Homemade Liquid Fertilizer

bushdoctor82

bushdoctor82

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Does anyone have any experience making their own liquid fertilizer?

I currently have a 32 gallon trash can about half full of tap water that I will leave open until Sunday so the chlorine evaporates. I will add various plants and weeds from my yard and neighboring yards that are still green and add some leaf mold from the local woods, then continue to add water and material through time.

I have a compost pile that I know has root knot nematodes. My question is can RKN survive in an anaerobic environment? I have seen articles and websites that state that nematodes will drown after a few hours in water and need oxygen to survive, but those articles were in reference to beneficial nematodes. I think I’ll be safe using the compost in the liquid fertilizer concoction, but I certainly don’t want to compound my problem.

Thoughts?
 
@"bushdoctor82"#14  I think there should be a natural vaccine approach to RKN. It reminds me of several naturopathic approaches to disease. The rest of your natural fertilizer fermentation should work. It's not likely to be a brew I want to try in my Suburban setting where we live one on top of the other. My poor neighbors probably wouldn't wish to deal with the odor emanating from the fermentation tank.
 
The only liquid fertilizer I make is after I eat Taco bell. :D 

Seriously though, I was going to try to make fish emulsion once, but I decided against it after seeing some videos.
That stuff is like $30 per gal.
That's crazy, I'd rather bury a fish in my pots.
 

I’m just trying to limit outside inputs to the non-ornamental sections of the yard. If I can make something that works as well and much cheaper than purchased organic fertilizer, it’s a win - if it can also help in managing RKN along with other strategies, that’s also a win.

I almost got burned last year purchasing herbicide tainted straw and thankfully I tested it before I mulched the garden with it. I may have been burned with soil, compost and transplants in the past. Nowadays you never know what is in materials you purchase, especially when not buying from the source.

There’s many claimed effective solutions for managing RKN in annual vegetable beds - not as many for perennial beds and trees.

I’m in the suburbs as well in just over a 1/4 acre plot. The container is in the back corner of the yard next to my compost pile. The neighbors have been notified, and if anything, are interested. It goes without saying, if neighbors are having a cookout on a hot July day, don’t open up the container and stir it up so the stink wafts above the food. With anything in life, communication and common courtesy goes a long way.
 
@"ktrain"#2 I have always wondered about the Indians showing the Plymouth Rock colonist the fish, and corn technique. It didn't quite seem believable to me as Farm stock, and human byproducts would work just as well. As a fish or two in every whole dug for planting. Not to mention the yield per corn stock was quite a bit less with those original corn seed stock.

BTW Is this homemade fertilizer the same as the Korean JADAM technique that was talked about in the (old house) platform?
 
I don't knowabout taco bell fertilizer, probably not the best thing for your garden/trees. lol

Though with enough time to break down it's all supposed to have some benefit.
 
The fish in every hole story is obviously apocryphal - but probably has a grain, or brain of truth to it.  
Where fish were abundant,they likely would use the carcasses of dead fish after consumption.  Still loads of macro nutrients and some calcium and other goodies as well.

Waste not, want not.
 
@"PapaFig"#67. I'm with you Papa Fig. That is a far more believable, and sensible story of corn fertilization.
 
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