I'm DONE Using Manures!!
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- Опубликовано: 10 окт 2024
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I had a similar situation with contaminated manure several years ago, completely switched to everything that goes into my garden comes from my garden.
An easy safe manure are home raised worm castings, since last winter my worms have produced close to 500 pounds of castings, the vast majority of their food comes from my garden, mainly to provide a local biome in my castings. I have even read that composting worms can detoxify some persistent chemicals and heavy metals with the various enzymes in their gut, gotta love them worms.
Not only can you get contaminated manure or straw, I picked up some contaminated soil from a neighbor. I should have known when I did not see one earthworm when I was carting it away. I will have to take it out of the bed this fall and replace it.
I understand sunflowers, alfalfa and clover are pretty good at detoxifying contaminated soils.
Excellent video Nate! Stay Well!!!!
I have chickens and rabbits and I ran into your problem with the rabbit manure when i was feeding them timothy hay they sell in cubes at Farm and Fleet. Changed over to organic hay. They also get gmo free feed and the chickens get the best feed i can grab my hands on. I put alot of wood chips in their run, and collect all that when it's broken down. I wet the run occasionally when it's hot outside to help in the decomposition of the wood chips. The coop bedding goes into the compost pile. Rabbit manure goes directly on the beds all year round as it is produced.
I started raising chickens for eggs and fertilizer this year and have purposefully fed them nothing but organic feed, wild berries, bugs, meat, organic homegrown produce and whatever they can forage. Excited to have a heap of rich composted chicken manure to incorporate into my garden for the first time this fall!
It's persistent in straw bales too, I had to stop using it for mulch. Thankfully we have lots of land now with lots of grass so i just use clippings. These persistent chemicals need to be BANNED!!
Unfortunately there will be a lot less production from the farms. Bad enough eminent domain and "100 year" hurricanes are everywhere it seems. You'd think there was a diabolical plan.
@@smas3256 I totally agree and almost started a little rant here but I know I'm preaching to the choir. 😅
Good luck for you Nate.
I don't use animal manurs for 20 yaers. We eat al year from the garden.
You can do it absolutely.
💚🙏🍃
3 years ago I had ran into this same issue with a cow manure and had a large garden 60 feet by 110 feet. Some plants done ok and others didn't grow or fruit at all. I didn't garden in that spot at all last year and this year (spring) I created an entire new garden in a new location, other than the accessive rain fall the new garden was a success and everything done extremely well! No manure! But plenty of other organic natural amendments just like what you teach us here on your channel.
My niece added cow manure to their garden plot. They are new to gardening and had not heard about the herbicide residues. Their garden is pathetic as a result. We use no manure. We make liquid fertilizer with lawn clippings, some food scraps, and my own urine. Applied weekly at 30:1, on the soil only. No disease issues, great results. But it Stinks! We got used to the smell, and it fades by the next day.
Perfect !
A friend got contaminated manure a few years back. Fortunately he has enough land to start a new garden plot. We have chickens and cows that get organic feed so I’m glad to get as much manure from them as possible. I just made 25 gallons of biochar and charged it with manure and compost tea and lots of fish hydrolysate.
Greetings
Learning so much. Was about to go there in the construction of new beds but makes sense and am dodging a big one. !!! Thanks whew….
New gardener here. I worked so hard to set up garden beds in my new home. My favorite pastime the last few years was watching homesteaders and gardeners. My harvest was terrible. The only crop I had success with was jalapenos. I'm thinking it might have been the hay bales I purchased for mulching my beds 😕
that is probably not the issue my friend if its your first year you can expect a steep learning curve!!.. post some pictures of your setup to the Viking Discord Chat or Instagram and tag me in them and i'll give you my thoughts
I had this issue just this year. Got some horse manure from a friend and all of my tomato plants looked like witch's noses. Other plants were fine with it but not the tomatoes and not my blackberries.
Around August yhe tomatoes started to finally grow better and look more normal but the fruit is tiny and odd shaped and never matures.
My friend swears he never used any herbicides, and I believe him. Makes sense that it was in the hay he bought
Thanks to your video's, I have decided to only use ammendments that are in my yard.
Totally distracted Nate and forgot to thumbs up. Thanks for video. Urine is free. Grandson cracked up. Daughter is afraid of the wrong things. Leading by example, no chemicals (meds) in me. Time flies when having so much fun. 10 years no fear mid 70's.
He's right on this one. I beleive the farmers who sell contaminated manure should be held financially responsible for the damage they create.
I think people that grow our food should not have to pay taxes. Hopefully they'll have the money to switch over to an organic farm.
Thanks for the knowledge! Options are great. Different ways to grow without chemicals is the only way! Share the videos and lives to get the word out there. Got the stickers thank you my Viking friend!
You are spot-on, Mr Viking👍🏼
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Yes,this explains a lot. I’ve been using commercial chicken manure pellets with very uneven results, particularly on vegetables. I’ll ditch that and try to get cattle manure from my neighbour who raises grass-fed beef ( his own grass). We’ll see. Thank you. 🙏🏼
WOW, great vid Nate! Thank you. Zone 6 still harvesting tomatoes, peppers, potatoes & sweet potatoes. Blessed X10
N I C E. Zone 6B. It's been to cool for our tomatoes to grow larger and didn't want to cover them. We are covering our one cucumber and 1 green squash plants when temp goes down to 63 degrees. They have flowers on both. Beets, carrots, and the brussel sprouts don't yet have sprouts. Turnips. Still have peppers. Chard and few lettuce I pick and come again. Green tomatoes are turning red w. just a room light. Sounds like a lot but rows are short. Bees are loving flowers on bolted basils.
So many thanks for the highlights and the precaution as well.
Horse manure killed a very old established grape vine I had. I had no idea at the time about grazon. I only use my own chicken litter now. I live in cow country and that abundance of manure is off limits on my farm garden. Its a shame
Gotta raise your own only way to know
Enough is enough, my friend. Keep up the great work...🖖
I have read the effects of grazon can last 5 years.
That should have never been approved along with everything else.
I have always used and will continue to use manure from my animals. I do not use any antibiotics or herbicides.
And you should. I think this more targeted towards manure from questionable sources
@@FishingForLife28Absolutely. I don’t use any externally sourced manures in my homestead. We use goat, pig, and chicken manures from our own animals. The animals feed on our own property, so we know there’s no chemical garbage going into the cycle.
It IS intentional that these herbicides and pesticides are used. It’s really sad that our government agencies are working against us.
Yes, absolutely my friend as I made sure to state in the video if you are 100% certain the manure is free of any chemicals than it is one of the finest fertilizers you could possibly get… The issue is that most people are not raising their own animals and their own feed on top of it
I agree and will not be using bagged manures ever again. I got two bags this year that left entire areas it was used on barren and ruined a compost pile as well.
I would like you to let us understand about how nature without manure thrives to maintain its self by such as the leafmold and the grass straw as well.I believe these two are the nature's secret longtime soil improvement method as fertiliser as well.
I do not use manure for that reason. I make my own compost and compost tea from my garden, yard and kitchen scraps. I know I'm not 100% chemical free because there are chemicals in the rain, but this is the best I can do right now.
yes this is about the best way possible
Yes. I've had this issue setting up my many 20 gal raised bed tub garden. I used "organic" local composts produced here in PNW. Got skunked again this year with my trusted source. Company told me after I called and complained that they test 1X a year. 😢 Local garden center had huge fail with their professional seedling mix. Expensive. Can't trust mushroom compost cause up here a growing farm got contaminated straw and it got into the composting byproduct. I've gone to a compost to top my beds with no dairy manures, but all seem to have a lot of alfalfa and chicken product. I'm nervous now about my usual habit of spreading just horse pelleted alfalfa this fall and spring in ANY raised beds that may be direct seeded.
For that reason I’ve started worm farming the big way . I’ve converted 5 / 75 litre trash cans to worm farms. I feed them all the left over weeds with no roots and flowers . Etc . Etc.
The liquid I’m using for my plants . It works well , but takes a few years to build up the worm population . It’s a better end product than compost which I used to make the last 30 years in different ways .
@@richardmeyer4406 wow that’s impressive!
And inspiring; ha! My little bin is about to split into two and produces a beautiful ingredient for aerated tea. 👍
There was a documentary on TV that the cow diet was change to improve their digestive system. However this backfire and created a discharge in the cow that affected plantations. It took almost three years to come to the conclusion that it was the new and improved food additives for the cows. But they did not reported the damege as soon as they saw the changes. As always silence is golden. Yes plantation were damage and the weather and the soil were to blame. The farmers lost their contracts. And as always we have to outsource to feed the people. Now people has lost the trust in the American Farmers.
Great information Nate always learning and growing like a viking 🙏🏼👍
I perfectly see your point! I would not use pure manures because I cannot source it safely. Only ONE exception: I use a batch of cow manure JLF which is now more than a year old and already tried and tested (first on a small area then in the garden).
Nate, this info is vital and part of a big big picture. See recent interviews with Casey Means MD and brother Calley Means, former big food lobbyist, for info from their perspective.
I’ve got a 10 sq ft area in my garden so affected. I’d added one bag of topsoil to a low spot. Stuff grows spindly and yellow, then dies. Digging out that area in a few days. I’m lucky it was so small, and you’re sharing info about it.
Wishing you all fruitful growing, Tribe 🌿
+ to Mean's siblings. Check them out
thank you for the suggestion i'm going to watch the recent JRE podcast with them today!!
so glad you know abt the manure being contaminated. I watched another guy who had put manure on his garden from a farm and everything died, even the grass and he was bewildered, found out they fed grain during milking that was full of stuff (even other dead animals were being fed to the cows!) He said it took three seasons for it to 'wash out' of the soil so he could start regenerating it again. Only a farm that has natural environments for their animals can be used. Very happy w this video
The yellow bags of cow manure at lowes is contaminated for sure. I found out the hard way
Black Kow manure?
@@robclower9606 Yes
Thank you for sharing
Black Kow uses cows given anti-biotics, etc grains, and the composted. They are also known to have Grazon in their product.
It's sad because my local strict-organic farm not only used them, but was a SUPPLIER for them, as Black Kow seems to be local to me. AFter doing my reserach I was not only shocked, but upset I supported a farm who used it... i'm surprised they did use it, as they were the on3es who introduced me to neem oil, etc. But they do seem to use saposinads as well.
Just to let people know that a really good Manure alternative that I've personally used is ""Malibu Compost Bu's Blend."
I had learned about it from "BuildASoil," but I believe i ended up purchasing from "Roots Tampa," as they had a better price. If you're Local to the Tampa Area that's an extremely great price if you can save on shipping.
I can't help but thinking of when you said farming land has been devoid of all living microorganisms from artificial fertilizers. That's why I have been applying some of your techniques at my place. My yard is basically a petri dish! I've made the compost tea, fish fertilizer, LABS, mulching, and I'm collecting all the oak leaves this year. I have learned here that it's all about the soil food web baby! Now I am glad I haven't used manures, because I was planning on that next year. You have great videos Viking. Keep em coming.
YES!!... all about the soil!... remember oak leaves take the longest of all to break down so try to source some maple leaves also as they break down the fastest
I have been wondering if I'm not having an issue of contamination. Not from what I've been putting on but coming from a neighbor. He has a few head of cattle, and feeds big round bails which he buys . I live down the hill and across the road from him. In heavy rains the water comes through a colbert to my garden spot. I'll try one more year, then possibly move spot. This had become a BIG problem for so many people. Around here, north west Missouri, noticed this year most of the farmers spraying hay fields and other crops. I'm not sure that most feeds are contaminated. The manufacturers of these products should be held accountable, or at least recognizing this problem and finding a solution. The meat products from these contaminated feeds would be questionable at best. Keep up the great work I've always enjoyed your guidance.
G'day Nate and fam. A few years ago i all of a sudden thought that i had gone from a good gardener to the worlds worst gardener in one season. I used to just buy the commercial seed and cutting raising mix, well a few years ago i couldn't get most seeds to germinate. And i just thought that i had become hoples at gardening and that i must have just lost my green thumb. This problem had not happened before but i persisted and for the next few years i continued to purchase the popular seed raising mix not realising that it could possibly have herbicide contamination. Now about five different people i have confirmed that it is indeed the seed raising mix from a big hardware store in Australia. This year i just sifted a few shovels of soil out of my gardens to get the big bits out, mixed in some of my own worm castings a low and behold, almost every seed has been sprouting like i haven't seen for many years now. I will never be buying seed raising mix again. Also most commercially available bagged garden soils and manures are from huge feed lots where the animals are fed bulk heavily sprayed feeds.
Green love from Australia 💚🌲🌏🙏
You mean the big green shed?? Bit of a worry I'm only going to use the stuff certified organic like the sugar cane mulch ... I was getting the premium Yates potting mix but it came with a heap of fungus gnats so now I make my own.
A homesteader on utube sterilizes her seed starting mix in her oven then adds some dry fertilizers to that to start seeds indoors. Details should be available in search engine.
Been using finished leaf mold as a seed starter for several years now, way out performed peat and best of all, it is free, just a bit of work.
Stay Well!!!!
People want to fault all these chemicals, but it's profitable and if people die because of its use, well that's profitable too. Funny where our love of money has taken us, isint it?
My garden brother blessings to you you absolutely hang ten this teaching great passion ... I'm the guy that went carnivore back in Nov2023 all is well still going through with it lost 14ish lbs and a few auto immune issues just fell off ... Peace 🙏
140 LBS forgive me
Great video………as always!
The garden is finally doing it's thing ended up with 5 ft of wood chips+ everything else LoL going strong .
Great video, as always, thanks 👍💪
I have had very similar problems with persistent herbicides. It took two whole seasons of my own worm casting/ compost tea to undo the damage. I am looking forward to you getting "The Land"!!!!
Time to get your own animals 😅
Edit: Completed the video! cant wait for your new adventure, I hope you still do RUclips by then!
thank you my friend and yes for sure you guys will be coming along for the entire process and i'll be making tons of videos about it!!!
You are soooooo right
Thanks Nate, great advice.
It got me two years in a row...thought it was the horse manure (probably was) but then a compost pile I made without any manure in had same ill effects.....turns out the free hay a was given contained it too!! This year my crops were clean and only the weather was a let down unfortunately.....I don't dare use any animals products now incase they contain something bad....even questioning my soil amendments now such as bone meal!
I use goat manure from local organic farms.
~What is less drastic, but more mysterious, is the contaminated straw!~I dont know for sure, cuz the feed store 'doesnt know', and wont find out, but i had a lot of signs this year of contamination~Id decided years ago id only use my garden resources from my land(woods), but slacked off on it, cuz buying straw is sooo easy & nice to use~I have dried weeds that are just as good, but its more work, but after this im happy to do it!~I kinda wonder if...dare i say....humanure...or at least human urea will become more popular because of this?~
Wow!! This system is sooo diabolical with all the nefarious chemicals these corporations create!!😡 Thank you Nate for shining light on this subject. Even if the package on my chicken feed says organic, I’m not sure it really doesn’t have those chemicals in it. I wondered why some things really weren’t growing well!
Certified organic alfalfa pellets is a good alternative soil amendment.
I have been saying that for a while about manure, it's not worth the risk. I'm also not buying hay or alfalfa from a bag either. I do buy some bag compost from a company that supplies master gardeners in my area and even that's a risk but if they start killing master gardener gardens it would be bad for them so they hopefully take precautions.
GREAT....I just collected 2 truck loads that I shoveled myself from next door at my uncles cow pasture. He gives them NO meds but I'm not sure if the hay they eat has been sprayed. It's cheap hay by the big round bail. Maybe it hasn't been sprayed. Love all the vids nate, you are the manure, I mean shit.lol
If I were you, I would give all that manure the bean growing test before you start spreading it everywhere!
Take it from someone who's been burned! You don't want to find out later than sooner.
The chances of cheap hay NOT being contaminated are mighty slim!!!
A way to test is to see if anything grows. Try something small. Ask your Uncle where he got the Hay from, and then contact that farmer and ask if he sprays anything.
Thanks for the knowledge.
Your information is blatantly true.
I just confirmed I've been burnt, too.
My friend those that raise cattle and that keep horses spray their alfalfa fields with a couple of different chemicals/products. One is called Grazzon and the other is Remedy. They are used to control undesirable grass varieties, and also to control insects that land on the animals to alleviate stress.
I just use worm manure. Have an urban home garden and only use inputs from the yard, leaves, leaf mould, kitchen compost and worm castings. Chip any small branches and limbs. The wildlife in my yard is thriving and keeping my dogs entertained. Trying to keep it clean. The poop from my raw food/drug free pups goes around some trees. ☺
Yep, I stopped getting the manures from the cattle yards They feed the cattle with bailed up hay which possibly had Grazon herbicide sprayed on the hay and that poison lasts for years in the manures. I just use mainly composts, wood chips mulches I make myself and seaweed products for now.
I used cow manures 3 years ago still suffering, in particular the cabbage struggle
Thanks for highlighting this problem. Charles Dowling in UK has also identified there. How can these B-road leaf, forever chemicals be allowed when they are adversely effecting out food chain. So wrong!
Hi, do you know the tittle of the video where Charles Dowding is talking about the contamination issue? I would like to watch that video, thanks
Yes, I know my friend it seems almost sinister that these chemicals are even allowed to be manufactured.
I’m done too. I amended my green house with manure from animals who ate hay grown in 2020. 2024 and it’s still affecting my tomatoes and peppers. I put them in just to gage the damage. I’m adding fish emulsion and kelp fertilizer now. Probably going to grow a root crop or some corn in there next year along with my sacrificial tomato and pepper plant. It’s a shame. It’s the most accessible amendment in my area. Easy on the back too. I used to use the spoiled hay also to mulch garlic and to hill potatoes so that’s gone as well. It won’t be long and local hobby farmers with cows horses goats and whatnot will start feeling the burden too. They rely on folks coming by and taking their piles to use for fertilizer. How are they going to get rid of it now.
Thanks Nate, I've a friend that his girlfriend has 2 horses, they're her babies and treats them as such, he's got acres of land his dad left him and he doesn't use anything on it, he uses sheep and the horses to keep the grass down nothing else, I used that manure last year, I had no issues, I've got 8 chickens and I now feed them fermented grains and peas, beans, pasta and canned fish etc with ground up oyster shells mixed in and some sea kelp, the fermented grains have lactobacillus as I found out the pellets people feed them have soya and sodium chloride along with other nasties people don't realise are toxic, I should have good chicken manure but not enough to cover the vast space of the PSG, I've got compost areas that I throw the chicken poop in along with leaves, vegetable scraps and some JMS in every month then turn it over, it's great for the chickens to scratch about in looking for bugs too, by next year it should be good compost for the garden, I hope.
I wonder what it does to the cattle or goat. Any animal that eats that hay…..straw.
I compost my chickens manure. I do feed layer feed by nutrena and have not had compost problems. I however would love to know how to feed my flock on land and compost alone. Love your video.
Yea grazon isn’t good. But you can plant sunflowers in those contaminated areas to suck out that poison. Good luck. Get that land asap
For anyone who already has a problem with this stuff in your garden, assuming you cant get ride of it, or move your garden. If you have enough space, the only things that aren't affected by these kind of things are grass. so you should still be able to grow corn, sugar cane, wheat, in those areas without a issue. if you would be comfortable eating crops from those areas, but at the same time, any waste from those crops CAN NOT be put into your compost bin or fed to livestock or you risk spreading it. I know its not the most ideal solution to grow corn in the same place for 3 years, but if you rely on your garden to feed you, it is a option.
The thing is, we put on our veggie garden to much manure too. In deed bizons fertilize the soil and pastures, but only grass grows there. They don't fertilize woods, but still trees grow taller than grass as they are fertilized by their own leaves (carbon). So if fertiliser (nitogen) is that good grass would grow taller than trees...
So if you want big veggies and big crops, then fertilise with much carbon and a little nitrogen... not the opposite.
My horse eats non organic hay so I guess I shouldn’t use his poo
Wish I could buy organic hay
I wish you could too... 😢
I use straw and hay as mulch in my garden.
I've recently learned that Quebec (in Canada) export sludge from Maine (USA) to our province and give it to farmers.
This lead to numerous problems as you probably can tell.
I might stay away from manure (cow and horse) forever now and also stop using straw and hay as mulch.... will change the rule at my community garden to allow mulching with wood chips.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm yummy sludge! Crazy times
Getting the land, but building the systems and animals for good animal husbandry takes a lot of time and money... stages
That's right it does and one of the most important things I have seen over the years is to not take on more than you can actually handle at each stage... so many people overwhelmed!!
Backup and save this one!
I don't use horse manure anymore because of too many seeds in it, seeds mean weeds. I now use chicken and sheep sourced from a good environment.
@1:12 Nate said the word EONS and boke time itself
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Chaffed...lol. bummer deal Nate.
I just can't understand why they use herbicides on grass for hay. It will grow without it.
To kill weeds
@@sidilicious11 It's strange how there are weeds in uncultivated soil. Or do they re-seed the grass every year? But even if there are weeds growing in it, what's the problem? They will become part of the hay and the animals will eat them.
@@urferwgdhf every so often they weed and seed. Commercial hay outfits try to eliminate all weeds from their hay fields. Some weeds are poisonous to various livestock and not good to feed to them.
Grazon.
I got a rabbit for manure. His name is dookie. I control what he eats. I found rabbit feed with Mycorrhiza in it. He gets fresh picked plants. I used to get horse dookie because horse people never used it but horse hay got tainted with aminopyralids (sp?).
What if I was feeding my farm animals organic fodders and TMR?
I keep chickens because of this currently we have nine hens and we are producing enough compost for a half acre plot and we get free eggs.
this is the way!!
Everyone knows this and not everyone users that junk. Far out if you only just working this out , where have you been hiding since the 1970s. Our farm doesn’t use any of that junk.
Hey Nate, every time you hit the table, it sounds like a sub woofer in my ear buds. Maybe you can isolate the mic from the table. Thanks for the great videos!
thanks for the feedback!!.. i'm still working on the system to perfect it
This is all dealt with in the Netflix film Kiss The Ground. You all need to follow organic farming where the animals all eat the grass and pastures are left fallow. Once the cattle have eaten for a few days you move them to a new pasture and bring in the chickens to feed on what the cows have left.
The film highlights the current poor topsoil and the need for farmers to stop ploughing but drilling into the ground instead. This will help ensure that the maximum amount of carbon is stored in the earth and not in the atmosphere.
But you also talked about biodynamics abit,which in fact it also depend on the manure usage.
What about using straw for mulch?
From good sources, yes. I use "BuildASoil," when I had to buy straw.
My daughter has horses and grows her own hay. No chemicals allowed on the land. Fortunate to have this available. Hoping yall find someone
yes and in that case its one of the finest fertilizers available!!
I have chickens and use that manure. I am getting horse manure from a neighbor who has 2 horses, and it seems to be something that my plants thrive from…. But I am nervous for the reasons you say. I found out where they get their hay and talked with the grower. But you never really know. But my big question is- what are YOU doing instead? I am also making bokashi from food scraps from a local organic restaurant.
there will be several videos in the future about this but essentially i'm hot composting the entire garden this fall then using aerated compost teas next year... that is all that is required really but i'll also be using some dry amendments in the form of my personal mixture
What is the alternative?
Get your own animals
@@urferwgdhf Even with that, you have to watch the sourcing of your feed.
@@albowrx Sources from my land.
@@urferwgdhfnot if you live in city with tiny garden😢
Worm castings
There was video explaining the Hay growers are using a herbacide that kills weeds and other stuff but is safe for the Hay. Has a 3 year active lifespan, even after going through an animal. Thus killing our gardens if we use hay or straw fed animal manure that still has this herbacide.
How this is legal is quizzicating.
Great video! If I feed my chickens predominately vegetable scraps and top up with store bought chicken pellets, should organic pellets ensure these antibiotics and pesticides etc. are absent?
I wondered the same thing. If chickens eat any store bought pellets, are those not good? So frustrating trying to do organic gardening on a budget and still have to battle big ag chemicals. I am hoping the chicken poop is ok too.
Maybe @gardenlikeaviking can answer
if you are buying "organic" feed then technically they cannot have those chemicals in them so you should be fine... i'm speaking mainly of the industrial chicken farming that pumps them full of additional antibiotics and growth regulators and much more... according to the internet organic chicken feed must be free of these chemicals
Boy we aecnstantly on a Learning curve. This year 0000000 production 7 cukes 10 cherry tomates 2birdhous gourds grn beans .2. lufa . Sooo disappointed . More werk on amends Clay. Hope springs eternal ..maybe next year,..
So, sooooo sorry that happened to you Nate! Unfortunately, you're right.. use the manure from your own animals or a friend's you're completely sure is nothing but pure organic. I'm so paranoid about this stuff these days, I think I'm just going to use a mix of the seabird and bat guanos you mentioned, plus azomite, Fruition's nutrients I bought b4 you offered your Viking Nutrients and compost tea. Maybe some blood meal too where I had really heavy feeders. What are you going to be using in place of the manures in your new beds? (BTW Meyer Lemons here).
Can I ask -
Where are you getting CLEAN blood meal?
Just wondering bcuz I'm thinking animal blood & bones can also be contaminated.
Signed,
Been Burned In Texas
@@gardengatesopen If I could, I'd get it made from grass fed and finished animals grazing on pristine regenerative land... Like, if only Alderspring Ranch would make blood meal, LOL! But since they don't, I'm using True Organic's OMRI certified Blood Meal. If you know of a better brand, please do share :)
@@monivoler Thanks!
many videos coming on this topic in the future my friend thank you!
Horse manure is the worst
It seems the best bet would be Cow Manure from Grassfed beef/dairy cattle. Would be hard to get other manures from animals with feed issues that could be infected.
I personally use Humanure and urine.
Do you do anything to reduce the risk of pathogens and parasites which are often mentioned with humanure?
Unfortunately I learned that our "organic" dairy farms producing organic expensive milk does not restrict GRAZON type chemicals used on their "grass".
@nic.h Anything can have nasties in it. Ecoli and Salmonella exist naturally in our gut.
Fresh milk is able to keep all of these pathogens in check though. They've done expierments with inoculating fresh milk with all sorts of nasties and after awhile it would get rid of it.
I personally just eat extremely clean, but if there were nasties, then during the fermentation process where Iadd milk to ferment all my fertilizers that i make, that should get rid of it and break down. Or It will break down in the soil with the soil microbes.
@@tanyabriggs8969 Yeah, there are so many scumbag farms/companies.
I get from a local Amish Place. The Amish seem to overall do things better, but each farm has their issues for me.
I look for "Chemical-free."
Be carefull of anyone who is selling anything to grow plants. If you have a wooded area anywhere near where you grow everything is free. If you live near the ocean even better. Just go and get it. Resesrch KNF and Jadam. They're not in it for profit. You don't have to buy any manures or granular nuttients and mineral fertilizers. Don't fall prey to the greedy. It's all there for free. Nature is generous just go get it.
So... What's the alternative?? Chemical fertilizer? 😅
lol of course not!!... there will be several videos coming in the future on this but ideally find a source of organic manure and also make lots of compost and also do the chop and drop JADAM style base fertilizer!
@@gardenlikeaviking
Thank you for responding. Can't wait to see your next video.
Just use rabbits
Milk, meat and manure for the garden. Long live the bovine in the health of the human. It is important for people to realize the value of a properly managed cow instead of the Bill Gates version of our cowless future.
if only every beef farmer was like you.... we'd have zero problems with this wonderful ancient fertilizer!!
Gloposate..round up
Nice, I was the 69th like
lol there you go with the numbers!!
@@gardenlikeaviking Gotta celebrate life's rare treasures!
no more poo? :*(
Sh*t happens...or not 🤣
not till we get the land and can raise all the animals and their feed ourselves!!!
I only use manure from our guinea pigs and hamster as we’ve been burned.