Best 2 Homemade Organic Fertilizers Anyone Can Make FREE

Alright, this is John Kohler with growingyourgreens.com today with another exciting episode for you. This is going to be a new thing I'm doing, it's called growing your greens in about a minute. I don't know if I can keep this to a minute, but I wanted to give you guys quick and easy and dirty gardening tips, you know, in a short amount of time. On my videos I focus on giving you, you know, all the information so you guys could like learn everything I know about gardening and I really don't like these snippets where you just learn a little bit. Because you may miss the complete message in every one of my videos, I try to shoot you guys a message. So in any case, let's get into growing your greens in a minute and in today's episode I'm going to show you guys how you can make and create two of my favorite products free at home. You know, as much as I feature a lot of different products on my show and I use many of them myself and there's a reason for this, there's also ways to do it for free or low cost that I'd like to share with you guys today. So real quick, one of my favorite products is right here, it's called the Worm Gold Plus. Now this is worm castings, you're thinking, oh John, I could just get worm castings at my local shop, you know. No, these are not the same worm castings that you're getting at your local shop. You guys know McDonald's hamburgers are not the same as an In-N-Out burger, right, they taste way different. In-N-Out burger's a lot higher quality, although if you made your own hamburger at home, it'd even be better than that, right. Same thing with worm castings, you know, not all of them are created equal. Number one, they have the kelp and the volcanic rock in here, so like rock dust and kelp meal goes in here, definitely makes it better. But the other thing that is different about these worm castings are what they're feeding the worms. So you're going to want to get yourself some red wigglers and then you're going to want to feed them the appropriate diet. So you're going to feed them shredded up cardboard, number one. Number two, you're going to feed them chitin-rich foods. So what that means, you know, you go to your local barber shop and, hey, can I get your guys' hair off your floor at the end of the day, every day, I'm going to collect it for a week. Take that stuff home, man, that's rich in chitin. You need to feed this stuff to the worms along with the cellulose, the cardboard, so you can make some, you know, impressive worm castings that have some of the levels as high, well probably not as high as in here because I don't know exactly what George is feeding his worms, but in his tests and in documented research, he has up to 400% increase in yield by using his worm castings, you know, and, you know, feeding worms, you know, manure and stuff, not going to get the same quality castings as feeding them cardboard and the chitin. So you get the cellulose degraders and the chitin degraders in the worm castings, which is very important, you know. So standard worm casting compost made with standard manure or even, you know, yard scraps or organic matter, not going to make the same worm castings, number one. Alright, number two, on to the next subject, the boogie humus. The boogie humus, definitely one of my favorite soil amendments, once again, you can make at home. All this simply is, is composted carbon source, like trees, ground up trees, tree trunks, branches and all this kind of stuff. Now, the challenge is, it can take, you know, three years to make this. All you need to do is call a local tree service, you know, that cuts down trees and chips them up and get the chips delivered to your house and let them rot and just put them in a pile. You don't have to do nothing to them, let them rot for like three years. You can speed this up by inoculating them with some mushrooms and some fungi and I learned about this from an episode that I have in the past called supersize, you know, your garden by using the wood chips and basically they've done the work for me. They've taken the wood chips, they've broken it down, high quality product, actually added things to it which makes it even better, including the biochar, but you can make it for free at home if you don't want to buy it. So for me personally, I don't want to take the space to, you know, use my space, which is valuable because I don't have a lot of space, I want to use that space for growing food, not for taking wood chips and dedicating an area for three years to compost them down because I also need a lot more wood chip compost than the space I have to fill all my raised beds and it can take some time. So I like to purchase the Boogie humus and then same again, you know, while I do have plenty of worms in my beds, you know, I don't feed them hair and cardboard in my beds and maybe one day I'll have some worms but I will not have enough worms to produce the quantity of castings that I like. So I personally like to buy them and you guys could buy them too. Be sure to check my other videos for where you guys could get deals on these exact products at the special discounted GYG rates if you're interested in buying them. But now you know how to make them yourself if you want to. 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