@@lolshatter No, by itself it is not. It could be used as a component of compost. Usable compost contains materials that have undergone thermophilic decomposition (high heat) to kill weed seeds, dangerous microbes/bacteria, etc. Worst in my opinion for growing anything that will be eaten is Milorganite, which is a residue from the city of Milwaukee's sewage that has been treated. Things such as heavy metals and some chemicals can survive high heat.
0:00 1st Fertilizer - Don't Use synthetic fert. 3:30 2nd fertilizer - Don't use Animal Manure 6:07 3rd fert. - Dont use bone meal 7:53 4 fert - dont use blood meal 9:37 5th fert - dont use sewer sludge / biosolids 10:37 6th fert - dont use GMO meal 13:03 Compost bacterial = good 13:46 Fungal compost = good 15:07 Rock Dust = Good 16:22 worm castings = Good 17:38 compost tea = good 18:43 seaweed fertilizer = good wish he covered liquid fish fert.
it depends on where the get their fish. farm fish are given lot of chemicals and hormones, over corwding and filth especially coming from China. you want wild caught fish is better.
On the "don't use" side, sewer sludge/biosolids are pretty obvious, but would be nice if you offered some sources for the other "don't use" things you mention instead of, "can be", "may cause", "could be", etc. On the "good" side your reasons seem more obvious. Especially the compost tea but I don't understand if it is a dry product you put on the soil or if you are supposed to soak it in water to make a 'tea' and then pour it on the soil. Also, I did some reading on it and the studies don't seem to show any confirmed good results on plants. You didn't mention fish emulsion which I hear a lot of people say is really good. But how would fish emulsion naturally have ever gotten into soil? Doesn't make sense.
1 thing I learned 3 yrs ago when I first started my botany journey from a old gardener he said " sir let me tell you something, I learned in the gardening many years ago. everybody is right and everybody is wrong."
Your time, teachings, ethics in regards to mother earth and opinion are all very respected and appreciated..everything I've done in my garden, migardener and yourself have largely influenced ..please never stop providing this vast, important knowledge
There is a brewery just a few minutes from my house that leaves all of the waste (grains and hops) outside for farmers to pick up and use as feed. I swing by a couple of times a year and load up. The spent grains are excellent "greens" for the compost pile. I till them directly into the soil as well. And it's all free!
They are fantastic for re heating a hot compost pile if it slows down too. I brew beer sometimes and the spent grains really are a great resource for the garden.
I've tested bone meal on flowers with the exact same potting pix and it did give a noticeable boost. Definitely doesn't need the 1 cup of bone meal some websites recommend. I put 3 tbs per hole and 2 in potted plants. Along with equal parts dried banana skin powder, and egg shells.
Been following your channels for many, many years, John. 21:11 to 21:30 had me bursting with laughter-really great with the enthusiasm. Top shelf insight! Nature’s always the way. Cheers!
Sometimes I will be listening to one of his boring episodes and only sticking around for the corny jokes and enthusiasm. Although 95% of his episodes interest me so its rare I am listening to a dull one waiting for a corny joke.
My garden is made from a rotted wood chip pile, and its great. I have used it for the last 6 years, produces great veggies. I also use Epsom salts water every other week, and aspirin water on the weeks in between. I make my own insecticide, pesticide and fungicide, no problems so far. I have huge juicy tomatoes, huge potatoes and other healthy veggies that are quite tasty, I'm a farm girl and use newspaper and wood chips on my garden, so at the end of the season, I mix it all together and it's ready for the next spring.
lil homeboy- soy fucktard- .............you should be worried about geo engineering- child organ harvesting, israhells control of the world for mayer's genetic mutated spawn fucks- you should maybe focus on your boyfriend playing pitcher with the handsome UPS that is taking your place- guy........etc..........LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!
I'm so glad I found your channel! I always thought I was a sucky gardener, but that's because I didn't know all this great information. As a vegetarian, I am really really excited to try again and grow my own veggies!
Good job! I subscribed. I live in an apt in Vietnam, and have a small balcony. My partner and I use the balcony - did I say small? I mean tiny! - to grow some flowers and vegetables. This was a helpful video.
All these people making negative comments on here, you can say what you want, but nobody can deny that he grows beautiful produce. This man knows how to garden to each his own.
Great video! My favorite fertilizer is the leftover water from sprouting mung beans, but I can't possibly eat enough bean sprouts! LOL! Not sure why, but a little of this green water is like magic.
John could you do a video on where the best places to get gardening stuff like compost and raised bed supplies in Las Vegas are ? By the way thank you for all your information you give to everyone.
I use my chicken poop and pond waste. My chickens free range and are very well looked after. My plants have never looked better in summer. It's important to have our own garden production, where our animals and plants feed eachother. I agree we should NOT buy from shops as they are full of fillers. Organic is the best way. I enjoy watching your videos. Could you do more about worms and mealworms please ? And how to breed them. Thank you so much john :)
I do use wood chips but I also like to use logs/branches from around 8 to 15 cm in diameter to create borders and just let them decompose. A good way to get fungi and insects/worms in the garden and you get beautiful mushrooms. I use wood from like the japanese cherry or common laurel or something like that, a soft wood. They are totally gone in 3 to 5 years in the climate I have here. Even plants start growing in the decomposing wood.
Manure problems can be avoided by watering or spraying the plants after application and not harvesting the food for a couple of weeks. The problem with the e. coli in the organic industry is not taking proper precautions.
its steamed. You have to take organic living with a grain of salt. Its a mindset, more than an action plan. The same people who say we take and eat more poisons than ever.. with the longest lifespan averages in recorded history. So next time someone says we need to get back to the old ways. remember that.
I'm glad to see your still not letting petty stuff like actual science get in the way of your "expert" recommendations. Animal manure, bone and blood meal are cornerstones of organic gardening practices, and have none (that's zero) of the risks you warn of in a commercial form. The only way your pet is going to be realistically harmed with bone meal is if you hit him/her with the bag. Many things are "waste products" and still excellent gardening amendments. Of course you don't have to take my word for it, check any of the hundreds of publications by college agricultural extensions on them.
A Grayman: Blood meal, and Bone meal are absolutely worthless. The phosphorus in bone meal in not available to plants,-unless it is placed right next to the root zone, which you can't do (unless you are planting flower bulbs) and blood meal is only a source of nitrogen, which may cause top growth...eventually but will do nothing the year you put it down. Understanding science is the 'cornerstone' of ANY gardening . You are simply spewing empirical information with the statement regarding bone meal and blood meal .
Something I've found that has been working well enough, I use soil I basically made myself of two main areas. 1) Worm Castings. Worm bin started out with equal parts worm castings, peat moss, and compost. It gets a little bit of small (or crushed) Perlite and Green Sand mixed with it. Sand is good to help clean out the worms digestive system and helps further breaking down digested matter also. All used veggies and green table scraps, with a cover of brown/yellow leaves is all they get fed, and every couple inches topped with more Moss and compost w/ a touch of Green Sand. 2) Compost. Getting paid to make your own by cleaning neighbor's horse stalls for the animal manure (they eat alfalfa and grass). Layering dead sticks and leaves from around the yard, animal waste, cut grass, and forest compost. Adding crushed dried egg and crab shells, and sometimes a little Peat Moss and Azumite, in between every few layers. Keep it moist, but not wet. Let it bake itself with natural compost heat and turning it every so often before it gets too hot and starts a fire. Mixing finished compost, worm castings, and unused forest compost, with perlite for finished potting soil. Plants, or soil, get fertilized with worm casting or compost tea and/or seed sprout tea. Also the waste from the seed sprout tea can be added to worm bin. The only thing i have yet to get a proper set-up of fungal soil. It's just too hot and dry and I lose it, still testing.
why are you taking soil from the forest (I assume that is what you mean by forest compost)? It's part of the forest ecosystem. Peat moss is also destructive to the environment. Coconut coir is much better...
@@clairemcconway6266 I agree, coir is 100% better and is pH neutral whereas peat moss is on the acidic side and better used with plants that require more acidic soil. Givin that I had to work with availability and cost, peat moss fit the bill much better at the time. Oh, and the forest compost is just what it sounds like. There are companies that scrape the floor of local forests which are full of natural nutes and bacteria who package and sell for plant soil.
Thank you so much for this video John!! I was just getting ready to weakly fertilize all of my houseplants today before Fall officially hit next week and I noticed you didn't mention fertilizer spikes!! But this year, I've slowly but surely switched from MiracleGro soil and fertilizers which I've used for years, to Espoma Organics soils/Orchid bark and fertilizers, Jobe's Organics fertilizer spikes, and through the dormant season I fertilize less often but with Epsom salts, coffee grounds, ground egg shells and now trying to get into diy composting!! Happy gardening John.🌱🤗🙏🏼🙏🏼
It is impossible not to subscribe all John's channels and more impossible not to give him thumbs up, I love all his videos, his lifestyle is the only one I follow myself and so far his videos taught me more than any book or seminars
it is definetly posible to not subscribe to him everyone should live how he likes but i csnt stand it when people try to educate others about stuff they not understand i am def not a professional in the area of ferts and gmos but i can def say that there is nothing wrong with gmos when they are tested the right way and also i dont like how he is explaining chemical ferts because when they have no heavy metals they are rly beneficial. especially when you talk about problems of over fert the soil ... because if you have anykind of knowleage about this stuff you should know that if you feed plants the right amounts of chemical ferts you have a minimal contamination and you should anyways not grow most of fruit and vegetable plants in the normal garden soil if you have the posibility to use buckets or even better hydroponic or aquaponic systems with water savings up to 70% not destroying the garden soil
Idk man, I have tons of plants and herbs and fruit trees and use compost from our compost bin in my yard, but the plant that grew the fastest, fullest, strongest, produced the most AND produced the best flavor fruit, was a DWC purple Cherokee tomato plant that used only “synthetic fertilizer”. It wasn’t even comparable to the compost planted tomatoes we did a year earlier, but I will say that hydroponics and soil are different approaches with different costs so there is that as well.
I combine 1/2 strength./1/2 interval salt based fertilizer,seaweed fertilizer and compost as a top dressing. Moderation folks. Thank you John. Your videos are alway so educational and I enjoy your enthusiasm for growing.
I use discharge water from my planted aquarium which is full of fish byproducts, aerate in bucket with compost. Use this tea to foliage spray once diluted 15:1. Sludge left over as mulch around vegetable bed. Plus have a worm bin in garden
Milorganite passes all state and EPA standards. Any potential pathogens are killed in a 1200 degree oven so there is no contamination. And the organic material in the product is made from the microbes used to treat sewage, not the sewage itself. There is no "poop" in Milorganite.
Just because Milorganite passes all state and EPA standards doesn't mean it's safe to use growing food. How many times have we seen government approved chemicals turn out to be not safe for human consumption? Just because something has the approval of the FDA, the EPA, or state and local approval there is still no guarantee it is safe. A lot of people have died taking FDA approved medicine.
Is it OMRI listed? Or certified organic by the usda? It might work good. But unless it's been certified, it's a good way to strip organic farmers of their cert
Blood meal has the positive effect of repelling deer and rabbits etc. Blood meal gets basicaly sterlized in the process of fertilizer and is a very beneficial amendment as well as contributes a quicker "fix" in tomato gardens for growth as well as a nitrogen starter for beans in particular, Spectacular Contender beans on bad soil organically oh yea, will never have to do again after first season.
minrlwtr : both blood and bone meal take six months or more to start slowly releasing nutrient, i.e. phosphorous. phosphate rock can take anywhere from five to ten years to make P available. it works, just wrong timeframes for domestic gardening needs. tomatoes need loads of potassium, rather than phosphorus, which is still required though. also need additional calcium applied well ahead of planting time, as calcium always takes months to become available. dont use dolomite lime btw, has too much magnesium for even roughly decent mag:cal ratio. also need consistent soil moisture. bottom end rot can be result of calcium deficiency either directly OR because of swinging/dry moisture levels OR potassium deficiency induced calcium unavailability. dont need nitrogen to grow legumes. seeds should come coated with bacteria so they fix air nitrogen into soil. even uncoated seed grown plants will not grow nicely when all but very small amounts of additional nitrogen added as unnecessary. get a soil test to find out really how to fix and supplement nutrients for crops. most boggy become brick in summer clay soils are hated by beans/peas. usually fixed by big application of hydrated lime worked into soil months ahead of growing season to help fix structure and moisture problems and may need sulphur to correct Ph back down to neutral.
@@Chris-op7yt That's a pretty dumb claim. A garden should only need fast acting fertilizers? No, you should constantly be building your soil. This is a long term thing...
Hi John- new subscriber, longtime gardener and old school home grower. Just wanted to say thanks for the awesome channel. Love the production quality of the videos , you always have very interesting and knowledgeable guests like Josh and Wendi and lastly I can feel the passion you have for the topics you talk about and as someone who shares that passion I just wanted to say- right on man! On the topic of this video I currently and am a longtime user of Ocean Forest {Happy Frog for my seedlings and clones} I amend it with several of the best 6 and none of the worst 6 thankfully lol , the only other thing I add and I find really helps with retaining moisture in the soil is food grade diatomaceous earth. It is said to have other benefits as well. You and Josh often ask us to tell you what we do, and that is something I do that I haven't heard you talk much about {but I am a new subscriber and havent watched every video so I could be wrong} so I just wanted to share . thanks again and I look forward to more of your always helpful honest and entertaining videos. Cheers
1:20 No.. No.. The soil acts as a filter, i've tested this personally. 250 ppm base water mineral contents, adding fertalizer till 600ppm and the run off from the soil was around 127. You can also monitor the PH of your soil by seeing whether or not the run off water has a higher or lower PH then was put into the medium. I love your videos john, but please give advice based on actual science and not speculation.
Uh.. the data you collected doesn’t imply he’s incorrect. For example, in most farm operations, the essential mycorrhizal fungae die off due to tilling the soil repeatedly after a few years, and the plants ability to collect phosphorous in particular, for example tanks from ~85-90% to ~10-15%.
Underrated from what i hear, about to try some today in a soil blend i made with peat moss , black cow manure & im going to sieve a but of compost all together.
I'm a grower of vegetables, what a load of tosh, from the dawn of time growers has been successful by using the byproduct of animals. I know what, stay in your bubble and the world would be perfect for yourself.
Since man has taken nature out of its environment we have to put it back with blood, bone .. animals died in nature and feed the soil health Reuse coffee grounds , egg shells Bury your treasure and you will reap the rewards
That is VERY true and no one can argue that, however, as stated, it's the bovine hormones and other synthetics that has been fed to the common livestock that makes the byproduct compromised. Years ago there were no drugs, just nature.
To the point guys,always organic for trees, bushes plants that their life is more one year,but for plants with life one season (spring-summer)the best combination its 70% organic and 30%good quality synthetic
I went organic 25 years ago to save $ by substituting compost and worms in place of MG. The idea of bone and blood products sickens me. I catch rain water to make tea from excess backyard avocados and bananas. I compost/recycle all cuttings, branches, stems, leaves and even weeds. Live better...grow your own:)
I will def'n stick with all natural fertilizers next growing season. Waste of money and dangerous for the environment. Especially putting that stuff into the vegetables I eat. Great video. I will do all natural next year.
I like my Alaskan fish fertilizer 🥺 I have a trusted source of tested manure 🤣😂 i have a fire pit and we burn all our bones and crush them up and add it to the compost with the pot ash.
my grandmother use to burn hickory and hardwood in her heater and dumped the ashes out close to her garden, she threw some pumpkin rinds, and seeds out one day and the next year she had the most beautiful green vines and the prettiest pumpkins I have ever seen! My dad has always said if you burn good hardwood pour the ashes onto your garden all fall and winter then when you turn the ground it will give balance back to the soil!
Hey man You Are my Favorite. i remember stumbling upon one of your videos From A Long Time Ago, i Lost Your Channel. Happy to see you Doing good and Healthy
John, Thank you for this information! Just getting into growing some of our own food and your knowledge has been invaluable so we appreciate you sharing it with us! Peace.
ion like you labeling sharks as man eaters, enough misinformation has already been spread that has lead to an extremely inflated sense of fear towards them. sharks are friends!!
Almost got me! I thought this was a legitimate video at the start but after watching for a couple of minutes I realized it's intended to be a parody of UA-cam garden advice sites! Thanks for the laugh!
Hey John great information I know from making mistakes my self. But when I grow organically the different was undeniably top quality yet another awesome video you are so right in my opinion and you can see and taste the difference.
I'm trying to learn gardening, if I don't use liquid fertilizer how do I use other one? Mix it in soil before a transplant? How about after that, sprinkle on top? How would I know if I used too little or too much or when to add more?
In regards to synthetic fertilizers, I think a lot of the problems occur when people use them improperly. Either too much or too little. Planted fish tank people have been using synthetic (see: salts such as KNO3, KH2PO4, et al) for many years with great results, and the plants grow lush, and the livestock isn't harmed. If you read the label of a fertilizer such as Miracle Gro, that's essentially what it is. Ammonium Sulfate, Potassium Phosphate, Boric Acid, Copper Sulfate, EDTA Iron, etc. These are actually essential nutrients for plants and it does them (and you, and the environment) no harm when you use it appropriately.
first time in 50years I have heard somebody say cow manure is no good. Worked great for me for 50yearsand still making my plants grow to a profit and great healthy meals . each to their own.
he didnt say cow manure was no good. He said specifically the commercially bagged up manure that comes from gosh knows where and cows that are fed gosh knows what is "in his opinion" not a great idea. He made it a point to mention that if you had your own cow poo resource locally and know what is being fed to the cows and how long its had to compost then that was a different matter. js ;)
Thanks for this video John, I'm just starting to garden and I guess composting would be the best choice, also I've used spent expresso coffee grinds for my baby plants, can anyone out there respond. I mixed it with my soil, & the perlite and the seedlings have been transplanted in small containers. And now I wait for them to grow.
Really cool to come across you again. Saw your vids about juicers back in 2012-2014 and wound up buying the Omega VRT 350 juicer based on your reviews. Now that I moved to an apartment with a balcony, I'm looking into gardening some potted herbs/aloe, and in spring I have two 35 gallon Keter elevated planter beds for larger vegetable gardening. Used "Miracle Stuff" foam for an aloe plant in the past and it had amazing results, but looking into more natural methods now...hence why I came across you again haha. Keep up the good work with these informative vids. Liked and subbed.
I used cow manure, bone meal and blood meal in my large garden.... The best garden I ever had... I used Vinegar/soap water mix for bugs... had tons of worms in my garden... I composted all the extra vegetation for the next years compost...I also grew outdoor Marijuana... I had a hug potent flowers from only 4 plants... I do agree using worm compost if you don't have worms in your garden and mealworm compost
I was visiting my grandparents for a week when I was about 8. I would help them water plants in the evening. They had a large rock pile from which I made a few choice selections and started pulverizing. Then I mixed it with a few extra ingredients and told my grandma it was good for the plants. I thought I was just a weird kid, so did my grandparents I'm sure. But apparently i knew what the hell I was doing. Crazy!
hi everyone ,if anyone else is searching for how to fertilize soil for a vegetable garden try Proutklarton Organic Tips Plan (do a search on google )? It is a good one off guide for learning how to grow fresh organic food using the secrets of aquaponics minus the hard work. Ive heard some extraordinary things about it and my mate got excellent results with it.
Matthew Gallego I do mind the taste of the synthetic fertilizer in my weed. It is awful to say the least. The guy is obviously a tree hugger but that IS the best way to grow your weed no questions asked.
We in India produce vermicompost from cowdung, leaves , hay and agri waste. I thing it's the best organic fertilizer you could ever imagine. It enrich the soil and keep soil productive even after multiple use YaY.
@@davidanderson8469 : Many don't know earlier Hindus Brahmin eat cows. Cow became sacred after Buddha thrashed Hinduism and it's sacrificial rituals. Sacred? bullshit!
I like bone meal, it's slow release so you don't need to use a lot of it. And I like having potatoes growing at all times, they really do better with bone meal.
@@BrendanAndThings actually it was more to keep from embarrassing you. You completely missed both points. Arguing with armchair philosophers is beneath me so I digress.
@@BrendanAndThings Logic is a rigid set of principles to determine Validity. So *NO.* There are not many different logics. There is critical, objective thinking. And then there is wishful, subjective thinking. "My Opinion" outside of observed Fact.. is NOT logic. These are the excuses people use to behave in a way they know are not true for ulterior motives. You guys can cultivate Commercial Paranoia.. but its not Logic. And its not the worlds responsibility to play like it is.
Humans have been genetically changing plants since we first learned to farm. The problem is not the GMO, but the reason behind the GMO. i.e. plants resistant to round up, that ends up in the food. I agree witht he biosolids but some of the others are meh IMO only. And compost tea has had several studies that suggest, to just add compost and let nature do the rest. The bacteria created dies back down after sugar levels drop. But good video indeed
Yes! GMO’s have saved over a Billion Lives! Bioluminescent jellyfish genes were used in neural network studies, not food. It allowed us to identify types of neural cells that we otherwise wouldn’t have been able to track. Huge potential for treatments and prevention for things like Alzheimer’s.
I went to the ocean and picked up some seaweed and brought it home rinsed it off a couple times and laid it in my garden right on the soil. Yes and drink green vibrance. Don’t eat meat that is not organic grass fed etc! Thank You John! You are so smart! Love your channel! Oh no I used blood meal. I’m taking the bag back. The exact one you put on the screen!! I only have rabbits and that’s why I was using it.
I would like to see a video that tells which different fertilizers benefit plants the most in the different stages of life. So lets say you either want to balance your soil after a growing season in preparation for the next year or prepare for heavy flowering. If I was to stop using bone meal to help during flowering because of the reasons you stated, what would be the best option? Soil develops certain deficiencies over time (even organic) so what are good organic target fertilizers?
First you don't want to "fix" soil. If you allow the soil to work as it does in nature, where in the fall a lot material falls and becomes the precursors to compost etc you shouldn't have to do much. It's a living soil and let the soil do what it does. You shouldn't have to do too much except maybe add some woodchips which will help store nitrogen for a long growing season Blood meal, bone meal are all fine within reason. That's part of what feeds it in nature.
Well personally l love my shit. I live in clean green new zealand. .. We have 17 horses and some sheep pumping the stuff out. Its a different story here, the property and animals havent seen peticides, insecticides, gmo, sprays, chemical fertilizers or feds. Its a diet of fresh grass and hay.
I 've been adding bone and blood meal to my compost for years, I hadn't realized that it could have heavy metals in it, and pathogens, mine is NOT a hot composting, I add stuff a little at a time. I do like to use bunny manure in my compost and as a topdressing. I am pretty sure that people that I get it from feed their buns packaged Timothy hay and pellets of Alfalfa, and likely fresh veggies and fruit. In my composter, I try to soak and get the poos to kinda liquify so that it gets the poo to spread throught the compost, not just stay in the little balls it is in after the bunnies poop it out.
+ian olsen Is this a conspiracy theory? www.cbsnews.com/news/study-says-genetically-modified-corn-causes-tumors-but-other-scientists-skeptical-about-research/
John is more of a seller than anything. Im sure he is paid a bunch for a lot of his vids . I dont go along with very many of his beliefs either. Rock dust is one of them. how long do you think it will take for that stuff to be plant usable and it aint cheap either. Most of his vids 20-30 min and mostly selling.
John is definitely has his views however I agree with him to a certain point. He's definitely not a politician the guy believes in sustainable organic farming which can be done!
GMOs are designed to kill slowly, same with vaccines. Pro NWO Elitist, Bill Gates said, Through Healthcare, vaccines and reproductive services, we can reduce the population of the world by 10 to 15 percent!".
6 WORST-
1. Synthetic fertilizers (0:42)
2. Animal Manure (3:36)
3. Bone Meal (6:12)
4. Blood Meal (7:56)
5. Biosolids (9:45)
6. GMO Fertilizers (10:44)
6 BEST-
1. Compost (13:07)
2. Fungal Dominated Compost (13:54)
3. Rock Dust (15:12)
4. Worm Castings (16:24)
5. Compost Tea (17:42)
6. Seaweed Fertilizers (18:48)
animal manure is a type of compost though
@@lolshatter No, by itself it is not. It could be used as a component of compost. Usable compost contains materials that have undergone thermophilic decomposition (high heat) to kill weed seeds, dangerous microbes/bacteria, etc.
Worst in my opinion for growing anything that will be eaten is Milorganite, which is a residue from the city of Milwaukee's sewage that has been treated. Things such as heavy metals and some chemicals can survive high heat.
I get my Bat Guano that’s been scraped off the floor from wild bats eating wild fruit of the jungles of Cambodia. My plants LOVE it!
Antibiotics can get into manure and into my vegetables and into my body? Going to need to see some studies on this one idk
Thank you so glad I didn't have to watch him yapping his lips for 20 min to say something that should been 4 min are less
0:00 1st Fertilizer - Don't Use synthetic fert.
3:30 2nd fertilizer - Don't use Animal Manure
6:07 3rd fert. - Dont use bone meal
7:53 4 fert - dont use blood meal
9:37 5th fert - dont use sewer sludge / biosolids
10:37 6th fert - dont use GMO meal
13:03 Compost bacterial = good
13:46 Fungal compost = good
15:07 Rock Dust = Good
16:22 worm castings = Good
17:38 compost tea = good
18:43 seaweed fertilizer = good
wish he covered liquid fish fert.
it depends on where the get their fish. farm fish are given lot of chemicals and hormones, over corwding and filth especially coming from China. you want wild caught fish is better.
On the "don't use" side, sewer sludge/biosolids are pretty obvious, but would be nice if you offered some sources for the other "don't use" things you mention instead of, "can be", "may cause", "could be", etc.
On the "good" side your reasons seem more obvious. Especially the compost tea but I don't understand if it is a dry product you put on the soil or if you are supposed to soak it in water to make a 'tea' and then pour it on the soil. Also, I did some reading on it and the studies don't seem to show any confirmed good results on plants.
You didn't mention fish emulsion which I hear a lot of people say is really good. But how would fish emulsion naturally have ever gotten into soil? Doesn't make sense.
Comfrey = good
I've had great experience with a lot of these organic fertilizers like blood meal, so I disagree. Blood meal seemed to help my wood chips decompose.
All of these ferts are poisoned even if you think k its not .. even wild deer meat is poisoned .
1 thing I learned 3 yrs ago when I first started my botany journey from a old gardener he said " sir let me tell you something, I learned in the gardening many years ago. everybody is right and everybody is wrong."
pat layne thank you !!! Very well said !!!
I cant understand
Can u explain this?
K im 50 / 50 either way,,
Oh thanks
Meaning: Humans aren't perfect. Right or wrong is relative. Only the universal law is absolutely right.
Your time, teachings, ethics in regards to mother earth and opinion are all very respected and appreciated..everything I've done in my garden, migardener and yourself have largely influenced ..please never stop providing this vast, important knowledge
I understand not trusting companies. But a lot of the information in this video is factually untrue.
Agree
Can you provide examples because otherwise what you have commented is useless
There is a brewery just a few minutes from my house that leaves all of the waste (grains and hops) outside for farmers to pick up and use as feed. I swing by a couple of times a year and load up. The spent grains are excellent "greens" for the compost pile. I till them directly into the soil as well. And it's all free!
They are fantastic for re heating a hot compost pile if it slows down too.
I brew beer sometimes and the spent grains really are a great resource for the garden.
Lucky
Beer huh....tell me more...
John would not like them because the grains are waste products grown with synthetic fertilizers.
Well then you are double lucky ;)
I've tested bone meal on flowers with the exact same potting pix and it did give a noticeable boost. Definitely doesn't need the 1 cup of bone meal some websites recommend. I put 3 tbs per hole and 2 in potted plants. Along with equal parts dried banana skin powder, and egg shells.
Been following your channels for many, many years, John. 21:11 to 21:30 had me bursting with laughter-really great with the enthusiasm. Top shelf insight! Nature’s always the way. Cheers!
Sometimes I will be listening to one of his boring episodes and only sticking around for the corny jokes and enthusiasm. Although 95% of his episodes interest me so its rare I am listening to a dull one waiting for a corny joke.
My garden is made from a rotted wood chip pile, and its great. I have used it for the last 6 years, produces great veggies. I also use Epsom salts water every other week, and aspirin water on the weeks in between. I make my own insecticide, pesticide and fungicide, no problems so far. I have huge juicy tomatoes, huge potatoes and other healthy veggies that are quite tasty, I'm a farm girl and use newspaper and wood chips on my garden, so at the end of the season, I mix it all together and it's ready for the next spring.
Rotor a wood chips become a great soil inhancer
Brenda Morris. What about the ink in the new papers?
lil homeboy- soy fucktard- .............you should be worried about geo engineering- child organ harvesting, israhells control of the world for mayer's genetic mutated spawn fucks- you should maybe focus on your boyfriend playing pitcher with the handsome UPS that is taking your place- guy........etc..........LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!
Hi can you share how many aspirins you use to make your aspirin water? Thank you
@@homerj8025 Inks are now soy based.
I'm so glad I found your channel! I always thought I was a sucky gardener, but that's because I didn't know all this great information. As a vegetarian, I am really really excited to try again and grow my own veggies!
‼️ oh wow! This is like seeing a celebrity at the store! We like the same things. 😅
ARIANA WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE
Good job! I subscribed.
I live in an apt in Vietnam, and have a small balcony. My partner and I use the balcony - did I say small? I mean tiny! - to grow some flowers and vegetables. This was a helpful video.
All these people making negative comments on here, you can say what you want, but nobody can deny that he grows beautiful produce. This man knows how to garden to each his own.
Great video! My favorite fertilizer is the leftover water from sprouting mung beans, but I can't possibly eat enough bean sprouts! LOL! Not sure why, but a little of this green water is like magic.
John could you do a video on where the best places to get gardening stuff like compost and raised bed supplies in Las Vegas are ? By the way thank you for all your information you give to everyone.
I’ve had the best success with liquid Fish fertilizer
Me too. I'm surprised it's not on the good list.
Me too does not burn your plant i use it to grow medical marijuana
Alaska Fish Fertilizer.😄
The thing is that fish fertilizer stinks so bad straight up ass hole smell
I have wanted to try this but have problems with voles/moles. I assume that would attract them more?
I use my chicken poop and pond waste.
My chickens free range and are very well looked after.
My plants have never looked better in summer.
It's important to have our own garden production, where our animals and plants feed eachother.
I agree we should NOT buy from shops as they are full of fillers.
Organic is the best way.
I enjoy watching your videos.
Could you do more about worms and mealworms please ?
And how to breed them.
Thank you so much john :)
What do you feed your chickens? Over 90% of the corn and soybean produced in the US are GMO.
I do use wood chips but I also like to use logs/branches from around 8 to 15 cm in diameter to create borders and just let them decompose. A good way to get fungi and insects/worms in the garden and you get beautiful mushrooms. I use wood from like the japanese cherry or common laurel or something like that, a soft wood. They are totally gone in 3 to 5 years in the climate I have here. Even plants start growing in the decomposing wood.
Excellent info John, never really thought about the possible problems with manure and bone/blood meal etc.
thank you
Manure problems can be avoided by watering or spraying the plants after application and not harvesting the food for a couple of weeks. The problem with the e. coli in the organic industry is not taking proper precautions.
bone and blood meal is cooked and dried. There are no health issues relating to disease. Manure does have possible problems though
its steamed. You have to take organic living with a grain of salt. Its a mindset, more than an action plan. The same people who say we take and eat more poisons than ever.. with the longest lifespan averages in recorded history. So next time someone says we need to get back to the old ways. remember that.
IT IS MULTIPLE BLESSINGS COMING ACROSS SOMEONE LIKE YOU JOHN. THANK YOU FOR SHARING.!!!!!!
I use my rabbits droppings in my garden works well!!
Rabbit manure is the best
Thank you for this idea I have two rabbits so plenty of poop to make the garden go round
its highly enjoyable watching/listening to you teach!
Try seaweed, which has over 70 different trace minerals!
What about the sodium content??
Hey there im trying to look
for info on using seaweed from fresh water is that usefull garden compost or is only certain type of seaweed
@@tedmcgee6825 the sodium content is so negligible that it doesnt matter at all
@Felicito Maia seaweed is extremely easy for some people to get
Freshwater seaweed ok?
Thank you for this. I had no idea what all these fertilizers were , and you stated it very understandably.
I really enjoy your videos. Very informative and your energy level gets and keeps you focused. Thanks for the info
Organic fish emulsion is the best in my opinion. I’ve been using it for decades.
What about Mercury?
I'm glad to see your still not letting petty stuff like actual science get in the way of your "expert" recommendations. Animal manure, bone and blood meal are cornerstones of organic gardening practices, and have none (that's zero) of the risks you warn of in a commercial form. The only way your pet is going to be realistically harmed with bone meal is if you hit him/her with the bag. Many things are "waste products" and still excellent gardening amendments. Of course you don't have to take my word for it, check any of the hundreds of publications by college agricultural extensions on them.
awesome video John
A. Grayman hahahaha
Do you know of any better channels? You called it, no science here.
A. Grayman funny!!
A Grayman: Blood meal, and Bone meal are absolutely worthless. The phosphorus in bone meal in not available to plants,-unless it is placed right next to the root zone, which you can't do (unless you are planting flower bulbs) and blood meal is only a source of nitrogen, which may cause top growth...eventually but will do nothing the year you put it down. Understanding science is the 'cornerstone' of ANY gardening . You are simply spewing empirical information with the statement regarding bone meal and blood meal .
Something I've found that has been working well enough, I use soil I basically made myself of two main areas.
1) Worm Castings. Worm bin started out with equal parts worm castings, peat moss, and compost. It gets a little bit of small (or crushed) Perlite and Green Sand mixed with it. Sand is good to help clean out the worms digestive system and helps further breaking down digested matter also. All used veggies and green table scraps, with a cover of brown/yellow leaves is all they get fed, and every couple inches topped with more Moss and compost w/ a touch of Green Sand.
2) Compost. Getting paid to make your own by cleaning neighbor's horse stalls for the animal manure (they eat alfalfa and grass). Layering dead sticks and leaves from around the yard, animal waste, cut grass, and forest compost. Adding crushed dried egg and crab shells, and sometimes a little Peat Moss and Azumite, in between every few layers. Keep it moist, but not wet. Let it bake itself with natural compost heat and turning it every so often before it gets too hot and starts a fire.
Mixing finished compost, worm castings, and unused forest compost, with perlite for finished potting soil. Plants, or soil, get fertilized with worm casting or compost tea and/or seed sprout tea. Also the waste from the seed sprout tea can be added to worm bin. The only thing i have yet to get a proper set-up of fungal soil. It's just too hot and dry and I lose it, still testing.
why are you taking soil from the forest (I assume that is what you mean by forest compost)? It's part of the forest ecosystem. Peat moss is also destructive to the environment. Coconut coir is much better...
@@clairemcconway6266 I agree, coir is 100% better and is pH neutral whereas peat moss is on the acidic side and better used with plants that require more acidic soil. Givin that I had to work with availability and cost, peat moss fit the bill much better at the time. Oh, and the forest compost is just what it sounds like. There are companies that scrape the floor of local forests which are full of natural nutes and bacteria who package and sell for plant soil.
Thank you so much for this video John!! I was just getting ready to weakly fertilize all of my houseplants today before Fall officially hit next week and I noticed you didn't mention fertilizer spikes!! But this year, I've slowly but surely switched from MiracleGro soil and fertilizers which I've used for years, to Espoma Organics soils/Orchid bark and fertilizers, Jobe's Organics fertilizer spikes, and through the dormant season I fertilize less often but with Epsom salts, coffee grounds, ground egg shells and now trying to get into diy composting!! Happy gardening John.🌱🤗🙏🏼🙏🏼
I learned so much! My city sells bio-solids and my neighbor grows vegetables in it :/ All of the “worsts” are new to me. Thank you!
It is impossible not to subscribe all John's channels and more impossible not to give him thumbs up, I love all his videos, his lifestyle is the only one I follow myself and so far his videos taught me more than any book or seminars
it is definetly posible to not subscribe to him everyone should live how he likes but i csnt stand it when people try to educate others about stuff they not understand
i am def not a professional in the area of ferts and gmos but i can def say that there is nothing wrong with gmos when they are tested the right way and also i dont like how he is explaining chemical ferts because when they have no heavy metals they are rly beneficial. especially when you talk about problems of over fert the soil ... because if you have anykind of knowleage about this stuff you should know that if you feed plants the right amounts of chemical ferts you have a minimal contamination and you should anyways not grow most of fruit and vegetable plants in the normal garden soil if you have the posibility to use buckets or even better hydroponic or aquaponic systems with water savings up to 70% not destroying the garden soil
I wont, he makes a lot of unscientific and flat out wrong claims.
+XionTRAX alfalfa is nitrogen o is hair cottonmeal look it up.
Young grower trying to figure out fertilizers.... best tutorial EVER!!!!!!!!!!!
This is the only UA-cam video you need to be a good gardener. I've used this method for many years and my garden looks fantastic.
agreed
Idk man, I have tons of plants and herbs and fruit trees and use compost from our compost bin in my yard, but the plant that grew the fastest, fullest, strongest, produced the most AND produced the best flavor fruit, was a DWC purple Cherokee tomato plant that used only “synthetic fertilizer”. It wasn’t even comparable to the compost planted tomatoes we did a year earlier, but I will say that hydroponics and soil are different approaches with different costs so there is that as well.
I combine 1/2 strength./1/2 interval salt based fertilizer,seaweed fertilizer and compost as a top dressing. Moderation folks. Thank you John. Your videos are alway so educational and I enjoy your enthusiasm for growing.
Listen people...The facts are there! Thank you for your honesty, Keep it rollin! You're doing great John.
John i love all your videos. Thank you for all that i have learnt. May good health be yours always.
I use discharge water from my planted aquarium which is full of fish byproducts, aerate in bucket with compost. Use this tea to foliage spray once diluted 15:1. Sludge left over as mulch around vegetable bed. Plus have a worm bin in garden
Milorganite passes all state and EPA standards. Any potential pathogens are killed in a 1200 degree oven so there is no contamination. And the organic material in the product is made from the microbes used to treat sewage, not the sewage itself. There is no "poop" in Milorganite.
Just because Milorganite passes all state and EPA standards doesn't mean it's safe to use growing food. How many times have we seen government approved chemicals turn out to be not safe for human consumption? Just because something has the approval of the FDA, the EPA, or state and local approval there is still no guarantee it is safe. A lot of people have died taking FDA approved medicine.
It's been used for 25 years without a problem.
+Bill M you're right
The audience watching these videos tends to consist of the kind of people who believe in magical essences.
Is it OMRI listed? Or certified organic by the usda?
It might work good. But unless it's been certified, it's a good way to strip organic farmers of their cert
Blood meal has the positive effect of repelling deer and rabbits etc. Blood meal gets basicaly sterlized in the process of fertilizer and is a very beneficial amendment as well as contributes a quicker "fix" in tomato gardens for growth as well as a nitrogen starter for beans in particular, Spectacular Contender beans on bad soil organically oh yea, will never have to do again after first season.
minrlwtr : both blood and bone meal take six months or more to start slowly releasing nutrient, i.e. phosphorous. phosphate rock can take anywhere from five to ten years to make P available. it works, just wrong timeframes for domestic gardening needs.
tomatoes need loads of potassium, rather than phosphorus, which is still required though. also need additional calcium applied well ahead of planting time, as calcium always takes months to become available. dont use dolomite lime btw, has too much magnesium for even roughly decent mag:cal ratio. also need consistent soil moisture. bottom end rot can be result of calcium deficiency either directly OR because of swinging/dry moisture levels OR potassium deficiency induced calcium unavailability.
dont need nitrogen to grow legumes. seeds should come coated with bacteria so they fix air nitrogen into soil. even uncoated seed grown plants will not grow nicely when all but very small amounts of additional nitrogen added as unnecessary.
get a soil test to find out really how to fix and supplement nutrients for crops.
most boggy become brick in summer clay soils are hated by beans/peas. usually fixed by big application of hydrated lime worked into soil months ahead of growing season to help fix structure and moisture problems and may need sulphur to correct Ph back down to neutral.
@@Chris-op7yt That's a pretty dumb claim. A garden should only need fast acting fertilizers? No, you should constantly be building your soil. This is a long term thing...
Hi John- new subscriber, longtime gardener and old school home grower. Just wanted to say thanks for the awesome channel. Love the production quality of the videos , you always have very interesting and knowledgeable guests like Josh and Wendi and lastly I can feel the passion you have for the topics you talk about and as someone who shares that passion I just wanted to say- right on man!
On the topic of this video I currently and am a longtime user of Ocean Forest {Happy Frog for my seedlings and clones} I amend it with several of the best 6 and none of the worst 6 thankfully lol , the only other thing I add and I find really helps with retaining moisture in the soil is food grade diatomaceous earth. It is said to have other benefits as well.
You and Josh often ask us to tell you what we do, and that is something I do that I haven't heard you talk much about {but I am a new subscriber and havent watched every video so I could be wrong} so I just wanted to share . thanks again and I look forward to more of your always helpful honest and entertaining videos. Cheers
I'm very interested in the fungal compost. My family owns a wood shop and I have access to wood chips... Excellent info, thanks.
Watched 1st time and was amazed at what I didnt know. Watched 2nd time and took notes. Thanks for the info.
How to use all this, I like natural products that I can put together myself. I dont like the continuous store bought items.
We only used Potash/Wood ash as a fertilizer mixed with natural compost along with organic teas or coffee grounds and have great outcomes.
Excellent episode! Thanks for the clarity on dangerous ad not so smart fertilization & composting. #Keepupthegreatwork
1:20 No.. No.. The soil acts as a filter, i've tested this personally. 250 ppm base water mineral contents, adding fertalizer till 600ppm and the run off from the soil was around 127. You can also monitor the PH of your soil by seeing whether or not the run off water has a higher or lower PH then was put into the medium.
I love your videos john, but please give advice based on actual science and not speculation.
You realize you are talking to a youtube channel called ORGANIC gardening. Of course he is gonna be biased.
Uh.. the data you collected doesn’t imply he’s incorrect. For example, in most farm operations, the essential mycorrhizal fungae die off due to tilling the soil repeatedly after a few years, and the plants ability to collect phosphorous in particular, for example tanks from ~85-90% to ~10-15%.
John - Your opinion on Alaska fish fertilizer, please?
Underrated from what i hear, about to try some today in a soil blend i made with peat moss , black cow manure & im going to sieve a but of compost all together.
thank you for taking your time to teach people the real deal in the right way to go you will be blessed by Mother Nature again and again!
I'm a grower of vegetables, what a load of tosh, from the dawn of time growers has been successful by using the byproduct of animals. I know what, stay in your bubble and the world would be perfect for yourself.
Thanks! I was going to use manure just out of tradition I guess, but I actually have kelp meal so I don't know what I was thinking :P
Since man has taken nature out of its environment we have to put it back with blood, bone .. animals died in nature and feed the soil health
Reuse coffee grounds , egg shells
Bury your treasure and you will reap the rewards
and seraf I like the Jesus reference
That is VERY true and no one can argue that, however, as stated, it's the bovine hormones and other synthetics that has been fed to the common livestock that makes the byproduct compromised. Years ago there were no drugs, just nature.
This is very helpful tips to those newbie in farming. Thanks for this.
To the point guys,always organic for trees, bushes plants that their life is more one year,but for plants with life one season (spring-summer)the best combination its 70% organic and 30%good quality synthetic
I went organic 25 years ago to save $ by substituting compost and worms in place of MG. The idea of bone and blood products sickens me. I catch rain water to make tea from excess backyard avocados and bananas. I compost/recycle all cuttings, branches, stems, leaves and even weeds. Live better...grow your own:)
I will def'n stick with all natural fertilizers next growing season. Waste of money and dangerous for the environment. Especially putting that stuff into the vegetables I eat. Great video. I will do all natural next year.
hi i just want to know..if dog poop is good for fertilizers,?
+edsel nicolaas ÑOooo
@@edselnicolaas2430 definitely not!
Thank you so much for your very educative video clip. Following you from Kenya. God bless you. Please educate us more and more
God bless you John, you're the best! Since this was filmed in 2015 and it's now 2022, any changes to this?
I like my Alaskan fish fertilizer 🥺 I have a trusted source of tested manure 🤣😂 i have a fire pit and we burn all our bones and crush them up and add it to the compost with the pot ash.
This guy is vegan and pushes veganism. He gave no evidence to back up his words. Where’s scientific proof that bone meal destroys Mycorrhizae?
my grandmother use to burn hickory and hardwood in her heater and dumped the ashes out close to her garden, she threw some pumpkin rinds, and seeds out one day and the next year she had the most beautiful green vines and the prettiest pumpkins I have ever seen!
My dad has always said if you burn good hardwood pour the ashes onto your garden all fall and winter then when you turn the ground it will give balance back to the soil!
Hi Davis how do you mix ur Alaskan fish fertilizer in every a gallon 🤭. Tnx
@@torresvicente3206 every 2weeks
"I know you guys like things quick, even in the bedroom" - John 2015
Hey man You Are my Favorite. i remember stumbling upon one of your videos From A Long Time Ago, i Lost Your Channel. Happy to see you Doing good and Healthy
John, Thank you for this information! Just getting into growing some of our own food and your knowledge has been invaluable so we appreciate you sharing it with us! Peace.
Does this apply to trees and shrubs too or just vegetables?
How about liquid fish fertilizer?
Very helpful video, thank you for the information. I am a new gardner, made a bunch of elevated raised beds, and starting out. Ty
John thx for the time and the great info. I learn something each video.🌱♺✌🏼
ion like you labeling sharks as man eaters, enough misinformation has already been spread that has lead to an extremely inflated sense of fear towards them. sharks are friends!!
Ants kill more people a year than sharks
@@april9497 on land...
I agree
Almost got me! I thought this was a legitimate video at the start but after watching for a couple of minutes I realized it's intended to be a parody of UA-cam garden advice sites! Thanks for the laugh!
+Captain Ron I've never seen someone who gets so much notoriety, can be so obviously talking out of his ass. Brawndo's got what plants crave.
You right
thanks for this video, very useful information
Everything from the 20 minute mark on is gold. Thanks for the info, John!
At 21:24 i 🤣 Had to hit back ten seconds for more giggles.
At 21:24 I 🤣 I had to hit rewind for more giggles
Hey John great information I know from making mistakes my self. But when I grow organically the different was undeniably top quality yet another awesome video you are so right in my opinion and you can see and taste the difference.
Synthetic nutrients is a pretty broad category to pin all those negative things to. Otherwise, some pretty good points. Thanks for sharing.
I'm trying to learn gardening, if I don't use liquid fertilizer how do I use other one? Mix it in soil before a transplant? How about after that, sprinkle on top? How would I know if I used too little or too much or when to add more?
Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge about fertilizers and everything else. I appreciate you
this guy knows his stuff! 😎
"Even in the bedroom. Heh"....this guy is awesome
Like things quick.....even in the bedroom? Nope, nice and slow! Lol
Is seaweed and kelp also a good fertilizer for your grass ? Thank you, John
dude how can you not remember the name miracle grow?
Do not speak it’s name!!!
My dad always told me that miracle grow was great for making tomato plant leaves grow, but not so much for the actual tomato.
Dude there may be slander liabilities, think first
Thou shalt not mention thy forbidden name 😉 kind of like Voldemort... Happy growing and Aloha from the Great Lakes
In regards to synthetic fertilizers, I think a lot of the problems occur when people use them improperly. Either too much or too little. Planted fish tank people have been using synthetic (see: salts such as KNO3, KH2PO4, et al) for many years with great results, and the plants grow lush, and the livestock isn't harmed. If you read the label of a fertilizer such as Miracle Gro, that's essentially what it is. Ammonium Sulfate, Potassium Phosphate, Boric Acid, Copper Sulfate, EDTA Iron, etc. These are actually essential nutrients for plants and it does them (and you, and the environment) no harm when you use it appropriately.
The best chronic I ever grew was with Miracle Gro in the ground.
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first time in 50years I have heard somebody say cow manure is no good. Worked great for me for 50yearsand still making my plants grow to a profit and great healthy meals . each to their own.
he didnt say cow manure was no good. He said specifically the commercially bagged up manure that comes from gosh knows where and cows that are fed gosh knows what is "in his opinion" not a great idea. He made it a point to mention that if you had your own cow poo resource locally and know what is being fed to the cows and how long its had to compost then that was a different matter. js ;)
50 years ago there was a lot less bad junk being fed to or injected in the cows
Thank you so much. I have changed how I garden so much listening to you.
Thanks for this video John, I'm just starting to garden and I guess composting would be the best choice, also I've used spent expresso coffee grinds for my baby plants, can anyone out there respond. I mixed it with my soil, & the perlite and the seedlings have been transplanted in small containers. And now I wait for them to grow.
That's good to use for good source of nitrogen and all natural but can be acidic so be aware of that
Do you know anything about GMO? Unless you dreamt they're bad. Get some schooling before getting preachy.
Really cool to come across you again. Saw your vids about juicers back in 2012-2014 and wound up buying the Omega VRT 350 juicer based on your reviews. Now that I moved to an apartment with a balcony, I'm looking into gardening some potted herbs/aloe, and in spring I have two 35 gallon Keter elevated planter beds for larger vegetable gardening. Used "Miracle Stuff" foam for an aloe plant in the past and it had amazing results, but looking into more natural methods now...hence why I came across you again haha. Keep up the good work with these informative vids. Liked and subbed.
I used cow manure, bone meal and blood meal in my large garden.... The best garden I ever had... I used Vinegar/soap water mix for bugs... had tons of worms in my garden... I composted all the extra vegetation for the next years compost...I also grew outdoor Marijuana... I had a hug potent flowers from only 4 plants... I do agree using worm compost if you don't have worms in your garden and mealworm compost
I was visiting my grandparents for a week when I was about 8. I would help them water plants in the evening. They had a large rock pile from which I made a few choice selections and started pulverizing. Then I mixed it with a few extra ingredients and told my grandma it was good for the plants. I thought I was just a weird kid, so did my grandparents I'm sure. But apparently i knew what the hell I was doing. Crazy!
Ur still a weird kid, dont worry
"I got a quick video'
~20 minutes video~
He loves the sound of his voice.
However, there is knowledge...
hi everyone ,if anyone else is searching for how to fertilize soil for a vegetable garden try Proutklarton Organic Tips Plan (do a search on google )?
It is a good one off guide for learning how to grow fresh organic food using the secrets of aquaponics minus the hard work. Ive heard some extraordinary things about it and my mate got excellent results with it.
Gabriel G Engell is it good knowledge though? Or just a bunch of tree hugging bull crap? I’ve had the best success with synthetic fertilizers imo
Matthew Gallego I do mind the taste of the synthetic fertilizer in my weed. It is awful to say the least. The guy is obviously a tree hugger but that IS the best way to grow your weed no questions asked.
Gabriel G Engell true.
Amazing video, John! Your explanation is fantastic, I learned so much! Thank you! Amazing Malabar spinach!
LOL - Caught me off guard with that joke in the beginning ;)
He sounded manic. Maybe still excited from a recent encounter :-)
We in India produce vermicompost from cowdung, leaves , hay and agri waste. I thing it's the best organic fertilizer you could ever imagine. It enrich the soil and keep soil productive even after multiple use YaY.
Cows being sacred in India is it kosher to use their manure?
@@davidanderson8469 : Many don't know earlier Hindus Brahmin eat cows. Cow became sacred after Buddha thrashed Hinduism and it's sacrificial rituals. Sacred? bullshit!
Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge about fertilizers and everything else. I appreciate you.
I like bone meal, it's slow release so you don't need to use a lot of it. And I like having potatoes growing at all times, they really do better with bone meal.
I've been using blood meal and bone meal for years I've never had one of those problems you discussed. Perhaps you are using it wrong.
He just hates all animal products
@@BrendanAndThings r/whoosh
@@BrendanAndThings actually it was more to keep from embarrassing you. You completely missed both points. Arguing with armchair philosophers is beneath me so I digress.
@@BrendanAndThings Logic is a rigid set of principles to determine Validity. So *NO.* There are not many different logics. There is critical, objective thinking. And then there is wishful, subjective thinking. "My Opinion" outside of observed Fact.. is NOT logic. These are the excuses people use to behave in a way they know are not true for ulterior motives.
You guys can cultivate Commercial Paranoia.. but its not Logic. And its not the worlds responsibility to play like it is.
Humans have been genetically changing plants since we first learned to farm. The problem is not the GMO, but the reason behind the GMO. i.e. plants resistant to round up, that ends up in the food.
I agree witht he biosolids but some of the others are meh IMO only.
And compost tea has had several studies that suggest, to just add compost and let nature do the rest.
The bacteria created dies back down after sugar levels drop.
But good video indeed
Humans have not been shooting Jellyfish Genes into your spinach for ten thousand years. That's the crazy kind of s#it they're doing now!
Yes! GMO’s have saved over a Billion Lives! Bioluminescent jellyfish genes were used in neural network studies, not food. It allowed us to identify types of neural cells that we otherwise wouldn’t have been able to track. Huge potential for treatments and prevention for things like Alzheimer’s.
I went to the ocean and picked up some seaweed and brought it home rinsed it off a couple times and laid it in my garden right on the soil. Yes and drink green vibrance. Don’t eat meat that is not organic grass fed etc! Thank You John! You are so smart! Love your channel! Oh no I used blood meal. I’m taking the bag back. The exact one you put on the screen!! I only have rabbits and that’s why I was using it.
I would like to see a video that tells which different fertilizers benefit plants the most in the different stages of life. So lets say you either want to balance your soil after a growing season in preparation for the next year or prepare for heavy flowering. If I was to stop using bone meal to help during flowering because of the reasons you stated, what would be the best option? Soil develops certain deficiencies over time (even organic) so what are good organic target fertilizers?
Can you give me information on blood meal and do you recommend it?
First you don't want to "fix" soil. If you allow the soil to work as it does in nature, where in the fall a lot material falls and becomes the precursors to compost etc you shouldn't have to do much. It's a living soil and let the soil do what it does. You shouldn't have to do too much except maybe add some woodchips which will help store nitrogen for a long growing season Blood meal, bone meal are all fine within reason. That's part of what feeds it in nature.
Well personally l love my shit. I live in clean green new zealand. .. We have 17 horses and some sheep pumping the stuff out.
Its a different story here, the property and animals havent seen peticides, insecticides, gmo, sprays, chemical fertilizers or feds.
Its a diet of fresh grass and hay.
Count yourself lucky as you are one of the last places not contaminated with pesticides and pharmaceuticals in your water/soil
Horse shit is a super food for tomatoes!
"I know you like things quick, like in the bedroom"
XD
Nope, as we age, things slow down! Lol, one of the greater things of slowing DOWN! Lol
I 've been adding bone and blood meal to my compost for years, I hadn't realized that it could have heavy metals in it, and pathogens, mine is NOT a hot composting, I add stuff a little at a time. I do like to use bunny manure in my compost and as a topdressing. I am pretty sure that people that I get it from feed their buns packaged Timothy hay and pellets of Alfalfa, and likely fresh veggies and fruit. In my composter, I try to soak and get the poos to kinda liquify so that it gets the poo to spread throught the compost, not just stay in the little balls it is in after the bunnies poop it out.
I love how people commenting on these videos never agree with the information given when the person in the video obviously knows more!
you are pushing your politics, i dont care about conspiracy theories, i care about what works.
+ian olsen Is this a conspiracy theory? www.cbsnews.com/news/study-says-genetically-modified-corn-causes-tumors-but-other-scientists-skeptical-about-research/
John is more of a seller than anything. Im sure he is paid a bunch for a lot of his vids . I dont go along with very many of his beliefs either. Rock dust is one of them. how long do you think it will take for that stuff to be plant usable and it aint cheap either. Most of his vids 20-30 min and mostly selling.
That's bullshit. You are only saying that because they don't coincide with YOURS. He said multiple times this was "his opinion".
John is definitely has his views however I agree with him to a certain point. He's definitely not a politician the guy believes in sustainable organic farming which can be done!
GMOs are designed to kill slowly, same with vaccines. Pro NWO Elitist, Bill Gates said,
Through Healthcare, vaccines and reproductive services, we can reduce the population of the world by 10 to 15 percent!".
i think egg shells makes the best fertilizer