An Essential Amendment for New Gardens 

You always offer so much in these videos, may your fountains never dry.

Definitely go big! We built a 4'x8' worm bin with 2x12 douglas fir sides last season. And we do 30 gallon batches with drilled PVC for bubbling. Every time I brew a batch I offer it up free in 5 gallon buckets to friends. Very few takers and they think I'm nuts. Glad to know I'm not alone.

Now I know what Rick Grimes is up to these days 😁 No seriously, thank you for this food for thought about more ways to work with microbes. I think this is the future of farming and I’m grateful for the generous insight into it.

A buddy of mine has one of those worm towers and he did really well with it. He had to pack up all his stuff so he could move a few states away and he scraped everything clean and gave me all the worm castings/compost. I was happy to take all that off his hands for my garden.

good tip about inoculating the seedlings before planting. I have not been doing that. Great video!

Worms are the bees of soil

Just got your Living Soil Handbook. Loving it so far.

Try a table spoon of sugar in the mix and a cheap aquarium heater and thermostat the slightly raised temprature works like magic.

Currently brewing up 50 gallons to filter back into my 275 gal ibc tote and send out through my wobblers via a pump first thing tomorrow morning! I can’t wait to see if and how this turns out.

Wow awesome kick flip dude!

This is awesome thank you for this video and demonstration.

I don't see the difference between the two bags of verma-compost, except one was in over night and the second one wasn't. I've also heard molasses helps them grow. It's nice to know fish parts work too.

Great straight forward content! Thanks again!

Excellent content 👌. Thank you

Another great video thanks!

The "Outtakes" Rock! Keep them coming.

Liked and subscribed for kick flip alone.. awesome information!!

You are awesome!

Sick kick flip bro. Ditched the 2020 dream of a market garden for now and just focusing on homesteading alongside my day job. Still love watching your stuff. Take care!

Some great pointers I will utilize in experimenting with compost tea!...Loved the living soil handbook by the way, I reference it a lot as Im starting up a market garden for my 1st season:)

Great content. The bloopers at the end are cool. Keep it up

Good information

Regarding chlorine and off gasing: do need to be aware of what type of chlorine your source uses. Many use chloramine which does NOT off gas and AFAIK would require an added solution to neutralize it (available from aquarium supply). Thanks for the video and sharing valuable knowledge!

Of all the amendments I use....the 2nd is what I count on

Kickflip in garden clogs, that was awesome man!!

Great gardening channel, or greatest gardening channel ever?

Still able to pull off the ollie kick flip, nice.

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Great vid, great audio. F. J. B.😊

What's good Jesse Interesting ...we never used an extract with the tea? What were you calling an extract ..for us if I want bacteria dominated tea I use molasses with high nitrogen compost If I want fungal dominated compost I use fish hydroxylate with fungal donated compost pre charged with steel cut oats to get things white and fuzzy ..then brew for 48- 72 hours.. Smells like really good mushrooms by the bay if done correctly ...if that makes any sense.lol Your ratios are lighter then mine ..I'm at 4 cups compost for 5 gallon brew . To each his own , keep crushing!

Thank you for this! I'm interested in the potential of running a hydroponic system exclusively off compost tea. I feel like if you have deep mulch compost and you inoculate your beds with compost worms, then your beds become your worm composting system and you would not need to go to the trouble of feeding them with teas. We do a lot of worm composting, but we use that to make potting soil for starts.

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Merci 🙏. Salutations de France.

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Yes worm castings or compost tea

Nice kick flip

I always add a few tablespoons of some sort of simple carbohydrate like flour or sugar.

You should look into a couple Natural Farming practices from Korea known as KNF and JADAM. I think you might like what they do,

I would make the extract and tea separate, then mix them together, I am of the understanding for a extract you want app 2 cups of worm castings per 5 gallons of water, then agitate for 4 hours. I would also like a microscope to see what things might happen when changing inputs to teas.

Hey Jesse, love your stuff. Is your book still back ordered? How much soil testing do you do, and how much does that effect what amendments go into your soil?

I’ve had great success with worms in a compost heap. Finished or mostly finished compost, 1 yard minimum. Nice and damp and tarped. Then start digging into it and dumping veggie scraps or manure (I’ve never tried it with manure) in the holes. Don’t mix, just bury it. Not much food is needed at first. Once the worm population is built up over several months I may start burying food in multiple spots. I usually let a pile go for a full year, but I don’t start out with finished compost. I use the bottom quarter or fifth of the previous heap, then add leaves and other raw ingredients til I have a couple yards. Then the only additions for the year are food scraps and occasionally roadkill. I used to cook it first but decided it is a waste of time! I can’t make hot compost in winter, too busy any other time. So now the compost making process is much slower but much much less labor intensive. And it’s not just compost of course. Oh, and before harvesting the compost I stop feeding for the last month so they eat the remaining scraps. This is another reason it is key to bury the scrap in a hole(s), not toss them in randomly. They are all there in the center of the pile where they are always accessible to the worms to eat. Not too hot, too cold, too dry like it could be near the surface.

most US water treatment is not with chlorine but chloramine, which does not off-gas. you would have to distill it or use RO filter to remove it.

I commend you for teaching ppl to use teas and extracts, however, with respect… I wouldn’t do them in the same bucket. Teas are very “sticky” and that’s why they’re used for foliar spray. Extracts are not sticky and can penetrate deeper in to the soil. Teas do no penetrate, because they stick to everything on the surface. Whether a tea or extract promote bacteria or fungi is going to depend more on the parent material. A bacterial rich vermicompost will not become a fungal dominant extract without adding something like kelp and/or humic acid… fungal foods. Dr. Elaine would have a little fit to see you using air stones… she says they go anaerobic inside and cannot be cleaned. Was very interested in that Petra sprayer you demo’d Thanks for that.

So, I design small sewage treatment systems. You are actually creating a tiny aerobic digester. This is exactly how your waste is treated to turn it from "waste" organics into clean water (no waste) and chemicals (minerals and nitrates mostly). You are missing some steps (settling/clarification, denitrification and disinfection), but for your needs, you don't want to. This process also happens in your soil if it can get enough air. Otherwise it too can go anaerobic where you generate more natural gas (no smell) and hydrogen sulfide (bad smell). I wonder of your worm castings take the place of the residual sludge in a waste plant? Would be interesting to let tge solids settle to the bottom and save some for the next batch. Like a sourdough mother that launches the next colony of digesting microbes.

I had a feeling you skated or used to skate...nice kickflip.

Ahhh the out takes never dissapoint me

Nice video! After watching your video with a Jenny Love I bought a worm bin and love it. My bins only a month old. Is it to soon to attempt this make this input? Also, have you tried to put it thru a hose end sprayer and apply it to a field? Could I use the same amount of casting but half the water, that way it doesn’t get over diluted by the hose end sprayer. Sweet kick flip by the way.

You are the man Jesse!!

Hungry bin is what I use. you should try it

You are just the coolest nerd Jesse, kickflip in crocs... Can you be my adopted uncle or something?!

Frigging wicked Ollie

Do you dilute it before doing the soil drench. And how much do you apply to each plant

We moved from Croatia to the Allgäu in Germany, near the Alps, altitude 800 m, zone 6B... We replaced the large garden with wonderful, high-quality soil with a plot in the communal gardens, filled with soil of very poor quality. At the beginning, I thought that my biggest problem would be how to get as big a crop as possible in a small garden, in a climate with a short summer (with a large temperature difference day/night) ... but now it is clear that the basic thing is that I need to improve the quality of the soil. Each of your videos is very inspiring, I easily find the information I need. Thank you :) Question - do you still use a combination of compost tea and compost extract as soil preparation? I watched your video "How to Make Compost Tea Like a PRO"... Thank you in advance for your reply, Helena

How often would you apply this to the soil? Very helpful video . Thank you

Great tips! How many gallons per square foot for new beds? Approx?

Great! Your seedlings look fantastic! Any issues with fungus gnats? Thanks.

Do you ever use molasses or sugar in your tea? What are your thoughts on it?

hey jesse, i love the concept of microbial innoculation.. personally, i have not much experience/success with compost teas.. one thing ive always wondered about - the environmental conditions we provide the microbes in the composting and tea making processes are completely different from conditions in the soil to which the tea is applied..(c sources, temps, water vs soil, etc..). Are you aware of any studies conducted on changes in soil microbial communities following tea application, and how sustainable is the change, if it occurs..? ((and for how long..) i run a small market garden.. fascinated by these concepts, and trying to figure out my strategy for next season.. .

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is time of year important for when you apply these concepts? Obviously when the ground is frozen is a bad idea, but is the use monthly, quarterly, once a season?

Hi Jesse thanks for the video! do you dilute the tea at all before applying?

Hi Jessey. I have watched your videos for a few years, now totally awesome. Finally hooked up on the laptop so I could subscribe, I plan on ordering you book but have a question: I can order from amazon with prime shipping : do you get the same amount of income from the book if I don't order directly from you; and will additional shipping fees apply if purchased directly from the farm store page? If so ill probably purchase off amazon and assist you more through patreon .. Can you send me a link to support your channel on monthly basis, keep up the good work. thanks Rick. ( Canada)

You should look into the JADAM style of gardening. Plenty of videos of it on youtube from the creator himself too. Would like to hear your thoughts on that style of Korean/ultra low cost farming.

It is biochar hands down.

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Do you dilute it? If not what size of area does it cover?

What’s your thoughts on biochar?

I think there is some value to including purchased inoculants in a microbial application as well- primarily because many of the microbes one would want to be introducing are those that can only live in the presence of living roots and exudates, which are not found in compost or vermicompost. I have question marks about whether KNF type IMO harvesting attracts those microbes, but for now I also include purchased inoculants in addition to compost tea/extracts.

If i make an extract from chicken manure, how long should I let it "brew?" If the smell gets strong in a bad way, does that mean the solution is no good and/or gone anaerobic? I think I'll make a diy worm bin this weekend and ill just compost my manure ha

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Arararrr. So the 'tea' is the kitchen compost from the worm bin? And the ' extract' is the worm castings or worm 💩poo?

Do you dilute it any??

Are there any UK suppliers for your book mate? Shipping across the pond is rather brutal on the pocket. 😉

My outdoor compost is always full of bugs at various stages of their lifecycles. I have a worm bin inside but I'm hesitant to add my finished or nearly finished compost to it because of all the insects. Anyone have any experience?

Many public water departments use chloramine instead of chlorine and you must use a carbon hose filter to remove chloramine.

Can I do the same method with my rabbit manure? Or should I run the manure in my worm bin first?

I've heard that you can use citric acid (vitamin C) as well to de-chlorinate the water.

These microbes can be inundated that long, or is it just something they give off?

sunlight removes chlorine almost instantly.

How do we store the tea?

air stone = diffuser

I reccomend instead of using air stones you should use a fork because when using air stones it can absorb a good portion of the nutrients and it get stuck to the stones

Is there a vermicompost bin that you recommend?

I off gas numerous times a night 😃

There is a brand called organic gem and agrothrive much better fish fertilizer

how can a person like me buy a no till hat?

Why are your videos so short? Is there some kind of psychology that says gardeners can only pay attention 10m minutes at a time?

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This is a little bit silly.