Mr.Figglesworth
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Organic food is more expensive to buy at the store than non organic, but it's cheaper to grow organic for yourself. Fertilizer is expensive, especially these days. I've gone through a lot of fertilizer over the years and recently switched to trying organic for myself. Here's what I'm doing for nutes and bennies now, and it seems to be making the plants under my care happy (including fig trees). Maybe you would like to try it too, and have a sustainable, renewable, cost saving way to feed your plants.
I started by growing comfrey (Bocking 14) from rhizomes, so they took a while to grow big enough to start harvesting, but now they're growing along fine. I've been using Photosynthesis Plus for years, so I had that on hand. I've also been making jun tea for myself for years. I had the idea to make comfrey tea and innoculate it with the Photo Plus and jun, to add bennies and break the comfrey down better. I put a bunch of comfrey in a 5 gal bucket, pinned down with a couple of big, dirty rocks, fill with water (municipal, regular water from the hose), about a shot or two (1/4 cup) of each Photo Plus and jun tea. Let it sit out in the heat with the lid on the bucket, and in a couple of weeks it was ready. I add more comfrey about every week and top the water off. Might add a splash of the other ingredients, but I don't think it really needs it once it's growing in there. The tea ends up carbonated; it fizzes when I open the bucket and when I add water. It smells like gasoline and vinegar so be careful not to get it on anything you don't want to stink. It's very acidic, as you can tell. I don't adjust the pH when I use it, but I do dilute it a lot ( 32oz in a 2 gal watering can) and I give each plant just a little because it's so strong, even diluted. I've read that comfrey has about the equivalent nutritional value as manure so that's why I use it, but I bet mix of different plants would still work fine too, if you wanted to do that. I also bet the Photo Plus could be substituted with some local forest humus and dirt (like JADAM) and the jun could be substituted with a shot of kombucha from the store, it's not really necessary but I think it's adding a lot of LABs.
Well, thanks for reading all this and if you're interested, try it and let me know how it's going. If you already do something similar, please share your experiences too.
I started by growing comfrey (Bocking 14) from rhizomes, so they took a while to grow big enough to start harvesting, but now they're growing along fine. I've been using Photosynthesis Plus for years, so I had that on hand. I've also been making jun tea for myself for years. I had the idea to make comfrey tea and innoculate it with the Photo Plus and jun, to add bennies and break the comfrey down better. I put a bunch of comfrey in a 5 gal bucket, pinned down with a couple of big, dirty rocks, fill with water (municipal, regular water from the hose), about a shot or two (1/4 cup) of each Photo Plus and jun tea. Let it sit out in the heat with the lid on the bucket, and in a couple of weeks it was ready. I add more comfrey about every week and top the water off. Might add a splash of the other ingredients, but I don't think it really needs it once it's growing in there. The tea ends up carbonated; it fizzes when I open the bucket and when I add water. It smells like gasoline and vinegar so be careful not to get it on anything you don't want to stink. It's very acidic, as you can tell. I don't adjust the pH when I use it, but I do dilute it a lot ( 32oz in a 2 gal watering can) and I give each plant just a little because it's so strong, even diluted. I've read that comfrey has about the equivalent nutritional value as manure so that's why I use it, but I bet mix of different plants would still work fine too, if you wanted to do that. I also bet the Photo Plus could be substituted with some local forest humus and dirt (like JADAM) and the jun could be substituted with a shot of kombucha from the store, it's not really necessary but I think it's adding a lot of LABs.
Well, thanks for reading all this and if you're interested, try it and let me know how it's going. If you already do something similar, please share your experiences too.
