Compost Tea for Growing BIG Vegetables
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- Опубликовано: 29 мар 2012
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When you maximize the soil potential, you maximize the plant potential.
- 46 lb celery
- 18 lb carrots
- 35 lb cabbage
- 60 lb swiss chard
- 35 lb zucchini
- 40 potatoes from 1 plant
Healthy plants resists bugs and slugs from eating them. Plants that don't have to spend energy fighting off pests and diseases can focus all their resources on growing bigger. And if you maximize the soil's potential, it will maximize the plant's potential.
Feed the soil, not the plant. Using compost tea to deliver the nutritional equivalent of 500 lbs of compost. All the micro-organisms in the soil are stimulated to such a high point that they give the plant the maximum food for it's production. And more food for the soil means bigger, tastier, healthier veggies. In fact, they are ultra healthy, as measured by their brixx level, which is the amount of plant sugar they contain. In the grocery store, most plants have a Brixx level of between 6 and 10. These plants weigh in at a whopping 20, which means they taste more than twice as good, and are not stringy.
When the compost tea, it causes a bio-film that protects the plant from diseases and insects. Get the largest yield possible. To get their special formula, go to www.bountea.com
Applying Compost Tea is a simple way to grow food in greater abundance. Anyone can do it, once you learn how.
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Compost Tea Recipe : handful of aged cow manure: molasses 40-100ml: 40g epsom salt: worm castings(handful). Native Soil three handfuls: 20 ml fish emulsion. Bubble in 20 litres then make 1:10 dilution and add to the garden & USE BEFORE HEAVY Rain !
From where did you get the ingredients amounts ?
@@wessamsaifeldin6715that seems like just general compost /compost tea ingredients. The fact hes a world record means hes doing something slightly different or found the golden ratio plants crave xD
Well, the tea may help, but I lived up there and Palmer is famous for its huge veggies, whether you use tea or not, the 19 hours of sunlight right up to Midnight in June, the glacial rich organic soils of the Matanuska Valley makes Palmer the world record holder for growing mammouth veggies.
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Yes it is also Fairbanks
Quite interesting. I've spent time in Palmer and was impressed with the amazing gardens. Long cool days and rich, glacial soil make gardening look easy. It's a a short intense season but conditions are nearly laboratory perfect for cool season gardening. Here in Georgia I've been developing a garden method that is turning out well. Since I drive a dump truck , I find dairy farms with composted manure and layer my garden about a foot thick. And then comes the secret. The local feed mill has scraps that can be bought for less than .08 a lb. Cover your compost with an inch of corn meal/ soybean meal scraps and your entire garden becomes a wormbed.
So basically you doing Back to eden gardening. Your own version of it but basically the same, but compost teas would super charge your garden.
This video is so inspiring and encouraging. I just started my vermiculture project and thinking of making compost tea for my vegetables and fruit trees. This really save a lot of money and learning to apply an organic and natural fertilizer are a lot of advantage. I learn a lot from this video. Thank you John.
Why oh why have so many folks gave this video thumbs down ? .. This chap is a gardening genius !! What is up with these people .. Jealousy ? It has to be .. Anyway its good to see these old timers showing how to grow big healthy veg instead of the GM crap that's spreading cancer into people.
They may be city folks,or his competitor!! Or simply jealous, lazy people . Lol
is it because he doesn't give the recipe away, but is a commercial?
Maybe it's because he didn't post this tea recipe ..
They watched 5 seconds and didn't like the music.
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Man seems noone caught the brix portion. Man he grows some beautiful plants that are nutritious HIGH BRIX 20+ that means it taste better and has more nutrients. The high brix is more impressive than the size and health of the plants. That is the benefit of organic gardening well one of many benefits.
+Jack Class Brix is truly the best.High brix means less additives to flavor your food,because they are already high flavor from the plants.
Check out his rows of soil he's planting in, they're like 2-3ft high raised beds and the consistency of the soil looks choice, that's a huge part of the secret right there... the compost tea is good too...
Of course he won't tell you the secret because he wants all of the Guinness records.
The wax on leaves I read contains tricontanol which is the secret when he uses it when making compost tea. There is a lot in kelp.
David Hefner it's also abundant in Alfalfa
Ahh
I wondered about it ?
Most aren't lucky enough to start with the rich soil of the Matanuska valley, and at least twelve hours of sunlight for the growing season.... Geography does play a part in successful gardening.
NOT TO MENTION Alaska has impeccable sandy soil for root systems with pristine metals as well !
Heres the reason why his plants are thriving.
Its all about the particle size, availability and amount of the base nutrients.
The filaments at the ends of the roots of plants are tiny and also harbor a symbiote fungus, the role of the fungus is to reduce the size of available minerals and nutrients that the plant requires to grow.
His mixture contains compost, MICRO nutrients, sugars and bacteria.
The sugar feed the bacteria the bacteria break down the micro nutrient to COLLOIDAL nutrients(very very micro small) these smallest of sized of micro nutrients are what the plant will thrive on.
You can also see the effect of the bacteria begin to transform the local soil into better hydrating, deeper profile and better ph as the bacteria and fungus are breaking down rock to soil.
Hence eating this food provides all the same increases as the plant received.
I've seen my neighbour do this and his plants are incredibly large and healthy. Gotta give this a try.
What he also doesn't explicitly say is that that plants that he sows are selected for genetic strains that grow larger than average. Know what happens if you sow carrots in compost and water daily with compost tea? You get the hairiest, most mis-shapen (yet quite edible) carrots. You literally have to "shave" them before you process them.
Oh my God! I'm impressed with the size of his plants. Well done, Sir. You've got my respect!
And the sun stays out longer, thats a big part of the equation!
You got a great garden. Anything from plants helps the plants grow. But nothing is better than a fish in the soil.
+chefgiovanni "Nothing is better than fish in the soil"? I strongly disagree.Animal manures are the cheapest,laziest,low nutrition,form of compost.
Keepskatin
You might be correct. It is easier to get too
chefgiovanni Yes you are right that "Nothing is better than a fish in the soil " I just raised my small garden two month ago and use marine resources for plant like sea weed , crabs and fish for manure . Creeping grass found at shore ( green compost ).Only those nutrients and my cabbages, tomatoes and cucumber were grow so fast and bearing fruits now and some of my cabbages had sold . I use sand from the beach / shore .
It helps to have almost 20 hours or light most of the summer
Airy soil. Look at decomposed wood chip and mushroom compost. Shown on growing your greens. They grow stuff just like this . You need big roots to grow big plants
You certainly know how to feed your plants...I have great results with my indoor plants giving them a drink of strong tea every other day.
I love this video, I started harvesting my compost and worm castings. I will be applying compost tea using this method. Thank you in sharing this video.
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"Here's the secret to my success." (Doesn't tell us the secret.)
Long summer days.
I'm Gonna play around with some natural ingredients this year. God bless all who keep it organic.
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@Kiwalabyetimothyshsh 6 years ago. Ugh! What a change. Small garden the past 4 years. Didn't do much tea. I bought a fertilizer bottle that lasted 3 years. Now, I have guinea pigs for fertilizer and composting as well.
You are the MAN !!!! How do you keep the animals out?
I wish I could grow in Alaska, the soil is probably already chock-full of trace minerals
i dont know his secret but what i found to grow big veggi is septic water mixed with cow manure and i had the same results
What is septic water ?
There's a lot of na sayers here trying to come up with all kinds of excuses, the truth is this works and it works big time, this will help any gardener successful ones included.
I grew I big cabbage that weighed 20 lbs. it takes longer to grow big vegetable but you increase the chance of insects destroying your crop towards the end of summer when you harvest.
I've been using bountea Alaskan forest humis for years, nothing can compare to it.
+Jared Paul thanks for the snoop, i'll look for something like that
Jared Paul Where can I get it
@@charlesedsall6648 did you ever find out were to purchase it from? Thanks in advance.
to be able to grow veggies like that in Alaska is amazing the life is in the soil ( feed the soil not the plant) but weather & sunlight are still a huge element. Microbes are key bacterial & fungal teas. LOTS OF INFORMATION in JADAM farming & Korean natural farming!! lots of videos
Hi, almost sure what is in it. Molasses for the sugar, blood & bone meal, dried poultry manure and something for the nitrogen (used coffee grains work well, rinse them after use to get rid of acidity). Also you can use powdered milk. There is also magnesium that gives a blue green to leaves. Most commercial fertilisers focus on NPK. The more minerals in balance the healthier the plant. This is low strength biological fertilizer. Given often. Need more info them message me. Cheers.
It is also the spacing. Look at those leeks. He is planting in a single row per bed spaced at 3 or 4 feet between plants. Read "Gardening when it counts" to be convinced how extensive planting produce so much more. Since I plant extensively all my corn tillers and I get 4 large ears per plant.
I'm sure the vegetation he grows still contain all of the nutrients and vitamins naturally occurring because of his organic green thumb and space. I am familiar with natural gardening. While they don't grow that big, they grow big enough and are not water lodged unlike the ones at the grocery. So it's not unlikely that a trained green thumb could produce such a lush garden. Your compost is key. :)
If he wanted us to know, then why didn't he tell us the special ingredients he adds to the compost tea besides sugar? And what amounts, etcetera, so that we would have the secret. Does he provide the specifics for the secret for the world in another video?
Andi some people don't want to teach, but is so easy, all you need is:
DRY
1 part bokashi [Activated]
1 part IMO4[Activated]
1 part MM5A [Mountain Microorganism Activated]
1 part rock dust OR Agriculture Epson Salt
LIQUID
1 part FFJ[Fermented Fruit Juice]
1 part FPJ[Fermented Plant Juice]
1 part EM1[Effective Microorganism Activated]
1 part Molasses
Water NO Chlorinated [Fill the Rest of the Container]
You put in a Cloth Bag all the Dry Ingredients, then put the liquid ingredients, fill the rest with water, for 250 Gal 1 lb each of Dry Material, 1 Gal each Liquid Material.
APPLICATION
10 cc x 18 gallons of water for veggies & herbs, 1 time a week
39 cc x 18 gallons of water for fruit trees 1 time a month,
P.S.
You can get the formulas here in RUclips or Google.
We use this in our farm for more than 100 years and believe me the production of everything from A to Z is fantastic, some times we add few more things, but this is The Main Mother Culture for everything,!
I hope this help a lot of people to get a great production!
GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
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“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime”.
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They told you... Compost (worm castings or w/e), "micronutrients" = rock dust, and bacteria (plenty in the compost or add an innoculant). You don't need an expensive brewer, 5gal bucket and decent air pump like an EcoPlus Commercial 1. Toss in some molasses and oats for extra food for the microherd. Bubble 24-48hrs.
kodeshian1 18 watts is enough for a 5 gal? What about for a typical rain barrel size bucket? Do you dilute it after? How often and how much would you apply? And foliar or to roots or both?
Andi Amador i have never in my life seen someone spell etc.you are a true champion mate.
Look up open compost tea recipe
ROFL! Can you imagine opening a grocery store with these?!
WoW, John, your garden just gorgeous!!!!
thats what i have been doing too, its just here where i live its SUPER hot and dry during the summer so getting giant alien like veggies is super hard to do. this summer im going to TRY to get better vegetables with compost tea and a lot of hard work.
amazing! wow! some great tips! thank you John! I have found putting digging hay and grass cuttings brings excellent nutrients for the soil. Make sure you make your own compost also! don't shop buy, unless purely organic, you can do more damage to soil in the long term!
They start showing mix @ 5:10 FYI
Tea&sprayn leaves is where its at grew biggest colas of my life foliar feedn👍😁
Extra Long summer days help, but I'll try it with tea this summer.
ya i read the coments and still agree that its good for all humanity to share freely all info, ya i used horse manure tee with good results, but i find its real inportant to have good fluffy soil that seems to make the most inprovement, leaves are great
well some arnt but mapple tree leave are great
That's a pretty amazing plant he's got there that can grow 6 different varieties of vegetable...
Well done was a pleasure to watch the video. should be a more of it.
Gave this a try last year, works well, 7 kilo of tomato on 1 plant & grew the size of apples.. the plant was Money Maker, so shouldn't have grown fruit that large. Also worked wonders on my butternut squash plant, leafs spanning 15inches + !! Fruits bigger than any I've clapped my eyes on.
Guess the saying goes: Don't knock it, till you try it.
Thanks to this gentleman's example, I will be adding COMPOST TEA to my "Green" vocabulary. Yes indeed.
Hi unkle Jonh i hope you a good day and a good feel with Compos tea,,
What sugars and nutrients? Commercial fertilizer? I prefer not to use commercial fertilizer. I have a gravel area around my shop, and had a problem with weeds that herbicides won't kill. I found too little gravel on top of the dirt. But the dirt was loose enough to scrape up about 3 inches of dirt and gravel. If sifted out the gravel, and got about 3 cubic yards of soil. I was curious as to how good this soil is. In late July I planted a few squash and okra seeds just to see what would happen. Wow! humongous plants. May be too late for a crop. But I just wanted to see how good the soil is.
Also, use rainwater instead of chlorine, fluoride, etc city water. But even rainwater is polluted with barium, aluminum oxides that our government denies spraying in the chemtrails.
Blackstrap molasses is a good source of the sugars required, the rest is just worm poo (plus whatever secret ingredients John uses) You can find videos all over RUclips on how to make worm tea, it's totally organic, no pesticides or added fertilizers. If you find Liquid Gold (real worm tea) in the shops for sale - don't buy it. Real liquid gold can only be made and used almost immediately because it is a living culture. If it's in a bottle on a shop shelf it's dead - or a rip off imitation
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Food, money, however, you just shared knowledge, too! What many people, with few resources don't have. They need to know.
I wonder how many times he has to put on the compost tea. This looks freakin' amazing!
Ive tested it. 100% working!
Again and again, to see non-stop!
What an AMAZING harvest!
if i find another video as great as this ill sleep outside!!
that's fantastic John, you are the best gardener I have ever seen
Awesome Giant Veggies. Good Luck.
Warm greetings from South Africa. Your plants look amazing.
Please can u share the recipe for the compost tea, I cannot access link
Jesse, EXACTLY! God I'm so happy I just found this video. I want to get into aquaponics in the next few months in my next apartment... and compost tea works well as a supplement to add to the aquaponics systems, too, from everything I've heard. Now I know to spray the leaves for that biofilm wax protection! Sounds kinda like nature's antibiotics for plants. I'm impressed.
I agree, a farmer that wants to label his products "Organic" must pay for approval , where one using corporate chemical products does not. there is another term one can use, but not as popular, "Biodynamic" or use "naturally grown", the word "organic" seems to have become "owned". growing naturally does not have to be more expensive than commercially grown, in reality it could actually cost less.
Keep in mind that he has been working the same soil for a long time by adding organic material. I have the same issue with dead soil, the more organic material added, the better your results will be. I also have worms to make awesome compost tea, it fixed my lawn into a lush playground and killed all the grubs lol
Only problem is the larger the veggies the less flavor and tougher they get most the time. Used to grow large zucchini growing up that were over 2 feet long but they had seeds the size of a pumpkins but not quit as tough. Fun though to have a few giant veggies to give to people.
Its cause hes in Alaska too. During the grow season the recieve almost 24 hours of sunlight. look it up.
*Real secret of amazing vegetables starts at **5:05*
You have to have FOOD and MONEY to make compost. You have to be able to buy the food, to make your own compost or to buy your own compost. It would be a great gift to make and give it to those that cannot make it. Africa is not the only place that has starving people.
Day length does matter.
Alaska has some fine volcanic soil in combination with compost tea you will some very nice big outstanding veggies.
I love this! I wish I could grow any one of these in Vegas!! heehee Thanks!!
Holly crap u r the man!!! That the biggest beet I have ever seen in the tittle sequence... Wow!!!!
I know that compost tea is awesome but you do grow giant species of each vegetable so genetics play a huge role also arent the days up in Alaska during growing season like 16+ hours a day
Absolutely amazing... Would certainly like the recipe, for sure :) Checking out the website as well. Thanks for posting the video...
Microbes Rule. Happy microbes = Happy plants. Nice vid @foodAbudance, thanks.
My Medical Cannabis proves the growth balance differential hypothesis to be correct. I'm editing a Microbe/ soil relationship vid for my youtube atm
This video was filmed with one of his award winning giant potatoes.
yeah ok he uses compost tea and that stuff is amazing, but come on he lives in Alaska its BEAUTIFUL up there! try doing that here in the desert where i live with the clay soil.
Compost tea will help plants absorb much needed nutrients through the leaves and the soil but these results are quite deceiving because Alaska has a very short growing season but they have 24 hours of sunlight in the summertime which is what helps them grow HUGE plants or crops. With all of that sun, they plants are constantly in a growth phase.
some heroes don't wear capes . thank so much Sir.
I think the compost is made with chopped seaweed, ground bones, manure.
Boy I sure would like some of his seeds! Perhaps then I would get bigger veggies! I dont get the same results as he has.
It helps having a very long photoperiod too.
Holy catfish! I took a class on growing enormous pumpkins! Fun stuff.
Sounds as if he doesnt want to give out his complete secret as everyone knows about adding molasses.
I would like to know what are John's ingredients for his compost tea, thanks
I love it if u don't love growing them u don't see the humor he gave you the secret know it's up to you to find out the right potion
Great clip thanks. I've been using garden tea for years - excellent. But I'll try the diffuser thanks. Some people suggest warming it too. Any comment please?
Congratulations on the Guinness records. Not sure I want my vegies quite that big though!
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I can think of 2 ways his veggies get that big: 1. His soil is good and airy and that may be to the compost or native soil and 2. I don't think it's the compost tea necessarily doing the trick, I think it could be the aerator. It adds some oxygen into the water and that in combination with loose soil could be gold mine considering he likely has the right nutrients. Still, 19hr days would complete the job lol.
With all his awards he must know what he' s talking about.
wow these are all great. have you tried tomatoes with this tea?
The video is from a show called Gardening by the Yard. Unfortunately its no longer on TV. However the host Paul James has a few videos on youtube.
I agree but his veggies did rate higher then average store verities for sweetness witch in older fruit tends to fade out witch is saying something. But I still agree with your statement in general.
I need some of that special tea!
starts at 3:40
We grow big units in Badsey
Thanks for sharing such a fantastic tip.
great video, thanks
ive being growing with hydroponics for years, it grows big veggies but the quality and taste dont compare to soil based veggies.
AMAZING! What I would like to know John can Azomite rock dust powder form be added to the mix? I know powder form of molasses or liquid form works, but can rock dust be another ingredient that would be beneficial when mixed to compost tea or just add rock dust alone straight to the soil before adding compost tea.
This is a Commercial full of plastic plants- the grass is AstroTurf
There giant because it stays light out so long in the day in summer in Alaska.
+Brendan Johnson Yes, but the intensity of the light is lower than it would have been if grown closer to the equator. Judging by the temperatures in the north (even summer temperatures with longer days), I'd say plants near the equator still get more light.
True that is one of the best reason
they allow 15% for organics in California.....been doing this long before organics was formed...just saying with 40 years in the industry with rice and production tree commodities, organics has become a game of paying the price to get certified when you know your products are virgin minerals then there is no question to organics thats why we are all natural...jus saying from someone that grew up in the 70's in a family that served a very early start in the movement, not taught by institutions..
All of it is in the soil, the soil is like the stomach. If you put enough good food in there, you could become like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Meaning eating healthy for humans works the same way with plants. Feed them the right food is the best way.
Wow you are great sir..amazing garden