2 New Garden Soil Amendments That Science Is Investigating.!
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- As Gardeners we are always looking for ways to improve our garden soil. This includes things like texture, pH and nutrient capacities. But many garden soil amendments are a waste of money for the garden soil. Here are two however that have a promising future!
New fertilizers
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Effect of Kelp Waste Extracts on the Growth and Development of Pakchoi (Brassica chinensis L.) - PMC
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Biochar in temperate soils: opportunities and challenges
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Ashley has had a passion for plants since she was a small child. In the long summers as a child, she would garden alongside her grandmother and it was then that she realized her love for greenery. With years of great studying, Ashley had begun her post-secondary education at the University of Saskatchewan.
At first, her second love, animals, was the career path she chose but while doing her undergrad she realized that her education would take her elsewhere. And with that, four years later she graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a bachelor’s degree in science and a major in Soil Science.
Some of Ashley’s interests are RUclips, in which she posts informative videos about plants and gardening. The focus of Ashley’s RUclips channel is to bring science to gardening in a way that is informative but also helpful to others learning to garden. She also talks about the importance of having your own garden and the joys of gardening indoors. Ashley continues to study plants in her free time and hopes to expand her RUclips channel as well as her reach to up-and-coming gardeners.
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Hey GICs!❤ I have a horrible cold 😅 so I’m going to be slow with comment answering today. If you are able to help eachother out in the comments I’ll be forever grateful 🙏.
Here are some links you may find interesting!
New fertilizers
www.researchgate.net/profile/Adekiya-Aruna-Olasekan/publication/341666671_Contribution_of_Biochar_in_Improving_Soil_Health/links/5ed3c1c592851c9c5e6c3d29/Contribution-of-Biochar-in-Improving-Soil-Health.pdf#page=175
Effect of Kelp Waste Extracts on the Growth and Development of Pakchoi (Brassica chinensis L.) - PMC
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5146658/
Seaweeds: Soil Health Boosters for Sustainable Agriculture | SpringerLink
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-44364-1_10
Arsenic www.foodauthority.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/_Documents/scienceandtechnical/inorganic_arsenic_seaweed_seafood.pdf
Biochar
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10821463/
Biochar in temperate soils: opportunities and challenges
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/cjss-2021-0047
Follow the advice of the "Call the Midwives" nurses and rest, sleep, hydrate. Go to bed with a cup of tea!
Got to love a Canadian cold. JT might have a vaxx for it. Kidding don't do it, it's the ciw parts maybe. Get better.
@@MyFocusVarieshope you feel better quickly! Blessings!
Look into the Kelp🤝🏼Humates studies; the 2:5 ratio is the sweet spot. Virginia Tech study from late 90s is a great start 🤟🏼
Your degree means a lot to me, finding science based gardening help has been a game changer. I initially wasted time floundering through various RUclips channels that parroted the latest blah blah blah( banana peel ) BS before I found you. I’m from NS so you being Canadian helped, and Saskatchewan! Thank you for being curious, researching and teaching.
I keep Mr.Bugbee at the top of my “listen only to his advice” list
Rabbit manure saved my garden this year, we cleared land bought garden soil last year...total failure my hard work moving 3 dump truck loads with a wheelbarrow resulted in next to no produce. so I traded a friend honey ,wine cap spawn and a microwave for 3 rabbits last November. That's the start of a beautiful symbiotic relationship between my garden and bun buns. I used all the manure bred the rabbits a few times,used more manure ( it doesn't need compos ting) lost brassicas due to insects,read about using rabbit urine for pest control and fertlizer,didn't lose any after that And zero maggots , my rutabegas,cabbage,turnip ,cauliflower and broccoli blemish free and huge. I grew many watermelons in my greenhouse fertilizing with manure /urine. I have cantelopes almost ready and I have a bumper crop of tomatoes that rival the one you showed us the other day. Carrots are huge but my potato crop is shit due to lack of bunny poop added to soil as I plant my potatoes in raised rows due to my wild Irish ways....got to get that poop in there before I plant spuds. I've canned so many pickles this year it's crazy....btw I grow my peppers in pots too, they are doing fabulous. So rabbits,cheap ,quiet,cute and they taste like chicken
Full disclosure, I'm not in Canada, I live in the subtropics of Australia. However I am a 'Canaussie' who was born in Ontario. I have been making my own biochar for several years, I use a firepit and have learned that the best biochar comes from a hot fire that is kept as smokeless as possible - I use a hot air gun to keep the fire blazing. I quench the fire after it starts to form embers, and after leaving it overnight I smash it up with a shovel as I like the smaller bits in my vegetable patch. I 'charge' my homemade biochar in two ways - the laziest way is to mix it in with the compost as I fill my compost bin. The other way is I have a tray under my worm farm, I mix something like chicken manure fertiliser with the uncharged char, and leave it under the worm farm to collect the fluid as charging needs moisture. Australia has some of the most depleted ancient soil in the world, including my garden, and the more depleted the soil, it seems the greater the improvement after adding biochar. I've had some fantastic results, tomatoes seem to love it, also the cabbage family, carrots for instance not so much. Anyway, just thought I'd jump in and give a summary of my results in poor, subtropical clay soil.
Awesome!
The studies definitely seem to show that the best use of biochar is for specifically degraded soil, or poor sandy soil (as I have here in Florida), so this definitely is what I've heard as well
Thankyou. Wow! So much to learn.
I love your humor and your knowledge.
Did you see her look at Canadian Preppers garden?
@janejdough2230 No I haven't, but it sounds really entertaining 😄. I hope she doesn't look at my 20 acres, I'd probably hide out of embarrassment.
I use leaf mold with a dash of wood ash then I add more leaf mold and some leaf mold. Not too many kelp beds in my part of Manitoba.
I like that leaf mold, lol.
Leaf mold is, by my take, a mild fertilizer / nutrient source. It will help with starting seeds. In large quantities it is good at supporting soil tilth. It doesn't appear to have the richness of kelp. In Manitoba see if you can find a local pond and use pond / lake weeds.
Hi, I have watched a few of your videos. And I know you are very smart. We need more people like you. Do not worry about Nate. You just do you. I respect you both,
I've heard of the effects of charcoal and pot ash on plants, so I dumped my campfire into a section of my garden. A pumpkin plant just so happened to grow there and it was 25+ft long and produced 2 pumpkins the size of my torso! By far the biggest plant i ever grew.
Biochar. Get whole unprocessed charcoal, crush it in a bucket with water to cut dust, and mix and water in with compost or pour compost tea then mix with soil.
Hi Ashley, I just had seen you on the Canadian Prepper channel and thought I'd come check out your channel. I live in Michigan with a little success in my gardening. Each year a lesson. You appeared very knowledgeable on the CP channel. Being from Canada, you would be more knowledgeable about my climate. Looking forward to your videos.
Awesome! Thank you!
I have Celestial chamomile tea bags I will try to use. I bought a pacakage of seeds and nothing happened. So I am interested in trying this and will share this with some friends! Thank you!
I bought chamomile starts at the nursery one year and they readily self-sow themselves every year since. Once you have chamomile, you will always have it. In fact it can become invasive if you don't watch it but not to the extent mint is.
Chelation I believe is what you want to look into for arsenic in kelp. Bond between ions rendering heavy metals out of the soil. Something I listened to a while back, fulvic and amino acids being chelators....and dare I say kelp, itself, as well!
I wonder why kelp would have this effect. We're always told to copy nature but something that's in the sea being good for the soil doesn't seem to be something that nature commonly does, if at all.
Kelp contains high amounts of plant hormones, as it's a rapidly growing plant. The ocean contains every element in the periodic table and therefore most plants grown in it contain a higher nutritional level than many land plants. It's also contains a bit of slow release npk and carbon, which is also good.
@@BrianM-44041 I see why that is. But still left wondering why nature doesn't do it itself since, as I said, it's often said that we should study nature what nature does.
@@Norbingel it will do it by itself. Using kelp meal on plants is an advancement by mankind in horticulture. We discovered what it did when used and began using it more. You can make the same thing from plants in your area, but it's going to take more variety of plants. The growth tips of willow branches in spring make a good source of plant hormones. I'm sure the growth tips on every plant, when fermented, dried, and ground up would make excellent fertilizers. Alfalfa is known in agriculture for similar reasons. Comfrey, stinging nettles, wild plantain, clover, aloe, yucca, neem, and others make great plant additives. Kelp is just a nice little life hack and it's plentiful and sustainable.
@@Norbingel it is also a point that we do not let plants grow naturally in agriculture typically. We manipulate them for maximum production and pest resistance. You can let bugs eat your plant or just feed it some chitin and silica and let it shrug them off. We top plants to get more fruiting sites. We train vines onto trellis, we use tomato cages, and on and on. We manipulate the actions and reactions of these plants to our benefit. You're free to let plants go natural, but those growing for produce and such will not be doing so for the most part. We use techniques because humans can improve nature by being symbiotic with it.
@@BrianM-44041 I'm not at all saying we leave it to nature. I said we copy from nature. Far as I can tell, all the plant manipulation you listed are something we can directly observe and copy from nature. We see nature use mulch, we add mulch. We see nature use compost, we use compost. We see nature use natural trellises,we use something that makes anagement easier. We see it in nature then we copy, speed it up, make it more manageable or manipulate it as you said. I'm just saying we don't see nature make a way to put things from the sea, like kelp, into soil. And I completely understand that it's us looking at kelp and seeing in it things that the soil would enjoy, and thus we put it there ourselves. Again, it's about nature doing it itself that we don't see.
I use liquid kelp now. When I was closer to the ocean, I used kelp i gathered. Kelp meal can be purchased, too.
Have you ever talked about zeolites? I wonder how it'd fare as a soil ammendment.
I've successfully grown potted plants using it as 100% of my soilless mix (1-3mm coarse) plus osmocote as nutrients.
All you need is water twice a day with a water with a little calcium, say 100ppm, which I guess is too much work for some people, but not for me.
I just add a tiny pinch of gypsum in the water, cos in my place it's rather soft (30ppm).
Even the low solubility of gypsum in water is plenty enough to provide the desired calcium.
Zeolites have great porosity, decent water retention (depending on granulometry of choice, finer = more water retention), they
are basically sterile, have excellent CEC and basically last forever. Some people in the bonsai community rave about it
cos it never decomposes so root problems and maintenance/transplanting are minimized with it.
Downsides are price which is offset by the fact you can reuse it forever, it is heavy like sand, and the
fact you must irrigate often if used in large % of your mix as I did. For bonsai folks this is not an issue since it's already their norm.
I honestly do not think I have. But I’ll pop it onto the list.
I've seen a Canadian youTuber source large bags of zeolite cheaply from (I think) a tractor supply store, sold as an anti-slup product for use on ice. I bought my zeolite cheaply in Australia being sold as kitty litter. (Zeolite is one of 3 "ingredients" in PON, a semi-hydro substrate used by lots of folks growing indoor plants - I use zeolite in a DIY PON and my plants love it)
Love your hair and your glasses ❤
Fun fact I wear glasses 99.0% of my day lol. I take them off for filming because of glare but I’m blind af
Seaweed was always used here in Ireland on bad land.
in begensa corrupt politicians were often used to improve the land fertility. at least in one way they were useful instead of destroying the country
Interesting!
Kelp meal is great a little pricey though, i just put some on and till in at planting time along with all the other amendments
The cost of kelp vs synthetic fertilizers is a determining factor to most. Is the juice worth the Squeeze?
I live on the coast and have been using local seaweed and char to grow for decades. It’s all about microbes!
Great hair colour, Ashley!
I charge my bio char in my worm bins .Feed it to my worms so by the time the castings are ready the biochar is fully charged for the plants
I wish you could have shown what "biochar" is. Regarding the kelp, I wonder if Asian Gardeners (Japan, Thailand, that general area of the World) use kelp to garden with. I am sure there are "Kelp farms" in that part of the world.
Before biochar becomes bioschar, it is simply charcoal, best created by burning carbonmaterial (wood, rice hulls, nut shells etc.) in the absence of oxygen. The process is called pyrolysis.Once you have charcoal you soak it in a nutrient rich water bath or other nutrient source for a month or so, then it is biochar. I produce my charcoal in small "retorts" in my wodd stove. RUclipsr Live on What you Grow has some great vieos on making and using biochar.
Acadian soluble seaweed extract is the source for many liquids in stores.
The amount and cost of the extract is much less than the bottle and label.
Gaia Green stocks the powder, and if you don't want to pay to ship water and you want to know what is in your liquid, go to the source!
Great info thanks.
Q: I live in the country where I burn branches and trees a lot. Should I add my bio char to my raised beds. The soil is fabulous, lots of organic matter but water retention is a struggle. I use tree mulch on all my raised beds and flower gardens.
I recently purchased a product called soil moist. Hopefully that will help.
SE texas, either too wet or completely dry is our weather forecast. Zone 9b. I grow year round.
Thanks for any info.
Blessings!
Your degree is important for you. ❤
I love your videos!
I've been hearing "good things" about Johnson-Su composting system or bio-reactor. I've seen videos on how to build the bio-reactor, but can't find much science behind what is so special about it, other than you fill the container & leave it (adding water as needed). A) Is it any good. B) How to use the finish product. C) Most videos I've seen are using large (75 cu ft) containers. Can this be scaled down to for home garden?
Build it to spec. Don't let it freeze.
Otherwise, just keep worms in the basement for vermicompost. Don't let them freeze either.
Kelp is nothing new in the gardening/plant world. 40 years ago, friends of ours had a business making Kelp fertilizer. It was phenomenal! My house plants and seedlings never looked better. Unfortunately, they split up and stopped manufacturing the fertilizer. Had no clue about the arsenic though
I honestly thought one of the amendments would have been insect frass. Is biochar easy to charge? Also the finer the biochar material the better?
It's a lot easier to charge than a lot of online information would have to believe, there is no one way or formula, the easiest way (and my main way) is to layer or mix it into a moist compost bin, you can also add it to worm bins, the worms don't devour it but it gets incorporated into the finished worm soil and charged at the same time. There's a lot of information online, the important thing to remember is that char has inner channels due to the burn off of gasses etc., the charging allows entry into those channels of moisture and whatever nutrients are available from the charging agents. I have pulled out old vegetable plants and found fine roots going right through the biochar bits through those channels that burning created. As for size, the smaller the pieces, the greater the surface area so it is advantageous (but not required) to have smaller pieces, the size of a pea or even smaller.
You should do a video where you wear a lab coat and glasses while you pontificate about the science of soils, aggregates, loams, biostrata, and pyrophyllite clays.
That would not be fair to the other channels….. She is waaaayyyy to HOT already, we couldn’t handle the steamy heat!
Not a huge fan of biochar due to the high CO2 release in the making of the char. So keep an eye on your biochar making techniques if you are using it. Locally, no easily accessible kelp but we've had good results with pond weeds. Some of our local ponds are very high in nutrients (septic run off, fertilizers, pesticides) and the resulting weed bonanza has helped many gardeners improve their soil.
Some CO2is released making biochar. But the remaining carbon is stable, for centuries. Natural decomposition releases all the carbon in an organic material , but slowly. The natural carbon from biochar doesn't biodegrade, but remains as granules or dust in the soil. It's a good way to pull carbon out of the environment forever.
@@got2kittys I'm just not seeing the science that the carbon doesn't break down. I do see 20-70% of the carbon going immediately into the atmosphere. And that's the measured science. I see issues with contaminated feed stock. And yes, there's a benefit there but biochar isn't great science at this point imho. I am interested in the role biochar might have in reducing nitrogen release from soil into the atmosphere. It's interesting so let the research and study begin!
@@onfungi8815 Elemental carbon such as separated from biomass is a very durable molecule. It's not nearly complete efficiency, but it's far ahead of combustion, or natural decomposition, which generates CO2. Making biochar is the only inexpensive easy way to remove 50 to 70 % of the carbon content of basic biomass.
It's not perfect but it's better than any other practical method.
keep uploading new videos i like to see you freshi beauty ❤
Biochar works great in our Hawaiian soil. We made a video about it, check um out 😊
Kelp ? Sea weed hmm best I can do here in Alberta is some pond scum.
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you really need a masters or better yet a PhD in your field. Are you heading in that direction?
An undergrad degree in the topic does confer upon you the status of authority when addressing the laity (like me). And you know that it does or else you wouldn't be waving it about. But really you don't need to. I can tell just listening to you speak that you are educated in the field.
But I gotta say listening to you speak is sometimes a bit of an issue because you tend to not completely enunciate your words or maybe you are just talking so fast that it seems to me that you aren't. Either way I lose a lot of the things you do say to that particular thing.
Having a PhD while producing a social media gardening channel is even more cheesey than they already are
@@666bruv I can dig a highly educated person wanting to share.
Dunno why you'd think it was cheesy?
@@666bruv why? Why do you think education makes things cheesy?
@@Raul28153 it seems like a waste of a good education. I'm not sure how a PhD would be of any use in a yt gardening channel/ social medie influencer, or even how it would work, usually everything that is posted is for beginners.
@@666bruv do you have an advanced degree?
want knowledge on soil , amendments, ect, talk to an organic cannabis grower........ we tend to know some shit 😅
gardenplanbyai AI fixes this. Science investigates new soil amendments.
The cannabis industry is way ahead
Seriously! I’ve been using these amendments for years, not only for cannabis, but for all of my plants, I grow. They work great! And we know they work great because of scientific studies and simply, people using them. She’s a little far behind.
@@JoeyPrimotalii I believe most of the data so far has been anecdotal, and she's highlighting the hard science that's just coming out.
@@CWorgen57324-5 cycles per year is not anecdotal to the folks performing.
Science is the collection of data , cannabis growers collect data through the plants and knowledge gained from that data has been implemented over the last 60 years , now "scientists" are playing catch up
@@CWorgen5732 That is the key point, I think. The step from Hildegard von Bingen to modern medicine is an example of being less anectdotal and more based on prooved facts. We need more of this and less of what I would call "Homeopathy minds".
Hey, Terra pretta frequently has ceramic bits in it. Many people ask why. Low fire clay bodies mixed with fine organic matter can be made into pots for ollas. Firing the clay burns out the organic matter leaving a porous piece behind. This acts very much like the carbon in biochar. Porous storage of water and nutrients in a durable form that won’t wash out of the soil is good stuff!
How do we know the ceramic bits are intentional and not just refuse though? Even the biochar, how do we know someone didn't just notice that "black burnt stuff on trash make stink less than grey burnt stuff"?
@@chrisj4236waste management facility for a city with all organic waste
Bits implies intention. Broken pottery would be left as broken trash, not crushed down.
And if you make biochar with bits of clay stuck on the wood you get? @@MushroomMagpie
My friend lived at the northern most point of Haida Gwai and literally built her garden up from pure gravely sand to productive using kelp compost/mulch from the beach beside her.
Oh this makes me so happy to hear! I'm in Qualicum Beach and on the same mission to turn my sandy gravel into healthy soil and I add seaweed every fall to build that soil. How many years did it take her? I also add leaves, wood chips, animal bedding, and cover crop with clover, fetch and winter field peas. I'm year 2 into my soil building journey.
The research into the biochar and its extreme surface area got me thinking of activated carbon used in aquarium filters. I wonder if taking used activated carbon media from an aquarium filter (already loaded with nutrients from the fish poop) would make a decent soil amendment for growing plants? It sounds to me like it would be able to hold onto those nutrients longer so they remain in the soil profile and available to plants! If that works then maybe biochar could also work as a dual-use aquarium filter medium and soil amendment?
Great thoughts, I've wondered the same. I'd bet it works great 👍
I did this when I had a fish tank. I have no idea if it made a difference as I didn't track it.
my family have been using kelp concentrate fertiliser for decades here in the UK. Its really good stuff
You're my favorite redhead.
Have been making char for years now. I use it in the chicken coop for both inoculation and to control odor. Manure, char, and bedding get added to piles for composting. Char that has not been innoculated is stored outside in contact with soil, and I have found it interesting that the area where soil and "clean" char mingle is loaded with mycilium.
Nice tomato , interesting subject. This past summer I experimented with alfalfa tea and using an alfalfa power for mulch . I was surprised how well it worked and think there is really something to triacontanol plant growth hormone found in alfalfa. With all amendments availability and cost big factor and trying available organics usually cheaper than chemical fertilizer.
Interesting! Did you oxygenate it or just simply in a bucket for a period of time?
since I fish I had an small aerator and let it brew for 3-4 days and added tea to transplants in Solo cups last spring. I did a test with and without and seen advantage to using it. I really liked results of mulch with weed suppression and changing color of soil to reflect light in hot summer conditions. the alfalfa is salvaged from feed grinding operation where wind blows fines into large drifts [and grain dust] and its pretty much powder form. Next year I plan on no manure on garden because I did suffer 'nuit' burn on some plants. The tomatoes loved it with 1 weighing 15 oz. Not quite as big as yours. Also alfalfa really sets off compost pile with some of the highest temps I've ever gotten using it .@@GardeningInCanada
@@wyoodrifter1811 I got very good results with alfalfa, composted for soil ammendment, and also a thick mulch around the plants. The 4 to 6 inch mulch made a great visible difference, it seems to feed the plants when you water, as well as doing the ordinary mulch function.
Farmers have been tilling in seaweed and baitfish into their fields in the maritime for ages.
I collect some seaweed from the beach once a year and top dress the soil.
I try not to collect too much since there is a whole ecosystem going on in the piles of seaweed along with shore.
I’ve been using liquid kelp fertilizer for a few years, love it
Interesting! Do you just apply it whenever or do you a a schedule ?
@@GardeningInCanada I do NOTHING by schedule!
It’s Bush Doctor ’kelp me kelp you’ (and another seaweed thing that I don’t remember the name of and it’s in the greenhouse and dark right now) once a couple of weeks before I plant out seedlings and maybe a couple of times a year if I’m actually watering and I remember.
I do have chickens so my compost is good too!
The oodles of different methods and quantities of is mind boggling. You must know the real deal for this issue since you are Thee soil scientist.I appreciate your sharing your knowledge.😊
Thanks for this... I thought you might be heading for a discussion of soil remineralization using rock dusts such as Spanish River Carbonatiee mined north of Sudbury, ON. It's a bit difficult to get because it's being exported world wide as a super soil amendment. I have been able to purchse one tonne recently and will incorporate it into a soil amendment mix I will be marketing locally next year. I think the best reading for soil remineralization to create nutrient dense food is Steve Solomon's The Intelligent Gardener. He's heavy on the scienc/chemistry, so right up your garden path.
The island of Jersey, UK used kelp as fertiliser for its fields for hundreds of years, producing the incredible tasting "Jersey Royal" potato (this variety is known elsewhere as International kidney).
Around 30 years ago, they ceased this practice & moved to manufactured fertiliser due to this being far less costly & increased yield.
Within a few years, these potatoes lost their amazing flavour.
I've been using mixed seaweed (at least 50% bladder wrack) in my compost for more than a decade, collecting around 200kg/440lbs dry weight annually. Two years ago started a smaller compost bay where at least half the 'green' component was seaweed. I intend to use this next year mixed 50/50 with commercial, peat free potting material for my container grown International Kidney potatoes & hopefully will see an improvement in flavour.
I'm lucky in having a 30/50/20 clay/silt/sand composition, with around 6% organic matter & have been 'no till' for 7-8 years, so cannot see any real benefit from biochar.
Interesting!!! I love this thank you 🙏
Been using a gaia kelp and other stuff for cannabis. I'm a follow step person and not smart to the understanding of npk numbers and what not.
So with set out amount and amendment to soil surface.
Experiment with vegetables and things seem to work out great this year compared. But I do find organic costly. But works. Love your vids eh. Fellow 4b gardener.
Awesome thank the algorithm gods for finding this channel
Love a good old algorithm god coming to the rescue
Knowledge Is Power! Love your videos; very interesting & helpful. I've been looking into Kelp, Biochar, alfalfa etc; so I'm obviously happy to see your content here. Thanks & all the best from Virginia Beach, Virginia
Hard to find kelp in the Upper Chihuahuan Desert. I’m beginning to wonder if i could farm algae as a soil amendment.
Hope you get to feeling better!
Another idea is land plants borage and comfrey. It is not 100% the same, but the plants are good at mining nutrients not usually found. Ashley, nice Mammoth tomato. What type was it?🪱👍🏼😃
Hey Ashley, great video! I'm from Saskatoon, now living on Vancouver Island. I'm on a soil building mission as my "soil" is basically sandy gravel. I go and fill the truck bed with seaweed ever fall and spread it all over my garden and will be doing this again soon. The seaweed is a mix of all sorts, and I never wash it as I don't think the salt is an issue. I've often thought about microplastics and mercury being present in the seaweed, but haven't thought much about arsenic. I suppose there is always a risk of heavy metals being present in any organic matter you're adding to your soil if you can't verify the source. I learned how to make biochar when I did my permaculture design course and I'm hoping to make a video on how to make biochar soon. I'll have to look over my biochar notes as I think there was certain types of wood that produced "better" biochar, but I can't remember.
I am experimenting with growing freshwater plants in ponds, composting them with autumn leaves and biochar.
Azolla and duckweed are most notorious for being fast growers, but I'm using water lettuc right now.
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I use liquid Kelp & BioChar in my container garden
Thanx for being informative and Funny
Hi Ashley
Sorry you have a cold. Sigh. I had a cold this past week also, no COVID though so that's good. I don't have a question about kelp, but do have a question about soil issue. Officially fall here in the Northeast USA. (Massachusetts). This week bunches of mushrooms erupted in my raised bed garden (not on legs, in ground) as well as in my grass lawn. Not concerned about the grass ones, squirrels are eating them. There was no rain for the last almost month, just sun, cold mornings and relatively cool temperatures. Is this okay for the last few remaining produce, such as tomatoes, basil, and cukes? Thanks if you get a chance to reply and hope you feel better.
Im going to have to watch this video a few times to get all the information contained, especially the stuff about biochar ( which I know very little). Also, do you think duckweed would have similar results as seaweed?
That’s a good question. The chemical make up maybe different but the physical organic material being added would be similar I would assume.
I am. Attempting to help my tomatoes and peppers and cucumbers grow fruit I live in hot 9B. My container soil is very alkaline. I bought super triple phosphorous 0-46-0. Im not sure how to cause my plants to intake the fertilizer
Generally you add fertiliser to the soil. As far as fruiting I have had success with citrus fertiliser
I don’t have a degree, if I have been growing organically since marijuana has been legalized in my state. My plants love kelp they respond very well. Maybe next year I’ll do a more controlled grow.
I just read something saying bascillas subtillis reduces heavy metals in water idk if you've heard this
Your hair looks especially beautiful in this video. 👏🥰 thanks for the great info!
All my seedy weeds and diseased/infested plants get char'd and then thrown into my compost.
Bio char sounds complicated
What about just throwing a pile of kelp on your rhubarb in the fall?
She's a nerd, but i dig it.
Fun fact: arsenic is an actual essential mineral with a daily micro dose requirement, emphasis on the micro dose range. Too much is very bad but none at all causes nerve and neurological issues!
I'm sure we get enough tho. . .
Yes, I believe there's plenty in rice.
I have taken a tsp of kelp in a little water for years. It restored pigment in my hair. I mixed some on a bucket of "tea" (made up of old vitamins, kelp, borax, left over fish food) etc. Little bits of things. I put a tbsp in my watering can a few tomes a season. No science here to report as its too loosy goosy. I use it in my large flower garden. (30x60) My flower garden is amazing.
An after thought- I called the NOW company from which I buy my kelp and asked about their third party testing. They assured me it was within safety levels for heavy metals. So I dunno. I'll still take it.
I also take brewers yeast and alfalfa, and put it in the compost tea.
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Question: Not pointing at you per se, but kinda at the same time..
Fads come and go, even in science fields. Confirmation Bias is real and even “smart” peeps do it all the time. Being a “smart” Degree holder myself, different field… How do YOU make sure you’re not doing the same thing? New ideas, breakthroughs, discoveries, all cool but at the expense of tried and true is a step back sometimes… Just a question.
Scientific rigour is my motto. Never locking down on anything and constantly have a “but why” in my head. I have an anything is possible mentality(for right or for wrong). Science is meant to be challenged in my opinion.
If we choose to accept “tried and true” as the safe place we would still be doing blood letting & treating mental health as demonic possession. That’s just my opinion though.
@@GardeningInCanadaexploring new possibilities is fun for me.
Repurposing resources keeps gardening interesting for me.
One time I made a hormonal herbal tincture for my daughter. She took it and it helped, so I gave some to my newly potted (from slips) geraniums. Just some of them. The ones that got the herbal hormone tincture grew like crazy.
I love ur hair! What did u use to make it so wavy?
A friend of mine (hi Wayne, R. I. P), did his PhD in soil science about 35 years ago and he studied the effects of kelp on increasing productivity. He started a company to sell a kelp formulation and had to market it as a fertilizer due to Canada's bizarre controls over just about everything. I hope my memory hasn't failed me but I recall him saying that he believed the effect of the product went beyond the small amount of nutrient and organic matter content and were due to a high content of growth regulators.
For so many reasons, biochar is just silly. If you live in an environment where the soil community tends to forest, (i. e., high precipitation and available water, especially on rapidly drained soils) then your mulch becomes your soil nutrient reservoir and it reduces system water losses. If you try to convert a forest soil into a grassland soil (high om content including char from frequent burning in natural conditions), you will have an eternal struggle.
They eat loads of kale at a ashram on the shore of kooteany lake bc, near old lead silver and zinc mines and explorations, where the sand fill to the garden appears simply to be high in iron, as I read only once that Kale was used as a bio accumulator. while such mediation, yoga and enlightment are wonderful, the concern is that such practice can be attacked due to people having such phycological episodes, but if it is lead or several heavy metals, there going to need a lot of bio char and soil science.
Phycological episodes? Breaking out in algae?
Kelp, New? It's being used for over 1000 years.
Sorry to clarify not new as in newly used. New as in being looked at with more consideration.
I’ve been using both of these amendments for years! They work great! As a matter of fact, millions of people have been using these products for years and years. I was excited about two new amendments. That’s why I watch this video but these are definitely not new and science has been studying them for years and years. We are all well aware of these!
NOT ALL OF US were aware of these. Thank-you from the rest of us.