So is this the same as using kitchen scrap’s, 511 fish Alaska smell bad also yet work well I will throwing this weed tea away honestly you are right smells like death warmed up😂
Chop n drop, it's not rocket science, nature does its thing. Though, I eventually want to start practicing culturing specific bacteria. For example, there have been species of bacteria found that fix atmospheric carbon and nitrogen. I think that might be good to culture at scale and use as a biofertilizer.
What about the good old fish emulsion then? That is worse. I would suggest taking the weeds and let them dry out to help insure they are dead. Then put them in an open container with some water to act as a composter. Mine doesn't stink, but it also isn't a swamp bucket either. It is when you cover it that really creates the stink. This is one of those "how you do it" type things to get the desired results.
the smell really isnt that bad but if youre that worried about it just add a little rock flour which will bind the odour. i dont even do that and never heard any complaints from anyone. in any case i'd rather deal with a slight smell than having stinging nettles pop up all over my garden because i missed flowers when chop and dropping.
OK I make KLF, does that mean I shouldn't? I use a 55 gallon drum with green material add water put the lid on and let it turn into a Liquid fertilizer over the course of a year plus.Yes it smells, but if you dilute it 1/120 in water it`s like main lining nutrients to the roots. Have never had a complaint about smell accept once when I drenched the soil of flowers in her yard a neighbor said didn't like the oder ( she didn't like plants) wasn't the oder. When used it is used on my plants they explode with vigor, plus my cannabis loves it, that's what matters. When I don't my harvest is less than it should be,and that is unexceptable,.
Lol…during Japanese beetles season, I leave a 1 gallon bucket half full in the garden and go out twice a day and knock the beetles off my plants into the water…they don't fly out…they try to climb on each other and roll over in the process. By the end of the week, it's as stinky as the best weed tea. But then, I live next door to a potbelly pig rescue, so there's that….lol.🎉
No such thing as "weeds" the chemical companies and corporations lobbied and convincinced the American people that these "weeds" need their chemicals to get rid of them for being unsightly.
Dow Chemical: Developed 2,4-D in the 1940s, popularizing it for post-war suburban America as a way to rid lawns of dandelions and clover. They turned war chemicals to war on plants and conditioned the American people that these plants that were used for hundreds if not thousands of years were now considered bad other than not being grass. Then from that other companies and corporations like Monsanto took over and really bio-engineered death to the world.
Look into the history of these chemicals and plants that are designated as "weeds" have a long and fruitful history of healing and feeding early humans.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Weeds or any organic matter will always be best put in a simple compost pile or worm bin. Or just leave it in the garden as a mulch if you want the lowest effort use. Any other uses (like weed tea) are just gimmicky and not worth the time or effort.
Luke and others: I do weed tea, but not as just fertilizer, but I seek to build healthier soil and therefore I add molasses (2 tbsp per gallon) from the horse farm store and a $30. Air pump to give oxygen for aerobic composting to help support microbes. It removes the nasty smell too. Add 1 cup per gallon of composted weed tea to water to which I can add other nutrients too. So far, garden looks healthy. Remember, more is not better. Soil building is patience and persistence. Of course, use granulated fertilizer occasionally where necessary.
I'm always worried about putting weeds that I've pulled by the roots, on top of my beds because I'm afraid they will re-root. Is this something I don't need to worry about? Even burmuda grass? If anyone on here knows, or has thoughts, I would appreciate your experience. Lord knows, I have plenty of weeds but compost is hard and expensive to come by.
I think it's better to make compost, just get it hot enough if you put in anything that's gone to seed. I also don't like fish fertilizer, it stinks and the animals dig up the plants. Yes, sometimes I have to use the blue stuff and that's fine. Also, Luke has a Schrodinger's goatee, it's there, it's not there, it's there, depending on the shadow of his hat. 😂
Yes it stinks but its very effective. I'm not drinking it! Makes my garden thrive alongside chop and drop and worm compost. It mitigates the chlorinated tap water.
I use a solar powered air pump and lots of mint. Reduces the anaerobic process and the mint doesn't smell like a septic tank overflowed at a stadium bathroom. I also put lots of layers of cardboard so that it can breathe but isn't directly open to the air. I use weed tea to charge biochar and will continue to do so. I also work in Healthcare and have smelled bad smells for decades. I don't enjoy the smell but I also know that bio = life and life is messy. I prefer compost for direct feeding but biochar charging is what I use compost, worm casting, weed tea for. So while I agree it isn't the only way to release nutrients it is far better at helping the aerobic bacteria and beneficial fungi into the charcoal pieces.
With weeds, kitchen scraps, lawn and srub clippings the smell can be mostly mitigated by using an aerator and adding a little compost, lactobacillus or yeast for a more aerobic "weed" tea.
A lot cheaper and easier to deal with than a worm box. And really, one step beyond that people don't get is weed tea is merely a methane generator, meaning you can collect the methane for fuel with the right set up. There are kits you can buy for off grid energy.
So I bet he hates visiting a real farm. Most of us that use weed tea also put stuff like aged manure, a bit of dirt and a bit of leaf mold, in the mix. The tea, diluted and used for watering, has little odor.
I made a bunch with bindweed once. It was so vile… the stench. OMG I couldn't take it had to dump the whole garbage can at once and run. I was so afraid the neighbors would smell it!🤢
Luke if you take an aquarium pump with a couple of stones to aerate your weed tea your adding oxygen back to the water and keeping it moving also adding charcoal dust to the mixture gives you millions of cubby holes for those essential bacteria to live
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So what I'm getting here is that you don't like the smell of weed tea?
So is this the same as using kitchen scrap’s, 511 fish Alaska smell bad also yet work well I will throwing this weed tea away honestly you are right smells like death warmed up😂
Chop and drop…been doing it for decades. Can’t stomach weed tea 😂
Chop n drop, it's not rocket science, nature does its thing. Though, I eventually want to start practicing culturing specific bacteria. For example, there have been species of bacteria found that fix atmospheric carbon and nitrogen. I think that might be good to culture at scale and use as a biofertilizer.
I make seaweed tea
You could make L.A.B.S and add that to your weed tea,and that will cut the smell down a lot
Its like pouring swamp water on your plants. Yuck. I wonder if it attracts flies too.
What about the good old fish emulsion then? That is worse. I would suggest taking the weeds and let them dry out to help insure they are dead. Then put them in an open container with some water to act as a composter. Mine doesn't stink, but it also isn't a swamp bucket either. It is when you cover it that really creates the stink. This is one of those "how you do it" type things to get the desired results.
Smells like death … lololol So good. Thank you sir!
Good grief ya soft…🦋
I have a pond that has good vegitation and i have ducks in the pond. I use this and its amazing
the smell really isnt that bad but if youre that worried about it just add a little rock flour which will bind the odour. i dont even do that and never heard any complaints from anyone. in any case i'd rather deal with a slight smell than having stinging nettles pop up all over my garden because i missed flowers when chop and dropping.
Thanks i actually was thinking on trying it but i definitely won't be doing it now 👍
Rake that pond algae and mix that into your beds. Incredible organic matter to feed plants
Never heard of weed tea before this.
We make it from stinging netle only here in Bulgaria, not any weed.
Go ahead, chop and drop thistles, Virginia creeper, nightshade, I dare you!
It's supposed to be made with noxious weeds (to destroy them) IN A SEALED vessel! That keeps it anaerobic and the smell only when used.
OK I make KLF, does that mean I shouldn't? I use a 55 gallon drum with green material add water put the lid on and let it turn into a Liquid fertilizer over the course of a year plus.Yes it smells, but if you dilute it 1/120 in water it`s like main lining nutrients to the roots. Have never had a complaint about smell accept once when I drenched the soil of flowers in her yard a neighbor said didn't like the oder ( she didn't like plants) wasn't the oder. When used it is used on my plants they explode with vigor, plus my cannabis loves it, that's what matters. When I don't my harvest is less than it should be,and that is unexceptable,.
In the deep south that would draw pest i would think. Especially with high humidity and insects always looking for shade.
First I've heard of weed tea. I have heard of compost tea though. I use Alaska fish emulsion whenever I want to use a liquid fertilizer.
Lol…during Japanese beetles season, I leave a 1 gallon bucket half full in the garden and go out twice a day and knock the beetles off my plants into the water…they don't fly out…they try to climb on each other and roll over in the process. By the end of the week, it's as stinky as the best weed tea. But then, I live next door to a potbelly pig rescue, so there's that….lol.🎉
If you live in the desert, don't do chop and drop. It will just dry up and blow away. Instead mix it into your compost.
I just hate my neighbors 🙂 so weed tea it is.
Just kidding.
I prefer to compost the weeds.
I made comfrey tea once and agree with you on the stink. I chop and drop now. I think compost tea is kinda stupid too
No such thing as "weeds" the chemical companies and corporations lobbied and convincinced
the American people that these "weeds" need their chemicals to get rid of them for being unsightly.
Dow Chemical: Developed 2,4-D in the 1940s,
popularizing it for post-war suburban America as a way to rid lawns of dandelions and clover.
They turned war chemicals to war on plants and conditioned the American people that these plants
that were used for hundreds if not thousands of years were now considered bad other than not being grass.
Then from that other companies and corporations like Monsanto took over and really bio-engineered death to
the world.
Look into the history of these chemicals and plants that are designated as "weeds" have a long and fruitful history of healing
and feeding early humans.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Worm castings and compost with a air stone
Weeds or any organic matter will always be best put in a simple compost pile or worm bin. Or just leave it in the garden as a mulch if you want the lowest effort use. Any other uses (like weed tea) are just gimmicky and not worth the time or effort.
I tried weed tea last year for the first time…and the last time. I'm sure my neighbors didn't appreciate my experiment.
All fine but one important but you got wrong. Methane itself is odourless gas.
It doesn't smell enough to smell the whole neighborhood. I get you dont like it but your slightly overly dramatic about it.😂
Luke and others: I do weed tea, but not as just fertilizer, but I seek to build healthier soil and therefore I add molasses (2 tbsp per gallon) from the horse farm store and a $30. Air pump to give oxygen for aerobic composting to help support microbes. It removes the nasty smell too. Add 1 cup per gallon of composted weed tea to water to which I can add other nutrients too. So far, garden looks healthy. Remember, more is not better. Soil building is patience and persistence. Of course, use granulated fertilizer occasionally where necessary.
I'm always worried about putting weeds that I've pulled by the roots, on top of my beds because I'm afraid they will re-root. Is this something I don't need to worry about? Even burmuda grass? If anyone on here knows, or has thoughts, I would appreciate your experience. Lord knows, I have plenty of weeds but compost is hard and expensive to come by.
I think it's better to make compost, just get it hot enough if you put in anything that's gone to seed. I also don't like fish fertilizer, it stinks and the animals dig up the plants. Yes, sometimes I have to use the blue stuff and that's fine. Also, Luke has a Schrodinger's goatee, it's there, it's not there, it's there, depending on the shadow of his hat. 😂
Yes it stinks but its very effective. I'm not drinking it! Makes my garden thrive alongside chop and drop and worm compost. It mitigates the chlorinated tap water.
I prefer Chop and Drop.
this video kinda stinks too. some might say there are better ways/places to get gardening info that don't stink… guess i should explore them…
the smell is not that bad…dilute it 50/50 with water and it works fine…you are wrong!
I use a solar powered air pump and lots of mint. Reduces the anaerobic process and the mint doesn't smell like a septic tank overflowed at a stadium bathroom. I also put lots of layers of cardboard so that it can breathe but isn't directly open to the air. I use weed tea to charge biochar and will continue to do so. I also work in Healthcare and have smelled bad smells for decades. I don't enjoy the smell but I also know that bio = life and life is messy. I prefer compost for direct feeding but biochar charging is what I use compost, worm casting, weed tea for.
So while I agree it isn't the only way to release nutrients it is far better at helping the aerobic bacteria and beneficial fungi into the charcoal pieces.
With weeds, kitchen scraps, lawn and srub clippings the smell can be mostly mitigated by using an aerator and adding a little compost, lactobacillus or yeast for a more aerobic "weed" tea.
A lot cheaper and easier to deal with than a worm box. And really, one step beyond that people don't get is weed tea is merely a methane generator, meaning you can collect the methane for fuel with the right set up. There are kits you can buy for off grid energy.
Also, I hope your plants don't need cobalt 🫠
I pour my chamber pot in my garden instead
So I bet he hates visiting a real farm. Most of us that use weed tea also put stuff like aged manure, a bit of dirt and a bit of leaf mold, in the mix. The tea, diluted and used for watering, has little odor.
I made a bunch with bindweed once. It was so vile… the stench. OMG I couldn't take it had to dump the whole garbage can at once and run. I was so afraid the neighbors would smell it!🤢
Luke if you take an aquarium pump with a couple of stones to aerate your weed tea your adding oxygen back to the water and keeping it moving also adding charcoal dust to the mixture gives you millions of cubby holes for those essential bacteria to live
Well, yeah, it really stinks when you start with pond water! Start with plain water and ut won't be so bad.