Organic Fertilizer Myth Busting.

[@GardeningInCanada]

This is an example of a certified organic fertilizer bit.ly/44zywa3 Promix organics just recently received the OMRI listing.

[@Brokersong]

Ashley is the only person on my algorithm who supplies FULL INFORMATION about gardening. Example: a very popular KZbin gardener said tomato transplanting sideways is a good idea. So... I did that. 2 days ago. Then Ashley said the same WITH CAUTION. The caution was the reason that I should not have done what I have done. I'm done. I will only listen to Ashley.

[@joshuabusick1940]

Hey Ashley, is there anyway you can make some Contant in regard to slugs and snails and preventative methods? They’re awful this year and I’m not sure what to do.

[@paulafitzpatrick6519]

When I had a rabbit, their manure is a direct “cold” fertilizer. I didn’t have to age it and used it in my garden with great results, if you have it available to you. I miss that crazy bunny 🐰…

[@alligator_pie]

Urban wild hares eat rudbeckia seedheads sticking out of the snow in my rock garden, and leave little pelleted presents for me in return, that I find in the spring . Think it’s a good trade 😊

[@GardeningInCanada]

Ahaha aweee

[@paulafitzpatrick6519]

@@GardeningInCanada you need to get some bunnies 🐰

[@michaelmarchione3408]

I agree! We have about 60 show rabbits the year round so 90% of our raise beds are filled with rabbit manure and 100% of our no-til garden. Been going it for years without any store bought fertilizer.

[@paulafitzpatrick6519]

@@michaelmarchione3408 I had an Angora (Cadbury bunny) for her fiber and the poo was the extra special bonus. RIP Maxine.

[@TNova-rd5ji]

Overall, you do give more good points with the bad. After decades of consulting in this commercially, Nutrients (not even going to touch micros) and there application are one of the most complex components of crop production. Only comment I'm going to touch on, I feel is the most important. You should be concerned about where your steer manure comes from. I live one province over and am familiar with a blending/bagging operation that incorporates steer manure with municipal waste. This waste is screened and separated through a centrifuge leaving primarily organics with low moisture and then windrowed and blended with steer manure. This particular operation sells the bagged product as steer manure with no mention of the other bonus ingredients. Primarily those are human waste, and can also contain hospital, care facilities, pharmaceuticals, etc etc. Everything that enters a wastewater plant will have residual content in this final bagged product. Don't panic, I know of some very good quality aged, composted and bagged operations, just saying buyer beware.

[@thinkingman2020]

Excellent point!

[@GardeningInCanada]

Oh man! Municipal waste really!!

[@sallyscreativeendeavour]

Question: Have you done a video regarding trench composting? I am most curious if I can dig in non - composted veggie scraps beside the growing crop? And how close it too close?

[@MrApontjos]

Potential Topic for A Video: Do certain plants really repel certain pests? Or is it just way exaggerated?

[@GardeningInCanada]

Ooo yes that’s a good one

[@squadiodatamj5998]

Important information at a critical time....for me. Thank you! I've had seedling success (surprise!) in the wee greenhouse. Some are showing signs they need nutrients and potting up/on. Your quick and dirty 10 minute primer will take me out there with confidence and the few types of fertilizer I have on hand.....to help them all survive and thrive. Keep it coming, Ashley!

[@GardeningInCanada]

Good luck!

[@sjoerdmhh]

Really inconvenient that the word organic just has two meanings in English. Like you point out, there's organic vs. synthetic, and organic vs. conventional (which is a strange word in itself, as if organic hasn't been the convention for most of history). It's a bit of a semantic problem. In Dutch we'd usually call the first version "organisch" and the second one "biologisch" although those can also be mixed up (but the term "biologisch" is protected on packaging). More of a language than a gardening problem I guess! :)

[@GardeningInCanada]

It is so true. I guess technically you could say “certified organic”

[@j.b.6855]

I dont get hung up on "organic". I follow organic methods, mainly because of cost. The compost and leaf mold I make are free. But there is a box of the blue stuff in my shed, its about 5 years old and mostly full. Its good for fixing a specific problem at a specific time. Like yellowing plants. I wont use bagged cow manure after last year, I got some that was tainted with aminopyralid herbicide. I do like pelletized chicken manure. So far its been safe and costs $11 for 40 pounds. 2 bags is enough for a season with some left over.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Yea I agree

[@daynamichelle4657]

Thank you for another helpful video! I bought a bag of composted cow manure and a bag of composted sheep manure two summers ago and they have been sitting in the sunny back corner of my Canadian yard since then. I plan to put them on my garden bed this spring. Will them sitting in the unopened bags for that long have killed the microbiome? Does this mean they have been “aged” by sitting in the bags?

[@dorisenderle5857]

I have a lot of horse manure. It really helps build soil structure.

[@Editbyhelen]

Excellent!! Much needed info!! Thank you!

[@GardeningInCanada]

Glad you enjoyed! Feel free to share

[@carolewilson551]

Relatively new to your channel and it has become my go-to. Love your presentation style and that you can be relied on to cut through the cr*p (pun intended :-)). Many thanks and happy sun-hat time from North West England x

[@kele1264]

Thanks for this Ashley, much appreciated!

[@GardeningInCanada]

Absolutely anytime!

[@stitchychris6065]

I've thought about this when I'm adding to my compost- grapes, coffee, anything from the grocery store. I think this is organic but not "organic" haha. I'm not too worried about it though.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Yea I would not worry about it. No big deal

[@elvianwana1194]

Many thanks. I will watch this a second time. The information was useful. Hoping that your day is going well.😊

[@GardeningInCanada]

Glad you enjoyed it so much !

[@michaelmarchione3408]

I often wondered! Take care!

[@markcrichton3257]

Thanks for info on when to fertilize in zone 3. It’s hard not to rush to fertilize thinking that it will help the plant start early. My head hurts organically but this video helps to clarify this confusing topic. Appreciate the sharing of your knowledge.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Yes I agree. I am the same way despite knowing it’s not go time yet.

[@GuffeyJon]

I have a question about Corn gluten; could I add this to our "potting up" soil as a slow release fertilizer? Most of the soil will go with the plant into the garden.

[@SlackerU]

This topic is definitely a frustrating one as marketing isn't in support of what reality is. My local supplier boasts about their active/live compost but what they're actually selling is gardening-soil that has more oxygen by using lots of expensive expanded-shale[a very nice product]. It's funny that elemental-sulfur is organic as a non-organic compound[it's a fun fact]. I'm trying to wrap my brain on the idea that we are purchasing protons[soil that can store nutrients for plants]. I think you might ought to do a video on leaf-applied calcium. The top/new-growth on my tomato plants are all crumpled but the older leaves are HUGE & flat, so I should probably be applying way more calcium applications on the new-growth. I wish the plant calcium-sprays were as cheap as the de-icing salt used on roads as they are the same salt but different qualities.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Hahaah yes! I didn’t even get into conventional fertilizers that are actually organic like potassium.

[@mirkopg69]

Perfect.....I'm more confuses then b4

[@fillmorehillmore8239]

Its the chain. As an example. If we eat all organic fruits and veggies, but then have a cob of corn that was grown conventionally we then have a diet that is inorganic for that cob of corn is what makes the diet inorganic even though everything else we ate was.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Oh no!

[@alexpresent8907]

In California Doesn’t “organic compost” have to be brought to a specific temperature for a specific amount of time in order to be sold as “Organic Compost”?

[@GardeningInCanada]

I am not familiar with Californias rules

[@tobruz]

The big issue here is the word “organic” . Anything derived from a living source is organic in nature (chemically) and not to be confused with the organic movement or organic certification ( a marketing scheme that uses fear to motivate sales) The plants and microbes don’t care …

[@thomaxtube]

Awareness of pesticides such as glyphosate- driving huge number of illnesses and killing the soil microbiology: is the bit that the plants do care about, not to be over looked as t Jarid what the most powerful chemical corporations push globally- killing a lot of lives and livelihoods i the process

[@carolstuff]

Thanks for info!

[@brianseybert2189]

Had soil tests on soil from my jumping worm infested bed, leaf mold, aged compost and worm castings. All came back lacking in nitrogen. Recommendation was for 0.6 lbs of high nitrogen fertilizer/100 sq-ft to meet plant nitrogen needs. Their suggestion was urea. My question, how would you introduce the needed nitrogen into a no dig, organic bed? Also, should I consider trying to lower my soil ph? Appreciate any feed back, Stay Well!!! Here are my sample results The ph on my leaf mold came back at 7.7, P @ 239 ppm and K @ 440 ppm. The ph on my worm casting came back at 7.7, P @ 381ppm and K @ 1,163 ppm. The ph on my aged compost was 7.6, P @422 ppm and K @ 826 ppm. Infested soil ph @ 7.3, P @ 296 ppm and K @ 339 ppm.

[@butch2kow549]

Excellent Video. Now I know the difference.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Yea definitely a difference but it’s up to the gardener as the whether or not it Matters

[@gl4675]

Great video! People: wow! How did you learn so much about soil? Me: gardening in Canada on KZbin 👏🏼

[@GardeningInCanada]

Hahah awee I love that

[@apextroll]

I'm not dogmatic either when it comes to the term organic. Is it safe to assume steer manure is the same as cow manure?

[@GardeningInCanada]

Yea! Most definitely

[@richardkut3976]

Thanks again.

[@jeil5676]

There must be some bacteria that benefits from synthetic fertilizer, whatever that form of nitrogen that is, because I'm pretty sure if you add some to a carbon rich compost, it will kick off and heat up fast much like adding grass clippings.

[@rochelleduff9277]

Let me ask you this. Is there any concern using a feed lot cow manure and ecoli contamination of your garden plants?

[@GardeningInCanada]

No because it should be composted prior to hitting the garden

[@webherring]

If you breed non-organic bull and cow, is the newborn calf automatically non-organic? 😅

[@jamestrefethen4189]

Nutritionally you cannot tell the difference between crops grown organically and those not grown organically. Organically grown food, however, can be smaller and more costly. Then there’s the stuff that has been grown organically but somehow the farmer was unable to slap the “organic” label on it. Getting the label is a whole process that costs money and time. The end result is that I’m not sold on the greatness of “organically grown.”

[@GardeningInCanada]

I agree for Fertilizer I use a hybrid of organic and synthetics. I just don’t spray pesticides.

[@KatesGarden]

@@GardeningInCanada this is where I’m at too 👍 more of a common sense approach

[@Cookies-i2f]

I make fertiizer and use manure as well

[@Cookies-i2f]

And I use fish fertilizer. I try lots of things.

[@Cookies-i2f]

I dont use pesticdes.

[@JogBird]

the whole organic thing sounds like the mafia

[@GardeningInCanada]

Hahah yea… definitely feels that wya

[@quantafitness6088]

How about urine? People say it is a quite balanced fertilizer. And free. And if you eat your own produce - organic!

[@olefosshaug5565]

If you eat only certified organic food and/or grow your own food in a completely organic way(using only organic fertilizers and amendments), then your urine is by definition organic(with no traces of any pesticides herbicides insecticides, fungicides or artificial fertilizers)

[@GardeningInCanada]

I need to do a video on this. I get Asked if all the time

[@quantafitness6088]

@@GardeningInCanada It seems to be a sustainable and cheap alternative. Probably a video which many will be curious about.

[@williamwaters4506]

I would imagine that millions of people buy both chemically produced and organic fertilizers every year and never have their soil tested before or after they use the fertilizers. But, then again, people do the same thing with vitamins and supplements and never have their blood tested. My doctor said that millions of Americans produce expensive urine everyday.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Yea that’s very true

[@royshaul2392]

You say misinformation, corporations call it marketing 😆

[@GardeningInCanada]

Hahah! Same thing right 😅

[@kendravoracek3636]

💚💚

[@GardeningInCanada]

First one Kendra! ❤❤❤

[@rorygillmore6555]

Wow I'm glad i couldn't care less about organic growing. It's clearly just turned into something that misleading corporate marketing has once again ruined for the rest of us. How far back in the cycle can this organic but not really organic thing go? Wouldn't that mean that any cow born from a mother that wasnt raised organically is technically not organic either? Would any cow in the world be truly organic since these extremely stringent rules of organic have only been around for 10 years or so? Wasn't everyone feeding their cattle "non organically" in the 70s and 80s?

[@olefosshaug5565]

I love my unorganic organic bokashi 🙂

[@GardeningInCanada]

AHAHAHA this was good

[@wayneessar7489]

I do turf care for many folks that are vegetarians, because of their religion, but only one vegan because their fertilizer needs are to complicated for me.

[@fillmorehillmore8239]

Thats where people can upcharge for specialization.

[@wayneessar7489]

@@fillmorehillmore8239 The folks here choosing or saying this is what they wish are very aggressive in stating to me that I am over charging for materials that I sell at cost plus delivery. I grew tired of wealthy looking people seeking to have me give them things so I do recommend and tell them who to call and then suggest they are excellent bargainers and to let me know when their products get delivered so I can work. Same with soils, wood etc., let the customer own it and the majority of the complaining disappears.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Very interesting!

[@wayneessar7489]

@@GardeningInCanada You have said that often and now I understand it means something quite different.. 🙃

[@ogadlogadl490]

Bury your food scraps around the years. Moving yearly. I have great amounts of worms now!!

[@GardeningInCanada]

Niceb

[@tobruz]

“Bi-oat-a” !

[@mrgoode1647]

Just sub

[@GardeningInCanada]

Welcome aboard!

[@jdawg1835]

Noble or no bull, lol?

[@GardeningInCanada]

No bull 😏