* There is an error in the video. Under the options for nitrogen I said bone meal instead of blood meal. Here is the recipe: You will want to measure by volume not weight. Nitrogen: 2 parts of cottonseed meal, feather meal, blood meal, bat guano, fish meal, or soybean meal. Phosphorus: 1 part bone meal, soft rock phosphate or crab shell meal Potassium: 1 part greensand, wood ashes, or sulfate of potash ( Sul-Po-Mag) Calcium: 1 part calcium carbonate (limestone) or dolomite (dolomitic limestone) Micronutrients and the rest of the macronutrients will be found in kelp meal: ½ part kelp meal
Thank you! I'm not understanding what you mean by Volume not by weight. Would you please explain what that means. Always tried to grow Strawberries 🍓, but always fail. Mostly because I'm just started gardening. First year was an epic Fail! Second year got little vegetables, Third year learn from my mistakes and started spraying to Deter bugs ... much better yield... also started feeding with kelp and of course bone meal & Tomato fertilizer. At the end of the season learn about Agro liquid fertilizer for fruiting plants which is amazing! Trying to be conscious about chemicals & pesticides. Using neem oil & Sals Soap [Dr. Bronners] to get rid of bugs & learn if you put too much nitrogen in the fertilizer the bugs start attacking the plants Anyhow, the slugs are the only ones enjoying the few Strawberries that I do get. The Positive is: Gardening is so expensive! But, the good part is that one knows how delicious and pesticide free the food is. I've had good results with Cheery Tomatoes & Peppers like I mention above. I bought 3 Blueberry plants from Aldi ($8). I'm so glad I came across your channel. I want to get some fruit from these berries (Strawberries & Blueberries) Also like to ask, do you use yeast (some people on TH-cam swear by using this as a fertilizer) or recommend using this to fertilize plants? Thank you for taking the time to read and answer this, I sure appreciate you response.
@@nz5752 By volume means that you will use something like a measuring cup as a measuring device. For just a couple of plants you might want to use something like 4 oz (1/2 c) as "one part," 8 oz as 2 parts, and 2 oz as "1/2 part," etc.
Thank you so much for sharing this information. I am elderly with a small retirement income and only three plants I've just started so I appreciate being able to make the most of them. If I were younger and could afford the course I would definitely sign up.
Thanks for watching! If you want to binge watch go sign up for the High Performance Garden Show. There are over 260 episodes to watch! I have people tell me that is is better then Netflix! It is free and online you can enroll on our website at thelivingfarm.org/high-performance-garden-show/
I had to dig up all my strawberry plants. Reasons: 1: Mixed in some chopped up fall leaves into that soil plus some soil sulfur, Azomite, Bone meal. 2) Raised bed was low on soil. 3) Had to separate and re-space the plants. When the time comes I will use Alaska Fish Fertilizer, Won't mulch for a while yet. Extra strawberry plants I planted elsewhere on the property, I bought some box store strawberry roots to use in grow bags within a kiddie pool (have far too many pill bugs eating everything in sight). Haven't mixed that soil yet. Have to wait unfortunately. Note: On potted plants soil, I cook that soil to 204F to kill off bugs, eggs, and pathogens. I use the same mixing in that soil as I did above. I really DO cook the soil....
AWSOME info! thank you. Which day neutral variety would you recommend for Pennsylvania, hot, humid summers, cold winters, zone 6, currently after update zone 7. Eva
I'm so excited to have this recipe...I've collected all the ingredients and will make it today.....Can I use this recipe for my raspberries, blueberry bushes and marion berry bushes? Thank you soooo much for this super helpful recipe....Can't wait to taste my strawberries this year.....
This is very helpful! I've beeen using Trifecta Plus an organic fertilizer which is good for alot of things but I think may have a few things missing that strawberries need. My plants do produce fruit (some of the plants do), but it is often small and not very flavorful and it turns kind of dry and rust colored.
The past several years you encouraged us to use “Happy Frog: Fruit and Flower” you now prefer this fertilizer? Question #2; in tomato fertilizer ,your recipe is similar to this,but for the nitrogen you recommend fish meal or bat dodo BUT NOT the Bone meal? Wonderful why the switch?
Hi Linda, We have people all over the world watching and they don't have access to Happy Frog products. So I needed a recipe for those out of the Happy Frog area. I do still like the happy frog Fruit and Flower Fertilizer. Fish Meal and bat guano have a little bit more nitrogen then the bone meal.
* There is an error in the video. Under the options for nitrogen I said bone meal instead of blood meal. Here is the recipe:
You will want to measure by volume not weight.
Nitrogen: 2 parts of cottonseed meal, feather meal, blood meal, bat guano, fish meal, or soybean meal.
Phosphorus: 1 part bone meal, soft rock phosphate or crab shell meal
Potassium: 1 part greensand, wood ashes, or sulfate of potash ( Sul-Po-Mag)
Calcium: 1 part calcium carbonate (limestone) or dolomite (dolomitic limestone)
Micronutrients and the rest of the macronutrients will be found in kelp meal: ½ part kelp meal
Thank you!
I'm not understanding what you mean by Volume not by weight. Would you please explain what that means.
Always tried to grow Strawberries 🍓, but always fail. Mostly because I'm just started gardening. First year was an epic Fail! Second year got little vegetables, Third year learn from my mistakes and started spraying to Deter bugs ... much better yield... also started feeding with kelp and of course bone meal & Tomato fertilizer. At the end of the season learn about Agro liquid fertilizer for fruiting plants which is amazing!
Trying to be conscious about chemicals & pesticides. Using neem oil & Sals Soap [Dr. Bronners] to get rid of bugs & learn if you put too much nitrogen in the fertilizer the bugs start attacking the plants
Anyhow, the slugs are the only ones enjoying the few Strawberries that I do get.
The Positive is:
Gardening is so expensive! But, the good part is that one knows how delicious and pesticide free the food is.
I've had good results with Cheery Tomatoes & Peppers like I mention above. I bought 3 Blueberry plants from Aldi ($8). I'm so glad I came across your channel. I want to get some fruit from these berries (Strawberries & Blueberries)
Also like to ask, do you use yeast (some people on TH-cam swear by using this as a fertilizer) or recommend using this to fertilize plants?
Thank you for taking the time to read and answer this, I sure appreciate you response.
@@nz5752 By volume means that you will use something like a measuring cup as a measuring device.
For just a couple of plants you might want to use something like 4 oz (1/2 c) as "one part," 8 oz as 2 parts, and 2 oz as "1/2 part," etc.
I giggled every time I saw the dog tail!! Thanks for all this. Can't wait to try it.
That was too funny! I had to stop to see what that critter was! 😂
Thank you so much for sharing this information. I am elderly with a small retirement income and only three plants I've just started so I appreciate being able to make the most of them. If I were younger and could afford the course I would definitely sign up.
Thanks for watching!
More great info on Strawberries.
Thank you Roberta for watching and commenting on my videos!!!
I’m so glad I found you! I’m going to be doing a lot of binge watching with this great information! (And watching your dogs tail go back and forth!😁)
Thanks for watching! If you want to binge watch go sign up for the High Performance Garden Show. There are over 260 episodes to watch! I have people tell me that is is better then Netflix! It is free and online you can enroll on our website at thelivingfarm.org/high-performance-garden-show/
Love the dog marching back and forth in the background of your video. All we can see is the tip of his tail makes me think of a submarine
Thanks! That is Tony the farm dog. He appears in a lot of videos lately!
I had to dig up all my strawberry plants. Reasons:
1: Mixed in some chopped up fall leaves into that soil plus some soil sulfur, Azomite, Bone meal.
2) Raised bed was low on soil.
3) Had to separate and re-space the plants.
When the time comes I will use Alaska Fish Fertilizer,
Won't mulch for a while yet.
Extra strawberry plants I planted elsewhere on the property,
I bought some box store strawberry roots to use in grow bags within a kiddie pool (have far too many pill bugs eating everything in sight).
Haven't mixed that soil yet. Have to wait unfortunately.
Note: On potted plants soil, I cook that soil to 204F to kill off bugs, eggs, and pathogens. I use the same mixing in that soil as I did above.
I really DO cook the soil....
AWSOME info! thank you. Which day neutral variety would you recommend for Pennsylvania, hot, humid summers, cold winters, zone 6, currently after update zone 7. Eva
Seascape is my favorite!
Very important vid
Thanks for watching!
I'm so excited to have this recipe...I've collected all the ingredients and will make it today.....Can I use this recipe for my raspberries, blueberry bushes and marion berry bushes? Thank you soooo much for this super helpful recipe....Can't wait to taste my strawberries this year.....
I bet this recipe will work really well for your other plants. Thanks for watching!
Is there additional info in your e-course for strawberries or is all the info in the 8 strawberry videos in the playlist?
The ecourse has TONS more information than the 8 you tube videos.
Thanks for sharing... watching from Malaysia
Thanks for watching!
This is very helpful! I've beeen using Trifecta Plus an organic fertilizer which is good for alot of things but I think may have a few things missing that strawberries need. My plants do produce fruit (some of the plants do), but it is often small and not very flavorful and it turns kind of dry and rust colored.
Thank you for watching and good luck with your plants!
Thank you for the video
Do you fertilize Everbearing strawberries after the last crop or just before the first frost?🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓
You can do either. We feed our strawberry plants once a month while they are in production.
The past several years you encouraged us to use “Happy Frog: Fruit and Flower” you now prefer this fertilizer?
Question #2; in tomato fertilizer ,your recipe is similar to this,but for the nitrogen you recommend fish meal or bat dodo BUT NOT the Bone meal? Wonderful why the switch?
Hi Linda, We have people all over the world watching and they don't have access to Happy Frog products. So I needed a recipe for those out of the Happy Frog area. I do still like the happy frog Fruit and Flower Fertilizer.
Fish Meal and bat guano have a little bit more nitrogen then the bone meal.
Thank you!
Could we use 3 parts bone meal for the first 2 ingredients?
I bet you could. Give it a try!
Mam why my strawberries are totally white inside...it smells good but it's tasteless and very mashy!
The plants probably need more nutrients. Calcium helps the berry to not be mushy. Trace minerals create the flavors.
So academic.. we have no time for that..