I show the bag to the plants, and if they nod, they get some. They mostly nod when the breeze blows. 😊 I try to use a variety of things;, fish, Miracle Grow, amonium sulfate, 10-10-10, they supplement one another for trace elements.

@tracy419

2 ай бұрын

Sure, that may work for you, but no matter what I try, I can't seem to teach my plants to read the labels🤷

@harleyb.birdwhisperer

2 ай бұрын

@@tracy419 Maybe a language issue, are you growing African Daisies, Dutch Irises, or Japanese Maples?

Thank God that you recommended a soil test before adding anything to the soil.

Please increase your video volume. All your videos have very low volume. Even with full volume on mobile, I have to turn on the subtitles.

As a new gardener, I learned a lot from this channel. Your videos are very convincing.

an industrial level tomato grower provides a fertilization that is 3-1-2 in ratio during the growth phase. when the tomato sets fruit, they change the ratio so there is less N, a little more P and K. But they usually do not grow in soil but in pumice stone and regulate everything with water/liquid fertiliser.

You nailed it on outdoor garden care. My soil is very clay and I have been improving it by adding compost and mulching with wood chips. I only grow flowers, mostly natives and I try to put in plants with long roots to act as drills. Over time, the soil is less clay but I don’t need fertilizers because most of my plants thrive in sparse conditions and my goal of improving the soil has made abundant nutrients available to the plants. Now, if I can figure a way to water less frequently and deeper, it will improve the situation.

@bigjeffsb

2 ай бұрын

If your garden is in the ground, you can "Pickle it" you auger/dig in a few 1-3 inch PVC pipes, 1.5ft deep,(drill holes at the depth you want to water) Fill with water, easy deep watering. You can also run water lines to each pipe connected to one reservoir, like a 5-gallon bucket for super easy watering. Cheers, Good luck

Excellent explanation. Compost, chop'n'drop, and organic mulch are all great. Another important technique to not just fertilize but actually build soil is to plant cover crops in the off-season. Cover cropping can be done in traditional row gardens, raised beds, and even in containers if you want. The growing roots help reduce and prevent soil compaction. Using legumes will add notable amounts of nitrogen, and any cover crop will add organic material to feed the soil.

I really appreciate all the information you give everyone, 😊 thank you!

you are awesome at explaining ratios. this has been an enormous help!

Thank you for your great explanation. Makes it so much easier to understand. And helps us to not waste money on unnecessary fertiliser!

I love your videos and books. Been consuming all I can get and it's been paying off. This years seedlings look better than the stores. Thank you sir!

Profound and very helpful. Should be seen by most gardeners! Thank you very much.

Thanks. Very helpful.

Brilliant! Great talk

I finally got your book, Compost Science for Gardeners, and am so excited to start reading as soon as I post this comment!

Thanks, Garden Fundamentals

Good information. I mostly use homemade compost in my gardens and they grow well. Ill add extra minerals to the soil. Thanks for the great info.

the information that this man provides is priceless his channel deserves 100 millions subscribers,but we all know ,It doesn't work like that, channels with non relevant content, or channels about entertainment ,get all the attention, it's kind of sad, but that is the world we living in

Great video to help demystify the fertilizer aisle!! I was wondering if you have a recommendation for soil testing kits. I have a variety of places in my yard and garden containers that I would like to test. I have large containers for my vegetables/herbs and then several landscape areas where I am trying to establish some perennials. I also have a hydrangea that just doesn't bloom and everyone says to "fertilize it". I would be so grateful for your suggestions. Thank you!

Another excellent video 👊🏻🌻👊🏻

Do fruit and vegetable plants use the same 3-1-2 ratio of NPK regardless of what stage along the fruiting cycle/timelines they're in?

@robertreznik9330

2 ай бұрын

Plant science deals with nutrient uptake on a daily basis. Search university information and you will find there is more to plant and soil science than rocket science!

@user-su5du9ln8r

2 ай бұрын

@@robertreznik9330 Don't I know it! That's why I mostly rely on experts. Alas, so many experts give conflicting advice. The best I can do is to try and gather accurate factoids and piece together my own conclusions.

@srantoniomatos

2 ай бұрын

If you are gona micromanage depends on soil, temperature, light, rain, plant it self, and even stages of development...

@sandramorton5510

2 ай бұрын

No, every plant and fruit tree is unique.

@XCrystalXMoonX

2 ай бұрын

I have a similar question. Even if the plants use different npks at different growth stages, what I'm interested in is whether you can manipulate the growth stage using npk. Can you promote foliage vs flowering? It's so hard to look up research that's looking at averages for plant families rather than specific information for specific varieties.

The hydroponic stores are a nightmare. Expensive and confusing to the newbies.

@MattSeremet

2 ай бұрын

I feel if doing hydro it's not too bad. Choose a brand's series (like flora trio for example) or get some veg fert, and a flower fert. At this point it's less NPK and using trusted brands to provide rule of thumb solutions. As for expense, a pint will go a long way imho. A teaspoon here and there.

thanks

Thank you sir

crazy thing is fertilizer is usually not needed. Leaf compost has everything already in it.

@PorchGardeningWithPassion

2 ай бұрын

A lot of people these days living in apartments do not have that luxury. I use grow bags and need to use some help for my my plants 👊🏻🌻👊🏻

@davidkoba

2 ай бұрын

@@PorchGardeningWithPassion where do you live in a box?

@PorchGardeningWithPassion

2 ай бұрын

@@davidkobaAn apartment lol

@davidkoba

2 ай бұрын

@@PorchGardeningWithPassion are there no trees outside? But I digress. My comment was not if it is the most efficient, what I was saying was that it was the most basic and free.

@PorchGardeningWithPassion

2 ай бұрын

@@davidkobaYou must not be familiar how grow bags work. Listen to what the man in the video said again.

What do you think of Jadam organic farming?

Sir, I wish I knew of your channel much much MUCH earlier. Many a mistake would have been prevented. Thank you so much for making these informative videos. I'm now "ploughing" through as many as I am able to fit into my free time in the evenings ;>)

Could you do a video on Gary’s gardening methods from Laguna hills Nursery. He has some rather controversial ways of growing things in pots.

Whats the best ratio for flowering legal cannabis plants?

What do you think of JADAM organic farming?

I fertilized my tomatoes with a hand full of chick N poo fertilizer. 2-4-3 with 8% calcium. I’ll probably repeat this 2 more times this summer. It’s organic and won’t leach. Previous years I’d use gypsum and 10-10-10, or gypsum and blue miracle gro.

soil tests are impractical for suburban gardens, where you have different areas/requirements for lawn, borders, veggie plot, and fruit trees, with much of the soils having various fill and other things added. plants can take up some forms of nutrients directly, and they're not that different to us, in that our gut bacteria pre-digests food before nutrients are circulated to various cells. here's a general guideline for veggies, and it's the amounts to feed them regularly, if you want good fast growing crops. crops use the nutrients and thus the nutrients should be replaced in those quantities. better to feed more regularly in adjusted quantities but most gardens would be too much mucking about dissolving nutrients and applying by cans. therefore at least veggie plot should have drip irrigation with fertilizer injector. hauling many cans of dilute fertilizer every few weeks is no fun, and the reason why many prefer the lazy way of doing one dump of manures/compost per year in spring. it doesnt supply required nutrients for growing season.

@ausfoodgarden

2 ай бұрын

That's very misleading. Suburban gardeners don't need fertilizer injection at all to grow decent vegetable crops. Here's my version of your comment: Add compost at least once a year, and use a balanced slow-release fertilizer (around 3;1;2) every season. Job done! If you prefer liquid fertilizer use them at least monthly. Maybe 6 to 10 watering cans are enough for an average suburban garden. Not a lot of work.

@Chris-op7yt

2 ай бұрын

@@ausfoodgarden : it's not misleading. it's my experience, on typical mixed bag of hard clay and in other places silt etc. 6 cans of fertilizer water mix will just about do the veggie plot but i also have grapevine, about 10 fruit trees, most in ground, including mass feeder avocado (fuerte), and a few herbs in large pots and several large pots with orchids. i have indeed switched more to slow release for extensive borders, with small trees, roses, various bushes and annuals. it still leaves about 20 cans for regular feeders. if you dont mind to grow the odd small cabbage, if it survives the four months it will take to grow without regular feeding, which i used to do, then you do you. nowadays i produce fast growing crops, and get typically four crops per year, as in frost free climate. i used to waste my time with tonnes of manures and compost but the nutrition in that is little and short lived, and crops starve until finally get wiped out by pests. there's a lot more to do in a garden, including regular weeding and spraying for pests and disease..to waste half a day just doing fertilizer application by cans. i guess if you only do it once in a season, and dont bother more, you reap the dismal rewards. farmers on both large and small land fertilize regularly, instead of hauling large piles of almost zero nutrition for crops (compost) and pray to the goodwill fairies that some crop will grow ok. my main point was that on the mixed bag of soils in a suburban plot and with many different growing requirements every few steps, soil tests are impractical, and we just want to use mostly all-round fertilizer that replaces what is taken out by plants and leached by watering. farms have a more consistent soil profile, and farmers do buy fertilizer according to soil test results, crops being grown, stage of growth, etc.

Correct me if I'm wrong: Ramzan, S., Hassan, I., & Mushtaq, S. (2018); Parveen, S., Alizai, N. A., Shah, R., Ali, M., & Kakar, H. (2015); and maybe Jalali, F., & Naderi, D. (2019)...Find best flowering of annuals at 2.5-5-2.5 and 3-6-3. I couldn't find that many refs on your blog definitively debunking this link. Could you clarify?

So if plants take what they need why does it matter if you use 101010 you say it's too much, but that contradicts I'm taking what they need if it's available

This man always gives good information unlike most idiots spewing bullshit on KZread 😂😂

How many times are going to make the same video?

God made fertilizer, it comes out of the back end of animals. The chain of life.

@steevez1273

Ай бұрын

Different animals, Different shit

The soil already has everything your plant needs. You just have to help them access it. Thats where microbiology come in.

@Gardenfundamentals1

24 күн бұрын

Not necessarily. Sandy soil can be very low in nutrients and adding microbes won't help.