I just got my 2017. I'm on break planning my garden and binge watching all of my favorite gardeners.. thanks I learned something new today. I never heard of weed tea. God really gives us all we need. Thanks.
Outstanding episode! Also, I really appreciate your personally created music. Nice touch! Ending with the salad and dressing recipe looked amazing. Love it. What an amazing amount of effort and editing
Thanks. I am always glad to hear that you appreciate the effort put in to produce something like this. Because we are surrounded by high quality videos now a days it may seem common place to many. Thanks for the continued encouragement Tim!
Thanks suburban you are just like a good master of farm university whenever i watch your videos I have always a notebook and writing all the good and benefits and important parts of your talk and then im typing them oneday i will give you that as a gift and a good thing is im. Multi language and i will translate them in Turkish korean Japanese and....my mother tongue of course ...if you allow that ...it helped me alot and the videos are so good I don’t feel bored while watching anytime 🌿🌿🌿
I enjoy your garden/recipe videos much -- I have viewed most of your past videos and look forward to your new weekly ones -- Thank you much -- Your background music is perfect
I made weed tea several years ago and I used it in my borrowed garden at the next-door neighbor's. Well, as you discovered, it STINKS so BAD! I do live in the city and that smell does linger for several days--particularly in the heat of the summer. I think I got away with doing it 3 times before the neighbor forbade me from using it again. I wasn't too upset! Anyway, I do hope to own my own home somewhere that I can make weed tea in peace, because I found it to work fantastically on my plants.
We use weed tea here and yes, it's smells yucky but the benefits are really good. Maybe try putting weeds in a mesh type bag so that it's like a tea bag, dip this into the water to ferment. A layer of straw on top helps to absorb some smells. A tap at the side of the container will help fill the watering can so that you do not get the can covered in the concoction. Lift up some soil near your plant, pour some liquid then put the top soil back and this will help eliminate some of the smells. Hope this helps.
You can make a faster smell free weed tea by osmosis with brown sugar. It's a Korean Natural farming process. It smells sweet and sour-ish. It fully extract the nutrients from the plant and you can put them in the compost, to the worms or even pigs(chopped down) or pigs.
I, too, enjoy your videos tremendously. I like that they have a beginning, a middle and and end, with you preparing and eating your food, in such a mindful manner. At 80 this September, I am learning much from you, thanks.
The most potent batch I ever made of this stuff had a dead lizard floating in it. I plan on making more this year,but will cover it to keep reptiles out.
Your videos just never get old. I absolutely adore the album Taproot that I was able to download. Everyone in the world should have it, its pure melancholy joy. A contradiction of new and old. Please release another album soon. 💖💖💖
Thanks Kerri. I will try to release the new album. Here is a secret unlisted youtube link with 4 new songs for you to enjoy until then: ua-cam.com/video/VX6XJWUO3GU/v-deo.html
You know, I'm watching you stride back and forth at a really good pace...and I'm thinking, "I wonder if he could elevate that weed tea barrel, and attach a hose or length of tubing to the bottom, and just take the hose down to the farthest point of the plants and walk back, while allowing the tea to flow onto the garden." LOL! Yes, I AM too lazy to garden! How did you guess? LOL!!!
Excellent episode! Their is something so relaxing about your videos! Maybe its the sincerity and calmness you have, thank you! I recently planted some cucumbers from a fruit a bought in the market! I also noticed that you also compose your own video music!! Kudos again!!
They did sprout! I´m happy, they are almost 3 inches in height! :) Although it only had some faint yellow lines, it was mature. Thank you for your reply! Keep up the great videos and content! :)
My friend...will tell you that weeds are for a well tended compost pile...the heat will sterilize most of the seed in the weed. A well innoculated and aerated tea will make your grows beyond belief! Love your channel, just discovered it. The carrot seed slurry is a fantastic idea
I would recommend using an airpump attached to an airstone when steeping your tea. It will promote a lot more aerobic bacteria which is just as beneficial to your plant. Plus, that nasty smell won't be as bad and much disease can be prevented. Happy growing!!
Hey im subbed to both yall! Bought some seeds from Mi this year to and have had high yield off the seeds but the weather keeps going to cold cold rain and noone can plant so my seeds probably wont make it this round. Maybe this will help them!
I love this technique, and it definitely works! I dont mind the smell too much and its worth it to kill & make use of weeds that I dont want to put in my normal compost, or to eat.
Perfect timing! I'd just picked my first cucumbers of the season. May I add because of the possible mosquito problems and with Zika becoming popular in the news, I may suggest holding off on experimenting on garden teas for awhile.
That would be wise. Of course if you do it within 3-5 days that is not enough time for larvae to grow. last year I let if ferment longer, but I don't plan on doing it this year.
Thanks for sharing another interesting trial (and recipe). I think you're right about the anaerobic bacteria. Anaerobic bacteria and their predators are typically detrimental to plants. However, the tea probably did little harm given that your soil is already very healthy. Also, cucumbers are vines, suggesting that they prefer soils that support woody plants--i.e., soils in which the ratio of fungi to bacteria is high. That means cucumbers probably don't benefit greatly from the addition of soil bacteria (unless you have very low levels, as would be indicated by poor soil structure). By contrast, weeds tend to grow best in soils with a high ratio of bacteria to fungi. More compost and woody ground cover will increase soil fungi, which would probably benefit your cucumbers.
ncooty interesting comment....our gardening has never produced very good cukes so I may have to try wood chips around the plants and see if that helps. Otherwise, I’m not sure if I want to try the weed tea😊. I like cucumbers but.....
one thing I love about your videos is that you don't tell us we need to buy specialized fertilizers for each type of plant - I often click on videos for advice with certain crops and then get exasperated when it's all about buying like 3 different types of fertilizer to maximize your tomato produce. I get why people would do that, but for me the whole point of gardening is to maximize self sufficiency and use the sustainable and affordable elements I have at hand, so I'd much rather focus on composting and enriching my soil in other ways! I definitely want to try making a borage tea next year.
It really doesn't have to be too complicated. I produce more than enough tomatoes for my family by taking a less intensive approach. If you want to produce commercially, it makes sense, but not for the weekend home gardener
I think this is a great idea. We let burdock grow like crazy to fill up the compost pile, why not make it into soluble tea? I want to compliment you on the sky at 4:50. So realistic. Thanks for another garden lesson and beautiful video. Your garden looked great last year. As we watched it I said to Jesy, "This was recorded about the time we were going to meet up with Siloé at The Book Thing." Which was the end of last May. Abs.
It's an interesting concept. Maybe it will make you appreciate ground ivy even. It is an effective way of killing it without leaving viable seed or root. But the smell!!! Anyways, the sky at 4:50 is real though. No filters applied. I have done HDR in the past in a sky shot or two but not this one. It's not very common for Maryland's muggy hazy summer skies, that's for sure. The footage was from around May - June so a little when you guys went to the Book thing. The book thing unfortunately burned down. Very sad. But I think they are rebuilding.
Oh no! That place was a bit of a fire trap. All that musty paper… I'm not certain, but I read that ground ivy is allelopathic. I personally would avoid pouring it's nasty jugloneishness on my precious plants. What do you shoot HDR video with?!
Wow, thanks for the tip. I didn't know it could be harmful. I don't think I used it in this tea I showed in the video, but it does grow rampant everywhere. I will look into this, and I'll probably start sharing your disdain for it. The HDR Shots I did were really just stationary shots doing two separate exposures and compositing them. Nothing too fancy. I used my regular camera.
I know what I'll give you for Christmas - a pound of crimson clover seed to out-compete your stinky old ground ivy. Pollinators love it, it fixes nitrogen, self sows and it keeps your soil nice and cool.
My sweet hubby did something similar accidentally last year when cleaning gutters. All of the gunk-which has partially fermented in the gutters went into the wheel barrow, it sat there smelling and decomposing about 3 weeks the rainwaters had filled it up needless to say. We poured it on top of our compost f pile covered with a bunch of dry green k lawn waste, mostly grass clippings. We used this as a lot of our bas soil -from the compost for this years garden, So far everything is growing well. Just cleaned gutters for this year i'll be adding water to the garden can later today, I think side dressing with weed water is brilliant. I also agree the smell isn't quite corpse flower, but it is pretty putrid. Thank you for an interesting informative and entertaining video as always. I'd be sauteeing the yellow into an Asian flavor profile methinks. That lilac bush- I think? is spectacular! That salad looks light and refreshing.
It's cool that you happened upon this by serendipity. It is definitely something to be investigated. The smell certainly is a deterrent. The bush you see is a butterfly bush.
I've imagined sun brewed ice tea, but with weeds. Sunlight has it's own effect I cannot begin to describe. I wonder about a batch steeping for one day, two days, three days, and a week. Thinking about the smell as well... I will put this wonder to work this year and report back!
Never had home grown cucumbers before but I have had home grown tomato and they are way more amazing than any in the store including the 'on the vine' ones. - Heidi
Yes, homegrown is always best. While homegrown tomatoes are superior because of their flavor, homegrown cucumbers are all about the crisp texture. You can't get the same water content from store-bought compared to freshly picked.
Try growing Hite cucumbers. They are great even fully ripe. BTW, the small seeds are what makes cucumbers taste best. I would not waste them away. The little seed filled cucumbers are way better than the seedless ones.
It is...and I do see really good growth....I love the stuff!!! I have a friend that sprays the leaves of his plants & trees with his, which I haven't tried yet, but he swears by it that way too.
Interesting video again! 💚 But; 1. I make it in buckets with lids so I don't have to smell it until I have to use it. Nettle tea for growth in the first part of the growing season, until flowers start emerging, comfrey after that.👍 2. I think it's supposed to be diluted like 1:10 or until it looks like strong tea. The fact that you watered them with undiluted compost tea might actually have caused the disease on the plants as you suspected. 🤔 As with all fertilizing, if you overdo it the cells in the plant become "loose" and watery which makes the plant more prone to disease.
I made bacteria cultures with aged rice water fresh cracked egg shells and molasses. Every 3 days I incorporate air into the jar to ease the smell. My tomatoes love it.
Your yard seems so lush and diverse--much different than the sterile well-trimmed grass yards I imagine your neighbors have. How do your neighbors feel about your yard? Have you gotten any negative feedback? My neighborhood is HOA restricted as to what we can put in our yards--no veggies in the front, mostly grass lawn, etc. It seems so odd that most new neighborhoods today actually discourage growing your own food. BTW--your background music is a great touch to the video quality.
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed the music! Yes, my yard is a bit of a jungle, and at times, especially later-on in the season it can be considered disheveled by some. My neighbors are great. Some love it, and I suppose some might not like it as much. I live in an older community that has no HOA, we intentionally got a place that has no HOA. I would never ever ever willingly buy in a HOA community. I understand the point of HOA, but I feel that they exist to make houses less of a home/place and more of a product; sellable to the market. I don't want to live inside a walmart or target. My lifestyle is not up for sale for the right price. Besides, there are laws already in place that deal with true nuisance. What color you paint your house, or what curtain you hang in your window, or what species of plant matter you plant in the ground is not a nuisance, so what they are doing is just micro-managing in my opinion. But then again people choose to live in HOA communities (except children I suppose) and if they didn't want to, the market would show that.
Im thinking of setting a new compost bin with plastic bottom to tray to drain liquids an water my compost for all the tea. Im sure ive seen someone else do this on a video awhile back so not trying to claim originality
lacto bacillus is the bacteria you are cultivating for fermented foods like kraut and pickles. the smell you had was probably from the aerobic top. treat your next batch like kraut by making sure all the weeds are completely submerged and it may not smell as bad. you can also add up to 2% salt to select for those bacteria. remember these things are meant to be diluted at 10 to 25%. also some stuff is just stinks i can attest for the fish tea. when that stuff stops nocking flies off a gut truck it is ready which can take up to 8 months depending on where you live. covering the container will greatly reduce the smell.
I have a few thoughts... The plastic container contributed to the awful smell, Why not put a lid on it? And, lastly, if it had sat longer, covered, I think the smell would have dissipated. I'm going to try doing this in a galvanized trash can with a lid on it. We have tons of wild growing mustard here and it is a known soil enricher.
I made fish tea and it smelled. I tried weed tea and we live on a hill. Every evening the smell came down the hill. It smelled so bad that I dug up our sewer line thinking I had a leak. We have so many weeds in the pacific nw, that I want to try again with a bubble. I have room for a test group also.
It's a good strategy for initial prep of soil or when harvesting nutrition from invasive weeds too strong for composting or mulching. Everything else is better copped and dropped. One man's opinion of course.
Hi Siloé! Your videos are the best! Bravo! My weed tea smells horribly rank too, but it is a great feeling to put those weeds to work instead of sending them off to the landfill, which is where they often go since my compost pile never gets hot enough to kill the seed. I was hoping the tea would solve this problem. Do you put your rotted weeds into your compost afterward?
I would love to try out this experiment. However, just curious about mosquito breeding in weed tea. Is it possible that mosquito wont breed if it is a sealed container instead?
I believe that simply covering it with mosquito netting so that there is no gap for mosquitos to enter should be enough. Also if you let it sit for no more than 7 days before using it completely, you will most likely interrupt the development of larva in the water.
You need to add 50 grams of jaggery into the container and cover it . In addition to weeds, you can add vegetable and fruit peels all of them shredded. Remove the lid for few minutes every day to let off the gas.. Fermentation will be better and smell will not be as repulsive and the liquid is nothing but ethyl alcohol. Dilute the liquid fertilizer with water in the ratio 1 : 4 and use. I live in the city and use liquid fertilizer twice a month . Trees and plants remain healthy, productive and plant infestation is avoided if liquid is used regularly.
You thnk that smelled bad, I mix up a concentrate of chicken manure tea. I call it "Liquid Death." Merlyn's Beard! It's perfect! So perfect I daresay one drop would kill us all!" Harry Potter fans know where that comes from :)
Hello friend how are you i tried this anaerobic method of weed tea and i couldn't notice if it worked or not but the plants didn't dislike it as it did not die on me though i did not try on cucumber specifically. It was normal i guess. But the smell was something i tell you though. Take care
Glad to hear from you again. I hope your terrace is producing lots of stuff. It would be interesting to make a controlled trial to see if this has benefit, and maybe to an aerobic mixture to see if it is better.
I was thinking about the subject of how people have allergies. I bet this would help someone that has allergies by eating the vegetable. Maybe you know homeopathic kind of way. I think I will try this when I can finally start growing after our last frost. :) It might even repel some bad bugs also. Just a thought..What do you think?
The only thing you did wrong was put the weeds in the barrel. Put the weeds in a potato bag or flour bag add a heavy stone , tie a knot ,then put it in the barrel. Stir occasionally.🤔
You might like this article from Mother Earth , it's a 3 day liquid fertilizer, it doesn't smell at all and works great: www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/gardening-techniques/liquid-fertilizers-zm0z11zhun.aspx#axzz2UoX0MhlJ Nice looking salad, can't wait to have fresh cucumbers too!
The quality of content and editing in each of your videos is just wonderful.I am inspired anew. Beautiful haunting music too!
I can't tell you enough how much I enjoy your videos! I find them therapeutic. I love how you cook with the vegetable that you feature. Great work!
Ty for the great and soothing videos. I really like to see what you do with what you grow. I have learned alot. Thanks
I just got my 2017. I'm on break planning my garden and binge watching all of my favorite gardeners.. thanks I learned something new today. I never heard of weed tea. God really gives us all we need. Thanks.
Outstanding episode! Also, I really appreciate your personally created music. Nice touch! Ending with the salad and dressing recipe looked amazing. Love it. What an amazing amount of effort and editing
Thanks. I am always glad to hear that you appreciate the effort put in to produce something like this. Because we are surrounded by high quality videos now a days it may seem common place to many. Thanks for the continued encouragement Tim!
Thanks suburban you are just like a good master of farm university whenever i watch your videos I have always a notebook and writing all the good and benefits and important parts of your talk and then im typing them oneday i will give you that as a gift and a good thing is im. Multi language and i will translate them in Turkish korean Japanese and....my mother tongue of course ...if you allow that ...it helped me alot and the videos are so good I don’t feel bored while watching anytime 🌿🌿🌿
I appreciate your support!
I enjoy your garden/recipe videos much -- I have viewed most of your past videos and look forward to your new weekly ones -- Thank you much -- Your background music is perfect
I made weed tea several years ago and I used it in my borrowed garden at the next-door neighbor's. Well, as you discovered, it STINKS so BAD! I do live in the city and that smell does linger for several days--particularly in the heat of the summer. I think I got away with doing it 3 times before the neighbor forbade me from using it again. I wasn't too upset! Anyway, I do hope to own my own home somewhere that I can make weed tea in peace, because I found it to work fantastically on my plants.
In glad you did this experiment and not me! Great video- always very informative and fun to watch.
DUDE! I get so hungry after watching your videos!
Awesome. mission accomplished!
We use weed tea here and yes, it's smells yucky but the benefits are really good. Maybe try putting weeds in a mesh type bag so that it's like a tea bag, dip this into the water to ferment. A layer of straw on top helps to absorb some smells. A tap at the side of the container will help fill the watering can so that you do not get the can covered in the concoction. Lift up some soil near your plant, pour some liquid then put the top soil back and this will help eliminate some of the smells. Hope this helps.
You can make a faster smell free weed tea by osmosis with brown sugar. It's a Korean Natural farming process. It smells sweet and sour-ish. It fully extract the nutrients from the plant and you can put them in the compost, to the worms or even pigs(chopped down) or pigs.
Thanks for that tip!
What do you mean by osmosis?
Tea with shugar please 🤢
I, too, enjoy your videos tremendously. I like that they have a beginning, a middle and and end, with you preparing and eating your food, in such a mindful manner. At 80 this September, I am learning much from you, thanks.
The most potent batch I ever made of this stuff had a dead lizard floating in it. I plan on making more this year,but will cover it to keep reptiles out.
it's really slice of heaven! I agree :-)
My cucumbers are flowering and I can't wait for it.
Hope you get a bumper crop!
Your videos just never get old. I absolutely adore the album Taproot that I was able to download. Everyone in the world should have it, its pure melancholy joy. A contradiction of new and old. Please release another album soon. 💖💖💖
Thanks Kerri. I will try to release the new album. Here is a secret unlisted youtube link with 4 new songs for you to enjoy until then: ua-cam.com/video/VX6XJWUO3GU/v-deo.html
You know, I'm watching you stride back and forth at a really good pace...and I'm thinking, "I wonder if he could elevate that weed tea barrel, and attach a hose or length of tubing to the bottom, and just take the hose down to the farthest point of the plants and walk back, while allowing the tea to flow onto the garden." LOL! Yes, I AM too lazy to garden! How did you guess? LOL!!!
Excellent episode! Their is something so relaxing about your videos! Maybe its the sincerity and calmness you have, thank you! I recently planted some cucumbers from a fruit a bought in the market! I also noticed that you also compose your own video music!! Kudos again!!
Thank you Daniel. Did the seed in the market bought cucumber sprout? was it mature?
They did sprout! I´m happy, they are almost 3 inches in height! :)
Although it only had some faint yellow lines, it was mature. Thank you for your reply! Keep up the great videos and content! :)
thanks Siloe, i use a comfrey and weed tea thats pretty rank too, never set up control groups either but it hasn't hurt yet. Thx for the share
I still haven't gotten comfrey. Can you believe it?
That salad looks amazing! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks!
My friend...will tell you that weeds are for a well tended compost pile...the heat will sterilize most of the seed in the weed. A well innoculated and aerated tea will make your grows beyond belief! Love your channel, just discovered it. The carrot seed slurry is a fantastic idea
I would recommend using an airpump attached to an airstone when steeping your tea. It will promote a lot more aerobic bacteria which is just as beneficial to your plant. Plus, that nasty smell won't be as bad and much disease can be prevented. Happy growing!!
Thanks. Yes, I do mention in the video the possibility of an aerobic version. Maybe I will try that in the future.
Thanks for sharing your great knowlage... and creating REAL nice to watch VIDEOs !
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a homestead cucumber is a slice of heaven... your second best line
I can attest to the smell. Never again will I ever do it. ever. it smelled so vile I actually couldn't apply it without gagging.
I don't blame you a bit for not doing it again. But I do wonder about aerobic steeping.
Hey im subbed to both yall! Bought some seeds from Mi this year to and have had high yield off the seeds but the weather keeps going to cold cold rain and noone can plant so my seeds probably wont make it this round. Maybe this will help them!
This was extremely interesting. Thanks.
Thanks!
I love this technique, and it definitely works! I dont mind the smell too much and its worth it to kill & make use of weeds that I dont want to put in my normal compost, or to eat.
I can still remember the smell though:-)
Perfect timing! I'd just picked my first cucumbers of the season. May I add because of the possible mosquito problems and with Zika becoming popular in the news, I may suggest holding off on experimenting on garden teas for awhile.
That would be wise. Of course if you do it within 3-5 days that is not enough time for larvae to grow. last year I let if ferment longer, but I don't plan on doing it this year.
Thanks for sharing another interesting trial (and recipe). I think you're right about the anaerobic bacteria. Anaerobic bacteria and their predators are typically detrimental to plants. However, the tea probably did little harm given that your soil is already very healthy. Also, cucumbers are vines, suggesting that they prefer soils that support woody plants--i.e., soils in which the ratio of fungi to bacteria is high. That means cucumbers probably don't benefit greatly from the addition of soil bacteria (unless you have very low levels, as would be indicated by poor soil structure). By contrast, weeds tend to grow best in soils with a high ratio of bacteria to fungi. More compost and woody ground cover will increase soil fungi, which would probably benefit your cucumbers.
The difference of bacteria and fungi dominated soils is really interesting.
ncooty interesting comment....our gardening has never produced very good cukes so I may have to try wood chips around the plants and see if that helps. Otherwise, I’m not sure if I want to try the weed tea😊. I like cucumbers but.....
are you writing and singing all the canticles in your videos??? When this channel will cease to amaze me
one thing I love about your videos is that you don't tell us we need to buy specialized fertilizers for each type of plant - I often click on videos for advice with certain crops and then get exasperated when it's all about buying like 3 different types of fertilizer to maximize your tomato produce. I get why people would do that, but for me the whole point of gardening is to maximize self sufficiency and use the sustainable and affordable elements I have at hand, so I'd much rather focus on composting and enriching my soil in other ways! I definitely want to try making a borage tea next year.
It really doesn't have to be too complicated. I produce more than enough tomatoes for my family by taking a less intensive approach. If you want to produce commercially, it makes sense, but not for the weekend home gardener
I agree with you, home grown cucumbers are the best. Thank you for such a lovely and well done video.
I think this is a great idea. We let burdock grow like crazy to fill up the compost pile, why not make it into soluble tea? I want to compliment you on the sky at 4:50. So realistic. Thanks for another garden lesson and beautiful video. Your garden looked great last year. As we watched it I said to Jesy, "This was recorded about the time we were going to meet up with Siloé at The Book Thing." Which was the end of last May. Abs.
It's an interesting concept. Maybe it will make you appreciate ground ivy even. It is an effective way of killing it without leaving viable seed or root. But the smell!!! Anyways, the sky at 4:50 is real though. No filters applied. I have done HDR in the past in a sky shot or two but not this one. It's not very common for Maryland's muggy hazy summer skies, that's for sure. The footage was from around May - June so a little when you guys went to the Book thing. The book thing unfortunately burned down. Very sad. But I think they are rebuilding.
Oh no! That place was a bit of a fire trap. All that musty paper…
I'm not certain, but I read that ground ivy is allelopathic. I personally would avoid pouring it's nasty jugloneishness on my precious plants.
What do you shoot HDR video with?!
Wow, thanks for the tip. I didn't know it could be harmful. I don't think I used it in this tea I showed in the video, but it does grow rampant everywhere. I will look into this, and I'll probably start sharing your disdain for it.
The HDR Shots I did were really just stationary shots doing two separate exposures and compositing them. Nothing too fancy. I used my regular camera.
I know what I'll give you for Christmas - a pound of crimson clover seed to out-compete your stinky old ground ivy. Pollinators love it, it fixes nitrogen, self sows and it keeps your soil nice and cool.
That would be a better substitute for sure!
Love your vids. Don’t forget to save rinse water for the garden. Water is precious.
My sweet hubby did something similar accidentally last year when cleaning gutters. All of the gunk-which has partially fermented in the gutters went into the wheel barrow, it sat there smelling and decomposing about 3 weeks the rainwaters had filled it up needless to say. We poured it on top of our compost f pile covered with a bunch of dry green k lawn waste, mostly grass clippings. We used this as a lot of our bas soil -from the compost for this years garden, So far everything is growing well. Just cleaned gutters for this year i'll be adding water to the garden can later today, I think side dressing with weed water is brilliant. I also agree the smell isn't quite corpse flower, but it is pretty putrid. Thank you for an interesting informative and entertaining video as always. I'd be sauteeing the yellow into an Asian flavor profile methinks. That lilac bush- I think? is spectacular! That salad looks light and refreshing.
It's cool that you happened upon this by serendipity. It is definitely something to be investigated. The smell certainly is a deterrent. The bush you see is a butterfly bush.
Well it is spectacular. not sure why I h got line in the previous comment.
I've imagined sun brewed ice tea, but with weeds. Sunlight has it's own effect I cannot begin to describe. I wonder about a batch steeping for one day, two days, three days, and a week. Thinking about the smell as well... I will put this wonder to work this year and report back!
i'm sure there's gotta be some kind of additive you could use.. maybe charcoal or lime or something, just a guess.
I enjoy your videos. I have done the smelly weed tea and omg, it stinks. Lucky, I had mine sitting right at the back fence lol.
Adorando seu canal Siloé, muito bem feitos seus vídeos. Parabéns!
mmm cucumber salad !!. also I tried your technique for sowing carrots... it worked flawlessly!!! too easy !!
Never had home grown cucumbers before but I have had home grown tomato and they are way more amazing than any in the store including the 'on the vine' ones. - Heidi
Yes, homegrown is always best. While homegrown tomatoes are superior because of their flavor, homegrown cucumbers are all about the crisp texture. You can't get the same water content from store-bought compared to freshly picked.
Try growing Hite cucumbers. They are great even fully ripe.
BTW, the small seeds are what makes cucumbers taste best. I would not waste them away. The little seed filled cucumbers are way better than the seedless ones.
Good stuff!! We make polk salad/stinging nettle compost tea, which we have plenty of on our property!!
Nice. It's supposed to be high in Nitrogen, right. Do you see good growth after applying it?
It is...and I do see really good growth....I love the stuff!!! I have a friend that sprays the leaves of his plants & trees with his, which I haven't tried yet, but he swears by it that way too.
Interesting video again! 💚
But;
1. I make it in buckets with lids so I don't have to smell it until I have to use it. Nettle tea for growth in the first part of the growing season, until flowers start emerging, comfrey after that.👍
2. I think it's supposed to be diluted like 1:10 or until it looks like strong tea. The fact that you watered them with undiluted compost tea might actually have caused the disease on the plants as you suspected. 🤔 As with all fertilizing, if you overdo it the cells in the plant become "loose" and watery which makes the plant more prone to disease.
I think you are very right.
I would be very interested to see you thoughts if you try to make an aerobic weed tea.
I made bacteria cultures with aged rice water fresh cracked egg shells and molasses. Every 3 days I incorporate air into the jar to ease the smell. My tomatoes love it.
Your yard seems so lush and diverse--much different than the sterile well-trimmed grass yards I imagine your neighbors have. How do your neighbors feel about your yard? Have you gotten any negative feedback? My neighborhood is HOA restricted as to what we can put in our yards--no veggies in the front, mostly grass lawn, etc. It seems so odd that most new neighborhoods today actually discourage growing your own food.
BTW--your background music is a great touch to the video quality.
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed the music! Yes, my yard is a bit of a jungle, and at times, especially later-on in the season it can be considered disheveled by some. My neighbors are great. Some love it, and I suppose some might not like it as much. I live in an older community that has no HOA, we intentionally got a place that has no HOA. I would never ever ever willingly buy in a HOA community. I understand the point of HOA, but I feel that they exist to make houses less of a home/place and more of a product; sellable to the market. I don't want to live inside a walmart or target. My lifestyle is not up for sale for the right price. Besides, there are laws already in place that deal with true nuisance. What color you paint your house, or what curtain you hang in your window, or what species of plant matter you plant in the ground is not a nuisance, so what they are doing is just micro-managing in my opinion. But then again people choose to live in HOA communities (except children I suppose) and if they didn't want to, the market would show that.
Amen brother!
Hehe I was looking for weed tea and ended here.
Maybe someday when we have a garden, we can have you over for dinner.
Thanks for the dressing recipe! I think I am going to need more convincing on the tea? The compost pile still gets my weeds for now.
you are welcome. The compost pile is perfectly adequate!
Im thinking of setting a new compost bin with plastic bottom to tray to drain liquids an water my compost for all the tea. Im sure ive seen someone else do this on a video awhile back so not trying to claim originality
I planted cucumbers for the first time a few weeks ago, hopefully the plants survive long enough so I can try out that recipe.
I've had years with great cucumber harvest and years with horrible harvests. I hope this is a good year for you!
I wish you’d used a control group so we’d know if it helped or not. Not useful without it, especially having fertilized with something else before.
Korean natural farming might advocate lacto bacilious being added to the weed tea to take away the odor
Would it need oxygen though?
No, i dont think so. The lactobacilios can function in aerobic and aneorobic conditions according to my research.
lacto bacillus is the bacteria you are cultivating for fermented foods like kraut and pickles. the smell you had was probably from the aerobic top. treat your next batch like kraut by making sure all the weeds are completely submerged and it may not smell as bad. you can also add up to 2% salt to select for those bacteria. remember these things are meant to be diluted at 10 to 25%.
also some stuff is just stinks i can attest for the fish tea. when that stuff stops nocking flies off a gut truck it is ready which can take up to 8 months depending on where you live. covering the container will greatly reduce the smell.
Personally, l 'm in love with weeds ;)
I have a few thoughts... The plastic container contributed to the awful smell, Why not put a lid on it? And, lastly, if it had sat longer, covered, I think the smell would have dissipated. I'm going to try doing this in a galvanized trash can with a lid on it. We have tons of wild growing mustard here and it is a known soil enricher.
only video ive seen of yours im subbed already :) very nice video ! we enjoyed it :)
Thank you! I appreciate it!
I made fish tea and it smelled.
I tried weed tea and we live on a hill. Every evening the smell came down the hill.
It smelled so bad that I dug up our sewer line thinking I had a leak.
We have so many weeds in the pacific nw, that I want to try again with a bubble.
I have room for a test group also.
I got to the part about digging up the sewer, and just laughed out loud! That was great! LOL! :)
It's a good strategy for initial prep of soil or when harvesting nutrition from invasive weeds too strong for composting or mulching. Everything else is better copped and dropped. One man's opinion of course.
Hi Siloé! Your videos are the best! Bravo! My weed tea smells horribly rank too, but it is a great feeling to put those weeds to work instead of sending them off to the landfill, which is where they often go since my compost pile never gets hot enough to kill the seed. I was hoping the tea would solve this problem. Do you put your rotted weeds into your compost afterward?
Thanks! I appreciate it. Putting weeds to work is awesome. I believe most seeds die with the fermentation.I did put the rotted weeds in the compost.
Great ep!
Thanks!
I would love to try out this experiment. However, just curious about mosquito breeding in weed tea. Is it possible that mosquito wont breed if it is a sealed container instead?
I believe that simply covering it with mosquito netting so that there is no gap for mosquitos to enter should be enough. Also if you let it sit for no more than 7 days before using it completely, you will most likely interrupt the development of larva in the water.
hello! loving your videos :-) have you ever done a DIY rain barrel??
Not yet, but it is a good Idea.
I loosely pop a lid on top of mine, reducing the smell somewhat (until it comes time to use it then there's no avoiding the stench!!)
Yes, the worse is when applying. When it is just sitting there it doesn't smell really
How does sunlight get in, just curious? Does weed tea really work?
You need to add 50 grams of jaggery into the container and cover it . In addition to weeds, you can add vegetable and fruit peels all of them shredded. Remove the lid for few minutes every day to let off the gas.. Fermentation will be better and smell will not be as repulsive and the liquid is nothing but ethyl alcohol. Dilute the liquid fertilizer with water in the ratio 1 : 4 and use. I live in the city and use liquid fertilizer twice a month . Trees and plants remain healthy, productive and plant infestation is avoided if liquid is used regularly.
No to the tea, yes to the song: Requiem for a Weed... LOL!
You thnk that smelled bad, I mix up a concentrate of chicken manure tea. I call it "Liquid Death." Merlyn's Beard! It's perfect! So perfect I daresay one drop would kill us all!" Harry Potter fans know where that comes from :)
Does the manure tea work?
I got the tip from an old Italian gardener who swore by it. I've used it before, then not used it. I got better results with it, but who knows?
When you doing a controlled experiment Potions master?lol
That’s looks so good right now. Mmmm
Hello friend how are you i tried this anaerobic method of weed tea and i couldn't notice if it worked or not but the plants didn't dislike it as it did not die on me though i did not try on cucumber specifically. It was normal i guess. But the smell was something i tell you though. Take care
Glad to hear from you again. I hope your terrace is producing lots of stuff. It would be interesting to make a controlled trial to see if this has benefit, and maybe to an aerobic mixture to see if it is better.
have you tried companion planting
beautiful music
I appreciate it!
And yes, this tea helps a lot, not as much as aerobic tea.
Where did you get the peeler?
Never thought of doing a weed tea but makes sense that it would work. Not sure I could deal with the smell though. :p
The smell is a big thing.
Has anyone tried fermented liquid feed for plants? No smell , and it's ready for use in two weeks.
I will experiment with cucumber tea for my weed...
2:10 this liquid makes your skin soft and silky, it's not toxic for the skin but don't drink it.
Yummy again.🥒🌱🥰🫒
Thank you 😋
I was thinking about the subject of how people have allergies. I bet this would help someone that has allergies by eating the vegetable. Maybe you know homeopathic kind of way. I think I will try this when I can finally start growing after our last frost. :) It might even repel some bad bugs also. Just a thought..What do you think?
That I'm not sure. I don't think people are allergic to weeds other than the pollen.
The only thing you did wrong was put the weeds in the barrel. Put the weeds in a potato bag or flour bag add a heavy stone , tie a knot ,then put it in the barrel. Stir occasionally.🤔
You might like this article from Mother Earth , it's a 3 day liquid fertilizer, it doesn't smell at all and works great: www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/gardening-techniques/liquid-fertilizers-zm0z11zhun.aspx#axzz2UoX0MhlJ Nice looking salad, can't wait to have fresh cucumbers too!
I love your beard, o.k. that's untrue. I love your beard. Nice video too.
Thanks, I didn't do much to have it other than not interfere. :-)
The sunnah, the better. ; )
hey, are you interested in selling a small pak of the Amerynth seed? or however you spell it, lol
I got mine from baker creek seeds. (I suppose it would be easier for you to buy it from them. :-)
Wait I’m sorry. Your name is siloe ol aloe Vera?
Well, Oliveira is already a plant name: Olive tree in portuguese
PS try armenian cucumbers. My fav.
Yes they are amazing.
the music ! ?
I may be mistaken, but I think he wrote and performed the majority (if not all) of it. Mr. S. is insanely talented.
عالی 😊👍💜💜💜💜
:-)
лайк!
Weed tea, I was expecting something else.
2017 seeds.
Its nitrogen bro plants love that shit. Of course it smells horrible.
I guess so :-)
Weed tea tasted terrible :)