I managed to get an allotment plot late last year. It was in a horrendous state so my time was mainly spent on getting rid of buried rubbish and an obscene amount of weeds. This year was building the beds, compost bins, sheds etc. In-between, planting a few crops and testing what I can grow. Also planting a small polyculture orchard. I am a complete novice and knew nothing of growing food. Huw, you have been amazing at sharing your knowledge and I have learned so much from your videos. I wouldn't call myself a gardener just yet but one day I will. This is great information you just shared and will be adding to my routine. Thank you
This is very encouraging to read. I just got an allotment plot a couple of weeks ago and like yours was, it's in a bad way. Great that it's going well for you!
A simple spigot on the side of a 5 gallon bucket works great. I just turn the knob, put some in my watering can, and then use in the garden. I have 4 buckets like this sitting full time in my garden. It's handy.
I Had a brainwave when trying to get the most out of my pressed comfrey. Instead of squeezing the stinky mass through muslin which quite frankly knocks me 🤢, I left it for a few days on my fine metal garden sieve rested in a bucket. It worked a dream! I also discovered that fuel funnels have a sieve in the neck so if you have a very fine watering can rose it won’t get clogged up with the bits. I can’t believe the things that I get excited about nowadays 🤣
I hear you but it is worth remembering we are among the first generations of humans that could afford to forget about crop rearing tips and tricks! When you have to actually grow your own food or starve, those little details become a matter of life and death! And there are still folks in the world who have to rear their own food with no backup strategy...
Thank you Huw for even more information on how we can replenish and feed our soil (and us). It's comforting to know that we have so many options and is doable on many levels. I am grateful that you research and trial what you present in your videos.( My small garden plot has never been better! Envy of my neighborhood!) Looking forward to the progress of your new garden area! Blessings on your day Kiddo from Holland Ohio 🥰🌻🐛
Lidl had 20L bags of peat free compost for £1.49 as well as 40L bags which I can’t manage. I thought the price was v good and stocked up. I am doing my own compost too of course, plus have a nettle fertiliser under way, am doing chop & drop (plus sop & mop!), am mulching with grass clippings, not mowing as much, leaving plenty of wild patches and plan to bag up & leave leaves for compost plus leave some on the grass. A big thanks to all the fab gardening TH-cam creators who are helping me to love gardening for the first time in my 64 years! 😊 ps I’ve just started sowing, planting and creating (edibles & flowers) 🥰
I have made this after hearing you talk of it before. I add everything though, grass along with weeds I let grow in the lawn. Comfrey, dock leaves and any other plant matter that I have at hand when I want to add something, even the remains of and apple or banana that I have been eating. Old chicken manure too, but not a lot. I use it to feed almost every time I water, even though it's not that old. Thanks
I throw pretty much everything into mine, including urine. Sweet potato slips, puncture vine, bind weed-all stuff that grow very well here, and all go in my JLF. I’ve named it swamp water!
Again, another video packed with quality information in a beautiful setting. I truly appreciate your work, and for sharing it so tastefully. It’s hot on Vancouver Island this week with no rain and I’ve mulched and watered my struggling beds. I’m very excited to go and forage for some leaf mould next week to try the JADAM technique. Thanks Huw! I consistently look forward to your videos. ✔️☀️
I just love how much you have taught me about gardening Huw! Thank you very much for sharing your wealth of knowledge. I have comfrey popping up everywhere, I chop that up and it is my main ingredient in the bucket. Never knew it was named Jadam. I've just been calling it Stinky Garden Tea.
I started using fermented weeds liquid fertilizer last year for a new best season of container gardening -- by far! My adapted recipe uses a bucket of weeds/trimmings -- often biodynamic -- soaked in rainwater for a week or more. Cycle the buckets with bi-weekly weeding into a "new" bucket(s) starting the ferment with rainwater, and then fertilize from the oldest bucket WITH aerated compost tea (started yesterday) at a ratio of 1:1:10 with rainwater.
The priority for nutrition rich food is to nurture the soil. The more alive it is, the more nutrients it can hold, and the more nutritious the food grown in it will be. Thanks for your work Huw. #SaveSoil
The University of Huw😊I have been looking forward to this video since you first mentioned it was in production, Thanks so much, this was so informative, and will certainly save quite a few gardeners on the cost of organic amendments. All the Best
Interesting content as always Huw 🙂 I've always used the practice that you put back the crop you have grown into the soil to give back the nutrients the crop has used.
I love your videos, Huw! I always feel so empowered and encouraged! As a beginning gardener, on my first year, it’s been so helpful to see how you do things. I don’t have access to rainwater so I started a dedicated tub of water to let sit and gas out the chlorine. I am about to start my first brew of JLF! Thanks again for sharing your knowledge with us! 💝
We are so simpatico! I have never heard of JADAM and had all these questions and possible answers but I was absolutely delighted to see that you had similar critical thinking and had already answered my questions later in the video. Kudos to your big brain Huw. Cheers!
I've been doing this for about two years. Just on a smaller scale. I just take everything add it to a five gallon bucket put the lid on then at around d two weeks I'll check it add more weeds and leaves. Let it sit for two more weeks. Then I just dilute it with water and water my plants once a month and it is great
Excellent informative video as usual! I would say that if you ONLY have access to town/city water with chlorine, you can just let it sit for a day or so and it will all off gas and the chlorine will be gone! I've looked at a few studies of watering with chlorine and the effect it has on microbes. It does in fact diminish their presence but only for about 24hours 😊
Growing food IS worthwhile. as I once commented: we may relax spending money on gadgets like greenhouses, structures, compost of dubious provenance, boxes, ets. Let's try to grow more that we spend, permaculture principles may be helpful. Thanks Huv.
Your practical advice and gentle spirit is the perfect combination for being a great garden teacher ! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. One quick question, Where do I find containers like you use for this process ?
Hew, can I use city tap water that has been allow to sit for a few days to dissipate the chlorine? I do not have access to soft water and in the Arizona desert rain is rare. Thank you for this video!
You're right, things are costing more and more. There's a lot of underground farmers and gardeners and others who are operating trading systems again to help support one another. Seed and plant exchanges, farmers willing to trade meat for some eggs and produce (example), so many different ways to stay away from the all might inflated dollar and create a system of people who work together and support one another. Think of using the permaculture fundamental rules but with people..... people can be a part of a functioning system as well if we do it right and work together. Also, the more peoplethat garden the more opportunity there is to trade crops or plan gardena together to feel more families.
Well I have only two barrels and I throw everything in them I give it a fistful of sugar I even though in fresh raw fish skins mixed it up it smells like the local police and coroner should be called I watered on to my flowers and vegetables it took to it like hens poop to a blanket everything grew so fast The smeller it is the more plants love it You show is brilliant God Bless
Yes sir Huw.... I would very much like to apprentice with you too! But I am very grateful for the great quality videos that you produce for us instead! Blessings on your day Kiddo!🥰🌻🐛
If the issue is only chlorine or chloramine, you can get it out of your city water/tap water/"mains" water by various means. Google how long chlorine remains in water or how to get it gone from water. Thank you, Huw, for all the wonderful information you share! We're winding down the summer gardens, but all of this information is going to be very helpful going forward, even into winter! 💚
@@generic_Ryan Thanks for this! I just learned *today,* because of your reply, that while chlorine will break down in the sunlight (if you leave the water standing in a container outside for forty-eight hours) but the chloramine, of which there are various types, apparently, isn't affected. It's put into drinking water at concentrations which humans aren't supposed to be able to detect and is considered safe for us, but we're talking here about seedlings and plants and fruits. So, the real question, I think, becomes, "What is necessary to remove chloramine from tap/"mains" water?" and I don't know if an RV filter does that? Thanks again for helping to stimulate the conversation! 😊
Compost is a lot cheaper now in Aberystwyth as the growing season is now getting towards the end. I've found it 30% cheaper than before the start of the growing season. I buy at the end of the season and save it until next year. Thankfully it still contains peat too. I've already bought 1600l for next year and will be buying more yet.
For city people of you cant make compost at home, look for areas where leaves have piled up like fence posts or bushes. Usually the leaf debris have broken down and you'll find sow and pill bugs there.
Feed crops with their own plant matter...this is exactly what Mother Nature does and this is why it's important to NOT rake up your leaves but leave them under the trees, to NOT rake up the pine needles, to NOT prune and rake out flower and shrubbery beds. Their own leave, needle and bark droppings are their food. And it is the best food out there.
If you live in the city, how many of your neighbors bag their grass clippings and leaves? Does a tree service come around and chip up trimmed branches? There is always a way.
Huw. thank you so much for referring to the Jadam system. I’ve just bought the book and I’m so thrilled and inspired with Cho’s whole philosophy and techniques of bringing farming back to the farmer. I’m and tiny garden farmer and loving it. Thank you for your continued videos . So helpful and well done. J.
If you drink milk use the 4 litre milk containers one for each species I also add crushed charcoal. - just burn some old logs or twigs and extinguish with water from a watering can before the wood turns to ash and you’ll get charcoal. Then crush it to a powder and add a little to your solution no more than 3% by volume
I just started a 60 gal JLF for next year with some leafmold and every scrap from the garden and yard. Next year I will be more crop specific when I start my JLF. Thanks for the great video.
Just for ratio specification. How much of the liquid compost should be added to a 5 gallon bucket. This will help me take the guess work out the entire dilution process.
I started my liquid fertilizer for seed starting the day this video came out. I can already see the fermentation process beginning and I am so excited to use this on my fall crops! Thank you for the awesome video Huw.
Thank you for the great information on JLF ,I did one with grass and weeds and compost. But I have a go at making some different ones too ready for next year.
Thanks, Huw for another great Video Without these or your book I don't think I would have started my raised beds I have two and a bit, and now I want to make another and a polytunnel !!!
I kind of combine the JLF crops into leafy, root, and fruit. so only make 3 with those plant ingredients. I have no idea if that is good or bad but it seems to work quite well. I only have a suburban garden so no chance of making all the different varieties and as I intercrop it would be difficult to add the individual amendments anyway. Thanks for all the great information.
Excellent! I’ve been using the JLF this season having made it last autumn. It’s simple & works fantastically well though I’ve been using it weekly with a 1/10 ratio
I have Ben putting a half cut of lab to a 5 galen bucket it reduces the smell. Oh not sure if makes a difference but I like to add 1/2 pound of brown sugar and just a little bit of Sea salt for little more memorials. Love to here your thoughts
This is so exciting! Thank you :). I’m trying so hard to reuse as much as I can to give back to the Earth what I take from it and this is such a fantastic, and organic, way of doing that :)
Great video. Just what I needed. Would love to see you create a video of making a wood store for the garden. Thank you. Much appreciated from Devon UK.
love this idea! with a very small garden could one make a general feed using all the veg one grows, instead of focusing on each individual type? I don't have the space for several buckets or barrels. Thank you for sharing this valuable method.
u probably could, check other youtube videoes on this, they do just one, basically "throw everything you got in" (with FEW exceptions) and then use it on whatever u like.
I’m wondering how this would work in colder climates like in New Brunswick Canada? Would it be able to handle being frozen for several months at a time and be used the next season?
I live in Manitoba and I use this method often , but I use the fermented solution right away on my growing vegetables and the rest of the garden (be aware it stinks). I've never tried to freeze it. For use at home or seedlings I make FPJ (fermented plant juice), which is made with brown sugar - you can find video on you tube. FPJ can be kept in a bottle and used at any time. Happy gardening :)
I live in Ontario, Canada and have let JLF freeze, when I checked on it in the spring, mushrooms were growing in it. I’ve read discussions about this and basically decided that it is ok to let it freeze as I wasn’t going to use it all and have nowhere to store it. I keep mine in 5 gallon pails with a brick on the lid.
What is the type of grass you use for your paths? I'm considering trying to grow grass paths but don't want to end up with an even greater mess of weeds.
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If I have a small garden with a variety of crops I'd prefer one universal jadam. Altough I understand the advantages of plant specific jadams it would be just too much to have more different types of jadam.
Hi Huw, any tips on whether to avoid using a JLF prior to harvesting? Or is it sufficient to just make sure your produce is washed well prior to eating? Cheers Andy!
I like this idea! I have a question: if I intercrop plants (say basil and tomatoes), could I make a JLF with both plants or is it better to make one for each?
Hello Huw, Thank you for introducing me to the idea of Jadam liquid fertilizer. The process for making and using it is straightforward, but the thing I am struggling with as I try to get it started is the timing, getting the plants to make it first, then overwintering with freezing conditions. I find little guidance how it can be managed in colder climates, and unless I missed it it is not in any of your videos, maybe you do not experience hard freezes. Do you let it freeze and thaw to restart?
I always just dump EVERYTHING that my garden drops into this buckets dont care about any rescepy just throw in everything🤣👍 nice video btw very professional
This is great, I'm glad to see it. Please keep it up! Please, I have a question, like when should we stop applying it on plants? I mean, is there a time of the plant growth that it shouldn't be used for good harvest? Awaiting your response. Thank you
Tip for fellow womb holders (👈🏻😬🤦🏼♀️🤷♀️) or those who keep their nails 💅, use a 2 litre handled milk carton to dip into the JLM. Then use that to put into the watering can. To be honest, I pour the whole 2 litre carton into a rainwater butt….😃
Have you ever watched The Martian where the astronaut stranded on Mars has to create “live” soil. “Mars will fear my botany powers”. It’s such a lovely positive witty film.
I stumbled on this new video as I was researching if you have any videos making and using the LAB you teach us in your book. I tried to make it last week and when the first 5 days passed the smell was so horrible 😅 I didn’t know if it was ok so I poured it in the compost pile. I’m not delicate about smells of gardens and farm animals, but this really smelled horrible 😂 Was it ok? I’d love a video on it as it sounds amazing :)
I love your idea of making fertilizers for each group of plant types but I'm not looking forward to the smell :(. I'm wondering if you've ever experimented with combining the Jadam method with the Korean Natural Farming method of making shelf stable fertilizer by using no water and instead 1:1 the weight of the plant material to brown sugar?
Great video! Whats your opinion on the so called sapling kickstarter amendment where yeast, sugar and water mix is used to boost saplings to grow. Especially in spring time when there is risk that the plants can go back to dormant or on halt because of cool temperatures?
I have a question regarding Jadam going unaerobic. If the goal is getting the nutrients out through the soaking, why let them go unaerobic? I'm torn between Dr Elaine Ingham's insistence on using only aerobic stuff and the undeniably compelling testimony of Jadam users.
Combine both. Fermented liquid feed needs to go anaerobic (by definition), but you can also aerate compost tea and combine them both at the moment of application. I tried last year and had a record-breaking container gardening season!
With respect, we've been asking where you purchase your barrels from for months! Those little barrels range in price between $80-120 each. The big barrel prices are higher than jet-smoke! My bad if I missed the reveal, but I don't think I did...
Thanks for the video. It's very informative. Moved to a new house 2 years ago and our garden is still a blank canvas, so this will definitely help for the future. I do have one question, if for whatever reason I need to get rid of the container of JLF ... where would I put the decomposed solids? Would it be beneficial to mix it up with soil and use it for planting?
Thank you for introducing JADEM to us. Feeding plants with the same males sense. I have tried two different recipes this far, but they have attracted a huge amount of flies. Can you point me in the direction of the manufacturer of the blue containers you are using please. Thanks
Great information. What will happen if we put a little of every plant; it leaves, fruits, roots etc, in one container and just use it on all the diffetent plants?
This spring and early summer is all rainfall for us. Not complaining but has been hard for many here in the Canadian west coast where crops and flowers are over watered. Such is the beauty of gardening though, we adjust and bend and rethink our ways of gardening ever so often 😀
I use a dedicated blender to mix these ingredients and toss them in tubs of water from which I dip, after some ripening, with a watering can with the rose removed to prevent clogging. This adds nutrients around the base of plants right away, but also adds mulch as the bits go onto the soil with the tea. The texture is that of a thin, watery sludge.
Love the video and the methodology. Have you thought of using Kombucha as a plant feed? I have been using kefir grains on my herbs and they grow like crazy...
I need some advice. I placed 2 handfuls of leaf mould on top of my bucketful of (well cut) nettles in a bit of rain water & it doesn’t smell at all a week later. I did the same with my wild garlic leaves - submerge them in a bit of water with 2 handfuls of leaf mould from the forest behind my home & cover. But the (albeit uncrushed) wild garlic jadam tea smells strongly a week later. Why isn’t my jadam nettle tea smelly? It just smells like strong spinach & definitely not unpleasant in any way. Have I done something wrong?
I make things like thistle and comfrey tea in plastic containers, I simply make sure the lid is on only very loosely and that it isn't filled up to the top. That way, when it ices and expands, it won't break the container.
This is the second time I make this fertilizer. I love the idea of not having to depend on store-bought fertilizer.
Yes Exactly! :)
What nutrients has it? When your soil is lack of some elements, is it provides? @HuwRichards
I managed to get an allotment plot late last year. It was in a horrendous state so my time was mainly spent on getting rid of buried rubbish and an obscene amount of weeds. This year was building the beds, compost bins, sheds etc. In-between, planting a few crops and testing what I can grow. Also planting a small polyculture orchard. I am a complete novice and knew nothing of growing food. Huw, you have been amazing at sharing your knowledge and I have learned so much from your videos. I wouldn't call myself a gardener just yet but one day I will. This is great information you just shared and will be adding to my routine. Thank you
This is very encouraging to read. I just got an allotment plot a couple of weeks ago and like yours was, it's in a bad way. Great that it's going well for you!
Best of luck happy growing in allotment 😁🇬🇧
A simple spigot on the side of a 5 gallon bucket works great. I just turn the knob, put some in my watering can, and then use in the garden. I have 4 buckets like this sitting full time in my garden. It's handy.
Great idea! Tysm for the share💜
I Had a brainwave when trying to get the most out of my pressed comfrey. Instead of squeezing the stinky mass through muslin which quite frankly knocks me 🤢, I left it for a few days on my fine metal garden sieve rested in a bucket. It worked a dream! I also discovered that fuel funnels have a sieve in the neck so if you have a very fine watering can rose it won’t get clogged up with the bits.
I can’t believe the things that I get excited about nowadays 🤣
I hear you but it is worth remembering we are among the first generations of humans that could afford to forget about crop rearing tips and tricks! When you have to actually grow your own food or starve, those little details become a matter of life and death! And there are still folks in the world who have to rear their own food with no backup strategy...
Your videos are a perfect comination of valueable information, entertainment and artful photography! Thank you so much for those three.
You're very welcome! And thank you for such a lovely comment :)
Wow this is fantastic. I have been gardening for over 50 years and have never heard of this! Thanks for your wisdom.
Very glad it was helpful! :)
Thanks to your advice my illegal 3000 acre pot farm is doing great. 😃 👍🤑
Now I'm on a watch list 😅
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Thank you Huw for even more information on how we can replenish and feed our soil (and us). It's comforting to know that we have so many options and is doable on many levels. I am grateful that you research and trial what you present in your videos.( My small garden plot has never been better! Envy of my neighborhood!) Looking forward to the progress of your new garden area! Blessings on your day Kiddo from Holland Ohio 🥰🌻🐛
Lidl had 20L bags of peat free compost for £1.49 as well as 40L bags which I can’t manage. I thought the price was v good and stocked up. I am doing my own compost too of course, plus have a nettle fertiliser under way, am doing chop & drop (plus sop & mop!), am mulching with grass clippings, not mowing as much, leaving plenty of wild patches and plan to bag up & leave leaves for compost plus leave some on the grass. A big thanks to all the fab gardening TH-cam creators who are helping me to love gardening for the first time in my 64 years! 😊 ps I’ve just started sowing, planting and creating (edibles & flowers) 🥰
I have made this after hearing you talk of it before. I add everything though, grass along with weeds I let grow in the lawn. Comfrey, dock leaves and any other plant matter that I have at hand when I want to add something, even the remains of and apple or banana that I have been eating. Old chicken manure too, but not a lot. I use it to feed almost every time I water, even though it's not that old.
Thanks
Did you know Huw was making videos from being a boy?
Check it out. Happy growing.
and....? did u see any improvements in the plants that you pour this on...?
I throw pretty much everything into mine, including urine. Sweet potato slips, puncture vine, bind weed-all stuff that grow very well here, and all go in my JLF. I’ve named it swamp water!
Again, another video packed with quality information in a beautiful setting. I truly appreciate your work, and for sharing it so tastefully. It’s hot on Vancouver Island this week with no rain and I’ve mulched and watered my struggling beds. I’m very excited to go and forage for some leaf mould next week to try the JADAM technique. Thanks Huw! I consistently look forward to your videos. ✔️☀️
I just love how much you have taught me about gardening Huw! Thank you very much for sharing your wealth of knowledge. I have comfrey popping up everywhere, I chop that up and it is my main ingredient in the bucket. Never knew it was named Jadam. I've just been calling it Stinky Garden Tea.
I started using fermented weeds liquid fertilizer last year for a new best season of container gardening -- by far! My adapted recipe uses a bucket of weeds/trimmings -- often biodynamic -- soaked in rainwater for a week or more. Cycle the buckets with bi-weekly weeding into a "new" bucket(s) starting the ferment with rainwater, and then fertilize from the oldest bucket WITH aerated compost tea (started yesterday) at a ratio of 1:1:10 with rainwater.
Takes my use of Comfrey Tea to the next level! 😀
The priority for nutrition rich food is to nurture the soil. The more alive it is, the more nutrients it can hold, and the more nutritious the food grown in it will be. Thanks for your work Huw. #SaveSoil
The University of Huw😊I have been looking forward to this video since you first mentioned it was in production, Thanks so much, this was so informative, and will certainly save quite a few gardeners on the cost of organic amendments. All the Best
I use the liquid from my Bokashai composter, must be similar to this. Also I use spent mushroom compost from my local farm too in a bucket of water.
Interesting content as always Huw 🙂
I've always used the practice that you put back the crop you have grown into the soil to give back the nutrients the crop has used.
I love your videos, Huw! I always feel so empowered and encouraged! As a beginning gardener, on my first year, it’s been so helpful to see how you do things. I don’t have access to rainwater so I started a dedicated tub of water to let sit and gas out the chlorine. I am about to start my first brew of JLF! Thanks again for sharing your knowledge with us! 💝
Idk what happened, but everybody i know is doing this just now! I attribute that to TH-cam knowledge spreading 👍
Cheers to you brother, best harvests
are they having any succes with it?
We are so simpatico! I have never heard of JADAM and had all these questions and possible answers but I was absolutely delighted to see that you had similar critical thinking and had already answered my questions later in the video. Kudos to your big brain Huw. Cheers!
Perfect timing, I live in a city and couldn't find any nettles, fortunately this recipe is manageable.
I've been doing this for about two years. Just on a smaller scale. I just take everything add it to a five gallon bucket put the lid on then at around d two weeks I'll check it add more weeds and leaves. Let it sit for two more weeks. Then I just dilute it with water and water my plants once a month and it is great
Excellent informative video as usual! I would say that if you ONLY have access to town/city water with chlorine, you can just let it sit for a day or so and it will all off gas and the chlorine will be gone! I've looked at a few studies of watering with chlorine and the effect it has on microbes. It does in fact diminish their presence but only for about 24hours 😊
Growing food IS worthwhile.
as I once commented: we may relax spending money on gadgets like greenhouses, structures, compost of dubious provenance, boxes, ets.
Let's try to grow more that we spend, permaculture principles may be helpful. Thanks Huv.
Thanks Huw, brilliant. Good idea to prepare for shortages of compost, fertiliser and feed.
Your practical advice and gentle spirit is the perfect combination for being a great garden teacher ! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. One quick question,
Where do I find containers like you use for this process ?
I am wondering the same...😀
Garden shops
Any big box store or hardware store should have 5 gallon bucket’s that you could do it in
The Welsh are wonderful teachers
Hew, can I use city tap water that has been allow to sit for a few days to dissipate the chlorine? I do not have access to soft water and in the Arizona desert rain is rare. Thank you for this video!
Have you sent these for nutritional analysis? That would be VERY interesting...
You're right, things are costing more and more. There's a lot of underground farmers and gardeners and others who are operating trading systems again to help support one another.
Seed and plant exchanges, farmers willing to trade meat for some eggs and produce (example), so many different ways to stay away from the all might inflated dollar and create a system of people who work together and support one another. Think of using the permaculture fundamental rules but with people..... people can be a part of a functioning system as well if we do it right and work together.
Also, the more peoplethat garden the more opportunity there is to trade crops or plan gardena together to feel more families.
Well I have only two barrels and I throw everything in them I give it a fistful of sugar I even though in fresh raw fish skins mixed it up it smells like the local police and coroner should be called I watered on to my flowers and vegetables it took to it like hens poop to a blanket everything grew so fast The smeller it is the more plants love it
You show is brilliant
God Bless
This looks like a great feed recipe! I am looking forward to seeing your trials 😊
Huw, I enjoyed watching this so much. I wish that I could be an apprentice for you. I learn so much from you. Thank you.
Yes sir Huw.... I would very much like to apprentice with you too! But I am very grateful for the great quality videos that you produce for us instead! Blessings on your day Kiddo!🥰🌻🐛
If the issue is only chlorine or chloramine, you can get it out of your city water/tap water/"mains" water by various means. Google how long chlorine remains in water or how to get it gone from water.
Thank you, Huw, for all the wonderful information you share! We're winding down the summer gardens, but all of this information is going to be very helpful going forward, even into winter! 💚
I use an rv water filter on my hose it claims 97 percent chlorine removal
@@generic_Ryan Thanks for this!
I just learned *today,* because of your reply, that while chlorine will break down in the sunlight (if you leave the water standing in a container outside for forty-eight hours) but the chloramine, of which there are various types, apparently, isn't affected. It's put into drinking water at concentrations which humans aren't supposed to be able to detect and is considered safe for us, but we're talking here about seedlings and plants and fruits. So, the real question, I think, becomes, "What is necessary to remove chloramine from tap/"mains" water?" and I don't know if an RV filter does that?
Thanks again for helping to stimulate the conversation! 😊
Compost is a lot cheaper now in Aberystwyth as the growing season is now getting towards the end. I've found it 30% cheaper than before the start of the growing season. I buy at the end of the season and save it until next year. Thankfully it still contains peat too. I've already bought 1600l for next year and will be buying more yet.
For city people of you cant make compost at home, look for areas where leaves have piled up like fence posts or bushes. Usually the leaf debris have broken down and you'll find sow and pill bugs there.
Feed crops with their own plant matter...this is exactly what Mother Nature does and this is why it's important to NOT rake up your leaves but leave them under the trees, to NOT rake up the pine needles, to NOT prune and rake out flower and shrubbery beds. Their own leave, needle and bark droppings are their food. And it is the best food out there.
Thank you for sharing all your info. I love learning to grow food.
Thank you Huw, for all your good work here.
New plot coming on well and the tips are helping. Better watch this later
You are doing such important work! This is very useful.
Glad you think so! Thank You :)
If you live in the city, how many of your neighbors bag their grass clippings and leaves? Does a tree service come around and chip up trimmed branches? There is always a way.
Huw. thank you so much for referring to the Jadam system. I’ve just bought the book and I’m so thrilled and inspired with Cho’s whole philosophy and techniques of bringing farming back to the farmer. I’m and tiny garden farmer and loving it. Thank you for your continued videos . So helpful and well done. J.
If you drink milk use the 4 litre milk containers one for each species I also add crushed charcoal. - just burn some old logs or twigs and extinguish with water from a watering can before the wood turns to ash and you’ll get charcoal. Then crush it to a powder and add a little to your solution no more than 3% by volume
Great idea as I'm not sure if i want big blue containers, start out smaller
I just started a 60 gal JLF for next year with some leafmold and every scrap from the garden and yard. Next year I will be more crop specific when I start my JLF. Thanks for the great video.
Just for ratio specification. How much of the liquid compost should be added to a 5 gallon bucket. This will help me take the guess work out the entire dilution process.
I started my liquid fertilizer for seed starting the day this video came out. I can already see the fermentation process beginning and I am so excited to use this on my fall crops! Thank you for the awesome video Huw.
Thank you for the great information on JLF ,I did one with grass and weeds and compost. But I have a go at making some different ones too ready for next year.
Thanks, Huw for another great Video Without these or your book I don't think I would have started my raised beds I have two and a bit, and now I want to make another and a polytunnel !!!
That's brilliant. Keep up the god work! :)
Your videos are so interesting, easy to follow and inexpensive.Thankyou.i have purchased old plastic drums and hope to start in a few days .
I always learn so much from this channel. Thank you!!!
Happy to hear that! :)
Thanks for this one too! This makes so much sense to me and I love that I'm able to feed my plans with themselves to get better crop next year!
I LOVE this! It sure makes sense to me, I'm setting it up right away!
Best of luck with it :)
I’ve been looking forward to 5is video since you first mentioned it, thanks for the break down and details! I can’t wait to get going!
Great advice as always from you, i made a nettle feed this year and my plants are loving it, it does stink but i really don't mind thatxx
It stinks but it works :)
Always helpful info and great ideas. BUT I love that watering can. Where can I get one like that?
I kind of combine the JLF crops into leafy, root, and fruit. so only make 3 with those plant ingredients.
I have no idea if that is good or bad but it seems to work quite well. I only have a suburban garden so no chance of making all the different varieties
and as I intercrop it would be difficult to add the individual amendments anyway.
Thanks for all the great information.
Sounds great! 3x good variations to keep all your crops taken care of. Keep up the good work :)
Excellent!
I’ve been using the JLF this season having made it last autumn. It’s simple & works fantastically well though I’ve been using it weekly with a 1/10 ratio
Hey Ashley, did you protect it from freezing during winter or doesn't it matter if it does freeze?
Do you feed the plant with JLF every time you water the plant
I have Ben putting a half cut of lab to a 5 galen bucket it reduces the smell. Oh not sure if makes a difference but I like to add 1/2 pound of brown sugar and just a little bit of Sea salt for little more memorials. Love to here your thoughts
Starting my nutrient banking!
This is so exciting! Thank you :). I’m trying so hard to reuse as much as I can to give back to the Earth what I take from it and this is such a fantastic, and organic, way of doing that :)
Great video. Just what I needed. Would love to see you create a video of making a wood store for the garden. Thank you. Much appreciated from Devon UK.
Thank you for your advice as always very valuable.🤗🤗🤗
love this idea! with a very small garden could one make a general feed using all the veg one grows, instead of focusing on each individual type? I don't have the space for several buckets or barrels. Thank you for sharing this valuable method.
Can you put in a mix of all the garden crops instead of 1 crop per container like you show?
u probably could, check other youtube videoes on this, they do just one, basically "throw everything you got in" (with FEW exceptions) and then use it on whatever u like.
I’m wondering how this would work in colder climates like in New Brunswick Canada? Would it be able to handle being frozen for several months at a time and be used the next season?
Good question for all us northerners!
I live in Manitoba and I use this method often , but I use the fermented solution right away on my growing vegetables and the rest of the garden (be aware it stinks). I've never tried to freeze it. For use at home or seedlings I make FPJ (fermented plant juice), which is made with brown sugar - you can find video on you tube. FPJ can be kept in a bottle and used at any time. Happy gardening :)
@@marinar9899 much appreciated! Thank you!
Good question. Maybe adding a new handful of leaf mould at the start of the next growing season to get the biological activity going again would work.
I live in Ontario, Canada and have let JLF freeze, when I checked on it in the spring, mushrooms were growing in it. I’ve read discussions about this and basically decided that it is ok to let it freeze as I wasn’t going to use it all and have nowhere to store it. I keep mine in 5 gallon pails with a brick on the lid.
What is the type of grass you use for your paths? I'm considering trying to grow grass paths but don't want to end up with an even greater mess of weeds.
If I have a small garden with a variety of crops I'd prefer one universal jadam. Altough I understand the advantages of plant specific jadams it would be just too much to have more different types of jadam.
Hi Huw, any tips on whether to avoid using a JLF prior to harvesting? Or is it sufficient to just make sure your produce is washed well prior to eating? Cheers Andy!
I like this idea! I have a question: if I intercrop plants (say basil and tomatoes), could I make a JLF with both plants or is it better to make one for each?
Hello Huw, Thank you for introducing me to the idea of Jadam liquid fertilizer. The process for making and using it is straightforward, but the thing I am struggling with as I try to get it started is the timing, getting the plants to make it first, then overwintering with freezing conditions. I find little guidance how it can be managed in colder climates, and unless I missed it it is not in any of your videos, maybe you do not experience hard freezes. Do you let it freeze and thaw to restart?
I always just dump EVERYTHING that my garden drops into this buckets dont care about any rescepy just throw in everything🤣👍 nice video btw very professional
My husband complains of the smell so I time apply the JLF before expected rain and the smell simmers down.
I'm excited to make this.😊😍❤
This is great, I'm glad to see it. Please keep it up! Please, I have a question, like when should we stop applying it on plants? I mean, is there a time of the plant growth that it shouldn't be used for good harvest? Awaiting your response. Thank you
Tip for fellow womb holders (👈🏻😬🤦🏼♀️🤷♀️) or those who keep their nails 💅, use a 2 litre handled milk carton to dip into the JLM. Then use that to put into the watering can.
To be honest, I pour the whole 2 litre carton into a rainwater butt….😃
Have you ever watched The Martian where the astronaut stranded on Mars has to create “live” soil. “Mars will fear my botany powers”. It’s such a lovely positive witty film.
I stumbled on this new video as I was researching if you have any videos making and using the LAB you teach us in your book. I tried to make it last week and when the first 5 days passed the smell was so horrible 😅 I didn’t know if it was ok so I poured it in the compost pile. I’m not delicate about smells of gardens and farm animals, but this really smelled horrible 😂 Was it ok? I’d love a video on it as it sounds amazing :)
I love your idea of making fertilizers for each group of plant types but I'm not looking forward to the smell :(. I'm wondering if you've ever experimented with combining the Jadam method with the Korean Natural Farming method of making shelf stable fertilizer by using no water and instead 1:1 the weight of the plant material to brown sugar?
Great video! Whats your opinion on the so called sapling kickstarter amendment where yeast, sugar and water mix is used to boost saplings to grow. Especially in spring time when there is risk that the plants can go back to dormant or on halt because of cool temperatures?
I have a question regarding Jadam going unaerobic. If the goal is getting the nutrients out through the soaking, why let them go unaerobic? I'm torn between Dr Elaine Ingham's insistence on using only aerobic stuff and the undeniably compelling testimony of Jadam users.
Dr.s rely on junk science for humans so maybe the same for gardens.
Combine both. Fermented liquid feed needs to go anaerobic (by definition), but you can also aerate compost tea and combine them both at the moment of application. I tried last year and had a record-breaking container gardening season!
With respect, we've been asking where you purchase your barrels from for months! Those little barrels range in price between $80-120 each. The big barrel prices are higher than jet-smoke!
My bad if I missed the reveal, but I don't think I did...
This is really interesting - thanks for sharing this info Huw! I look forward to seeing your results ... off to look at the Jadam book now!
Brilliant! So much great information in the book :)
Sounds good, however you’d need a water butt for each crop, we have a nitrogen rich butt for the start and then comfrey one for later
Thanks for the video. It's very informative. Moved to a new house 2 years ago and our garden is still a blank canvas, so this will definitely help for the future. I do have one question, if for whatever reason I need to get rid of the container of JLF ... where would I put the decomposed solids? Would it be beneficial to mix it up with soil and use it for planting?
Mix it into compost pile
Thank you for introducing JADEM to us. Feeding plants with the same males sense. I have tried two different recipes this far, but they have attracted a huge amount of flies. Can you point me in the direction of the manufacturer of the blue containers you are using please. Thanks
Brilliant and super practical video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge! Please keep us posted as you work through testing these with various crops.
Great video! Where do you get your blue containers from? Thanks
www.directwatertanks.co.uk
Thanks huw. Will try n 5gal buckets. Thats all i got. And prayers😉of course
Good luck! :)
Great information. What will happen if we put a little of every plant; it leaves, fruits, roots etc, in one container and just use it on all the diffetent plants?
Answered in video.
I haven't had to water in my polytunnels in the last few weeks...I'm in the west of Ireland n its been raining a lot
This spring and early summer is all rainfall for us. Not complaining but has been hard for many here in the Canadian west coast where crops and flowers are over watered.
Such is the beauty of gardening though, we adjust and bend and rethink our ways of gardening ever so often 😀
I use a dedicated blender to mix these ingredients and toss them in tubs of water from which I dip, after some ripening, with a watering can with the rose removed to prevent clogging. This adds nutrients around the base of plants right away, but also adds mulch as the bits go onto the soil with the tea. The texture is that of a thin, watery sludge.
Brilliant! Makes so much sense. Thanks. Btw what are the containers you are using. What kind of place to get it from.?
I really like this. Have you or anyone else done trial comparisons???
Lets spread this far and wide to help improve the soil to help the plants grow, so we don't have to rely on commercial chemical that destroy the soil.
Love the video and the methodology. Have you thought of using Kombucha as a plant feed? I have been using kefir grains on my herbs and they grow like crazy...
I need some advice. I placed 2 handfuls of leaf mould on top of my bucketful of (well cut) nettles in a bit of rain water & it doesn’t smell at all a week later. I did the same with my wild garlic leaves - submerge them in a bit of water with 2 handfuls of leaf mould from the forest behind my home & cover. But the (albeit uncrushed) wild garlic jadam tea smells strongly a week later. Why isn’t my jadam nettle tea smelly? It just smells like strong spinach & definitely not unpleasant in any way. Have I done something wrong?
Where do you leave it during winter season? It would freeze in my climate if I left it outside. Would it matter? Thanks.
Wondering the same...😀
I make things like thistle and comfrey tea in plastic containers, I simply make sure the lid is on only very loosely and that it isn't filled up to the top. That way, when it ices and expands, it won't break the container.