It never ceases to amaze me how most people dispose of their grass clippings (valuable lawn fertilizer), then pay to have them removed, and then pay again and again to add lawn fertilizers, weed killers & pesticides! Please keep your grass clippings on the lawn. They break down quickly, and eliminate the 'need' for harmful, cancer causing chemicals!
Just make sure you get a lawn mower, hand mower, etc that can do that well. Dispersing is key to prevent the problems he discussed and thereby keeping your neighbors happy.
Of the same mind--and I would add, pay people to run very heavy (soil compacting and pollution emitting) machinery to mow their lawns, then pay for a gym membership for exercise.
Great video, Frenchie! I'm 73, and an old Vermont hippie, all your ideas including # 11 are right on. Because I do live in a rural area, my son and his buddies who grew up on this farm always went out and peed around the edges of the garden when they were little, to keep the deer out (I think the smell translates to a human smell to them). The plants at the garden edge, not surprisingly, did very well! Seriously, my little semi-commune has been composting and gardening organically for close to 40 years, and I love your thoughts on mimicking Mother Nature. Although the move back to homesteading and back to the earth is wonderful to see, too much bagged fertilizer is not natural either, and healing the soil involves time, and more of your very natural approach. Keep going!!
I love it! Keep doing good where y'all are! I also feel the same way when I see the skyrocketing use of landscaping fabric 🙁 Good idea with the deer too, we don't have them now that we're in Puerto Rico, but good info to know in general! Glad you enjoyed the content, thanks for the comment!
I save my egg shells, banana peels, potato peels and green kitchen waste in a bucket under the sink. Every couple of days I put the scraps in a blender with water, Then transfer to a covered 5 gal bucket with a lid. After a few days of fermentation I feed the plants using a ladle. Then I water with the hose using my trowel to work it in.
I'm super into Hugelkulture. I live on the coast so it's very sandy. The Hugel acts like a sponge holding water and also feeds the plants. I go to the beach and pick up giant bull kelp and bury it in the Hugel when I plant things. Plants love it.
Such an amazing source of fertilizer! Digging a pit, burning the wood, then dousing it when the fire starts to die down will give you char. Soak this char in a bucket with some weeds for a few days and then it'll be an amazing fertilizer as well for various garden beds 👍🙂
@@frenchiepowell yep. I've made some biochar in a hole I dug in the sand at the beach next to a stream so I could dowse it. I have yet to inoculate it but I bought the bubbler and some stuff to inoculate it with that living Webb farms uses. I've made kelp compost tea before too. I just love Hugelkulture so much. It's also a great way to get rid of the extra material u cut down when ur building a garden. I'm extending a part of my garden beds at the edge of my yard on a slope. Gonna use the logs to create a base and fill it in with Hugel, cover it with compost and go!
We bought an older home this year to rent out and the soil is amazing due to leaves falling there from big trees. I just brought a bag home and raked back the wood mulch and put a layer of leaves then raked the wood mulch on top. I’ve been trench composting with kitchen scraps over the past two years at our current home. It feels good to do what nature intended! Our soil is so depleted in our country!
When branches fall from our oaks I simply break up the twigs and scatter them on the native plants beds along with the leaves; a big energy saver. Skip the bagging. I love the video and already do lots of this; will consider using rocks. That one was new. I pee into an attractive blue bucket with rainwater and then neighbors think I’m just watering the plants. What a great life working with God’s amazing nature.
My dog would go outside and urinate in the same area every day. He did it for over a year. No plants would grow there despite being surrounded by green. But he finally picked a new place to start going a few months ago and the bare patch that he used to urinate on is growing in thick and lush even though it was bare patch just a month or two ago. Definitely don't overdo it but it definitely helps the soil fertility.
If you take a 55 gallon barrel and fill it with weeds, sticks, leaves, ect and keep it some what most with pee in about 4 to 6 months you will have a little less than a half a barrel of some of the riches soil you have ever seen. Black as the ace of spades! 👍
Did not know about the stones and rock. Thank you! BTW: we have zero problems with leaves blowing away. Hubby mulches them with the lawn mower and we apply them to the garden generously to cover everything in the Fall. Come Spring, I need to pull back that layer to plant. It is now August and it is getting super thin just now.
I don't buy fertilizer and my garden is doing great! Transformed my soil by putting wood chips everywhere and burying small weeds. Cut up plants that weren't edible. Had a dry hard clay before and now I have worms everywhere.
I'm about 5 inches of topsoil then either solid sandstone or clay. No use tilling so I opted no till. Last fall, I dumped a ton of leaves in one spot. Added a even better layer of soil on top loaded with worms. What I did, was dug deep holes and heavily amended with peat moss, manure, worm castings and lime. (We run on the acidic side). As I get cardboard or newspaper, I lay it down and put straw on top for this year's garden. Can't wait to see how this helps the soil after this season.
@@sarap1409 I've been doing the wood chip thing for years. I hit the Lowes and Home Depot's and buying the torn open bags of wood chips , sometimes the organic garden soils if any for all for 50% or more. Takes a couple years to see a the breakdown happening , but boy good soil
Just begin watching this right now, within the first five seconds, you said what many people miss due to greed to produce and showcase what they learn from wrong people and is all over you tube. God bless you for the information, The same thing Paul Gautschi being saying.
I had a plant that it did not grow and looked leaves poor colour until I put grass that was 3 weeks old on top as mulch but it turned out fertilized the plant overnight the colour improved and leaves got bigger, and longer and it finally grew it is beautiful.
The most inteligent aprouch to a simple problem that I have ever heard. Man you are one of a kind. Frenchie keep up the good work and one day all those million U tube experts lasting for money , will run in shame.
Great video Frenchie! If people are sketched about applying urine to plants they can always add it to their compost. I’ve used it to accelerate a slow compost pile that had too much carbon.
They are not wrong though, he clearly mentioned in VERY metered doses. It's not something you should have that "apple juice" container of in your bedroom over. But if you noticed plants that need a "booster", well you know what to do hehe.
Wow what a great advise. Very simple and effective, eco-friendly and practically free. if I could add something - the plants/trees in the wild don't get all 12 sources of nutrients that you mentioned, may be 3 or 4 at best, yet they thrive and stay healthy.
Have a ton of seashells just from collecting them over the years and I decided to put them around my garden thinking maybe some of the calcium from them will get into the soil and I’m not sure how it’s working but it’s just an idea and maybe some thing for you to think about too
Sheep and rabbit can also be used as a cold fertilizer (they can be used immediately and don't need to be composted). Sheep is the highest in potassium out of any manure.
I fully support your ideas. My neighbors always thought I was strange doing exactly this. I also collect seawater and seashells eg those mussel shells collecting in some places. I. Be tried to collect the placentas from the midwives doing homebirths which I difficult to get but it definitely works. I have done recycling of almost anything that breaks down in the soil.I think that some people might consider me to be a strange old lady but my garden is lush and has produced a lot of vegetables and other plants eg celery growing wild around the house.
From what I've read, used fish tank water is also a great fertilizer. I don't know if I'd feel comfortable putting it on my vegetables, but from what I undersrand, it's quite nutritious.
Sure keep those stones for garden fertilizer it will only take a 100 years or so for them to break down enough for the plants to use. Ever been to Las Vegas? Their soil is nothing but gravel and rocks. Never seen anything growing in that stuff.
@@dubrd5926 well sometimes you have to think the big picture. Maybe tr future generations can enjoy it. Imagine the fact of converting a desert into forest... Where your kids and grandsons can enjoy
@@dubrd5926 It's the reason why nobody grows in rocks ALONE. It's like saving round ups from your purchases. Nickels and Dimes aren't valuable on their owns but together after months and years? It's adds up, just like biodiversity is in a way your "compound interests" on those rounding up saving accounts.
Excellent content here! I've been using all of these extensively for years and I'm shocked that most people treat their natural fertilizers like garbage while paying for synthetics. 🤪 Everybody needs to see this video and realize they are surrounded by useable fertilizers. 👍
When we went fishing any carp we caught we kept. We were cleaning our fish, scraps and cut up the carp were used for the garden. Dug holes by the plants dropped a fish head or guts, piece of carp fill hole with soil cover well. Put a rock on top. Free fish fertilizer, you will be surprised.
You are brilliant! I am going through a process of synching in with nature and learning from it - in the garden, in diet, in self-care, in animal care and in every possible aspect. Synchronicity has led me to your channel. Gratitude!
Yes most hay has ben routinely sprayed with herbicides. Smart to avoid. Make my own "thatch" ripping up old dead grass blades as long as you don't use any chemical on your lawn.
Two years later, still great stuff. I've been thinking about putting everything I gathered , put through a shredder or blender for quicker available nutrition for my plants. Thanks for the reminder, feed the microbes in the soil. So the microbes can feed the plants.
A great way to keep rodents away from kitchen scraps is to lightly sprinkle crushed red chili peppers around. I haven't had any rats touch anything since I started this. And my chickens don't mind it at all.
And there's the occasional speciality mulch, like pine needles - acidic and good for mulching blueberries. I also tuck kitchen scraps under the mulch I place around my fruit trees and shrubs. Never had a problem other than the occasional unwashed eggshell being pulled out. Another thing I do is grow lots of ferns (which in themselves are a good living mulch around trees for the summer. There's not many weeds that will compete well with a healthy fern). I cut the dead leaves in Autumn, fold them into loose 'wads' and use these to weigh down leafy mulches to stop them blowing away. Fern leaves take about a year for the fine leaflets to break down into this beautiful, friable, deep brown crumble that makes a simply lovely soil conditioner, while the midrib of the fern leaf persists for 2 years and acts like straw.
I have a compost pile (a log crib) in the woods, and crows/ravens attack it. Love to scatter the lobster shells (you can guess where these woods are?). Last summer I stapled hardware cloth to two stakes, as a lid, and this worked well to keep out the birds. Staples weren't strong enough however--will have to use electrical staples (but am going up there day after tomorrow so will try the new ideas)
Suggestion: What comes out goes back in. In the fall bury the leaves and waiste fruit that grew in that spot. Exceptions include nightshades and parsnip greens. You can also use dead animals such as fish, birds, old chicken feed, and eggs. Cheers!
I completely agree with this. Although I wonder if this applies to growing cannabis as well. Connoissuers are trying to make their girls that little bit more tastes and stronger. Learning to feed the soil and not the plant was the most important thing I have ever learned. Growing plants has changed the way I look at the world.
I am growing 9 varieties of tomatoes, 10 varieties of. peppers, 2 varieties of eggplants, herbs and a plethora of beautiful annuals to attract the pollinators. So looking forward to my 2024 garden! Thanks for all your great info.
Desert. Pure sand. I could be at the beach and wouldn't know the difference. I've been burying my kitchen scraps in different areas of my growing space. Also adding grass clippings AND worm castings. I just don't have enough.
@@angelaanderson5360 Best canvas to draw a masterpiece on! Your biggest concern is lessening water loss (I know, big surprise right?). My best soil restoration occurred with pure sand, and I established a garden with all on sight materials. So now to the nitty gritty... You're going to want some sort of desert plant that provides shade. A desert hardened tree would be great. Under the meager shade of your tree you'll start the garden. Some fast growing ground covers like mint will do the trick. This will shade the soil and reduce water loss. Sage and rosemary are also good garden choices. Then, in your shaded area, lay down as many sticks, leaves, or weeds you can get your hands on. This will be the start of your Eden. From here, bury your kitchen scraps, water your soil periodically (in the evenings), and as the soil starts getting better, expand further and further. Deserts/sandy areas are often my favorite areas to work with since they have so much potential and they have so many untapped nutrients in the soil. Best of luck! Sorry is this was a bit long of a response, but I hope it helped!
The trees provide the fertilizer. They drop they seeds & leaves at different times providing food for worms & other insects to eat & crap out the fertilizer. Fungi do this as well. Those leaves ur neighbors drag to the curb to get rid of our perfect mulch & food for ur garden. Jus pull to the side to plant then push the leaves bk. At the end of the season most if not all will hav turned into beautiful topsoil. They called leaves because u supposed to leave them
Thanks , i always knew that the "regular" or lets say better , the human way was wrong ! I have a horse so i have an abundance of wonderful fertilizer for my garden , and i was wondering about using hay as well thanks for clearing that up !
I use honey one teaspoon a gallon on all plants what my plants say thank you and no burning of roots I use it when I water all my plants and they flourish all year around all plants It's amazing
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so happy that i started doing pretty much all of this after seeing la ferme de cagnolle talking about it. Now so much people are getting into it and talking about it, I'm confident that after all I put into my garden last year, this summer will be an awesome harvest and all of it for free, wood chips, debris from the wood im axing for firewoods, I also put the ashes from my firepit, weed from my lawn and leaves from the fall, also will add some sticks during spring and will start urinating in a bottle more often 😂
I watched this again. The same people Who would be grossed out about urine, are the same People who take horse urine for birth control🤦♀️ I’ve used urine in my garden for a year, Added it all winter to my beds covered in cow manure and leaves, I really has helped the breakdown process of the leaves. I’ve said I ain’t living anywhere that I can’t pee in my backyard….
Just to be sure your not taking medications nor in ill health when you are "dosing" the plants. Also it been said here to use it fresh (within hours) so "dosing" inside a watering can/bucket to use soon after is probably ideal.
I guess you could divide your yard into sections, then once a day pee in a bucket add lots of water, and go to that days section of the garden and spread it. LOL (Great idea, Carmen, remember that portable toilet for vans, that you never use. Perfect sitting area and underneath that great pee gatherer, just add a few gallons of water. LOL)
if a person has rabbits, using wood pellet, corn cob or other absorbent bedding in the dropping pan saves a lot of the nitrogen present in urine. combined with the rabbit manure, one gets a real nice compostable product nor even a directly applied fertilizer,
I think you forgot to mention worms, blood and feces. If you’re going to talk about icky ways of fertilizing, you might as well go all in heads first. 😝 I’m offended by the comment that “man ‘especially’ can piss into a can and use it as fertilizer.” Like the the song says: Anything you can do, I can do better, I can do anything better than you”. 😛 Chew on that Mr. Man. By the way, I thoroughly enjoyed your video. It’s encouraging to know the same techniques I’ve used to grow indoors can be used outdoors. I’m hoping to have my first indoor garden this year. 🥰 Thank you for this timeless information. 😘 Sincerely The Urban Guerrilla Gardener Aka The trouble maker. 😬
Best of luck with your indoor garden! Glad you enjoyed the video and you're so right, there are so many more opportunities for fertilizers not covered in the video!
🤣 I made the mistake of watering all my flowers around my house the day I was having a large party. The problem was because I watered with my pee after I had ate asparagus! It smelled so bad! So word to the wise...🤣
Only thing about people pee is you need to eat well and no medications....meds wind up in your food. Otherwise this is a wonderful resource! Use ! Don't flush it away!... people poo on the other hand needs to compost at least a year because of latent pathogens . I find all I need for gardening with out useing people poo. If you're doing woodchips...logs ect. all that free nitrogen breaks them down much quicker...all works together! ♥️👍👍 BB from somewhere in Louisiana thanks for great video 👍👍👍👍🤠
Very interesting. Good ideas. But I don’t think you mentioned pine needles. I’m thinking of using those in my garden paths this year. @Frenchie Powell: Any thoughts?
Started using urine last summer (Rich Earth Institute, Brattleboro VT webinar)--figured the numbers, and thus just how much urine (and at what dilution) I needed for each bed. NB--I had already had various soils in my property tested by the wonderful Univ. of Maine (although I live in Pa)
It never ceases to amaze me how most people dispose of their grass clippings (valuable lawn fertilizer), then pay to have them removed, and then pay again and again to add lawn fertilizers, weed killers & pesticides!
Please keep your grass clippings on the lawn. They break down quickly, and eliminate the 'need' for harmful, cancer causing chemicals!
Just make sure you get a lawn mower, hand mower, etc that can do that well. Dispersing is key to prevent the problems he discussed and thereby keeping your neighbors happy.
Of the same mind--and I would add, pay people to run very heavy (soil compacting and pollution emitting) machinery to mow their lawns, then pay for a gym membership for exercise.
Growing a lawn all togerher is just a wasteful idea to begin with. So mach work and resources thats gets spent on it.
I actually like to use them as mulch in the garden.
The first cutting w weeds i rake and throw away. Then the rest i leave
We use our aquarium water and it works great. Greenest plants in the dessert over here. 😊
I figured it would work very well,how long you been using it???
@@mercedesbenzs600bash for over a year
Great video, Frenchie! I'm 73, and an old Vermont hippie, all your ideas including # 11 are right on. Because I do live in a rural area, my son and his buddies who grew up on this farm always went out and peed around the edges of the garden when they were little, to keep the deer out (I think the smell translates to a human smell to them). The plants at the garden edge, not surprisingly, did very well! Seriously, my little semi-commune has been composting and gardening organically for close to 40 years, and I love your thoughts on mimicking Mother Nature. Although the move back to homesteading and back to the earth is wonderful to see, too much bagged fertilizer is not natural either, and healing the soil involves time, and more of your very natural approach. Keep going!!
I love it! Keep doing good where y'all are! I also feel the same way when I see the skyrocketing use of landscaping fabric 🙁
Good idea with the deer too, we don't have them now that we're in Puerto Rico, but good info to know in general! Glad you enjoyed the content, thanks for the comment!
I save my egg shells, banana peels, potato peels and green kitchen waste in a bucket under the sink. Every couple of days I put the scraps in a blender with water, Then transfer to a covered 5 gal bucket with a lid. After a few days of fermentation I feed the plants using a ladle. Then I water with the hose using my trowel to work it in.
I'm super into Hugelkulture. I live on the coast so it's very sandy. The Hugel acts like a sponge holding water and also feeds the plants. I go to the beach and pick up giant bull kelp and bury it in the Hugel when I plant things. Plants love it.
Such an amazing source of fertilizer! Digging a pit, burning the wood, then dousing it when the fire starts to die down will give you char. Soak this char in a bucket with some weeds for a few days and then it'll be an amazing fertilizer as well for various garden beds 👍🙂
@@frenchiepowell yep. I've made some biochar in a hole I dug in the sand at the beach next to a stream so I could dowse it. I have yet to inoculate it but I bought the bubbler and some stuff to inoculate it with that living Webb farms uses. I've made kelp compost tea before too. I just love Hugelkulture so much. It's also a great way to get rid of the extra material u cut down when ur building a garden. I'm extending a part of my garden beds at the edge of my yard on a slope. Gonna use the logs to create a base and fill it in with Hugel, cover it with compost and go!
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Brilliant stuff. Exactly what Ruth Stout did all those years ago. She proved fertiliser wasn’t necessary. But people kept on using it.
Exactly fertilizing is still needed, just not the fertilizers themselves.
Yes--I read How to have a Green Thumb without an Aching Back when I was in my early 20's---50 years ago!
@@louisewesson603Is that the title of a book???
We bought an older home this year to rent out and the soil is amazing due to leaves falling there from big trees. I just brought a bag home and raked back the wood mulch and put a layer of leaves then raked the wood mulch on top. I’ve been trench composting with kitchen scraps over the past two years at our current home. It feels good to do what nature intended! Our soil is so depleted in our country!
TLDR cliff notes:
Rocks, logs, wood chips, sticks, spent hay, weeds, leaves, compost, grass, manure, urine
Thank you!
When branches fall from our oaks I simply break up the twigs and scatter them on the native plants beds along with the leaves; a big energy saver. Skip the bagging. I love the video and already do lots of this; will consider using rocks. That one was new. I pee into an attractive blue bucket with rainwater and then neighbors think I’m just watering the plants. What a great life working with God’s amazing nature.
Clever with the blue bucket! It's special rain water 😆
Glad you enjoyed the video! God bless!
My dog would go outside and urinate in the same area every day. He did it for over a year. No plants would grow there despite being surrounded by green.
But he finally picked a new place to start going a few months ago and the bare patch that he used to urinate on is growing in thick and lush even though it was bare patch just a month or two ago.
Definitely don't overdo it but it definitely helps the soil fertility.
If you take a 55 gallon barrel and fill it with weeds, sticks, leaves, ect and keep it some what most with pee in about 4 to 6 months you will have a little less than a half a barrel of some of the riches soil you have ever seen. Black as the ace of spades! 👍
Did not know about the stones and rock. Thank you! BTW: we have zero problems with leaves blowing away. Hubby mulches them with the lawn mower and we apply them to the garden generously to cover everything in the Fall. Come Spring, I need to pull back that layer to plant. It is now August and it is getting super thin just now.
I don't buy fertilizer and my garden is doing great! Transformed my soil by putting wood chips everywhere and burying small weeds. Cut up plants that weren't edible. Had a dry hard clay before and now I have worms everywhere.
I'm about 5 inches of topsoil then either solid sandstone or clay. No use tilling so I opted no till. Last fall, I dumped a ton of leaves in one spot. Added a even better layer of soil on top loaded with worms. What I did, was dug deep holes and heavily amended with peat moss, manure, worm castings and lime. (We run on the acidic side). As I get cardboard or newspaper, I lay it down and put straw on top for this year's garden. Can't wait to see how this helps the soil after this season.
That's cool. I've just covered my clay lawn with wood chips and was hoping all the work was worth it
@@sarap1409 I've been doing the wood chip thing for years. I hit the Lowes and Home Depot's and buying the torn open bags of wood chips , sometimes the organic garden soils if any for all for 50% or more. Takes a couple years to see a the breakdown happening , but boy good soil
@@jeffmosier3145 yeah ok just have to have patience then. The key to successful gardening!
How thick did you lay the woodchips?
Just begin watching this right now, within the first five seconds, you said what many people miss due to greed to produce and showcase what they learn from wrong people and is all over you tube. God bless you for the information, The same thing Paul Gautschi being saying.
I had a plant that it did not grow and looked leaves poor colour until I put grass that was 3 weeks old on top as mulch but it turned out fertilized the plant overnight the colour improved and leaves got bigger, and longer and it finally grew it is beautiful.
I just asked him if I can use grass clippings to top off my containers,so it really helps huh???
The most inteligent aprouch to a simple problem that I have ever heard. Man you are one of a kind. Frenchie keep up the good work and one day all those million U tube experts lasting for money , will run in shame.
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Great video Frenchie! If people are sketched about applying urine to plants they can always add it to their compost. I’ve used it to accelerate a slow compost pile that had too much carbon.
They are not wrong though, he clearly mentioned in VERY metered doses. It's not something you should have that "apple juice" container of in your bedroom over. But if you noticed plants that need a "booster", well you know what to do hehe.
@@rickytorres908950-50 solution of urine and water,im wondering how well it would fertilize🤔🤔🤔
I'm always hated long videos but your video was the best thing I've seen in a long time
Wow what a great advise. Very simple and effective, eco-friendly and practically free. if I could add something - the plants/trees in the wild don't get all 12 sources of nutrients that you mentioned, may be 3 or 4 at best, yet they thrive and stay healthy.
One of the most informative video on how to fertilize your garden naturally, thanks for this!
Very practical solutions for the small holder farmers in Africa.Thank you very much
You are welcome
I've always just thrown my scraps in the garden. Amazing how great my soil is from doing it.
Have a ton of seashells just from collecting them over the years and I decided to put them around my garden thinking maybe some of the calcium from them will get into the soil and I’m not sure how it’s working but it’s just an idea and maybe some thing for you to think about too
Grind those oyster shells into powder for calcium
Love your channel. I do some of this already, but learned some great stuff to incorporate into my gardening. Thanks
I grew wild flowers which some think are weeds! But they have very pretty growers! And sometimes medicine too!
Sheep and rabbit can also be used as a cold fertilizer (they can be used immediately and don't need to be composted). Sheep is the highest in potassium out of any manure.
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I fully support your ideas. My neighbors always thought I was strange doing exactly this. I also collect seawater and seashells eg those mussel shells collecting in some places. I. Be tried to collect the placentas from the midwives doing homebirths which I difficult to get but it definitely works. I have done recycling of almost anything that breaks down in the soil.I think that some people might consider me to be a strange old lady but my garden is lush and has produced a lot of vegetables and other plants eg celery growing wild around the house.
From what I've read, used fish tank water is also a great fertilizer. I don't know if I'd feel comfortable putting it on my vegetables, but from what I undersrand, it's quite nutritious.
Put it in the soil,not on the plants...
Aquaponics anyone?
Thanks for opening my mind regarding rocks and stones.
I just used to throw them away
Sure keep those stones for garden fertilizer it will only take a 100 years or so for them to break down enough for the plants to use. Ever been to Las Vegas? Their soil is nothing but gravel and rocks. Never seen anything growing in that stuff.
@@dubrd5926 well sometimes you have to think the big picture.
Maybe tr future generations can enjoy it.
Imagine the fact of converting a desert into forest... Where your kids and grandsons can enjoy
@@dubrd5926 It's the reason why nobody grows in rocks ALONE. It's like saving round ups from your purchases. Nickels and Dimes aren't valuable on their owns but together after months and years? It's adds up, just like biodiversity is in a way your "compound interests" on those rounding up saving accounts.
Nice to hear a gardener talking sense for a change :)
Great video! Makes perfect sense to quick sense to mimic nature and conserve resources! Thanks so much, take good care!
Excellent content here! I've been using all of these extensively for years and I'm shocked that most people treat their natural fertilizers like garbage while paying for synthetics. 🤪 Everybody needs to see this video and realize they are surrounded by useable fertilizers. 👍
When we went fishing any carp we caught we kept. We were cleaning our fish, scraps and cut up the carp were used for the garden. Dug holes by the plants dropped a fish head or guts, piece of carp fill hole with soil cover well. Put a rock on top. Free fish fertilizer, you will be surprised.
You are brilliant! I am going through a process of synching in with nature and learning from it - in the garden, in diet, in self-care, in animal care and in every possible aspect. Synchronicity has led me to your channel. Gratitude!
Great video! I stopped using hay as it caused some things to die that I had covered it with.
Also, David The Good on TH-cam is AWESOME!
Yes most hay has ben routinely sprayed with herbicides. Smart to avoid.
Make my own "thatch" ripping up old dead grass blades as long as you don't use any chemical on your lawn.
Two years later, still great stuff. I've been thinking about putting everything I gathered , put through a shredder or blender for quicker available nutrition for my plants. Thanks for the reminder, feed the microbes in the soil. So the microbes can feed the plants.
A great way to keep rodents away from kitchen scraps is to lightly sprinkle crushed red chili peppers around. I haven't had any rats touch anything since I started this. And my chickens don't mind it at all.
Many thanks for this advice!!!
Our cat isn‘t always as motivated to terminate these😝
And there's the occasional speciality mulch, like pine needles - acidic and good for mulching blueberries.
I also tuck kitchen scraps under the mulch I place around my fruit trees and shrubs. Never had a problem other than the occasional unwashed eggshell being pulled out.
Another thing I do is grow lots of ferns (which in themselves are a good living mulch around trees for the summer. There's not many weeds that will compete well with a healthy fern).
I cut the dead leaves in Autumn, fold them into loose 'wads' and use these to weigh down leafy mulches to stop them blowing away.
Fern leaves take about a year for the fine leaflets to break down into this beautiful, friable, deep brown crumble that makes a simply lovely soil conditioner, while the midrib of the fern leaf persists for 2 years and acts like straw.
I have a compost pile (a log crib) in the woods, and crows/ravens attack it. Love to scatter the lobster shells (you can guess where these woods are?). Last summer I stapled hardware cloth to two stakes, as a lid, and this worked well to keep out the birds. Staples weren't strong enough however--will have to use electrical staples (but am going up there day after tomorrow so will try the new ideas)
Thank you, watching from Naragusan Davao de Oro Philippines.
Suggestion: What comes out goes back in. In the fall bury the leaves and waiste fruit that grew in that spot. Exceptions include nightshades and parsnip greens. You can also use dead animals such as fish, birds, old chicken feed, and eggs. Cheers!
I completely agree with this. Although I wonder if this applies to growing cannabis as well. Connoissuers are trying to make their girls that little bit more tastes and stronger. Learning to feed the soil and not the plant was the most important thing I have ever learned. Growing plants has changed the way I look at the world.
Good solid info. Will be implementing this info next Spring. Thanks!
Happy growing!
Thanks for this brilliant and educational video.
Great information on how to work with what is all around us. Nature provides for itself and we need such insights how to work with it.
Thank you 🙏 for your help and great ideas 💡!! ❤
Very well said young man!
I am growing 9 varieties of tomatoes, 10 varieties of. peppers, 2 varieties of eggplants, herbs and a plethora of beautiful annuals to attract the pollinators. So looking forward to my 2024 garden! Thanks for all your great info.
Thank you for watching! Best of luck on your garden this year! Would love to hear how things go and which varieties end up being your favorite!
Super duper, great video, and very down to earth. All true gardeners do all you have said. Thank you.❤
Thanks for the comment! Glad you enjoyed the video!
I would really love it to have more access to natural fertilizer.
What type of area do you live in?
Desert. Pure sand. I could be at the beach and wouldn't know the difference. I've been burying my kitchen scraps in different areas of my growing space. Also adding grass clippings AND worm castings. I just don't have enough.
@@angelaanderson5360
Best canvas to draw a masterpiece on!
Your biggest concern is lessening water loss (I know, big surprise right?). My best soil restoration occurred with pure sand, and I established a garden with all on sight materials.
So now to the nitty gritty... You're going to want some sort of desert plant that provides shade. A desert hardened tree would be great. Under the meager shade of your tree you'll start the garden. Some fast growing ground covers like mint will do the trick. This will shade the soil and reduce water loss. Sage and rosemary are also good garden choices. Then, in your shaded area, lay down as many sticks, leaves, or weeds you can get your hands on. This will be the start of your Eden. From here, bury your kitchen scraps, water your soil periodically (in the evenings), and as the soil starts getting better, expand further and further.
Deserts/sandy areas are often my favorite areas to work with since they have so much potential and they have so many untapped nutrients in the soil. Best of luck! Sorry is this was a bit long of a response, but I hope it helped!
This is such a great system. Good work!
The trees provide the fertilizer. They drop they seeds & leaves at different times providing food for worms & other insects to eat & crap out the fertilizer. Fungi do this as well. Those leaves ur neighbors drag to the curb to get rid of our perfect mulch & food for ur garden. Jus pull to the side to plant then push the leaves bk. At the end of the season most if not all will hav turned into beautiful topsoil. They called leaves because u supposed to leave them
It is the best video about nature makes her own fertile soil, love it thanks
Love this! You hit it on the head. This is exactly what I wanted to do. Thanks so much! Great video.
Thanks , i always knew that the "regular" or lets say better , the human way was wrong ! I have a horse so i have an abundance of wonderful fertilizer for my garden , and i was wondering about using hay as well thanks for clearing that up !
I use honey one teaspoon a gallon on all plants what my plants say thank you and no burning of roots
I use it when I water all my plants and they flourish all year around all plants
It's amazing
How often do you do this?
@@jennifergriffith4526
Every two weeks
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Thank you for sharing all 11 tips I think this video was awesome and it was well needed.❤️
Loved this content. Good job!
so happy that i started doing pretty much all of this after seeing la ferme de cagnolle talking about it. Now so much people are getting into it and talking about it, I'm confident that after all I put into my garden last year, this summer will be an awesome harvest and all of it for free, wood chips, debris from the wood im axing for firewoods, I also put the ashes from my firepit, weed from my lawn and leaves from the fall, also will add some sticks during spring and will start urinating in a bottle more often 😂
Yessss, this sounds like a holistic approach. I love it thank you for Sharing /reminding ❤
Comfrey is also a natural fertilizer. Roots mine from deep in the soil. And a great weed barrier.
Mind = blown by some of the info! I'm genuinely impressed. Subscribing hard!
Glad you enjoyed!
I watched this again. The same people
Who would be grossed out about urine, are the same
People who take horse urine for birth control🤦♀️
I’ve used urine in my garden for a year,
Added it all winter to my beds covered in cow manure and leaves, I really has helped the breakdown process of the leaves.
I’ve said I ain’t living anywhere that I can’t pee in my backyard….
☺
Just to be sure your not taking medications nor in ill health when you are "dosing" the plants. Also it been said here to use it fresh (within hours) so "dosing" inside a watering can/bucket to use soon after is probably ideal.
The only medication I take is natural thyroid, does anyone know if that makes the urine toxic for plants?
Complimenti, ottimo video e grandi idee per raggiungere una perfetta sostenibilità!😊
Grazie
Ciao
Giorgio
Well done ... as we are doing here
excepti #11 & that's in the plan
- but we are rural
👍 I have used - and am still using- all eleven. And my food forest is now thriving!🌱🌷👍
Amazing! Where is your food forest located?
@@frenchiepowell Mesa, Arizona
One straw revolution! Am reading this book now
Fukuoka was a genius indeed, and his value to agriculture incredible.
You just open my eyes, thanks for sharing knowledge
Love this video. Alot of good ideas.
Thanks! Hope they come in handy 👍
I USE MY PEE ( I DO NO TAKE ANY MEDICATION) BUT I HAD TO RESEARCH THE RATIO FOR SOME PLANTS......THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO......
I guess you could divide your yard into sections, then once a day pee in a bucket add lots of water, and go to that days section of the garden and spread it. LOL (Great idea, Carmen, remember that portable toilet for vans, that you never use. Perfect sitting area and underneath that great pee gatherer, just add a few gallons of water. LOL)
Worth the while trying
Really excellent video, loved it and great info
Crazy good video. I'm sold!
Love the video! Thank you. Gonna try all of your advice.
Perfect vid bro!
Wood ash is great, too!
if a person has rabbits, using wood pellet, corn cob or other absorbent bedding in the dropping pan saves a lot of the nitrogen present in urine. combined with the rabbit manure, one gets a real nice compostable product nor even a directly applied fertilizer,
Great video,thank you for sharing.
Thank you. :)
BRAVO!!!!!!!!
I think you forgot to mention worms, blood and feces. If you’re going to talk about icky ways of fertilizing, you might as well go all in heads first. 😝
I’m offended by the comment that “man ‘especially’ can piss into a can and use it as fertilizer.”
Like the the song says:
Anything you can do, I can do better, I can do anything better than you”. 😛
Chew on that Mr. Man.
By the way, I thoroughly enjoyed your video. It’s encouraging to know the same techniques I’ve used to grow indoors can be used outdoors.
I’m hoping to have my first indoor garden this year. 🥰
Thank you for this timeless information. 😘
Sincerely
The Urban Guerrilla Gardener
Aka
The trouble maker. 😬
Best of luck with your indoor garden! Glad you enjoyed the video and you're so right, there are so many more opportunities for fertilizers not covered in the video!
First time here..good info. I'll check your other videos out. Greetings from Paramaribo. Just liked your video.
I appreciate you Frenchie. Subscribed.
Welcome to the community! You're appreciated as well my friend!
Very good information, I totally agree.
Great video👍 Thanks
Brilliant video, thank you
🤣 I made the mistake of watering all my flowers around my house the day I was having a large party. The problem was because I watered with my pee after I had ate asparagus! It smelled so bad! So word to the wise...🤣
Have learned so much ,thank you 😊X
Thanks.
subscribed, thanks
Welcome to the community!
My neighbor gave me the weirdest look when I asked him to blow his tree leaves into my backyard 😊
Only thing about people pee is you need to eat well and no medications....meds wind up in your food. Otherwise this is a wonderful resource! Use ! Don't flush it away!... people poo on the other hand needs to compost at least a year because of latent pathogens . I find all I need for gardening with out useing people poo. If you're doing woodchips...logs ect. all that free nitrogen breaks them down much quicker...all works together! ♥️👍👍 BB from somewhere in Louisiana thanks for great video 👍👍👍👍🤠
New to the channel. I loved the video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very interesting. Good ideas. But I don’t think you mentioned pine needles. I’m thinking of using those in my garden paths this year. @Frenchie Powell: Any thoughts?
Great idea for paths! Pine needles are slower to break down, shielding the soil for a long time, and yield good soil in the end
@@frenchiepowell perfect! Many thanks for the reply. I have just subscribed to your channel 😊
Started using urine last summer (Rich Earth Institute, Brattleboro VT webinar)--figured the numbers, and thus just how much urine (and at what dilution) I needed for each bed. NB--I had already had various soils in my property tested by the wonderful Univ. of Maine (although I live in Pa)
Awesome video, great information. You have a new subscriber here !
Thanks
You're very welcome
I use my pee for my plants 1/5 with water and it works great +old plants I pluck with rain water..👍
Cool!
Thanks!