How to make a liquid fertiliser (that doesn't smell bad!) from nettles or comfrey. 

the cow in the background is just adorable. 🐄

As long as I see you collect the plastic drill waste and put it carefully into your pocket, I know this is the decent person that I should respect. You are very careful

I love the cow freely roaming in the field ! what a way to live !

Someone who collects small particles of plastic like that I can really appreciate!

For the weight I would suggest mixing a blob of concrete and sticking a piece of scrap metal into it to act as a handle so it can easily be pulled out.

I make it with all my fruits leaves trees, thanks very much.

I tried this with comfrey quite a few years ago and completely forgot how well it works and how easy it is! I'll have to get started on doing it again now.

Great tutorial. Clear explanation. Thanks for taking the time to do this and sharing the love! 😊

I've been doing this for years but my favorite plant to work with as a silage is clover clover will breakdown and Juice up the chlorophyll best plus if you use it on your vegetables like I do mostly tomatoes it makes the tomato plant fibrous sturdy my tomato plants got 7ft tall last year and the tomatoes were very good tasty like tomato should anyway enjoy your time out there and I see a lot of people doing this these days it does work believe it or not happy trails

It's great how many different ways there are to extract nutrients from unwanted plants. Thanks for the video. It was very thorough and informative.

Really good video thanks. So much better than so much online. Your honesty shines my friend!

Thank you for a very clear explanation as always.

Very grateful for this. Have tried the method with water but it was soooooo smelly. Am on a budget so it will be a big help for my allotment. A big thank you.

Your method is so much better due to the often off-putting smell of fermenting plants in a water solution. I've done that, and the smell won't even get off my hands. It is distinctly unpleasant, in my opinion. Your method seems to work as fast as the water method, not even needing covering to discourage mosquitos or smells escaping. Those two things alone make your method better. I am going to try it, but probably not with a barrel, maybe just a five gallon bucket to start and see how it goes. I have the buckets, the weights, the out-of-control vines and weeds, etc. and in this season in Florida, the rainfall. There is a man who converted his 1,000 acres over to natural fertilizer using the water method plus micro-organisms for breakdown. But it takes a year for the breakdown to be complete. He has big tanks that strain the solution and sprays his fields. I don't know if your method would help him or not, as he does focus a lot on fungus/inoculant. Anyway, his RU-vid channel is The Plant People, and I think you both have much in common. Perhaps you could share information. The method of making "home brew" is key to circumventing the fertilizer shortage/price, even for big growers, if they are willing to learn this method of soil building. Thank you for a great video. I have never see this method before, in all the videos I have seen. Please make more of them to keep them circulating on RU-vid and other sites so farmers looking for alternatives can utilize your method. You could do a series of "shorts" on RU-vid, and that would help.

This looks great. I did the nettles and water thing and boy does it STINK! If this truly doesn't smell I'm going to be thrilled.

Every day you learn something new and today is no exception... What a great explanation and teaching. Thank you very much sir. I am taking the first steps in permaculture and every day I am more passionate, I had read about the nettle method, which I don't have at home, but I was seriously thinking if nettle is sold for seeds or something like that. But I had never heard of this getting on the skin, that was great to know. Ruled out the water method lol. As soon as I have the opportunity to do this as you explain it to us, believe me I will be extremely happy, like today, to have found you. I stay on your magnificent channel. Greetings from Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Thanks for the inspiration. I have used nettles soaked in water for years but I wanted to make a concentrate which is easier to keep and store, and we have vast amounts of nettles here. Although I won't be doing literally what you have devised, I have an old redundant worm bin which can be easily converted to do the same thing. I am actually going to start on it this afternoon. Good video and clearly explained. Thanks.

This is an awesome idea and I'll be doing a much smaller scale but can use it for all my gardening weeds.

This is the funniest video I've seen for ages 😄😄 thanks

I'm so glad I found this. I've been looking for a way to make fertiliser which doesn't smell as I can't use the smelly stuff at all. Your instructions are very clear. Thank you.

Great stuff mate, love your process to liquefy weeds to fertiliser without a stinky brew, airating with aquarium bubbles is fun too, but this is the simplest for sure, I'll definitely be doing this. Thankyou

Thank you so much for this and so clearly demonstrated too.

Makes sense to me! It reminds me of the KNF prep Fermented Plant Juice, but they add a lot of raw brown sugar with the plant material to draw out the liquids much faster and feed beneficial microbes. That certainly works, but at least in my area those amounts of raw sugar end up being pretty costly, and that partly defeats the purpose of making one's own fertilizer in the first place. I have more time than cash, and there are other good ways to encourage the friendly microbes. I've been using anaerobic comfrey and weed teas for a couple years now, and I'm sort of used to the, uhh, "tastiness" of them. But my wife would probably appreciate me using this version instead ;)

I don't have any nettles or comfrey but I do have weeds and grass clippings that would work. Thanks for sharing this info. I really did not like the stinky stuff.

I like this method best. The water method, obvious drawbacks, especially when on a shared property. The fermentation method requires the expense of the sugar. I don't see any drawbacks to this one. I also appreciated hearing which plants preferred which, well plants, ex; Comfrey or Nettles. Not having a current source of nettles, Comfrey will be my go to for now, with the addition of my weeded plants. Thank you for a great video. Appreciate the "scrounged parts" aspect too. :-)

brilliant - always regard nettles as a crop but this is better than just adding them to my compost heaps! Will get on it dreckly. Graham (Cornwall)

I suppose to make FPJ you could add shredded sugarbeet if you have the room to grow it. I do like the big bin method though. I have a theory that the best food for plants is themselves - juiced, composted or dried and ground as everything they need is there in the right proportions.

This was a complete guide and excellent idea. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you so much for spending some time on showing me how to use nettles.

I've used comfrey tea for years. I also chop and drop it as mulch. I use Russian Bocking 14 with an NPK of 1.8-0.5-7.0. I brew it in a 32 gallon black garbage can. Let it sit for 3 months to a year. I don't strain it, I just take the sprinkler off the can so I don't clog up the cans. I also use fermented plant juice made from comfrey which I foliar spray. I use only 1/4 teaspoon for 5 gallons. It's very powerful stuff. I also make lacto microorganisms which is also fermented. I combine it with the fermented plant juice and spray it every two weeks. It works pretty well. The only other addition I use for supplemental fertilization is some fast acting bone meal . I will use it when I start to see flowers forming on my tomatoes and peppers. Love it! Blessings to you. This was a wonderful video.

I really love this idea, thank you. It's much better than the anaerobic method! Will be trying this very soon :) I also very much like your stone retained garden area, it's beautiful!

Love this video, I'm experimenting using primarily nettles, with clean cardboard, a bit of brown sugar, and some other compostables.

Looking at it, it would be a really good way to pre-process any sort of perennial weeds before adding them to the compost heap. Once they've been in there for a few months they won't regrow, even from roots. You wouldn't be so sure about the content of the liquid but that's a small price to pay. Thanks!

Amazing! Thank you for the video.

Nice simple practicle easy and cheap. May try it myself.

Love these types of projects! A drainpipe/waste pipe works quite well,

I made some of that with water and the smell is positively the most horrid thing I have ever smelled I can smell it 20 ft from the barrel and it's almost airtight. Can't wait to try this! Nice neighbors behind you. Never play loud music or romp in the gas! Or bum. Well, they might bum a handful of grass.

This was very interesting to me, I only knew about making stinky Nettle tea and this year was going to try again but with a bucket that has a lid. I'll try and think of a way to use some of what we've got around here to make your setup, I only have new rain barrels, maybe I'll use some buckets. Thanks for a very well explained video!

Just made similar out of a 55 gallon plastic drum. As I’m in the tropics I’ve used Tithonia and Moringa with an added dash of Leucaena, instead of Comfrey and nettles.

Fantastic teaching. Thank you

Beautiful organic solution to a problem

Great technique from a Master. Thank you Aranya

Great tips! Thanks very much.

I followed what you did. my plant in good shape very effective liquid fertilizer thank you very much🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Great idea!!very well explained.Cheers from Australia!😁

thanks,i really need to have a nettle corner on my allotment asap,great presentation !!

Thank you for the thorough explanation. I’m in the subtropics in Australia, lots of sunshine and moisture so I think this method is perfect for the many weeds I get. I don’t like throwing any organic matter away unless it’s diseased so I’ll keep the pernicious weeds for the anaerobic water method and other weeds for this aerobic method. Great advice, thank you 🙏

Merci from Montreal, Canada.

Thank you I really like this idea. If your not careful feeding your plants organically can cost a fortune I really like this way of making my own, none stinky fertiliser in large ish amounts.

This was a really good idea. Thank you

REALLY clever. I will be trying this out. Thank you!

Thank you for this info. I live in town and don't have access to a nettle patch but I have plenty of weeds lol, so I guess they will do.

very informative and great way, Thank You

Thanks for sharing,very helpfulnto a new beginners to have a garden at our backyard

Thanks for sharing

Excellent

What an excellent demonstration for someone like me who is just now learning about this method. So cool. Thank you for the video!

Thank you such a good idea. Well explained.

Great video!

Great video, thank you very much

I liked when you put that plastic spirals in your pocket 5:18. Unexpected but well appreciated! I am looking for a liquid fertilizer that doesn't smell bad as I have neighbors very close. Does it still work, two years later?

Great informations!! Thank you!

Beautiful sir

Fantastic!👍👍👍

Nice tutorial. Good explanation. But why the drilled holes you made are not alingd with the broken area in the barrel?

Great video, time for me to look for these items 🙂

very cool

Excellent video Aranya :)

Excellent demo! Thanks for sharing. Will also try this with decomp as items from the garden are done and the fall leaves start coming down. Would like to know the growth production increase with using this method.

never expected to get great gardening tips from the late George Carlin

Exelent many thanx and you have a very tidy garden

Brrilant idea , thank thank you .

excellent!

fabulous

Haha didn't see the cow🐄 come by to investigate the drill noise until the second time I watched this. 😂

Awesome idea !!! Exactly what I need at the moment .Thank you :)

I like this idea. You might want to put marks for where the line of holes in on the outside of the bucket. I’m old and would forget where they are over time

Thank you so much for this video-perfect for me in so many ways. Your teaching style is so welcome. I have a very modest and am not very strong but this looks very doable for me....I don't have orange bricks but will figure something out (none to find nearby). Re comfrey - I don't have nettles but have an abundance of comfrey a couple times in the summer (right now it needs cutting). Can I use comfrey for everything in my garden? I heard you mention tomatoes but I need to have something to use on everything-potatoes, greens etc..maybe berries? Thank you so much for your help with this. .

JADAM uses the anaerobic vegetable digestion method. JLF - JADAM Liquid Fertilizer.

I have found if I put an aerator in after the comfrey is finished for a couple hours it removers most of the stink.

Amazing 👍👍

Thank you. Doing that next week with my nettles and comfrey. Potatoes just broke ground

Terry King, a wonderful master gardener does this on a grand scale on his plot in Britain. Can't remember his channel name, but it should show up with a RU-vid search of his name.

That was very interesting, thanks

Weeds grow first on ground that has been disturbed...because they can! Weeds are able to extract nutrients, and live, when other plants cannot. Making a tea from these 'first troops' , extracting what they were able to isolate, is always a good idea - not just Comfrey & Nettles.

Great video. I'm definitely going to try this. I made comfrey before in liquid and I just couldn't stand the smell so I never made it again. Thanks for sharing this, it's class 👏

I may try a smaller version using my bokashi 5 gallon bucket, it has a drain hole and everything and a false bottom with holes.

Your region is extremely different from mine - we have very little excess greenery, but I appreciate the clear instructions and demonstration. Now if I can only find enough weeds to fill a bin

Genius! thank you

Very beautiful, but I think it is desirable to water on the ground and not on the leaves as it brings diseases and decay. I know that nettles also have a lot of iron. But to get nitrogen it is advisable to raise chickens or pigeons. And the truth is that all household waste is good for plants

Hey, thanx a lot for both this idea and video. It is a real pleasure to watch you. I've been using other method for many years, but I will try this for sure. Just one short question-when you put green stuff inside for the first time, do you use some water at that point? Or you leave as it is and wait for some rain? Keep up the good work. All the best from Serbia!

Thank you!

Thank you for a well-explained method. I've not made liquid feeds to date and have just had a bigger compost operation as a result. With 2 allotment plots and gathering all raw material that comes my way, I've ended up with 16 dalek bins - all full at this time of year (end May). The reason I was prejudiced against liquid feeds was the smell of anaerobic decomposition (not relevant here) and the lack of control available over potency. I was hoping for more on the latter, which you partly addressed in the video and in comments. There's no point having a fixed dilution ratio if you can't control the strength of the initial liquid. Maybe it doesn't matter as long as it is 'somewhat' diluted....what do you think?

Have you conducted a "same season, same plant" test to see if your fermented product (nettles or comfrey) added to your bed produces significantly better results than simply adding nettles or comfrey to your garden beds?

Thos is perfect in an urban garden. I've made the barrels of weed tea but I'm reluctant to use it because of neighbours. 😂

Great job 👍

instead of using a drill, using a soldering iron which just melts a hole ... no little plastic bits

I just built a slightly smaller version of this based on your video. I had all the materials needed laying around the property. Filled it up with what weeds, grasses, and wild flowers I could cut off the edges of the lawn and garden. I have a question though: do you add water when the weather is very dry? Thanks for sharing this technique. I'm very excited to start harvesting "free" fertilizer!

Excellent thankyou 🐝🐝🐝

Impatient people like me can skip to 8:30 or 9:00 for the useful info.