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- 12 Garden products that are a waste of money - don't buy these.
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That SunCalc gadget reminds me of the old joke about the "Polish Weather Stone". You get this flat stone and put it outside your window. If it's wet, it means it's raining or it has rained; if it's dry and it's not night, it means it's sunny out; if it's got snow on it, it means it snowed; if it's not there, it means it's been very windy and has blown away; if you can't see it, it's probably night time.
lol!
that's exactly true though. my wife is the one that watches the weather. I asked her how's the weather going to be she looks at her cell phone and says the weather Rock says it's cloudy. going to be hot today.
Considering my polish heritage it’s right in! 😂
If someone can't tell if they have sun or shade in their garden they shouldn't garden. I go outside and take a picture of my garden every 3 weeks starting in April until September. Its easy to know when and where the sun will be throughout the growing season.
Thank you for encouraging everyone to garden in a more sustainable fashion.
I consider myself an experienced gardener, but I’ve been fooled more than once, it seems. Thanks for your straight talk!
Dragging gardeners into the scientific age, one video at a time. Thank you, Sir.
I use cardboard boxes stripped of tape, glues and staples instead of landscapers fabric. Worms love it.
Sorry, Rob states that cardboard doesn't work. So you must stop wasting your time
Question….stent there toxic substances used in the manufacture of CBBs??
It works. Cardboard really helps with the weeds
@@sgmahabir it does,,but rob thinks it doesn't, but rob may have actually never tried it, which seems like a common approach with him
Im glad I found you. I’ve learned so much from you. I don't use fertilizer in my garden. I prep the beds in Spring before planting. I use manure, amendments and potting mix with my soil. I never need to fertilize. Everything grows beautifully. If i do see a plant struggling I will use organic fertilizer but haven't needed it.
I would like to know how you would deal with moles in the yard and flower beds?
You are doing a great job. We have been fooled by big business to buy all this crap.
😳😬😵💫way too often life seems like a constant grind of buy work eat sleep but buy buy 🥴
Those jiffy pots are truly a joke, tried them once, never again😊
Those weed barrier cloths are the worst! I have them all over my yard because the people who lived here before me put them in. They are so annoying when I'm trying to plant things.
Not sure if they sell this fish fertiliser overseas but in Australia it is great and is an Australian product. Charlie Carp.
It is made from the introduced Carp that are descimating inland waterways. They are actively fished by everyone and usually just thrown up on the bank, so they usually go to waste. But the Charlie Carp company has at least put them to use.
I also find that using a fish emulsion helps to stop transplant shock.
Swiftgro
I had the idea to do this with carp in the US Midwest years ago. Figured you might even be able to get some government grants. Don’t know if anyone in the US is doing this yet. Good to know it’s working in other countries.
The Dog Rocks work! You just have to use them correctly, when the dog pees on your plants... Throw the rock at him.
😂😂😂
Sir I agree with you about using manure or better yet homemade compost in place of store bought fertilizer. However, I do tend to keep at least a bottle of 5.1.1 fish emulsion liquid fert around for my transplants. It’s enough of a nitrogen boost to save some weaker plants or even help prevent shock. And I dilute it way down so lasts many years in my use case. it does end up being a good investment for that purpose. Another thing to mention about using manure in place of fish fertilizer is that you should be diligent about using cheaper cow or horse manure, as they may contain traces of round up, which is a complete nightmare for backyard gardeners. The chance is low but I prefer to use compost instead of manure.
The US has an invasive fish the Asian carp, you can legally catch as much as you want, perfect fish for fertilizer. It’s a win win business idea.
Bless you plant man
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
I have been using my Felcos for 40 years now. Inherited my moms and use them too. Love them. Very interesting, thank you.
I love my Felco handheld bypass pruners and have 2 pair since 2000. Consumer Reports at the time did a comparison and rated Felco products the highest. They are expensive but they last. I gave Felcos as presents that year and everyone loved them (including my sister, a Master Gardener).
Additional note for seed starting cups: I bought the paper ones that are supposed to degrade. They don't break down nearly quick enough and my seedlings were root bound inside them after planting. I still find chunks of the cups in the soil a year later.
A way to use those cups is to remove the bottom when planting. Less likely to get root bound. That is if you need to use them. There are some use cases for them. You can also make seed cups out of old newspaper.
That’s right.
Also you waste your money in buying biodegradable plastic bags for collecting kitchen scraps. They don’t degrade in two years time😪
I always assumed they make fish fertilizer from waste. smh
So did I.
In Australia most fish-based fertilizer is made using invasive European Carp that is a pest in our waterways, profits go towards further removal and control of that species, which in-turn, helps protect and repair damaged ecosystems.
I can’t remember the name of the company but there is one that was just a fishing company and realized how much they were wasting by dumping the fish they couldn’t sell and started making fertilizer as a side gig.
When I was a kid growing up in Tasmania my mum used to collect washed up seaweed hose it down then dry it out to put on the garden it was great fertiliser
Seasol is a seaweed solution made in Tasmania
Such good common sense. Thank you. Just stumbled upon your video. Subscribed.
I love your videos. I use 5 oz plastic cups, I poke holes into the bottoms for my seedings. They're cheap and the plastic is food grade if that actually really means anything. Most of the plastic planters are not made of food grade plastic.
If you ever want to stop using plastic then you can try using toilet rolls. It's free, saves one more thing out of the landfill, you can plant them out directly into the garden without messing with your seedling and their roots, when you bury them they break down and provide excellent worm food. N.B. this must be the plain brown cardboard rolls. Anything with white or other colors or that feels like it has a coating on it is a no no.
@@EmpressG I did try that, but all the seedlings molded. Obviously, I over watered, but even on a second try, the seedlings didn't germinate. I may give it another try, but I can't afford to lose my seedlings.
@@mudpiemudpie785 Not sure of your watering method, but what I found easiest was to put the rolls in a container and bottom water.
So you have the seedlings in soil in the rolls - first give the seedlings a good drink overhead making sure the cardboard is saturated, then let them sit in the remnants of the water...which should be no more than a couple millimeters or so. Thereafter just put a bit of water in the container itself when it's dry and it should wick the water up keeping perfect moisture. Try it out with some seeds you don't care about first to get the hang of it. Something out of a pumpkin/watermelon/tomato that you are prepping for a meal so essentially it's kitchen waste and you're not out of pocket. You can also use this method to regrow kitchen scraps like scallion/green onion as well although I personally prefer the self-watering planter. That's another topic though! 🤣
@@EmpressG It was after that first watering when I saturated the cardboard that they promptly molded.
@@mudpiemudpie785 Hmmm. I'm not sure what happened. I use this method a lot and have never had any probs. Tiny roots even grow thru the sides which makes the plants super strong in the end. I'd stsy stick to what works for you in that case 😊
Weeds grew right through my weed barrier. Weeds love it! Also, next year I'm going to use my own compost tea for fertilizer. We've used all sorts of store bought only to have that expense.
When it comes to fish fertilizer it makes no sense to buy in commercial products, but if one can access fish waste through their own fishing hobby, that of their friends and families, or through local fish markets it makes a lot of sense to make one’s own Fish Amino Acids (FAA) as it is relatively cheap, converts a waste stream into a source for high quality plant food, and provides plants with a source of readily available Nitrogen in the form of ready to use amino acids instead of in the form of simpler molecules that plants would have to expend energy in converting into amino acids.
I put all the fish skins from my consumption of fish into my compost barrels, along with vegetable waste, egg shells (yes they do rot, but it takes about a year), and other stuff.
Thanks! It appears to me that gardening is often driven by fads. . I’ve seen fads come and go. Most recently my region has become fascinated by biochar. The claims make me very suspicious. I’d love to hear your opinion on its use.
He have videos on it. And his website too.
Just an additive for soil once annoculated houses a place for soil life to live. Your soil already has all it needs. Just make compost from YOUR garden and provide long term nutriment to keep your soil alive. Never let soil dry or it dies. All you need is compost and water for a garden. Buying products makes companies rich not you. Your whole goal is to grow food sustainably and save money. So don't buy anything. Its all a gimmick to make companies richer and this hurts your pocket.
We use food scraps ( composted for a year), aged chicken manure (1 year old), egg shells ( once added crushed into a fine powder last almost forever) , leaf mold from the forest and things seem to grow well if watered properly.
From what I understand it is an additive if your soil lacks something or your soil is too acidic. If your soil, like mine is alkaline bio char will make it more so.
Biochar was used by some gardeners to help with grazon contamination.
I absolutely love your videos. I learn something new each time. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and time with me/us. As a new gardener, I appreciate your all your tips, tricks and wisdom.
Excellent keep it going this Info IS what WE need all the best Germany
Awesome information. Thank you 👍
Thank you so much for your common (or not so common) sense. I will never buy fish emulsion ever again - I assumed it was made from waste or by-products. Totally unconscionable.
My Dad liked to fish, because, well, it gave him a few hours away from my mother. 😂 My mother liked eating fish and would save the guts for the garden. I learned both skills from them.
Dog rocks, eh? I initially thought these were calcified dog scat😂😂 No, I just pick up after my dogs water the lawn to dilute urine. No need for any electronic devices either. I have, however, used weed barriers, but you're right about weeds growing after a couple of years.
Really great video - on what to buy & not to buy - thanks so much …we need to know what to buy ….😊
Weed fabric-guilty! Fish fertilizer-guilty! Anvil pruners-GUILTY!! 😅😢😅. Oh wait…bone meal-guilty! Lol
I'm from Australia and I've never heard of dog rocks 😂 I feel cheated. That said, we do use feral fish (Asian carp) for fish emulsion 👍
Excellent! Asian carp are an invasive species and using them for fish emulsion is a win-win!
Swift grow
@@BananahFarmah531 looks good -- better than Charlie Carp?
Iowa State University, extension and outreach: Blossom end rot is caused by a calcium deficiency in developing fruit. Fluctuating soil moisture due to overwatering or drought, high nitrogen fertilization, and root pruning during cultivation are conducive to blossom end rot.
You are partially correct.
…and that fluctuation is what causes calcium mobility problems. I live on what was a huge inland sea bed and our soil calcium levels are off the charts yet we still have end rot. I’ve found the best cure is to grow resistant varieties and of course get the water right.
Hummingbird feeders (about 10 ½ min in the video) Quit spraying for aphids as the birds love it.
The dog rocks actually do help with female dogs. The problem is most people aren’t reading the instructions. You have to let them sit in water for 4-6 hours before you give it to your dog. Now, I will say it does not totally work but helps dilute the pee. To eliminate the burn you’ll have to regularly water the areas your dog pees in.
My test consisted of the following
1) give regular water out of the tap. results: pee spots with dead grass.
2) do not follow instructions and put rocks in bowl. Same results a 1
3) follow the instructions and giving our dog water without watering. result: very light pee spots. with partially dead grass.
4) test 3 with regular watering. results: less noticeable pee spots.
I am a lawn nut so it pains me to see the pee spots from our female dog so i have tried everything under the sun and it seems a combination of soaking the rocks for long periods of time before giving water to your dog in conjunction with regularly water the area where the dog pees is where I am seeing the best results.
Now, you bring up a good point. Can I just use regular rocks….I’d have to try.
I was having issues with tuber formation on fall/winter/spring turnips, carrots, beets, radish etc in Louisiana but I have no topsoil and have been slowly creating it over 2 years with sandy soil from a wash, forest debris and grass clippings. I tested turnip transplants in a small mound of soil and added organic fertilizer with 20 microbes and small amounts of bone meal until tubers formed then repeated this (but only just enough) in the rest of my garden. I also used this as part of my soil creation mixture around my fruit trees.
Thank you so much for bringing attention to the dangers of fish fertilizer. People have no idea the environmental impact that it has!
The other problem with fish fertilizer is that it STINKS!!!
And the fishy flavor translates, or can translate, into the harvest.
You’re supposed to dilute it.
2nd vids of yours I've not I'm here forever. Thanks for your inputs and knowledge. I'm here forever. How about a vids on some of the most reliable things/equipment/tools a gardener should have
In the 1970's everyone had pet rocks. I couldn't afford one.
I can buy 25kg of blood, fish & bonemeal for the same price as 25kg of 7-7-7 artificial fertiliser & see no difference in the results (3 years of container grown potatoes).
Cheap bypass secateurs are far worse than cheap anvil pruners & at least the anvil version will work if kept sharp, whereas sloppy bypass kind will _never_ make clean cuts.
I have Felco #7 bypass & some ancient CK anvil secateurs. For anything except doing a _lot_ of pruning, where getting blisters is a real possibility I'll go with the old Anvil ones.
BUT I keep both sharp (most people don't know how to sharpen tools, or even realise the necessity).
Other than that, I agree with all the rest.
I’m not sure how you got fish fertilizer to cost $32/100 grams of nitrogen. 1 gallon of water is 3,785.41 grams. At 5% N this would be 189.25 grams of nitrogen per gallon. At $10/gallon, I get $5.28 per 100 grams, not $32. Of course, that’s much more expensive than Scotts, but about 1/6th of your calculation. Am I missing something? Thanks.
I`m so dum, I`ve bought mycorhysal fungi then forgotten to use it...
I have a ton of myco products but I use them for inside plants. I have seen good results.
Bone meal is also rendered from highly medicated animals. I don't want those drugs in my organic garden.
This reminds me of "oh, it's snowing!" - "what? send me the link" :)
how come the plants i use myco are 1/3 bigger ?
If it works keep using it.
Yah it’s noticeable for me that when I use myco for my first time up potting transplants, they get a huge boost in root growth.
Have you done a true comparison ? Otherwise it's like saying the ones I repotted on Monday did better than the ones I did on Sunday so I will do all repotting on a Monday!
@@jeanmcginlay2363I did. And it’s been a real difference.
But I wonder whether all mykorrhiza products are similar
Now what 12 products we should buy?
Take this guy with grain of salt with everything; the calcium and blossom end rot specifically to this particular video.
Wow, this is great. Very true about experience vs marketing
very good. agreed.
what do you suggest for root knot nematodes?
Mycorrhizal inoculants definitely do work and they definitely have a place in high value indoor crops, particularly in hydroponics since the medias tend to be inert. I'd agree with you that adding mycorrhiza in a large garden may not be the best use of your money given the wealth of life found outdoors and the low likelihood of any non natives surviving in your soil in any sort of dominant form. Indoor growing tends to use more inert medias and it is quite easy to replicate this yourself. There was a noticeable difference in density, branching and even structure of the roots when I used a high end microbe inoculant.
Your comment regarding some manufacturers being less than honest is a good one but that should just reinforce the belief that you should look for those honest companies cause their products actually do provide a value to certain facets of the industry. Just because it may not be cost effective or even required in a garden in the first place does not mean the entire product category is snake oil.
A more genuine criticism would have been the ridiculous cost of these products, particularly when as you say, some of them do not bother to consistently test their product to make sure they have the advertised CFUs. I am not blind to the consumerism being created here and I see the ridiculousness in the application rates they sometimes recommend but that does not stop you from using your head, using the product once on the root zone and just keep feeding that one inoculation through your nutrient solutions throughout the entire grow cycle. It really does make a difference, in my opinion.
Are the mycorrhizal inoculants in MaxiGro powder? That`s all I use because it`s easy. I do have a large 20 lb pack of the 3 hydro Masterblend but never bothered with it. I may use it in my outdoor garden.
@@baneverything5580 Nope, those are simply water soluble nutrients.
If you have an outdoor garden which you amend with compost, there is zero need to buy microbe inoculants. These products are meant for high value indoor crops that uses inert media. Good garden soil is the opposite of inert.
You do not need mycorhizal products in the garden just bits of old wood eg woodchip. The soil microbes soon find it.
@@jeanmcginlay2363 Kinda what I was saying there :p
@@jeanmcginlay2363 Exactly! I have found it loves pine chips, esp.
Thank you for the common sense video! Glad you didn’t name anything I use. 😁😀
Same! 😜
I tried fish fertilizer ONCE - I had so many flies come to that bed, it was CRAZY! No more, no thank you! Thank you for confirming.
I bury whole carp in my veggie patch works so well
@@lewis5605 interesting! Maybe I’ll try that 🤔
@@dianesgardeninspiration bury at least a foot deep within months all that’s left is a few bones I do have heaps of worms in there as well
@@lewis5605 love it!
I just spent the afternoon ripping out weed barrier under 3-5 inches of soil and roots. Probably got about 10% of it out and it filled up my entire garbage can. Ugghhhh! It. Is. Terrible!
I have two items i disagree somewhat. The anvil pruners qctually are useful, or at least maybe it's my anvil pruner, which is really useful. I have an anvil pruner with 3 stage lever. Basically, you just squeeze the pruner 3 times to make a cut. I use it for slithly larger branches that are a bit too big for normal small pruners. My anvil pruners aren't really able to cut small branches either way.
The other item is the landscape fabric. I'm ba farmer and i use a platic sheet which isnt completly solid to line the outside of my
Farm under the edges because it makes it easier to manage the edges and weeds. Now i wonder what your opinion is on using the platic fabric in this setting. I haven't really had a problem with weeds in those areas, but I've only installed the fabric about a year ago. Ocasionally, a poky weed pokes thru the plastic, and i just pick it out. But it does save me a ton of time on weeding that area.
I’ve fed hummingbirds a 1:3 ratio for years.
YES, consider the whole resource and environmental cost of gadgets and anything you think k you need, so consider paper napkins, energy, and resources that go into raw materials,then plastic packaging, then cardboard boxes, then the environmental cost of transporting to a store you can by it from....or use reusable cotton napkins that last forever. I sure do like your line of thinking
Hi. Thank you for the video. Very entertaining and very true. There's a lot of gimmicky stuff out there that's just trying to make a quick buck. If you want organic fertilizer like you said, use manure. It's cheaper. That's what they use back in the old days when there was no chemical fertilizer. I just subscribed. I'm not sure if you have any videos in your series where you looked into debunking some common internet gardening hacks. That would be very interesting. Have a good one
Not only do i disagree with several of these, I LOL'd at the pH suggestion. Really? Your scientific advice is to forgo any type of lab soil test and "just ask a neighbor, he'll know the pH of your soil"? What superpowers does said neighbor have? Laser vision? Xray vision? No, no, it's pH vision!! 😂
Great video! Thanks so much. 😊
This is great. Thank you!
6:41 if you buy a high quality ph pen like a blue lab and add a 1:1 ratio of your soil at the root zone with water that you put into your soil and test the slurry you will get the correct ph of your soil. And really as long as it’s a consistent result it doesn’t need to be accurate. Just adjust using the results from the meter as a reference point
You're assuming constant pH across the entire garden?
@@jeanmcginlay2363 you would need to take multiple reference samples from all over the area you plan to garden or have problems in. You can get your soil tested by any university near you for like 20$ and the results will be given in a few days to weeks if you don’t have a good ph probe. It will be hard to change your soils ph for any extended period of time and I would recommend just planting stuff that works with the given ph of the soil or buy new soil by the yard from a local garden nursery.
OMG! I just ordered a 10 lb bag of bonemeal.
Thank you for all the information!
I just came across your video and I’m so glad that I did - subscribed! I love all things gardening and just started posting in UA-cam - so fun! Thank you for inspiring gardening 🌻🌻🌻
Thank you for sharing your knowledge but sometimes it just sounds like gloom and doom. Gardeners have real problems that need real solutions. It would be very helpful if you gave us alternate solutions to every one of these warnings.
I HATE WEED BARRIERS! I watched your video about it and started to remove it and I'm still not done! I hate that I have to throw it out, but I don't know what else to do with it. (open to suggestions). I'm okay with admitting it was a dumb purchase.
All the other stuff I really never used or had no idea about, but glad to know!
Gardening is the most accessible thing there is for us to do! If you're fortunate enough to be able to buy food, save the seeds and get started. To make it into something complicated for unsuspecting new gardeners isn't very nice. 😡More and more people are trying to grow their own food.
I was shocked to find that fish were dying to produce fish emulsion. I have not bought it for years but I truly thought one was supporting recycling fish waste by buying it.
I believe River Stone should be on this list. I love rocks of all sizes but oceans of riverstone are merely 1 step up from pavement.
I believe river stone needs to stay out of gardens and be used for specific reasons like drainage issues, window wells, etc.
River Stone is not low maintenance and eventually you will need to pay to have it removed once it fills up with weeds.
I got a free bag of m funghi and use it an area of my garden where the city brought in the crappiest soil after they dig up my garden for municipal works. If I hadn't got it for free, I wouldn't have bought it, but I kind of shrug and toss a little in the planting hole. Fire the ☀️ measuring device, you can add in the hour it took for the person to go to the store and buy the product.
I love all your info
What about Beneficial Nematodes?
They did work for me in
Fungus gnats and slugs
Thanks for a great video 😊
Sun and shade move constantly in my garden, as the sun travels across the sky. Plants grow and change the shade levels. Even years of observation won't get a sun calendar exactly right.
I planted Magic Possum Beans this year in Louisiana. They`re guaranteed!
On superthrive you've only addressed the vitamin B1, but there are other things in it. I get good results from it, I suspect that might be because of the IBA component. But saying that I haven't tried applying IBA by itself to any potted plants, only in tissue culture.
This is a bit non-seq, but Robert brought up blossom end rot so I wanted to tell this little story. Of 8 roma tomato plants, I had 1 that all fruits were turning up with rot. One night, from a random course of events (which aren't important) I ended up taking out all the mulch and putting in compost and biochar. I couldn't put the mulch back on as the container ran out of room. Two months later, I still have no blossom end rot. I have no idea what happened because there's too many variables, but it's odd to me that people talk water and calcium because I water all the plants the same. If anybody has a guess, I'm all ears.
Mulch May harbor some microbes that rob nutrients, or possibly have fungi that may promote powdery mildew. Replacing that mulch with compost leeches / releases nitrogen into the soil. Maybe.perhaps the mulch was robbing the soil of proper moisture .
@@tanyakilbane7636 Yeah, might be. I thought too maybe there's something off with the root structure of the plant, and to what you're saying, the mulch might be the bottleneck for hydration.
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And what about the coils of copper wire?
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I know the sun cal is stupid. Issue for me is what is considered part shade vs full shade extra...these are vague terms. And I have never really got any clear way to decide this. 16:05
Sorry have to diagree with anvil pruners there my go to pruners they give a nice clean cut ive got 4 bypass and 1 anvil and always reach for the anvils i only use felco pruners.
I agree. I find that the bypass slip off any stem that is vaguely tough...
@@jw4879Not if they are correctly sharpened.
Your funny . The gadget that tell you about wether its shady or sunny ☀️😎 , ha ha .
Been noticing the sun has changed this year . More intense but also where the sun is at the day .
I hate weed cloth . Its so bad for the land .
Thankyou for this very good and funny .
DOG 🐶🐕 ROCKs !! 😅
That SunCalc. What on earth. I just...look outside. Yep, my back yard is full sun. Yep, my front yard is part shade.
Invasive carp is used for fish fertilizer. Either way, the carp are caught and killed. I dont use fish fertilizer, though, and I agree with all others.
If landscape fabric doesn’t work in blocking weeds, what does work?
Sheet mulching (cardboard with wood chips that contain leafy material … but any kind of mulch works… or do a lasagna bed)… but like the weed barrier, it too will still allow weeds through or new seeds get on top… so you still have to pull weeds, but the sheet mulch layer makes it very effective for the tough stuff, like Bermuda… you can just pull it and the roots come out like butter… I had a weedy Bermuda side yard that the landlord poisoned to very little avail… so I covered the area w cardboard and about 4” of wood chips… had to go out every few months, spent maybe 5 minutes pulling any Bermuda coming up … after a year… I then went over a year, with no Bermuda growth … then finally a year after that… just a few weeds … unlike the rest of the yard… and after a while it’s easy to walk on.. I did add a layer of chips every year… I moved before I did anything in the area… but had I kept going… I would have had a great little growing area with morning sun and afternoon shade.
Mulching really works. Retains moisture in ghe bed and suppresses weed growth to a nice grade
What is the alternate of fish hydroslate for making fungul compost tea ??
Make your own fish amino acids (FAA). If you fish you can use the fish scraps from your own catch, or alternatively you can ask around for scraps from anyone you know who fishes, or from local fish markets…there’s plenty of how to videos on UA-cam to get you started on the process, but it basically amounts to using the osmotic pressure exerted on the fish by sugar crystals to extract the liquid while simultaneously moderating microbial metabolisms thus allowing for a slow fermentation process to break the fish down into a bioavailable form…the basic process is identical to that of making culinary fish sauce, but using sugar to supply the osmotic pressure instead of salt. The best part about it (aside from using a locally available waste stream to produce high quality plant food of course) is that it has no stench, and can actually smell pleasant, funky, but pleasant (though that is probably subjective)
Bone meal is good for potted plants possibly… if you are using new bagged soil. I love the jiffy pods… they make them w biodegradable nets, but I haven’t tried those… I was taught that b1 is good for new plants that look like they are going in shock… I’ve used it and my suffering plants survived, not sure if they would have survived anyways… kinda like vaccination. But I disagree about the jiffy pods 100% … much better option than plastic pots. I don’t up pot stuff in jiffy pods… I plant them in their permanent locations and get the big ones… if I’m planting out too early in the season, I cover those plants with some kind of cloche or mini ‘greenhouse’ … but I live in a warmer climate as well
Buying plants grown in those jiffy bag things is commonplace so they must work - up to a point. Probably the growers/seller use chemical fertilisers to feed the plants then sell them on. Problem is people plant them as they are and the roots never break out. They are horrible things.
IDK about anywhere else, but in the UK we get fibre pots for putting seedlings in, they're also to be avoided like the plague, but i'm not sure why they don't work. I potted a lot of toms in them this year thinking they'd be a good idea, but they just looked sick. A lot of people online saying the same, but no reason why.
I think these peat pots take water from the rootball which then evaporates. If you try soaking them its a struggle to get them saturated, and dry no root can get through. To get these pots to break down in soil the earth would have to be kept unhealthily wet.
We swear by Thrive, but i agree with you on the rest
Is it really necessary to buy horticultural oil? I have found that using the cheapest vegetable oil from the dollar store with an added spritz of dish soap in a pump sprayer of water makes a good bug killer to spray the underside of my azealeas when those tiny sucking insects make the leaves turn a mottled white.
I stopped using neem oil (the correct, not denatured kind) and it made no difference.
The popular magnesium sulfate (epsom salt) disinfo was destructive. Gary Pilarchik? seems to continue to profit from his mis-disinfo video suggesting mag sulfate for blossom end rot. Plants do not need a pile of "ELECTROLYTES". They need correct pH.
The neemoil works graet as a spray against potatoe beetles and other damaging insects, but you have to do it after every rain.
Regarding adding nitrogen to the soil - what about diluted urine? Some youtubers promote this, but not sure... I'm very new to gardening! Plz help 🙏💗🙏
You can do that, but it has to be deluted in 1:10 ratio.
I wouldn’t use it on my vegetables, but flowers and shrubs happy with it when not overdone.
Only do it when you see a lack of nitrogen in your plants
You are so correct…Thanks
I believe you, thank you, wow savings and time .
I live in Australia and have never heard of dog rocks😮
When you use Amin N like fish or soy you need less. Nitrate takes more energy to be used by plants.
Also I think female dogs burns the lawn more
It is amazing how these concoctions convince people to fork out the money. Like all the products for "detox". Shouldn't you stop poisoning yourself, to begin with?
Mykos, bone meal, fish emulsion, soil ph probe, guilty 😊oh and weed fabric😮