FREE Liquid Fertilizer for your Garden || Black Gumbo
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- In this video I will show you how I make liquid fertilizer from the weeds and refuse from my garden. I learned about this method from David the Good, his book, "Compost Everything," taught me about how to use even those noxious weeds from my garden to reclaim the minerals and nutrition that those weeds robbed from my soil. I'll show you how easy it is, even if it is a little bit stinky. this is an exceptional way to recycle the weeds in your garden to reclaim the nutrition that they have taken up and stored in their biomass.
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Xcellent presentation !
We always used our night urine on our potted , now even planted trees. Daily, trying to spread the "goodness" and the plants thrive ! For a long time our urine was their only fertilizer ! When i need pee outdoors, my husband shouts " under the apple tree"
...and your plants don't get 'pissed off' at the uric acid they must be receiving? Can I take a leak on my potatoes growing in a tub, then?
@@marktwain368 never had negativ effect, no they love their "vitamin" drink (urine contains) nitrogen
@@marktwain368 I pee in a cup and then pour it on my watering can and then fill with water to dilute the pee. I read 1 part pee to 20 parts water is a good mix.
I think that was awesome tips! I would build a stand and add an off/on nozzle along with a screen filter. That way I can just turn the knob and fluid goes into my watering can.
Hi Scott, I do the same and then add 10 parts water to 1 part nettle tea. I am also doing rhubarb leaves as a pesticide this year. It's great sharing tips to help gardeners thank you x.
Make a tobacco tea and spray it as pesticide if needed. Nicotine is a organic insecticide.
Thankyou for sharing your wisdom, you have reduced the suffering of plants worldwide as we watch and learn from your videos. Once again, thankyou!
Great no nonsense information! Hi from Brisbane Australia
Hello Sir, Love your channel and Dave's too. To get nutrients of any kind to your living plant nature and only nature can create organic plant food. You need first bacteria and fungi to eat the organic material, store it in their bodies and then nematode's and protozoa mush eat those two types and when they poop it out then and only then it is plant nutrients are available. There is a lot of thing that can go wrong it this method. I would be glad to have a phone conversation with you on this matter. Life needs air. Have a very Merry Christmas and to all your loved ones.
I do worm composting and the liquid given off is amazing also. Tons of good stuff but no bad smell. I like this method and will be looking into doing this after the holidays.
I usually dump in some fish emulsion, trace minerals, and kelp fertilizer into my swamp water. However I store mine in with my bio-char. Then I can grab whichever I need at the time, and I know my char is charged.
I've been using this method with a bucket also. I throw in mimosa leaves and grass clippings, random weeds. Hopefully soon ill have a barrel to make more concentrated David's swamp water
🎄Merry Christmas 🎄 Scott may your home be filled with love and laughter, family and friends, may God richly bless you and the church.
Thank you so much, and the same many blessings to you and yours as well.
i love this concept i have never tried this but maybe one day i will..for now i just put all my fish remains in a barrel in the back yard its also great stuff..this was a really great video scott.
I have been tempted to go cast net a bunch of mullet, place them in a bucket, and make my own fish emulsion. I'm not sure how far the stench will carry. Since I have neighbors, I've been hesitant to do so. Does the smell get really bad even with a lid?
@@ScottHead with a lid it does not smell but when you use it it does smell bad for a couple of hours.my wife hates it when i use it but oh well.
Awesome I try to reuse as much as I can. This I will start tomorrow, thanks for the tip! God bless you!
my folks did this for years, they had a huge stainless steel tub with a tap on the bottom . They would keep that thing chock full with weeds, prunings and seaweed. Honestly, their vegetable garden was the bomb. The soil was insanely rich, they could grow anything.
But did you wonder why all your neighbors fled the neighborhood?
Someone in your family already knew what we are just learning. Wow. Hopefully, you are now able to have your own gardening experience! These days, that knowledge and experience is priceless. 😊😇🙏🏾
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OH just think - there is a fish Resturant close to me that uses fresh fish and sells fish raw......I would ask them for fish scales......
My friend uses all the table scraps too!!!!
I've had a nasty tote in the corner of my garden with rancid nasty water for years and it works wonderfully
I agree I use the same. Good stuff organic. Happy gardening you too
That is very simple and humble cheaper to maintain and cheaper indeed this is the healthy way to grow our organic foods to make more healthier our health wised today live more longer to eat organic foods grow it in normal natural fertilizers waste and grass trees leafs, I always do the same ever since. Cheaper and best way to do. 100% well recommended to all.
sounds like great stuff I had always heard about Fertilizer that had come from weeds but I had never tried It on my garden
Garden moonshine - the plants love it ......
Great channel. Loving your dog grew up with a corgi would love one now .xx
We’ve had an unusual cold spell in December I’ve never had this experience this cold weather in my life and im 49 years old
Add comfrey leaves to really pump it up!
Love it! Thanks from England x
Question- have you ever added worm castings to your Dave's Fetid Swamp water? I container garden with vermicomposting and I often add to my swamp water..it works great..I love DTG and have been using his fetid swamp water since he first did his video years ago-before he gave it an awesome name!
Never added worm castings, it seems too good to use that way. I'd use it straight up in the garden as a top dressing.
@@ScottHead good to know..I do use it as a top dressing as well in my containers and when I lived in FL and had the ability (and the actual ground to garden in) I did that as well. Thank you for taking the time to answer my question.
Amen! God Bless you!
Thank you, for your wise knowledge.
Your Tri-color Welch Corgi is very cute.
Thanks for continuing to teach us through your journey.
I have been following David the Good, you, and a few other gardeners for several years. Last year, I finally decided to give "Feted Swamp Water" a shot. My plants love it!
The only difference I have from all the videos I have watched about it is the FLIES!!! I literally have to fertilize after the Sun is down to stave of the ridiculous amount of Flies that swarm around as soon as I open the lid. Why doesn't anyone else seem to have that problem? Am I doing something wrong? Thanks in advance.
Never had the fly problem myself, might be a regional thing.
Such a great video, thanks so much for this information. Ha ha love Phoebe, she had the last word, feisty little lady. All the best from Australia.
So I was encouraged by videos like these so I began to do some research and found a guy who supposedly did the “science” to disprove it. I was a little disheartened at first but then decided to do an experiment myself. I took two pepper plants and placed them in the same medium, same size cup and placed them in the same window to get the same amount of sun. I watered one with tap water and the other with swamp water made with tap water and the tap water plant grew up…turned yellow and started to drop leaves. The swamp water plant grew a thicker stem, vibrant green leaves and buds… after concluding that the swamp water was indeed the difference I wanted to see if I could turn the dying plant around by starting to feed it swamp water as well… that plant had since been saved and is significantly better… I took pics as well if you want to see the difference.
I, too, have been doing this for many years. I call it 'Green Slime'.
Love that dog.im from Fl.moved to tn.love it here .more trees more variety.its still very humid.
I made a batch of lactobacillus serum and added a table spoon to my 5 gallon bucket of stinks, lol.. and within 20 seconds there was little to no smell.. you could still see bacteria and microbial lift striving
They've been doing that for years in the UK. They make cumfrey tea by the same method, my Granddad used to make it, (i'm 73 so you see, it's ancient). Cumfrey grows very very deep to pull all the nutrients from way down in the earth. But it must be Russian Cumfrey, it doesn't seed your garden, once you have a patch of it you will never get rid of it, the roots go many metres deep. They also use nettles in the same way.
You could build a worm box and harvest liquid from the worm castings and feed the same type of materials to the worms to break down, you will avoid the strong odor using the worms to do the dirty work. Worm castings and liquids are some of the best fertilizers you can use in a garden.
YA know they used to make methane the exact same way back in WWII and store the gas in inner tubes to plug into their vehicles and run em. Usually the barrel and methane production was done like 200 yards from anything you didn't want blown up. Just pointing that out.
Thanks for informing video kind sir
Check your local wineries for those barrels if you need some. They may have some they're no longer using or need.
Thanks for the valuable information 😊.
Great informstion
Thank you
It's official,,, if you put free in the title I'm clicking every time. 😀
I'm almost through this video and haven't heard him mention that if you get this on your clothes or your skin, it stains and doesn't wash right away, the stains and smell on your skin have to wear off. So be careful handling.
This can be diluted also.
getting rid of nutgrass? Nutgrass makes underground nuts that make a wonderful naturally sweet and mineral rich drink called horchata. : )
you had cheap dish soap mixture soap well stick leaves and soil,as binder
Best part of this is crazy nosy corgi haha
Will u let us know when u go gather the seaweed and how you mix it. But mainly when you harvest the seaweed.
I was at the beach this week, no seaweed worth harvesting. Usually there is a late spring/early summer bloom and seaweed is feet thick on the shore. If I harvest some I will certainly show it.
Im going to do this along with chicken waste
Would this work without a top and using mosquito dunks to kill of the flying insect larva? I used this method for my outdoor cannabis this year, and they grew very well. Great show Scott.
Probably so.
You could also do that with kitchen waste.
Love your videos Scott! Keep them coming......MERRY CHRIST MAS
Thank you for your knowledge but l wanted to ask a question could you just use your old garden ants to make a garden brew just that and rain water?
you could use the same chemical they use to ferment sawdust to accelerate the process.
Great video.
So Scott, I'm truly not trying to be a smart-elick but can you tell us what some of the "cautions" are? Or maybe some of the "precautions" are. I've never heard of swamp water or anaerobic bacteria. Can you shoot me a line to let me know what some of the "cons" are or maybe more to the point, what I need to be careful of. AND...sorry if this is answered below but there are almost a 1000 comments - I don;t really want to go through all of them looking for answer to what may be my dumb questions. Thanks a bunch.
Be cautious of ingesting this stuff either by splashing it inadvertently in your face or on your skin. Be cautious of eating food fertilized with this stuff if you did not wash well. It is basically as dangerous as raw sewage until it has a chance to be exposed to oxygen for a few days. That's what I mean by be careful.
whered u get that doog i got one just like it and she is so rotten spoiled she stinks. Great vid!!!
Come on Scott, Phoebe is protecting you from the evil water 😂
1 shovel of horse manure to 50 gal of water.. spray b4 tilling..& on plants. never fails
Question: I live in Canada...cold winters lol If I make this in the summer months, how will it fare over the winter? I'm sure it would freeze. Can I still use it the following spring with the same benefits?
It will still be good if it freezes.
Once the compost is ready after 3 months? you can use but do you need to add more water and weeds etc? and use immediately or do you wait 3 more months? hope this is not stupid questions thanks
I just use it as I need it, and add more as I go. Once there is a good amount of decayed matter in it, the process just kkeeps going.
So do you just top off the bucket with more water as you use it? And am I to understand that it takes a couple years to get this? I am not judging and am very interested and would like to start the process now if possible. Any green material is fine? Weeds, grass, vine, etc? Is there anything else besides greens such as rabbit, alpaca or chicken poop? OR just stick to the green stuff? I have access to a lot of freshwater seaweed too.
Top it off as you need, and you can start using it in a few months if you see good progress on decomposition of the materials. You can put any organic material in it but I avoid poop since it can really bloom the nasty anaerobic bacteria and is unpleasant. It will mellow out over time but I just put the rancid stuff in the regular compost pile.
Man.
I screwed up.
I had a cement mixing tub full of weeds that I pulled from the garden last fall.
It sat out in the weather and I just noticed it yesterday and decided to dump it.
The water was black and nasty and smelled like a garbage dump.
I was wondering if that stuff would have been okay for the garden.
I just happened to see this video today.
Probably just fine if you dilute 1:10
Can you compost all the material left over and how often do you need to redo it with fresh material? I heard it wasn't good to leave it too long, but you're going a year? Thanks for the tips❤
I'm using it as I need and adding to it periodically after each growing season. You can compost the remaining solids but they are mostly just cellulose and not very useful. I much with it in pathways.
I do that ones in months in my community garden,but when I’m ready for use it I do very early morning or late when no one around,but many times they tell me you use your stinky think again. Well it’s good food too plants so,I live that in backet for 3-5 days and on last day I add ash to it ,let stay one more day and use it. Must wear gloves or you be stinky for while 🤭😂.
can you also use grass clippings
Yes for sure.
I have my own chicken shit barrel and that stuff is gold, i have two barrels for all the leafs and grasclipping and it works perfectly my question is and i did not figure it out, once a week, once a month fertilzing i live in indonesia and it hot here so its go like a rocket
Once every two weeks is the most frequent I'd fertilize. If you have chicken poo, that's rich in nitrogen so perhaps just once a month.
Do you just add more water to that bucket or do you add more weeds and let it sit?
How do u keep the city water out of your plants . My animals don't like the bleach smell .so I sit it in open bottles for couple of days.
I use city water almost all the time with no issues.
Can you add food scraps to it as well?
You can but I prefer to put that in the regular compost pile.
Can you add fish to the compost barrel
Yes, add any organic matter.
I'll admit I'm nervous but I'm also a nerd so I'm super interested in this. I have a 5gal now...guess I should put a top on it...😖😉... how SOON can you use it? Mine is not more than 2wks I think and it's fancy funky, no top. Any reason other than smell to use a top?
Use it when you want to. It gets better with age but stalls out when the smell is gone.
Couldn't you use a fish air stone to make it usable faster in your watering can?
I could but that would defeat the purpose of anaerobic, do-nothing decomposition.
@@ScottHead I was just wondering if it would help.
artillery weed!
How often do you fertilize? And when?
Depends on the crop, some are heavy feeders, some are not.
I add Powdered spirulina to mine.
Scott, I started my swamp water about 2 weeks ago. Did I hear it right it will take a year or longer before I can start using the swamp water?
No it will be ready to use in 1 or 2 months depending on what you put in there.
@@ScottHead Anything and everything I can find that's green.
My question is how do you use this as a foliar feed for veggies like tomatoes and edible greens?
No, only as a soil amendment. Water the soil.
@@ScottHead that's what I figured. Been doing this for a few months now, but couldn't find info one way or the other if it should be used as a foliar feed. Love your videos
Smiley I think, hate those things!
Smilex , sorry typo
can you put your kitchen scraps on there too?
Yes but I prefer to put those in the regular compost.
1. Is it any quicker rotting vegetable matter than a compost heap?
2. Or faster than tiger worms?
Please advise.
No much slower than each, but a good way to use excess greens and weedy plants.
@@ScottHead before giving worms the greens need to be partly rotten like a partly processed mixture .
So you have to leave the diluted solution out for 3 days?
After you apply it, yes. Let the oxygen in the soil deal with the anaerobic bacteria. Kills them off quickly.
Am just a newbie...planning to garden this year in Canada. How does it work needing to leave the brew for a few months at first but then also adding over time. Once you're past the few first months, how long do you need to wait after adding anything new to the barrel each time?
You can add to it and use the brew in a few weeks, don't add constantly. In the best case, fill it up and leave it for a few months and then use the liquid. Sorry I was not clear in the video.
@@ScottHead You were clear...I was just not understanding well since I haven't done this before ! ☺️
Appreciate your reply! Wish me luck!
Cool. NOT JOHN..??
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I've been doing this before I even knew it was a 'thing'. I just figured that if weeds are going to grow then they should pay the cost and contribute to their existence. After all, they are expendable!😂 A big THANK YOU, Scott for your very practical, unpretentious share. God bless you!
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Same here man I am a poor gardener gotta learn lots of tricks
Great video. I use a modified version your 5 gal bucket method. 1 use 2- 5 gal buckets. I put holes in the bottom of one bucket, then put it inside the other to use the bucket with holes as a strainer when I want to use the brew. Keeps the solids in the first bucket , so no straining required
Great idea!
I'm new to this channel and idea of fertilizer.....excited to try it.....DOUBLE excited to try it now with your double bucket idea!!!! Thank you
I'm doing the same thing. Great idea isnt it?
I like your idea. I could handle that better being in wheelchair. I am brand new to gardening. I have been saving my organic scraps & giving them away for years. Time to think again perhaps.
Having fertilizer isn’t knowing how to grow - types of soil.
PLUS I’m in arizona- dry rocky
Not sure where to start.
Think I’ll ask God - He’s the best gardener.
Awesome modification
I use an old home brew container with a tap at the bottom. Also over here in the UK we have nettles which are high in nitrogen (I think). I add seaweed and the result that smells like a dog's gas blaster going full titty is just great for the veg.
Hi Scott
I made this gnarly swamp water a while back and it really does smell gross🤪 When you take that lid off, it'll take the top of your head off! but I put Vicks vapor rub under my nose and I can't smell it anymore. They use that trick when they perform autopsies on badly decomposed bodies, so I thought it would probably work and it did. No more stinky swamp water. Yay!!!
Thanks Scott
I put cow/ horse manure , nettles and any other weeds with seeds into a Hessian sack (which keeps all the material contained ) and then put it into a 50gallon drum ,I just take the water from the outside of the sack ,that way I don't have to filter all the debris out .
Consuming produce grown with fertilizers with manures NOT AGED FOR AT LEAST THREE YEARS will prove VERY unhealthy and dangerous .
When I first saw David and his wife talk about this method years ago, I was fascinated and a little disturbed. Fascinated by how simple and logical it was and disturbed at why people are so freaked out over smelly things in the garden. To me, that seems odd especially given how many people use animal manures to amend their soil. In any case, it is refreshing discovering that you'd hung out with David and felt compelled to try this method as well.
Nice work!
I've been doing something similar with my leftover grass cuttings,fall leaves, kitchen scraps etc but I didn't know I could make a tea like liquid for fertilizer. Great idea thank you so much!!
As it doesn't rain inside my 50' x 20' hoop house, when prepping the
soil/beds for the growing season I use 12 cups of molasses in 12, 2 1/2
gallon watering cans - to feed the sleepy microbes & fungi - then
water well. ( I'm pretty sure a couple cups of molasses, in the large barrel, would supercharge the Black Gumbo)
Scott, so happy for you and the way your channel has grown. I subbed when you were well under 50k and look at ya now! I echo what you say about this method of fertilizing; nasty but great! And I love the way you debunk all the fancy techniques that may sound good but are a ton of trouble, and maybe not even necessary. Great stuff! Jim in FL
Lol, I was here well before ya. We spotted a good guy immediately didn't we ;)
When I freaked out over mold growing on the soil from kitchen scraps my parents advised I could add directly to the garden, my dad pointed out there’s mold already in soil. That a soil that is free of mold and other microbial life is dead.
Also, Scott is 100% right about anerobic breakdown. It’s how stuff under the dirt breaks down? It still feeds roots and past generations have been using these methods for thousands of years!
Thanks Grace, I save all my scraps and sit them outside until I can pitch onto the garden......it looks so moldy until I wonder if I am adding unhealthy bacteria.........are there any videos on this.......your dad is right.....
@@carolburnett8372 In FL, I have a parade of coons, possoms, stray cats [according to my cameras] even a deer or 2 at night along with squirrels and rats at other times that would certainly invade whatever I leave outside or pitch into the garden. This swamp water idea is covered and seems like something I'm gon'a try.
@@robertaw3559 I have looked at so many videos and pictures, that I forgot about the swamp water........is this where you place the scraps under water and make a kind of scrap tea???
I've basically been doing this for years except I use 2 buckets, odd and even months. I use the liquid as you show but add the rotted weeds to the compost pile.
I only use invasive grasses and weeds as material for the buckets.
And to all those who say it's the wrong way to do it - well, it works for me!
Great video Scott
So you mean you don't buy fertilizers?
Is it only weeds? What else do you include, please can you break it down?
@@toobaffled_on_X_site For the "weed tea" yes, just weeds and maybe some comfrey leaves. I add compost every season to my beds and the only bought-in fertilizers I use are blood and bone and fish emulsion.
Me too 😁Natures way!!!
@@ausfoodgarden Thanks for your input.👍
Stinging nettle even better
Got a few of the 30 gallon barrels that look like yours but my local feed & seed was out of the 55 gallon barrels with lids. I'll be getting a couple to keep near the compost bins to make Dave's fetid swamp water in. I use the 30 gallon barrels as radiators to keep my citrus from freezing.
Hold up there William! What's this you're doing with the 30 gallon barrels as radiators? Could you elaborate for me?
@@erika-py7ih Fill a 30 gallon plastic barrel with water. As it heats up in the daylight from direct sun exposure, it will then radiate that heat all night. i place my barrels on the North side of my young citrus and then cover them during extreme cold events, barrel and all.
@@williamvillar7134 wow, great idea, thanks so much!
Can I put chicken poop in the swamp water?
I do a version of this especially with deep tap rooted plants like horse radish, comfrey leaves, dandilion. Because of the minerals that are brought up from the depths of the soil. There are also deep tap rooted weeds that can be used as well that can be added as well. Free food for worms (I raise them for castings) and fetid swamp water grin.
You put your dandelions into your tea mix or just the roots? I have used the leaves and flowers either in my salads or make a hot tea for relaxing in the evening
Great Job! 👍Robbie and Gary from S. California is a container gardener. She uses the same theory. She has a compost-in-place system that uses the dead and yellowed plant leaves and kitchen scraps to fertilize her container garden. I started putting those yellowed and dead leaves in a bucket of water. I also started catching the runoff from my containers when I water. I feed all of these waters back to the plants. It makes a big difference to the garden. I will be starting a fetid water system in a 30-gallon garbage can since I watched your video! Thanks 😊
Thankyou for sharing this great gardening tip, "you are so right" this method is exactually what my Dad did for his garden, and his garden over the years has always looked full of lushy leafy rich green healthy trees, shrubs and smaller potted plants that always gave out beautiful big blossoms. I am a keen gardener myself , but I have all my plants growing in extra large pots, shrubs, palm trees, succulents and my herbs. I will start doing this, but I will have to do it in small volume as I already "must frustrate" my close neighbours when I put out dynamic lifter soaking in water brew fertilizer, that also smells bad. KEEP UP YOUR GREAT GARDENING, YOU HAVE A GARDEN TO BE PROUD OF.
If you cut the barrel just like you did on the first one, you can flip the lid upside down and it fits perfectly. That's how we do it.
I agree.
Yep, that’s what we do. It’s a great fit.
Great tip guys...I'd like to add this to a platform and put a drain valve in and making sure a bucket or tub can fit under the drain plug.
Do you need drain holes or do you need a lot of water
Dog poop should be good too and your urine
Late winter, early spring I have a large amount of stinging nettle (Padre Island) I did this last year after Dave's vid, Used just the stinging nettle, Works! Water is important, I used untreated well water, Rain is good, City water, needs to stand a few days. Works! had bumper crops, couldn't give away my surplus fast enough. Thanks goes to David the Good. And thank you for redoing.