How To Make Liquid Fertiliser & Black Gold
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2014
- One of the most effective ways of feeding your plants is with liquid fertiliser. Nutrients are easily absorbed through the roots and leaves when you apply a liquid fertiliser.
Our summertime recipe is made up of comfrey, stinging nettles and cleavers (bidibidi). This combination is high in potassium and low on nitrogen which is exactly what hungry summer-fruiting veges like tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, aubergines (eggplants), zucchinis (courgettes) and melons thrive on.
We make up 200-litre drums, but for a smaller garden you can use a container that’s around 20-litres in capacity. Push the green material down as hard as you can into the container till it’s full to the top, add water, put a lid half-on (so the gases caused by the fermenting process can escape) and leave for a month. At this stage it will be a black liquid. You may notice hoverfly larvae when you take the lid off - they are totally beneficial for your garden.
After a month or so give the mixture a stir. The woody material that you dredge up can be used as a mulch. Dilute the liquid to the colour of weak tea and apply to the leaves as well as roots of plants. This mixture will almost double a crop of potatoes.
A winter recipe will include fish heads, animal manure along with seaweed and weeds like puha, thistles, plantains and cleavers. This winter brew is good for kale, silverbeet and other green leafy vegetables which need nitrogen rather than potassium that summer veges like.
Another great way to feed your soil is by applying what we call Black Gold. There are three ingredients in Black Gold: coffee grounds, seaweed (preferably kelp - the big straps - because it has many more minerals than seaweed) and an animal manure. We suggest you make it in a black plastic rubbish bag to attract the heat. We layer in firstly coffee grounds, then kelp, then animal manure, then repeat till the bag is full. Don’t seal the bag as we want air to get in. Leave it in a sunny place and every now and then turn it over to aerate. It’ll take about 6 months till it’s ready to use. - Навчання та стиль
I stumbled upon something similar to this by accident. I had a 5 gallon bucket sitting behind my shed that had been filled with the leaves during fall and then water and snow over the winter. I dumped that slush on my lawn and for months I had a small patch of the greenest grass I have ever seen in my yard! Now I leave buckets sit and fill up instead of turning them upside down.
A good method but be careful of mosquitoes!
yamatoman tenshin fall and winter baby. Not many skeeters in Rochester Ny at that time. Got a 50gallon drum this spring I’m gonna experiment with this year.
Reading this during lockdown
Hi .is it any particular leaf
@@yamatomantenshin4908 if they would stay there and die it would actually be beneficial
Loving seeing a local doing tutorials on organic gardening.
I also enjoy how you avoid all the stupid stuff most channels do, wasting time, taking forever to get to a point at all, begging for likes and subscribes under a minute into a video before anyone knows if they're even worth watching at all.
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If you live in a place that gets snow during winter, it would make sense to spread this on your garden before the snow settles, and as the snow melts it's water takes all the nutrients into the ground.
Or in the Fall leave the leaves and they can be beneath the snow.
Thank you so much. Amazing video - learned alot from you!
Thanks roe the advice and tips from the UK
Lovely! Appreciate it bc I'm just starting the veggie garden.
Right to the point, no distractions.
And very generous on your part.
Thank you.
Rebecca/ Puerto Rico/ The Caribbean
I have all these items, but only a small garden, but filling black bin bags is perfect
Better yet chop it up and mix brown raw sugar and let it Ferments add to water after fermenting and feed that way. KNF aka Korean natural farming builds great microbe growth in soils and compost.
Thanks for the tips, I love growing hot peppers!!
I add molasses to get it fermenting. Using a paint stirrer helps to really break it up once it becomes soggy.
wonderful instructional, thank you so much!!
I love his right to the point, and clear easy to understand. Great job!
Very good video….short but straight informative thank you 🙏
Thank you. Most informative and helpful.
Very good! I also do composting. Thank you for sharing.
Mahalo nui loa!!! Thank you for sharing!!!
Thanks for the method and formula
Brilliant video learnt a lot well done!
Thx . We are learning. going to try it.
Thanks looks so easy I will try
Great stuff, thanks.
Thanks thanks. The best compost tea video. I have ever seen so far thanks for helping
God bless you. Thanks thanks
Here for Covid-19/depression prep. I know I'm not alone. Great video! Adding it to my favorites to reference.
same here
I hope seeds become the new currency, I regret not picking up a couple varities of tomato.
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That would be awesome! I'd love to go to a trade and barter system and cut out the middle man.
Really good show.First time i saw your chanel today.U sound kiwi, i'm from land of wombats and magpies.
You are still answering questions from 2yrs ago, magnificent, not many do this. U show care towards your viewers , a rare quality. Will check some of your others .
Thank you for sharing how to make a liquid fertiliser you are truly awesome and wonderful ^^
Amazingly helpful, straight to the point and easy to understand and follow. Keep up the good work.
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Very informative my friend, i will be using that idea for my garden
Really nice, informative, and useful video, my gardening brother. Thank you.
Great information, thank you.
Excellent for Cannabis as well Definitely using for my garden this run
Great video... new subscriber and will be sharing. With what is going on we all need to grow food as soon as possible. Thanks for the video; will be watching the rest of your videos daily. Everyone needs to be growing food and learning survival skills in these times. Take care everyone. Keep learning and keep sharing everyone.
Waaauuuhh...!! Just what I needed 👏👏👏✨👏🤩
Thanks for sharing 🥰
I've been doing something similar using a wormery, ie composting in the top part and using the liquid that drains through. I found it's miraculous! And I think it's because the liquid contains billions of bacteria that will act on all the vegetable content in the soil to break it down to nutrinets that the plants can use. In other words acts a a catalyst to break down the organic material that's already in the soil.
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Exellent straight forward video. Just what is needed. No me me me.
Thanks
What a healthy garden! Bravo for permaculture. Wish all food was as lucky to get this care!
Permaculture - otherwise known as gardening.
Love it! A fellow dank tank fertilizer maker! Nature is a wonderful thing and it’s our duty to emulate! Subbed!
Very good information!.
I really love to watch your videos
the amount of knowledge here. amazing!
Thank you
This is brilliant
great content thanks
Great video!
Very succinct video 👍
Best compost video I have ever seen by far!
No it isn't.
Yes it is.
Nice content. Let me try this at my small scale balcony plants.
No, I won't let you.
I can smell this video from here
Pritesh Yadvendu i feel like the smell stays on me all day after handling any manure 😂
@@andrewh25 lol I hear that!
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My manure bucket is filled to the top with water and there is no smell
Good thing plants can't smell and that most veggies/fruits are formed NOT touching the soil and the root veggies are washed carefully and furthermore don't put this or similar on veg that will be harvested within 12 days.
This is better and there is no chemical thanks for sharing it, God blessings. :)
Thumbs up and subscribed. Great video. Thanks.
REALLY helpful! Thanks for video!
Thank You.
Thankyou so much
Good stuff man
Thank u.
Ah, no bs video finally. Thank you
Yes!
Nah we dont use bs we use vegetable compost
beautiful
Thanks
verygood thank u verymuch
Great idea and probably even better with a small aquarium pump bubbling to keep it aerobic and thus exponentially increase the beneficial microbes.
Yes good idea. Our stirring it for 20 seconds one way and then 20 seconds the other for a reasonable period of time before using is our attempt to aerate it.
VERY HELPFUL
Worm tea, and compost tea works great too!
Agree! :)
Thank you. This is an excellent idea.
Nice and perfect combination of nitrogen and carbon.
Thank you for showing use of cow manure.👍👍
Organic Gardening I call them poop soup , I use worm castings and agitated water and cow manure and agitated water. One year I’ll use cow the next worm etc. happy growing
This is one of the best methods for fertilizing large gardens. Great video - keep up the good work.
Can you boil the plants in water then use the water the same day?
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Put comfrey leaves in a blender with water and blend. Then dilute the mixture with water and pour on soil around plants
@@tedmcgee6825 Agree with the Reformation's response below :)
I agree
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Nice to see you doing that. I do the same on my garden using a blender, mixing with water and it works very well.
Best Regards from Brazil.
Great explanation...can you spray it on leaves
I am interested to learn how make this wonderful work of how to make fertilizer. thanks.
Brilliant information.
Thanks
This is good info but Comfrey is high in nitrogen and Can burn foliage directly. My only add on to this would be to inoculate the container of weeds and such with IMOs better know or found in your local leaf mold. Indigenous Micro Organisms. Will increase the speed of the decomposition and continue to balance the soil food web in the garden. Just my thoughts. Thanks.
I love this video.♥️ I am also using chicken and goat manure, soak it with weeds and use it for my plants. God bless you fellow.
Very informative
Thank lots Sir.,....,
Great tea!
Wow, fantastic please can I apply this method to oil plantation
Great! Am in Zambia. I want to start producing this on a large scale
Except for using the plastic garbage bag . . . everything was great. A hard-plastic food grade container/bucket would be much better than the petro chemical garbage bag which would break down fast and pieces would be in the garden !!! 06/10/2021
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Thank you so much I use to make with only banana peel n stems... I ll definitely try this.
Excellent! We eat about 40 pounds of bananas every two weeks! Do you notice any problems with bees around your banana liquid compost? I had an apiarist friend sho said bananas mimic the attack pheromones of bees and so I should be careful with bananas and composting. Any words of wisdom?
Thanks a lot! My only question for you or anyone with experience here is, how often can I use the organic liquid fertilizer rich in potassium in my tomato, cucumber, pepper, zucchini, and watermelon garden? Thanks
Do you recommend a particular system to add your mix to a home irrigation system? If using 20 liter bucket for home, would i still set the top loosely on it? Also, what could i add for a mosquito or bug control if i could?
Hmmm. I think I will try a mosquito screen over the top of my stinky black gold.
I'm going to start a bucket today!
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Thank you. Vere help foul. much preheated.
I thought about how to make my own.. and seeing your concoction.., I now reckon this liquifying method is a double bonus because I will place all my weeds into a barrel and let them stew.., O and I won't need any weed killer poison. 🤗
Lovely cheers
VERY EASY. THANK YOU
Very cool
The weed fertilizer works excellent. I used any weeds I could pull up when I lived in the city, pretty near to downtown. I let it fester, gave it a good stir every week or so. I bubbled, boiled and smelled so appropriately nasty, that I had to store in the neighbour's yard, as I had an upstairs deck, and the neighbours in my corner building all had smaller yardlets. If I could do this in the city, anyone can. I could noticably see all my plants take a growth leap, esp. my stangnant tomatoes.
Thank you from vegas(702).......
Very good
This is perfect every spring my yard is full of weeds from winter rains that I couldn't pull up during the winter because it was too muddy to go out
And I have chickens and every few weeks I have to clean up their coop but my dad always throws the straw and poop because none of us has the time to do anything with it.
Now with this method I can process all of it into usable fertilizer and compost.
Thanks il have to try this method alot of those weeds you mentioned have either edible or midicinal properties as well
Sweet
Natural works...
Question. Will this work for aeroponics and/or other similar applications?
In your opinion would the use of freshwater aquatics weeds be useful in general mixture you build in ghost video?
Mexican sunflower too. And ink berry. Anything with a deep tap root.
Agri-KULTURA is here. Organic Farming is the Best.
Well, that looks real good and everything, I'm sure it's wonderful but we're fresh out of seaweed and kelp here in Kentucky
This guy's good! Dont have any of those ingredients around here though.
Nice
Came across this on accident.. gathered the collection of leaves on my roof that were already old damp and dried out.. put them in a bucket, forgot about it, and it sat out in 4 days of rain.
I noticed it smelled like shit, but in a way I knew my plants would like lol
I was about to say the same thing.... boy did it smelled like a rotten corpse! a big swarm of flyes suddenly gravitated towards the bucket!
You should go and take a compost class, not only it is a faster decomposition it will also teach you how to avoid that bad smell
@@rutsoluo Its a myth anaerobic composition is just as good as aerobic. Look into jadam farming, everything you need to grow a garden is in your backyard.
@@devoywilliams3956 well said brother
*The residue from the herbicide Grazeon in animals who fed on hay is a real concern for some respected growers now as it passes right through the animals digestive track. Something to take into consideration if thinking about using manuer from hay fed livestock.*
the process of composting puts all those chemicals through that many reactions, that they are rendered inert. worm chemicals that stock is fed may affect worms entering your compost at first but will be eaten by bacteria/ fungus like the rest
Can I use worm castings instead of manure for the black gold ?