7 Super Cheap ways to add Nutrients to your Soil
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
- I find that not all the time I can afford products like Rockdust to help my vegetables grow healthy so I put together my list of methods I use to help you save money but still give your plants a healthy nutrient boost!
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1. Leaves
2. Wood Ash
3. Seaweed
4. Molasses
5. Coffee grounds
6. Grass clippings
7. Urine
This guy has a lot of helpful info in his video!!! Good job!
dutch971
Wish this sort of comment was pinned at the top of every vid of a list. Thank you for this.
I've just pinned it for you:)
Oh thank you! I see you pay attention!
@@HuwRichards thanks for the info, i will give the urine a miss though. that's just taking the piss. i'm busy putting nutrients back into my polytunnel today. thanks and take care
But it's not true
Huw! I was completely taken aback to see this baby face. I am rather new to your channel and am used to seeing your latest content where you’re often sporting a beard. Seeing your younger self so passionate about gardening brings a huge smile to my face. Cheers! 🌻
It popped up for me on recommended and for a minute I thought Huw had a son. Lol
he actually started his channel way younger than this 😀 I haven't watched the older ones except one when he was 12 I think and very impressive 👏
This kid did his research and simply applied it. Very smart and down to EARTH advice unlike all those synthetic chemical growers. Nutrient companies world wide would disagree.
Bullshit
The best is biochar...that someone urinated on it XD
Ash and lime raise pH.
A fantastic member of his generation
Thanks...world needs more kids like you to save this planet..., i am fed up with eating packed foods or buying foods that i dont know where they grow....so i have decided to start growing something organic on my own. yours seems the most natural way
..hence watching your video.. :) Thank you for your channel
I just wanna grow some marijuana
great job. As a pensioner cheap is always important to me. I will definitely recommend your site to my 11yr old grandson who also loves gardening. Keep up the good work.
Sandy from Australia
sandy fo Thank you very much for watching and your kind words! Thanks and have a great day :)
I don't comment often, but if it helps you keep doing what you're doing, I'm all for it! Nice list and I learned a a couple of things. Thanks!
I think its a wonderful thing that you are showing other teens that farming is a cool thing. Most of our teens today are no longer intouch with the earth and where their food comes from. I believe that if more teens would get back to the basics of life they wouldn't be a bunch of brats. Putting it kindly of course. I hope you are able to reach other teens with your video's. I bet your parents are very proud of you.
Thank you so much Toni for your really kind words! I really appreciate it :)
Toni Franklin I agree we take everything for granted and choose more trivial matters to indulge in.
Toni Franklin lol im a teen and i love growing stuff
I'm 15 growing weed. Does that count🤣
Disciple wit' a rifle same
This is very useful information. My income is modest now that I have retired and the cost of things is important. Your tips allow my wife and I to live better with what we have. Thank you for posting these tips.
It just make me happy to see people working together, and people like you showing genuine gratitude. This community is awesome!
Omg. Amazing.
I have been setting up a new vegetable garden having given up my small allotment and have really been getting into your videos. I just saw this old one and it sums up my gardening approach of never paying for anything 😍 I was a fan before but I think I have definately found where I belong. Keep up the good work. Thanks for sharing the knowledge and helping my journey 👍
it good to see young man doing garden 😉
+clay flowers Thank you ;)
I love the approach of finding things around you that will serve the purpose and not cost a lot. I especially like that you are brave enough to suggest one use human urine. It is basically a sterile product and full of nutrients and free. People have to get over the "ick factor" and learn to connect with and appreciate their own bodies. Just another way that your energy goes into your garden. Besides, why is it perfectly fine to pay for and use horse, cow, chicken, rabbit, etc. manure and feel fine about that and yet not use your urine? At least you know what goes into your body, and you haven't any idea what has gone into those animals...another way of avoiding GMOs!
@@mickmarshall8015 urine stinks in cement/toilet. once it reaches soil/compost bacteria starts breaking it down and there is no stink , just ready to use nitrogen /minerals from food your body used it to get energy from
I can't believe this but you totally changed my mind. And your example was very clear and applicable.
Urine is not actually sterile. That's a myth. The urine of a healthy, well-hydrated person should not have a strong odor. Strong urine odors come from not enough water content in the urine, from particular foods such as asparagus, or from disease in the body.
I have been using my urine for years along with used coffee grounds from superstore.
Keep going, young man. You're smart and passionate about nutrition and our Earth. We need you and others from your generation more than ever now. Thank you.
really great episode! i loved this! I LOOOVE seaweed. you totally hit a home run with the seaweed fertilizer. I wish i was close to an ocean at times. one thing worth mentioning is that lime and ash raise PH, and lower acidity. Ash still is really great for the garden, and contain loads of goodies like you said :)
Thanks Luke, I love seaweed too it is an amazing plant for the garden. Yeah thanks I got a bit muddles up, my biology teacher won't be that happy with me ;)
HuwsNursery ooooh pshhh he will to be thrilled... or I am paying him a visit mwahaha :)
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I live 2 hours from the nearest beach but two blocks from a river. In the summer, it gets covered in water lilies, I can have them by the truckload!! :-). What’s your take on river lilies?
@@c.garcia2363 - Water lilies are an amazing source for compost. If you can get them freely, don´t let the opportunity escape. In fact pretty much all aquatic plants are.
One word of caution. Please just make sure enough is left in your source location. Don´t deplete it in one goal a lot of other creatures on site depend on it. They´re also excellent for "cleaning/filtering" excess nutrients from water resources. Specially true where great unbalance of nutrients sips into the water.
So balance your needs vs the environment that will provide for you. ;-)
Tip: After pick them from the water, if you leave them to dry for a couple of days. Volume and WEIGHT will be greatly reduced. Making it much easier for transport. ;-)
Cheers
farmer taught me this trick. get a lb of alfalfa seed. put in 5 gallon bucket of water and let it sit for couple weeks and ferment. then dish out cup of liquid and put in your hose sprayer, fill with water then connect hose and spray your garden grass or whatever. it's cheap adds tons of nitrogen and good food for garden and flowers.
You can do the same with nettles (mostly Nitrogen, but also other macro and micro nutrients) or comfrey (phospor). Leave it for 14 days in a bucket (cover it, the smell is dreadful), then 1:10 with water
Alfalfa contains a lot of triacontinol hence why this works so well. Many hydro shops sell "boost" products and its usually £35 a litre and its mainly triacontinol
I love where you are going with this. 'Pee', seaweed, nettles... the list goes on. All of them free, and all of them beneficial. Bravo!
His channel is totally underrated. Let’s get this page to million subscribers
Nearly there...I subscribed today :)
Grand vid mate, good to see the next gen of gardeners out there!
Thank you very much
Good to see people encouraging others - kudos to you, Spicy!
seriously im 15 years old and even i like growing vegetables
Thank you sir VERY helpful thank you again from TENNESSEE
SpicyAl3000 I'm 12 ( I caught the orchid bug)
Yes I agree it's lovely to see someone so young offering such good tips and advice
Well done.
Great tips, for free ways to boost soil nutrition. Thanks!
very impressed to see a young man that is interested in knowing where his food is coming from. very informative and hey if it saves money im on it.. that is why i want to grow my own veggies and fruits to save money right? good job
I've been using leaves on my garden for over 40 years, I'm in coastal New England so almost all the trees in my immediate area are maples. In the fall I rake the leaves onto my driveway and mulch them up with my lawn mower (electric), GOING OVER THEM A FEW TIME CUTS THEM UP PRETTY FINE. I SPREAD 6" OR SO ON THE GARDEN.
The soil is in good shape because the leaves put back what the garden uses up over the summer.
Your parents must be super proud of You! Hopefully you inspire many many young people 💚 you're amazing!
Wish I'd have started at your age, kid.Two thumbs up!
I started a small worm farms using plastic tub, lets me recycle my food scraps and gives me worm castings that I can add to my soil and also brew worm tea... I put worms also in my grow beds and added a worm tower to make feeding worms easier... it's a win win all the way
Dave Morris n
Awesome Job thank you
This is a great way to show new gardeners that they can use what they have to begin a garden Huw! As always... well done my friend!
Chuck
Yeah that is what was intended :) Happy new year Chuck and thanks for watching!
Excellent information for use of recycled items we already have. Thank you!
Epsom salt is also great and cheap! (magnesium)
@Andy C.... women can't smoke???
Watching this in 2021. What an incredible progress you've made on the productions as you've grown up over those last seven years. Great!
Great job !!! Young man. Thank for also explaining how to apply the examples... My son fell in love with gardening when he was 10 yrs. old. He spent most of his time for months getting seedlings and took good care of his plants... well, so he thought. He would visit his garden before and after school . However, what he failed to do was treat the soul properly .. and bugs took over his plants and... he never recovered. Up had returned home to Trinidad with him a year before from America. He had always wanted pets a yard. I've said all this to encourage you to keep on doing what your doing. Very proud of you !! My Son is now 17 and into IT technology at the moment... lol. I look forward to more !!! Happy Birthday!!!!
Lol. I watched this just to remember how you use to struggle so hard. Seeing how well your channel has developed has been fun over the years.
When I lived by the sea I used seaweed in the garden, my plants loved it & grew quite well! I added it into the soil in the spring!
Never throw out your tea bags; dry them out & dump the tea out to mix with the soil. Take a walk in the forest & bring home some great soil & pine needles.
I like this guy passion for what he does
How cool seeing you this young. Nice to see how you got started! Good information, as per usual.
Amen to all of the above. You have great information and very true information. You sold me at the end when you said you're always telling people gardening isn't expensive bc I always say that too. Especially like small scale for our own homes. The internet has produced everyone with abundance of information for years to come. I started a year ago with 50 gallons of liquid fish emulsion I had from cleaning catfish from fishing trips to the river. Made several piles of seasoned oak wood, removed all of the ash after it cooled down, which accumulated to be a snow shovel an a half full. Crushed up 25 pounds of dried soybean seed. I've added deer remains after skinning them to it. Multiple bags of leftover shrimp I use for bait when we go fishing. Produced a bunch of garden greens a couple of months ago, added green biomass to it. All my greens produced great with using the liquid once a week I started originally every other week and progressed to every week. I'm telling you this stuff stinks but it works!! My pH is way better than it used to be when I used only synthetic fertilizers in the garden for sweet corn and sweet peas in the summer
Thank you for doing the research for us. You're a fine, young man. Greetings from Virginia.
Aww this is some years back, well done and very helpful. I started gardening in my 20s for therapy ... none of my friends understood it lol, they thought I was always party girl. Good for you, it’s good for the soul
Thanks!! Greetings from Argentina 😊
Huw, I like that you are going to test out rock dust in your garden before going all out and investing a lot of money. That makes a lot of sense.
Hopefully in the spring I will start comparing the different ways with rock dust, thanks :)
Well done Huw. Useful video. very competently produced.
I'm with you on keeping the costs to a minimum, so a point to mention is that many plants can be grown by keeping the seeds from a previous year, or taking cuttings. Where I garden most people think of leaves as a nuisance, to be got rid of. So they are glad when I say, 'drop them off at my garden'. BTW, a main constituent of urine is urea (that figures), CO(NH2)2, which as you can see is full of nitrogen. Moreover it is sterile, so no need to be squeamish about it. Also it's regularly promoted by Bob Flowerdew on Gardeners' Question Time. To accomplish two functions at once, I pee in my watering can.
RobertSeviour
You know, where I live in Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA, the Fairmount Park recycling center gives away free compost and woodchips to Philadelphia residents as a service to taxpayers! I made full use of that this year and my garden looks fantastic! I was even able to get two types of wood chips - well decomposed and fresh golden ones - so I’m absolutely set and for no cost at all! They don’t advertise this much, but it’s all there and something I’m happy to brag about regarding our fair city. Good luck!
You had a humble start. You turned into something special.
Omg! A golden oldie!! I didn’t know you’ve been doin this channel for so long now. Yay for you!!❤
I know yer all growed up.
But I was a lil girl who never lived anywhere permanently as a child. Every house we lived in, I found a way to put a garden together.
I could not help but try to make the weeds live where I wanted them too
Or to steal seedlings from closing blooms
My mom always saw me as a little farmer in the suburbs. I got made fun of a lot for my treehuggin stuff.
To see another kid do the things I loved.
My heart is warm.
As a mom of two boys today, currently seeing the state of the world.
Getting my greenthumb beyond my baywindow. I'm outback. Thanks!
I watch a lot of your current videos. Theyre brilliant and im so psyched to have come across this and see where uou started! AMAZING
Wonderful video! Thanks!
Hahah it's funny to see an old video of you knowing where you are now. Amazing progress you made. I just ordered your book as well. Thank you for all the hard work!
Thank you for taking the time to make this video. It explained a lot and thank you for showing us a way of growing without having to spend a lot of money.
I use leaves, grass and coffee grounds for my soil. Most video's on UT they are spending big bucks at the store for all kinds of different stuff. Nice video Huws !
this is a cool kid love all his videos
Well done (with a couple of small errors) .. have been using these (free) products for ages now. Nice to see the younger generation taking interest! Thank you.
Looks really great Huw. Excellent advice as well!
I enjoyed your video...great to see a young person with a passion for natural gardening! I knew some of these, but thankyou for adding a bit more to my list, which is great, cause I think it makes the soil environment more balanced than just a few. We do leaves, coffee grounds, which is also great for carrots to deter the little white flies or aphids. and it good for roses to, along with banana peels, and of course Rododendrons.. wood ash...great for discouraging slugs and such, and I find your cleaned up egg shells crumbled semi fine, work fabulously well to keep the cutworms out of the tomato patch.Just work some in near the roots with the exra compost as you're planting them, then add extra right round the base,add a bit of wood ash too. The sea weed emulsion works great, a little dried or paste makes a huge amount. Mcfayden's in Manitoba,(also Makenzie seeds) Been getting it there, at McF. from Tina for years sooo reasonable! I also use a fish emultion, once a month, that is pri iest thi g we use, 'Muskie' it really feeds everything, and keeps heavy feeders likesummer and winter squash very happy! It's 12.00 for about a liter, or close to it. Very concentrated. I use it once the plants are about 4 or 5 inches tall. You can make your own fish emulsion but Id rather buy it! again thank you you have me thinking about spring and I'm looking forward to it! :)
Es fantástico verte desde tan niño haciendo lo que amas. Más aún cuando continua amando el huerto.
Somehow RUclips recommended this video and I absolutely enjoy it. 😊😊
Thank you for your interesting and quality videos!
You have come such a long way since this, but even when you were this young you created such great videos! Well done!
I agree
I am in the Southern California desert, but still always learn something from your videos. Thanks..
Amazing great to hear that!
the more I've checked with more of your information the younger you were..thanks so much for sharing your knowledge.
What a wonderful young man and fantastic gardener. Strangely I was just looking for organic matter online and it is so expensive when u need so much, so this was wonderful and perfect timing. Thanku Huw.
Basically me having a marathon since I'm kinda new with gardening lol.
Thanks soooo much
Thanks for this Huw, great video and full of information x
great job, very helpful info.
Thank you very much
Thank you for posting very good.
I found this helpful. Thank you sir.
I definitely need to incorporate these methods for my soil
Thanks a bunch for the tips
Cheers !
You are a teenager wow...you got a bright future ahead in farming ...this is the time to start something.
Love your channel! I've learned so much! Keep up the good work!
Another awesome video. Love that I am learning from someone less than half my age!!!
Thanks!- did not know that about leaf nutrients compared to compost! These is good tips to know!
You're welcome! Hope it helps :)
Very impressed. Thank you for sharing.
Just seeing this video. Wow you've been at it for a while! I didn't discover you until this spring.
To the teenagers watching this; take tips from this man's journey & know that you can do amazing things too.
Huw, what tips would you give to teenagers in general (or maybe specific to gardening) that you have learnt through your experiences?
You're doing a great job. Good video! Good ideas. Very resourceful. Keep up the good work!
Thank you so much Gerald!
Thank you for your input in helping us as gardeners to grow better with out breaking the bank Sincerely Rick
Happy birthday nice video thanks going to have a garden this year again.
Good luck. I agree. I make compost with cardboard, paper, eggshells and scraps fruit and veggies.I And a little water jus to wet cardboard and paper. Not to drown earthworms an Ghecos. also don't buy Worm castings. I just add a few hands of bought compost to my drum off scraps and from that earthworms breed by the hundreds. All bagged compost has some earthworm eggs in them. So I believe We worm castings are also just a bag of compost. My stuff grows beautiful. I do raised beds. Put cardboard at the bottom. Throw my drum of scraps in (not yet compost. But full of earthworms) Then I through bought compost on top.Sometimes I'll mix it with a bit of potting soil. As the sand works like fibre for the earthworms. But I mainly just use compost
Awesome video. much thanks from Los Angeles
All great videos Huw. Thank you for sharing your experience 👍
Tea also .Enjoy your video. Thank you
Awww you are so young. Didn't realize you had been doing this for so long! Good for you...
Omg you we’re so young!! I wish young adult now a days could do and think like you: very productive and innovative!!
You've come a long way Huw, very happy to have found your channel. Looking forward to buying your new book. Very helpful, many thanks.
Wood ash is used as a replacement for lime and lime is an alkaline. Wood ash raises ph. It does not lower it
Closing the Loop Does it match lime in terms of calcium and magnesium? I'm trying basic slag and lava rock this year as new amendments this year. Pretty excited
Robert Roberts all the minerals needed for plants are found in woodash in the best proportions as they are derived from plants
Hey Huw can I suggest you to make another video in this exactly the same topic? This video is an old one and you have improved so much. Please don't erase this one. Keep it because it's a good video to compare how far you have become. You explain and talk so much better now. And can definitely explain it better with out your paper. This is just a request, if you haven't done it yet. If you can't, no problem. Thank you.
For people who may have indoor cats....I purchase pelletized horse bedding (pine pellets) and use that for litter for the kitties. We “scoop the poop” and leave the urine soaked pellets. They break down quickly and now I put them in the compost pile. Simply urine-charged pine shavings. Way better than that clay kitty litter with the perfumes in it! And it is much much cheaper.
I love leaf
Leafs are grateful in the garden in the fall I dig them is place and spring I plant glad to hear from you !
Enjoy your videos. Every young person should embrace gardening like you. Hope you got your birthday present.
that is good habbit is gardening even expensive that make you happy eapecially your plant ready to harvest so very happy.
Nice job !
Thanks from Texas
Cynthia
THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE VIDEO, THE HOLE POINT IN GROWING MY OWN FOOD IS TO SAVE MONEY!!
+Bubba Davis CAPS LOCK MUCH!!!!!!
Very useful video thanks for sharing
In love with gardening bae💙💚
My god how young you was started for this job. You really build up perfectly and still learning with you. I wish you made videos about flowers too specially Rose's
Great presentation Huw. Well Done !!!
Try cut up banana. I've been putting that next to my peppers for years. p.s. just the peels, eat the fruit.
I’ve been drying bananas for months now. I leave a baking tray with a layer of parchment paper on top in my oven all the time and toss the banana peels in there. Then, whenever I think about it and I’m putzing around in the kitchen, I turn on the oven to the default setting of 350°F and simultaneously set the timer for 10 minutes. When the timer beeps. I simply turn the oven off. Depending on how dedicated I am about it, it takes about 3 to 7 days to dehydrate the bananas enough to grind them up in my little coffee grinder. We eat a lot of bananas in our family, so I am quite eager to make use of this renewable resource and to add it to my plants. We will see if it improves blossom and fruit production of my fruit trees and tomato plants? Who knows? It sure is fun, though! Thank you again so much for your wonderful video. I found this almost unbelievably refreshing. Good show!
@@bonniehoke-scedrov4906 no need to dehydrate. Just dump it into plastic/pot and keep adding layer of soil over it. you'll get ready to use compost with higher phosporus and potash
Great information. Thanks for the budget minded advice. I hope you had a great birthday and got what you needed for the mic. :) Going to sub and see how you have grown since making this video.
You are a very smart young man. Thank you
If you composted the grass clippings, you would lose the nitrogen. Add them straight. Way better growth than some weak compost missing N. Great video.
You have come a long way in your presentation since this video.