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I'm going to disagree with you on this one.your not taking into account ,that milk is pasteurized or raw. take a look at this site and let me know what you feel.also doage important.i wouldn't use pasteurized anywhere near my plants but raw that's a different thing. take a look at this site and let me know if it influences your decision about using milk. anyway the science is sound and I'm not going to disagree with it. www.motherearth.com/organic-gardening/milk-and-molasses-magic-zbcz1402 love your video,s by the way.
Glad you liked the video :) There are lots of sites like Mother Earth, Gardening Know How, etc. that recommend this. I believe they are more concerned about getting views to their site rather than giving out good information. I will only believe using milk (even raw) if there is a scientific research published by a reputable phd holder in the field. If the article is on .edu site, I will take that as well.
Now. I have cleaned thr leaves of house plants with a dust rag with a dip of milk and water mix, as it really makes the leaves shine, but no way would I ever directly "water" the plant with milk (ew), doesn't it stink after a while? Same with eggs.
Maybe the antibiotics in the milk are working. The precision agriculture uses lab engineered microbes to kill the existing soil microbes. So to say milk is good or bad isn't researched based.
My grandma didn't watch the Internet videos, and most certainly she didn't read scientific research. Yet, her garden was always healthy and bountiful. She used diluted milk and diluted whey as a fungicide on her tomatoes and cucs, just as she used baking soda and aspirin. For many, many years, and it worked for her. So don't be quick to judge. I was surprised to find out people burry fish heads underneath their tomatoes, and they say it works wonders for them. Though I won't try it, It doesn't mean I'l put my thin foil and say this is crazy. We have different agricultural heritages, and in most cases it's tried (for centuries) and true. We should be open-minded, as there is always a possibility of learning something new.
And organic companies like Neptune and others sell fish fert/sea kelp for a pretty penny. Gee. Wonder if nutrients in these things, when broken down over time could possubly have benefits in an age b4 ace hardware/lowes? Some ppl dont understand pre internet wisdom
Well, the guy making the video clearly hasn't done any research, or even looked at the facts, commercial farmers have been fertilizing their fields with a milk manure mix since forever whenever milk can not be taken to market (common reason today is the milk tests to high in antibiotics). Now during COVID there is a massive over production problem in the USA, so the FDA has approved wide spread usage of a milk/manure mix to be spread, and has advice in how to supplement and mix this. So it's nice this guy thinks it's funny, but I guess I just wouldn't trust a fellow who can't even do a cursory google search to back up or refute his opinions.
@@RobertJSparkles they have a chart for how much you need to adjust your fertilization rates (how much you use per acre) depending on percentages of each. You actually use less per acre as the milk percentage goes up, because milk is HIGHER in (I think) phosphates and nitrogen than manure. I was just listening to an agricultural law podcast talking about it (because we have a huge overstock because school is out kids are drinking less milk). So I'm not sure on all the actual numbers, I was just looking for a video with instructions for perhaps using my own spoiled milk instead of throwing it down the drain.
Actually if you have powdery mildew on your zucchinis or pumpkins, milk and water sprayed onto the leaves right before the sun hits it will (combined with sunlight) change the ph balance on the leaves saving your plant. It really does work
@@rodneysamradli5287 Yeah this video is as flawed as it gets, ANY calcium increase helps tomatoes and the soil. Also when asperatied it becomes a different compound as what is in the cow. I started using this years ago and DOUBLED my crop and extended the growth season (I am in upper midwest US) and ended blossom rot that had been a problem every year and have never used pest control (okay I add diatomaceous earth to the soil).
I know right, that's like telling someone not to use fish emulsion for your plants. Animals die all the time and give the best nutrients to plants. Soil with a high level of microbiology can digest an egg yolk without worms, soil is carnivorous.
Milk and eggs work great. They break down quicker then you think. Ive done this for many years. If you can smell an odor you didnt burry it deep enough. My tomatoes with raw cracked eggs 12 inches deep grew 3 times the size of the ones without eggs. Think YOU SHOULD TRY IT BEFORE YOU TELL OTHERS NOT TOO! Edit: the egg tomatoes also had higher yields as well.
I have chickens that lay eggs. Not all the eggs are good for consumption due to the shells being compromised allowing bacteria inside the egg yolks. Rather than throw these eggs out I bury them in my garden and the plants LOVE them. I also use the straw from their bedding change in between the plants as a natural weed deterrent. It smothers the weeds and helps to fertilize the garden when rain filters thru the straw into the dirt.
I had a ton of tomatoes this summer and ALL of them got blossom end rot. I didn't have any other source of calcium so I diluted milk and applied it to the soil. I haven't had a problem since. It works and my garden doesn't have a bad odor.
Plant researches in Brazil and Australia have recently used milk as a fungicide on vegetable crops, grapes, and flower crops. They found that spraying a dilute mix of 1 part milk and 9 parts water prevented fungi from growing. (The researchers also believe that the potassium phosphate in milk helps boost the plant’s immune system and may also work as an antibiotic.)
BINGO, it is how you apply it. Funny thing about egg shells they take months to years to break down, so putting them in your soil for calcium is a next to zero benefit for years.
One researcher says that it is the amino acids in the milk which combines with the calcium and in turn this causes the plant to be able to absorb calcium at a greater rate. Supposedly this is the secret sauce
You missed the point of how diluting milk as a spray can help treat fungal spots on plants like roses. Perhaps milk in good healthy soil is feeding certain micro-organisms ..... but you didn't even consider that.
Hey, an older man I was talking to said for blight on tomatoes they have always had success sprinkling powdered milk on them when planting them. I read that milk is a natural fungicide and kills bad fungi that cause disease on plants. Used on tomatoes and squash. Also provides calcium and nitrogen.
I just watch a video about how probiotic yogurt solved a problem with fireblight on a pear tree. I am going to try it. I have nothing to lose as it will take the tree.
I have never bought milk to "feed" the plants but I do pour old milk onto the soil under tomato plants rather than pour it down the drain. And my tomatoes do not get blossom end rot. So I am a believer.
I compost with milk, I have used powder milk during bloom. This isn’t new. And it hasn’t ever hurt anything. It increases composting. Don’t knock it till you try it
Umm.. Tried and true here... something is being left out of all these videos... FAT FREE powdered milk mixed with water DOES work to produce wonderful tomato, squash, and potato plants. Water around the roots, not against the stalk, and not on the foliage. The FAT in milk is what makes soil go rancid; fat-free is a must. Also, if your soil is deficient in Magnesium, epsom salt may be added as well. Finally, how do you explain the well-known practice of burying a fish under your plants, if your theory is true? How do you explain the ENTIRE permaculture practice? It's literally based on putting kitchen scraps directly into the garden. YOU go tell Morag Gamble or Charles Dowden that they're wrong, I'll wait right here.
I have a video on burying kitchen scraps in the garden. Do not bury egg, meat, or milk. Fish fertilizer is used widely in organic farming and some do bury dead fish which is not viable for consumption by humans or animals. Some use left over parts from fish industry. You can use fish but it is better to decompose fish in a contained environment and them use it as a fertilizer. Burying fish might attract maggots, raccoons, and other animals as well.
@@DaisyCreekFarms So now you've contradicted yourself. Fish is meat. Thanks, unsub & hope people do research outside of your youtube channel before writing off TRIED AND TRUE practices.
@@amandaroyer633 Ever heard of fish meal and bone meal fertilizer? It is made from decomposing fish and bone of animals from meat industry to make the fertilizer. How am I contradicting myself? I am saying not to add egg, milk, and meat, or fish directly to the roots of your plants. I said, "You can use fish but it is better to decompose fish in a contained environment and them use it as a fertilizer." Please read carefully.
Wrong! I actually buried two fresh eggs in my garden late last year. A month ago I planted pepper plants that I bought from Lowe’s. Each plant was maybe 9 inches tall. The pepper plant that was planted directly over the once fresh eggs is already two feet tall and is putting off very healthy peppers, some that I’ve already used in cooking. All of my other pepper plants are only one foot tall and are just now starting to flower and grow tiny pepper pods. So until you’ve tried it yourself, don’t make a video on it. At the end of this growing season, I am going to dig up my entire garden and place one fresh, uncooked egg every 6 inches apart front to back, left to right. Then cover them with about 9 inches of soil and let them do their thing throughout the winter months. Maybe I’ll dump a gallon or two of milk into the soil as well
You also need to plant the same plant next to it without the egg and keep other factors constant and then compare the results. Then it will be good experiment. You can also add another plant with compost and worm casting and see how that performs as well compared to the egg. Then you will have control, compost and egg for accurate comparison and analysis.
I used the miracle grow dirt for my tomatoe plants and lost many to blossom end rot. So I sprinkled dry milk on them right away, and some time later put on some bone meal. But It stopped that blossom end rot almost totally. Miracle grow does not have enough calcium for sure.
This lunatic buried a while egg when planting each tomato plant. The plants developed such a strong stem that it wasn't even necessary to stake in the beginning. Disagree with his opinion.
@@Nyabennah ...putting fish under plants produced fantastic results! This is not too surprising since many organic plant fertilizer is made of fish emulsion 👍🌱
Diluted milk and water is great for your plants .. my like tree is thriving right now because of this. Makes the leaves very green healthy and shiny to. My family from honduras passed this info on to me and they've been using this for years .
Usually I don’t comment but yes every now and then I mix few raw eggs with water and water to my plants and veggies and they always looked so green shiny and healthy and I have been doing this for years 😊
I've seen a dairy farm that had a cooler go down on the bulk tank. Had to dump bulk tank. Milk was pumped into manure pond then sprayed on clover field in late fall. Following year clover had more flowers and more growth then other fields with just manure.
Parents bought an ex dairy farm. Just outside the dairy door the grass grew significantly taller, lush & green compared to the rest of the surrounding area.
@@kevind3185 But the milk composed for a while before the next crop was planted the next year? So milk was not added directly to the root of the plants? You can compost any organic matter and then use, just not a good idea to add milk and egg directly to the roots of your plants.
@@DaisyCreekFarms milk was pumped into manure pond then manure and now sour milk was sprayed on clover field. It was all done in a matter of days of the milk being dumped. Nothing like the smell of cow shit and sour milk. At least it wasn't hot out in the fall.
I planted my dying flowers in semi decomposed vegetables and fruit skins and they are flourishing! so tbh you can plant using waste that's not fully decomposed
I wouldn't pour a glass of milk on a plant but when I rinse my milk jugs and pour it on my plants they become very perky and green. I assume it feeds the life in the soil, not the actual plant.
Exactly! Not all bacteria and fungi are bad things.If the milk is used Sparingly over a large area,it help the beneficial organisms in the soil to break down organic matter into a form your plants can use if they also get lots of water.That's why your plants reacted as they did.
Milk in compost tea is extremely beneficial. Its great for powdery mildew, high in enzymes and simple sugars as well as beneficial bacteria. It is also a natural insecticide againsy soft body insects as they cannot break down simple sugars. Milk has been used a long time in gardening, this isn't anything new.
Im planting for about 3 years. And I've tried putting egg below my plants and all of my plants did grow nice and healthy. With the milk...hmm Ive never ever tried that one before
*We have a carnivorous plant here known as a bramble bush they have backwards facing barbs/thorns and they produce blackberries, every year dozens of sheep die to these plants as they are lured in attracted to the juicy blackberries before becoming entangled with the barbs and vines the sheep becomes trapped I think the plant actually knows this as carcasses have been found totally wrapped by the plants vines, obviously the sheep dies then decomposes into the topsoil giving the plant nutrients benefitting it in the long run,* absolutely fascinating.
I've been doing it for years to get some plants to flower. But I put only a little in their water in a watering can. Milk is cheap here in Australia, maybe not where you are. A little milk in a watering can has been proven to spur peace lily's to bloom. Been using this technique for years on my in door plants. But I also use standard fertilizer as well. I never use milk on outside plants where there are plenty of worms etc. Also you don't just water with milk. You add a teaspoon to a 9 liter watering can and only do this once every couple of months, not in their regular watering. So thumbs down from me. Think you only listened to those who did it all wrong to start with. Thumbs down from me!
The best crop I ever had was when I needed dirt to fill up a 3 ‘ x 25’ and 3 ‘ deep rockery planter I was building. I needed yards and yards of dirt, but it was too expensive. I knew of a defunct chicken farm that had tons of manure they wanted gone because they had sold the land. It was free. I drove truck after truck of that stuff and filled in my rockery area. I planted tomatoes directly in the chicken manure, which was against the advice of very gardener I knew. But, I took the risk. Omg those tomatoes plants grew into monsters. Big green mothers from outer space! At first just all super thick green leaves, then the blossoms, then the crop of tomatoes that just kept on coming. I have moved from that house and tried to duplicate what I had done, but not with the same success. It may be because I used store bought chicken manure. The manure I got from that old chicken farm was so well rotted ( even found a few chicken bones in the mix). Oh, one more thing, I planted petunias in the manure and they were amazing. I had to finally use a hedge clipper to dead head them. True story. So, sometimes you go against the advice of the experts. It may fail, or it just might work.
You dont plant root crops in fresh manuer or u will pay for it. Old litter is used all the time on farms, fresh litter will burn or kill most plants the way you used it.... one other note about chicken litter, its best to buy it strait from the farmer so you know what you are getting. Arsenic is given to meat birds to plump them up. And thier litter has LOTS of arsenic in it.. if you use litter, get it from an egg.farm or a.farm raising layers for the egg.farms.
I tried both milk and eggs for my plants for years now, i also tried plants exposed to the same conditions one with eggs and milk and one without, both made tomatoes but the one made around 60% more than the other. Also warms are added in the mix. I tried it and it worked. So if you believe is BS, yeah your opinion
I drink a glass of milk before I go to work on my plants as I need that energy. Jokes apart, here in India people feed buttermilk to the plants in summer as it gets very hot.
You are so right --- it's better to let ALL your tomatoes get ruined with "blossom end rot" than use a little milk to prevent it! Wish I could think as clearly as you 🤔
Milk prevents blossom end rot??? How? Because of calcium in the milk? IN most situations Blossom end rot is not caused by lack of calcium. Please checkout this video ruclips.net/video/RRQmZ3oczN8/видео.html
@@DaisyCreekFarms If milk doesn't work then explain why that is the only thing I have tried that actually prevents BER on my tomatoes like I said bone meal, egg shells, gypsum, garden lime --- DID NOT HELP ----- WHY????? the BER stopped when I used milk --- do you have a mental handicap that prevents you from understanding this???
It's because your soil is not balanced. If your soil is well balanced and your plants are able to intake the proper nutrients, you would not have the need to add milk to prevent BER. I have never used milk in my garden and I never have BER in my tomatoes. Before you insult me by saying that I am mentally handicap, you need to understand your soil, I have a whole video dedicated to BER, hopefully this will help you so you don't have to use milk ruclips.net/video/RRQmZ3oczN8/видео.html
I burried a bunch of eggs sgells with a poted lemon tree that didn't produce fruit for several years. Suddenly, it began to produce lemons & beautiful blossoms! I'm convinced that did the trick!
Feeding the soil is a better term for using milk to benefit your plants... meat and dairy do just fine as long as you have at least 6 inches of organic matter on top of it... all the biology in soil will consume it then break it down so that more micro biology can make the nutes available to the plants in ionic form... I’ve seen your video talking about benefits of hydrogen peroxide and while there is some truths to that, if you put meat and dairy into your soil, using Hydrogen peroxide would be a big mistake... in fact using hydrogen peroxide is a mistake UNLESS you have specific issues that require mediation of microbiology that’s harming your plants I think the milk,meat and eggs thing is more just as a way to NOT WASTE spoiled food
So, I did a test of this egg garden thing. I did eight where it didnt have and egg under my tomato plants, and four where it didn't. The ones that had an egg under them grew about 15% more foliage but I forgot to write down if they dropped more fruit. :/ Farmers have been doing this for a long time. As for watering with watered down milk, that seems out there but I'll look at the old fashioned gardeners before I take a childs test project seriously to be honest. I didn't grow any molds, I didn't notice any pests, certainly no maggots (yuck!) and the plants were all very healthy. *shrugs*
Well I used blended egg shells on my sugar baby watermelons and tomatoes in containers and I purposely didn’t use it on my tomatoes plant in the ground as much just to see if there is any difference and my container tomatoes are doing a lot better then my inground tomatoe. Also I strongly believe this has a lot to do with my soil problems in my garden. On the other hand my plants in containers are doing amazing even after putting milk and egg shells in them but I do have to admit it has drawn a lot of bugs so I am having to fight off critters. Other than that things are growing. I will most definitely do a more accurate comparison test to get a better theory. Thanks for sharing.
In my school days we learned that the natives taught the English settlers in the US to plant corn in a mound with a dead fish. There also used to be an often repeated story of a man who was buried under an apple tree and the root of the tree, later dug up, was in the exact shape of the man. I have poured spoiled milk into my tomato containers a few times - didn't seem to hurt. Threw spoiled milk on the strawberries, it grew an incredible gray fungus all over the plant. I did this twice, because I forgot about the fungus the second time. Same thing happened. The plant survived, though.
@Brendan Hall .. you should study your history and flesh out the propaganda taught in the public schools. While squanto was an indian and HE DID teach the settlers how to do the fish trick, it was not something the natives knew to do. Squanto was kidnapped to be a slave in europe.. he was rescued from the slave market by a monk who taught him how to talk (spanish if i remember) . The monk was part of who were researching how to improve farming techniques to better feed people. They were the ones who taught squanto what they knew, and after he had been returned to his homeland (all the people had died from some disease) he taught the settlers what he knew.
No problem.... Ground your egg shells Dry and grind your chicken bones Use blood meal. Use bone meal Use milk with whey separated Best use chipper shredder Chop all ingredients with grass and leaves best stuff for gardens.
I always give milk to my girls throughout the whole process and never have gotten a negative result besides fat fruits same goes for eggs an egg shells. Sometimes my chicken lay in my pots and I wont remove them I'll just crack them in my pot.
The rusted garden did a series on burying egg in the soil. He cracks the egg & buries it deep (15" I think). He does this once in the fall (after he's pulled up his garden) and once in the spring (a month or so before he's going to plant). He didn't fertilize the tomato at all and it did very well. He also buried a whole rotting banana at the same time. His tomatoes turned out well from what he showed. No milk was involved. Edit: here is his setup video: ruclips.net/video/oYCw1XlhMzE/видео.html Here is his follow up/results video: ruclips.net/video/7BlzHxbX11I/видео.html
Was there a control test as well right by the test area? What if the tomato plant planted 2 feet away from the buried egg also did really well? I always conduct my experiments with a control to set a baseline to compare with.
He did a control. He only did it on two tomatoes that were in a separate bed from the other tomatoes. I believe the only difference was that he didn't feed these tomatoes aside from the buried bananas & eggs whereas the other tomatoes got hours usual feedings
I think the original idea of feeding milk to plants comes from back in the old days when having a family milk cow/goat was common and there was usually more milk than they could handle, plus the milk was raw and full of probiotics. Nowadays it's pasteurized (which is why it'll make the plants stink as it rots rather than ferments), too expensive and seems kind of wasteful.
I don’t completely agree. Yes in excess milk and eggs will get nasty but it’s supposed to be done in moderation; no more than once a week. Milk is a green farming technique that’s been used by farmers for generations. Don’t poison the plant with milk but feed the soil slowly. If you over fo it and get root rot or mold a little peroxide on the soil will counteract that but dont do the leaves or they will brown. Egg shells help the same but take time to breakdown enough. Corn feed is also good for grass but takes a while. If your leaves have brown spots use milk it will help
in south India we do foliar spray themoor solution. it's a very diluted curd( yoghurt) with coconut milk. both are fermented and diluted. Apparantly lactic acid and other stuffs prevents flower buds falling off thus giving more flowers and fruits.🤔
You can believe what you want to believe but I know what I know! I did research on this a few years ago when I was having problems with my plants and I am an organic gardener. I didn't want to use fertilizer to fix the problem. Farmers have watered their fields of crops for years with milk. Do your research. When I gave milk to my plants, it fixed the problem they were having. Maybe you should do an experiment. It's easy to grab a few plants and just try it... you dilute it with water
@@samiyakoub7513 just put a quart of piss and one handfull of ash in a 5gal bucket, fill it with water and feed your plants with that once a week just after watering. I guarantee your results will be way better then milk, and a heck of a lot cheaper to boot. I like to use a compost tea 2 times a month also, made from kitchen scraps, no dairy or meat, except fish, and yard waste put in a 30gal barrel with a half cup molasses, filled two thirds full with water, stir daily. Keep lid on for 2-3 weeks, until it smells earthy, then its ready. Just stir, skim off 1 quart, had to 5gal, water. I live in the desert and don't buy fertilizers and live in the middle of a jungle. ;-)
While I agree that feeding milk to plants is ludicrous as I don’t even drink it myself, I have had awesome success when feeding diluted banana compost tea to my blooming plants. The pace at which my roses, bougainville, mandevilla and fuchsia set bloom was astounding. To be clear, this was not burying a banana peel under a plant.
as for foulsmells. u wanna smell my worm castings juice after i pour grass water into it and catch it thru the tap back into the bucket. after 3 days it stiiiiiiiiinks. is it full. of. bacteria? yes. doesit do my plants a world. ofgood? yes.
How about some documentation for your claims? Where are your compairson pictures? You are right! There is a lot of misinformation on the internet. One I just read recently was "NEVER Feed Milk to Plants or Bury an Egg in Garden Soil"
Thank you! I'll be using only rinsed shells mixed up good in the blender with plain water, pouring it in the holes before placing my tomato plants on top of it.
NOT TRUE!!! I’ve used both milk and whole eggs in my garden and flower pots for years and IT WORKS GREAT!!! There is NO myth or misconception about using both!
Just because you used it doesn't mean it is the right thing to do. Animal products should be well composted and decompose to make fertilizer before adding to your garden beds. Adding animals products directly to your soil is harmful and bad advice. Watch this: ruclips.net/video/iKp_bSf1_78/видео.html
I used a milk solution to a dying cucumber plant. In just 2 days it looked better than the the other 4 I had planted. After one week that plant was bigger and greener than the ones I did not treat. I then treated every veg and fruit one time with that same solution. Just once. The results were amazing. I have done this every year since ( about 4 years) one treatment after 1 month of planting and i will never not do this. It works!!
Wrong video. Fish, milk, eggs and meat are the best ferlilizers full of nutrients. Just put the into the ground deeper. They will break down in a month
Yes. I tried burry a lot of expired meat and milk. That all broke down super fast than any other kitchen waste. My garden grew so good. Think about the nature world, most of the dead animals become soil and nutritions to the earth. Plant benefits from it. That is the nature recycling system. This is the wrong video with wrong information.
Your not feeding plant you are feeding soil their is a difference the bacteria fungi nematodes and other stuff break down the calcium then the plant absorbes the byproduct. Their are more than one thought process. When people in a role such as this man talks down to people regarding milk was the test synthetic poting mix iif its not living soil of coarse its gonna stinkbtheir is nothing alive in their to break down .
I had an issue with the pH in my soil. My apple seed roots started turning brown immediately. A few articles recommended putting ACV but that seemed very acidic. So I went with milk bc it is acidic but not as acidic as ACV. I’ll comment how it works. Probably will attract pests 🤦🏾♀️maggots 🤮 and fungus😤. I have more seeds but I need to know how to keep the roots from turning brown. I didn’t over water them. I simply removed them from the core of the apple and the roots immediately started to turn brown.
I've never attempting the dairy, but do cut up banana peels and put them near the base of plants. Here in Florida, the hot summer sun bakes them and breaks them down rather quickly . I did comparisons to other fertilizers and the plants fed the peels did produce many more flowers than the ones that I didn't. I am not a professional gardener by any means. For slugs and snails I've always used beer in cleaned out tuna or cat food cans and it works great because they drink till they get so drunk, they end up falling in the can and drown. In new gardens, I've caught over a hundred in less than 2 weeks time.
Hi! That's awesome! I have a video on Burying Kitchen Scrap in Garden: ruclips.net/video/uL-WRZUG0d8/видео.html and Using Beer Traps to catch Snails and Slugs: ruclips.net/video/o9Dj5KSggBw/видео.html
I can only imagine what your neighbors were thinking: "Oh, that's just Mr. Singh, trying to encourage his plants to drink more milk. At least he doesn't feed them eggs, like the rest of the neighbors do. If it wasn't for racoons digging up their gardens, this entire neighborhood would smell like rotten eggs!"
I was going to pour old milk in the garden but forget it now. Thanks for the info. I’ve got a great tip for you! We have a lot of indoor plants. All of a sudden we had fungus gnats everywhere! It was awful. Someone said put copper in the soil. Did it work? No! Finally I tried spraying HYDROGEN PEROXIDE and guess what? It worked wonderfully! No more gnats. That was about 10 years ago. So every time I water-especially plants that stay moist-I spray the soil with HP. If you spray the plants they don’t mind at all. How it works: fungus gnats reproduce under the top soil. When you spray with HP it stops the reproduction. You’re welcome😊
Milk an eggs? that's new. I cant say im much better because i bury a fish head about 12 inches beneath every seed I plant but that single fish head is actually a native american trick to fertilize over the entire growing period. not something done regularly it's only added in springe so it has a whole year to decompose. I don't plant steaks or .. well any actual meat. as for diluted milk. 1/2 and 1/2 is used to treat powdery mildew which is a problem for cucurbits as it covers the leaves and effectively starves the plant. it works because the lactobacilli that grows in it has some anti fungal properties so when used as a foliar spray it kills the fungus. bear in mind its diluted 1/2 and 1/2 so if you use straight raw milk in the soil i can't guarantee good results lol. using diluted milk as a foliar spray to treat fungus in leaves has actually been tested in labs and proven to work.
eggs have calcium carbonate, which is not as bioavailable as the CCP (mix of calcium citrate, calcium magnesium and calcium phosphate) farmers have been using whole milk on soil for a long time, as well as studies showing up to 15% increases in fruiting yield (if memory serves correct )to correct calcium issues, your problem is that you are not mixing the milk with water... you use 1oz of whole milk for every 5 gallons of milk....it is a great foliar spray and it has never once caused issues or smell as you claim, dont drown your plants in milk...you mix it with water and it is very quickly broken down by microbial life, the mix of calcium types increases bioavailability especially once the microbes begin breaking down the minerals. Eggs work great for slow release, but try telling an old school cannabis farmer mix wont fix a calcium deficiency and you will be laughed at, Whats next dont feed coconut water to plants either ?? Good soil prevents issues but in a situation where a quick fix is needed, milk works great, especially in assistance with dolomite lime or egg shells as a long term slow release calcium
Diluting & using as a spray makes a lot more sense. Would it be better to use whole milk or to use skim milk? I would think skim milk would be better since you don't have the fats which seems like it would be harder to break down.
@@DeadeyeJoe37 A bit of fat and sugar feeds the organisms in the soil.These help break down organic matter into a form useable by plants.As long as your going to dilute it,whole milk is just fine.
Pretty sure milk going into water deoxyginises the water. Milk getting into the water table i.e. rivers & lakes is actually extremely harmful to wildlife as it kills the algi which in turn affects all the animals within it. Milk is not even good for human consumption! Milk actually draws calcium out of the bones hence why countries with the highest intake of milk also have the highest concentration of bone density diseases.
“Where does this stop? Feeding honey and wine to your plants?” Well actually, I have heard that honey can be really good for your plants :) although I doubt wine will do it any good
The key with milk isn’t that it adds calcium and it needs to be diluted AF like thing 1-2 tablespoons per gallon of water - it feeds the bacteria in the soil that break nutrients down into the bioavailable form that plants uptake. The easier way is to just buy an inoculant but you CAN culture your own at home and they can be fed naturally in the soil but the dilution is key with that overdoing it helps no one
I’ll also add the better option is leftover kombucha or water kefir but the dairy one is the same principal just takes a lot more work and math to dilute it out to what it should be ~ but again kefir = fermented = technically decomposing in a specific special way that it’s still an edible product.
Hahahahhaha actually if you want to kill black flies they will go inside and kill themselves... I have a video to prove it lol I always leave a bit at the bottom of the bottle or can when I came out the next day, 5 flies had gone down there. I also have a video of how those nasty flys are zipping around a can of beer... idk what it is but they are alcoholics.
Your wrong on some level. I just did an experiment on Joshua Zieba channel that shows a huge difference between the plants that didn't get the egg underneath. Three weeks in there is a DRAMATIC difference!
I have 2 pepper plants that are dying so will try the diluted milk as no way to get anything here on time to save them. Will put on roots only. Nothing to lose.
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I'm going to disagree with you on this one.your not taking into account ,that milk is pasteurized or raw. take a look at this site and let me know what you feel.also doage important.i wouldn't use pasteurized anywhere near my plants but raw that's a different thing. take a look at this site and let me know if it influences your decision about using milk. anyway the science is sound and I'm not going to disagree with it. www.motherearth.com/organic-gardening/milk-and-molasses-magic-zbcz1402 love your video,s by the way.
Glad you liked the video :) There are lots of sites like Mother Earth, Gardening Know How, etc. that recommend this. I believe they are more concerned about getting views to their site rather than giving out good information. I will only believe using milk (even raw) if there is a scientific research published by a reputable phd holder in the field. If the article is on .edu site, I will take that as well.
Now. I have cleaned thr leaves of house plants with a dust rag with a dip of milk and water mix, as it really makes the leaves shine, but no way would I ever directly "water" the plant with milk (ew), doesn't it stink after a while?
Same with eggs.
@@DaisyCreekFarms thank you!
Maybe the antibiotics in the milk are working. The precision agriculture uses lab engineered microbes to kill the existing soil microbes. So to say milk is good or bad isn't researched based.
My grandma didn't watch the Internet videos, and most certainly she didn't read scientific research. Yet, her garden was always healthy and bountiful. She used diluted milk and diluted whey as a fungicide on her tomatoes and cucs, just as she used baking soda and aspirin. For many, many years, and it worked for her. So don't be quick to judge. I was surprised to find out people burry fish heads underneath their tomatoes, and they say it works wonders for them. Though I won't try it, It doesn't mean I'l put my thin foil and say this is crazy. We have different agricultural heritages, and in most cases it's tried (for centuries) and true. We should be open-minded, as there is always a possibility of learning something new.
And organic companies like Neptune and others sell fish fert/sea kelp for a pretty penny. Gee. Wonder if nutrients in these things, when broken down over time could possubly have benefits in an age b4 ace hardware/lowes?
Some ppl dont understand pre internet wisdom
Well, the guy making the video clearly hasn't done any research, or even looked at the facts, commercial farmers have been fertilizing their fields with a milk manure mix since forever whenever milk can not be taken to market (common reason today is the milk tests to high in antibiotics).
Now during COVID there is a massive over production problem in the USA, so the FDA has approved wide spread usage of a milk/manure mix to be spread, and has advice in how to supplement and mix this.
So it's nice this guy thinks it's funny, but I guess I just wouldn't trust a fellow who can't even do a cursory google search to back up or refute his opinions.
@@DekeDieken What's the composition/research on milk/manure mix? 'Cuz Jag is talking about straight milk.
@@RobertJSparkles they have a chart for how much you need to adjust your fertilization rates (how much you use per acre) depending on percentages of each. You actually use less per acre as the milk percentage goes up, because milk is HIGHER in (I think) phosphates and nitrogen than manure.
I was just listening to an agricultural law podcast talking about it (because we have a huge overstock because school is out kids are drinking less milk). So I'm not sure on all the actual numbers, I was just looking for a video with instructions for perhaps using my own spoiled milk instead of throwing it down the drain.
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Actually if you have powdery mildew on your zucchinis or pumpkins, milk and water sprayed onto the leaves right before the sun hits it will (combined with sunlight) change the ph balance on the leaves saving your plant. It really does work
Thsnks i lost many plant due to this
It also does work as fertilizer just no better or worse then any other organic matter
Heard that too (1 part milk to 8 parts water) i’m just afraid to try it!
Honey is also good for all plants this dude is a doink😂
@@rodneysamradli5287 Yeah this video is as flawed as it gets, ANY calcium increase helps tomatoes and the soil. Also when asperatied it becomes a different compound as what is in the cow. I started using this years ago and DOUBLED my crop and extended the growth season (I am in upper midwest US) and ended blossom rot that had been a problem every year and have never used pest control (okay I add diatomaceous earth to the soil).
I buried a whole cow under my tomato plants. Now they got food for the whole year.
Your kidding me DUDE really waste a whole cow I prefer selling milk😮😮😲
@@rosachemwey2541 you going to eat one that died from natural causes? The USFDA frowns upon that.
There is a Australian youtuber buried a kangaroo to improve the soil.🤣
Omg really????🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
HAHAHAA
I buried an egg several years and now I have an egg tree. You've just gotta be patient.
Wat???😱😱
I also want an egg plant for eating
Lol
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Yaya lol idiot
I can not believe that he says this about things we have been doing for over 100 years here in the south in US..LOL Tried and true
I know right, that's like telling someone not to use fish emulsion for your plants. Animals die all the time and give the best nutrients to plants. Soil with a high level of microbiology can digest an egg yolk without worms, soil is carnivorous.
Yeah I been doing it for awhile now and I've had nothing but success
And as someone that has chickens... we have so many extra eggs.
I use egg shells. It's a natural calcium supplement.
Me too. Problem is I need so much salt and water to wash it down
Me 3 lol
@@Cantreachthestars You made my day! Laughed so hard because of your reply. 😂😹🤣
Me tooo. I do it
Milk and eggs work great. They break down quicker then you think. Ive done this for many years. If you can smell an odor you didnt burry it deep enough. My tomatoes with raw cracked eggs 12 inches deep grew 3 times the size of the ones without eggs. Think YOU SHOULD TRY IT BEFORE YOU TELL OTHERS NOT TOO!
Edit: the egg tomatoes also had higher yields as well.
You are right.
I was thinking about trying to root rosemary in old egg yolks I think it might work cause it's easy engery.
Worked for my lemon tree!
@@springbloom8997 tell us what it did for your lemon tree- what "worked"?
Any organic matter is good for plants as long as it is decomposed.
I have chickens that lay eggs. Not all the eggs are good for consumption due to the shells being compromised allowing bacteria inside the egg yolks. Rather than throw these eggs out I bury them in my garden and the plants LOVE them. I also use the straw from their bedding change in between the plants as a natural weed deterrent. It smothers the weeds and helps to fertilize the garden when rain filters thru the straw into the dirt.
I had a ton of tomatoes this summer and ALL of them got blossom end rot. I didn't have any other source of calcium so I diluted milk and applied it to the soil. I haven't had a problem since. It works and my garden doesn't have a bad odor.
Try a dissolved Tums next time. I'm not joking one watering with 1-2 calcium Carbonate fixed my problem the rest of the season.
Not that your way was ineffective btw! I was just excited to share that tums worked so well.
@@aaron5508 I will try it next year.
Plant researches in Brazil and Australia have recently used milk as a fungicide on vegetable crops, grapes, and flower crops. They found that spraying a dilute mix of 1 part milk and 9 parts water prevented fungi from growing. (The researchers also believe that the potassium phosphate in milk helps boost the plant’s immune system and may also work as an antibiotic.)
BINGO, it is how you apply it. Funny thing about egg shells they take months to years to break down, so putting them in your soil for calcium is a next to zero benefit for years.
One researcher says that it is the amino acids in the milk which combines with the calcium and in turn this causes the plant to be able to absorb calcium at a greater rate.
Supposedly this is the secret sauce
You missed the point of how diluting milk as a spray can help treat fungal spots on plants like roses. Perhaps milk in good healthy soil is feeding certain micro-organisms ..... but you didn't even consider that.
nope not at all, homeboy needs to re learn some stuff
Hey, an older man I was talking to said for blight on tomatoes they have always had success sprinkling powdered milk on them when planting them. I read that milk is a natural fungicide and kills bad fungi that cause disease on plants. Used on tomatoes and squash. Also provides calcium and nitrogen.
Wonder if raw milk diluted with water and sprayed on tomatoes would work for blight as well?
I just watch a video about how probiotic yogurt solved a problem with fireblight on a pear tree. I am going to try it. I have nothing to lose as it will take the tree.
you have much to learn, young one. And beware pride that goeth before the fall.
But Self Sufficient Me RUclips Channel Gardening uses Whole Raw Eggs as fertilizer. And it seems to work quite well in his garden.
I have never bought milk to "feed" the plants but I do pour old milk onto the soil under tomato plants rather than pour it down the drain. And my tomatoes do not get blossom end rot. So I am a believer.
I compost with milk, I have used powder milk during bloom. This isn’t new. And it hasn’t ever hurt anything. It increases composting. Don’t knock it till you try it
Umm.. Tried and true here... something is being left out of all these videos... FAT FREE powdered milk mixed with water DOES work to produce wonderful tomato, squash, and potato plants. Water around the roots, not against the stalk, and not on the foliage. The FAT in milk is what makes soil go rancid; fat-free is a must. Also, if your soil is deficient in Magnesium, epsom salt may be added as well.
Finally, how do you explain the well-known practice of burying a fish under your plants, if your theory is true? How do you explain the ENTIRE permaculture practice? It's literally based on putting kitchen scraps directly into the garden. YOU go tell Morag Gamble or Charles Dowden that they're wrong, I'll wait right here.
I have a video on burying kitchen scraps in the garden. Do not bury egg, meat, or milk. Fish fertilizer is used widely in organic farming and some do bury dead fish which is not viable for consumption by humans or animals. Some use left over parts from fish industry. You can use fish but it is better to decompose fish in a contained environment and them use it as a fertilizer. Burying fish might attract maggots, raccoons, and other animals as well.
@@DaisyCreekFarms So now you've contradicted yourself. Fish is meat. Thanks, unsub & hope people do research outside of your youtube channel before writing off TRIED AND TRUE practices.
@@amandaroyer633 Ever heard of fish meal and bone meal fertilizer? It is made from decomposing fish and bone of animals from meat industry to make the fertilizer. How am I contradicting myself? I am saying not to add egg, milk, and meat, or fish directly to the roots of your plants. I said, "You can use fish but it is better to decompose fish in a contained environment and them use it as a fertilizer." Please read carefully.
Wrong! I actually buried two fresh eggs in my garden late last year. A month ago I planted pepper plants that I bought from Lowe’s. Each plant was maybe 9 inches tall. The pepper plant that was planted directly over the once fresh eggs is already two feet tall and is putting off very healthy peppers, some that I’ve already used in cooking. All of my other pepper plants are only one foot tall and are just now starting to flower and grow tiny pepper pods. So until you’ve tried it yourself, don’t make a video on it. At the end of this growing season, I am going to dig up my entire garden and place one fresh, uncooked egg every 6 inches apart front to back, left to right. Then cover them with about 9 inches of soil and let them do their thing throughout the winter months. Maybe I’ll dump a gallon or two of milk into the soil as well
You also need to plant the same plant next to it without the egg and keep other factors constant and then compare the results. Then it will be good experiment. You can also add another plant with compost and worm casting and see how that performs as well compared to the egg. Then you will have control, compost and egg for accurate comparison and analysis.
I used the miracle grow dirt for my tomatoe plants and lost many to blossom end rot. So I sprinkled dry milk on them right away, and some time later put on some bone meal. But It stopped that blossom end rot almost totally. Miracle grow does not have enough calcium for sure.
This lunatic buried a while egg when planting each tomato plant. The plants developed such a strong stem that it wasn't even necessary to stake in the beginning. Disagree with his opinion.
I've seen the Vietnamese Gardners feed milk to vegetable plants especially leafy plants and it grew amazingly.
Did they do a comparable experiment without feeding milk while all other things are constant?
@@DaisyCreekFarms they don’t need to cause it works lol
Only a few of us now how to do it but it works
@@DaisyCreekFarms what about fish heads in the soil?
@@Nyabennah ...putting fish under plants produced fantastic results! This is not too surprising since many organic plant fertilizer is made of fish emulsion 👍🌱
Diluted milk and water is great for your plants .. my like tree is thriving right now because of this. Makes the leaves very green healthy and shiny to. My family from honduras passed this info on to me and they've been using this for years .
Usually I don’t comment but yes every now and then I mix few raw eggs with water and water to my plants and veggies and they always looked so green shiny and healthy and I have been doing this for years 😊
Can you please share the ratio of your ingredients that you use for your gardening.. Thanks.
I've seen a dairy farm that had a cooler go down on the bulk tank. Had to dump bulk tank. Milk was pumped into manure pond then sprayed on clover field in late fall. Following year clover had more flowers and more growth then other fields with just manure.
Parents bought an ex
dairy farm. Just outside the dairy door the grass grew significantly taller, lush & green compared to the rest of the surrounding area.
So the milk composted before adding to the ground? That's ok. Plus the manure has a lot to do with the growth than milk.
@@DaisyCreekFarms again clover had more flowers and more growth then manure alone. All organic matter brakes down into a npk value
@@kevind3185 But the milk composed for a while before the next crop was planted the next year? So milk was not added directly to the root of the plants? You can compost any organic matter and then use, just not a good idea to add milk and egg directly to the roots of your plants.
@@DaisyCreekFarms milk was pumped into manure pond then manure and now sour milk was sprayed on clover field. It was all done in a matter of days of the milk being dumped. Nothing like the smell of cow shit and sour milk. At least it wasn't hot out in the fall.
I planted my dying flowers in semi decomposed vegetables and fruit skins and they are flourishing! so tbh you can plant using waste that's not fully decomposed
I wouldn't pour a glass of milk on a plant but when I rinse my milk jugs and pour it on my plants they become very perky and green. I assume it feeds the life in the soil, not the actual plant.
Exactly! Not all bacteria and fungi are bad things.If the milk is used Sparingly over a large area,it help the beneficial organisms in the soil to break down organic matter into a form your plants can use if they also get lots of water.That's why your plants reacted as they did.
It's the Dry Milk That works...Proven Proven Proven!
i immagine the neighbours looking up the fence and seeing a man wearing a foil hat while trying to make his plants drink milk. xD
Haha
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Milk in compost tea is extremely beneficial. Its great for powdery mildew, high in enzymes and simple sugars as well as beneficial bacteria. It is also a natural insecticide againsy soft body insects as they cannot break down simple sugars. Milk has been used a long time in gardening, this isn't anything new.
Im planting for about 3 years. And I've tried putting egg below my plants and all of my plants did grow nice and healthy. With the milk...hmm Ive never ever tried that one before
I’ve seen many many, pros for milk , but more diluted with water and it seems very beneficial. So do your research before doing a clip like that!!
People have used milk for nourishing plants LONG before the internet existed. Just like the natives used fish. Don’t be ridiculous.
eggshells and leftovers of fruits etc are working great on my plants. idk what ur talking about man.
Egg shells are ok to use, leftover fruit is good when composted. The video is about milk and whole eggs which should never be added directly to soil.
@@DaisyCreekFarms dried egg shells from few days back or fresh egg shells soon after you use eggs?
*We have a carnivorous plant here known as a bramble bush they have backwards facing barbs/thorns and they produce blackberries, every year dozens of sheep die to these plants as they are lured in attracted to the juicy blackberries before becoming entangled with the barbs and vines the sheep becomes trapped I think the plant actually knows this as carcasses have been found totally wrapped by the plants vines, obviously the sheep dies then decomposes into the topsoil giving the plant nutrients benefitting it in the long run,* absolutely fascinating.
Your a realist and I appreciate that. And I appreciate you. Love from Trinidad
I have to disagree, farmers have been putting animal carcasses in the compost since the beginning of time
That’s different. By composting it, it becomes readily available to the plant. But it won’t be helpful until it’s composted.
I've been doing it for years to get some plants to flower. But I put only a little in their water in a watering can. Milk is cheap here in Australia, maybe not where you are. A little milk in a watering can has been proven to spur peace lily's to bloom. Been using this technique for years on my in door plants. But I also use standard fertilizer as well. I never use milk on outside plants where there are plenty of worms etc. Also you don't just water with milk. You add a teaspoon to a 9 liter watering can and only do this once every couple of months, not in their regular watering. So thumbs down from me. Think you only listened to those who did it all wrong to start with. Thumbs down from me!
The best crop I ever had was when I needed dirt to fill up a 3 ‘ x 25’ and 3 ‘ deep rockery planter I was building. I needed yards and yards of dirt, but it was too expensive. I knew of a defunct chicken farm that had tons of manure they wanted gone because they had sold the land. It was free. I drove truck after truck of that stuff and filled in my rockery area. I planted tomatoes directly in the chicken manure, which was against the advice of very gardener I knew. But, I took the risk. Omg those tomatoes plants grew into monsters. Big green mothers from outer space! At first just all super thick green leaves, then the blossoms, then the crop of tomatoes that just kept on coming. I have moved from that house and tried to duplicate what I had done, but not with the same success. It may be because I used store bought chicken manure. The manure I got from that old chicken farm was so well rotted ( even found a few chicken bones in the mix). Oh, one more thing, I planted petunias in the manure and they were amazing. I had to finally use a hedge clipper to dead head them. True story. So, sometimes you go against the advice of the experts. It may fail, or it just might work.
You dont plant root crops in fresh manuer or u will pay for it. Old litter is used all the time on farms, fresh litter will burn or kill most plants the way you used it.... one other note about chicken litter, its best to buy it strait from the farmer so you know what you are getting. Arsenic is given to meat birds to plump them up. And thier litter has LOTS of arsenic in it.. if you use litter, get it from an egg.farm or a.farm raising layers for the egg.farms.
I tried both milk and eggs for my plants for years now, i also tried plants exposed to the same conditions one with eggs and milk and one without, both made tomatoes but the one made around 60% more than the other. Also warms are added in the mix. I tried it and it worked. So if you believe is BS, yeah your opinion
I drink a glass of milk before I go to work on my plants as I need that energy. Jokes apart, here in India people feed buttermilk to the plants in summer as it gets very hot.
You are so right --- it's better to let ALL your tomatoes get ruined with "blossom end rot" than use a little milk to prevent it! Wish I could think as clearly as you 🤔
Milk prevents blossom end rot??? How? Because of calcium in the milk? IN most situations Blossom end rot is not caused by lack of calcium. Please checkout this video ruclips.net/video/RRQmZ3oczN8/видео.html
@@DaisyCreekFarms If milk doesn't work then explain why that is the only thing I have tried that actually prevents BER on my tomatoes like I said bone meal, egg shells, gypsum, garden lime --- DID NOT HELP ----- WHY????? the BER stopped when I used milk --- do you have a mental handicap that prevents you from understanding this???
It's because your soil is not balanced. If your soil is well balanced and your plants are able to intake the proper nutrients, you would not have the need to add milk to prevent BER. I have never used milk in my garden and I never have BER in my tomatoes. Before you insult me by saying that I am mentally handicap, you need to understand your soil, I have a whole video dedicated to BER, hopefully this will help you so you don't have to use milk ruclips.net/video/RRQmZ3oczN8/видео.html
I burried a bunch of eggs sgells with a poted lemon tree that didn't produce fruit for several years. Suddenly, it began to produce lemons & beautiful blossoms! I'm convinced that did the trick!
I cracked an egg in my soil and they are doing awesome!!!
Did you do a controlled experiment to see if the plants without egg with everything else constant grew as well?
Feeding the soil is a better term for using milk to benefit your plants... meat and dairy do just fine as long as you have at least 6 inches of organic matter on top of it... all the biology in soil will consume it then break it down so that more micro biology can make the nutes available to the plants in ionic form...
I’ve seen your video talking about benefits of hydrogen peroxide and while there is some truths to that, if you put meat and dairy into your soil, using Hydrogen peroxide would be a big mistake... in fact using hydrogen peroxide is a mistake UNLESS you have specific issues that require mediation of microbiology that’s harming your plants
I think the milk,meat and eggs thing is more just as a way to NOT WASTE spoiled food
So, I did a test of this egg garden thing. I did eight where it didnt have and egg under my tomato plants, and four where it didn't. The ones that had an egg under them grew about 15% more foliage but I forgot to write down if they dropped more fruit. :/ Farmers have been doing this for a long time. As for watering with watered down milk, that seems out there but I'll look at the old fashioned gardeners before I take a childs test project seriously to be honest. I didn't grow any molds, I didn't notice any pests, certainly no maggots (yuck!) and the plants were all very healthy. *shrugs*
Well I used blended egg shells on my sugar baby watermelons and tomatoes in containers and I purposely didn’t use it on my tomatoes plant in the ground as much just to see if there is any difference and my container tomatoes are doing a lot better then my inground tomatoe. Also I strongly believe this has a lot to do with my soil problems in my garden. On the other hand my plants in containers are doing amazing even after putting milk and egg shells in them but I do have to admit it has drawn a lot of bugs so I am having to fight off critters. Other than that things are growing. I will most definitely do a more accurate comparison test to get a better theory. Thanks for sharing.
In my school days we learned that the natives taught the English settlers in the US to plant corn in a mound with a dead fish. There also used to be an often repeated story of a man who was buried under an apple tree and the root of the tree, later dug up, was in the exact shape of the man. I have poured spoiled milk into my tomato containers a few times - didn't seem to hurt. Threw spoiled milk on the strawberries, it grew an incredible gray fungus all over the plant. I did this twice, because I forgot about the fungus the second time. Same thing happened. The plant survived, though.
@Brendan Hall .. you should study your history and flesh out the propaganda taught in the public schools. While squanto was an indian and HE DID teach the settlers how to do the fish trick, it was not something the natives knew to do. Squanto was kidnapped to be a slave in europe.. he was rescued from the slave market by a monk who taught him how to talk (spanish if i remember) . The monk was part of who were researching how to improve farming techniques to better feed people. They were the ones who taught squanto what they knew, and after he had been returned to his homeland (all the people had died from some disease) he taught the settlers what he knew.
@@ronallens6204 Well, the history books were full of BS back then, same as they are, now. Thanks for that information.
@@watermelonlalala not a problem... as i got older i had to relearn alot of things i was taught in schools (including college)
No problem....
Ground your egg shells
Dry and grind your chicken bones
Use blood meal.
Use bone meal
Use milk with whey separated
Best use chipper shredder
Chop all ingredients with
grass and leaves best stuff
for gardens.
Bro I use powdered milk mixed with my water and I have experimented it heps
This video is full of inaccuracies.. Not only regarding Milk and Eggs but also regarding burying kitchen scraps..
I always give milk to my girls throughout the whole process and never have gotten a negative result besides fat fruits same goes for eggs an egg shells. Sometimes my chicken lay in my pots and I wont remove them I'll just crack them in my pot.
The rusted garden did a series on burying egg in the soil. He cracks the egg & buries it deep (15" I think). He does this once in the fall (after he's pulled up his garden) and once in the spring (a month or so before he's going to plant). He didn't fertilize the tomato at all and it did very well. He also buried a whole rotting banana at the same time. His tomatoes turned out well from what he showed.
No milk was involved.
Edit: here is his setup video: ruclips.net/video/oYCw1XlhMzE/видео.html
Here is his follow up/results video: ruclips.net/video/7BlzHxbX11I/видео.html
Was there a control test as well right by the test area? What if the tomato plant planted 2 feet away from the buried egg also did really well? I always conduct my experiments with a control to set a baseline to compare with.
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He did a control. He only did it on two tomatoes that were in a separate bed from the other tomatoes. I believe the only difference was that he didn't feed these tomatoes aside from the buried bananas & eggs whereas the other tomatoes got hours usual feedings
Here's one of the videos: ruclips.net/video/oYCw1XlhMzE/видео.html
Here's the follow up: ruclips.net/video/7BlzHxbX11I/видео.html
I think the original idea of feeding milk to plants comes from back in the old days when having a family milk cow/goat was common and there was usually more milk than they could handle, plus the milk was raw and full of probiotics. Nowadays it's pasteurized (which is why it'll make the plants stink as it rots rather than ferments), too expensive and seems kind of wasteful.
Eggs are 75 cents a dozen where I live. Milk $3 a gallon. That's less than 30 cents per 12 oz. glass.
Oh, that's sooo expensive!
I also guess the probiotics are the helpful Part of IT!
I don’t completely agree. Yes in excess milk and eggs will get nasty but it’s supposed to be done in moderation; no more than once a week. Milk is a green farming technique that’s been used by farmers for generations. Don’t poison the plant with milk but feed the soil slowly. If you over fo it and get root rot or mold a little peroxide on the soil will counteract that but dont do the leaves or they will brown. Egg shells help the same but take time to breakdown enough. Corn feed is also good for grass but takes a while. If your leaves have brown spots use milk it will help
How do u think my plants like their steak cooked? I asked but they just don't listen.
in south India we do foliar spray themoor solution. it's a very diluted curd( yoghurt) with coconut milk. both are fermented and diluted. Apparantly lactic acid and other stuffs prevents flower buds falling off thus giving more flowers and fruits.🤔
I tried it and it worked in my house plants they’re alive again I was skeptical just like you !🤷🏻♀️
Me: Why arent you drinking my vodka?
Plant: .......
Milk works good for me
You can believe what you want to believe but I know what I know! I did research on this a few years ago when I was having problems with my plants and I am an organic gardener. I didn't want to use fertilizer to fix the problem. Farmers have watered their fields of crops for years with milk. Do your research. When I gave milk to my plants, it fixed the problem they were having. Maybe you should do an experiment. It's easy to grab a few plants and just try it... you dilute it with water
I've seen the Vietnamese Gardners feed milk to vegetable plants especially leafy plants like lettuce and spinach and it grew amazingly fast.
@@samiyakoub7513 just put a quart of piss and one handfull of ash in a 5gal bucket, fill it with water and feed your plants with that once a week just after watering. I guarantee your results will be way better then milk, and a heck of a lot cheaper to boot. I like to use a compost tea 2 times a month also, made from kitchen scraps, no dairy or meat, except fish, and yard waste put in a 30gal barrel with a half cup molasses, filled two thirds full with water, stir daily. Keep lid on for 2-3 weeks, until it smells earthy, then its ready. Just stir, skim off 1 quart, had to 5gal, water. I live in the desert and don't buy fertilizers and live in the middle of a jungle. ;-)
On which or how many fertilizer companies' pay rolls are you?????????????
None, make my own compost and use cow and chicken manure!
While I agree that feeding milk to plants is ludicrous as I don’t even drink it myself, I have had awesome success when feeding diluted banana compost tea to my blooming plants. The pace at which my roses, bougainville, mandevilla and fuchsia set bloom was astounding. To be clear, this was not burying a banana peel under a plant.
I added a few drops of milk to my cactus because fungus attacked it. It was actually helpful.
as for foulsmells. u wanna smell my worm castings juice after i pour grass water into it and catch it thru the tap back into the bucket. after 3 days it stiiiiiiiiinks. is it full. of. bacteria? yes. doesit do my plants a world. ofgood? yes.
How about some documentation for your claims? Where are your compairson pictures? You are right! There is a lot of misinformation on the internet. One I just read recently was "NEVER Feed Milk to Plants or Bury an Egg in Garden Soil"
Thank you! I'll be using only rinsed shells mixed up good in the blender with plain water, pouring it in the holes before placing my tomato plants on top of it.
Eggs shell or whole egg is good for garden I’ve been doing it for very long time .
I hope so... i just planted a new crop of corn and buried 2 eggs!!
If you get eggcellent results and both your plants and soil benefit,you must be doing something right.Do eggs work for squashes and melons?@Mila Bell
NOT TRUE!!! I’ve used both milk and whole eggs in my garden and flower pots for years and IT WORKS GREAT!!! There is NO myth or misconception about using both!
Just because you used it doesn't mean it is the right thing to do. Animal products should be well composted and decompose to make fertilizer before adding to your garden beds. Adding animals products directly to your soil is harmful and bad advice. Watch this: ruclips.net/video/iKp_bSf1_78/видео.html
I used a milk solution to a dying cucumber plant. In just 2 days it looked better than the the other 4 I had planted.
After one week that plant was bigger and greener than the ones I did not treat. I then treated every veg and fruit one time with that same solution. Just once.
The results were amazing. I have done this every year since ( about 4 years) one treatment after 1 month of planting and i will never not do this. It works!!
Wrong video. Fish, milk, eggs and meat are the best ferlilizers full of nutrients. Just put the into the ground deeper. They will break down in a month
Yes. I tried burry a lot of expired meat and milk. That all broke down super fast than any other kitchen waste. My garden grew so good. Think about the nature world, most of the dead animals become soil and nutritions to the earth. Plant benefits from it. That is the nature recycling system. This is the wrong video with wrong information.
You need to compost these first in controlled environment if you want to use them rather than adding directly to the ground.
@@DaisyCreekFarms nah you really don’t. They will decompose under the plant if you bury em deep and you have lively soil.
1:30 you're absolutely right. Humans are animals. I struggle to convince people sometimes.
Your not feeding plant you are feeding soil their is a difference the bacteria fungi nematodes and other stuff break down the calcium then the plant absorbes the byproduct. Their are more than one thought process. When people in a role such as this man talks down to people regarding milk was the test synthetic poting mix iif its not living soil of coarse its gonna stinkbtheir is nothing alive in their to break down .
You're not supposed to add straight milk to your plants either. It's supposed to be around 70% water 30% milk dilution .
I had an issue with the pH in my soil. My apple seed roots started turning brown immediately. A few articles recommended putting ACV but that seemed very acidic. So I went with milk bc it is acidic but not as acidic as ACV. I’ll comment how it works. Probably will attract pests 🤦🏾♀️maggots 🤮 and fungus😤. I have more seeds but I need to know how to keep the roots from turning brown. I didn’t over water them. I simply removed them from the core of the apple and the roots immediately started to turn brown.
Milk is alkaline
I've never attempting the dairy, but do cut up banana peels and put them near the base of plants. Here in Florida, the hot summer sun bakes them and breaks them down rather quickly . I did comparisons to other fertilizers and the plants fed the peels did produce many more flowers than the ones that I didn't. I am not a professional gardener by any means. For slugs and snails I've always used beer in cleaned out tuna or cat food cans and it works great because they drink till they get so drunk, they end up falling in the can and drown. In new gardens, I've caught over a hundred in less than 2 weeks time.
Hi! That's awesome! I have a video on Burying Kitchen Scrap in Garden: ruclips.net/video/uL-WRZUG0d8/видео.html and Using Beer Traps to catch Snails and Slugs: ruclips.net/video/o9Dj5KSggBw/видео.html
Not even coconut milk? I read online that using coconut milk promotes plant growth due to all the nutrients. Which seems to rationally make sense
I can only imagine what your neighbors were thinking: "Oh, that's just Mr. Singh, trying to encourage his plants to drink more milk. At least he doesn't feed them eggs, like the rest of the neighbors do. If it wasn't for racoons digging up their gardens, this entire neighborhood would smell like rotten eggs!"
I grind my egg shells and use them as grist in my worm bins.
Milk has helped me with calcium deficiencies before.
I was going to pour old milk in the garden but forget it now. Thanks for the info.
I’ve got a great tip for you! We have a lot of indoor plants. All of a sudden we had fungus gnats everywhere! It was awful. Someone said put copper in the soil. Did it work? No! Finally I tried spraying HYDROGEN PEROXIDE and guess what? It worked wonderfully! No more gnats. That was about 10 years ago. So every time I water-especially plants that stay moist-I spray the soil with HP. If you spray the plants they don’t mind at all. How it works: fungus gnats reproduce under the top soil. When you spray with HP it stops the reproduction. You’re welcome😊
Milk an eggs? that's new. I cant say im much better because i bury a fish head about 12 inches beneath every seed I plant but that single fish head is actually a native american trick to fertilize over the entire growing period. not something done regularly it's only added in springe so it has a whole year to decompose. I don't plant steaks or .. well any actual meat.
as for diluted milk. 1/2 and 1/2 is used to treat powdery mildew which is a problem for cucurbits as it covers the leaves and effectively starves the plant. it works because the lactobacilli that grows in it has some anti fungal properties so when used as a foliar spray it kills the fungus. bear in mind its diluted 1/2 and 1/2 so if you use straight raw milk in the soil i can't guarantee good results lol.
using diluted milk as a foliar spray to treat fungus in leaves has actually been tested in labs and proven to work.
I have a tomato plant with blossom end rot. I’m about to try the 1/2 cup milk to 1 gallon of water method, I’ll let you know if it works or not.
ok, I am curious to know. Send me email at info (at) daisycreekfarms.com with photos and updates.
eggs have calcium carbonate, which is not as bioavailable as the CCP (mix of calcium citrate, calcium magnesium and calcium phosphate)
farmers have been using whole milk on soil for a long time, as well as studies showing up to 15% increases in fruiting yield (if memory serves correct )to correct calcium issues, your problem is that you are not mixing the milk with water... you use 1oz of whole milk for every 5 gallons of milk....it is a great foliar spray and it has never once caused issues or smell as you claim, dont drown your plants in milk...you mix it with water and it is very quickly broken down by microbial life, the mix of calcium types increases bioavailability especially once the microbes begin breaking down the minerals. Eggs work great for slow release, but try telling an old school cannabis farmer mix wont fix a calcium deficiency and you will be laughed at, Whats next dont feed coconut water to plants either ?? Good soil prevents issues but in a situation where a quick fix is needed, milk works great, especially in assistance with dolomite lime or egg shells as a long term slow release calcium
Diluting & using as a spray makes a lot more sense. Would it be better to use whole milk or to use skim milk? I would think skim milk would be better since you don't have the fats which seems like it would be harder to break down.
@@DeadeyeJoe37 A bit of fat and sugar feeds the organisms in the soil.These help break down organic matter into a form useable by plants.As long as your going to dilute it,whole milk is just fine.
Pretty sure milk going into water deoxyginises the water. Milk getting into the water table i.e. rivers & lakes is actually extremely harmful to wildlife as it kills the algi which in turn affects all the animals within it. Milk is not even good for human consumption! Milk actually draws calcium out of the bones hence why countries with the highest intake of milk also have the highest concentration of bone density diseases.
@@robmantle335 absurd. YOur eco training has made you lose common sense.
I got some eggs which are not good to eat anymore and just think if I can bury them under my plants!
Seems like not a single comment is agreed on what the claims are made in this video.
“Where does this stop? Feeding honey and wine to your plants?” Well actually, I have heard that honey can be really good for your plants :) although I doubt wine will do it any good
Milk does give nutrients to plants
The key with milk isn’t that it adds calcium and it needs to be diluted AF like thing 1-2 tablespoons per gallon of water - it feeds the bacteria in the soil that break nutrients down into the bioavailable form that plants uptake. The easier way is to just buy an inoculant but you CAN culture your own at home and they can be fed naturally in the soil but the dilution is key with that overdoing it helps no one
I’ll also add the better option is leftover kombucha or water kefir but the dairy one is the same principal just takes a lot more work and math to dilute it out to what it should be ~ but again kefir = fermented = technically decomposing in a specific special way that it’s still an edible product.
Yes helps your microbes in the soil he is not educated enough on this ans or no till methods! You dont give them it every water or straight....
Got it. Honey and wine it is.
It works. Great for my plants. 30% more tomato’s every year sooo…. Ummm 🤔 yea
will grinding the shells in to a powder and mixing in to the soil help it work faster ?
Yes, crushed eggshells help add calcium to the soil.
How about fish amino?? " Meen amilam " Can we use this for plants??!!!
What about beer? I know plants don't really need it but neither do humans. 🍺🐉
once in a blue moon, humans need it : )
Hahahahhaha actually if you want to kill black flies they will go inside and kill themselves... I have a video to prove it lol I always leave a bit at the bottom of the bottle or can when I came out the next day, 5 flies had gone down there. I also have a video of how those nasty flys are zipping around a can of beer... idk what it is but they are alcoholics.
Your wrong on some level. I just did an experiment on Joshua Zieba channel that shows a huge difference between the plants that didn't get the egg underneath. Three weeks in there is a DRAMATIC difference!
I love your videos!! I so agree with you here for sure! Keep it up you are the best!!
Meantal
I have 2 pepper plants that are dying so will try the diluted milk as no way to get anything here on time to save them. Will put on roots only. Nothing to lose.
What makes you such an authorty on the subject? Don't be so amazed when you learn something new yourself!
I use common sense. Plants don't feed on milk and eggs in nature.
Do a vid about adding cooked table scraps. Like meat scraps, swept up dog food, bones, fried vegetables, etc.,.
Thanks for the video. I was about to use the very ingredient in the garden
Ok what about egg shells. I have seen this on line?
Crushed egg shells help add calcium to the garden, yes, you can use crushed egg shells but not eggs.