Thank you! I love that you have clearly confirmed that free comfrey tea is at LEAST as nutritional as store bought organic fertilizers and compost. Also glad to know that 10:1 is not too weak, but advised.
I have been using this method for 30+ years. My determination of when it is ready is.......when it smells so bad a fly won't land on it you are good to go! Very potent!
well good to know, I had some bugs in it the first couple days even though I sealed the lid as good as I could but now it stinks very bad and im guessing the bugs that were in it died, also one question how often do you use the anaerobic fertilizer on your plants?
@@ThahnG413 Don't let the smell put you off. The plants and soil life don't care how things smell. You can use it weekly or monthly. Just observe your plants. Be sure to dilute it at least 1:10 with water. You can spray it on the leaves (1:20 dilution) or use as a drench around the roots of the plants. The longer the liquid fertilizer sits the stronger it will get. Even a year. Here's a tip and I will use tomato as the example. First, do not pull the plant from the ground at the end of the season. Cut off at soil level. Bacteria and fungi have colonized around the roots and their habitat will be destroyed if the roots are ripped out of the ground. The roots will leave channels in the soil as they decay and are consumed by other bacteria and fungi. Plant next year's tomatoes in the same spot year after year. Chop up the plants and use them for liquid fertilizer for the next year. Throw in spoiled tomatoes, leaves, branches, everything. It will contain what tomato plants need. Add a good handful of soil from around a plant to the mix.
@@raylang2996 The smell is bad but it wouldn't make me quit using it because if my plants like it that's all the reason I need, also thanks for the root tip it probably explains why my wildflower bed has a different sort of feel because I chopped and dropped that one but I usually pull my veggies out.
This guy has SO MANY HELPFUL TIPS! I appreciate this channel very much. thanks buddy! I’m on my very first year of gardening and I’m soaking up all the info I can. This tea fertilizer is something I’m definitely going to try.
If you have plants you want pollinating in the garden, make sure you cut back your comfrey before it flowers. Bees will go for comfrey by preference and will often ignore other plants. I have 40 gallon covered barrels with just some scrunched up chicken wire mesh for drainage and a spigot at the bottom. Rough chop the comfrey and ram it tight into the drum ... do not add water ! ..... if this left in the sun the comfrey will decompose pretty quick and a black liquid will come out the bottom. This is a great tomato, flowering and fruiting plant, and general fertilizer and needs diluting by at least 5 to 1 in the watering can. This method is far less smelly than submerging comfrey in water. The level of comfrey drops considerably, so for the next few weeks I just keep adding more. I have a large comfrey plot and most years have 3 barrels on the go. Every year or so I treat the comfrey bed with some cow muck and composted wood chip.
*Articles and more videos about Comfrey tea if you would like to learn more. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gardening-blog/2009/jun/15/gardens www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/herbs/comfrey/comfrey-fertilizer-information.htm ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=how+to+make+comfrey+tea
My grandparents were farmers on Long Island, NY back in the early 1900s. They used weeds to make such a brew. Clip off the roots, crush up the stems & leaves, then wait for nature to do its thing. And to this day I do the same. Thank you for keeping this simple but potent technique current!
Thanx for sharing!! I still have JLF from last year I dont know what to do with so now I will put it on my compost pile. This years JLF I need to strain!😬 Thank you for sharing these videos
My personal fav. 11:22, they are all like hey, what's goin' on, kinda like my dog when I garden in the back yard. Thank you for all your knowledge, I subd.
Are we missing a trick with comfrey tea (or compost tea from other plants decomposed by anaerobic digestion)? My point is that the resulting "compost tea" must be diluted to a 1:10 ratio because using at 1:1 is likely to be too strong & kill the plants being treated. Therefore, is it not possible to use the 1:1 ratio as a weedkiller in several treatments to remove unwanted plants ? Has anyone tried this idea intentionally, or by accident, or have there been any botanical studies of this idea to determine whether it could be an effective application on a general range of weeds, or unwanted grasses? (However, I suspect that the toughest, deepest rooted grasses would be impervious).
Yes this is just another type of tea, but not aerated. You can also aerate this tea as well if you want. Depending on how you make them compost/worm aerated teas are usually best used for adding more microbiology and some nutrients. This type of cold fermentation is great for concentrated nutrients, easy and free!
I use the empty cattle lick tubs (22 gal) to garden and the potting mix in them is 3 years old. I should have growing cover crops during fall/winter but I just learned that. My compost has always been rabbit manure. I am worried that after 3 years Im missing a lot of micronutrients. I am creating the fertilizer that your doing in this video but I still have 2 weeks for my first batch. Have you ever used black strap molasses to replenish? I am thinking about about using it as a foliar spray as well as watering the soil. Im in Tulsa and we have had so much rain, Im pretty sure the rain has washed all the beneficial stuff out. Not sure what else I could do. Thanks for always teaching.
So cool. I have been doing this for about a month. Just yarrow and comfrey. So neat to see someone else doing the same thing. Only thing is is that i wasn't diluting it:0 no probs yets. I was looking all over the internet to see if anyone else was doing confrey and yarrow and i found you. My roses love it!!!
could you use bokashi to speed it up and remove smells for indoors? Or would it be better just to concentrate it that way and use the bin method? Good videos, great little farm you have going, thanks I'll be back to find out more.
Have you ever made this fertilizer with kitchen scraps? We have so many organic vegetable scraps, eggshells, and coffee grounds. I would love your thoughts. I have 5gal buckets,
I made banana peel,Orangepeel and apple peel fertilizer (basically my fruit scraps) let it sit for 1 week in a jar with paper towel over it then strained it and put the lid on. It's now about 3 weeks later i went to use it and when i took the lid off the jar it was bubbling and fizzing... Is that normal??? (My first time attempting to make fertilizer) not sure if that is supposed to happen and I don't want to hurt my plants..
So I am in the desert. After the first 3 days mine had the white foam and bubbles. On day 7 I used mine is that ok the foam was gone just stunk really bad and mostly broken down?
Hi there is one guy that does permaculture on youtube that says it needs to be aerated To kill any anarobic bacteria. But doesn't fermentation do that in general? And my comfort Tea is green not black. It does stink tough. And there's hardly anything left of the leaves at all. I'm confused does it need to be aerated or not? I'd like to use this stuff in a couple of weeks it's been around 4 weeks now.
thanks for the link from the insta. i even have yarrow! and comfrey in a neighbour's yard... we have "quack grass" here which is like bermuda grass on steroids. ok. now i'm not so scared. THANK YOU SUPER GARDENMAN!
How long can i store this in closed bottles in a fridge to use later on say marijuana plants? I am considering trying this as i have already tried on some plants with no adverse effects only positive. Im all about organic and free growing styles and trying new things been doing this a long time and still trying new things. I have made a few different batches with different weeds that have different nutrients and minerals makeups, very interesting fun stuff just am wondering about storing some in a fridge to use on a few plants during the winter when i can no longer make. I want to test on indoor plants. Just testing on some outdoor ones now.
Thanks for this. My own forst batch sitting around for a while. Thoughts on shelf life? Also, thoughts on applying in conjunction with water soluble calcium from eggshells? Am I going to bind up that precious calcium before it can do a little good for the clay I'm working with. This will be for soil drench uses. I have a big rainy weather front coming in so no foliar applications any time soon.
I like your content and started watching some of your videos, I have one concern for you meditate on and see if you need to change some of your advice. On other video for example Soil Food Web from Dr. Elaine, they mentioned that if we are going to the forest to take some "leaf mold" just to get 1 cup, enough to bring back an inoculate and not 5 gallons. The microbes are going to multiply, all we need is the "colony" and diversity from the forest for us to grow at home. I am worry of a lot of people going into the old forest and digging 5 gallons of soil, you know how crazy human beings can be. Again, thanks for the info and this is a respectful advice.
I make mine using river water or rain water. Some people subscribe to the idea that you can make custom batches; use zucchini leaves for your zucchini etc
Do you cover the brewer while making tea? Will it hurt the tea if you don't cover it ? Like will it lose its potency? I made a batch using dandelions and weeds..
I have 6 conifers on the property, and they leave a mess of cones. The large cones are used as winter kindling in the wood stove, but I have scads of smaller fir and spruce cones to deal with. Have you ever tried to put them into your water compost and see what happens to them? I already have a mess of weeds in my water compost; perhaps the weed 'tea' may initiate a faster breakdown of the unwanted cones?
Happy to dind your channel. Would you let that fement in a shaded area or a sunny position or does it matter? And I heard it really stinka bad. Is that true?
Any recommendations on temperatures for this? We are in a completely different growing region, and I would be afraid to start this or store this during freezing temperatures.... Is there an ideal temperature range for this process?
I’ve been trying to find information on using LAB in this to mitigate the smell and improve the quality. Kinda like a green manure Bokashi. Today I harvested a bunch of banana and thought that this could be an easier way of processing the stalk for the compost pile. Cutting up the stalk in small pieces for a hot compost pile is a must and takes a lot of time, otherwise it’s nearly impossible to turn. For those who don’t know banana plants are extremely fibrous.Not to mention I have cloths specifically for the purpose of processing banana stalk, the juice staines and never comes out. So today I hacked it up in 1’ or less pieces, stuck the leaves in whole, piled it in a blue barrel, added a couple ounces of LAB and a splash of OHN, put a cinder block on top and filled with water and locked on the lid.🤞
Updating my own comment, almost a week has past and at this point without LAB the stuff would be getting rank. This morning I slowly opened the barrel and was shocked. Not only is the material breaking down rapidly but the smell is what I can only describe as a sweet wine ferment. I will be checking it again in a week or so.
@@ja5129 gladly, it took months to show any kind of breakdown, I think that’s because of the LAB, the resulting liquid seemed to be very high in nitrogen, I used it through the winter on leafy greens and they grew very well. I have since found an easier way to compost banana stalk residue, I feed my worm farm with it. The worms absolutely love it and the resulting castings are fantastic. My goal wasn’t necessarily to create a good liquid fertilizer but rather find an easier way to compost the banana stalks. Not much easier than cut into 4’ pieces and stack into an old 5’ bathtub full of worms. Let the worms do all the work.
Great video. Do you attempt to make the lid air tight so as to promote anaerobic fermentation? Does the lid need to be air tight for anaerobic fermentation to occur or is the submersion under the water level sufficient? Would this work as well if it were aerated? Would you aerate it while the plants are in the barrel or after they have been removed?
Hi there! Great video and explanation of making this tea. I have it clear that it doesn't burn the plants if it is used in the correct 10:1 ratio. My question is how effective this fertilizer is? How do we know that really works. Is there any study about it? I am been searching the internet for answers but nothing with veracity yet:) Thanks in advance for your help!
Because it sits so long in the end it will be more of a fertilizer even though you did add those microbes. Just do JMS harvest around 36 hours when the large rings of bubbles form that's when max microbial diversity is.
All you need is a 2 inch piece of it's thick roots, or part of it's crowns. Just bury that 1-2 inches under the ground or in a pot. Wait and almost all will sprout. Crowns are faster than roots. It's one of the easiest plants in the world to propagate hehe so be care where you put it because it will come back in that spot forever unless you completely dig up all the roots.
@@NaturesAlwaysRightThank you, :) I have about 20 kg of roots with tops and i plan to plant them so i can make compost tea. I'm starting a eco market garden in Romania. I have about 4000 m2 of land right nextto a big river, I just hope it will be enought to make compost tea for all the garden. Thank's again.
Hey Steven, This is a great how to video for the people who want to have an alternative liquid fertilizer. However, to dilute your liquids to 1:10, you need to use one part of the liquid and nine parts of the water, instead of ten parts as you mentioned twice in the video. It's a common misconception, so don't worry. I just wanted to point it out for the future videos. Keep up the good work. Cheers!
Thanks man. Haha I actually looked this up to double check before making the video. I wasn't sure if it was 1:9 giving 10 total parts or 1:10. I searched and here's one thing I found downloads.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/job-skills/jo04clea/factsheet/jo04clea-l1-f-using-ratios.pdf. So I'm reading conflicting information. I do want to get this right for the next video! So if you say a 1:10 ratio then that equates to 1 part tea and 9 parts water? Is that right? Either way it's all good because making this tea, 1 part tea and 10 parts water is more conservative.
In the laboratories, we use dilution factor to prevent this misunderstanding. To find the dilution factor; you divide the final volume by the initial volume and the dilution factor is often used as the denominator of a fraction. In your case, one to ten dilution should contain 1 unit volume of your Comfrey tea + 9 unit volume of water makes the dilution factor 10 and now you can say that you diluted your liquid to 1:10. It is quite interesting that BBC published something like this. There are some scientific sources that I can share with you; abacus.bates.edu/~ganderso/biology/resources/dilutions.html ocw.ehu.eus/pluginfile.php/4715/mod_resource/content/1/Temas/1_DILUTIONS_AND_CONCENTRATIONS.pdf www.fao.org/docrep/005/ac802e/ac802e0r.htm cbs.umn.edu/sites/cbs.umn.edu/files/public/downloads/dilutiontheory.pdf www2.hawaii.edu/~johnb/micro/m140/syllabus/week/handouts/m140.7.1.htm Since the nutrient composition is not certain in the tea, you are right. It is a safer option to dilute this liquid as 1 part of the tea, and 10 parts of water and then use it. It's just not that correct to say it as one to ten ratio. Nevertheless, the main subject here is how to make a comfrey tea and you did it well. Thank you for sharing the knowledge.
I am wondering if adding brown sugar by weight would extend the shelf life of the tea. I know we do that when making Lactic Acid Bacteria serum and Fermented Plant Juice so maybe it would work with this too. The sugar stops the fermentation process and puts the live bacteria to sleep until it is diluted with water and used in the garden. Also, I do not recall your recommending using only dechlorinated water as this is a solution of live bacteria.
Ohhhh we made a nettle fertilizer in a big black bucket like the size of your red one and filled it to the top of nettles! Then water it's very very black lol would I only need a little drop per watering can?? Lol
I'd love to do a video about that sometime. It always greens the plants up the next day. Hard to do a legit side by side when I'm growing everything for sale, but I'll try to come up with some good experiments at some point.
I cut the leaves off two plants, chopped them on my cutting board, ran them through the the processor and put the minced, now small volume, greens in a pot of water.,
It is since I live in the city. I use a boogie brew plus filter to help with that. I did recently watch this which was interesting I thought, ruclips.net/video/tgvlE8YM1xI/видео.html
Can you grow grains with it? Also, if you use this kind of fertilizer for growing corn for example, would you still need to use other kind of organic fertlizers like animal poo?
Yes definitey a great way to make a large amount of fertilizer for cheap. Animal manure based compost is fantastic, I don't like using it in the fertilizer form, I'm small scale, on a large scale it makes more sense. Depends on the quality of your soil. If you have done a soil test you will know what your soil is lacking.
I don't make it very often since I'm using compost, aerated teas, and korean natural farming. But once a month for maintenance or do a soil drench before planting or to water in after transplanting.
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How often do you use it on the same plant? Every time you water it? Or just once a week/month?
Thank you! I love that you have clearly confirmed that free comfrey tea is at LEAST as nutritional as store bought organic fertilizers and compost. Also glad to know that 10:1 is not too weak, but advised.
I have been using this method for 30+ years. My determination of when it is ready is.......when it smells so bad a fly won't land on it you are good to go! Very potent!
well good to know, I had some bugs in it the first couple days even though I sealed the lid as good as I could but now it stinks very bad and im guessing the bugs that were in it died, also one question how often do you use the anaerobic fertilizer on your plants?
@@ThahnG413 Don't let the smell put you off. The plants and soil life don't care how things smell. You can use it weekly or monthly. Just observe your plants. Be sure to dilute it at least 1:10 with water. You can spray it on the leaves (1:20 dilution) or use as a drench around the roots of the plants. The longer the liquid fertilizer sits the stronger it will get. Even a year. Here's a tip and I will use tomato as the example. First, do not pull the plant from the ground at the end of the season. Cut off at soil level. Bacteria and fungi have colonized around the roots and their habitat will be destroyed if the roots are ripped out of the ground. The roots will leave channels in the soil as they decay and are consumed by other bacteria and fungi. Plant next year's tomatoes in the same spot year after year. Chop up the plants and use them for liquid fertilizer for the next year. Throw in spoiled tomatoes, leaves, branches, everything. It will contain what tomato plants need. Add a good handful of soil from around a plant to the mix.
@@raylang2996 The smell is bad but it wouldn't make me quit using it because if my plants like it that's all the reason I need, also thanks for the root tip it probably explains why my wildflower bed has a different sort of feel because I chopped and dropped that one but I usually pull my veggies out.
Every time I need info on how to do things on my farm, your channel is always in my recommendation. Thanks man love your content
This guy has SO MANY HELPFUL TIPS! I appreciate this channel very much. thanks buddy! I’m on my very first year of gardening and I’m soaking up all the info I can. This tea fertilizer is something I’m definitely going to try.
Add a few handfuls of leaf mold from your area it helps give you beneficial organisms in your soil. Search JLF or Jadam
Nature is 100% always right !
If you have plants you want pollinating in the garden, make sure you cut back your comfrey before it flowers. Bees will go for comfrey by preference and will often ignore other plants.
I have 40 gallon covered barrels with just some scrunched up chicken wire mesh for drainage and a spigot at the bottom. Rough chop the comfrey and ram it tight into the drum ... do not add water ! ..... if this left in the sun the comfrey will decompose pretty quick and a black liquid will come out the bottom. This is a great tomato, flowering and fruiting plant, and general fertilizer and needs diluting by at least 5 to 1 in the watering can. This method is far less smelly than submerging comfrey in water. The level of comfrey drops considerably, so for the next few weeks I just keep adding more. I have a large comfrey plot and most years have 3 barrels on the go. Every year or so I treat the comfrey bed with some cow muck and composted wood chip.
*Articles and more videos about Comfrey tea if you would like to learn more.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gardening-blog/2009/jun/15/gardens
www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/herbs/comfrey/comfrey-fertilizer-information.htm
ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=how+to+make+comfrey+tea
My grandparents were farmers on Long Island, NY back in the early 1900s. They used weeds to make such a brew. Clip off the roots, crush up the stems & leaves, then wait for nature to do its thing. And to this day I do the same. Thank you for keeping this simple but potent technique current!
Why no roots?
@@mezenman I would guess so you don't reintroduce the weed to the crop. A lot of weeds spread via root and seed.
Interesting, I saw this same process on “Organic Edible Garden” almost a year ago. It would be a valuable tool, also cost saving.
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Cheap fertilizer...I love this concept. Now to make the barrel. Thanks for your efforts!
I will make also grass tea just you done thank you!
Thanx for sharing!! I still have JLF from last year I dont know what to do with so now I will put it on my compost pile. This years JLF I need to strain!😬 Thank you for sharing these videos
Adding this to my "to test" list. Love it dude and may need to steal some comfrey from ya :)
It's super potent stuff! Really greens up plants after use.
My personal fav. 11:22, they are all like hey, what's goin' on, kinda like my dog when I garden in the back yard. Thank you for all your knowledge, I subd.
I like this liquid fertilizer for my potted plants like grapevines and guavas.
Thanks for sharing. I am going to make some for my garden
Are we missing a trick with comfrey tea (or compost tea from other plants decomposed by anaerobic digestion)? My point is that the resulting "compost tea" must be diluted to a 1:10 ratio because using at 1:1 is likely to be too strong & kill the plants being treated. Therefore, is it not possible to use the 1:1 ratio as a weedkiller in several treatments to remove unwanted plants ?
Has anyone tried this idea intentionally, or by accident, or have there been any botanical studies of this idea to determine whether it could be an effective application on a general range of weeds, or unwanted grasses? (However, I suspect that the toughest, deepest rooted grasses would be impervious).
Lovin the background sounds. Awesome tips, thank u..
This video was very satisfying lol.
i wonder if you dried that out and scraped it up could it be used like other dry amendments
Thanks for sharing, this was really useful 🙏
What about adding a simple sugar for food source.
this is cool, i normally use my compost for tea but this is interesting.
Yes this is just another type of tea, but not aerated. You can also aerate this tea as well if you want. Depending on how you make them compost/worm aerated teas are usually best used for adding more microbiology and some nutrients. This type of cold fermentation is great for concentrated nutrients, easy and free!
I use the empty cattle lick tubs (22 gal) to garden and the potting mix in them is 3 years old. I should have growing cover crops during fall/winter but I just learned that. My compost has always been rabbit manure. I am worried that after 3 years Im missing a lot of micronutrients. I am creating the fertilizer that your doing in this video but I still have 2 weeks for my first batch. Have you ever used black strap molasses to replenish? I am thinking about about using it as a foliar spray as well as watering the soil. Im in Tulsa and we have had so much rain, Im pretty sure the rain has washed all the beneficial stuff out. Not sure what else I could do. Thanks for always teaching.
So cool. I have been doing this for about a month. Just yarrow and comfrey. So neat to see someone else doing the same thing. Only thing is is that i wasn't diluting it:0 no probs yets. I was looking all over the internet to see if anyone else was doing confrey and yarrow and i found you. My roses love it!!!
Nice love to hear it's working well for you! Those plants are awesome
could you use bokashi to speed it up and remove smells for indoors? Or would it be better just to concentrate it that way and use the bin method? Good videos, great little farm you have going, thanks I'll be back to find out more.
Do you cover the lid on top with drilling hole or cover with fine mesh to prevent mosquito lay eggs inside. I have a ton of mosquitoes here in summer.
Very useful video. It’s nice to know how to make free fertilizer! Thank you!😀🌵
Glad to hear it! I'll be making a lot more videos about making cheap homemade natural nutrients in the future.
So how long kast a vermi compost tea and what is best way to preserve it
Have you ever made this fertilizer with kitchen scraps? We have so many organic vegetable scraps, eggshells, and coffee grounds. I would love your thoughts. I have 5gal buckets,
Did you ever try it? It’s usually best to use plant material in your gardens
thanks for the video. how often should you use the tea to water your garden? thank you
Have you ever made the tar from comfrey? Trying it this year!
You could use a paint mixer to help break-down the plant material!!
I made banana peel,Orangepeel and apple peel fertilizer (basically my fruit scraps) let it sit for 1 week in a jar with paper towel over it then strained it and put the lid on. It's now about 3 weeks later i went to use it and when i took the lid off the jar it was bubbling and fizzing... Is that normal??? (My first time attempting to make fertilizer) not sure if that is supposed to happen and I don't want to hurt my plants..
What ya got there is suphuric acid an it'll destroy every goddam plant it comes in contact with.
Any worry of E. coli bacteria being applied to your food? Great videos!
How often should you give them this? Every watering? Once a week? I always make grass clipping tea just dont know how much i should be giving them.
Another great video. Thank you
So I am in the desert. After the first 3 days mine had the white foam and bubbles. On day 7 I used mine is that ok the foam was gone just stunk really bad and mostly broken down?
Hi there is one guy that does permaculture on youtube that says it needs to be aerated To kill any anarobic bacteria. But doesn't fermentation do that in general? And my comfort Tea is green not black. It does stink tough. And there's hardly anything left of the leaves at all. I'm confused does it need to be aerated or not? I'd like to use this stuff in a couple of weeks it's been around 4 weeks now.
It’s like making vinegar 💝 I can do this
could this tea be use in its concentrated for as the nitrogen additive for prepping hay bale raised beds?
Yes
thanks for the link from the insta. i even have yarrow! and comfrey in a neighbour's yard... we have "quack grass" here which is like bermuda grass on steroids. ok. now i'm not so scared. THANK YOU SUPER GARDENMAN!
How long can i store this in closed bottles in a fridge to use later on say marijuana plants? I am considering trying this as i have already tried on some plants with no adverse effects only positive. Im all about organic and free growing styles and trying new things been doing this a long time and still trying new things. I have made a few different batches with different weeds that have different nutrients and minerals makeups, very interesting fun stuff just am wondering about storing some in a fridge to use on a few plants during the winter when i can no longer make. I want to test on indoor plants. Just testing on some outdoor ones now.
can I mix some IMO and EM to that to speed up the process?
Thanks for this. My own forst batch sitting around for a while. Thoughts on shelf life?
Also, thoughts on applying in conjunction with water soluble calcium from eggshells?
Am I going to bind up that precious calcium before it can do a little good for the clay I'm working with. This will be for soil drench uses. I have a big rainy weather front coming in so no foliar applications any time soon.
I like your content and started watching some of your videos, I have one concern for you meditate on and see if you need to change some of your advice. On other video for example Soil Food Web from Dr. Elaine, they mentioned that if we are going to the forest to take some "leaf mold" just to get 1 cup, enough to bring back an inoculate and not 5 gallons. The microbes are going to multiply, all we need is the "colony" and diversity from the forest for us to grow at home. I am worry of a lot of people going into the old forest and digging 5 gallons of soil, you know how crazy human beings can be. Again, thanks for the info and this is a respectful advice.
I make mine using river water or rain water. Some people subscribe to the idea that you can make custom batches; use zucchini leaves for your zucchini etc
Always excellent.
Thank you for the information video. Can i make liquid fertilizer from Sesbania and sunn hemp leaves ( one of the best for nitrogen). Awaitng Reply
It helps to take a bucket and dip into it and pour back into it and put air into it.
how often can you water with the tea? daily/ weekly/daily/?
Awesome video cheers
What if I airated this tea while brewing. Would that enhance the formula?
Legends say he used that fertilizer on his eyebrows
ever run an analysis on it to see what the ppm are for your macros and minors as well as suitability?
do any type of weeds and grasses can be use as fertilizer tea?
Yes any vigorous growing grass or weed will work great. There are a few plants like daffodil you should avoid because of the toxin in them.
Do you cover the brewer while making tea? Will it hurt the tea if you don't cover it ? Like will it lose its potency? I made a batch using dandelions and weeds..
I have 6 conifers on the property, and they leave a mess of cones. The large cones are used as winter kindling in the wood stove, but I have scads of smaller fir and spruce cones to deal with. Have you ever tried to put them into your water compost and see what happens to them? I already have a mess of weeds in my water compost; perhaps the weed 'tea' may initiate a faster breakdown of the unwanted cones?
Happy to dind your channel. Would you let that fement in a shaded area or a sunny position or does it matter? And I heard it really stinka bad. Is that true?
Any recommendations on temperatures for this? We are in a completely different growing region, and I would be afraid to start this or store this during freezing temperatures.... Is there an ideal temperature range for this process?
A weed eater works wonders in a barrel and for cutting it up nice and fine
I’ve been trying to find information on using LAB in this to mitigate the smell and improve the quality. Kinda like a green manure Bokashi. Today I harvested a bunch of banana and thought that this could be an easier way of processing the stalk for the compost pile. Cutting up the stalk in small pieces for a hot compost pile is a must and takes a lot of time, otherwise it’s nearly impossible to turn. For those who don’t know banana plants are extremely fibrous.Not to mention I have cloths specifically for the purpose of processing banana stalk, the juice staines and never comes out. So today I hacked it up in 1’ or less pieces, stuck the leaves in whole, piled it in a blue barrel, added a couple ounces of LAB and a splash of OHN, put a cinder block on top and filled with water and locked on the lid.🤞
Updating my own comment, almost a week has past and at this point without LAB the stuff would be getting rank. This morning I slowly opened the barrel and was shocked. Not only is the material breaking down rapidly but the smell is what I can only describe as a sweet wine ferment. I will be checking it again in a week or so.
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Hi,
Can you kindly give us your update on the banana stem fertiliser..?
@@ja5129 gladly, it took months to show any kind of breakdown, I think that’s because of the LAB, the resulting liquid seemed to be very high in nitrogen, I used it through the winter on leafy greens and they grew very well. I have since found an easier way to compost banana stalk residue, I feed my worm farm with it. The worms absolutely love it and the resulting castings are fantastic. My goal wasn’t necessarily to create a good liquid fertilizer but rather find an easier way to compost the banana stalks. Not much easier than cut into 4’ pieces and stack into an old 5’ bathtub full of worms. Let the worms do all the work.
Awesome! Was wondering this exact thing
Great video. Do you attempt to make the lid air tight so as to promote anaerobic fermentation? Does the lid need to be air tight for anaerobic fermentation to occur or is the submersion under the water level sufficient? Would this work as well if it were aerated? Would you aerate it while the plants are in the barrel or after they have been removed?
Airtight unless you like the smell 🤮
Do you know the NPK ratio for comfrey tea?
How often do you use it? Once a week? And you can use this throughout the year?
Thanks for a great instructional vodeo. May i ask the sorce of the terracotta plastic barrel? Is it new or upcycled?
From a local company that resells them.
@@NaturesAlwaysRight thanks. What was the original purpose of that sort of barrel?
Can you include a list or a good link to find additional “accumulator” type plants?? Thank you
I throw it in a old plastic ben and cram the weed whackee in there. Makes a mess. but works pretty well.
Hi there! Great video and explanation of making this tea. I have it clear that it doesn't burn the plants if it is used in the correct 10:1 ratio. My question is how effective this fertilizer is? How do we know that really works. Is there any study about it? I am been searching the internet for answers but nothing with veracity yet:)
Thanks in advance for your help!
Look up Scott head black gumbo gardening. He has a video where he uses compost tea and fish emulsion side by side as a comparison.
Can you use borage instead?
Wow, those are quite the caterpillars...liquid fertilizer?
Saw a guy who added leaf mold to his batch, would that give it an extra microbial kick?
Because it sits so long in the end it will be more of a fertilizer even though you did add those microbes. Just do JMS harvest around 36 hours when the large rings of bubbles form that's when max microbial diversity is.
Great video
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Where can I get comfrey plants or seeds? Thanks for any help..
Followed a link from the JADAM video. Is this one of those low cost Korean farming methods?
Now can I use tap water or do I have to use RO water or distilled to wake this tea
RO will work right away. Tap you should aerate it for at least 4 hours to remove chlorine and chloramine
Do you have a faucet on the bottom of that trash can? If so do you have a video of how you did that?
Sorry I asked before the end of the video
what do you know about propagation for comfrey. is it ok if i take iti from the ground and transplant it in my garden?
All you need is a 2 inch piece of it's thick roots, or part of it's crowns. Just bury that 1-2 inches under the ground or in a pot. Wait and almost all will sprout. Crowns are faster than roots. It's one of the easiest plants in the world to propagate hehe so be care where you put it because it will come back in that spot forever unless you completely dig up all the roots.
@@NaturesAlwaysRightThank you, :) I have about 20 kg of roots with tops and i plan to plant them so i can make compost tea. I'm starting a eco market garden in Romania. I have about 4000 m2 of land right nextto a big river, I just hope it will be enought to make compost tea for all the garden. Thank's again.
Hey Steven,
This is a great how to video for the people who want to have an alternative liquid fertilizer.
However, to dilute your liquids to 1:10, you need to use one part of the liquid and nine parts of the water, instead of ten parts as you mentioned twice in the video.
It's a common misconception, so don't worry. I just wanted to point it out for the future videos.
Keep up the good work.
Cheers!
Thanks man. Haha I actually looked this up to double check before making the video. I wasn't sure if it was 1:9 giving 10 total parts or 1:10. I searched and here's one thing I found downloads.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/job-skills/jo04clea/factsheet/jo04clea-l1-f-using-ratios.pdf. So I'm reading conflicting information. I do want to get this right for the next video! So if you say a 1:10 ratio then that equates to 1 part tea and 9 parts water? Is that right? Either way it's all good because making this tea, 1 part tea and 10 parts water is more conservative.
In the laboratories, we use dilution factor to prevent this misunderstanding. To find the dilution factor; you divide the final volume by the initial volume and the dilution factor is often used as the denominator of a fraction. In your case, one to ten dilution should contain 1 unit volume of your Comfrey tea + 9 unit volume of water makes the dilution factor 10 and now you can say that you diluted your liquid to 1:10.
It is quite interesting that BBC published something like this. There are some scientific sources that I can share with you;
abacus.bates.edu/~ganderso/biology/resources/dilutions.html
ocw.ehu.eus/pluginfile.php/4715/mod_resource/content/1/Temas/1_DILUTIONS_AND_CONCENTRATIONS.pdf
www.fao.org/docrep/005/ac802e/ac802e0r.htm
cbs.umn.edu/sites/cbs.umn.edu/files/public/downloads/dilutiontheory.pdf
www2.hawaii.edu/~johnb/micro/m140/syllabus/week/handouts/m140.7.1.htm
Since the nutrient composition is not certain in the tea, you are right. It is a safer option to dilute this liquid as 1 part of the tea, and 10 parts of water and then use it. It's just not that correct to say it as one to ten ratio. Nevertheless, the main subject here is how to make a comfrey tea and you did it well.
Thank you for sharing the knowledge.
@@eremnezihgulsoylu5235 Thanks Erem I really appreciate you taking the time to explain it to me, I understand now.
I can smell it on my screen.
I thnik he's feeding his eyebrows with it!
How'd you know!?
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His eye brows are awesome! Mine are thinning out :(
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can this be used every time you water?
Is it a problem with this going anaerobic? And I feel like I wouldn’t want to add anaerobes to my soil
mix it with air until the smell is gone. That bacteria will be gone quickly
Back and forth bucket to bucket. Once oxygenated it is fine.
Thanks for the INFO
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I am wondering if adding brown sugar by weight would extend the shelf life of the tea. I know we do that when making Lactic Acid Bacteria serum and Fermented Plant Juice so maybe it would work with this too. The sugar stops the fermentation process and puts the live bacteria to sleep until it is diluted with water and used in the garden. Also, I do not recall your recommending using only dechlorinated water as this is a solution of live bacteria.
Rain water or filtered water chlorine will evaporate but chloramine will not.
Yeah I use river water from the local creek (rural Tasmania).
No leaf mold? :-)
Ohhhh we made a nettle fertilizer in a big black bucket like the size of your red one and filled it to the top of nettles! Then water it's very very black lol would I only need a little drop per watering can?? Lol
It's ok just watched you fill the watering can I think I should be safe with mine :)
We want to see the result of using it . Thanks
I'd love to do a video about that sometime. It always greens the plants up the next day. Hard to do a legit side by side when I'm growing everything for sale, but I'll try to come up with some good experiments at some point.
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Thanks for your respond 🌱
Can I ditch the store bought fertilizer and just use comfrey tea and worm and compost teas?
yes 100%. I'd add in compost to your mix too.
Absolutely! You can add cover crops, mulch, and compost in addition to the teas to help the soil food web in your garden.
How about the smell
What about bad bacteria, is that a problem?
I cut the leaves off two plants, chopped them on my cutting board, ran them through the the processor and put the minced, now small volume, greens in a pot of water.,
is your water chlorinated? should never use treated water. perhaps you mentioned that ,nice channel by the way!!
It is since I live in the city. I use a boogie brew plus filter to help with that. I did recently watch this which was interesting I thought, ruclips.net/video/tgvlE8YM1xI/видео.html
Can you grow grains with it? Also, if you use this kind of fertilizer for growing corn for example, would you still need to use other kind of organic fertlizers like animal poo?
Yes definitey a great way to make a large amount of fertilizer for cheap. Animal manure based compost is fantastic, I don't like using it in the fertilizer form, I'm small scale, on a large scale it makes more sense. Depends on the quality of your soil. If you have done a soil test you will know what your soil is lacking.
Love the channel.but is it just me or with that hat you look like luffy from One Piece?
That who he reminds me of lololol
Do you recommend Chop n drop or tea?
Both are great
So Question....how often do you use it to water your garden, daily, once a week, once a month, ??? Thanks
I don't make it very often since I'm using compost, aerated teas, and korean natural farming. But once a month for maintenance or do a soil drench before planting or to water in after transplanting.