Your First Vegetable Garden 🌽🍅🍆 Fertilize it Properly

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Your First Vegetable Garden 🌽🍅🍆 Fertilize it Properly
Compare synthetic fertilizer with organic fertilizer, fertilizer myths, soil testing.
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[@digicandy70]

Thanks for an excellent article. The husband and wife in the very famous Grant Woods painting 'American Gothic' is a hoot.

[@fillfinish7302]

Refreshing infos .debunking the gardening myths ..thank you

[@MP-hv5tp]

Well organized, valuable info presented in a clear, unintimidating information. Thank you

[@bendercs]

Loving your videos - I really appreciate you calling out the trendy stuff people try to pass off as factual.

[@judymckerrow6720]

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[@Just_A_Name14]

You don’t just sit there bananas in the water. You make a “compost tea” with them. Use the banana peels,and whatever else was left,along with any other greens you might have,and then get some of your already composted material and add it in a giant tea bag or something similar and brew it up. 24-48 hours with air stones in a 5 gallon bucket or trash can. Obviously depending on volume needed for use. Then dump the extra solid pieces back into your compost pile.

[@ShadowCasterFishing]

I follow the logic and understand the use of a 3-1-2 fertilizer ratio, especially during leafy growth. Do you recommend a different ratio for flowering and fruit growth for fruit trees in ground, or for peppers in pots? Thanks!

[@Just_A_Name14]

Cut anything flowering out vegetable wise with nitrogen as soon as you see fruiting. Very little is okay. But rain alone carries enough chemicals to suffice their nitrogen need. Focus on more magnesium,, potassium, dolomite lime. Or you can buy an all in one focused on flower/bloom stage. Potash and biochar are very beneficial as well. Anything in those ranges.

[@hanzketchup859]

Thats amazing , so the microbes break down the larger molecules into the basic particles that plants can use , but I have a question , what about the microbes that attach themselves to the roots of the plant , are these microbes specialized to the plant ? Like a companion ?

[@jimsparks-pw9tq]

Great video Robert. I have your Soil book and must say if a person reads this prior to starting your garden they will save time, money and effort. I make and use vermicompost and compost with regularity. The soil I have been building for the past couple of years has past your soil test. I have a question about amendments. If I mix at equal parts:
Alfalfa meal 3-0-2
Kelp meal 1-0-2
Neem meal 4-3-2
Insect Frass 2-1-1
The total NPK is 10-4-7 and when rendered down is a 2.5 - 1 - 1.75. That is pretty close to 3-1-2 fertilizer. I don't know if this is how it works but seems logical to me. I use a lot of containers and these amendments are easy for me to get. If I added them at 1 part each and then added some rock dust would this be a good soil amendment to supplement the compost? Each of these products adds their own valuable traits.Your input will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you, Jim

[@sarikasengar7137]

Awesome information for people like me who have constantly struggled to figure how to bets fertilise my plants. I have a terrace garden in Indianand all my plants are in pots with potting medium being a mix of cocopeat and compost. Most of my plants are fruits & vegetables. While the growth of my plants is satisfactory, the fruiting isn’t, except my fig and pomegranate plants. I have had the plants for about 3 years now and have been adding kitchen compost every 3 months or so. Should I give my plants an NPK boost? If so, what’s a good ratio to use and how often should I use it? Thank you.

[@Gardenfundamentals1]

Best ratio is 3-1-2, with a nitrogen level of 100 ppm.

[@tudorpottudorpot8423]

Where can Ontario gardeners get soil tested? My place is on the Precambrian Sheild, next to no topsoil in the bedrock. I bought a few yards of triple mix last year for my raised beds but wasn’t able to grow veggies. I’d like to start out right.

[@Gardenfundamentals1]

University of Guelph

[@foggypatchfarm6048]

Thanks for all of this info. On a video or on your website, would you explain whether plants break there relationship with bacteria when having a source of synthetic fertilizer? I've been hardcore "only organic", but I'm garden on blackland prairie with a high PH. I'm strongly considering putting ammonia sulfate 21-0-0, especially on onions beds and tomato beds.

[@Gardenfundamentals1]

Since there is no difference between nutrients from a synthetic source or an organic source, it makes no difference to the plant - they don't even know the source.

[@flatsville1]

You may be able to knock that high pH back some towards 7 or below naturally by crafting an acidic compost if you are adverse to adding elemental sulphur.
(You may have to partner with a nursery to get the right dead plants put aside for you post season to compost...or you could treat one area with elemental sulphur & then grow the specific plants mentioned in the article below to prune/kill to make the higher acid compost.)
www.gardeningknowhow.com/composting/basics/ericaceous-compost-info.htm

[@andreafalconiero9089]

​@@Gardenfundamentals1 The question isn't whether there is any difference to the _plant,_ but whether there is a difference to the _soil_ and the microbial community living within it. There are soil microbiologists who say that synthetic fertilizers (or certain ones) ultimately result in soils that are poor in organic matter, since the plants do not need to exchange root exudates (sugars) with the microbes (mycorrhizal fungi, etc.) for the nutrients they deliver to the plants, thereby breaking the natural symbiosis. Root exudates are a primary source of soil organic matter, since those carbohydrates they inject are used to feed all sorts of carbon-based microbial life. Plants don't produce these compounds if the nutrients they need (which are the simple molecules you described) are already readily available. This issue likely doesn't apply to all nutrients, but it would affect the ecosystems that produce things like bioavailable phosphorus and various micronutrients by breaking down subsoil. If those are not supplied directly with carbon in the form of root exudates, populations of these microbes will be insignificant, and over time this will create dependency on external chemical inputs that would otherwise be unnecessary. Gabe Brown's experiences are worth listening to if you'd like to learn more about this topic.

[@AquaponicandSoilGardens]

Do you have scientific proof that's soil microbes can actually absorb those compounds and not starve to death. Just because I can put some potassium on my skin doesn't mean that my skin can absorb and use that potassium. It feels like you're comparing something with a digestive system with something that doesn't have a digestive system. Of course there's no difference chemically with nitrate nitrate.

[@flatsville1]

I would stop far short of calling compost fertilizer. That is one of the biggest myths out there.
It is a soil amendment.
Creating compost is the act of growing microorganisms that will inhabit the plant rhizosphere & assist plants in accessing soil nutrients in exchange for plant photosynthesized carbohydrates.
I can't tell you the number of self-taught permie types that insist compost is fetilizer. When I show them it only contains trace NPK they are confused.
Others insist compost is soil...so on & so forth.
Compost is a microrganism delivery system/medium. A great one at that.

[@Gardenfundamentals1]

It also provides plant nutrients so it is a fertilizer.
If we use your definition, then there is no such thing as "organic fertilizer" - it is all soil amendment.

[@flatsville1]

@@Gardenfundamentals1 I've read that compost contains only trace NPK per analysis. I'll search for the reference, but it is below 2 for each of the the 3. It's value is primarily a growth medium/delivey system for micro-organisms.
Edit-Found it quicker than I thought.
www.planetnatural.com/composting-101/soil-science/compost-soil/
>>>Adds (a few) Nutrients
In spite of the insistence that compost is not a fertilizer, it is incumbent upon any responsible writer to admit, however reluctantly, that compost does contain some nutrients.
A finished compost may contain small amounts of the primary nutrients, usually 1-2% nitrogen, 0.6.-0.9% phosphorus and 0.2-0.5% potassium. It may also contain low levels of secondary nutrients: (calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg) and sulfur (S).

[@iwenive3390]

My compost is fertilizer...

[@flatsville1]

@@iwenive3390 😂😂😂
Yeah. Sure. Why listen to soil scientists when they tell you that compost has only trace NPK & minerals?
So, if you had a severe N deficiency you would add only compost? Yet more compost?...No fish emulsion or some other high percentage N organic fertilizer?
Edit- I had such soil in a relatively new home build I leased due to a career move. After composting in place on the garden site beginning in the fall for 8-9 mos, that soil could not support a simple crop of greens come spring. I shot some synthetic N through to save the plants & they perked right up. Followed on with slow release NPK fertilizer. The contractor likely filled that yard with trash top & sub soil upon finishing the build. No amount of additional compost would have corrected the initial N deficiency for growing plants.
There are many organic fertilizers to specifically address N, P, & K issues seperately & directly or as a trio.
The average compost can only do so much & that's acually very little as a fertilizer.
It's great at helping plants to build soil life & contributing to the microbial population in the rhizosphere.
www.rxgreentechnologies.com/rxgt_papers/synthetic-vs-organic/

[@iwenive3390]

I make my own compost. It’s pretty heavily amended with “fertilizers” . Tell that to the salty soil “scientists “☠️