How To Make Liquid Fertiliser & Black Gold
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- Опубликовано: 5 июн 2014
- One of the most effective ways of feeding your plants is with liquid fertiliser. Nutrients are easily absorbed through the roots and leaves when you apply a liquid fertiliser.
Our summertime recipe is made up of comfrey, stinging nettles and cleavers (bidibidi). This combination is high in potassium and low on nitrogen which is exactly what hungry summer-fruiting veges like tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, aubergines (eggplants), zucchinis (courgettes) and melons thrive on.
We make up 200-litre drums, but for a smaller garden you can use a container that’s around 20-litres in capacity. Push the green material down as hard as you can into the container till it’s full to the top, add water, put a lid half-on (so the gases caused by the fermenting process can escape) and leave for a month. At this stage it will be a black liquid. You may notice hoverfly larvae when you take the lid off - they are totally beneficial for your garden.
After a month or so give the mixture a stir. The woody material that you dredge up can be used as a mulch. Dilute the liquid to the colour of weak tea and apply to the leaves as well as roots of plants. This mixture will almost double a crop of potatoes.
A winter recipe will include fish heads, animal manure along with seaweed and weeds like puha, thistles, plantains and cleavers. This winter brew is good for kale, silverbeet and other green leafy vegetables which need nitrogen rather than potassium that summer veges like.
Another great way to feed your soil is by applying what we call Black Gold. There are three ingredients in Black Gold: coffee grounds, seaweed (preferably kelp - the big straps - because it has many more minerals than seaweed) and an animal manure. We suggest you make it in a black plastic rubbish bag to attract the heat. We layer in firstly coffee grounds, then kelp, then animal manure, then repeat till the bag is full. Don’t seal the bag as we want air to get in. Leave it in a sunny place and every now and then turn it over to aerate. It’ll take about 6 months till it’s ready to use. 
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I stumbled upon something similar to this by accident. I had a 5 gallon bucket sitting behind my shed that had been filled with the leaves during fall and then water and snow over the winter. I dumped that slush on my lawn and for months I had a small patch of the greenest grass I have ever seen in my yard! Now I leave buckets sit and fill up instead of turning them upside down.
A good method but be careful of mosquitoes!
yamatoman tenshin fall and winter baby. Not many skeeters in Rochester Ny at that time. Got a 50gallon drum this spring I’m gonna experiment with this year.
Reading this during lockdown
Hi .is it any particular leaf
@@yamatomantenshin4908 if they would stay there and die it would actually be beneficial
Loving seeing a local doing tutorials on organic gardening.
I also enjoy how you avoid all the stupid stuff most channels do, wasting time, taking forever to get to a point at all, begging for likes and subscribes under a minute into a video before anyone knows if they're even worth watching at all.
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I love his right to the point, and clear easy to understand. Great job!
Lovely! Appreciate it bc I'm just starting the veggie garden.
Right to the point, no distractions.
And very generous on your part.
Thank you.
Rebecca/ Puerto Rico/ The Caribbean
Amazingly helpful, straight to the point and easy to understand and follow. Keep up the good work.
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What a healthy garden! Bravo for permaculture. Wish all food was as lucky to get this care!
Permaculture - otherwise known as gardening.
Thanks thanks. The best compost tea video. I have ever seen so far thanks for helping
God bless you. Thanks thanks
This is one of the best methods for fertilizing large gardens. Great video - keep up the good work.
Can you boil the plants in water then use the water the same day?
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Put comfrey leaves in a blender with water and blend. Then dilute the mixture with water and pour on soil around plants
@@tedmcgee6825 Agree with the Reformation's response below :)
I agree
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I have all these items, but only a small garden, but filling black bin bags is perfect
If you live in a place that gets snow during winter, it would make sense to spread this on your garden before the snow settles, and as the snow melts it's water takes all the nutrients into the ground.
Or in the Fall leave the leaves and they can be beneath the snow.
Very good video….short but straight informative thank you 🙏
Really good show.First time i saw your chanel today.U sound kiwi, i'm from land of wombats and magpies.
You are still answering questions from 2yrs ago, magnificent, not many do this. U show care towards your viewers , a rare quality. Will check some of your others .
Thank you so much. Amazing video - learned alot from you!
Better yet chop it up and mix brown raw sugar and let it Ferments add to water after fermenting and feed that way. KNF aka Korean natural farming builds great microbe growth in soils and compost.
wonderful instructional, thank you so much!!
Thanks roe the advice and tips from the UK
Excellent for Cannabis as well Definitely using for my garden this run
Thanks for the tips, I love growing hot peppers!!
Nice to see you doing that. I do the same on my garden using a blender, mixing with water and it works very well.
Best Regards from Brazil.
Great explanation...can you spray it on leaves
Thank you. Most informative and helpful.
I've been doing something similar using a wormery, ie composting in the top part and using the liquid that drains through. I found it's miraculous! And I think it's because the liquid contains billions of bacteria that will act on all the vegetable content in the soil to break it down to nutrinets that the plants can use. In other words acts a a catalyst to break down the organic material that's already in the soil.
Thanks for the method and formula
Nice and perfect combination of nitrogen and carbon.
Thank you for showing use of cow manure.👍👍
Organic Gardening I call them poop soup , I use worm castings and agitated water and cow manure and agitated water. One year I’ll use cow the next worm etc. happy growing
Exellent straight forward video. Just what is needed. No me me me.
Thanks
Thank you for sharing how to make a liquid fertiliser you are truly awesome and wonderful ^^
Thanks looks so easy I will try
the amount of knowledge here. amazing!
Thx . We are learning. going to try it.
Mahalo nui loa!!! Thank you for sharing!!!
Best compost video I have ever seen by far!
No it isn't.
Yes it is.
Great stuff, thanks.
Really nice, informative, and useful video, my gardening brother. Thank you.
Waaauuuhh...!! Just what I needed 👏👏👏✨👏🤩
Very good! I also do composting. Thank you for sharing.
Great video... new subscriber and will be sharing. With what is going on we all need to grow food as soon as possible. Thanks for the video; will be watching the rest of your videos daily. Everyone needs to be growing food and learning survival skills in these times. Take care everyone. Keep learning and keep sharing everyone.
Cairan organik ini luar biasa dan sangat bermanfaat sekali bagi petani organik yang ingin sukses.
Terimakasih atas informasinya dan saya tunggu kunjungan anda..#Dangau tani
Here for Covid-19/depression prep. I know I'm not alone. Great video! Adding it to my favorites to reference.
same here
I hope seeds become the new currency, I regret not picking up a couple varities of tomato.
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That would be awesome! I'd love to go to a trade and barter system and cut out the middle man.
This is better and there is no chemical thanks for sharing it, God blessings. :)
Great idea and probably even better with a small aquarium pump bubbling to keep it aerobic and thus exponentially increase the beneficial microbes.
Yes good idea. Our stirring it for 20 seconds one way and then 20 seconds the other for a reasonable period of time before using is our attempt to aerate it.
Poppies are Killin it
Very informative my friend, i will be using that idea for my garden
Ah, no bs video finally. Thank you
Yes!
Nah we dont use bs we use vegetable compost
Brilliant video learnt a lot well done!
Great information, thank you.
I add molasses to get it fermenting. Using a paint stirrer helps to really break it up once it becomes soggy.
Nice content. Let me try this at my small scale balcony plants.
No, I won't let you.
I really love to watch your videos
Thanks for sharing 🥰
Do you recommend a particular system to add your mix to a home irrigation system? If using 20 liter bucket for home, would i still set the top loosely on it? Also, what could i add for a mosquito or bug control if i could?
Thank you so much I use to make with only banana peel n stems... I ll definitely try this.
Excellent! We eat about 40 pounds of bananas every two weeks! Do you notice any problems with bees around your banana liquid compost? I had an apiarist friend sho said bananas mimic the attack pheromones of bees and so I should be careful with bananas and composting. Any words of wisdom?
Thanks a lot! My only question for you or anyone with experience here is, how often can I use the organic liquid fertilizer rich in potassium in my tomato, cucumber, pepper, zucchini, and watermelon garden? Thanks
This is brilliant
I love this video.♥️ I am also using chicken and goat manure, soak it with weeds and use it for my plants. God bless you fellow.
Great! Am in Zambia. I want to start producing this on a large scale
Except for using the plastic garbage bag . . . everything was great. A hard-plastic food grade container/bucket would be much better than the petro chemical garbage bag which would break down fast and pieces would be in the garden !!! 06/10/2021
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Love it! A fellow dank tank fertilizer maker! Nature is a wonderful thing and it’s our duty to emulate! Subbed!
Very succinct video 👍
I am interested to learn how make this wonderful work of how to make fertilizer. thanks.
I can smell this video from here
Pritesh Yadvendu i feel like the smell stays on me all day after handling any manure 😂
@@andrewh25 lol I hear that!
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My manure bucket is filled to the top with water and there is no smell
Good thing plants can't smell and that most veggies/fruits are formed NOT touching the soil and the root veggies are washed carefully and furthermore don't put this or similar on veg that will be harvested within 12 days.
great content thanks
This is perfect every spring my yard is full of weeds from winter rains that I couldn't pull up during the winter because it was too muddy to go out
And I have chickens and every few weeks I have to clean up their coop but my dad always throws the straw and poop because none of us has the time to do anything with it.
Now with this method I can process all of it into usable fertilizer and compost.
Thank You.
Question. Will this work for aeroponics and/or other similar applications?
Very good information!.
Worm tea, and compost tea works great too!
Agree! :)
Wow, fantastic please can I apply this method to oil plantation
In your opinion would the use of freshwater aquatics weeds be useful in general mixture you build in ghost video?
Brilliant information.
Thanks
This is good info but Comfrey is high in nitrogen and Can burn foliage directly. My only add on to this would be to inoculate the container of weeds and such with IMOs better know or found in your local leaf mold. Indigenous Micro Organisms. Will increase the speed of the decomposition and continue to balance the soil food web in the garden. Just my thoughts. Thanks.
VERY HELPFUL
Great video!
Thank you. This is an excellent idea.
The weed fertilizer works excellent. I used any weeds I could pull up when I lived in the city, pretty near to downtown. I let it fester, gave it a good stir every week or so. I bubbled, boiled and smelled so appropriately nasty, that I had to store in the neighbour's yard, as I had an upstairs deck, and the neighbours in my corner building all had smaller yardlets. If I could do this in the city, anyone can. I could noticably see all my plants take a growth leap, esp. my stangnant tomatoes.
Thank you
Can I use worm castings instead of manure for the black gold ?
REALLY helpful! Thanks for video!
verygood thank u verymuch
Thumbs up and subscribed. Great video. Thanks.
Thank u.
Hi there great video.. could I do the same thing to add for grass fertilizer? So.. grass clippings top up with water weight down leave for 5 to 7 days and then put on my lawn as a feed? Thank you
Yes you can and it would keep much less grass seeds from entering your garden. Just be mindful of the power of this fertilizer and inoculate the batch with your local microbes from some leaf mold.
I thought about how to make my own.. and seeing your concoction.., I now reckon this liquifying method is a double bonus because I will place all my weeds into a barrel and let them stew.., O and I won't need any weed killer poison. 🤗
This is really good information - would it be ok to use garlic mustard as a base? It is an invasive here and I am wondering if I could use the bounty to help desired plants?
Eat the garlic mustard
Question: After a month of it sitting and you start to use it, do you then continue to add greens and water into the drum?
Yes and yes. In fact you can probably use the liquid fertiliser after only 2 weeks. It will have broken down sufficiently by then. And yes, keep adding green stuff to your container and more water to keep it topped up :)
Thank lots Sir.,....,
Thankyou so much
Good stuff man
Great tea!
beautiful
Came across this on accident.. gathered the collection of leaves on my roof that were already old damp and dried out.. put them in a bucket, forgot about it, and it sat out in 4 days of rain.
I noticed it smelled like shit, but in a way I knew my plants would like lol
I was about to say the same thing.... boy did it smelled like a rotten corpse! a big swarm of flyes suddenly gravitated towards the bucket!
You should go and take a compost class, not only it is a faster decomposition it will also teach you how to avoid that bad smell
@@rutsoluo Its a myth anaerobic composition is just as good as aerobic. Look into jadam farming, everything you need to grow a garden is in your backyard.
@@devoywilliams3956 well said brother
Natural works...
Very informative
Is this a high potassium fertilizer? how could one make it more potassium heavy?
Thanks
Thanks il have to try this method alot of those weeds you mentioned have either edible or midicinal properties as well
I do not have any of the greens described in the video. I wonder what local greens in a Sacramento CA area might be substituted. I will research but if anybody has any information I would certainly appreciate your input
Sea weed/ kelp are thousands of kilometres away from my garden. I add tiny amounts of sun dried sea salt as per JADAM methodology.But I’m not getting whatever else likely adds to the mix. Any suggestions for this landlubber to replace seaweed? Or is the slat sufficient. I also add a tiny amount of rock dust for mineral replacement. I add the sea salt and rock dust to my teas as well.
Let it set longer, it gets better as it ages, also in accordance to jadam you'll want to add a handful of leaf mold
Hmmm. I think I will try a mosquito screen over the top of my stinky black gold.
I'm going to start a bucket today!
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Hi Rob. Any advice please on how you prepare/grow strong comfrey, please? I have loads of plants growing through my garden, but most are not strong.
Sorry for not replying earlier - we missed this one. It seems like you might have been asking this question in the Southern Hemisphere winter. If so, comfrey is perennial and dies down in winter, then springs into life in the spring and summer. It does need a bit of feeding to get it going though - sheep pellets, chicken manure - a fertiliser full of nitrogen :)
Hi, I started with chicken manure. It works fantastic. we call it "chicken stock". Be carefully you must delude it! Later I added weed and kitchen waste and made it also in a 20 l bucket, then later in a 120l drum. I can not use compost, because we have here in Namibia termites. Now I started with hydroponics and I want to use it there also.
We are just starting a chicken manure tea. Mind sharing your recipe?
Have you had it tested to see what proportion of nutrients it is made of?
VERY EASY. THANK YOU
How often do you add fertilisers and how much?
Thanks for a great simple and straight forward video. Can I use any type of weed for the liquid fertilizer like cabbage leaves, grass and thistles? I live very far away from the sea.
Yes, just not leaves from the tomato and potato family as too much of that can be toxic.
@@organicediblegarden9061 What about tomato fruit?