I would never advise buying vermicompist. If you're interested in it, you can set up your own worm bin for a few dollars. Then add your own kitchen scraps and get the compost for free.
I agree and did just that. What we spend in the garden time and money worms are super easy. Little cost upfront but they will grow and multiply quickly. From a fresh bin you can get decent castings in 2-3 months
Brilliant! It actually makes me angry when I think about all the disinformation out there! My plan is to add homemade compost to my vegetable beds every fall to build the soil, put down one application of balanced pre plant fertilizer and then supplement with diluted urea over the growing season. I bought myself a 25KG bag of Magic Carpet urea, the guy in the store tried to tell me I was buying the wrong thing, he said the urea is just for melting snow.
Great info. I have used Urea as a nitrogen source but care must be exercised because it can burn plants. So a very small amount can yield big results making it even more cost effective. Making your own compost is really the only way to go. It costs almost nothing to make although the process of creating compost may be considered “time intensive” but it’s the most cost effective way to add organic material intoa garden. I have a rather small vegetable garden (under 1,000 sq feet) and making compost for my garden is a pretty simple task and cheap. And yes I have dabbled with fish emulsion and kelp and other organic but I found that just adding natural compost has made a better garden with better production and produce and no $10 buck tomatoes 😉Excellent info.
The main downside of compost is how long it takes to release the compounds. Especially in container gardening it can be useful to have occasional fast absorbing fertilizer.
I agree with you I've been composting for almost 30 years and I add extra nitrogen by peeing in my compost or a cup. I know it sounds gross but I swear by it, it's miraculous!
@@tamaratamblyn4146 in the process of composting as the pile heats up there can be some nitrogen being used up. That’s why there is a recommended percentage for greens versus browns mixture for best composting. I have added a small amount of urea into my compost pile mixed in well. Adding urine does a similar thing. But any prescribed medications a person may be taking could be transferred into the pile and that’s why I use the urea versus urine.
Depends on what's available in the country or geographical area. For me in the US Midwest, the best I can do is $3 per pound of nitrogen. There is a co-op network on the west coast that sells it for less, but shipping costs negate the savings so the only viable option is pick up.
7:59 "The real benefit of these organic materials is that they add organic matter: the carbon... That organic matter is critical for building soil health. It's critical for feeding microbes." True, but it's a fascinating and multifaceted topic. I'm a "fertilizer of any kind shouldn't be necessary" guy. According to the paper _The Ecology of Soil Carbon: Pools, Vulnerabilities, and Biotic and Abiotic Controls_ (2017), "Our analysis suggests root inputs are approximately five times more likely than an equivalent mass of aboveground litter to be stabilized as [soil organic matter]." "Root inputs" refers to both actual roots living or decaying in the soil as well as the carbohydrates formed by photosynthesis and exuded by living roots; "stabilized" is in contrast to carbon that ends up released back into the air. Also consider the recently discovered rhizophagy cycle whereby all plants take in nitrogen and numerous other nutrients by directly digesting bacteria inside root cell walls that they essentially farm for that purpose with root exudates ( _Rhizophagy Cycle: An Oxidative Process in Plants for Nutrient Extraction from Symbiotic Microbes_ (2018) ). Then there's the whole topic of mycorrhizal fungi. It has been suggested and demonstrated anecdotally (see presentations available online by Dr. Christine Jones) that the essential, as well as most efficient, method for building soil health is constantly growing plants, especially highly diverse plant polycultures, e.g. eight or more species across multiple families in close proximity (like in a wild prairie ecosystem), as different plants stimulate different microbes and microbes stimulate different gene expressions in plants and each other (through "quorum sensing").
What about trying to grow a multitude of plants in pure red clay soil such as found in North Carolina? Or are you not considering compost as fertilizer in your statement?
@@eVilmoogl I'm actually doing just that (in Georgia) instead of grass at the site for my new house. I broadcasted a mix of about 30 different seeds onto bare soil. I don't intend to use any fertilizer apart from straw to keep the seeds from blowing away. I don't know what will decide to grow this year, but I think the soil will be in a better condition to grow a variety of things next year or the year after that than if I planted and fertilized a traditional lawn.
I make and use my own compost out of several tons of vegetables, fruits, greens, dead plants, grass, twigs, cartons, wood dust wirh chicken droppings, all the remnants after slaughtering my chicken etc, I also use small amounts of aged sheep manure, ash and small amounts of ammonium nitrate... and my garden is flourishing...in late autumn I dig in all rhe leaves and cover the ground with cartons and let it rot under rain and snow...
I get horse manure for free from a local source it hasn't been composted yet so it's very high in nitrogen. We put that down at the beginning of the growing season it lasts until July August. The cost per ton is zero well maybe the money that goes in the gas tank to go pick it up $3 a ton. We use chicken waste which is on site and we do add fish that we go out and spear then bury in the garden. There are others growing in the same type of soil we are The neighbors our garden outpaces there's 10 to 1 everything tastes delicious. Organic is the way to go if you can.
What are your thoughts of using DEF Fluid for nitrogen fertilizer ? I have multiple pastures I did a test with 48 oz's in my 25 Gal sprayer which made the pasture very green and is growing well
The best part of organic fertilizers is that they are easily produced at home and encourage biological growth in your soil which continues to reduce your dependence on big business to grow your food. The problem with chemical salt fertilizers isn't whether they work or not, it's that they deliver nutrients in a form that is already available for your plants to uptake. That sounds great until you realize that by cutting the biology out of the mix they have nothing to sustain them. You've now made yourself reliant on those companies to grow your food, because the plants need the nutrients and you've gotten rid of the biology that would do it naturally by starving them out. Instead you have a chain around your neck forcing you to buy those chemical salt fertilizers again next year, and the next year... Work with nature, produce your own nutrients, enrich your soil biology, and put that money back in your pocket.
"You've now made yourself reliant on those companies to grow your food," - that is not true. The soil has huge numbers of microbes. When you add synthetic fertilizer the population actually increases. As the nutrient level drops, so does the number of microbes. Plants do not become reliant on synthetics, because they don't even know the nutrients are coming from synthetics.
Can it make any sense to dump used ammonia floor mop buckets into the compost? Might break down into nitrogen and if the micro organisms and earthworms can survive the initial rush.
If I fill a container with peat moSs only and plant a tree in there. I then use a completly basic NPK fertilizer with only the 3 big in it, no micros. Would that tree die or do very poorly due to lack of micros or would it work flne?
Terrific vid and points you made there. With synthetics, do plants break their relationship with oil bacteria, since they don't need the middleman to bring them the elements? If so, I realize it could be on very short time scales, like hours, and essentially not a concern.
"With synthetics, do plants break their relationship with oil bacteria, since they don't need the middleman" - no more so than with organic fertilizer. This has nothing to do with synthetic - it does have to do with the amount added. When plants get higher nutrient levels, they need microbes less and they tend to make fewer associations with them.
Thank you for clearing all this up. Could you tell me if this is just correlation or a true side effect of the synthetic fertilizers? I've used synthetic a couple of times on both in ground plants and houseplants. On both occasions within a couple of days aphids appeared. Even on the indoor plants! Could the high levels of NPK be stressing the plants somehow making them more attractive to aphids or is it just a coincidence. It was not very warm outside here when I fertilized, so not peak aphid season. I would appreciate your take. I respect your down to earth(forgive the pun) advice!
Hey, can you make a post about Jumping Worms? Ive got a bad infestation in my garden and I dont know what to do with the castings. Do i bury them? Regard them as useless dirt?
I'd love some advice on using the litter from my chicken coop. I use the deep litter method and add prilled lime and rid x a couple of times during the winter. Last year I put some on top a couple of weeks before planting. My plants grow like crazy but don't fruit as much as I'd like.
@@ryangooseling Very few pollinators here in lower west Michigan. This spring we put down almost 2 yds of uncomposted horse manure, that was after adding twenty something carp/sucker throughout the weed section of the garden, (that was April I think) waited a month to plant, lots of warm rain to wash in nutrients. Everything came up pretty strong. We didnt fertilize till June, I think we stopped mid late August. Alaska grow fish emulsion added to fish tank water with a few fresh clods of chicken manure and some FF 'Happy Frog' to each 5 gallon bucket. Make 40 gallons of 1/2 strength fertilizer solution each time we feed the plants. We realize we need a larger garden this one is only about 1000 sqft, everything did/doing pretty well. Still producing as I type. Harvest season is around the corner. I know this guy talks of efficiency/dollars in his opinions/theory however there is a qualitative factor that is hard to quantify by hard science, its result based observations data that is shared between farmers generation to generation that wisdom is not profit driven for the most part. Our yields are not on par with hyper inflated super big business agriculture that ruins the soil, turning into dirt in the long run because of the search for bigger and bigger profits ... It may not be best/prudent/wise to insert animal/amphibian/insect genes into plants and then feed that material to people children loved ones pets... Or use synthetic fertilizer that toxifies the soil with heavy metals (fly ash for example) turning once good farmland into EPA waste cleanup sites its happened here in Michigan with PFAS water/wells/soil and the state condemned farms after municipal sludge/waste was applied to those farms after farmers were urged to use such products.......... Its maddening. We never use miracle grow type nutes save for maybe on indoor house plants but never on edibles, never in the garden. There are a whole host of other issues that I could get into but I'm not going to at this moment and that has to do with geoengineering programs and wandering magnetic poles. Things are changing and we are doing our best to adapt but we are running out of money. This next decade is going to be very interesting especially if our youth are shipped overseas to fight wars that have been started by the powers that be. We thought we could change the world, put the world is changing so fast around us that we are even having a hard time standing our ground in our own spheres. Sorry for such a long ramble I hope you guys are okay up there, I know you guys have seen record warmth amongst other weirdness, I hope the approaching winter is not too harsh and there is love and peace around you and yours. Aloha from the great lakes
@@ryangooseling it's been whipsaw here, rain, then hot and sunny in the right proportions... Back to that geoengineering thing......... Some will do well by their tinkering and some will suffer. Being saddled up here on the Great Lakes where 20% of the Earth's surface freshwater exists they have to keep the Lakes full so they steer the jet stream accordingly, we have some fluctuations here but not much... We've had four winters here where the Great Lakes have not frozen over in a 15-year period. That would definitely look like a warming trend or a spike in temperatures on a graph, on a short-term graph it would look extreme on a long-term graph I do not know? Only the universe knows where we are at cyclically. Doing my best to stay grateful and useful during these times of change. I hope winter is not too hard on you guys, get some good grow lights and grow some stuff indoors, that added light should help you get through a long dark winter in AK 🤙 aloha
Robert, is it ok to use products like ”Scotts Green Max Lawn Food" in small quantities to add nitrogen to the vegetable garden? My main concern is any harmful residue, if any, in the product which may not be suitable for edible plants. They may not have bothered about removing some harmful stuff from raw material during production to keep costs low, because it is not intended for edibles. plants.
Lawn fertilizer is really not "lawn" fertilizer. It is regular fertilizer that is marketed for lawns. The exception are products that include a herbicide - use those only on lawns.
I buy a bag of 3x13 every few years. I don't use much of it, just a bit when planting, so a bag lasts several years. I do buy the cheapest bagged composted manure, and the lowest cost peat, I can find. I take something of a perverse pleasure in growing a productive vegetable garden on the least money possible, and NOT doing all the stuff the internet gardening world is hustling. Truth be told I could get by without the Triple 13, and did for years. Its the one splurge item I allow myself. SO how do I do it, after avoiding every gadget, trick, and "must-do" hack out there? 1. I avoid information avalanche - I steer clear of all the gardening hacksters and promoters. 2. I build the soil with organic matter from the native environment. A rake and shovel are all I use. 3. I let the plants do the work, and I just let the soil support them. 4. I pay attention to Robert Pavlis
Artificial fertilizers are based on petroleum (Urea too). Organic production means that you can make your own natural fertilizers, so there is no need to buy artificial ones.
All fertilizer that need to be transported are "petroleum based". Transportation is the biggest source of petroleum in most fertilizers. More then the industrial process, bagging, etc. And organic ones usually are much less nutrient dense, more volumous and heavy...so, organic is usually more "petroleum based".
He is almost certainly right as far as Canada prices go. His list is good as a blueprint, redo the calculations based on your own area's product availability and prices.
It needs to be overused for that to happen. The main peoblem with them is the even NPK like 20 20 20. Nitrogen and pottasium flushes out quite easily from the soil while Phosphorus will build up untill the thing you wrote will happen. Syntetics once in a while are totally fine and I even recommend it for the first year of a new garden to kickstart things. What syntetics don't have is Micronutrients. Thats why I prefer organics.
No wonder it is so expensive.
Neptune is 2.7 billion miles from Earth
I would never advise buying vermicompist. If you're interested in it, you can set up your own worm bin for a few dollars. Then add your own kitchen scraps and get the compost for free.
I agree and did just that. What we spend in the garden time and money worms are super easy. Little cost upfront but they will grow and multiply quickly. From a fresh bin you can get decent castings in 2-3 months
Brilliant! It actually makes me angry when I think about all the disinformation out there! My plan is to add homemade compost to my vegetable beds every fall to build the soil, put down one application of balanced pre plant fertilizer and then supplement with diluted urea over the growing season. I bought myself a 25KG bag of Magic Carpet urea, the guy in the store tried to tell me I was buying the wrong thing, he said the urea is just for melting snow.
Thank you Mr. P. I always enjoy your opinion. 🌷💚🙃
Great info. I have used Urea as a nitrogen source but care must be exercised because it can burn plants. So a very small amount can yield big results making it even more cost effective. Making your own compost is really the only way to go. It costs almost nothing to make although the process of creating compost may be considered “time intensive” but it’s the most cost effective way to add organic material intoa garden. I have a rather small vegetable garden (under 1,000 sq feet) and making compost for my garden is a pretty simple task and cheap. And yes I have dabbled with fish emulsion and kelp and other organic but I found that just adding natural compost has made a better garden with better production and produce and no $10 buck tomatoes 😉Excellent info.
Your kidneys produce urea in large quantities everyday !
The main downside of compost is how long it takes to release the compounds. Especially in container gardening it can be useful to have occasional fast absorbing fertilizer.
I agree with you I've been composting for almost 30 years and I add extra nitrogen by peeing in my compost or a cup. I know it sounds gross but I swear by it, it's miraculous!
Also I mix my compost in the top 2 inches or so of the soil and then I'll do an occasional top dressing
@@tamaratamblyn4146 in the process of composting as the pile heats up there can be some nitrogen being used up. That’s why there is a recommended percentage for greens versus browns mixture for best composting. I have added a small amount of urea into my compost pile mixed in well. Adding urine does a similar thing. But any prescribed medications a person may be taking could be transferred into the pile and that’s why I use the urea versus urine.
Depends on what's available in the country or geographical area. For me in the US Midwest, the best I can do is $3 per pound of nitrogen. There is a co-op network on the west coast that sells it for less, but shipping costs negate the savings so the only viable option is pick up.
7:59 "The real benefit of these organic materials is that they add organic matter: the carbon... That organic matter is critical for building soil health. It's critical for feeding microbes." True, but it's a fascinating and multifaceted topic. I'm a "fertilizer of any kind shouldn't be necessary" guy. According to the paper _The Ecology of Soil Carbon: Pools, Vulnerabilities, and Biotic and Abiotic Controls_ (2017), "Our analysis suggests root inputs are approximately five times more likely than an equivalent mass of aboveground litter to be stabilized as [soil organic matter]." "Root inputs" refers to both actual roots living or decaying in the soil as well as the carbohydrates formed by photosynthesis and exuded by living roots; "stabilized" is in contrast to carbon that ends up released back into the air. Also consider the recently discovered rhizophagy cycle whereby all plants take in nitrogen and numerous other nutrients by directly digesting bacteria inside root cell walls that they essentially farm for that purpose with root exudates ( _Rhizophagy Cycle: An Oxidative Process in Plants for Nutrient Extraction from Symbiotic Microbes_ (2018) ). Then there's the whole topic of mycorrhizal fungi. It has been suggested and demonstrated anecdotally (see presentations available online by Dr. Christine Jones) that the essential, as well as most efficient, method for building soil health is constantly growing plants, especially highly diverse plant polycultures, e.g. eight or more species across multiple families in close proximity (like in a wild prairie ecosystem), as different plants stimulate different microbes and microbes stimulate different gene expressions in plants and each other (through "quorum sensing").
Yup, plants absorb ready made amino acids if they can
What about trying to grow a multitude of plants in pure red clay soil such as found in North Carolina? Or are you not considering compost as fertilizer in your statement?
@@eVilmoogl I'm actually doing just that (in Georgia) instead of grass at the site for my new house. I broadcasted a mix of about 30 different seeds onto bare soil. I don't intend to use any fertilizer apart from straw to keep the seeds from blowing away. I don't know what will decide to grow this year, but I think the soil will be in a better condition to grow a variety of things next year or the year after that than if I planted and fertilized a traditional lawn.
Over the years I have purchased very little fertilizer, tried making my own along with good compost.
I make and use my own compost out of several tons of vegetables, fruits, greens, dead plants, grass, twigs, cartons, wood dust wirh chicken droppings, all the remnants after slaughtering my chicken etc, I also use small amounts of aged sheep manure, ash and small amounts of ammonium nitrate... and my garden is flourishing...in late autumn I dig in all rhe leaves and cover the ground with cartons and let it rot under rain and snow...
I get horse manure for free from a local source it hasn't been composted yet so it's very high in nitrogen. We put that down at the beginning of the growing season it lasts until July August.
The cost per ton is zero well maybe the money that goes in the gas tank to go pick it up $3 a ton.
We use chicken waste which is on site and we do add fish that we go out and spear then bury in the garden.
There are others growing in the same type of soil we are The neighbors our garden outpaces there's 10 to 1 everything tastes delicious.
Organic is the way to go if you can.
What are your thoughts of using DEF Fluid for nitrogen fertilizer ? I have multiple pastures I did a test with 48 oz's in my 25 Gal sprayer which made the pasture very green and is growing well
Organic fertilizer is for organic farming and growing organic food
The best part of organic fertilizers is that they are easily produced at home and encourage biological growth in your soil which continues to reduce your dependence on big business to grow your food.
The problem with chemical salt fertilizers isn't whether they work or not, it's that they deliver nutrients in a form that is already available for your plants to uptake. That sounds great until you realize that by cutting the biology out of the mix they have nothing to sustain them. You've now made yourself reliant on those companies to grow your food, because the plants need the nutrients and you've gotten rid of the biology that would do it naturally by starving them out. Instead you have a chain around your neck forcing you to buy those chemical salt fertilizers again next year, and the next year...
Work with nature, produce your own nutrients, enrich your soil biology, and put that money back in your pocket.
"You've now made yourself reliant on those companies to grow your food," - that is not true. The soil has huge numbers of microbes. When you add synthetic fertilizer the population actually increases. As the nutrient level drops, so does the number of microbes. Plants do not become reliant on synthetics, because they don't even know the nutrients are coming from synthetics.
Can it make any sense to dump used ammonia floor mop buckets into the compost? Might break down into nitrogen and if the micro organisms and earthworms can survive the initial rush.
If I fill a container with peat moSs only and plant a tree in there. I then use a completly basic NPK fertilizer with only the 3 big in it, no micros. Would that tree die or do very poorly due to lack of micros or would it work flne?
Terrific vid and points you made there. With synthetics, do plants break their relationship with oil bacteria, since they don't need the middleman to bring them the elements? If so, I realize it could be on very short time scales, like hours, and essentially not a concern.
"With synthetics, do plants break their relationship with oil bacteria, since they don't need the middleman" - no more so than with organic fertilizer. This has nothing to do with synthetic - it does have to do with the amount added.
When plants get higher nutrient levels, they need microbes less and they tend to make fewer associations with them.
@@Gardenfundamentals1 Thanks so much for answering that! For anyone else reading this, I meant *soil bacteria in my original post.
jadam organic farming, fermented plant juice, fermented fruit juice, microbial solution, lactobacillus serum, Egg Calphos, cow manure, PSB bacteria. Very cheap. More natural farming.
Just no
Efficiency vs what is good for the long run
I've been using KNO3.
THank you very much!!!! Well done sir.
Thank you for clearing all this up. Could you tell me if this is just correlation or a true side effect of the synthetic fertilizers? I've used synthetic a couple of times on both in ground plants and houseplants. On both occasions within a couple of days aphids appeared. Even on the indoor plants! Could the high levels of NPK be stressing the plants somehow making them more attractive to aphids or is it just a coincidence. It was not very warm outside here when I fertilized, so not peak aphid season. I would appreciate your take. I respect your down to earth(forgive the pun) advice!
aphids prefer plants that are growing well - not stressed ones. If the plant did not show stress - it was not stressed.
@@Gardenfundamentals1 Thanks you! It must be that new tender growth then. I appreciate your speedy response.
Hey, can you make a post about Jumping Worms? Ive got a bad infestation in my garden and I dont know what to do with the castings. Do i bury them? Regard them as useless dirt?
www.gardenmyths.com/earthworm-myths/
Please do.
I'd love some advice on using the litter from my chicken coop. I use the deep litter method and add prilled lime and rid x a couple of times during the winter.
Last year I put some on top a couple of weeks before planting.
My plants grow like crazy but don't fruit as much as I'd like.
Hi nitrogen?
@krustysurfer could be. This year i used a commercial blend.
Got fk all besides a few strawberries and aton of kale.
Gardening in my area of ak sux
@@ryangooseling Very few pollinators here in lower west Michigan.
This spring we put down almost 2 yds of uncomposted horse manure, that was after adding twenty something carp/sucker throughout the weed section of the garden, (that was April I think) waited a month to plant, lots of warm rain to wash in nutrients.
Everything came up pretty strong.
We didnt fertilize till June, I think we stopped mid late August.
Alaska grow fish emulsion added to fish tank water with a few fresh clods of chicken manure and some FF 'Happy Frog' to each 5 gallon bucket.
Make 40 gallons of 1/2 strength fertilizer solution each time we feed the plants.
We realize we need a larger garden this one is only about 1000 sqft, everything did/doing pretty well. Still producing as I type.
Harvest season is around the corner.
I know this guy talks of efficiency/dollars in his opinions/theory however there is a qualitative factor that is hard to quantify by hard science, its result based observations data that is shared between farmers generation to generation that wisdom is not profit driven for the most part. Our yields are not on par with hyper inflated super big business agriculture that ruins the soil, turning into dirt in the long run because of the search for bigger and bigger profits ... It may not be best/prudent/wise to insert animal/amphibian/insect genes into plants and then feed that material to people children loved ones pets... Or use synthetic fertilizer that toxifies the soil with heavy metals (fly ash for example) turning once good farmland into EPA waste cleanup sites its happened here in Michigan with PFAS water/wells/soil and the state condemned farms after municipal sludge/waste was applied to those farms after farmers were urged to use such products.......... Its maddening.
We never use miracle grow type nutes save for maybe on indoor house plants but never on edibles, never in the garden.
There are a whole host of other issues that I could get into but I'm not going to at this moment and that has to do with geoengineering programs and wandering magnetic poles.
Things are changing and we are doing our best to adapt but we are running out of money.
This next decade is going to be very interesting especially if our youth are shipped overseas to fight wars that have been started by the powers that be.
We thought we could change the world, put the world is changing so fast around us that we are even having a hard time standing our ground in our own spheres.
Sorry for such a long ramble I hope you guys are okay up there, I know you guys have seen record warmth amongst other weirdness, I hope the approaching winter is not too harsh and there is love and peace around you and yours.
Aloha from the great lakes
@krustysurfer
thanks
Good info there.
. We had a nice summer for about 6 weeks but the rest was all rain and suck. I think a lot of that is the issue.
@@ryangooseling it's been whipsaw here, rain, then hot and sunny in the right proportions...
Back to that geoengineering thing.........
Some will do well by their tinkering and some will suffer.
Being saddled up here on the Great Lakes where 20% of the Earth's surface freshwater exists they have to keep the Lakes full so they steer the jet stream accordingly, we have some fluctuations here but not much...
We've had four winters here where the Great Lakes have not frozen over in a 15-year period.
That would definitely look like a warming trend or a spike in temperatures on a graph, on a short-term graph it would look extreme on a long-term graph I do not know?
Only the universe knows where we are at cyclically.
Doing my best to stay grateful and useful during these times of change.
I hope winter is not too hard on you guys, get some good grow lights and grow some stuff indoors, that added light should help you get through a long dark winter in AK 🤙 aloha
Robert, is it ok to use products like ”Scotts Green Max Lawn Food" in small quantities to add nitrogen to the vegetable garden? My main concern is any harmful residue, if any, in the product which may not be suitable for edible plants. They may not have bothered about removing some harmful stuff from raw material during production to keep costs low, because it is not intended for edibles. plants.
Lawn fertilizer is really not "lawn" fertilizer. It is regular fertilizer that is marketed for lawns.
The exception are products that include a herbicide - use those only on lawns.
Thanks for another great vid.
Have you done a video regarding using (diluted) urine in the garden? Should be quite nitrogen-rich
Salty too
I buy a bag of 3x13 every few years. I don't use much of it, just a bit when planting, so a bag lasts several years. I do buy the cheapest bagged composted manure, and the lowest cost peat, I can find.
I take something of a perverse pleasure in growing a productive vegetable garden on the least money possible, and NOT doing all the stuff the internet gardening world is hustling. Truth be told I could get by without the Triple 13, and did for years. Its the one splurge item I allow myself.
SO how do I do it, after avoiding every gadget, trick, and "must-do" hack out there?
1. I avoid information avalanche - I steer clear of all the gardening hacksters and promoters.
2. I build the soil with organic matter from the native environment. A rake and shovel are all I use.
3. I let the plants do the work, and I just let the soil support them.
4. I pay attention to Robert Pavlis
so does it mean better to grow microbes to produce nitrogen??
Artificial fertilizers are based on petroleum (Urea too). Organic production means that you can make your own natural fertilizers, so there is no need to buy artificial ones.
"Artificial fertilizers are based on petroleum" - that is a myth.
www.gardenmyths.com/synthetic-fertilizer-petroleum/
All fertilizer that need to be transported are "petroleum based". Transportation is the biggest source of petroleum in most fertilizers. More then the industrial process, bagging, etc. And organic ones usually are much less nutrient dense, more volumous and heavy...so, organic is usually more "petroleum based".
@@Gardenfundamentals1 They could make hydrogen from wind or solar. I guess then it would be green
@@Gardenfundamentals1 I saw benzene fertilizer (nitrobenzene most common). Aspirin has benzene too.
@@srantoniomatos especially if the truck is EV
Excellent Again!
what about nano urea?
I believe he's saying that the nitrogen is that cost per kg.
He is almost certainly right as far as Canada prices go. His list is good as a blueprint, redo the calculations based on your own area's product availability and prices.
This is just confirmation my worm farm is where it's at!
Isotopes...the difference between organic and synthetic...
I just wish urea wasn't so toxic to my seedlings...(Tobacco)
There is one huge difference. Synthetic’s are made with salts that kill the microbes in your soil. Those salt will get into the soil and our waters.
It needs to be overused for that to happen. The main peoblem with them is the even NPK like 20 20 20. Nitrogen and pottasium flushes out quite easily from the soil while Phosphorus will build up untill the thing you wrote will happen. Syntetics once in a while are totally fine and I even recommend it for the first year of a new garden to kickstart things.
What syntetics don't have is Micronutrients. Thats why I prefer organics.
Great info! 🎉
👍👍👍Thanks.
Diluted urine and home made compost costs me $0
Yes, I use urine on my corn, which has high nitrogen needs.
Fools and their money... :D