true
But what about tomato seeds/remains + fertilizers? Were they underwater tomatoes? ;-)))
@@klannstyle nah, those sank along with Titanic in 2012, get your facts straight.
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@@Ariel24K lol
Ha, ha; yes you can fool any died-in-the-wool evolutionist!
Regarding the "slow start" with the fish heads: Its important to understand that speed of growth doesn't necessarily indicate better performance. While the fish head plants didn't grow as tall it first, they had greener leaves. This indicates a higher chlorophyll concentration, which was better supported by the nitrogen content of the fish. Because of this, the greener plants were better able to produce food than the no fish head plants, so they didn't have to spend more energy growing taller and could instead put more energy into establishing leaf and flower buds as well as a better root system. This allows the plants to be stronger and more productive in the long run. The no fish head plants had to invest more energy in growing taller in an effort to collect more sunlight. Furthermore, increased flowering and fruiting is supported by phosphorus, which bones are pretty high in and potassium helps grow better roots. Also lots of iron from blood, which supports both photosynthesis and respiration (converting sugars/starches into energy).
One of the reasons that fish waste is used rather than other animals is that fish rots a lot faster, thus releasing nutrients more quickly without causing damage ("fertilizer burn" and bacterial "infection") to the plants. If you had used, say, chicken heads, without composting them first, the nutrients they contain would not be released nearly as quickly and the rotting process would have likely damaged the plant's roots.
Thank you! It's very informative! I knew some of what you wrote about but not all! lol
This more informatively represents exactly what I was thinking. Though in my mind, I was likening the fish-less plants as having more freedom to grow because they lacked the nutrients available in the fish-plants, so they could fulfill biological processes more quickly. More specifically, I'd equate the process along the lines of carrying a nearly empty bucket is easy (fishless plant) but when you have a bucket that is full, it takes more time/energy to carry it (fish-plant). This may not make sense to others, but it works in my brain lol
Would there be any differences between using a saltwater or freshwater fish? Could this method be used to grow cannabis?
This helps thanks. I was wondering if my neighbor would grow good tomatoes and from what you said, I take it I should compost first?
@@jimmyjambon9206 Composting is always best, really, even with fish heads. Fortunately, you can get fishmeal, bone meal, blood meal, etc already composted and ready to mix into your soil, as well as composted manure and regular compost. It takes at least a year to make your own compost, and it has to be turned (mixed up) and watered every month or so during growing season to give good quality. You also should NOT put meat scraps in your compost pile, since it'll attract animals, will stink and can introduce pathogens.
Also, you should also get your soul tested to see what nutrients it needs before deciding which particular amendments to use, such as blood meal for low iron, bone heal for low calcium and phosphorus, etc.
As a chef working professionally, who understands the amount of food wastage we as a society foster, this video makes me very happy. Thank you for sharing!
its not waste is mis used agri product waste is a myth. even urine and feces are fertilizer and have a place in perma culture. waste is a myth
the issue with closed loop zero waste systems is it gives us to much power and out put this is why we are trained to belive there is waste at all; and prevented from using certain wastes or having a certian amount of animals to produce the valuable fertilizer.
@@100canadianmaplestirup8 Are you ok?
@@lol-xc5bz I don't understand what they're saying. Some punctuation would be helpful.
As a former farmer I am still stunned at the waste, produce not selected because it was not "perfect" or (as a cook) noticing the huge amounts left on restaurant plates.
4 am again and this man is answering the questions I never asked myself but I'm still thankful. 😂
Woah your every comment is during 4am
Saaaaame this heals my soul during those late nights 🙏😂
Lmao facts 4:30 am got me watching this
5:12 am (est gang) and I'm here too
Детерминизм это Свобода 🤙
He's like the Steve Irwin of plants!
Lmao was thinking the same!
more like thge mother teresa of shenanigans
Yup... I agree 😁👏🏼
@Wally Prichard that's kinda low.
Lol yeah
Imagine if the fish memories are somehow transfered to tomatoes, and when you it the tomatoes you saw through the fish perspective, yes I am high.
Wonder if pot plants would benefit equally.
Yeah your high. But... Maybe..... Just imagine bro...
Thats very much believable annnnd im high too. Excuse me but we need someone sober here to confirm this.
@@ericw6202 I am sober (until tomorrow evening) and I can confirm this
Hahahaa...yeah...that'll be creepy
The is the good ending to Gladiator where he got to go back home and be a farmer with a youtube channel
Maximus!
Thanos in the opening credits before Thor came down and chopped his head off. He just wanted peace guys lol
hahahahahahaaahahah!!!
I was thinking of watching that movie lol. Guess it means it doesnt have a good ending
@@dynasyss I mean that’s the opening credits of the movie so I’d say that’s the craziest way to start any marvel movie. I’d watch it lol
My dog passed away, and we buried her in our backyard, and planted some roses above her grave as a testament to our love for her, and for how much beauty she brought to our lives. The roses grew so well! Recently, a pet chicken died, and I buried her next to the roses and the roses blossomed again. It's about 10 feet tall now.
would you ever try that with consumable food?
Also, r.i.p. to both of them
woulda eaten that chicken ngl
@@Dman6779 Chickens that die of old age don't taste very good. I personally butcher egg hens once they stop laying, and they're really only good for stew.
@@giga4052 chicken
I buried 6 chickens killed by a fox in an area that I now need to plant in. I'm getting the heebie jeebies thinking about digging the area up.
Appreciate this man for all the time he spent on making this video.
8 months almost the same time took for a pregnancy
@@fajaradi1223 the video is only 11 minutes.... Idiot
@@evilpimp2475 r/wooosh
@@fajaradi1223 lmao r/whooosh back at you because i was joking get rekt little kid
The root growth was stunted because you created 'hot' compost.
When Native Americans did this, they planted the fish in fall, giving time for decomposition to happen.
Then, they would plant their vegetables in spring.
Thank you for your hard work and observations!
Indeed!
Thanks for reminding me, I forgot about that part. !
Whats hot compost? Jw
@@sasfishadventures9729 compost that hasnt fully decomposed. Usually very high concentrated load of chemicals in a state that pseudo poisons the plant from nutrient overload.
Hi, Mark. When the Native American Indians used to grow the Three Sisters (corn, beans and squash) together out in the desert, they always buried a fish in the mound where they planted the seeds. People have been doing this for thousands of years. It's proven to work.
when the English first arrived in NAmerica, their crops wouldn't grow in the sandy soil near the shore and many settlers died of starvation. the natives taught them to bury fish in their fields and this one trick allowed the settlers to flourish. the settlers thanked the natives by killing them and stealing their land.
Nope. There is little evidence of fish being used to grow crops prior to European contact. Squanto probably learned to bury fish under the crops while he was in Europe and taught it to the pilgrims and the members of his tribe when he came back.
@@bvbxiong5791 Settlers just practicing the culture the natives have practiced for thousands of years, of genociding eachother and then claiming that land is theirs simply because nobody else who lived there is alive to say otherwise
SO NICE OF YOU TO NOTICE THE 3 SISTERS, IT'S A VERY LOVELY HONEST TRUTH
@@bvbxiong5791 Are you under the impression the Native Americans were just a bunch of Tree-Hugging Gardeners?
Because it is plainly well documented that the majority of these Tribes practiced war, genocide, and enslavement as well... Welcome to the Old World cupcake- everyone did it.
You take over 8 months to create a full detailed video experiment for us to learn and enjoy. Most people wouldve said the fish head didnt work because it grew slower at the beginning and posted a video earlier. Keep up the amazing posts
I grew up on a fish farm, when we harvest a crop the garden was fertilized with the byproduct. Consequently we had legendary vegetable gardens.
"I'm no scientist."
"For the last couple of decades I've been conducting experiments and that's how I find things out."
You just described what a scientist does. You don't need a fancy degree to do good science, you just need the will and effort to conduct these experiments
That kind of thinking can get you in a camp for Re-education.
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Who is those, them & they in the back?
It's the struggle. Documented in history and secret societies. Pushing ideaoligies that define our future.
INFILTRATING CONQUEST THROUGH MANHANDLING, REQUIRED GUIDANCE , ANTI NATURAL SELECTION, DECISIONS OF EMOTIONS WITH VANITY. FORCED APPEASAL TO SOCIAL JUSTICE AND NEUTRALITY, AND PEACE AT ALL COST ...Including prostrations. While being dependant with emotional safety and diversity for unity as legion.
VERSUS
ALLURING RENAISSANCE, CIVILITY, FREEWILL WITHIN A BALANCE, INGENUITY AND CODE OF CONDUCT. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PERCEPTIONS WITH A DISTINCTION BETWEEN HUMAN ANIMALS AND BEINGS. PEACE WITH STRENGTH...All parties stand tall. While being independent with compassion to kindred for unity as Tribal.
The struggle is real. The dark consciousness is the real cause. Laugh all you want. But it fits the world view puzzle. All the way back to sumarian tablets. It's like two parents arguing and trying to get the child to choose.
With the dark feeding us things such as WE ARE ONLY HUMAN... WE ARE THE SAME , We are victims and fighting back as a Samaritan is evil and vigilantism. Everyone's voice matters beyond concideration... However, ideas must be approved & requiring leagalnese or a doctorate to be qualified.
BS.
The core thought IS being a distinction between human animals and human beings: CHOOSE.
STILL GRABBING THE BLUE PILL?
RELAX TO THE MOVIE "JOHN CARTER".. Even non-fiction can have insight.
Peer review is missing
@@hoppermantis7615 That was the most incoherent pseudo-intellectual nonsense I've ever seen
@@animalblundetto5673 watch out for Natural Selection....
@@hoppermantis7615 Sure thing. I will keep my eye out for Natural Selection. Thanks.
Russel Crowe looks like he's doing well in retirement.
he sure does!
Well he did say once that dirt cleans off easier than blood. hahaha
Makin movies, making songs, and plantin tahmahtoes
@@Ryanoceros06 oh my what a brilliant episode.
Honestly, I don’t see Russell Crowe. I see Alex Jones
So does this mean a vegan can't eat the tomatoes
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Actually tomato plants are kinda carnivorous.....The leaves have tinysharp hairlike structures ....Insects get killed on contact and fall near roots where they are absorbed....
..It's always been
Life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on life.
Unfortunately, the reality of veganism is absolute, denial. Planting vegetables require a lot of animal bi-products to grow efficiently (yes, feathers, bones, fish scrap, manure, that's ALL animal bi-product.) -In the movie The Lion King, where Mufasa explains "When we die, our bodies go in the grass, and the antelope eats the grass. So we are all connected to the great circle of life." Actually has more truth than most people realize. But no, Vegans want to believe they have no relevance to the food chain, so they must think they are gods or fairies or something.
One Only is that a Tool reference? Disgustipated
Reasons I love this channel:
1. The commitment you put into your videos and backyard project
2. The genuine joy and the passion we see in you
3. On point content, less yapping and more on demonstration
4. Dad jokes. Lots of it
Dad jokes best part.
I couldn't say it better Hernandez. "Hey, I'm just a backyard food-gardener hack, who's tryin' to have some fun... ...dig it?" Mark really has no ego, does he? I arrive to spend a few minutes and lose hours here, just learning and laughing.
I love when you pause to laugh at your own jokes. You’re such a wholesome garden dad
He looks in pain at every joke he makes. I love it.
Lmao
As a recently graduated scientist, I can explain the results found. The intact fish head has lots of nitrogen (N) in it, but it is all plant unavailable (it is solid in the remains). Then organisms start breaking the fish head down, but the microbes doing most of the work require N to grow. So the growing microbes are stealing N from the tomato plant (that's why they were smaller initially). But then the microbe colonies reach a tipping point where they are breaking down more N than they are consuming, so the N becomes plant available and the tomato plant starts benefiting from all that nitrogen.
In the end, just know that a little fertilizer along with your fish head will make it all work out much better.
Nice explanation. Thanks.
I was going to write something similar 😁 I’ve used fish frames and heads for many years and the results on multiple plant types are awesome. I read somewhere many years ago that there is also valuable quantity of P (phosphorus) in fish and seaweed. P (along with K - potassium) is critical for maximum flower and fruit production. So if you plant the fish heads a little deeper under your plants, you’ll reduce the N deficiency early on as root mass is developing, yet all the N, P and most K will become fully available just as the plant matures. Priceless 👍🏼 Another hack...add blood and bone with a sprinkle of lime at the time of planting seedling. This mitagates N loss to microbes and ensures your soil is ‘sweet’ for the best start
@@RuralPlural so i need to murder something to start gardening? 😂
Gifhary Syidhqa Hamim Wanna know some messed up history facts? A lot of lush places use to be battlefields. And yes, nature devouers and the wheel turns. This is why I would like to be buried with no coffin. I would like some type if blu or violet flower on top. I think that would be my last gift from sweat and blood. 🙂
Everything you say is totally 100!
But those BONES are terrific throughout the growing cycle for the roots. Tomatoes relish a continuous supply of something like rock phosphate or bone meal or eggshells for the P in NPK. This ensures that their roots will be strong, the plants will produce plenty of flowers & fruit, & they will be less likely to get blossom end rot.
The no-fish-head tomatoes probably had initial greater access to phosphorus than the others, as he said the soil was good at the start. But the no-fish plants possibly just ran out...that's what it looked like to me.
Obviously the fh plants still had the skulls in the hole, but root hairs and microbes will dissolve bone more slowly than flesh.
Tomatoes don't need that much N in comparison to their love of P. I might plant the head an inch or two below such a small seedling. As you said, a bioactive soil is essential (why they love to sprout in compost piles). No doubt your description of the activities of the soil bacteria interacting first with the head, then with the roots, clarifies much of what occurred on this timeline.
I have been using a whole fish and an egg for about 10 years now with incredible results. When everyone else’s tomatoes are struggling, mine are usually thriving. Thanks for reinforcing my theory!
Explain the egg thing please!
First off, when I said my theory, I certainly didn’t come up with this practice. My grandparents used eggs in the garden and I know if they did, they must have had a good reason. Calcium helps combat blossom end rot and eggs also add much needed nitrogen. It does take quite a while for the eggshells to break down, but when you grow in the same beds year after year I believe it keeps your soil consistent.
@@pauliverson6621 thank you Paul for sharing. Do you just put fish and the whole egg under tomato plant? Is one egg enough?
@@sylvikwiat I'd like to know also please.
Thanks for your comments. I dig the hole at least a foot deep and put the fish and one egg in the bottom, then I take a spade and break them up a bit. One other thing that I have been doing the last couple years is to water with a diluted mix of water and black strap molasses... Seems to make them much sweeter😉
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As an engineering bachelor's I can say that using scientific methodology for your experiment makes you more of a scientist than 2/3 of academic professors.
why are they allowed to be professors if they dont do things properly?
Or,
TOMATOES ARE USING HUMANS FOR BETTER AND STRONGER FISHES
@@Murtagh653 Nepotism and politics.
Exactly! I am a scientist myself and I found out that what he is doing is better than most of other scientists are doing. No offence to the other scientists, but most of them are doing a lot of experiments which is not practical to the real world. They are concentrating too much on one part and ignored the rest's factors. That is the reason why so many scientists have different results and contradict to one another. They have the brain but do not have the experiences to the real world. I prefer both, academic and practical result as one.
This man is like Steve Irwin of the garden… RIP Steve
I think the same in every video. The Queensland accent and the enthusiasm makes it hard not to.… (I loled hard when he went crikey in this video.)
My grandfather would bury one dead fish in every hole before planting his tomatoes. Every year he had big, juicy tomatoes. He never did anything besides the fish and water.
Antenna Wilde would live fish give you the same result or better?
@@orrgazmo Get a fish swimming in a fishbowl, then plant that in a hole, then put the roots of a pre-started tomato plant into the top of the bowl. You have to support the stem from the sides so it won't flop over. It's fine if the water is a little muddy, especially if you're using a catfish. Come back here a few months later and let us know what happened.
@@orrgazmo I mean it should probably be dead before you bury it.
@@JimmyTurner Well Jimmy, if they aren't dead when you bury them, they soon will be. Not to worry. LOL
@theviet BWAA-HAA-HAA Man-go's
I'm sure the soil you brushed back over looked even more healthy and brown and full of goodness than it started out as - it reminds me of the documentary on the symbiotic relationship between Canadian big forests - salmon - and bears - and how bears catching salmon and munching on them on-land and leaving the bits behind to become fertilizer is an important feature in keeping the forests alive.
An addition to that relationship was discovered in the last few years: wolves too catch salmon but don't eat them at the forest edge the way that bears do: they go roughly 100 metres into the forest to eat their catches. This results in a second band of more vigorous tree growth near the streams.
Lmao. Dumbest thing I've ever heard. Canada has a shit ton of healthy forest where 99.9 percent don't have any bits of salmon left by feeding bears.
Michorrizhae travel nutrients underground to Redwoods away from the water, way inland... I don't know how far, but its astounding! Trees ask for the nutrients and the michorrizhae comply for the sweet sugar the tree provides, and they form chains for miles!
I would be in tomato heaven with a 7 or 8 month grow season .
I picked tomatoes today out of a harbor freight greenhouse, located in Texas along the Arkansas border. They tasted so sweet and good.
I wasn't going to grow tomatoes because I moved to a place with no garden...but in one of my containers of soil, a bunch of tomatoes came up...late. Not getting much sun, they aren't growing fast. Thank you for reminding me about the fish! That'll work.
I love how he makes typical dad jokes that are actually witty that would leave someone with a chuckle
Nadz Plazos Jr read this after one while chuckling when my internet was acting up and loading the video
When I was a child my father grew 4 beefsteak tomatoes is the same spot year after year and would put the heads, guts, scales and tails in hole about 18 inches down. It worked every year I can remember.
Self sufficient me reminds me of my dad. Chill and doing his best. Love it
This works incredibly well on corn too. The plants last almost twice as long and produce giant corns
We make fish fertilizer in Cambodia .it is a great organic one to boost plant
Love your country, my bushcraft skills would be a premium advantage in your land
Some of our (Australia) river systems have been inundated with introduced European Carp for many years. Bounties have been placed on their capture resulting in an industry that processes the Carp into garden products. There are commercial products available at reasonable prices that work very well.
You are number one!!! :)
@Imran nawaz I live on the east coast of USA. The carp in my river tastes like mud... but also has so many tiny bones. Do Pakistani carp have a lot of tiny bones? The catfish are very good here. And bass.
@Imran nawaz... I saw a man who spent a fortune cleaning up his pond... but he showed it was possible. 30 years ago you could see your feet to the bottom of my river from your waist. Now your feet disappear before they are covered. Boats. Farm runoff. Land and forest degradation. Wish I had a time machine. Or could go live in a unknown tribe.
It means even a tomato knows that meat is more nutritious.
take that vegans!
Gaia guided the way. Vegans are just rebels
Humans are omnivorous so, humans pretending to be herbivores is the same as going back to stone age - the irony is, back then humans used to eat everything in order to survive. LOL
@Jack Smith "Life... finds a way"
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The natives "Indians/mayans" of North America used this technique to grow corn and other crops thousands of years ago
Actual Mayan communities here at the Yucatan peninsula still do this. Ancient Mayan cities even buried their dead fellows at their milpas for religious reasons first, but after noticing results similar to this video, they kept doing it regularly to get better results.
this is an interesting concept since ancient American/Mayans were called Indians.
Wow good for them. Hate to break it you but any ancient people that lived near water knew this. Nothing special about it.
@@phamdinhhoang1998 We use to call ourselves Maya nowadays (not Mayan or Mayans), in a generic way for all our original civilizations. However, before conquistadors we called ourselves Itzá at the northern low lands (where I'm from), Kish at the southern High lands, and few ones at the western highlands, not as Maya as us but very related to us, or us with them, call themselves Winik.
@@doubleheadedeagle6769 I fully agree. You are totally right. However my point was nowadays some Mayan communities still do this. Their dead ones are buried where they will grow a Milpa without any coffin or preparation, only their clothes.
Yes sir,
I've been putting fish bones, guts, and what's left of a fish filet for years. I concur it works. Been doing it for 17 years. Enjoy your video thanks
I run several aquaponic systems, and about a year and a half ago I lost 25-30 lbs of good sized catfish (12-18" long) due to a pump failure. It was very sad, but I did not hesitate to put their remains to good use. I dug out the center of my cold pile and threw them in the very bottom, and then covered them back up and watered the pile. Within 6-8 months they had completely broken down (with the exception of a couple catfish skulls here and there, those took a while longer to decompose). I had never seen compost that rich in my entire life. It was pure black gold. I ended up using it in an organic hydroponic system as a compost tea and got some of the most insane growth I had ever seen out of my plants. It's truly remarkable how rich in nutrients fish carcasses are, and I would HIGHLY recommend using them in the garden.
Waste not, want not! My Dad used to send me out fishing for bullheads (basically a small type of catfish) specifically so he could chop them up and bury them between the rows in his garden.
Day 10 of quarantine: What happens when you bury fish heads under tomato plants
You're not in quarantine unless you're sick
Can confirm Turtle, I'm in the middle of a giant city haven't seen the origins of my food in decades lmao
Month 8 of quarantine: let's see what happened to the fish head
Fr 😂😤😭
Booorrrrrinnnnggggg and unoriginal
As an avid fisherman I have been burying my fish waste in my gardens for years and those gardens are doing swimmingly well.
Smart man
Actually the water we wash the fish is also great manure.
The only fish waste you should bury is the entrails (not the roe, since it is delicious) the bones and skin make great soup/stock material and the head has the best cuts of the fish on it: the cheeks and the collar.
If the water where the fish is harvested of substandard quality, i would be more selective about what fish I keep.
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Good advice. My wife and I, however, don't care much for roe and I find the cheeks too dense for my liking. The collars though are never thrown out and are always grilled via different recipes. As far as the water quality, of course that's just good common sense. Also, I freeze fish in ziplock bags filled with water. I find they keep very well that way even though they take up more freezer space that vacuum sealed. When it's meal time, the water provides great fertilizer.
@@jerrywright7250 i did that a lot in culinary school, so i always like to use everything before discarding the rest.
I've done this before, especially in sandy soil so I can start building up the quality of the soil.
When you wash fish put that water to tomato plant, also produce lots of tomato all year round. We used to have at home.
How do you prevent ants from intruding into the pot to retrieve the small fish parts?
Bug spray
Yes. We do that too in Malaysia. After we clean the fish, we use the water on our plants and bury the entrails of the fish under the plants.
@@Dripthos Non chemical though.
@@mattw337
Why care about ants ? You can drowing them and add them to the soil too 😂
i just found an answer for a question i've never asked
Man I'm impressed that you ran such a long experiment. Good for you and thanks from all of us :)
I LOVE how he just pokes his finger through the fish eyeballs without any sign of being creeped out!🤣
Cuz hes not a little girl
@@RobertELee420 gtfo, when I was a little girl, I love the popping the eyes and nobody could eat the “cheeks“ Of the fish if I was at the dinner table
This is the guy everybody wished were their girlfriend's dad, lbh.
Hahaha....damn, I must be old then, because what was going thru my head was....”I wonder if he’s married or single”!!🥰
😂
He's definitely a John Wick kinda guy, a 'one woman' gentleman
Hot daddy hehe
@@youtubereact_v1 shouldn't we all try to live like that?
When I was a kid we used to bury every Sheepshead we pulled out of Lake Erie at the base of a hard maple tree. That thing grew like a rocket.
Wtf
@@anunentitledmotivatedmille7731 Different times. They were garbage fish that competed with the bass and perch. Nowadays they do a good job of eating the invasive zebra mussel, and they're still fun to catch, so we toss them back.
@@Keifsanderson I'm sorry for my short comment. I didn't understand.
@@anunentitledmotivatedmille7731 No worries. Fish just make great fertilizer sometimes.
this is the most wholesome reply section i've ever seen
Omg how I've missed Marc and his wholesome positivity
When we home kill anything pigs. Poultry etc. We dig a hole and plant a fruit tree on top ... The guts. Feathers. Fur. Innards. Etc.
You mean where the blood was absorbed?
@@fahadus hello there. I meant to say.. we take the guts and innards, feathers or skin, whatever it is that we do not use from the animals burry that and plant a tree on top of it.
I see. Thanks for the clarification!
Stfu
@@scarletpeate and does this work?because i headd that you shoudnt put meat on the earth.or maybe cooked?
I can tell you guys, this is the best YT channel to watch during lockdown. I even started my own container garden a couple of weeks ago with okra, bokchoy, mustard, potatoes, bellpepper and had germinated a squash and watermelon. All of which are doing pretty great in spite of hot weather. Thank you very much Mark for the inspiration.
I come from a family of gardening fishermen. The fish entrails, skin and all, were always buried in the garden, which generally produced around 400 quarts of canned tomatoes in various forms, with plenty for eating off the vine.
“Alright! Time to get some actual decent sleep tonight..”
*this video pops up*
“my my my.. what do we have here...”
Yep - every time. Guess we'll have to sleep when we're dead, meanwhile, there's gardening lessons with Mark!
That’s always my problem too.....
Sleep is more important, I just bookmark the video and come back after I get sleep. Way better that way :)
@@MobileAura and that’s how I end up with hundreds in my watch later list!! 😂😂
@@chrissierestall5952 Or thousands 💀 it’s more addictive to bookmark videos/save them than watch them it seems sometimes.
I tried same thing burying my neighbor.
Let me guess: your tomato plants grew human eyeballs....
Im calling police right now
Wtf dude
Now your neighbor is a part of "you"
So that’s basically a win-win situation, except for your neighbor lamo
My grandfather did this when I was a kid. I was wondering why we weren’t eating the fish. He told me it helps the garden and he was right.
Fish: What Happens When You Bury a Human Head Under Moss Plant?
I had a neighbor who would do this for his cannabis plants he had 18 footers every year!
Give me his info...
For gardening tips of course
@@paulsaprans8798 that guy went to prison like 15 years ago cops found real drugs at his house!
I love the use of exclamation marks here. Very wholesome
@@brunosinga I don't need periods that's a woman's thing!
@@jonmacdonald5345 spoken like a true patriot, Godspeed!
My dad used to put a hole next to his tomato plant with a pipe then stuck a full mullet into the hole head first and put dirt back over it. Worked amazing
So this means if i was dug in to soil after death and planted a tree on top of me, that tree would have my nutrients
That's right. The ethical way is to have your ashes filled in a biodegradable urn which comes with a sapling of your choice which then can be planted. :-)
That’s what people do in China. And how the tree grows represents how the person is living in the other world
Enter the lion king theme the circle of life.
duh
Aravindhan Veeramani yes. This happens to anything buried in the ground that decays.
After watching a similar YT video, I planted a couple of hedge plants to replace dead ones. I planted them both on top of tinned sardines (in brine) which I buried in the soil. Both plants are growing really well.
I did that once, I can tell you one thing. I made some cats very happy that day :D
😂😂
I feed TNR ferals and it's hard enough keeping them out of my planter as a litter box nvm if I put fish there lol
Nice experiment.
It makes sense to me. I used to go fishing with my late father and he always made sure to bury the fish heads and entrails in our garden.
I've never watched any videos on gardening or fish or anything but this got randomly recommended to me and I knew I had to watch it.
Well, my mom took this to another level, she put a pig's head right under a pumpkin plant!
how did that turn out?
GA: Do Beefsteak tomatoes need a cow for fertilizer? :)
Skull root
Ryan Costa
Bacon started growing
What happened to me was that the skunks and racoons dug up all my plants
gottd bury it deep or put it under a wire mesh
Get yourself a hunting dog. It is the only 100% way to keep critters out of your garden.
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Lmaooooo
Exactly what happened to my pot plants
Let’s build a tomato farm in the cemetery.
everlongs YOOOOOOOO
They already made a movie about it
Yeah there’s a film, but also science.. the nutrients we or any thing that could fog a mirror,releases on death is amazingly potent for plant/veg growth hence why you can by blood/bone infused soils and fertiliser.
We had a guava tree in a parish cemetry it produces the sweetest juuciest biggest guavas
Bodies are in a concrete vault
Put those tomatoes in soup and witness them swimming all over the soup, that is genetic memory working here you see.!!
Mark - Your channel is quickly becoming my favorite on YT. Cheers...
I liked this. Something to watch during the corona quarantine.
ive started gardening for 2 weeks now, man. A little quarantine production.
I'm banging my neighbor cougsr
lol same here
@@Grizzlybear1914 100% you aren't banging anything.
@@Grizzlybear1914 ur banging one of your hands m8...lol
My grandfather use to do the same and his tomatoes were always amazing.He also used to make a liquid fertiliser from left over bits of fish and prawns and seaweed, it smelt awful but he swore by it.
He said he’s just a backyard planter trying to learn new things good stuff the man just living the best life learning from growing seems like such a peacefulhobby
Me: reads title
Also me: “Well I don’t know why you would do this, but you have my curiosity”
Ancients /Indians did it for fertilizer..probably noticed things grew better on their food waste/ trash or near rivers where they cleaned fish..
@@delljohnson172 haha was about to comment the same thing, but I was going to mention the ancient native Americans
"Well the plants probably ate it."
Dad jokes: 100
Me : right... imma go to slee-
Yt reccomendation : what do you think?
Me: ...go on...
tomahto tomayto
Same 😅
happens every time
Instead of a Fish Head, I placed dead Fish bait bought from a local sporting goods store and put under the Tomato Plants. We had an awesome Harvest. We left the frozen fish bait out in the Sun to Rot before planting. Thanks From Canada.
I've heard that the native Americans had a rule that for every stalk of corn you grow you bury one fish. I assume this means fish frames and guts after the meat is eaten. But there is no doubt that the direct high nitrogen output of a decomposing fish would promote growth over one that didn't have that nitrogen rich food at it's roots.
Makes you wonder if you could pull a bushel from one stalk...
@@stickshaker101 No, no it does not.
I was taught the fish head trick when I was a kid. I was always taught that you bury the fish frames, heads etc well before planting your tomatoes. This gives a few months for the fish heads to break down and stabilise the concentration of nutrients. Planting straight away increases risk of burning your plants. It's no different to composting really. I would say the stunted growth in the beginning was due to the fish being too fresh.
I always throw prawn shells and fish scraps into my compost.
My parents have always used the remains of the fish we catch during the spring spawning runs here in Wisconsin. Never had a bad season even when the neighbors next door had. My parents knew it works
Would freezing the fish heads be the ideal way to build up a stock or would it affect it doing its thing ? Asking for a friend.
@Chopper Marc it will work
“A win-win for everyone. Except for the fish, I suppose” 😂
Had the same energy as “For the good, of all of us - except for those who are dead. Now there’s no sense crying, over every mistake. You just keep on trying, ‘til you run out of cake...”
Still alive… ✊
My Grandmother had me pour fish emulsion around the tomato plants every other week while they grew. It stunk, but she said it was the best fertilizer and the safest to use. She knew best.
One of the oldest and still the best fertilising techniques.... Great to see it in action!
You're absolutely right! The Native American Indians taught this the the colonists to get the best results from growing crops!
@@shawnhowell156 Europeans had been farming for 1,000's of years before coming to the America and they knew about using fish and manure as fertilizer before landing the Americas. Squanto MIGHT have taught a bunch of city folk how to use fish as fertilizer but he wouldn't have been teaching farmers anything they already didn't know. In other words it's probably a pop culture myth like the Noble Savage, Manifest Desitiny etc.
Hoehner Tim p
@@readhistory2023 Well said.
@@readhistory2023 any proof of farming with fish before coming to the Americas? Had a school project on this topic and could prove nothing
When I was a kid my next door neighbor was half Leni-Lenape indian...he would bury entire fish in his garden. He had the best tomatoes and corn in town !
Gosh dang, I’m not even super interested in these topics but your dry puns have me coming back. I’m thankful to have discovered your channel!!
I dont even garden, but I love your videos!
Native Americans in the South West US were known to drop a small fish in when planting corn.
Yup, most Natives used fish for natural fertilizer since there weren't domesticated livestock manure until the explorers arrived. Additionally, any large game that was killed would be harvested completely which did not leave anything to use as composted spoiled natural fertilizer. All that was left was fish :)
Not just the southwest, but among most farming tribes especially on the coasts. Europeans used the same technique. Also using every part of the animal including the blood. Indigenous is for all of us, we are all indigenous. Europe, Asia, Africa, Americas, Oceania.
Our climates and nature may be different but the way of being close to the earth was all that anyone had "anywhere", it was the only way of existing. Over time, factors and factions have worked to separate people from that connection, some more recent than others.
But knowing that everyone came from a connection to earth means we all have a path to get back there.
fish heads or a dead starfish etc. all work temendously well. Isobel, a Skidegate BC Haida Nation elder woman taught me this
@@betsyhernandez9996 True, but what about the large herds of non-domesticated Bison. There had to have been lots of available waste piles available for them to use, unless they simply didn't know about grazing animals' manure fertilizing abilities.
No one:
Not a single soul:
UA-cam recommende:What happens when you burry a fish head undernieth a tomato?
Waffle Warrior - That's such an old and boring thing to comment. All the kids are commenting using that script style format and it's just pathetic.
Try using your own brain to say something.
Waffle Warrior exactly lmao
I fished Jupiter Inlet for 10 years. My left over finger mullet (after deceased ) would be placed under my cherry tomatoes with a simple hand spade. Insert spade at approx 45 degrees, lift up just enough to slip fish into crevice, and remove spade. I found amazing improvements after just a few days. By the end of the week, the plants were roaring. Loved it.
My son fishes a lot, my entire garden has fish heads in it now. I let him and my husband do that part. Happy gardening!
My daughter used fish emulsion on her tomatoes. Never in my life have I seen such bid beautiful profoundly prolific tomatoes on her heirloom garden.
This is my first view on your channel and I am sure there will be many more. I truly loved that you prepared the video over months to show actual results and what people can expect.
Great content!
Finally, after months of searching and sleepless nights I have found someone to answer my question of what happens when you bury a fish head under a tomato plant.
Ahhh..lol 😆 exactly 💯...
Great experiment. Thanks
I just wanna sell all my possessions, go off the grid, grow my own food, and chill in peace
I feel the exact same way when I see family and people close to me trying to subjugate for petty reasons.
Do it if you can. If you can work remotely, you can totally homestead while working.
Same here
Off grid with a maid /wife , with internet connection and a gardener to grow my food 😃😃 why not aim for the best of everything
@@brookzerai615 utopian in a way
Interesting. Family has a cabin at the lake, and there are forever fish washed up on shore - next year (a bit late now to plant much in this climate) I will have to make use of this. I imagine that the head is the only part used in the video because the rest of the fish was used for food; but the ones that wash up on shore aren't for eating, so you could use the entire fish.
i did a lot more bowfishing when i was a kid for carp(it's a rough fish and invasive species where I live} would just burry them in the neighbors garden for them in the spring and run a tiller over them after I had a bunch burried.
I grew up on an island. I would take my little wagon to the bay and fill it up with seaweed and put it around all the plants.
My grandfather used to pile up kelp around his citrus after it washed up from storms, was just about the best citrus fertilizer I've ever seen.
My brother uses seaweed around his plants too. It also makes a good mulch.
"win win for everyone, except for the 🐟" my 10 year old son and I had a good laugh out of it. Good job mate!
A lot of plants will grow quicker as a stress reaction to low nutrient availability, in an effort to get to seeding as soon as possible, but they will obviously not be as healthy or nutrient dense as under standard conditions. Maybe that is why the non fish head plants grew quicker but were more yellow..
I think he means "people."
Interesting!
I think it's more likely that the early stages of decomposition would absorb nutrients from the soil so starve the plants a bit, then as it continues, nutrients would be released back into the soil and become available to the plants.
Insightful comment thank you
He digs up what is left of the fish and says there is no smell at all from the fish - and puts it up close to the camera so we can all have a sniff. I took a sniff and sure enough, he's right - I couldn't smell anything. This guy is pure gold. ;-P
Very good information thanks for creating this video and sharing it, as a kid raised in Maryland my chore was to plant and tend to our garden , dad would have me burry fish heads under many of our vegetable plants so I got to spend my morning caatching fish from our pond then placing the heads in the ground as i planted and for lunch we ate the catch of the day.
Native Americans used to do this when they planted.
Saw how the Canadian salmon spawning event transfers fish nutrients into the surrounding forest. Nature always to learn from
fish were in such abundance in those times that those that used that method used an entire fish.
He should do the three sisters.
Really?
Makes you wonder, who taught them?
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