My favorite time of the year is gardening time I’m always so excited to watch every little seed grow, but I never realized until I found your channel how much I was missing. Learning about how the soil is a living organism and all the ways I can nourish, protect, and feed it is priceless. Your teachings have open up a new journey for me and my garden I see it growing and flourishing bigger and better then ever in the future. Thank you so much my friend great video 🙏🏼❤️
Have you ever did a comparison between all the tea and no tea? Seeing a lot of study's saying teas don't work..... I use them all the time just curious.
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I need one with all the quail dander. Had to put them in a shed. Raccoons got them all once. Brutal. Thought I was finding the ways in and blocking but they had a way in somewhere in the garage. Need to install that vent with a fan blowing outside should help especially when it's hot. Cage cleaning coming up soon. More eggs this week coming.
@@gardenlikeaviking spot on! I work in the Health Physics world. Kind of like applying industrial hygiene controls as applied to Nuclear power applications. We provide PPE (personal protective equipment) and test for efficiency of various respiratory protective equipment. We only, and can only provide legally accepted protective equipment that has a tight fitting seal. Anything less or compromised by damage or improper use gets no protective rating. The way I saw most masks worn I could see the flaws. You can create a temporary lower pressure zone, ever so slight, that air will go to. It will go to the path of least resistance and that is around the gaps and other loose fitted areas. That is made even worse when made wet by perspiration. In the best case they are marginal and as seen worn by most to be next best thing to useless. Thanks. Needed to be said.
I raise quail and started using the manure as a pre plant fertilizer about a month before planting. I've harvested over 30 slicing tomatoes this year. Last year I got one. I'm in the second year of gardening and I'm really enjoying the learning curve. I live in Tucson, Arizona. Spring gardens are a real challenge here.
Grand Canyon Zone 7a here...yes all of az, with exception of a few special cool water laden areas, are hard to grow without much amendments and consideration..
Absolutely right. I'm practicing it since beginning of 2023 and the plants are thriving. Nate, you're a hell of a teacher, already happy when you're hitting 100k subscribers🎉
I just threw rabbit manure into a bucket and a handful of leaf mold about 5 days ago and wow it's some smelly stuff but my plants exploded and got 3 shades darker. I didn't let it ferment for long but used it rapidly. I have a big supply of it!
I make swamp water and the poo tea separately. Both age at least 2 weeks before I start using. Combine this with a soil rich in biochar and your nutrients never wash away!
K B lol right on. To clarify, I call swamp water a tea made of mostly weeds, roots, and some brown leaves. Poo tea is pretty much just that. Only reason I keep them separate is that certain plants I don't want to fertigate with something that isn't super aged, or is excrement, due to pathogen risk.
@KB-2222 indeed, pathogens are no joke. I don't add unhealthy plants into the swamp water because any bad stuff will only spread. Even simple, harmless to humans, things like blight can be terrible. That stuff I hot compost only. My poo tea comes from 3 chickens that are healthy and have a "strict" diet of home grown stuff, so I can be sure there's no chemicals, hormones etc in the tea. 100 years ago we wouldn't have imagined such a problem, but now a days, most things from outside the homestead are toxic af.
I I have used a small bulap bag to strain a finished batch of rabbit manure tea. It rots out quicker than a paint strainer would though. I had a very large garden but only 1 rabbit, it works so well. Now I have chickens. Duck, turkey or chicken compost makes very husky happy plants!
Since I am living in a HOA community that does not allow barrels of any kind to be placed outdoors, making this excellent natural fertilizer can't happen for now. However, earlier this year, I bought a bottle of Holganix Bio 800 Agriculture. I diluted it according to the instructions (less than an ounce per watering can) and applied to to the leaves first and whatever which was leftover to the roots. The vigor of the growth, vitality of the plants and veggies, and the great reduction in pest pressure was amazing. Holganix is chicken manure based and is fungal dominant. It contains all the micro nutrients, microbe food and nutrient enhancers. One caveat is that it must be stored in a cool location, such as the bottom shelf of my fridge. Holganix even pays for a refrigerated container to store the huge quantities that farmers buy. For those of us that cannot make such a great fertilizer like how Nate does it, this is an alternative to consider.
Excellent video. Can't wait for my husband to watch it, he brewed something similar with our chicken bedding, mostly finished compost and lacto bacillus serum, he will love the brilliant straining method you show! 👏
First tip "my friend", please don't don those useless surgeon's masks for dust protection. They are simply designed to keep a hovering surgeon's tic tac or bead of sweat from falling into a patient's open body cavity. If your going to protect your respiratory system, use a brand name (i.e. 3M) N95 dust mask. That's what they are designed for and the ONLY thing they are designed for. The false sense of security you get from wearing the device you have on, will not protect you from manure dust and may cause detrimental health concerns. Be well.
Good stuff, cheers Nate; legend cleaning the coop in these temps ngl, I come out soaking in sweat just collecting the eggs! I built my perches over a galv tank that I can take the front off and get a wheelbarrow under, makes collecting the poop so much easier, plus it saves a bundle on bedding material, I only have to clean the coop out and replace bedding once a year for 14 chickens.
Thank you so much we have been afraid to use our chicken manure. Now after listening to you we are using it this year Thank you so much from North Florida.
You're a great teacher man, thanks for sharing :) A day before the feeding, i take the amount of "sauce" needed, mix in EM1 and molasses (about a teaspoon of each/gal), and let it sit overnight in an airtight container... plants seem to love it... :) Peace :)
@@shellygarber8673”EM” effective micro-organisms, can be purchased online, highly recommend looking into JADAM and KNF practices so you can figure out how to make it cheaply if finances are a roadblock. Both Chris Trump and Nate here offer fantastic tips and insight to gardening natures way
Love the strainer design - quite useful. Very good work on the tea and a very good demonstration. We've done this with various manures, rotten fish and other things as well. I have a gardening friend who put a strainer into a big barrel and watered her entire garden with an overhead sprinkler which pulled from the barrel diluting the various anaerobic teas she made. Thank you for warning people about the herbicides, as well. It's a terrible problem.
What's up Dave!.. Love your channel brother!!... I would like to somehow see the design your friend used to accomplish this as I have many applications for something like that.... how was it diluted with water or was it full strength?.... Also thank you for being one of the few big channels that understands and promotes the many merits of proper anaerobic ferments!!
Super helpful with displaying the barrels and hoses. As soon as we get things planted it's on to this process. You made it rain finally and i'm glad for it! I also like the Chaplin type humor in the video as it is very fresh.
yes this video was made with you in mind!!... this is pretty much exactly what i was describing as far as the application system... the white barrel is what I was suggesting you make a 250gal IBC tote or even a 500gal water tank for ease of application... because one of these 55gal drums would literally only do a single row of your garden...
I have watched this 4 times! I think I have got it. I have terrible soils. Worn out and ruined by chemical fertilizers from previous gardeners. I am going to try this because my plants need help! Thank you
the paint strainer on the bucket as a filter well is brilliant. I was putting a pitcher in the strainer bag, submersing, then taking the pitcher out of the bag. Im buidling this tomorrow after work, thanks!!
yes my friend it makes it so much easier!!... and notice how the milk jug was cut in such a way as I did not even get my hands into the liquid while dipping it!!!...
@@gardenlikeaviking easier and faster indeed!! I've been using a hoss liquid fert injector to apply strained JLF through a drip irrigation system, working flawlessly
@@gardenlikeaviking ps, I left 1/2 the handle side jug spout intact (same cut as yours but cut spout it in half), and you can invert for a more precise pour for injector application
Love your videos. They are straight forward in telling the what and why of organic farming. And with me being a fellow Hoosier I know that they will work in my climate.
Hey Viking , you have a good strong and helpful energy man, Zone 7a Grand Canyon high and dry mountains here, looking forward to making a Saturday live-Thanknyou for your work here in this video "Debunking", mine and a million others " Chicken manure is too hot, it has to age"...drama😂. Love it.
I'm a chicken lover and also a gardener and what you're saying is absolutely correct about chicken manure, love to see my vegies full of fruits and so healthy, guys try it..
thats a great setup right there!!... if logistics permit I'd also strongly suggest either a JADAM Microbial Solution or Aerated Compost Tea application in there a few times for the huge diversity of biology...
@@gardenlikeaviking will do. Been 6 years since we have fertilized. Was buying fish emulsion for years but got too expensive. Thanks to you we are making it ourself
I swear to god since watching your videos, I'm absolutely fiending for some leaf mould. It looks so lush. And should help start a living soil pile or whatever. Viking gardener you're a teacher and a totally handsome dude 🖖 god bless you and the family.
LOL! I only have 3 girls (just lost one), and I clean their little coop every morning. I also live in Florida, so no forest (scrub palmetto & pines). However, once a month I make a manure tea, and dilute it down- a lot!! 😉👍
I wish you did this video a year ago. I experimented and did a 1 cup to 30 cup mixture via 5 gallon pale. It worked pretty good. But traditional farmers told me not to do it more than once per month because it could burn crops. I did something different though. I added charcoal to the soil around the plants bases. Charcoal holds in nutrients from being washed away by rains. It was used by the Mayans in what is now the Rain forest. This year i will try doing it every week. I originally looked everywhere for a video on this. Only one person made a video but didn't say how often to apply it.
Nice... I dont have a big container. I do this in a 5g bucket sometimes, but I also add jugs in my planting beds to kinda slow water. And sometime I add chicken 💩 to those jugs, not much 💩, about 2-3 chicken poops. At this time I do not have the funds on hand to buy things, so using what I have is a must. Like planting saved SEEDs from mini Mexican bells from the store. 😆 They are growing ver good so far.🎉❤
@@gardenlikeaviking I sure will, I have to keep the chickens from killing them ALL, they have been a pain in the @**. I'm hoping they produce well. And that they are a nice small bell. I like them because of their small size, & multi colors you can at to your food.
Great video!! Thanks so much! Question though, this is feeding the soil right so the thing you’ve talked about in prior videos about store bought chemical fertilizers making the plants dependent on it, won’t happen with this homemade brew right?
💯% The Best Explanation & Application of Knowledge. 👏👏👏 Most helpful video on use of FRESH organic Chicken Manure Soil watering & Foliar Spray I have ever watched. 🌱🥕🌽 *** The submersible pump *** Game changer for me. I have those same Black barrels ( Love Them for Compost Tea) - black in the sun cooks your medium (weeds , Comfrey, Tithonia ) quicker. Until now I was using Dollar Tree Mop Buckets to carry the water. Excellent idea. Will save me Soo much time. No drilling holes and praying it won’t leak 👯♀️👯♀️👯♀️👯♀️ Thank you
I have about 35 hens and use pine shavings on the floor of their coop. I clean it every month and the poop is always dry because the pine shavings absorb the moisture. I put the poop / shavings directly on the soil around my plants and have never experienced any burning. I believe it's the wet poop that comes in contact with the foliage that burns plants. I could be wrong but that's just my experience.
In many places around Australia we have Contractors who cut trees away from power lines in suburbia. There is often a way to get your hands on the chipped material. Makes great mulch and Chicken House Bedding.
1. glad to see my idea proved to work excellent ! I thought about this and was like, eh, let's UA-cam about it. Sure enough, here you are killing it !! heck yeah ! Also 2. Those pants are simply the best. I have em in almost every color, work, garden, farm, doesn't matter. lol
Thank you for sharing this method. In my head, it always seemed like "Why not just dilute it?" was the answer, but it is nice to hear from someone who has already figured it out.
@@gardenlikeaviking With that comment, maybe you could let gardeners know to keep a bit in the bottom of the barrel as an innoculant and add to it when it starts getting low. OR for larger gardens, keep a second barrel going and switch off usage. 💖
@@zanothandonjoli5859 I have just used a cloth. In the beginning, you might not want to keep it in the house - there is some smell (not too bad), but after it's settled down, you can keep it in so it doesn't freeze in winter. I pour it into 1 gal. glass jugs and use a piece of screening held on by a jar ring. It will evaporate some, so adding some water before pouring out to measure or use works well as you pour thru the screen. Good luck!
I actually just made this, following “JLF” technique, but used a 5 gallon bucket. I’m wondering if there’s any concern for salmonella?? Or any other risks…
Man oh man I like your method so I tried it. I'm on a smaller scale but still did it like you did. My question is how do you store it being that we use it once a week? & how long does it last.? Shelf life?
Question: this is or is not a foliar spray ? Is this mainly meant for root watering and ok/safe if it gets on leaves? Thanks for ALL your excellent teachings! When will you publish a book!!! 😊❤
I would like to do a setup like that, but it’s going to take some time. In the meantime, I’ll just make my chicken poop soup five gallons at a time. But at least you gave me a frequency, everybody else I’ve watched basically instructed how to make it and that’s it. Thanks.
Awesome method Nate, I have saved up all my chickens' poo in a big garbage can with a clamp lid so I can get making this stuff any time. I had a glorious summer/autumn growing season and unfortunately it is now winter again, time to re-tool my garden beds.
where are you at my friend??... I'd suggest getting into growing the mushrooms indoors and also the microgreens!!... winter can be a glorious time of abundance if you make it so!
I used old chicken manure sccessfully on lettuce, i leave a shovel of chicken manure in the watering can staying overnight, then i dilute it with a bucket of water, i excusively used this method to water very other day or when the bed dry and i didn't get any problems, even grasshoppers didn't attack my lettuce my father also used the bedding and put it to anaerobically compost in a barrel of water, and he used that water everyday to water his beds, th he left it for a while, like till water turned green bc of algae
If you live out in the country you have to worry about herbicide drift from farmers spraying their fields as well. The farmer beside me nuked my garden a few years ago with Dicamba drift . I have been fertilizing with a pump and barrel like that as well it makes it nice . I tried a brass siphon for the garden hose and it didn't work very well . Thanks for sharing !
yes the drift is a real thing for sure!!... but the next year your garden was back to normal right?... the issue with the contaminated manures is that it stays in the soil for so long!!... yes the brass siphon has nothing on the pump and barrel!!
k so my question as a student of soil science: I understand, and agree with, your point that it's about balance between aerobic and anaerobic conditions - but isn't leaving feces in a vat of water unbalanced on the anaerobic side, to the point of being anoxic? doesn't it smell foul? isn't there alcohol in there and other sharp acids than can damage plant tissue?
I love your fertilizer videos and was wondering if it would cause problems if I combined making several in one barel instead of making different barles and combining them when I used them?
Thank you so much for your tutorials I am loving them! I was wondering about rinsed rice water (the cloudy part), banana peels, coffee grounds, rusted nails (Iron) & hair human or animal for plants. Can u do a video on a fertilizer with those? Can you put them into the liquid fertilizers or will it kill the microorganisms. Do you have a specific fertilizer say to help flowers bloom, for fruit trees? for citrus trees, for tropical fruits? For avocados? For ways to grow trees from other areas in your area?.....Did I ask enough questions? 😄😄😉
My favorite time of the year is gardening time I’m always so excited to watch every little seed grow, but I never realized until I found your channel how much I was missing. Learning about how the soil is a living organism and all the ways I can nourish, protect, and feed it is priceless. Your teachings have open up a new journey for me and my garden I see it growing and flourishing bigger and better then ever in the future. Thank you so much my friend great video 🙏🏼❤️
Have you ever did a comparison between all the tea and no tea?
Seeing a lot of study's saying teas don't work.....
I use them all the time just curious.
Soil life in depth ,Dr Zach Bush,,,,the microbiome
Very informative video
Ho long do we leave the chicken fertiliser to soak before it can be used? Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
It’s very relaxing I find😢🎉😮
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Great tutorial! And the most useful application of a mask that we've seen in about three years...
I need one with all the quail dander. Had to put them in a shed. Raccoons got them all once. Brutal. Thought I was finding the ways in and blocking but they had a way in somewhere in the garage. Need to install that vent with a fan blowing outside should help especially when it's hot. Cage cleaning coming up soon. More eggs this week coming.
lol I didn't want to say it but I'm glad someone did!!
The only useful application even 😉
This is the best comment ever lol
@@gardenlikeaviking spot on! I work in the Health Physics world. Kind of like applying industrial hygiene controls as applied to Nuclear power applications. We provide PPE (personal protective equipment) and test for efficiency of various respiratory protective equipment. We only, and can only provide legally accepted protective equipment that has a tight fitting seal. Anything less or compromised by damage or improper use gets no protective rating. The way I saw most masks worn I could see the flaws. You can create a temporary lower pressure zone, ever so slight, that air will go to. It will go to the path of least resistance and that is around the gaps and other loose fitted areas. That is made even worse when made wet by perspiration. In the best case they are marginal and as seen worn by most to be next best thing to useless. Thanks. Needed to be said.
I raise quail and started using the manure as a pre plant fertilizer about a month before planting. I've harvested over 30 slicing tomatoes this year. Last year I got one. I'm in the second year of gardening and I'm really enjoying the learning curve. I live in Tucson, Arizona. Spring gardens are a real challenge here.
Grand Canyon Zone 7a here...yes all of az, with exception of a few special cool water laden areas, are hard to grow without much amendments and consideration..
Wow what a difference.
Dude! That is so awesome how to strain from the 55 gallon drum with the bucket! Just made my life easier
Could find strainers at garage sales. I plan on smaller scale with kitty litter tubs.
Absolutely right. I'm practicing it since beginning of 2023 and the plants are thriving. Nate, you're a hell of a teacher, already happy when you're hitting 100k subscribers🎉
Same here. Garden has been kicking ass this year with the help of Nate’s tips. Been using chicken manure JLF With awesome results
100% agree!
I just threw rabbit manure into a bucket and a handful of leaf mold about 5 days ago and wow it's some smelly stuff but my plants exploded and got 3 shades darker. I didn't let it ferment for long but used it rapidly. I have a big supply of it!
I've used it when transplanting but this is a good idea for the rest of the season, thanks
Did you add water to your rabbit manure, then used the water?
How long before using it?
You can use rabbit and goat manure right away.
Sounds like wabbit season
I make swamp water and the poo tea separately. Both age at least 2 weeks before I start using. Combine this with a soil rich in biochar and your nutrients never wash away!
I love that idea! I'm writing this down so I dont forget to label my barrels accordingly.
I throw all of it together. Swamp water? I call composted swamp tea lol
K B lol right on. To clarify, I call swamp water a tea made of mostly weeds, roots, and some brown leaves. Poo tea is pretty much just that. Only reason I keep them separate is that certain plants I don't want to fertigate with something that isn't super aged, or is excrement, due to pathogen risk.
@@thatguychris5654 I need to probably care about pathogens more lol
@KB-2222 indeed, pathogens are no joke. I don't add unhealthy plants into the swamp water because any bad stuff will only spread. Even simple, harmless to humans, things like blight can be terrible. That stuff I hot compost only. My poo tea comes from 3 chickens that are healthy and have a "strict" diet of home grown stuff, so I can be sure there's no chemicals, hormones etc in the tea. 100 years ago we wouldn't have imagined such a problem, but now a days, most things from outside the homestead are toxic af.
I I have used a small bulap bag to strain a finished batch of rabbit manure tea. It rots out quicker than a paint strainer would though. I had a very large garden but only 1 rabbit, it works so well. Now I have chickens. Duck, turkey or chicken compost makes very husky happy plants!
Since I am living in a HOA community that does not allow barrels of any kind to be placed outdoors, making this excellent natural fertilizer can't happen for now. However, earlier this year, I bought a bottle of Holganix Bio 800 Agriculture. I diluted it according to the instructions (less than an ounce per watering can) and applied to to the leaves first and whatever which was leftover to the roots. The vigor of the growth, vitality of the plants and veggies, and the great reduction in pest pressure was amazing. Holganix is chicken manure based and is fungal dominant. It contains all the micro nutrients, microbe food and nutrient enhancers.
One caveat is that it must be stored in a cool location, such as the bottom shelf of my fridge. Holganix even pays for a refrigerated container to store the huge quantities that farmers buy.
For those of us that cannot make such a great fertilizer like how Nate does it, this is an alternative to consider.
I live in hoa too, I just do it anyway.
I appreciate the simple explanations on the science of plant growing. (The osmosis and the burning etc)
Never mind, I just hadn't made it all the way to the end yet..I now know I can use it right away..
Excellent video. Can't wait for my husband to watch it, he brewed something similar with our chicken bedding, mostly finished compost and lacto bacillus serum, he will love the brilliant straining method you show! 👏
Thank you this is a game changer being able to go straight in sith coop cleaning but not burn the garden down! Glad you received the rains.:-)
First tip "my friend", please don't don those useless surgeon's masks for dust protection. They are simply designed to keep a hovering surgeon's tic tac or bead of sweat from falling into a patient's open body cavity. If your going to protect your respiratory system, use a brand name (i.e. 3M) N95 dust mask. That's what they are designed for and the ONLY thing they are designed for. The false sense of security you get from wearing the device you have on, will not protect you from manure dust and may cause detrimental health concerns. Be well.
Good stuff, cheers Nate; legend cleaning the coop in these temps ngl, I come out soaking in sweat just collecting the eggs! I built my perches over a galv tank that I can take the front off and get a wheelbarrow under, makes collecting the poop so much easier, plus it saves a bundle on bedding material, I only have to clean the coop out and replace bedding once a year for 14 chickens.
Great stuff! Chicken manure tea is a new one for me. My chickens just earned some more treats.
❤ I love the filter system. It’s so satisfying to see it seep into the bucket and create a wellspring for future growth 🙏
What is the substitute for leave mold
Thank you so much we have been afraid to use our chicken manure. Now after listening to you we are using it this year
Thank you so much from North Florida.
You're a great teacher man, thanks for sharing :) A day before the feeding, i take the amount of "sauce" needed, mix in EM1 and molasses (about a teaspoon of each/gal), and let it sit overnight in an airtight container... plants seem to love it... :)
Peace :)
What is EM1?
@@shellygarber8673”EM” effective micro-organisms, can be purchased online, highly recommend looking into JADAM and KNF practices so you can figure out how to make it cheaply if finances are a roadblock. Both Chris Trump and Nate here offer fantastic tips and insight to gardening natures way
Love the strainer design - quite useful. Very good work on the tea and a very good demonstration. We've done this with various manures, rotten fish and other things as well. I have a gardening friend who put a strainer into a big barrel and watered her entire garden with an overhead sprinkler which pulled from the barrel diluting the various anaerobic teas she made. Thank you for warning people about the herbicides, as well. It's a terrible problem.
What's up Dave!.. Love your channel brother!!... I would like to somehow see the design your friend used to accomplish this as I have many applications for something like that.... how was it diluted with water or was it full strength?.... Also thank you for being one of the few big channels that understands and promotes the many merits of proper anaerobic ferments!!
Your videos are getting better, Nick.
Super helpful with displaying the barrels and hoses. As soon as we get things planted it's on to this process. You made it rain finally and i'm glad for it! I also like the Chaplin type humor in the video as it is very fresh.
yes this video was made with you in mind!!... this is pretty much exactly what i was describing as far as the application system... the white barrel is what I was suggesting you make a 250gal IBC tote or even a 500gal water tank for ease of application... because one of these 55gal drums would literally only do a single row of your garden...
This is valuable information!
Now I know what to do with my chicken poop.
Thanks again!
We drain our ducks pond once a week into our raised beds. It works great.
I've been adding mine to keep my compost moist.
I have watched this 4 times! I think I have got it. I have terrible soils. Worn out and ruined by chemical fertilizers from previous gardeners. I am going to try this because my plants need help! Thank you
Hey, looking forward to trying this one! We have lots of chicken manure! Thanks for the vid.
Can I ask, I have chickens but I use diatomaceous earth. Can I still make this? I'm new to gardening and chickens.
We gotta share nates videos. How is he not at 100,000+ subs?
the paint strainer on the bucket as a filter well is brilliant. I was putting a pitcher in the strainer bag, submersing, then taking the pitcher out of the bag. Im buidling this tomorrow after work, thanks!!
yes my friend it makes it so much easier!!... and notice how the milk jug was cut in such a way as I did not even get my hands into the liquid while dipping it!!!...
@@gardenlikeaviking easier and faster indeed!! I've been using a hoss liquid fert injector to apply strained JLF through a drip irrigation system, working flawlessly
@@gardenlikeaviking ps, I left 1/2 the handle side jug spout intact (same cut as yours but cut spout it in half), and you can invert for a more precise pour for injector application
Love your videos. They are straight forward in telling the what and why of organic farming. And with me being a fellow Hoosier I know that they will work in my climate.
Hey Viking , you have a good strong and helpful energy man, Zone 7a Grand Canyon high and dry mountains here, looking forward to making a Saturday live-Thanknyou for your work here in this video "Debunking", mine and a million others " Chicken manure is too hot, it has to age"...drama😂. Love it.
I'm a chicken lover and also a gardener and what you're saying is absolutely correct about chicken manure,
love to see my vegies full of fruits and so healthy, guys try it..
We’ll be using it in a 200 gal 3 point hitch sprayer for the pasture. Rotating between this and the fish fertilizer
thats a great setup right there!!... if logistics permit I'd also strongly suggest either a JADAM Microbial Solution or Aerated Compost Tea application in there a few times for the huge diversity of biology...
@@gardenlikeaviking will do. Been 6 years since we have fertilized. Was buying fish emulsion for years but got too expensive. Thanks to you we are making it ourself
Glad to get this from you bro
Excellent Presentation thanks and I am from Sri Lanka .
Thanks Nate! Always crushing 👊🏻
your video is making my garden life a lot easier Thank you very much. Alf😃😃😃
I swear to god since watching your videos, I'm absolutely fiending for some leaf mould. It looks so lush. And should help start a living soil pile or whatever.
Viking gardener you're a teacher and a totally handsome dude 🖖 god bless you and the family.
thank you for the positive energy my friend and yes the pure leaf mold soil is so bursting with life it just sings to the soul!!!
Your channel is full of great tips. And I love that you keep them brief and at the same time say all we need to know. Thank you.
Chicken manure in my garden..
Got gorgeous cherokee purple going on.
my absolute favorite tomato ever!!
LOL! I only have 3 girls (just lost one), and I clean their little coop every morning. I also live in Florida, so no forest (scrub palmetto & pines). However, once a month I make a manure tea, and dilute it down- a lot!! 😉👍
Great tutorial, thank you !
So glad I watched this. My ratio of tea to water was way too high and I burned the tops of my green beans.
I wish you did this video a year ago. I experimented and did a 1 cup to 30 cup mixture via 5 gallon pale. It worked pretty good. But traditional farmers told me not to do it more than once per month because it could burn crops. I did something different though. I added charcoal to the soil around the plants bases. Charcoal holds in nutrients from being washed away by rains. It was used by the Mayans in what is now the Rain forest. This year i will try doing it every week. I originally looked everywhere for a video on this. Only one person made a video but didn't say how often to apply it.
I'm so glad you finally got the rain!
Nice...
I dont have a big container. I do this in a 5g bucket sometimes, but I also add jugs in my planting beds to kinda slow water. And sometime I add chicken 💩 to those jugs, not much 💩, about 2-3 chicken poops. At this time I do not have the funds on hand to buy things, so using what I have is a must. Like planting saved SEEDs from mini Mexican bells from the store. 😆
They are growing ver good so far.🎉❤
let me know how the Mexican bells turn out because often that kind of seed does not produce true to kind but I'm interested to see your results!!
@@gardenlikeaviking
I sure will, I have to keep the chickens from killing them ALL, they have been a pain in the @**.
I'm hoping they produce well. And that they are a nice small bell. I like them because of their small size, & multi colors you can at to your food.
Great video!! Thanks so much! Question though, this is feeding the soil right so the thing you’ve talked about in prior videos about store bought chemical fertilizers making the plants dependent on it, won’t happen with this homemade brew right?
Love your energy man! I have a lot of chickens and will definitely be using this information.
Forgive me for taking this long to subscribe. Your videos have given me much knowledge. I appreciate them all. Thanks brother.
💯% The Best Explanation & Application of Knowledge. 👏👏👏 Most helpful video on use of FRESH
organic Chicken Manure Soil watering & Foliar
Spray I have ever watched. 🌱🥕🌽
*** The submersible pump ***
Game changer for me.
I have those same Black barrels ( Love Them for Compost Tea) - black in the sun cooks your medium (weeds , Comfrey, Tithonia ) quicker.
Until now I was using Dollar Tree Mop Buckets to carry the water. Excellent idea. Will save me Soo much time. No drilling holes and praying it won’t leak 👯♀️👯♀️👯♀️👯♀️
Thank you
I have about 35 hens and use pine shavings on the floor of their coop. I clean it every month and the poop is always dry because the pine shavings absorb the moisture. I put the poop / shavings directly on the soil around my plants and have never experienced any burning. I believe it's the wet poop that comes in contact with the foliage that burns plants. I could be wrong but that's just my experience.
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In many places around Australia we have Contractors who cut trees away from power lines in suburbia. There is often a way to get your hands on the chipped material. Makes great mulch and Chicken House Bedding.
1. glad to see my idea proved to work excellent ! I thought about this and was like, eh, let's UA-cam about it. Sure enough, here you are killing it !! heck yeah ! Also 2. Those pants are simply the best. I have em in almost every color, work, garden, farm, doesn't matter. lol
Thanks! Just bought a sack of chicken manure at Home Depot and wanted to hear an expert like you!
thank you my friend!
Thank you for sharing this method. In my head, it always seemed like "Why not just dilute it?" was the answer, but it is nice to hear from someone who has already figured it out.
6:09 From here I missed or couldn't find how Long you let it sit before using it
@@stoneman61it says straight away so i guess within the day it can be used.
Great job of show and tell 🙌
Thank you for sharing this information and God Bless y'all ❤️
Nice, real nice. Thanks for sharing 💪🏾
Nice garden space! Your plants look amazing!!!
Yes I have so much
Thanks this'll help improve farm's
Excellent video mate. Many thanks for sharing it.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge
My brother in law just said his chicken coop needs cleaned out so I’m going to be making some this weekend!
Thanks Nate! Love your channel
Thanks for making these videos. I honestly hope you make a ton of money doing this because you deserve it.
Great video as always. I made mine 6 or 7 years ago. I just keep adding to it. Works great!
wow thats the good stuff in there!!... totally plant available now!
@@gardenlikeaviking With that comment, maybe you could let gardeners know to keep a bit in the bottom of the barrel as an innoculant and add to it when it starts getting low. OR for larger gardens, keep a second barrel going and switch off usage. 💖
@@momcomputer6461 Do you close the Barrel with lid or cloth?
@@zanothandonjoli5859 I have just used a cloth. In the beginning, you might not want to keep it in the house - there is some smell (not too bad), but after it's settled down, you can keep it in so it doesn't freeze in winter. I pour it into 1 gal. glass jugs and use a piece of screening held on by a jar ring. It will evaporate some, so adding some water before pouring out to measure or use works well as you pour thru the screen. Good luck!
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Brilliant bucket idea. I'll start with a 1 gal milk jug. Thanks
I'm totally new to gardening I'm glad I came across your video
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I love your video , you are helping us in reducing our cost of production.
Pls do I need to use npk again
Thanks finally answered my question after googling for twenty mins
Nice video, quick question can be used immediately or need to let it sit for a while?
I actually just made this, following “JLF” technique, but used a 5 gallon bucket. I’m wondering if there’s any concern for salmonella?? Or any other risks…
Man oh man I like your method so I tried it. I'm on a smaller scale but still did it like you did. My question is how do you store it being that we use it once a week? & how long does it last.? Shelf life?
Question: this is or is not a foliar spray ?
Is this mainly meant for root watering and ok/safe if it gets on leaves?
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When will you publish a book!!! 😊❤
Not foliar spray. Foliar spray is for leaves. This is not for leaves, it's for the roots, but if a little gets on leaves it's not really an issue.
I would like to do a setup like that, but it’s going to take some time. In the meantime, I’ll just make my chicken poop soup five gallons at a time. But at least you gave me a frequency, everybody else I’ve watched basically instructed how to make it and that’s it. Thanks.
i have been using fresh cow manure in my outdoor grows
Awesome method Nate, I have saved up all my chickens' poo in a big garbage can with a clamp lid so I can get making this stuff any time. I had a glorious summer/autumn growing season and unfortunately it is now winter again, time to re-tool my garden beds.
where are you at my friend??... I'd suggest getting into growing the mushrooms indoors and also the microgreens!!... winter can be a glorious time of abundance if you make it so!
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Thank you brother you are a wealth of knowledge
New to your teachings. Taking many notes lol. Hopefully soon I won’t need them. Thank you for sharing brother 🙏🏻
U explained the process very simple, thanks.
Awesome info, thank you muchly😊👍👍
Outstanding video my friend
I will be doing this from now on
I used old chicken manure sccessfully on lettuce, i leave a shovel of chicken manure in the watering can staying overnight, then i dilute it with a bucket of water, i excusively used this method to water very other day or when the bed dry and i didn't get any problems, even grasshoppers didn't attack my lettuce
my father also used the bedding and put it to anaerobically compost in a barrel of water, and he used that water everyday to water his beds, th he left it for a while, like till water turned green bc of algae
If you live out in the country you have to worry about herbicide drift from farmers spraying their fields as well. The farmer beside me nuked my garden a few years ago with Dicamba drift . I have been fertilizing with a pump and barrel like that as well it makes it nice . I tried a brass siphon for the garden hose and it didn't work very well . Thanks for sharing !
yes the drift is a real thing for sure!!... but the next year your garden was back to normal right?... the issue with the contaminated manures is that it stays in the soil for so long!!... yes the brass siphon has nothing on the pump and barrel!!
@@gardenlikeaviking Yeah your right the ground was just fine the next year it doesn't stay in the soil like Grazon
Great video! And to the point. I'm subscribed, thank you!
I have gotten some thing thanks you are a good teacher
Parts of the yard where year after year leaves stay always has leaf mold in my experience. Little corners and crevices
Thank you very much for,how to prepare chicken manure & apply for plants. Thanks once again. Khalid Mahmoud Gujarat Pakistan
k so my question as a student of soil science: I understand, and agree with, your point that it's about balance between aerobic and anaerobic conditions - but isn't leaving feces in a vat of water unbalanced on the anaerobic side, to the point of being anoxic? doesn't it smell foul? isn't there alcohol in there and other sharp acids than can damage plant tissue?
I love your fertilizer videos and was wondering if it would cause problems if I combined making several in one barel instead of making different barles and combining them when I used them?
Thank you so much for your tutorials I am loving them!
I was wondering about rinsed rice water (the cloudy part), banana peels, coffee grounds, rusted nails (Iron) & hair human or animal for plants.
Can u do a video on a fertilizer with those? Can you put them into the liquid fertilizers or will it kill the microorganisms.
Do you have a specific fertilizer say to help flowers bloom, for fruit trees? for citrus trees, for tropical fruits? For avocados? For ways to grow trees from other areas in your area?.....Did I ask enough questions? 😄😄😉
Very interesting information! Thank you for sharing. I usually just throw my chicken manure in a bucket with water. This also seems to work well.
yes that can also work good but give this method a try with the addition of the high quality leaf mold and see the difference!!
@@gardenlikeaviking Yes I will try it out!
Thank you for sharing this wisdom!
Thank you so much! I will be making this.
One thing; cedar chips are dangerous to chickens. The smell is too strong.
Thank you! I was just coming to comment on this and checked to see if it was addressed yet. Please, no cedar with chickens!
Whats the safe the time distance from the time you use the manure to the time you eat the food.