I started doing this, and my 6 year old is obsessed with it. He found a container and started his own. He also asks every day if it's been 2 weeks yet... it's been 3 days😂
I filled a 200 litre barrel with green thistles added some sugar and filled it with bore water. Gave the brew an occasional stir and after 4 years drained the liquid and fed the garden. The liquid was like a well aged wine. A pleasant smell and a nice golden colour. The debri in the bottom , < 50 litres , was applied as a mulch. It had a pleasant, fermented smell like a good, aged vinegar. The plants responded immediately with vigorous growth.
@@cravatenoire3269 My 2 week old swamp water gave my plants vigorous growth as well. I collected leaves and stuff from plants/trees around my property and added kitchen scraps. Within that 2 week period, 2 small plants literally sprung up twice the height of the others after I fed them swamp water. It works!
Our local sewage works manager used effluent on lucerne/ alfalfa, but in his previous position, he had used it on their veggie garden in summer. They'd wait 24 hours before picking anything. No sickness.
Join them in looking confused and make suggestions as regards whatever manufactoring plants are local, or suggest a dead animal along a roadway. That's what I do.
You were on replay five times in our house when you said"you are going to die no matter what you do" my great grandkids loved it and went into hysterics! Lol
I introduced this method to my niece and nephews. They are crazy about it. Every time they're over they pick more stuff to put in the barrels and they love watering plants with it!
I've been doing this for years. It works really well. One thing I will say is handle with cation. Rubber gloves and protective gear. Allways wash well after you handle bacteria rich compost.
Man, I call mine Devil's Pee... It stinks, but it is a miracle growth and health booster I had never imagined. Borage, comfrey, dandelion, nettles, rabbit poo, weeds, and whatever I get. Fruit trees go crazy. The longer the fermentation, the better the results. Great video! Thanks forbyour honest advice. From Cusco, Peru.
@@bryantcolby4038 Our country is surely crazy, but marvelous. There are so many places to visit, such varied and delicious food to eat and amazing historical sites that make it a must visit. Paracas is surely curious and Cusco has little hidden gems beside Machu Picchu. I am happy to live in tbe Andes and enjoy a relaxed lifestyle.
I've used compost tea and barnyard tea ever since the 70s, when my grandfather started teaching me how to do a garden. Love this. Thanks, Grandpa Mike.❤RIP
I’m starting my first veggie garden in raised beds in 2024. I have easy access to quail manure and have heard I can make manure tea by leaving it in a bucket of water for 24 hours. Can I use this weekly on my veggie garden?
I learned this by accident. I heard that grass & weed clippings in water made an excellent fertilizer so i dumped a bunch in a bucket- and forgot about it for a couple of weeks. When I remembered to check on it, it smelled so foul that I thought it was ruined, so I dumped it out on the back edge of a planted bed. A week later, I realized that in spite of the smell, the stuff was gold.
Love this idea- Liquid fertilizer!! I started using liquid fertilizer using banana peels and kitchen scraps and it make a huge difference in my potted garden! Thank you for sharing!
I can imagine this being a good strategy during the winter. Start a barrel in Autumn and by Spring you have a brew with a few months under its belt. You could also continuously add more stuff and top off the water to make a perpetual soup.
Do you actually have to remove the stuff once it has been there for months and you took the water as the nutrients have been sucked out or it will decompose untile disappearing?
Perhaps, though the rotting process slows down a lot in cold weather. And, of course, the liquid in the barrel could freeze solid and ruin your barrel.
@doloresreynolds8145 yeah the busted barrel is my concern. However freezing the mix will make it decompose faster in the spring as freezing plant matter bursts the cell walls in the materials just like ice does to buckets. The busted cell walls give more surface area for the microbes to consume it faster and allow the solution to absorb more nutrients.
Watched documentary from NHK and they have a scientist who switched to organic gardening, he packs plant clippings, leftovers, etc, into barrels and layers with a bit of salt like making sauerkraut. Lets it ferment for a few weeks and adds all the contents to his fields. Gets great, organic harvests and the soil is recharged
@@perillat99 I don't know. In the documentary, it didn't look like he was adding much salt to the layers. Just enough to encourage lactofermentation of the vegetative matter he was layering
I'm a fisherman and I had this Styrofoam cooler where some fish went bad and I ended up letting it sit for months, I didn't know what to do with it so I dumped it where my flowers grow. Later on those flowers looked amazing
I found your original “fetid swamp water” video years ago and have been using the concept ever since. I have had wonderful results from it. A lot of people have said anaerobic is bad, but I figured once the anaerobic swamp water is incorporated with an aerobic environment then the anaerobic bacteria die and become plant available nutrients. Love the content bro 🤘🏼
Anaerobic isn't bad, it's just very soluble and can run off, so it's more of a fertilizer than something that is feeding soil organisms long term like aerobic compost. (Aerated compost tea I see no use for.) A gardener once told me that anaerobic soil bacteria can produce compounds that are toxic to certain plants. I haven't learned any more about that, but I suspect it might be the actual reason why we dilute these fertilizer teas rather than it being 'too strong'.
If Anaerobic was bad then a product like Teraganix EM-1 wouldn't be such a powerful retail microbial for 80(I think) years. They have very few aerobic bacterium and the whole lactobacillus family is also anaerobic. No argument here just a little sharing of knowledge
Many/all? microbes are pleiomorphic and can change form from spore to bacterium to fungus and back again depending on the environment...which would include the oxygen content, of course. So maybe the swamp anaerobes die or maybe they just adapt.
Also in the biological economy a lot of the good guys eat the bad guys. That is, I've found that the leftover solid material from this process is quickly eaten in my worm bin. Although I haven't tried this with meat yet...
Hi David, I just wanted to tell you that I enjoy your company. I got too old to do much gardening now but I still enjoy it through you. Love your beautiful family and lifestyle and even the music too. May the good Lord bless you all, see you in heaven, Pam
Awwwww, what a sweet comment , and reply!!! MAN, Heaven is going to be so wonderful filled with beatifull KIND sweet thoughtful and wise people!!! (Not to mention The Most High and His Son!) How blessed we already are with simply KNOWING what is to come! What a Father we have!!!! HalleleuYAH!!!
I live in an apartment with no yard, just a driveway. There is an area against the house that I set up with buckets for my garden. My compost bucket has holes drilled all over the bottom and sides and is stacked into another bucket with no holes. Every once in a while I water the compost and the bottom bucket collects a beautiful brown concentrate of minerals and good stuff. I pour it into my watering container and fill the rest with clean water to dilute. It's a great system.
It feels good to not be dependent on whatever company wants to charge or wether they can keep up with demand. I now make my own compost and now I will try this fertilizer out.
"There is nothing new under the sun." Poignant, true and something we human beings keep ignoring consistently. Thank you for highlighting this gem from the old world.
So glad this is on TH-cam. I almost trashed my 2 week old swamp water because other youtubers said don't keep it that long. Loved this video and so glad I can keep my swamp water forever because it's surely working for my plants!
Very practical method. We also use this process in the farm: all the herbs, weeds and bananas stored in barrels with molasses. Gold mine. Love the video mate!
I've started using duck water. Hella nasty but with it i make magic happen. I can take any and all near dead, dry, sick looking plants from a garden/box store and pop them in the ground and pour this unholy concoction from Grandfather Nurgle at the base of them right before night fall. Standing at attention by morning is the usual result.
No rodent raccoon problems? Would be grand if they didn't like the smell. Would be wonderful if gophers or moles didn't like it either and made new homes somewhere else...
This is an excellent video and info for liquid fertilizer making. I did exactly the way you did in a 100 lt container with partially closed lid for about 10 days while I was vacationing in Philippines last summer. The villagers were observing me, looking at each other and covering their noses and shaking their heads each time (5-6 times a day) while I was mixing the 12 different kinds of grass mixture. When it was ready I convinced a relative to use it on his plants. He reluctantly did. Then? He began begging me for more of this miracle free of charge mother nature's gift fertilizer. After I returned home, they used the remaining fertilizer, and shocked to see the results. So yes, it does work wonderfully.Thank you very much for sharing.
Could you feed your plants without buying any fertilizer? This is how we feed a garden for free with fermented plant juice, AKA Dave's Fetid Swamp Water. I thought I was clever, but the Koreans were hundreds of years ahead of me. UPDATE: Check out the new video we posted covering your questions about using this method: th-cam.com/video/jEVG21NHboo/w-d-xo.html Compost Everything: amzn.to/3LvM3Vd Dave's Fetid Swamp Water Tees: www.aardvarktees.com/products/dtg-daves-fetid-swamp-water-shirt Compost Your Enemies Tees: www.aardvarktees.com/products/compost-your-enemies-cheery-christmas-black Other Composting Resources: JADAM Organic Farming: amzn.to/3lwHKOM The Regenerative Grower's Guide to Garden Amendments: amzn.to/3lwHShe Thank you all for watching!
I love it! I started doing something similar kind of intuitively, then met another person doing something similar and here I see you with many years of experience using it and expanding my knowledge by sharing yours. Thank you so much. God bless you.
Last year we had a garbage can full of yard waste that had been collecting water and fermenting. My teenage son dumped it over. As he was retching in the corner from the smell, I lamented that I could have fed the garden with it. Thank you for this video. It's gonna feed lots of gardens!
I like using a 5 gal paint strainer bag inside a 5 gal bucket to brew compost tea. They'll last for years if rinsed well and sundryed after each use. Happy growing!!
I was watching a horticulturist talking about microbes and ferments and he said that it doesn't matter if it's aerobic tea or anaerobic tea. "Even if the microbes do nothing else but die when you add them to the soil they will feed the soil!"
I fermented tobacco leaves now for a month and today my dad collected them in bottles to use it as pesticides. I just did it on own idea and don’t know why I did it but now when I look at this it gives me hope and goose bumps.
I do a variation of this with weeds and alfalfa cuttings from my yard including some fresh vermicompost and molasses. I do it overnight rather than for 2 weeks and drop in 2 large airstones pushing air from a beefy air pump. It works great for a nutrient hit for my garden. On my farm in the late 80s-90s we made anaerobic fermentations with weeds, lactic acid bacteria, fish etc. One thing of note is that the really long term (1 year+) fermentations were apparently more concentrated but also lost the 'stink' . We used these fermentations in tandem with aerated liquid extracts (compost tea). We made a 4500 litre ACT maker with multiple airlifts and 95 CFM air pump. This was pumped out directly through our irrigation system. By the way, compost tea is a much higher quality made without the panty hose or bag.
My grandfather got fish and put it into buckets for fertilizer 50 years ago. That bucket had to stay far from the house But a tuna can dipper beside a tomato plant, great stuff!
Great video. 😊👍 Humble advices: 1)Remember to thinn out the 1 liter concentrated fertilizer with 10 liter of water (or roots will suffer/die). 2) if possible watch out for greens with seeds (sew via a cloth when mixing the fertilizer to prevent spreading seeds of unwanted greens). 3) Recommend nettles fertilizer (full with minreals). 😊
But it seemed here that David made it very clear that he takes the mineral water directly from the barrel into his watering can and then waters his gardens. Said nothing about diluting (which does take more water and more time), and he’s been doing this for ten years. ?
I also learned this liquid compost solution from a Korean farmer. They also use rice scraps left over after making rice wine and use them as as a compost. It works really well and also deter any types of diseases for my gardening plants. It is amazing solution used by Korean farmers for thousands of years.
That's amazing and hilarious that you invented the "swamp water" fertilizer without knowing it was already a thing. That's just confirmation that it WAS brilliant!
I had some fruits (figs) and other stuff in a container, actually forgot it, and of course rain came down. I wondered how long this guck could be kept as ND actually be usable. Your video said 2 years, perfect! This guck is a year old, so now I don't have to strain my back dumping it out, just use it and grin. Thanks 👍.
Hey David, I'm from the Caribbean and can only do containerize planting. There's plenty of Bush and weeds in my community, especially moringa. Your video on free fertilizer is super wonderful. Thanks David the Good.
Moringa is a super food. Don’t waste it on this. I take moringa powder as tea, in my oat meal, use the leaves 🍃 as tea leaves, on my smoothie, chew the seeds. I use any other material for the natural fertilizer but not Moringa.😊
Adding urine to the mixture is hugely beneficial too. It's actually how fertiliser was made made prior to modern methods, this same method but you use urine instead of water, leave it for months, and BOOM potassium/ammonia/sodium/etc nitrate (see what I did there?), obviously this was how to make black powder back in the day too.
Thank you, all the info , I was searching for, you answered. Big thank you on the Kudzu part, I have a bucket stuffed with water and Kudzu, that has been enjoying the hot weather of Alabama. Thank you again for answering all my questions.
KNF is all the rage in cannabis growing at the moment. I haven’t tried it yet, but I’m glad to know other people like yourself get great results. Thanks for the info
I saw a video where someone was doing something similar to this, but with a few additions: 1) They put an angled tube towards the top of the container pointing down 2) On that tube they hung a bucket that was covered with a mesh to keep birds and critters out of the bucket 3) There was a spicket at the bottom of the container The reason they were doing this was to encourage flies to go up the tub and lay their eggs inside. When the larvae were big enough, they would wiggle out of the container and fall into the bucket to be collected and fed to the chickens. The spicket on the bottom was to collect the "swamp tea" for the garden.
Found your video last year while starting my "grow" found a large trash can with a lid I let it fester for a month or so and OMG it is amazing they grew like never before and everything else exploded so I went and picked up a 55-gallon barrel with a lid. Filling it with snow for the water for the next batch next year while this one cooks for another season.
This is the bedrock/cornerstone of our fertility program, too. Last year we moved to a new place and didn't have enough of our own fertilizer, so I bought a gallon of fish emulsion to help get some of our beds started - good grief, I had sort of forgotten how expensive that stuff is! Last summer I made darn sure to make enough swamp water to just let it set over winter and be ready for this spring.
@@SENILE_TYRANT as far as I know, yes. But I can't say for certain. It would be interesting to have a lab test it when it's a month old, then after a year, after having been frozen, etc.
The ideas in this video are very important, inexpensive, good for the Earth, for the soil, and frugal for humans. It connects us with the laws of nature without buying fertilizer. I was only collecting comfrey and nettles! Didn’t know why anaerobic was useful. I was stirring mine to get aerobic. Now I can increase the vocabulary. 😁 thank you! Excellent communicator! Skillful presentation and editing. We are witnessing the new age of creativity for individual creators… brilliant! Subscribed. ❤️🙏🏼
This works great I started this in my back yard in a rain barrel I have it propped up and it had a spicket at the bottom. Just take a mason jar full of this swamp gold and add it to my garden watering can with water in it.. Amazing who needs fertilizer
Been doing it for years. I use manure because we raise organic beef. The liquid on the leaves does help keep bugs away. I also use a sugar sourse such as molasses and a aquarium bubbler. No science here, I don't have time. It works for me. Been gardening all my life.
Another great video David. My comfrey is ready for first cut. I was going to make tea for the garden, and thanks for the tip about a little epsom salt, and coffee grounds. I think I’ll also water my worm composter and put some of that in. My grandfather used to take the manure from the chicken coop, let it sit in a barrel of water and steep for awhile, then water his garden and then put the solids in the compost.
...interesting to see your excitement. most peoples think I am nuts for doing this...I've been doing this for 40 years from grass clippings too long wide blade grass and Clover Clover works really good but you got to cut it up to half inch to an inch long and then put it in a blender and make some good chlorophyll water and then soak the pulp to get the rest of the chlorophyll out of the fiber and the fiber makes good soil mix my tomatoes just eat it up. I try not to get too carried away because of the mold Factor if you're going to put all that kind of stuff in. Have fun and happy making silage. my tomaters reached 7 feet tall ...last year...water 3 times a week with chlorophyll water. fiber mixes well with dirt also.
This is great advice, many people overthink overcategorize and overplan for feeding. While ive seen practices like this vefore i like how you made the clear difference between compost tea and what this is. Keep up the great work man
I don't care what people say, I've used this method for years and seen nearly dead plants that I neglected spring back to life after one feeding. It just works! I have a batch that's a year old now that I mixed and forgot about, curious how well it's going to work. Might just let it go until spring 2023 and use it then. I keep mine covered, covered but leave a crack in the lid to allow air exchange. The bonus of a crack is I usually get black fly larva on the top floating/rotting bits. I just mix them in for extra proteins. Plus whatever insects and roaches go in to feed leave tiny manure behind. All a plus ️
Plus, academics are now saying that anaerobic amendments induce a relative reduction (from an electrochemical perspective) state to the soil environment, which greatly mobilizes plant-available minerals compared to highly oxidative states. Example: Reduced nitrogen (ammonium) vs oxidized nitrogen (nitrate, nitrites). Veggies utilize ammonium directly and must convert nitrate/nitrites to ammonium before they can access the nitrogen. It's the same with many if not most mineral salts. They ionize and become plant available in reduced environments. Dave's Swamp Water (or any KNF technique) most likely provides fertilization through providing micro-foods for the soil biology but also enhanced minerals availability. I always have a tub of rotting greens going in my garden; but I usually dilute it 1:20 or so before drenching onto the soil/leaves.
Hi David. I run vegetable food scraps/yard waste through my vitamix (I mention brand as I believe only a high-powered blender would be great at this) before adding it to my compost tea bucket to help speed up the rotting process. I also have a fish tank pump constantly running in it to aerate the 'tea'. Got the idea from old videos of a man in Alaska that had phenomenal results doing so. My plants are diggin' it. I'm new to your channel and lovin' it. I think it was the watering-the-kiddie-pool musical montage with gratuitous video length minute milking that sealed the deal for me. Well done.
You deserve your name David The Good. This is really a very practical and good idea indeed. We can skip the bad smell by using water lines that feeds directly underground. Soil bacterias neutralise the bad odor. Thanks.
The ability to breakdown meat, dairy, and acids is the big advantage that anaerobic composting has. I inoculated my compost with "Bokashi+ root zone innoculant." Didn't smell too bad, and had BIG effects on my discarded bones, cheese rinds, etc.
This blew my mind ! I just started growing my own food this year and it been extremely fun . I Never every though of doing this and i look forward to so it. ❤
This is an idea I had suspected but had only been using old milk bottle containers. Now I'm gonna look for a bigger barrel like yours buddy. Thanks so much for posting this video.!!
I use the same thing with a different method. I use 2 regular sized pails, with 1 to hold the liquid and the other pail with holes to drain out the rotting materials. I stacked the pail with holes on top the other pail. I'll add in urine or beer for it to rot as well. Then cover it with a pail lid. Once it's done, I'll remove the pail with holes and pour out the rotting materials into the compost bin, and the other pail is left with just liquid without the rotting materials. Good stuff
@@RodM.Peters just make sure you drill holes all along the sides of the inner pail as well, not just the bottom. This helps to drain easier. I fill it up with mostly kitchen waste and dead leafs from the garden. I'm not too bothered about filling it full with water at the first go. Just pour in urine and gray water over time. The result is some powerful stuff. Give it a shot
For my first go at composting Im leaning doing this route. Very simple and I'll learn and expand from there. 2 5gallon buckets simply with holes drilled in the one. I have a pond nearby which I think would be a good idea to use that water because of the microbes.
Yeah I did a JADAM liquid fertilizer last year for the first time and loved it. Let it go over winter, hit my garlic with it and they shot up out of winter dormancy. Strong stuff
Great! I’ve been doing this for years too. A word of caution: some plants are toxic or poisonous as is the case with the lantana we see at around minute 3. The whole plant including the flowers is toxic and shouldn’t be used at all. Same with the solanaceous family (tomato leaves, potato leaves, eggplant leaves, tamarillo leaves, Cape gooseberry leaves, etc) among others. Just wanted to put that out there.
I make a micro nutrient solution kinda like super thrive out of the extra vitamins I have around d the house I put magnesium iron zinc calcium vit b d3 E some potassium and even one for hair that has even more in it all into a gallon bottle and filling half full with hot water shaking it leave it for a day then add remaining water to top off then I add this to my 15 30 15 or 5 1 5 when fertilizing it works great
So, it's wrong to grow vegetables where tomato plants have died and decomposed? How would you know where it's safe to plant if you don't know what has grown there before?
@@jesusmywholehaschanged I don’t know about growing vegetables. This liquid fertilizer is extracting the nutrients and other particles from plant matter thus I would absolutely never put in any part of lantana or tamarillo leaves, stalks, etc. I mean, it’s not just the good stuff that’s extracted. A lot of soil has been contaminated with lead by previous generations of humans. There’s so much we don’t know. So I just wanted to put that info out there because this I know.
Yo David , spot on… next do a video on making the Korean Jadam Solution for growing microbes to pour into your soil. Been doing it a while. Same thing 55g drum full of water, put in two handfuls of forest soil with one large boiled potato mashed into the water. No bubblers and all that crap. It will bubble up like a a kombucha. Use within 48 hrs. Dilute 20 part water 1 part microbe bubbly. IT’S LEGIT. You can find the procedure broken down in the Jadam Book. Nice work brother!!!
As I was weeding today I was thinking of using my 55 gallon bucket and experimenting with this as my nettles are too precious to waste. Bingo ! You showed up in my feed and confirmed this would work! So grateful ! Newly subscribed !
TH-cam is our heads. Literally thought about this the other day. Here's the video. Lol, I'm sure it's a coincidence. I've been watching alot of irrigation vids.
I learn so much from you, I super excited to meet the homesteaders October 28th and 29th. We are not homesteaders but we love the concept and lifestyle. We live in Florida and are trying hard to live self sustainably. I'm sure we'll get some really good idea's from visiting your homestead.
I like your style and this is undoubtedly effective. I throw in chicken manure mostly but anything goes. I don't know why some people struggle with the concept in the home garden since around here the farmers pretty much all use 'slurry' which is just tanked-up collected manure from animals mixed with whatever else falls through the shed grates, usually a lot of rainwater etc to bring it to a thick liquid consistency that they collect and then spray on the fields in the spring.
Here in the Philippine mountains, we've also been doing this for as long as we can remember! Since we were young, we saw our parents and grandparents doing this. We've been taught to do this. We rarely buy commercial fertilizers! This method is pretty much just like copying how nature does to nourish the earth. However, just a tip of advice, be careful not to use leaves or anything from Gmelina trees as they are not good for other plants. There's not many studies about it, but you can see that other plants that are near the gmelina tress die. Better safe than sorry!
I love the way u teach it man. This is my first time really gardening and ive had some luck so far and definitely had some bad luck as well but learning is the whole point. I scour my feed every few hours and seeing this video was a blessing. Thank u so much brother
I use a paint tin. I fill it with all the weeds that I can't forage. Fill with water and leave for only 2 weeks. I put only 10% of this into a full watering can for my crops. It works wonders. I also throw the weeds into my water butts. Every time I fill my can from there I've got well rotted fertiliser whenever I need it.
I use this for any weed roots that would take root in my compost heap. Weed roots are a great way to return minerals from deep in the soil back to the growing surface.
My wife uses all the banana skins and eggshells we generate and keeps them in a water solution for a month. She then mixes it with compost tea and dilutes it about 10 to 1 and it still stinks to high heaven but the plants love it!
Love your channel! First time first year gardener here at Holy Springs Alabama. We Would love to take a field trip to your farm for homeschool some day! We are prepping our beds this fall after your videos this year! Definately going to use the compost tea!
When i started gardening I relied on the store bought fertilizers. I decided to ferment the weeds and water with it. I wait until I get that mangrove type smell and I know its ready. This combined with home made compost has taken my veges to the next level. Without meat products Id water just like water, no problems at all. Great video!! I garden, grow and eat to save money and give food away. Love it!!
I buy liquid seaweed from Amazon…I didn’t know you could do this! With the seaweed, if you spray it on your leaves, it increases of the plant massively (Ivan testify it’s true) and it helps against some diseases like leaf curl (the reason I bought it). I wonder if some plants would protect against some pests like that. Great video!
If u live near the sea go to rocky shoreline after storm and u can collect your own kelp .dry it out and powder to mix with soil or make your own folier spray by brewing kelp tea
@@robbiebanks9182 - I was thinking how easy it would be. Wouldn’t one have to thoroughly wash the salt off first? Obviously for the tea, but I was wondering if people could just bed seaweed around the base of young fruit trees without washing it….
It works really well! Some of my favs are comfrey, nettle, horse manure, urine and worm castings. We always called it garden tea but I mean fetid swamp water is probably a lot more catchy :P Some people insist that you have to stir it a lot, or put in an aerator but I don't find you have to If you get very deep into bio-dynamic farming you have to bury cow manure in a horn on a certain moon phase and bury it for so many months and then use that as a culture and stir it 100 times to the left and 100 to the right every day for two weeks, or something to that affect its been a while since I've read the literature. They also use finely ground up rose quarts, and other elements. I find just fermenting anything is helpful, and it really doesn't have to be done in any particular way.
I use water from my pond, it's full of rotting leaves, fish, frogs, the cows drink from it and drop fertilizer all around it and it's been going for 45+ years, since my grandfather dug it. The smell when you stir up the mud on the bottom is unbelievable.
Love your channel! Just discovered you today through Off Grid With Doug and Stacy's TH-cam channel. They questions - 1. What do you do with the solid material (if any remains) after you've used the liquid fertilizer? 2. Or do you just keep this going by continuing to add more material and water to the drum? Thanks! Can't wait to explore the other videos on your channel!
Just spread it out around your cultures or squash or z tree. It will dry out and finish composting, while protecting the soil from drying or pooring rain.
Put it in your runner bean trench. also I have been making my own Liquid compost since 1940s nearly 90 now. I just like to say I also add Yeast. God bless all UK.
After the mixture gets mixed and we start to put on the plants we drain all the used materials and either put it in a compus pile or till it under for use when it is all chopped up. Thanks. Wr also for the first 2 to 3 weeks of a new batch of weeds we use this for the groth of the plants than if we leave it for 3 to 4 months we use that for just food for the remaning year. So we have 2 50 gal barrels, one for growth and one for plant food.
Actually the best liquid fertilizer with immediate application has been practiced by the Chinese for thousands of years...mix urine with 20 times the amount of water! Urine contain all the nitrates and nutrients plants need.
the best! chinese got this pot just for urinate. then they use it for plant by mixing it with water. Boom... all good, everything good. In fact most fruits in asia ( apart of japan and korea ) are from China. The price is extremely cheap and quality is good, locals can't compete with them
As my gradma said: roots are good for rooting, greens are good for greens and flower is good to flower. And it sort of make sense. Just stop overthinking it, sit in your garden and look how it works, and you will figure it out quiet quickly!
Absolutely fantastic video, and awesome timing on putting it out today! Shared it with my garden companion(s) a few blocks away, and we are making plans to stink up the neighborhood a bit lol. Around here it's a diy & somewhat natural mindset. Im guessing we probably won't be the only ones doing this 😁
My grandmother made tea from dehydrated manure and also saved tea bags and made two types of tea for her indoor and outdoor plants saving money is good
I started doing this, and my 6 year old is obsessed with it.
He found a container and started his own. He also asks every day if it's been 2 weeks yet... it's been 3 days😂
That is awesome!
My kids like to brew their own, too.
Thats cute.. haha.. its a great hobby i guess.
That's hilarious 😂
That's awesome!
I'm Korean, yes, and when I was growing up, we used to make a lot of fertilizer this way. David, thank you very much. I'm learning a lot!
I filled a 200 litre barrel with green thistles added some sugar and filled it with bore water. Gave the brew an occasional stir and after 4 years drained the liquid and fed the garden. The liquid was like a well aged wine. A pleasant smell and a nice golden colour. The debri in the bottom , < 50 litres , was applied as a mulch. It had a pleasant, fermented smell like a good, aged vinegar. The plants responded immediately with vigorous growth.
4 years?!
Sure there's some way to catalyse it down to 1 year with almost same results. Please do share if n when you stumble on it. TY
OK so my 6 week brew is still good.. thanks for the info
OK so my 6 week brew is still good.. thanks for the info
@@cravatenoire3269 My 2 week old swamp water gave my plants vigorous growth as well. I collected leaves and stuff from plants/trees around my property and added kitchen scraps. Within that 2 week period, 2 small plants literally sprung up twice the height of the others after I fed them swamp water. It works!
Our local sewage works manager used effluent on lucerne/ alfalfa, but in his previous position, he had used it on their veggie garden in summer. They'd wait 24 hours before picking anything. No sickness.
I started making your fetid swamp water this year and it seems to be working. Although the neighbors kind of wonder where the awful smell comes from.
Join them in looking confused and make suggestions as regards whatever manufactoring plants are local, or suggest a dead animal along a roadway. That's what I do.
@@goldengryphon I love that!
You have to water it down when you use it.
@@Al-Hunt-acrylic-painter it still smells for a while
The bodies 🤣
You were on replay five times in our house when you said"you are going to die no matter what you do" my great grandkids loved it and went into hysterics! Lol
Yeah that was random and hilarious 😆
I introduced this method to my niece and nephews. They are crazy about it. Every time they're over they pick more stuff to put in the barrels and they love watering plants with it!
I've been doing this for years. It works really well. One thing I will say is handle with cation. Rubber gloves and protective gear. Allways wash well after you handle bacteria rich compost.
Man, I call mine Devil's Pee... It stinks, but it is a miracle growth and health booster I had never imagined. Borage, comfrey, dandelion, nettles, rabbit poo, weeds, and whatever I get. Fruit trees go crazy. The longer the fermentation, the better the results. Great video! Thanks forbyour honest advice. From Cusco, Peru.
LOL! Love your comment & sharing 😀👍 Many thanks!
I would love to visit the ceramics museum in Cusco, and see the elongated paracus skulls.
@@bryantcolby4038 Our country is surely crazy, but marvelous. There are so many places to visit, such varied and delicious food to eat and amazing historical sites that make it a must visit. Paracas is surely curious and Cusco has little hidden gems beside Machu Picchu. I am happy to live in tbe Andes and enjoy a relaxed lifestyle.
Love the name, very appropriate. I'm a "gagger', when I get a whiff, I gag & pee down my leg---i know TMI😂😂😅
I’m in southern Ohio, been gardening many years and can’t seem to get my hands on any comfrey. Kinda crazy.
This is gonna bring me back to when I was a kid making 'potions' with random stuff. Also I love that you gave credit where credit is due !
Lol I was getting the same feeling, did that as a kid as well.
Yeah me too. Awesome times!
Me too, haha. We were doing what we were supposed to be being taught to do. God bless!
I did that too! I never heard anyone else say they did as well.
I've made more potions as an adult
I've used compost tea and barnyard tea ever since the 70s, when my grandfather started teaching me how to do a garden. Love this. Thanks, Grandpa Mike.❤RIP
I’m starting my first veggie garden in raised beds in 2024. I have easy access to quail manure and have heard I can make manure tea by leaving it in a bucket of water for 24 hours. Can I use this weekly on my veggie garden?
Anybody know if i can just chuck cut grass from my lawn in this water swamp?
I learned this by accident. I heard that grass & weed clippings in water made an excellent fertilizer so i dumped a bunch in a bucket- and forgot about it for a couple of weeks. When I remembered to check on it, it smelled so foul that I thought it was ruined, so I dumped it out on the back edge of a planted bed. A week later, I realized that in spite of the smell, the stuff was gold.
Love this idea- Liquid fertilizer!! I started using liquid fertilizer using banana peels and kitchen scraps and it make a huge difference in my potted garden! Thank you for sharing!
We are going to start a potted garden using the tubs from cow feed. Please share the recipe.
I can imagine this being a good strategy during the winter. Start a barrel in Autumn and by Spring you have a brew with a few months under its belt. You could also continuously add more stuff and top off the water to make a perpetual soup.
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Do you actually have to remove the stuff once it has been there for months and you took the water as the nutrients have been sucked out or it will decompose untile disappearing?
Yes heat May smell
Perhaps, though the rotting process slows down a lot in cold weather. And, of course, the liquid in the barrel could freeze solid and ruin your barrel.
@doloresreynolds8145 yeah the busted barrel is my concern. However freezing the mix will make it decompose faster in the spring as freezing plant matter bursts the cell walls in the materials just like ice does to buckets. The busted cell walls give more surface area for the microbes to consume it faster and allow the solution to absorb more nutrients.
Watched documentary from NHK and they have a scientist who switched to organic gardening, he packs plant clippings, leftovers, etc, into barrels and layers with a bit of salt like making sauerkraut. Lets it ferment for a few weeks and adds all the contents to his fields. Gets great, organic harvests and the soil is recharged
link pls
salting the land? sounds tisky
@@perillat99 I don't know. In the documentary, it didn't look like he was adding much salt to the layers. Just enough to encourage lactofermentation of the vegetative matter he was layering
@@catchthis7563 sorry I don't have a link. It was a cable TV documentary.
Here's the link to that documentary: th-cam.com/video/rvHJKqU-mZo/w-d-xo.html
This is one of those bits of knowledge that just makes sense to me beyond an intellectual level. Thank you for sharing, I WILL be doing this.
I like to figure out easy ways to avoid buying things. We have abundant riches at our fingertips if we can see them.
I'm a fisherman and I had this Styrofoam cooler where some fish went bad and I ended up letting it sit for months, I didn't know what to do with it so I dumped it where my flowers grow. Later on those flowers looked amazing
That is fantastic.
If you add molasses it would be wonderful. It become fish MOL.
I found your original “fetid swamp water” video years ago and have been using the concept ever since. I have had wonderful results from it. A lot of people have said anaerobic is bad, but I figured once the anaerobic swamp water is incorporated with an aerobic environment then the anaerobic bacteria die and become plant available nutrients. Love the content bro 🤘🏼
Anaerobic isn't bad, it's just very soluble and can run off, so it's more of a fertilizer than something that is feeding soil organisms long term like aerobic compost.
(Aerated compost tea I see no use for.)
A gardener once told me that anaerobic soil bacteria can produce compounds that are toxic to certain plants. I haven't learned any more about that, but I suspect it might be the actual reason why we dilute these fertilizer teas rather than it being 'too strong'.
If Anaerobic was bad then a product like Teraganix EM-1 wouldn't be such a powerful retail microbial for 80(I think) years. They have very few aerobic bacterium and the whole lactobacillus family is also anaerobic. No argument here just a little sharing of knowledge
Many/all? microbes are pleiomorphic and can change form from spore to bacterium to fungus and back again depending on the environment...which would include the oxygen content, of course. So maybe the swamp anaerobes die or maybe they just adapt.
Also in the biological economy a lot of the good guys eat the bad guys. That is, I've found that the leftover solid material from this process is quickly eaten in my worm bin. Although I haven't tried this with meat yet...
@@stefflus08 I use wood chips composted chips leaves peat moss there's never any runn off gets sucked up never any over fertilizing
Hi David, I just wanted to tell you that I enjoy your company. I got too old to do much gardening now but I still enjoy it through you. Love your beautiful family and lifestyle and even the music too. May the good Lord bless you all, see you in heaven, Pam
I look forward to meeting you, sister. Thank you.
Awwwww, what a sweet comment , and reply!!! MAN, Heaven is going to be so wonderful filled with beatifull KIND sweet thoughtful and wise people!!! (Not to mention The Most High and His Son!) How blessed we already are with simply KNOWING what is to come! What a Father we have!!!! HalleleuYAH!!!
@@time2see192amen... Count me in on that blessed Réunion in Heaven ❤
I live in an apartment with no yard, just a driveway. There is an area against the house that I set up with buckets for my garden. My compost bucket has holes drilled all over the bottom and sides and is stacked into another bucket with no holes. Every once in a while I water the compost and the bottom bucket collects a beautiful brown concentrate of minerals and good stuff. I pour it into my watering container and fill the rest with clean water to dilute. It's a great system.
So called “shortages” are no longer an instrument of manipulation. Thank you!
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you got it with *shortages*
It feels good to not be dependent on whatever company wants to charge or wether they can keep up with demand. I now make my own compost and now I will try this fertilizer out.
Shortages are a real thing. No need to go all conspiranoic.
"There is nothing new under the sun." Poignant, true and something we human beings keep ignoring consistently. Thank you for highlighting this gem from the old world.
That's from the Bible :D
So glad this is on TH-cam. I almost trashed my 2 week old swamp water because other youtubers said don't keep it that long. Loved this video and so glad I can keep my swamp water forever because it's surely working for my plants!
Very practical method. We also use this process in the farm: all the herbs, weeds and bananas stored in barrels with molasses. Gold mine. Love the video mate!
With water? How much molasses? Thanks
How much molasses?
It's true, i did this around 3 months already and the result is awesome. It's make me start to love organic farming more and more 👍
would like to try this one. fertilizer nowadays cost so much
You could feel the love in his teaching. Respect you bro 💯
Thank you
I been composting everything! I watched your videos and I now also make my own swamp water 🤣. My garden is loving it! Thanks
GOOD WORK!
I've started using duck water. Hella nasty but with it i make magic happen. I can take any and all near dead, dry, sick looking plants from a garden/box store and pop them in the ground and pour this unholy concoction from Grandfather Nurgle at the base of them right before night fall. Standing at attention by morning is the usual result.
No rodent raccoon problems? Would be grand if they didn't like the smell. Would be wonderful if gophers or moles didn't like it either and made new homes somewhere else...
@@davidthegood come pick up some breadfruit here in Jamaica
Great video. Shows how important microorganisms are for almost everything!
This is an excellent video and info for liquid fertilizer making. I did exactly the way you did in a 100 lt container with partially closed lid for about 10 days while I was vacationing in Philippines last summer. The villagers were observing me, looking at each other and covering their noses and shaking their heads each time (5-6 times a day) while I was mixing the 12 different kinds of grass mixture. When it was ready I convinced a relative to use it on his plants. He reluctantly did. Then? He began begging me for more of this miracle free of charge mother nature's gift fertilizer.
After I returned home, they used the remaining fertilizer, and shocked to see the results. So yes, it does work wonderfully.Thank you very much for sharing.
Could you feed your plants without buying any fertilizer? This is how we feed a garden for free with fermented plant juice, AKA Dave's Fetid Swamp Water. I thought I was clever, but the Koreans were hundreds of years ahead of me. UPDATE: Check out the new video we posted covering your questions about using this method: th-cam.com/video/jEVG21NHboo/w-d-xo.html
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Thank you all for watching!
Absolutely!! My neighbors probably don’t always appreciate the smell but I plan on hooking them up with some Seminole pumpkins in a month!
Activate your biochar with this stuff 100%
Hilarious as usual David keep crushing!
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I been doing the things as you! Always. I use comfrey and chicken poop.
An answer for my anxiety as a newbie gardener! 🙏 thanks
I love it! I started doing something similar kind of intuitively, then met another person doing something similar and here I see you with many years of experience using it and expanding my knowledge by sharing yours. Thank you so much. God bless you.
Thank you. God bless you too.
Last year we had a garbage can full of yard waste that had been collecting water and fermenting. My teenage son dumped it over. As he was retching in the corner from the smell, I lamented that I could have fed the garden with it. Thank you for this video. It's gonna feed lots of gardens!
Plant where the water got into
"But your plants don't have noses, and they don't care!"
That just did it for me!!
Thanks so much!
I like using a 5 gal paint strainer bag inside a 5 gal bucket to brew compost tea. They'll last for years if rinsed well and sundryed after each use. Happy growing!!
This is what I was looking for. A simple solution with great results. Thank you.
I was watching a horticulturist talking about microbes and ferments and he said that it doesn't matter if it's aerobic tea or anaerobic tea. "Even if the microbes do nothing else but die when you add them to the soil they will feed the soil!"
Could you please send the link to the video? I’m very interested. Thank you!
My Chinese mother in law makes this stuff and leaves it for months. The only thing that might kill you is the smell.
I fermented tobacco leaves now for a month and today my dad collected them in bottles to use it as pesticides. I just did it on own idea and don’t know why I did it but now when I look at this it gives me hope and goose bumps.
I do a variation of this with weeds and alfalfa cuttings from my yard including some fresh vermicompost and molasses. I do it overnight rather than for 2 weeks and drop in 2 large airstones pushing air from a beefy air pump. It works great for a nutrient hit for my garden. On my farm in the late 80s-90s we made anaerobic fermentations with weeds, lactic acid bacteria, fish etc. One thing of note is that the really long term (1 year+) fermentations were apparently more concentrated but also lost the 'stink' .
We used these fermentations in tandem with aerated liquid extracts (compost tea). We made a 4500 litre ACT maker with multiple airlifts and 95 CFM air pump. This was pumped out directly through our irrigation system. By the way, compost tea is a much higher quality made without the panty hose or bag.
Tried this method this year, plants are doing great, used mostly tomato leaves and arum lily leaves plus the weeds that I collect in the garden 😊
Thank you, it drives me crazy how hard people make when it comes to composting.
My grandfather got fish and put it into buckets for fertilizer 50 years ago. That bucket had to stay far from the house But a tuna can dipper beside a tomato plant, great stuff!
Just today, I received a barrel with a wide lid and I didn't wait a second to realize this project. David, God bless you. 🤸❤️🎉
Great video. 😊👍 Humble advices: 1)Remember to thinn out the 1 liter concentrated fertilizer with 10 liter of water (or roots will suffer/die). 2) if possible watch out for greens with seeds (sew via a cloth when mixing the fertilizer to prevent spreading seeds of unwanted greens). 3) Recommend nettles fertilizer (full with minreals). 😊
I mean, I'm pretty sure the seeds would rot, as long as you don't add them only like a day before you use the pot. Treat it like curing compost.
But it seemed here that David made it very clear that he takes the mineral water directly from the barrel into his watering can and then waters his gardens. Said nothing about diluting (which does take more water and more time), and he’s been doing this for ten years. ?
I usually don't dillute this kind of liquid compost and my plants are growing like crazy. It's not nearly as strong as concentrated fertiliser you buy
I also learned this liquid compost solution from a Korean farmer. They also use rice scraps left over after making rice wine and use them as as a compost. It works really well and also deter any types of diseases for my gardening plants. It is amazing solution used by Korean farmers for thousands of years.
That's amazing and hilarious that you invented the "swamp water" fertilizer without knowing it was already a thing. That's just confirmation that it WAS brilliant!
Congrats David on hitting 200K subs. Well done.
Thank you, Stefan! I have enjoyed seeing your channel grow as well.
I had some fruits (figs) and other stuff in a container, actually forgot it, and of course rain came down.
I wondered how long this guck could be kept as ND actually be usable. Your video said 2 years, perfect! This guck is a year old, so now I don't have to strain my back dumping it out, just use it and grin.
Thanks 👍.
Awesome.
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Hey David, I'm from the Caribbean and can only do containerize planting. There's plenty of Bush and weeds in my community, especially moringa. Your video on free fertilizer is super wonderful. Thanks David the Good.
Thank you. We used to live in Grenada. I loved it.
Moringa is the BEST 👌🏽
I'm sure the excess moringa will make for good fertilizer
Moringa is a super food. Don’t waste it on this. I take moringa powder as tea, in my oat meal, use the leaves 🍃 as tea leaves, on my smoothie, chew the seeds.
I use any other material for the natural fertilizer but not Moringa.😊
Thank you brother. Have a great day!!
Done this for 12 years common sense abkout time people got back to nature they should realise fertiliser has not been always available.
@@noelhamilton8332 I know we’re do they think its come from, I bet miracle grow is laughing at people
Adding urine to the mixture is hugely beneficial too. It's actually how fertiliser was made made prior to modern methods, this same method but you use urine instead of water, leave it for months, and BOOM potassium/ammonia/sodium/etc nitrate (see what I did there?), obviously this was how to make black powder back in the day too.
yes but today your urine is full of heavy metals. hopefully you don’t have mercury amalgams ….
@Andrew you could then add rabbit urine rather than your own. Very popular in use here in Kenya
@Andrew I doubt it will kill anything. Urine is dirty specifically because it is such a great growth medium for bacteria.
Thank you, all the info , I was searching for, you answered. Big thank you on the Kudzu part, I have a bucket stuffed with water and Kudzu, that has been enjoying the hot weather of Alabama. Thank you again for answering all my questions.
KNF is all the rage in cannabis growing at the moment. I haven’t tried it yet, but I’m glad to know other people like yourself get great results. Thanks for the info
My friend and I each made a barrel of swamp water. She had buzzards circling her house for days. 😂 Gotta be some good stuff.
1. Use the smell to catch the vultures.
2. Put vultures into barrel.
Repeat
Thats when You know it's gonna work
I saw a video where someone was doing something similar to this, but with a few additions:
1) They put an angled tube towards the top of the container pointing down
2) On that tube they hung a bucket that was covered with a mesh to keep birds and critters out of the bucket
3) There was a spicket at the bottom of the container
The reason they were doing this was to encourage flies to go up the tub and lay their eggs inside. When the larvae were big enough, they would wiggle out of the container and fall into the bucket to be collected and fed to the chickens. The spicket on the bottom was to collect the "swamp tea" for the garden.
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Found your video last year while starting my "grow" found a large trash can with a lid I let it fester for a month or so and OMG it is amazing they grew like never before and everything else exploded so I went and picked up a 55-gallon barrel with a lid. Filling it with snow for the water for the next batch next year while this one cooks for another season.
This is the bedrock/cornerstone of our fertility program, too.
Last year we moved to a new place and didn't have enough of our own fertilizer, so I bought a gallon of fish emulsion to help get some of our beds started - good grief, I had sort of forgotten how expensive that stuff is! Last summer I made darn sure to make enough swamp water to just let it set over winter and be ready for this spring.
Is it OK if it freezes solid?
@@SENILE_TYRANT as far as I know, yes. But I can't say for certain. It would be interesting to have a lab test it when it's a month old, then after a year, after having been frozen, etc.
@@dogslobbergardens6606 thanks
The ideas in this video are very important, inexpensive, good for the Earth, for the soil, and frugal for humans. It connects us with the laws of nature without buying fertilizer. I was only collecting comfrey and nettles! Didn’t know why anaerobic was useful. I was stirring mine to get aerobic. Now I can increase the vocabulary. 😁 thank you! Excellent communicator! Skillful presentation and editing. We are witnessing the new age of creativity for individual creators… brilliant! Subscribed. ❤️🙏🏼
This works great I started this in my back yard in a rain barrel I have it propped up and it had a spicket at the bottom. Just take a mason jar full of this swamp gold and add it to my garden watering can with water in it.. Amazing who needs fertilizer
Been doing it for years. I use manure because we raise organic beef. The liquid on the leaves does help keep bugs away. I also use a sugar sourse such as molasses and a aquarium bubbler. No science here, I don't have time. It works for me. Been gardening all my life.
Another great video David. My comfrey is ready for first cut. I was going to make tea for the garden, and thanks for the tip about a little epsom salt, and coffee grounds. I think I’ll also water my worm composter and put some of that in. My grandfather used to take the manure from the chicken coop, let it sit in a barrel of water and steep for awhile, then water his garden and then put the solids in the compost.
Everett, do you dilute the comfrey tea before putting it on your garden?
@@carolnies8668 Yes about 50/50
Nice going David. Grateful to meet up. Loved this...
...interesting to see your excitement. most peoples think I am nuts for doing this...I've been doing this for 40 years from grass clippings too long wide blade grass and Clover Clover works really good but you got to cut it up to half inch to an inch long and then put it in a blender and make some good chlorophyll water and then soak the pulp to get the rest of the chlorophyll out of the fiber and the fiber makes good soil mix my tomatoes just eat it up.
I try not to get too carried away because of the mold Factor if you're going to put all that kind of stuff in.
Have fun and happy making silage.
my tomaters reached 7 feet tall ...last year...water 3 times a week with chlorophyll water. fiber mixes well with dirt also.
This is great advice, many people overthink overcategorize and overplan for feeding. While ive seen practices like this vefore i like how you made the clear difference between compost tea and what this is. Keep up the great work man
I don't care what people say, I've used this method for years and seen nearly dead plants that I neglected spring back to life after one feeding. It just works! I have a batch that's a year old now that I mixed and forgot about, curious how well it's going to work. Might just let it go until spring 2023 and use it then. I keep mine covered, covered but leave a crack in the lid to allow air exchange. The bonus of a crack is I usually get black fly larva on the top floating/rotting bits. I just mix them in for extra proteins. Plus whatever insects and roaches go in to feed leave tiny manure behind. All a plus ️
Plus, academics are now saying that anaerobic amendments induce a relative reduction (from an electrochemical perspective) state to the soil environment, which greatly mobilizes plant-available minerals compared to highly oxidative states. Example: Reduced nitrogen (ammonium) vs oxidized nitrogen (nitrate, nitrites). Veggies utilize ammonium directly and must convert nitrate/nitrites to ammonium before they can access the nitrogen. It's the same with many if not most mineral salts. They ionize and become plant available in reduced environments. Dave's Swamp Water (or any KNF technique) most likely provides fertilization through providing micro-foods for the soil biology but also enhanced minerals availability. I always have a tub of rotting greens going in my garden; but I usually dilute it 1:20 or so before drenching onto the soil/leaves.
Hi David. I run vegetable food scraps/yard waste through my vitamix (I mention brand as I believe only a high-powered blender would be great at this) before adding it to my compost tea bucket to help speed up the rotting process. I also have a fish tank pump constantly running in it to aerate the 'tea'. Got the idea from old videos of a man in Alaska that had phenomenal results doing so. My plants are diggin' it. I'm new to your channel and lovin' it. I think it was the watering-the-kiddie-pool musical montage with gratuitous video length minute milking that sealed the deal for me. Well done.
Good idea. Thank you, Cindy, and welcome!
You deserve your name David The Good. This is really a very practical and good idea indeed. We can skip the bad smell by using water lines that feeds directly underground. Soil bacterias neutralise the bad odor. Thanks.
what do u mean ?
The ability to breakdown meat, dairy, and acids is the big advantage that anaerobic composting has. I inoculated my compost with "Bokashi+ root zone innoculant." Didn't smell too bad, and had BIG effects on my discarded bones, cheese rinds, etc.
I tried Bokashi and got flies indoors. Now I just empty the bucket into the outside compost regularly.
no name rid-x looks and smells just like bokashi
Thank you for giving us this treasure. You have given something so important.❤️
This blew my mind ! I just started growing my own food this year and it been extremely fun . I Never every though of doing this and i look forward to so it. ❤
This is an idea I had suspected but had only been using old milk bottle containers. Now I'm gonna look for a bigger barrel like yours buddy. Thanks so much for posting this video.!!
i like the idea of doing this in old milk containers. i had collected several but never used them.
I'm glad I found this video. I've been doing this for a few years now. Works great. All plants love it. (including the refer)
Mine's about 3 weeks old; Scott Head did a show about you and your swamp water. I got a barrel and started some. It sounded great to me.
I use the same thing with a different method. I use 2 regular sized pails, with 1 to hold the liquid and the other pail with holes to drain out the rotting materials. I stacked the pail with holes on top the other pail. I'll add in urine or beer for it to rot as well. Then cover it with a pail lid. Once it's done, I'll remove the pail with holes and pour out the rotting materials into the compost bin, and the other pail is left with just liquid without the rotting materials. Good stuff
This sounds to me like a much better idea. Thanks.
@@RodM.Peters just make sure you drill holes all along the sides of the inner pail as well, not just the bottom. This helps to drain easier. I fill it up with mostly kitchen waste and dead leafs from the garden. I'm not too bothered about filling it full with water at the first go. Just pour in urine and gray water over time. The result is some powerful stuff. Give it a shot
For my first go at composting Im leaning doing this route. Very simple and I'll learn and expand from there. 2 5gallon buckets simply with holes drilled in the one. I have a pond nearby which I think would be a good idea to use that water because of the microbes.
I made FSW this year for the first time and it’s working good. I also poured a 5 gallon bucket of it in my compost. I figured it couldn’t hurt.
What is fsw
@@LuisC7 it’s ‘fetid swamp water’, David’s name for the liquid fertilizer
@@cathywco ahh ok!!! Does it work well?
Yeah I did a JADAM liquid fertilizer last year for the first time and loved it. Let it go over winter, hit my garlic with it and they shot up out of winter dormancy. Strong stuff
Great! I’ve been doing this for years too. A word of caution: some plants are toxic or poisonous as is the case with the lantana we see at around minute 3. The whole plant including the flowers is toxic and shouldn’t be used at all. Same with the solanaceous family (tomato leaves, potato leaves, eggplant leaves, tamarillo leaves, Cape gooseberry leaves, etc) among others. Just wanted to put that out there.
I make a micro nutrient solution kinda like super thrive out of the extra vitamins I have around d the house I put magnesium iron zinc calcium vit b d3 E some potassium and even one for hair that has even more in it all into a gallon bottle and filling half full with hot water shaking it leave it for a day then add remaining water to top off then I add this to my 15 30 15 or 5 1 5 when fertilizing it works great
So, it's wrong to grow vegetables where tomato plants have died and decomposed? How would you know where it's safe to plant if you don't know what has grown there before?
They are only poisonous to eat. If you let the plants decompose in a chamber like this, they should be fine.
@@CausticTitan This is what I assumed, but wasn't sure. Thanks
@@jesusmywholehaschanged I don’t know about growing vegetables. This liquid fertilizer is extracting the nutrients and other particles from plant matter thus I would absolutely never put in any part of lantana or tamarillo leaves, stalks, etc. I mean, it’s not just the good stuff that’s extracted. A lot of soil has been contaminated with lead by previous generations of humans. There’s so much we don’t know. So I just wanted to put that info out there because this I know.
Thank you for making this simple and less complicated.
This is one of the best you have done, as you already know it really is nothing more than common sense. Thanks for all the videos you do.
Yo David , spot on… next do a video on making the Korean Jadam Solution for growing microbes to pour into your soil. Been doing it a while. Same thing 55g drum full of water, put in two handfuls of forest soil with one large boiled potato mashed into the water. No bubblers and all that crap. It will bubble up like a a kombucha. Use within 48 hrs. Dilute 20 part water 1 part microbe bubbly. IT’S LEGIT. You can find the procedure broken down in the Jadam Book.
Nice work brother!!!
And a little sea salt.
As I was weeding today I was thinking of using my 55 gallon bucket and experimenting with this as my nettles are too precious to waste. Bingo ! You showed up in my feed and confirmed this would work! So grateful ! Newly subscribed !
TH-cam is our heads. Literally thought about this the other day. Here's the video.
Lol, I'm sure it's a coincidence. I've been watching alot of irrigation vids.
I learn so much from you, I super excited to meet the homesteaders October 28th and 29th. We are not homesteaders but we love the concept and lifestyle. We live in Florida and are trying hard to live self sustainably. I'm sure we'll get some really good idea's from visiting your homestead.
I like your style and this is undoubtedly effective. I throw in chicken manure mostly but anything goes.
I don't know why some people struggle with the concept in the home garden since around here the farmers pretty much all use 'slurry' which is just tanked-up collected manure from animals mixed with whatever else falls through the shed grates, usually a lot of rainwater etc to bring it to a thick liquid consistency that they collect and then spray on the fields in the spring.
Here in the Philippine mountains, we've also been doing this for as long as we can remember! Since we were young, we saw our parents and grandparents doing this. We've been taught to do this. We rarely buy commercial fertilizers! This method is pretty much just like copying how nature does to nourish the earth. However, just a tip of advice, be careful not to use leaves or anything from Gmelina trees as they are not good for other plants. There's not many studies about it, but you can see that other plants that are near the gmelina tress die. Better safe than sorry!
I have been making nettle and weed water to feed my lawns since around 2000 and it truly works on everything
I love the way u teach it man. This is my first time really gardening and ive had some luck so far and definitely had some bad luck as well but learning is the whole point. I scour my feed every few hours and seeing this video was a blessing. Thank u so much brother
Truth!! Me too❤❤
I use a paint tin. I fill it with all the weeds that I can't forage. Fill with water and leave for only 2 weeks. I put only 10% of this into a full watering can for my crops. It works wonders. I also throw the weeds into my water butts. Every time I fill my can from there I've got well rotted fertiliser whenever I need it.
I use this for any weed roots that would take root in my compost heap. Weed roots are a great way to return minerals from deep in the soil back to the growing surface.
My wife uses all the banana skins and eggshells we generate and keeps them in a water solution for a month. She then mixes it with compost tea and dilutes it about 10 to 1 and it still stinks to high heaven but the plants love it!
Love your channel! First time first year gardener here at Holy Springs Alabama. We Would love to take a field trip to your farm for homeschool some day! We are prepping our beds this fall after your videos this year! Definately going to use the compost tea!
When i started gardening I relied on the store bought fertilizers. I decided to ferment the weeds and water with it. I wait until I get that mangrove type smell and I know its ready. This combined with home made compost has taken my veges to the next level. Without meat products Id water just like water, no problems at all. Great video!! I garden, grow and eat to save money and give food away. Love it!!
I buy liquid seaweed from Amazon…I didn’t know you could do this! With the seaweed, if you spray it on your leaves, it increases of the plant massively (Ivan testify it’s true) and it helps against some diseases like leaf curl (the reason I bought it). I wonder if some plants would protect against some pests like that. Great video!
If u live near the sea go to rocky shoreline after storm and u can collect your own kelp .dry it out and powder to mix with soil or make your own folier spray by brewing kelp tea
@@robbiebanks9182 - I was thinking how easy it would be. Wouldn’t one have to thoroughly wash the salt off first? Obviously for the tea, but I was wondering if people could just bed seaweed around the base of young fruit trees without washing it….
It works really well! Some of my favs are comfrey, nettle, horse manure, urine and worm castings. We always called it garden tea but I mean fetid swamp water is probably a lot more catchy :P
Some people insist that you have to stir it a lot, or put in an aerator but I don't find you have to
If you get very deep into bio-dynamic farming you have to bury cow manure in a horn on a certain moon phase and bury it for so many months and then use that as a culture and stir it 100 times to the left and 100 to the right every day for two weeks, or something to that affect its been a while since I've read the literature. They also use finely ground up rose quarts, and other elements.
I find just fermenting anything is helpful, and it really doesn't have to be done in any particular way.
Hey, what’s your worm castings to water ratio, please?
@@k.chriscaldwell4141 I put 2 big handfuls in a 5 gallon pail. It's probably around 3 cups.
I use water from my pond, it's full of rotting leaves, fish, frogs, the cows drink from it and drop fertilizer all around it and it's been going for 45+ years, since my grandfather dug it. The smell when you stir up the mud on the bottom is unbelievable.
Love your channel! Just discovered you today through Off Grid With Doug and Stacy's TH-cam channel.
They questions - 1. What do you do with the solid material (if any remains) after you've used the liquid fertilizer? 2. Or do you just keep this going by continuing to add more material and water to the drum? Thanks! Can't wait to explore the other videos on your channel!
i would say take it out and burry it in the dirt.
Just spread it out around your cultures or squash or z tree. It will dry out and finish composting, while protecting the soil from drying or pooring rain.
Put it in your runner bean trench. also I have been making my own Liquid compost since 1940s nearly 90 now. I just like to say I also add Yeast. God bless all UK.
I am thinking that it would be nice to dry the solids when the weather heats up and use for mulch later in the season (or year).
After the mixture gets mixed and we start to put on the plants we drain all the used materials and either put it in a compus pile or till it under for use when it is all chopped up. Thanks.
Wr also for the first 2 to 3 weeks of a new batch of weeds we use this for the groth of the plants than if we leave it for 3 to 4 months we use that for just food for the remaning year. So we have 2 50 gal barrels, one for growth and one for plant food.
Actually the best liquid fertilizer with immediate application has been practiced by the Chinese for thousands of years...mix urine with 20 times the amount of water!
Urine contain all the nitrates and nutrients plants need.
the best! chinese got this pot just for urinate. then they use it for plant by mixing it with water. Boom... all good, everything good. In fact most fruits in asia ( apart of japan and korea ) are from China. The price is extremely cheap and quality is good, locals can't compete with them
As my gradma said: roots are good for rooting, greens are good for greens and flower is good to flower. And it sort of make sense. Just stop overthinking it, sit in your garden and look how it works, and you will figure it out quiet quickly!
Hah! I knew that, but had forgotten about it! Thanks for the refresher, and I promise to use this knowledge only for good!
Absolutely fantastic video, and awesome timing on putting it out today!
Shared it with my garden companion(s) a few blocks away, and we are making plans to stink up the neighborhood a bit lol. Around here it's a diy & somewhat natural mindset. Im guessing we probably won't be the only ones doing this 😁
My grandmother made tea from dehydrated manure and also saved tea bags and made two types of tea for her indoor and outdoor plants saving money is good
I'm lucky enough to have access to rabbit droppings it's some of the best fertilizer I've ever used.