How To Make Free Liquid Fertilizer From Almost Anything with this Ancient Method

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Could you feed your plants without buying any fertilizer?
This is how we feed a garden for free with fermented plant juice, AKA Dave's Fetid Swamp Water. I thought I was clever, but the Koreans were hundreds of years ahead of me.
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If there was a fertilizer shortage, would you still be able to grow a garden? Do you know how to turn weeds into fertilizer? Today you'll learn how to make your own liquid fertilizer/compost tea from readily available materials, like weeds, chicken manure, food scraps and more.
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@katrinalikethehurricane1 2 года назад

I started doing this, and my 6 year old is obsessed with it. He found a container and started his own. He also asks every day if it's been 2 weeks yet... it's been 3 days😂

@davidthegood 2 года назад

That is awesome!

@davidthegood 2 года назад

My kids like to brew their own, too.

@mrdeepwebinsider2197 2 года назад

Thats cute.. haha.. its a great hobby i guess.

@ulaper6465 2 года назад

That's hilarious 😂

@joshcook9487 2 года назад

That's awesome!

@grouchyoldprepper8184 2 года назад

I started making your fetid swamp water this year and it seems to be working. Although the neighbors kind of wonder where the awful smell comes from.

@goldengryphon 2 года назад

Join them in looking confused and make suggestions as regards whatever manufactoring plants are local, or suggest a dead animal along a roadway. That's what I do.

@leslienichols5268 2 года назад

@@goldengryphon I love that!

@hohohohehehe6910 2 года назад

You have to water it down when you use it.

@lolazal1 2 года назад

@@hohohohehehe6910 it still smells for a while

@jamestomlin5525 2 года назад

The bodies 🤣

@jimgreenwood5360 Год назад

I filled a 200 litre barrel with green thistles added some sugar and filled it with bore water. Gave the brew an occasional stir and after 4 years drained the liquid and fed the garden. The liquid was like a well aged wine. A pleasant smell and a nice golden colour. The debri in the bottom , < 50 litres , was applied as a mulch. It had a pleasant, fermented smell like a good, aged vinegar. The plants responded immediately with vigorous growth.

@cravatenoire3269 2 месяца назад

4 years?! Sure there's some way to catalyse it down to 1 year with almost same results. Please do share if n when you stumble on it. TY

@joanneg7646 25 дней назад

OK so my 6 week brew is still good.. thanks for the info

@joanneg7646 25 дней назад

OK so my 6 week brew is still good.. thanks for the info

@alliphil1 14 дней назад

@@cravatenoire3269 My 2 week old swamp water gave my plants vigorous growth as well. I collected leaves and stuff from plants/trees around my property and added kitchen scraps. Within that 2 week period, 2 small plants literally sprung up twice the height of the others after I fed them swamp water. It works!

@dieelemente-cl3ep 11 месяцев назад

I'm Korean, yes, and when I was growing up, we used to make a lot of fertilizer this way. David, thank you very much. I'm learning a lot!

@leonadubois249 2 года назад

You were on replay five times in our house when you said"you are going to die no matter what you do" my great grandkids loved it and went into hysterics! Lol

@ExtravagantFragrances Год назад

Yeah that was random and hilarious 😆

@ErikLeed 2 месяца назад

I introduced this method to my niece and nephews. They are crazy about it. Every time they're over they pick more stuff to put in the barrels and they love watering plants with it!

@ml.5377 2 года назад

Man, I call mine Devil's Pee... It stinks, but it is a miracle growth and health booster I had never imagined. Borage, comfrey, dandelion, nettles, rabbit poo, weeds, and whatever I get. Fruit trees go crazy. The longer the fermentation, the better the results. Great video! Thanks forbyour honest advice. From Cusco, Peru.

@iahelcathartesaura3887 2 года назад

LOL! Love your comment & sharing 😀👍 Many thanks!

@bryantcolby4038 2 года назад

I would love to visit the ceramics museum in Cusco, and see the elongated paracus skulls.

@ml.5377 2 года назад

@@bryantcolby4038 Our country is surely crazy, but marvelous. There are so many places to visit, such varied and delicious food to eat and amazing historical sites that make it a must visit. Paracas is surely curious and Cusco has little hidden gems beside Machu Picchu. I am happy to live in tbe Andes and enjoy a relaxed lifestyle.

@merrydavis3227 2 года назад

Love the name, very appropriate. I'm a "gagger', when I get a whiff, I gag & pee down my leg---i know TMI😂😂😅

@Cherryparfait41 2 года назад

I’m in southern Ohio, been gardening many years and can’t seem to get my hands on any comfrey. Kinda crazy.

@franklegerski9682 9 месяцев назад

I've used compost tea and barnyard tea ever since the 70s, when my grandfather started teaching me how to do a garden. Love this. Thanks, Grandpa Mike.❤RIP

@vickikenton5439 4 месяца назад

I’m starting my first veggie garden in raised beds in 2024. I have easy access to quail manure and have heard I can make manure tea by leaving it in a bucket of water for 24 hours. Can I use this weekly on my veggie garden?

@marvinwilliams7938 День назад

Anybody know if i can just chuck cut grass from my lawn in this water swamp?

@birddog7492 Год назад

I've been doing this for years. It works really well. One thing I will say is handle with cation. Rubber gloves and protective gear. Allways wash well after you handle bacteria rich compost.

@someonesdaughter3180 Год назад

So called “shortages” are no longer an instrument of manipulation. Thank you!

@lostdaze1145 Год назад

Robots R Us

@lostdaze1145 Год назад

5:41

@marcelinoperez2926 Год назад

you got it with *shortages*

@GunninWizard 11 месяцев назад

It feels good to not be dependent on whatever company wants to charge or wether they can keep up with demand. I now make my own compost and now I will try this fertilizer out.

@edgardavid1653 11 месяцев назад

Shortages are a real thing. No need to go all conspiranoic.

@rkng1 Год назад

Watched documentary from NHK and they have a scientist who switched to organic gardening, he packs plant clippings, leftovers, etc, into barrels and layers with a bit of salt like making sauerkraut. Lets it ferment for a few weeks and adds all the contents to his fields. Gets great, organic harvests and the soil is recharged

@catchthis7563 Год назад

link pls

@perillat99 Год назад

salting the land? sounds tisky

@rkng1 Год назад

@@perillat99 I don't know. In the documentary, it didn't look like he was adding much salt to the layers. Just enough to encourage lactofermentation of the vegetative matter he was layering

@rkng1 Год назад

@@catchthis7563 sorry I don't have a link. It was a cable TV documentary.

@hariparajuli Год назад

Here's the link to that documentary: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rvHJKqU-mZo.html

@ihadaface Год назад

I can imagine this being a good strategy during the winter. Start a barrel in Autumn and by Spring you have a brew with a few months under its belt. You could also continuously add more stuff and top off the water to make a perpetual soup.

@jenniferollivierre1632 Год назад

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@chivala7189 Год назад

Do you actually have to remove the stuff once it has been there for months and you took the water as the nutrients have been sucked out or it will decompose untile disappearing?

@Makinen386 Год назад

Yes heat May smell

@doloresreynolds8145 Год назад

Perhaps, though the rotting process slows down a lot in cold weather. And, of course, the liquid in the barrel could freeze solid and ruin your barrel.

@cmbmail42 Год назад

@doloresreynolds8145 yeah the busted barrel is my concern. However freezing the mix will make it decompose faster in the spring as freezing plant matter bursts the cell walls in the materials just like ice does to buckets. The busted cell walls give more surface area for the microbes to consume it faster and allow the solution to absorb more nutrients.

@alliphil1 14 дней назад

So glad this is on RU-vid. I almost trashed my 2 week old swamp water because other youtubers said don't keep it that long. Loved this video and so glad I can keep my swamp water forever because it's surely working for my plants!

@green-sc2wg 2 года назад

This is gonna bring me back to when I was a kid making 'potions' with random stuff. Also I love that you gave credit where credit is due !

@rangerfox532 Год назад

Lol I was getting the same feeling, did that as a kid as well.

@K1LD3R Год назад

Yeah me too. Awesome times!

@missmartpants2269 Год назад

Me too, haha. We were doing what we were supposed to be being taught to do. God bless!

@magmasunburst9331 Год назад

I did that too! I never heard anyone else say they did as well.

@bornofJesusblood Год назад

I've made more potions as an adult

@B30pt87 2 года назад

I learned this by accident. I heard that grass & weed clippings in water made an excellent fertilizer so i dumped a bunch in a bucket- and forgot about it for a couple of weeks. When I remembered to check on it, it smelled so foul that I thought it was ruined, so I dumped it out on the back edge of a planted bed. A week later, I realized that in spite of the smell, the stuff was gold.

@vashman01 11 месяцев назад

I live in an apartment with no yard, just a driveway. There is an area against the house that I set up with buckets for my garden. My compost bucket has holes drilled all over the bottom and sides and is stacked into another bucket with no holes. Every once in a while I water the compost and the bottom bucket collects a beautiful brown concentrate of minerals and good stuff. I pour it into my watering container and fill the rest with clean water to dilute. It's a great system.

@markperry222 Год назад

My Chinese mother in law makes this stuff and leaves it for months. The only thing that might kill you is the smell.

@thisguy6817 2 года назад

I found your original “fetid swamp water” video years ago and have been using the concept ever since. I have had wonderful results from it. A lot of people have said anaerobic is bad, but I figured once the anaerobic swamp water is incorporated with an aerobic environment then the anaerobic bacteria die and become plant available nutrients. Love the content bro 🤘🏼

@stefflus08 2 года назад

Anaerobic isn't bad, it's just very soluble and can run off, so it's more of a fertilizer than something that is feeding soil organisms long term like aerobic compost. (Aerated compost tea I see no use for.) A gardener once told me that anaerobic soil bacteria can produce compounds that are toxic to certain plants. I haven't learned any more about that, but I suspect it might be the actual reason why we dilute these fertilizer teas rather than it being 'too strong'.

@rdreynoldsbanana 2 года назад

If Anaerobic was bad then a product like Teraganix EM-1 wouldn't be such a powerful retail microbial for 80(I think) years. They have very few aerobic bacterium and the whole lactobacillus family is also anaerobic. No argument here just a little sharing of knowledge

@janinetrue 2 года назад

Many/all? microbes are pleiomorphic and can change form from spore to bacterium to fungus and back again depending on the environment...which would include the oxygen content, of course. So maybe the swamp anaerobes die or maybe they just adapt.

@nothin2pruv 2 года назад

Also in the biological economy a lot of the good guys eat the bad guys. That is, I've found that the leftover solid material from this process is quickly eaten in my worm bin. Although I haven't tried this with meat yet...

@JohnSmith-en2st 2 года назад

@@stefflus08 I use wood chips composted chips leaves peat moss there's never any runn off gets sucked up never any over fertilizing

@hazelsanta-ana1890 2 года назад

Love this idea- Liquid fertilizer!! I started using liquid fertilizer using banana peels and kitchen scraps and it make a huge difference in my potted garden! Thank you for sharing!

@texasbtc Год назад

We are going to start a potted garden using the tubs from cow feed. Please share the recipe.

@RenegadeZoo Год назад

Tried this method this year, plants are doing great, used mostly tomato leaves and arum lily leaves plus the weeds that I collect in the garden 😊

@tomavilla8428 Год назад

I'm a fisherman and I had this Styrofoam cooler where some fish went bad and I ended up letting it sit for months, I didn't know what to do with it so I dumped it where my flowers grow. Later on those flowers looked amazing

@davidthegood Год назад

That is fantastic.

@Ahmadalias1 9 месяцев назад

If you add molasses it would be wonderful. It become fish MOL.

@JohnDoe-l1kmya5s 2 года назад

This is one of those bits of knowledge that just makes sense to me beyond an intellectual level. Thank you for sharing, I WILL be doing this.

@davidthegood 2 года назад

I like to figure out easy ways to avoid buying things. We have abundant riches at our fingertips if we can see them.

@kurniawanbambang7782 2 года назад

It's true, i did this around 3 months already and the result is awesome. It's make me start to love organic farming more and more 👍

@MKPhilippines Год назад

would like to try this one. fertilizer nowadays cost so much

@serdalkaptan 16 дней назад

This is an excellent video and info for liquid fertilizer making. I did exactly the way you did in a 100 lt container with partially closed lid for about 10 days while I was vacationing in Philippines last summer. The villagers were observing me, looking at each other and covering their noses and shaking their heads each time (5-6 times a day) while I was mixing the 12 different kinds of grass mixture. When it was ready I convinced a relative to use it on his plants. He reluctantly did. Then? He began begging me for more of this miracle free of charge mother nature's gift fertilizer. After I returned home, they used the remaining fertilizer, and shocked to see the results. So yes, it does work wonderfully.Thank you very much for sharing.

@pajcka Год назад

Just today, I received a barrel with a wide lid and I didn't wait a second to realize this project. David, God bless you. 🤸❤️🎉

@pinoyplantcharmer Год назад

Very practical method. We also use this process in the farm: all the herbs, weeds and bananas stored in barrels with molasses. Gold mine. Love the video mate!

@lifeisgood6765 Год назад

With water? How much molasses? Thanks

@pscreationsbw 10 месяцев назад

How much molasses?

@cardinalblack5964 Год назад

"There is nothing new under the sun." Poignant, true and something we human beings keep ignoring consistently. Thank you for highlighting this gem from the old world.

@Jesusisnumberone5740 Год назад

That's from the Bible :D

@caelumsgreyman Год назад

I love it! I started doing something similar kind of intuitively, then met another person doing something similar and here I see you with many years of experience using it and expanding my knowledge by sharing yours. Thank you so much. God bless you.

@davidthegood Год назад

Thank you. God bless you too.

@margarethammond7881 Год назад

Thank you for giving us this treasure. You have given something so important.❤️

@Patriot-od6xk 2 года назад

I been composting everything! I watched your videos and I now also make my own swamp water 🤣. My garden is loving it! Thanks

@davidthegood 2 года назад

GOOD WORK!

@xdeadrebornx6178 2 года назад

I've started using duck water. Hella nasty but with it i make magic happen. I can take any and all near dead, dry, sick looking plants from a garden/box store and pop them in the ground and pour this unholy concoction from Grandfather Nurgle at the base of them right before night fall. Standing at attention by morning is the usual result.

@carolwright7503 2 года назад

No rodent raccoon problems? Would be grand if they didn't like the smell. Would be wonderful if gophers or moles didn't like it either and made new homes somewhere else...

@dre6960 Год назад

@@davidthegood come pick up some breadfruit here in Jamaica

@squange20 Год назад

This is what I was looking for. A simple solution with great results. Thank you.

@davidbryden7904 Год назад

I like using a 5 gal paint strainer bag inside a 5 gal bucket to brew compost tea. They'll last for years if rinsed well and sundryed after each use. Happy growing!!

@islandboyorganics4141 Год назад

You could feel the love in his teaching. Respect you bro 💯

@davidthegood Год назад

Thank you

@the_bread_code 2 года назад

Great video. Shows how important microorganisms are for almost everything!

@pamelia7788 2 года назад

Hi David, I just wanted to tell you that I enjoy your company. I got too old to do much gardening now but I still enjoy it through you. Love your beautiful family and lifestyle and even the music too. May the good Lord bless you all, see you in heaven, Pam

@davidthegood 2 года назад

I look forward to meeting you, sister. Thank you.

@time2see192 Месяц назад

Awwwww, what a sweet comment , and reply!!! MAN, Heaven is going to be so wonderful filled with beatifull KIND sweet thoughtful and wise people!!! (Not to mention The Most High and His Son!) How blessed we already are with simply KNOWING what is to come! What a Father we have!!!! HalleleuYAH!!!

@derekmorris7128 Год назад

This is one of the best you have done, as you already know it really is nothing more than common sense. Thanks for all the videos you do.

@williamwalker9960 7 месяцев назад

This blew my mind ! I just started growing my own food this year and it been extremely fun . I Never every though of doing this and i look forward to so it. ❤

@saved2save7 Год назад

An answer for my anxiety as a newbie gardener! 🙏 thanks

@gdavischick7004 2 года назад

Last year we had a garbage can full of yard waste that had been collecting water and fermenting. My teenage son dumped it over. As he was retching in the corner from the smell, I lamented that I could have fed the garden with it. Thank you for this video. It's gonna feed lots of gardens!

@LuisC7 2 года назад

Plant where the water got into

@bobunleashed.io4u Год назад

Nice going David. Grateful to meet up. Loved this...

@spendheretoday3770 Год назад

Mine's about 3 weeks old; Scott Head did a show about you and your swamp water. I got a barrel and started some. It sounded great to me.

@agnesndisya5205 Год назад

Thank you for making this simple and less complicated.

@erkanyuceldk Год назад

Great video. 😊👍 Humble advices: 1)Remember to thinn out the 1 liter concentrated fertilizer with 10 liter of water (or roots will suffer/die). 2) if possible watch out for greens with seeds (sew via a cloth when mixing the fertilizer to prevent spreading seeds of unwanted greens). 3) Recommend nettles fertilizer (full with minreals). 😊

@travispluid3603 Год назад

I mean, I'm pretty sure the seeds would rot, as long as you don't add them only like a day before you use the pot. Treat it like curing compost.

@LSinclair Год назад

But it seemed here that David made it very clear that he takes the mineral water directly from the barrel into his watering can and then waters his gardens. Said nothing about diluting (which does take more water and more time), and he’s been doing this for ten years. ?

@108mi 11 месяцев назад

I usually don't dillute this kind of liquid compost and my plants are growing like crazy. It's not nearly as strong as concentrated fertiliser you buy

@davidbaker8762 11 месяцев назад

Thank you, all the info , I was searching for, you answered. Big thank you on the Kudzu part, I have a bucket stuffed with water and Kudzu, that has been enjoying the hot weather of Alabama. Thank you again for answering all my questions.

@jeffsinnock5353 Год назад

Found your video last year while starting my "grow" found a large trash can with a lid I let it fester for a month or so and OMG it is amazing they grew like never before and everything else exploded so I went and picked up a 55-gallon barrel with a lid. Filling it with snow for the water for the next batch next year while this one cooks for another season.

@94akeepan Год назад

I fermented tobacco leaves now for a month and today my dad collected them in bottles to use it as pesticides. I just did it on own idea and don’t know why I did it but now when I look at this it gives me hope and goose bumps.

@AkSonya1010 Год назад

Thank you, it drives me crazy how hard people make when it comes to composting.

@ninjamom1602 Год назад

Thank you for this! I am brand new to gardening and this is what I have been doing but on a smaller level since we are starting from seed (basement garden). I did it just because it seemed logical, then found you! Lol Thanks!!! 🤙

@runemasterhariwulfaz5267 Год назад

Yeah I did a JADAM liquid fertilizer last year for the first time and loved it. Let it go over winter, hit my garlic with it and they shot up out of winter dormancy. Strong stuff

@jeremy9806 Год назад

Adding urine to the mixture is hugely beneficial too. It's actually how fertiliser was made made prior to modern methods, this same method but you use urine instead of water, leave it for months, and BOOM potassium/ammonia/sodium/etc nitrate (see what I did there?), obviously this was how to make black powder back in the day too.

@maragrace820 Год назад

yes but today your urine is full of heavy metals. hopefully you don’t have mercury amalgams ….

@samauthor342 Год назад

@Andrew you could then add rabbit urine rather than your own. Very popular in use here in Kenya

@DaveSmith-cp5kj Год назад

@Andrew I doubt it will kill anything. Urine is dirty specifically because it is such a great growth medium for bacteria.

@nickc4276 2 года назад

I'm glad I found this video. I've been doing this for a few years now. Works great. All plants love it. (including the refer)

@pamelaaverill1608 Год назад

I learn so much from you, I super excited to meet the homesteaders October 28th and 29th. We are not homesteaders but we love the concept and lifestyle. We live in Florida and are trying hard to live self sustainably. I'm sure we'll get some really good idea's from visiting your homestead.

@oldjcb 11 месяцев назад

I have been making nettle and weed water to feed my lawns since around 2000 and it truly works on everything

@MrTimjwilson Год назад

I do a variation of this with weeds and alfalfa cuttings from my yard including some fresh vermicompost and molasses. I do it overnight rather than for 2 weeks and drop in 2 large airstones pushing air from a beefy air pump. It works great for a nutrient hit for my garden. On my farm in the late 80s-90s we made anaerobic fermentations with weeds, lactic acid bacteria, fish etc. One thing of note is that the really long term (1 year+) fermentations were apparently more concentrated but also lost the 'stink' . We used these fermentations in tandem with aerated liquid extracts (compost tea). We made a 4500 litre ACT maker with multiple airlifts and 95 CFM air pump. This was pumped out directly through our irrigation system. By the way, compost tea is a much higher quality made without the panty hose or bag.

@got2kittys 2 года назад

My grandfather got fish and put it into buckets for fertilizer 50 years ago. That bucket had to stay far from the house But a tuna can dipper beside a tomato plant, great stuff!

@alexna6129 Год назад

Гарна людина. Дякую за натхнення. Природа вигадала все за нас, а нам тільки треба перейняти це знання.

@gerrygillana5915 25 дней назад

You deserve your name David The Good. This is really a very practical and good idea indeed. We can skip the bad smell by using water lines that feeds directly underground. Soil bacterias neutralise the bad odor. Thanks.

@twinsunsurvivor8564 22 дня назад

what do u mean ?

@FixItAngel 2 года назад

Thank you brother. Have a great day!!

@noelhamilton8332 Год назад

Done this for 12 years common sense abkout time people got back to nature they should realise fertiliser has not been always available.

@kingkong81icloud Год назад

@@noelhamilton8332 I know we’re do they think its come from, I bet miracle grow is laughing at people

@jfiji6501 2 года назад

Greetings brotha. We here in the expat community on Taveuni Island Fiji are always sharing your posts. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experiences!

@Bryan-kn6ic Год назад

This works great I started this in my back yard in a rain barrel I have it propped up and it had a spicket at the bottom. Just take a mason jar full of this swamp gold and add it to my garden watering can with water in it.. Amazing who needs fertilizer

@lindasigrist4697 Год назад

Greatful for the info. I'm starting a garden from scratch and don't have time for a conventional way of creating my own gold dirt. Only at our farm part time. Many thanks!!!

@kentbyron7608 Год назад

The ideas in this video are very important, inexpensive, good for the Earth, for the soil, and frugal for humans. It connects us with the laws of nature without buying fertilizer. I was only collecting comfrey and nettles! Didn’t know why anaerobic was useful. I was stirring mine to get aerobic. Now I can increase the vocabulary. 😁 thank you! Excellent communicator! Skillful presentation and editing. We are witnessing the new age of creativity for individual creators… brilliant! Subscribed. ❤️🙏🏼

@dulce0403 2 года назад

I was watching a horticulturist talking about microbes and ferments and he said that it doesn't matter if it's aerobic tea or anaerobic tea. "Even if the microbes do nothing else but die when you add them to the soil they will feed the soil!"

@alexzandramorris2817 2 года назад

Could you please send the link to the video? I’m very interested. Thank you!

@garfieldnelson4724 Год назад

Hey David, I'm from the Caribbean and can only do containerize planting. There's plenty of Bush and weeds in my community, especially moringa. Your video on free fertilizer is super wonderful. Thanks David the Good.

@davidthegood Год назад

Thank you. We used to live in Grenada. I loved it.

@neo3392 10 месяцев назад

Moringa is the BEST 👌🏽

@neckbone3943 5 месяцев назад

I'm sure the excess moringa will make for good fertilizer

@totoguy6333 3 месяца назад

Moringa is a super food. Don’t waste it on this. I take moringa powder as tea, in my oat meal, use the leaves 🍃 as tea leaves, on my smoothie, chew the seeds. I use any other material for the natural fertilizer but not Moringa.😊

@Mona-fd5kf 7 месяцев назад

I appreciate your method of educating. Easy to follow and makes a lot of sense.

@Ddffgghhjj 2 года назад

KNF is all the rage in cannabis growing at the moment. I haven’t tried it yet, but I’m glad to know other people like yourself get great results. Thanks for the info

@russellradwanski5771 2 года назад

Perfectly said! I absolutely agree 100%! It’s a lost skill of sorts to think as you’ve said. Well done 👍🏻

@paulc652 4 месяца назад

Wow, what a great video, I appreciate you posting this:) Bless you, your family and your garden.

@kimmysomelove42 11 месяцев назад

this is hysterical..i have a compost barrrel with stinky water in it currently have been doing this method for decades grass and comfrey are so good in this!! You have inspired me to add more things to the zeus juice!!

@naturessbest3503 Год назад

I love your video! This is so precious as it gives us an alternative way to live in a sustainable way

@StefanSobkowiak 2 года назад

Congrats David on hitting 200K subs. Well done.

@davidthegood 2 года назад

Thank you, Stefan! I have enjoyed seeing your channel grow as well.

@DATINGSURVIVALGUIDE Год назад

WOW, this is a whole level or 3 above what I've been doing with my composting, but I'm game for trying this... Thanks for the video.

@user-sc7by3pe7l 4 месяца назад

When i started gardening I relied on the store bought fertilizers. I decided to ferment the weeds and water with it. I wait until I get that mangrove type smell and I know its ready. This combined with home made compost has taken my veges to the next level. Without meat products Id water just like water, no problems at all. Great video!! I garden, grow and eat to save money and give food away. Love it!!

@BlackFlagHomestead 2 года назад

Love your channel! First time first year gardener here at Holy Springs Alabama. We Would love to take a field trip to your farm for homeschool some day! We are prepping our beds this fall after your videos this year! Definately going to use the compost tea!

@ninemoonplanet 2 года назад

I had some fruits (figs) and other stuff in a container, actually forgot it, and of course rain came down. I wondered how long this guck could be kept as ND actually be usable. Your video said 2 years, perfect! This guck is a year old, so now I don't have to strain my back dumping it out, just use it and grin. Thanks 👍.

@davidthegood 2 года назад

Awesome.

@davidthegood 2 года назад

Awesome.

@davidthegood 2 года назад

Awesome.

@NapoleonGARDENINGTV Год назад

I love the walk and the dance and humour at the end! Thanks!

@jamesyanosky6414 Год назад

I love the way u teach it man. This is my first time really gardening and ive had some luck so far and definitely had some bad luck as well but learning is the whole point. I scour my feed every few hours and seeing this video was a blessing. Thank u so much brother

@Nmo6835 10 месяцев назад

Truth!! Me too❤❤

@everettmcdonald2088 2 года назад

Another great video David. My comfrey is ready for first cut. I was going to make tea for the garden, and thanks for the tip about a little epsom salt, and coffee grounds. I think I’ll also water my worm composter and put some of that in. My grandfather used to take the manure from the chicken coop, let it sit in a barrel of water and steep for awhile, then water his garden and then put the solids in the compost.

@carolnies8668 2 года назад

Everett, do you dilute the comfrey tea before putting it on your garden?

@everettmcdonald2088 2 года назад

@@carolnies8668 Yes about 50/50

@bobhightower9381 2 года назад

Hah! I knew that, but had forgotten about it! Thanks for the refresher, and I promise to use this knowledge only for good!

@Tokoa144 Год назад

This is an idea I had suspected but had only been using old milk bottle containers. Now I'm gonna look for a bigger barrel like yours buddy. Thanks so much for posting this video.!!

@nancywolf3786 Год назад

i like the idea of doing this in old milk containers. i had collected several but never used them.

@MargoKruczek Год назад

This is the best way to keep garden tidy and growing as a miracle...

@Hislamb1983 2 года назад

I ordered the compost book. Should be arriving any day now! ♥️ I'm excited!

@patrickhawkins5566 2 года назад

What’s up

@w462dh 2 года назад

Compost like how our gandmas did do not require any rocket science that only available in books. You just dump everything into containers or soil and let it rot.

@amosmu4608 2 года назад

"But your plants don't have noses, and they don't care!" That just did it for me!! Thanks so much!

@organicthug5220 11 месяцев назад

Comfrey is my favorite plant for this. So much mass. Good chop and drip too. Plant under fruit trees. Bees love it too!!!

@JUSTINthisworld828 Год назад

Share that knowledge brother, thank you for doing your part.

@dogslobbergardens6606 2 года назад

This is the bedrock/cornerstone of our fertility program, too. Last year we moved to a new place and didn't have enough of our own fertilizer, so I bought a gallon of fish emulsion to help get some of our beds started - good grief, I had sort of forgotten how expensive that stuff is! Last summer I made darn sure to make enough swamp water to just let it set over winter and be ready for this spring.

@SENILE_TYRANT Год назад

Is it OK if it freezes solid?

@dogslobbergardens6606 Год назад

@@SENILE_TYRANT as far as I know, yes. But I can't say for certain. It would be interesting to have a lab test it when it's a month old, then after a year, after having been frozen, etc.

@SENILE_TYRANT Год назад

@@dogslobbergardens6606 thanks

@Cindy6111 2 года назад

Hi David. I run vegetable food scraps/yard waste through my vitamix (I mention brand as I believe only a high-powered blender would be great at this) before adding it to my compost tea bucket to help speed up the rotting process. I also have a fish tank pump constantly running in it to aerate the 'tea'. Got the idea from old videos of a man in Alaska that had phenomenal results doing so. My plants are diggin' it. I'm new to your channel and lovin' it. I think it was the watering-the-kiddie-pool musical montage with gratuitous video length minute milking that sealed the deal for me. Well done.

@davidthegood 2 года назад

Good idea. Thank you, Cindy, and welcome!

@MrGbscott1954 Год назад

I tried this and it smells like a dead animal, or a lot worse! My wife told me not to open it up when she was around. I have been using weeds, limbs, kitchen garbage (minus animal waste) Can it get too rotten to use?

@johnparochelli9202 9 месяцев назад

I have really poor soil, so I'm doing this to "feed" biochar. I need to build up soil for planting, and I want to thank you for the video. The information is very useful.

@7thswansong152 2 года назад

Been doing it for years. I use manure because we raise organic beef. The liquid on the leaves does help keep bugs away. I also use a sugar sourse such as molasses and a aquarium bubbler. No science here, I don't have time. It works for me. Been gardening all my life.

@Aaron-oe8xw 2 года назад

This is great advice, many people overthink overcategorize and overplan for feeding. While ive seen practices like this vefore i like how you made the clear difference between compost tea and what this is. Keep up the great work man

@Tom-dm9oh 11 месяцев назад

you are an inspiration ,tough times and you put a smile on my face ,a little rare these days , thank you !

@davidthegood 11 месяцев назад

Thank you. Tough times can draw us closer to God - we don't have an infinite lifespan, so going through suffering is a reminder of what is important. I will pray for you now. I appreciate the encouragement.

@freedombug11 Год назад

That's amazing and hilarious that you invented the "swamp water" fertilizer without knowing it was already a thing. That's just confirmation that it WAS brilliant!

@mfgaainc 2 года назад

Outstanding topic and presentation. Keep it coming.

@sstacy8487 2 года назад

My friend and I each made a barrel of swamp water. She had buzzards circling her house for days. 😂 Gotta be some good stuff.

@TheRainHarvester 2 года назад

1. Use the smell to catch the vultures. 2. Put vultures into barrel. Repeat

@cacosta6294 Год назад

Thats when You know it's gonna work

@Kattywagon29 Месяц назад

I saw a video where someone was doing something similar to this, but with a few additions: 1) They put an angled tube towards the top of the container pointing down 2) On that tube they hung a bucket that was covered with a mesh to keep birds and critters out of the bucket 3) There was a spicket at the bottom of the container The reason they were doing this was to encourage flies to go up the tub and lay their eggs inside. When the larvae were big enough, they would wiggle out of the container and fall into the bucket to be collected and fed to the chickens. The spicket on the bottom was to collect the "swamp tea" for the garden.

@leewolf7096 3 дня назад

😂@@TheRainHarvester

@missdevemissdeve8266 Год назад

Now that was very help I never thought of taking a plastic bottle and making a shovel out of thanks for the great hacks I think my garden going to be great this year.👍👍🙏🙏🙏💯💯🙌💞🙌💞🙌🥰