This was a wonderful explanation. Thank you. I have been thinking of making anaerobic ferments and then adding an air bubbler to for a few days, diluting it and spraying it through my overhead sprinklers on everything as a folier feed fertilizer. What are your thoughts on this?
we never want to combine the mechanisms of the different processes... make anaerobic ferments and apply to the soil only.... make separately high quality aerated compost tea and apply to the whole thing the foliage and soil and everything... this is the recipe for success my friend no need to aerate the ferments it works along a totally different pathway and will not benefit anything
Yes anerobis kills aerobic necessary for your life. You don't need to destroy life to create your food, do you. Aerobic was the change on Earth that allowed humans, animals and plants to live on Earth. Methane is deadly to life, even though you don't see it.
I love all those buckets I have with fermentations and microorganisms and ash fertilizer going on. Then mixing it all and applying it to the garden soil. I feel like a kid again playing in muddy sludge after a warm summer rain and getting really dirty LOL
help. I have a bucket with fish leaf mold and I think I put some molasses in it - I can't remember, to be honest. It has been in a closed bucket for 3 months (winter). I have opened the top a few times, maybe every two weeks, and I have stirred it. But for the most part, I have done nothing. It has a lovely stench and pink gunky gunk on top. My questions 1) should I open it occasionally? Will it explode? LOL 2) How long should it take before it is ready? Is the lack of odor the sign? Am I right to assume that as the temps heat up, this process will speed up? Any tips aapreciated.
Good talk, cheers Nate. I've moved away from the liquid ferments in favor of plant leechates, you can find the mineral/nutrient content of nettles and comfrey on the web, mix the two 50/50 for a complete mineral balanced mix, use a barrel with a drain on the bottom, put some scrunched up chicken wire in the bottom 10" to act as a filter, fill the bin with fresh chopped nettle & comfrey, put a large rock on top to weight it down, collect leechate runoff, it stores well in sealed milk jugs fpr 12 months+, doesn't smell at all, perfect liquid fertiliser diluted 12:1, I had sweet peppers 8ft tall in the GH using only this fert every 2 weeks (UK zone 9ish)
As a burgeoning gardener, I can appreciate the simplicity of GLV's recipes and videos...I have cabinets full of useless "growing sh*t" engineered to seperate me from my money. I'm practicing and learning to mimic nature. It falls to the ground, then its broken down, taken up by the roots, then becomes our food...that's it.
I have been doing anaerobic fermentation in 30 gallon lidded trash cans for 2 years now. Yes in the early stages the smell is horrendous, I added fish to the first batch, but over time there is no smell at all.
I like the anaerobic fermentation liquid fertilizer (JLF). It's the easiest in my opinion. Set it and forget it. I've got 120 gallons I made last year for this year. The smell doesn't bother me at all... I'm a plumber. I also use tea I make from worm castings for seedlings.
Asparagus, artichoke, beets, carrots, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, Swiss chard, kale, cape goose berries. All going to get the love from everything I’ve learned from this Viking. Ferment brewing, compost getting hot. All good things 😮
Thank you. I had a compost tea last year which included : Rainwater Grass clippings Fruit scraps Vegetable scraps Crushed eggshells Dried mornings tea leaves Weeds pulled up from my yard Leaf mold This was my fertilizer.
NATE you hit TOP of the charts again with this video 😮WOW! So encouraging and inspiring as always are your videos. With love and respect for your on going sharing of your experience, down to earth knowledge, years of experimentations, you have shared with us. So grateful to you our "Garden Like a Viking KING" YAY!!!!!!!!..... Much love ❤ 🌍🇿🇦💚🌿🌱🍀☘️
Where does LAB fit in in these methods... I started my first batch of rice water just yesterday after watching a video of yours... And you are now my mentor. That garden you grow is amazing... Makes my efforts so far look like so much sad nonsense...
Basing it on how my plants react best is my go to method. Compost tea seems to be the winner. I spray foliar and can drench the soil with compost tea. Flowers pop up overnight, aids against leaf wilting resistance from the Florida sun, grass is greener and keeps my sandy soil to hold more water. Compost, dried seaweeds, unsulfured blackstrap molasses, epsom salt and yucca extract are always present in my tea recipe. I have never seen my hydrangeas blooming so much with the rest of the sickly plants. With so many articles out there, the outcome is the answer at the end of the day. Nature has its own way to work for our own interest. But we have to do our part. Nature is where I see the hands of God. I shred my bamboo, mix it with diatomaceous earth and cannot believe how my ginger grows by the inch each day. Mother Nature gives gifts that keep on giving. The eternal cycle of life. One of the many benefits of compost tea is that it acts as direct pest control on leaves, vegetables and fruits that ground compost application may not work as efficient. Florida has a long growing season but always a challenge when it reaches the peak months of high humidity, strong rain and above 90 degree farenheit daily.
Fermentation is the way to go! even with chicken food, fermentation is THE way! Really nice video and explanation. i was scared about the anaerobic part, but once you said that those microbe will die once everything has been consumed, reassured me. Thanks! I'll continue my fermentation then! I love it haha.
Last year, I mostly used fermented chicken manure fertilizer, which I mixed at a 1:50 ratio with water from the duck pond, added a bit of molasses, and aerated it before using it for watering.
@@gardenlikeaviking It tackled the stench head-on, much to my relief. Before discovering this method, my dear wife was far from pleased with the lingering odor following fertilizer application. Venturing into the world of fermented fertilizer was a first for me, leaving me without any point of reference. Nonetheless, the garden flourished admirably. I must express my gratitude for guiding our discussion in such a direction, as it ignited a rather ingenious idea for the care of my seedlings. Until now, I've utilized pond water mixed with homemade egg fertilizer-old eggs blended with shells and fermented using lactic acid bacteria from last year. Considering the positive outcome so far, I’m now thinking of enhancing this blend with molasses and introducing aeration to further enrich the concoction.
One thing I was looking to ask is how to know what inputs need to be anaerobic vs aerobic fermentation. i.e., what needs to have an open vs sealed container. I've been making all sorts of fertilizers, but everything is sealed with a lid for the most part; however I have one 5 gallon bucket that I didn't put a lid on, and just put in a bunch of food items to ferment recently, to which I've noticed a nice layer of mold,,etc on top doing its thing and forming the last number of days. It's only been about a week or so, so I expect to see some good changes. This makes me believe that maybe more experimentation is needed to see how each input operates depending if it's sealed or not. I've had some fantastic fermentation and mold with sealed lids and a closed environment, but something about having an open container, with wild local molds, etc, is something that sounds great and I will see how it goes. One thing I've noticed after making my own yeast just by using milk, honey(sugar) and wheat, is that our air/environment has everything we need(the bacteria to start the yeast fermentation included, even though some are apparently on the wheat/grains themselves). It even makes me question the leaf mold, because the air contains so much beneficial goodness that is being spread and carried from who knows how far away, do we really even need leaf mold? I went once an hour away to the local forest and collected some, but I seemed to mess up and it dried out so I don't think it was useful, and I never went back.... But I have so much mold growth in my ferments, my garden also gets a nice layer of mold/etc on it under the straw mulch layer. I think part of this comes from the inputs as well, as everything has it's own set of bacteria, fungi/mold, etc. For example I get milk from a local farm that I use for a LABS bucket (I don't strain away anything, I put all my used up dairy into this bucket... there's even a chunk of raw butter that I left and it went bad which went itno the bucket). The amount of bacteria strains in that milk is vast, let alone the kefir I added to it. I was looking to set up a second bucket of milk with the second kefir to innoculate these other bacteria strains from the other kefir that was from another state that was a product I had purchased.
I can't wait to get started! We're moving soon and starting anything just means more to move! I have 3 compost piles I gotta move ,and 70 heads of garlic in the ground I have to dig up and transplant lol
I needed this info! Thank you for clearing up what each additive does for the plant/soil! I'm eager to see how my garden will do this year with no fertilizer other than my fermented plant water this year. It's actually was very satisfying recycling all of my weeds and mowed grass clippings along with every other unwanted plant materials from the garden and making this terrible smelling power plant juice. Now I look at all weeds and grasses as free fertilizer.🎉
I love my anaerobic ferments. I think they smell fantastically putrid. That is my gauge to their success. I can't wait to see what my Jadam Liquid Seaweed does this year, now that it is about a year old. Late last year, I'd already noticed my plants resilience to the extremes, which is indicative of seaweed amendments.
Thank you Nate for explaining in detail the differences! I started in the fall to make for the first time JLF with all vegetables I grown last season… Can’t wait to see your compost tea recipe! 🤩😇
I enjoy the smell of good plant food. My fish hydrolysate after 9 months smells like heaven. Mind you I have been growing plants for over 30 years. I know what the plants like. You can tell by the smell if it is good food.
Garlic, onions, all purpose potatoes. swiss chard, lettuce, pole string beans, Brussel sprouts beets, carrots cucumbers for slicing and fermenting. Tomatoes, 3 varieties Zucchini. Bell and Carmen sweet peppers Parsley, rosemary, lemon thyme, basil. oregano. Marigolds. sweet alyssum, calendula. Garden expanded. In front of home under windows. Semi-sheltered in buckets
We watched your video last fall on anaerobic fermentation, went out and bought a couple of 50 gallon drums used for restaurant tomatoes, and dumped all the goodies in. They've been sealed all winter, and I can't wait to see what they look (and smell) like this spring. Here's hoping our suburban dirt is happy this year! We are in central Indiana - growing tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, onions, lettuce, cabbage, raspberries, and strawberries, and all kinds of herbs. Planning on adding Concord grapes this year. Thank you for all your great natural garden training!
Good info , I've also been learning about the effects of atmospheric aerials, open coils and magnetism on plant germination and growth... Very interesting and effective
Hey Nate, Love yer stuff. This on got me. Finally SOMEONE put this into proper perspective. Perfect, even for the novice..... I have a dedicated BLENDER that I use to emulsify some compost things [ pretty heavily] before making my extract and teas. It cuts the waste immensely.............Me thinks also that I am seriously aerating the water that they seem to love! ..... HUMMMM! ..... There might be OTHER ways to use my blender........Why NOT? Couldn't it save some time?
Thank you. I make fermented banana peel fertilizer, I make also calcium fertilizer from egg shells, put the geese poop into a water bin; I have also a water bin with nettle,equisetum, willow. I use leafs, the deep litter from my guinea pigs & chickens, kompost.
This is such a great video as I prepare for the coming of the compost tea video. It is amazing how you distill so much knowledge in a very succinct manor.
Perfect info once again Nate. This year is the first year I've only used half mixing rate and only every fortnight with fish emulsion, as well as every other week I've been using my own compost teas and ferments. It is the best gardens i have grown. Thanks again Nate for bringing all of your valuable information to everyone that cares to watch, listen and learn from your valuable lessons, that can only be learnd from being very observant over many years. Green love from Australia 💚🌲🤙
Thank you SO MUCH for this video. Now everything makes sense. I've been through all these styles with contradicting claims... this explanation was the missing link.
I started the anaerobic JADAM style, but also hesitant to use. So, what I have been doing is putting it in my tea brewer and bubbling it before applying. This gave me more confidence. After watching this video I realize I have not added much to the liquid since I started so, maybe I won't add more and just wait for it to be more "done".
Dude Jadam liquid fertilizer is made using anaerobic fermentation. As soon as you put aeration in it the microbes will start to die. They cannot survive in an aerobic environment since they were made using anaerobic process. I promise you do not need to aerate JLF it completely defeats the purpose of it.. add it without aeration and you’ll be amazed
yes my friend the way to do it is let it all break down at least 80% of the way... then apply the anaerobic ferments to the soil only!!.. no need to bubble it that is a separate solution we'll be making and could actually increase the amount of any pathogens present...
Hi Nate. Thanks for this information. I've still been using anaerobic fermented fertilizers and JMS by following the video you made last year on fertilizer schedule. If you get a chance could you do an updated video to reflect your learnings and updated practices? For example I still use my JLF + JWA +JMS + Liquid calcium mixed with water as foliar sprays and it sounds like I should be tweaking that. Looking forward to learning more from you for the upcoming season!
Good stuff as always. I make my comfrey tea and weed tea a year ahead of time. The stink is almost all gone after sitting for several months; it just smells like a mild organic fertilizer. Not raw sewage. And then I'm confident I've gotten all the nutes and minerals out of the plant material. Just make twice as much as you think you need this year, and leave half of it covered until next spring when you start using it. Then you're ahead of the game and you only have to make one batch for the following year.
Hi Nate thanka for your video. Plz tell me will there be gas build up in the sealed barrel where we are trying to develop the anaerobic digested teady to use for soil. Plz help me on this. Thanks
there will be some yes... that is why these barrels are designed to release high amounts of pressure if it builds up... a 5gal bucket with lid will work so long as its not a real tight locking lid with o ring... then it will simply pop the lid off a bit to release the bass
Awesome video! QUESTION RE: LAST YEAR’S NETTLE TEA: Last fall I started making nettle tea in a 5 gallon bucket filled first with nettles, then topped off with water, with the lid sealed. I didn’t get to it by the end of the season and the lid popped off when it froze this winter. I looked at it this spring and what’s on top looks like sewage. Should I: 1) Strain it, dilute it and water at the base of my plants? How diluted? 2) Just toss it on my compost heap? or 3) Give up on it and dump it it in the woods behind my house? Thanks!
I really love your videos on the natural inputs. You have shortened the learning curve for me. The JADAM book is great, but reads like a Chinese food menu at times. Thank you sir for sharing your wisdom! I do have a question, at what point do you feel the anaerobic fermentation is complete?
thank you my friend and that is a great question and it has inspired me to make a video on that topic sometime in the near future because showing is so much more effective than telling... thank you!!
What I'm growing this year: Yellow of Parma onions Garlic Purple bumble bee tomatoes Chijimisai Pink daisy Bok choy Zapotec Jalapeno West Indies habanero
I've also been looking into caring for indoor Quail ! Easier to care for, less noise, and my favorite part---the eggs :) specifically Japanese jumbo quail
Excellent Nate. Thank you. My biggest issue is watering. I’m on the county water. Does that totally wipe out all of the microbiology of JMS, JLF, FAA, Fish Fert. that I’m putting in ?
no it does not... you'll be just fine with the city water but for the JMS its best to let it set out for a day or two to off gas as much as possible the chlorine
Is it any more beneficial to mix or sister up my anaerobic ferments such as JLF or just letting form a pellicle and let sit? Does mixing help with the break down any? This is a much needed video for many people I believe.
Great video! How about talking about compost teas vs JADAM JMS? Are they the same microbes? Or is one more bacterially dominant vs fungal? And which plants like one vs the other? Thanks man!
Good afternoon! please tell me how to quickly compost pine sawdust? Have you had a similar experience? I have a lot of sawdust, but I don’t know how to compost them correctly(((
Hey Nate, have you tried to turn the smelly anaerobic fertilizer into aerobic compost tea once it is done fermenting to help with the smell plus add lots of biology in the process as there would be plenty of nutrients to feed them.
actually I recommend to keep them separate... the anaerobic ferments I don't get on the plants at all anymore except for the fish based ones... and the aerated teas I apply all over the leaves and everything... you'll see in the compost tea video coming up
Question for you, Nate, you mentioned making the microbial solution at 80° have you heard it’s best to make the solution at outdoor temps even if it takes longer so that your multiplying microbes that thrive at your current garden temperature. I’ll try to ask it on the Saturday live stream getting close to starting the five applications.
yes I know all about this and its definitely best to do this way UNLESS its below 65F then you need to use the heater... the microbes will not multiply efficiently at temps lower than that... I'll touch on this tomorrow during the live
I never had success with AACT after years of trying. Johnson Su popularised the compost extract and saying how great it is, but i never tried. JLF is easy and proven. That’s my experience so far.
JLF is wonderful yes... simple and easy and relatively effective.... but you will have success this year with AACT because I'll soon release a video showing exactly how to do it properly....
yes definitely!... but now its only with the aerated compost teas and a couple select fertilizers such as the fish.... you'll see the aerated tea recipe contains lots of things and it goes all over the leaves and soil and everything
I've experimented over the years and there's not much difference because I harvest the MG's before they would really benefit from the extract.... except for wheatgrass yes that will become dramatically more luscious and green and juicy using extract
Thanks Nate, I've been messing around with different teas in a 20 litre bucket and mainly using on my house plants, I've a microscope so I'm able to check them, I'm going to use an 80 litre container in the summer for my garden, currently using a decent fish tank pump with 2 air stones in my 20 litre bucket, would I need a more powerful pump for the 80 litre?
definitely need a more powerful pump... in the compost tea video I'll be explaining all that and you'll see I have a quite powerful pump for the 55gallon drum
I started working with red earth, clay structure but a little more porous, very low ph (4,5). And am making 40% earth, 5 to 10% compost, 25% coco and 30% sand. (not exact but around those numbers). I get a decent structure. First had major ph problems, kinda solved it by adding hard wood ash to the mix (around 1 handful per galon of substrate did the trick, with a few more applications above soil every now and then), and started using JMS. This season is looking good, but took me almost 9 months to get to this point. I had a baby substrate hahaha. Still don’t see those nice fungii underneath the surface though, but plants seem to like it a lot and I see no more yellowing. Do I need anything else to enhance the mycelium life? what would you recommend? note on red earth: is very low in organic matter (1% at most), super rich in iron (but not plant available), aluminium, and practically an old and empty earth type. Very good for Yerba Mate, but bad bad bad for many species
Im curious what you think of Robert Pavlis' work. He says that adding more microbes with compost tea won't do much because all soil is at maximum capacity based on the amount of organic matter available. The added microbes will just die due to lack of food. All you can do is add more organic matter to increase the capacity of the soil and the microbes will multiply on their own.
there are many theories behind this... but if you follow the compost tea video I put out in a few weeks and use it once a week this summer you will see for yourself the outstanding effects it has on the whole garden... the plants will be amazingly healthy if done correctly.... for me that kind of actual proof and effect is much more important than someones theory... never heard of that guy but I'll check him out thank you for the suggestion!
Great Video, Nate! Hey, it's not going to get under 70 in the evening here for quite some time. Is it a waste of time to spray a Compost Tea foliar when it's 75 and the sun is going down? (it is possible that it will be 65 or so by 7am but not necessarily so. Would appreciate your opinion. Thanks for your hard work!!
temperature is not a problem and 75 is perfect to spray the biggest concern is the ultraviolet radiation from the sun will quickly kill many of those precious microorganisms in the tea so we only must make sure the sun does not denature this tea
NATE! A question⁉️ Compost tea after its had the bubbler going for 24 hours. Can you spray the leaves during the day, or does the same principle apply as the fermented hooch, only to be applied at night? Many Thanks NATE! 💚🌿💚🌿💚🌿💚🌿💚🌿
No weeds yet. If I thought of it I would have saved food scraps in freezer. Weather has been in the 60's and 70's here zone 6b Ct. Expecting lower temps.
Hi Nate, You compare compost extraction, oxygenated compost tea and JLF, but you didn't talk about JMS, why? It seems to me that JMS and oxygenated compost tea are more comparable even if the process differs but which are both a multiplication of microorganisms than JLF and compost extraction which are more of a source of nutrients.
yes you are absolutely correct my friend and essentially the JMS is a compost tea but is its own sub category of Anaerobic Compost Tea.... but I am all about simplifying things for people so I didn't want to throw that curve ball in there so to keep it simple I'll just call the JMS by its own name even though technically its definitely a multiplier of microbes yes but its the only one with virtually ZERO nutrients and ONLY microbes
Another con to compost tea is that you are not multiplying all of the microbes in your compost. The brewing process tends to favor carb hungry bacteria and not the other microbes.
Don’t forget about the bacteria micros URINE, not just their dead bodies and feces . NATE or tribe,I’ll be on Hudgenson island tomorrow with a few of my grandchildren, is it worth vacuum bagging, compressing, and mailing a dish pac sized box full of SEAWEED home for JLF or top dressing or to add to my compost also to my high value plant ?
For as much as I do what is instructed in the video on making the compost tea and I look through the microscope I don’t see any micro organisms like people see and say they see in their’s
This was a wonderful explanation. Thank you. I have been thinking of making anaerobic ferments and then adding an air bubbler to for a few days, diluting it and spraying it through my overhead sprinklers on everything as a folier feed fertilizer. What are your thoughts on this?
we never want to combine the mechanisms of the different processes... make anaerobic ferments and apply to the soil only.... make separately high quality aerated compost tea and apply to the whole thing the foliage and soil and everything... this is the recipe for success my friend no need to aerate the ferments it works along a totally different pathway and will not benefit anything
Yes anerobis kills aerobic necessary for your life. You don't need to destroy life to create your food, do you. Aerobic was the change on Earth that allowed humans, animals and plants to live on Earth. Methane is deadly to life, even though you don't see it.
Great video explains everything in a nutshell thanks from IRELAND
I love all those buckets I have with fermentations and microorganisms and ash fertilizer going on. Then mixing it all and applying it to the garden soil. I feel like a kid again playing in muddy sludge after a warm summer rain and getting really dirty LOL
I think that all of us hobby gardeners have maintained that unique child-instinct intact!
I loved making mud pies when I was a kid and love it just as much now too making all these concoctions for my garden ❤
Yes! That's the feeling!
help. I have a bucket with fish leaf mold and I think I put some molasses in it - I can't remember, to be honest. It has been in a closed bucket for 3 months (winter). I have opened the top a few times, maybe every two weeks, and I have stirred it. But for the most part, I have done nothing. It has a lovely stench and pink gunky gunk on top. My questions 1) should I open it occasionally? Will it explode? LOL 2) How long should it take before it is ready? Is the lack of odor the sign? Am I right to assume that as the temps heat up, this process will speed up? Any tips aapreciated.
@@defnobeatsdon't worry, you should be fine. just dilute 1:20 ratio for use
Good talk, cheers Nate. I've moved away from the liquid ferments in favor of plant leechates, you can find the mineral/nutrient content of nettles and comfrey on the web, mix the two 50/50 for a complete mineral balanced mix, use a barrel with a drain on the bottom, put some scrunched up chicken wire in the bottom 10" to act as a filter, fill the bin with fresh chopped nettle & comfrey, put a large rock on top to weight it down, collect leechate runoff, it stores well in sealed milk jugs fpr 12 months+, doesn't smell at all, perfect liquid fertiliser diluted 12:1, I had sweet peppers 8ft tall in the GH using only this fert every 2 weeks (UK zone 9ish)
As a burgeoning gardener, I can appreciate the simplicity of GLV's recipes and videos...I have cabinets full of useless "growing sh*t" engineered to seperate me from my money.
I'm practicing and learning to mimic nature.
It falls to the ground, then its broken down, taken up by the roots, then becomes our food...that's it.
No one can explain this better than Nate!
I agree ! 💚
I have been doing anaerobic fermentation in 30 gallon lidded trash cans for 2 years now. Yes in the early stages the smell is horrendous, I added fish to the first batch, but over time there is no smell at all.
Nice
I love ALL Garden Like a Viking videos!
I like the anaerobic fermentation liquid fertilizer (JLF). It's the easiest in my opinion. Set it and forget it. I've got 120 gallons I made last year for this year. The smell doesn't bother me at all... I'm a plumber. I also use tea I make from worm castings for seedlings.
this is the way to do it for sure make it the season beforehand!!... so easy!!
Asparagus, artichoke, beets, carrots, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, Swiss chard, kale, cape goose berries. All going to get the love from everything I’ve learned from this Viking. Ferment brewing, compost getting hot. All good things 😮
sounds wonderful my friend may you have a bountiful season!!
Please make root development and nemotodes prevention
Thank you.
I had a compost tea last year which included :
Rainwater
Grass clippings
Fruit scraps
Vegetable scraps
Crushed eggshells
Dried mornings tea leaves
Weeds pulled up from my yard
Leaf mold
This was my fertilizer.
that sounds wonderful my friend but that is an anaerobic ferment not a classic compost tea as you'll see a video here soon
NATE you hit TOP of the charts again with this video 😮WOW!
So encouraging and inspiring as always are your videos.
With love and respect for your on going sharing of your experience, down to earth knowledge, years of experimentations, you have shared with us.
So grateful to you our "Garden Like a Viking KING" YAY!!!!!!!!.....
Much love ❤
🌍🇿🇦💚🌿🌱🍀☘️
I can't express how much I appreciate your consistent enthusiasm Pam thank you!!
I wish you lived next door to me 😊
All your videos have been extremely helpful. Thank you so much!
Hoping for some more compost related videos in the future. Thank you my friend!
this year we'll do a compost tea video and a hot compost video
@@gardenlikeaviking looking forward to it, I appreciate you!
Where does LAB fit in in these methods... I started my first batch of rice water just yesterday after watching a video of yours... And you are now my mentor. That garden you grow is amazing... Makes my efforts so far look like so much sad nonsense...
Basing it on how my plants react best is my go to method. Compost tea seems to be the winner. I spray foliar and can drench the soil with compost tea. Flowers pop up overnight, aids against leaf wilting resistance from the Florida sun, grass is greener and keeps my sandy soil to hold more water. Compost, dried seaweeds, unsulfured blackstrap molasses, epsom salt and yucca extract are always present in my tea recipe. I have never seen my hydrangeas blooming so much with the rest of the sickly plants.
With so many articles out there, the outcome is the answer at the end of the day. Nature has its own way to work for our own interest. But we have to do our part. Nature is where I see the hands of God.
I shred my bamboo, mix it with diatomaceous earth and cannot believe how my ginger grows by the inch each day. Mother Nature gives gifts that keep on giving. The eternal cycle of life.
One of the many benefits of compost tea is that it acts as direct pest control on leaves, vegetables and fruits that ground compost application may not work as efficient. Florida has a long growing season but always a challenge when it reaches the peak months of high humidity, strong rain and above 90 degree farenheit daily.
Fermentation is the way to go! even with chicken food, fermentation is THE way!
Really nice video and explanation. i was scared about the anaerobic part, but once you said that those microbe will die once everything has been consumed, reassured me. Thanks! I'll continue my fermentation then! I love it haha.
Thank you for all helpful information about the 3 process extraction, compost tea and fermentation with anaérobic fertilizer
I made the long fish stuff last October. And the other day I checked it out and the fish was nothing but bones!
thats going to be some fantastic stuff!!
Last year, I mostly used fermented chicken manure fertilizer, which I mixed at a 1:50 ratio with water from the duck pond, added a bit of molasses, and aerated it before using it for watering.
how did that work for you?
@@gardenlikeaviking
It tackled the stench head-on, much to my relief. Before discovering this method, my dear wife was far from pleased with the lingering odor following fertilizer application. Venturing into the world of fermented fertilizer was a first for me, leaving me without any point of reference. Nonetheless, the garden flourished admirably.
I must express my gratitude for guiding our discussion in such a direction, as it ignited a rather ingenious idea for the care of my seedlings. Until now, I've utilized pond water mixed with homemade egg fertilizer-old eggs blended with shells and fermented using lactic acid bacteria from last year. Considering the positive outcome so far, I’m now thinking of enhancing this blend with molasses and introducing aeration to further enrich the concoction.
One thing I was looking to ask is how to know what inputs need to be anaerobic vs aerobic fermentation. i.e., what needs to have an open vs sealed container. I've been making all sorts of fertilizers, but everything is sealed with a lid for the most part; however I have one 5 gallon bucket that I didn't put a lid on, and just put in a bunch of food items to ferment recently, to which I've noticed a nice layer of mold,,etc on top doing its thing and forming the last number of days. It's only been about a week or so, so I expect to see some good changes.
This makes me believe that maybe more experimentation is needed to see how each input operates depending if it's sealed or not. I've had some fantastic fermentation and mold with sealed lids and a closed environment, but something about having an open container, with wild local molds, etc, is something that sounds great and I will see how it goes.
One thing I've noticed after making my own yeast just by using milk, honey(sugar) and wheat, is that our air/environment has everything we need(the bacteria to start the yeast fermentation included, even though some are apparently on the wheat/grains themselves). It even makes me question the leaf mold, because the air contains so much beneficial goodness that is being spread and carried from who knows how far away, do we really even need leaf mold? I went once an hour away to the local forest and collected some, but I seemed to mess up and it dried out so I don't think it was useful, and I never went back....
But I have so much mold growth in my ferments, my garden also gets a nice layer of mold/etc on it under the straw mulch layer.
I think part of this comes from the inputs as well, as everything has it's own set of bacteria, fungi/mold, etc. For example I get milk from a local farm that I use for a LABS bucket (I don't strain away anything, I put all my used up dairy into this bucket... there's even a chunk of raw butter that I left and it went bad which went itno the bucket). The amount of bacteria strains in that milk is vast, let alone the kefir I added to it. I was looking to set up a second bucket of milk with the second kefir to innoculate these other bacteria strains from the other kefir that was from another state that was a product I had purchased.
I can't wait to get started! We're moving soon and starting anything just means more to move! I have 3 compost piles I gotta move ,and 70 heads of garlic in the ground I have to dig up and transplant lol
I’m late on this vid, but this totally helps my understanding of what you are talking about on the Saturday live🤣😂😛😜🤣😂😛 Great Video!!
I needed this info! Thank you for clearing up what each additive does for the plant/soil!
I'm eager to see how my garden will do this year with no fertilizer other than my fermented plant water this year. It's actually was very satisfying recycling all of my weeds and mowed grass clippings along with every other unwanted plant materials from the garden and making this terrible smelling power plant juice. Now I look at all weeds and grasses as free fertilizer.🎉
its going to be some fantastic stuff my friend just apply to the soil only is my suggestion for that!
I love my anaerobic ferments. I think they smell fantastically putrid. That is my gauge to their success. I can't wait to see what my Jadam Liquid Seaweed does this year, now that it is about a year old. Late last year, I'd already noticed my plants resilience to the extremes, which is indicative of seaweed amendments.
what is your instagram handle??... I wanted to tag you in something but couldn't find you
If there was a stud that knows a thing or two about how to be in tune with gardening, it is Nate. Valhalla!!!!
I appreciate your enthusiasm my friend!!
@@gardenlikeaviking can you list where you got your shelving from for your indoor grow tents I love the black and looking for a 4ft long one. Thanks
Excellent production Viking King! Always thankful for your presentation style. LET’S GROW! 🌱 😊
Thank you for clarifying the fertilizer confusion.
Thank you.
Love it a lot and I share it a lot... be a survive for food - our food is under attack...
Good overview. I’ve been using JLF before it all broken down. I couldn’t wait. 😅
Incredible extract. We have to lower lights height. Leggy lettuce and swiss chard even with a fan. Extract really picked them up. Thanks Nate.
Thank you Nate for explaining in detail the differences! I started in the fall to make for the first time JLF with all vegetables I grown last season…
Can’t wait to see your compost tea recipe! 🤩😇
I enjoy the smell of good plant food. My fish hydrolysate after 9 months smells like heaven. Mind you I have been growing plants for over 30 years. I know what the plants like. You can tell by the smell if it is good food.
this is so true!!
That's such a good informative video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Garlic,
onions,
all purpose potatoes.
swiss chard,
lettuce,
pole string beans,
Brussel sprouts
beets,
carrots
cucumbers for slicing and fermenting.
Tomatoes, 3 varieties
Zucchini.
Bell and Carmen sweet peppers
Parsley, rosemary, lemon thyme, basil. oregano.
Marigolds. sweet alyssum, calendula.
Garden expanded. In front of home under windows. Semi-sheltered in buckets
very nice!... what variety of potato?
@@gardenlikeaviking Kennebec potatoes. .
Nice. Thanks Nate, always helps so much when you explain this schtuff!
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We watched your video last fall on anaerobic fermentation, went out and bought a couple of 50 gallon drums used for restaurant tomatoes, and dumped all the goodies in. They've been sealed all winter, and I can't wait to see what they look (and smell) like this spring. Here's hoping our suburban dirt is happy this year! We are in central Indiana - growing tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, onions, lettuce, cabbage, raspberries, and strawberries, and all kinds of herbs. Planning on adding Concord grapes this year. Thank you for all your great natural garden training!
fantastic my friend you will have some liquid gold by this point!... apply to the soil only remember that!
Good info , I've also been learning about the effects of atmospheric aerials, open coils and magnetism on plant germination and growth...
Very interesting and effective
Sprayed like roaches, heated up to change winter into summer temporarily.
Hey Nate, Love yer stuff. This on got me. Finally SOMEONE put this into proper perspective. Perfect, even for the novice..... I have a dedicated BLENDER that I use to emulsify some compost things [ pretty heavily] before making my extract and teas. It cuts the waste immensely.............Me thinks also that I am seriously aerating the water that they seem to love! ..... HUMMMM! ..... There might be OTHER ways to use my blender........Why NOT? Couldn't it save some time?
ok my frienddddsss here it issssss
Nate, this is the answer I have prayed for.. compost benefits without the compost fungus gnats! Thank you for sharing!
Finally the video I've been waiting for! 👍👍👍👍
Huge question? Didn't see it. How do you know when the fermentation buckets are done?
Thank you. I make fermented banana peel fertilizer, I make also calcium fertilizer from egg shells, put the geese poop into a water bin; I have also a water bin with nettle,equisetum, willow. I use leafs, the deep litter from my guinea pigs & chickens, kompost.
This is such a great video as I prepare for the coming of the compost tea video. It is amazing how you distill so much knowledge in a very succinct manor.
Doing homework on potato pests. Gathered info. who are the good guys and eggs, larvae, and adults. Thanks for the knowledge Nate.
Perfect info once again Nate. This year is the first year I've only used half mixing rate and only every fortnight with fish emulsion, as well as every other week I've been using my own compost teas and ferments. It is the best gardens i have grown. Thanks again Nate for bringing all of your valuable information to everyone that cares to watch, listen and learn from your valuable lessons, that can only be learnd from being very observant over many years. Green love from Australia 💚🌲🤙
thank you for the positive energy my friend green love from USA!
Thank you SO MUCH for this video. Now everything makes sense. I've been through all these styles with contradicting claims... this explanation was the missing link.
Thank you so much! I have been very apprehensive about the anarobic usage. Thank you for all the fabulous information.
Please address botulism in making anaerobic fermentation.
Very informative. You’re absolutely right on the ferments, they smell. lol
Well explained! Thank you.
Simply Brilliant as always!💚
I think I'll be starting my sandy plot with JADAM ferments and homemade compost and leaf mold. I may graduate up to the teas in a couple of seasons.
solid plan!... start with lots of JMS
Well done!!!
You did a wonderful job of explaining everything. Very easy to understand.
Great video! As always, thank you
Thank you 🙏
I started the anaerobic JADAM style, but also hesitant to use. So, what I have been doing is putting it in my tea brewer and bubbling it before applying. This gave me more confidence. After watching this video I realize I have not added much to the liquid since I started so, maybe I won't add more and just wait for it to be more "done".
Dude Jadam liquid fertilizer is made using anaerobic fermentation. As soon as you put aeration in it the microbes will start to die. They cannot survive in an aerobic environment since they were made using anaerobic process. I promise you do not need to aerate JLF it completely defeats the purpose of it.. add it without aeration and you’ll be amazed
yes my friend the way to do it is let it all break down at least 80% of the way... then apply the anaerobic ferments to the soil only!!.. no need to bubble it that is a separate solution we'll be making and could actually increase the amount of any pathogens present...
Hi Nate. Thanks for this information. I've still been using anaerobic fermented fertilizers and JMS by following the video you made last year on fertilizer schedule. If you get a chance could you do an updated video to reflect your learnings and updated practices? For example I still use my JLF + JWA +JMS + Liquid calcium mixed with water as foliar sprays and it sounds like I should be tweaking that. Looking forward to learning more from you for the upcoming season!
Great topic!!
Good stuff as always. I make my comfrey tea and weed tea a year ahead of time. The stink is almost all gone after sitting for several months; it just smells like a mild organic fertilizer. Not raw sewage. And then I'm confident I've gotten all the nutes and minerals out of the plant material. Just make twice as much as you think you need this year, and leave half of it covered until next spring when you start using it. Then you're ahead of the game and you only have to make one batch for the following year.
thats the way to do it!!
Hi Nate thanka for your video. Plz tell me will there be gas build up in the sealed barrel where we are trying to develop the anaerobic digested teady to use for soil. Plz help me on this. Thanks
there will be some yes... that is why these barrels are designed to release high amounts of pressure if it builds up... a 5gal bucket with lid will work so long as its not a real tight locking lid with o ring... then it will simply pop the lid off a bit to release the bass
Awesome video!
QUESTION RE: LAST YEAR’S NETTLE TEA:
Last fall I started making nettle tea in a 5 gallon bucket filled first with nettles, then topped off with water, with the lid sealed. I didn’t get to it by the end of the season and the lid popped off when it froze this winter. I looked at it this spring and what’s on top looks like sewage. Should I:
1) Strain it, dilute it and water at the base of my plants? How diluted?
2) Just toss it on my compost heap? or
3) Give up on it and dump it it in the woods behind my house?
Thanks!
Thanks for the video and info. Cheers
VERY WELL EXPLAINED NATE
I really love your videos on the natural inputs. You have shortened the learning curve for me. The JADAM book is great, but reads like a Chinese food menu at times. Thank you sir for sharing your wisdom!
I do have a question, at what point do you feel the anaerobic fermentation is complete?
thank you my friend and that is a great question and it has inspired me to make a video on that topic sometime in the near future because showing is so much more effective than telling... thank you!!
Awesome, looking forward to it! Thank you!
What I'm growing this year:
Yellow of Parma onions
Garlic
Purple bumble bee tomatoes
Chijimisai
Pink daisy
Bok choy
Zapotec Jalapeno
West Indies habanero
very solid list my friend!!
I've also been looking into caring for indoor Quail ! Easier to care for, less noise, and my favorite part---the eggs :) specifically Japanese jumbo quail
Excellent Nate. Thank you. My biggest issue is watering. I’m on the county water. Does that totally wipe out all of the microbiology of JMS, JLF, FAA, Fish Fert. that I’m putting in ?
no it does not... you'll be just fine with the city water but for the JMS its best to let it set out for a day or two to off gas as much as possible the chlorine
Is it any more beneficial to mix or sister up my anaerobic ferments such as JLF or just letting form a pellicle and let sit? Does mixing help with the break down any? This is a much needed video for many people I believe.
Great video! How about talking about compost teas vs JADAM JMS? Are they the same microbes? Or is one more bacterially dominant vs fungal? And which plants like one vs the other? Thanks man!
fantastic topic my friend thank you and yes I'll come up with a way to address that!
Good afternoon! please tell me how to quickly compost pine sawdust? Have you had a similar experience? I have a lot of sawdust, but I don’t know how to compost them correctly(((
Hey Nate, have you tried to turn the smelly anaerobic fertilizer into aerobic compost tea once it is done fermenting to help with the smell plus add lots of biology in the process as there would be plenty of nutrients to feed them.
actually I recommend to keep them separate... the anaerobic ferments I don't get on the plants at all anymore except for the fish based ones... and the aerated teas I apply all over the leaves and everything... you'll see in the compost tea video coming up
How do you tell when the Anerobic fertilizer is done?
Question for you, Nate, you mentioned making the microbial solution at 80° have you heard it’s best to make the solution at outdoor temps even if it takes longer so that your multiplying microbes that thrive at your current garden temperature. I’ll try to ask it on the Saturday live stream getting close to starting the five applications.
yes I know all about this and its definitely best to do this way UNLESS its below 65F then you need to use the heater... the microbes will not multiply efficiently at temps lower than that... I'll touch on this tomorrow during the live
@@gardenlikeaviking thanks for your response. Your ability to focus on what’s important is why I appreciate your channel.
Please make a video animal blood fertilizer
I never had success with AACT after years of trying. Johnson Su popularised the compost extract and saying how great it is, but i never tried. JLF is easy and proven. That’s my experience so far.
JLF is wonderful yes... simple and easy and relatively effective.... but you will have success this year with AACT because I'll soon release a video showing exactly how to do it properly....
@@gardenlikeaviking thank you so much for your great effort. I'm really looking forward to your new videos.
Thanks Nate. What the dilution rate of the anaerobic ferment, I currently have long day red onions and ginger growing great.
start with 50 to 1 and gauge the plants reactions... if needed stronger can go down to 20 to 1 but don't go much stronger than that
? Should I add 1 tsp FAA to the compost extract ?
absolutely!!... the seedlings will love that!
Looking for the compost tea with air video link please
Anaerobic is the smelly one? Thanks
thats correct... the other two do not have an offensive odor
Are you not foliar feeding anymore?
yes definitely!... but now its only with the aerated compost teas and a couple select fertilizers such as the fish.... you'll see the aerated tea recipe contains lots of things and it goes all over the leaves and soil and everything
THanks Nate...
This is more of a compost question... Would you use pig poo for composting?
Would compost extract work well with microgreens or potentially amplify any mold effects?
I always harvest micro greens just before they show signs of wanting fertilizer
@@Crashbangable you’re right they definitely don’t need it, just curious if it would increase yields/rate of growth
I've experimented over the years and there's not much difference because I harvest the MG's before they would really benefit from the extract.... except for wheatgrass yes that will become dramatically more luscious and green and juicy using extract
Thanks Nate, I've been messing around with different teas in a 20 litre bucket and mainly using on my house plants, I've a microscope so I'm able to check them, I'm going to use an 80 litre container in the summer for my garden, currently using a decent fish tank pump with 2 air stones in my 20 litre bucket, would I need a more powerful pump for the 80 litre?
definitely need a more powerful pump... in the compost tea video I'll be explaining all that and you'll see I have a quite powerful pump for the 55gallon drum
@@gardenlikeaviking In your video let the wattage of the pump be known and its litres per minute flow, I've been looking at 90 watt ones.
I started working with red earth, clay structure but a little more porous, very low ph (4,5). And am making 40% earth, 5 to 10% compost, 25% coco and 30% sand. (not exact but around those numbers). I get a decent structure. First had major ph problems, kinda solved it by adding hard wood ash to the mix (around 1 handful per galon of substrate did the trick, with a few more applications above soil every now and then), and started using JMS. This season is looking good, but took me almost 9 months to get to this point. I had a baby substrate hahaha. Still don’t see those nice fungii underneath the surface though, but plants seem to like it a lot and I see no more yellowing. Do I need anything else to enhance the mycelium life? what would you recommend?
note on red earth: is very low in organic matter (1% at most), super rich in iron (but not plant available), aluminium, and practically an old and empty earth type. Very good for Yerba Mate, but bad bad bad for many species
Im curious what you think of Robert Pavlis' work. He says that adding more microbes with compost tea won't do much because all soil is at maximum capacity based on the amount of organic matter available. The added microbes will just die due to lack of food. All you can do is add more organic matter to increase the capacity of the soil and the microbes will multiply on their own.
there are many theories behind this... but if you follow the compost tea video I put out in a few weeks and use it once a week this summer you will see for yourself the outstanding effects it has on the whole garden... the plants will be amazingly healthy if done correctly.... for me that kind of actual proof and effect is much more important than someones theory... never heard of that guy but I'll check him out thank you for the suggestion!
I still have 5 gallons of fermented quail and chicken poo from last year.
Great Video, Nate! Hey, it's not going to get under 70 in the evening here for quite some time. Is it a waste of time to spray a Compost Tea foliar when it's 75 and the sun is going down? (it is possible that it will be 65 or so by 7am but not necessarily so. Would appreciate your opinion. Thanks for your hard work!!
temperature is not a problem and 75 is perfect to spray the biggest concern is the ultraviolet radiation from the sun will quickly kill many of those precious microorganisms in the tea so we only must make sure the sun does not denature this tea
I'm growing cut flowers for bouquets, does anyone use the tea for that?
NATE! A question⁉️
Compost tea after its had the bubbler going for 24 hours. Can you spray the leaves during the day, or does the same principle apply as the fermented hooch, only to be applied at night?
Many Thanks NATE!
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Only to be applied at night my friend very important
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Thank You NATE,
Ok my Friend, the same as always.
Love and respect.
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No weeds yet. If I thought of it I would have saved food scraps in freezer. Weather has been in the 60's and 70's here zone 6b Ct. Expecting lower temps.
Do you do this every week or month?
Hi Nate,
You compare compost extraction, oxygenated compost tea and JLF, but you didn't talk about JMS, why?
It seems to me that JMS and oxygenated compost tea are more comparable even if the process differs but which are both a multiplication of microorganisms than JLF and compost extraction which are more of a source of nutrients.
yes you are absolutely correct my friend and essentially the JMS is a compost tea but is its own sub category of Anaerobic Compost Tea.... but I am all about simplifying things for people so I didn't want to throw that curve ball in there so to keep it simple I'll just call the JMS by its own name even though technically its definitely a multiplier of microbes yes but its the only one with virtually ZERO nutrients and ONLY microbes
@@gardenlikeaviking Ah you scared me, I thought for a moment that you were abandoning JMS to devote yourself to the AACT 😅
Another con to compost tea is that you are not multiplying all of the microbes in your compost. The brewing process tends to favor carb hungry bacteria and not the other microbes.
Don’t forget about the bacteria micros URINE, not just their dead bodies and feces . NATE or tribe,I’ll be on Hudgenson island tomorrow with a few of my grandchildren, is it worth vacuum bagging, compressing, and mailing a dish pac sized box full of SEAWEED home for JLF or top dressing or to add to my compost also to my high value plant ?
For as much as I do what is instructed in the video on making the compost tea and I look through the microscope I don’t see any micro organisms like people see and say they see in their’s
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Or when the Wind drops your MicroCarpA down 2 stories 😂