What do you feed your veggies?

I'm trying to learn to grow as organic as possible if possible 100% organic but I am running on super low funds.. Any headers on cheap organic nutrients could really help me out thanks

This was my first year growing veggies with poor results.. I only have xp growing marijuana
I used compost & sheep manure with magnesium sulfate & pureblend botanicare flower formula for my zucchinis, tomatoes, eggplant & hot peppers.

Fed Pureblend twice a week, magnesium sulfate once a week, all of them planted end of June beginning July
I let the ground dry out 3-4 times accidentally because my community garden is far from home & got busy during august...

Basically, I'd like your input on what I did wrong & what I should have done right!

THANK U

Look into nutrition charts on your food wastes and you can isolate certain elements. Iv got a thread on how to do this stuff for next to no money. Look into EM1 sustainable agriculture techniques for an actual reasoning behind methods. But its a resource recovery type of organic agriculture.

Ex.1 bone extract. Save bones in the freezer until you have a kilo. Blacken them over a fire. Mix with cheap vinegar 1:1 for 2wks ands strain. Carbon phosphate in vinegar. Use 1:100 in water (1tsp per liter). Weekly or as needed for a foliar spray.

Ex2 squash/banana ferment
Mix kilo banana peels or whatever high in potassium in a kilo of nonchlorinated water. Add 100mL EMe and 100mL agriculture grade molasses and mix. Seal in an airtight container for 10days and strain the solids. Use the liquids at a 1:100 ratio. Spray or soil drench.

Vermicastings are easy if the have a decent home and regular moisture.

https://www.rollitup.org/t/from-scratch-only-no-premixed-bottles-of-stuff.873531/

Its not the most user friendly guide but its got unique ideas

Coffee grinds from the coffee shop. .Spent ones. Should be free

iHearAll said:

Look into nutrition charts on your food wastes and you can isolate certain elements. Iv got a thread on how to do this stuff for next to no money. Look into EM1 sustainable agriculture techniques for an actual reasoning behind methods. But its a resource recovery type of organic agriculture.

Ex.1 bone extract. Save bones in the freezer until you have a kilo. Blacken them over a fire. Mix with cheap vinegar 1:1 for 2wks ands strain. Carbon phosphate in vinegar. Use 1:100 in water (1tsp per liter). Weekly or as needed for a foliar spray.

Ex2 squash/banana ferment
Mix kilo banana peels or whatever high in potassium in a kilo of nonchlorinated water. Add 100mL EMe and 100mL agriculture grade molasses and mix. Seal in an airtight container for 10days and strain the solids. Use the liquids at a 1:100 ratio. Spray or soil drench.

Vermicastings are easy if the have a decent home and regular moisture.

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thanks man Il look into this right now!!!!!!

Smells like beer. This is a squash potassium extract. Better known as fermented fruit extract.

I'm making a foliar spray with airated microbes and these specific extracts. I am also using a homemade soap free pest repellent from garlic, marigolds, and horehound. Growing those plants makes this really cheep. I let the pest repellent plants grow as weeds but I had planted them.

iHearAll said:

Smells like beer. This is a squash potassium extract. Better known as fermented fruit extract.

I'm making a foliar spray with airated microbes and these specific extracts. I am also using a homemade soap free pest repellent from garlic, marigolds, and horehound. Growing those plants makes this really cheep. I let the pest repellent plants grow as weeds but I had planted them.

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sweet, have you ever used comfrey tea? I ve just found out about this !

II actually was looking for a trace element source that I can grow. Im going to need to grow some comfrey and stinging nettle.

iHearAll said:

II actually was looking for a trace element source that I can grow. Im going to need to grow some comfrey and stinging nettle.

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for which elements ?

I'm not really sure. I haven't memorized any of the list of necessary trace elements to know what I should be looking for. I was previously looking into skipping azomite and other crushed rock stuff for trace elements and couldn't find much except how great the trace elements improved growth. I briefly researched comfrey tea fertilizer after you asked and found users were talking about the trace element benefits and had horsetail, stinging nettle , and aloe vera in the tea.

also check out the box stores this time of year. they usually discount additives and such about now. I picked up various Espoma fertilizers cheap.

This is what I use Algamin kelp meal, sunleaves mexican and jamaican bat guano, buffaloam compost, neptunes harvest crab shell, fulvex, and ful-humix, ancient forest alaskan humus, gro more seaweed extract, grandmas unsulphered molasses, wiggle worm worm castings, vermicrop bloom booster everything I listed has organic inputs therefore traceable trackable. If using rock dust Espoma organic gypsum and Azomite from azomite highly recommended

BarnBuster said:

also check out the box stores this time of year. they usually discount additives and such about now. I picked up various Espoma fertilizers cheap.

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where at ??

iHearAll said:

I'm not really sure. I haven't memorized any of the list of necessary trace elements to know what I should be looking for. I was previously looking into skipping azomite and other crushed rock stuff for trace elements and couldn't find much except how great the trace elements improved growth. I briefly researched comfrey tea fertilizer after you asked and found users were talking about the trace element benefits and had horsetail, stinging nettle , and aloe vera in the tea.

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nice thanks for sharing!!!

darkzero said:

This is what I use Algamin kelp meal, sunleaves mexican and jamaican bat guano, buffaloam compost, neptunes harvest crab shell, fulvex, and ful-humix, ancient forest alaskan humus, gro more seaweed extract, grandmas unsulphered molasses, wiggle worm worm castings, vermicrop bloom booster everything I listed has organic inputs therefore traceable trackable. If using rock dust Espoma organic gypsum and Azomite from azomite highly recommended

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thanks !!!

BarnBuster said:

also check out the box stores this time of year. they usually discount additives and such about now. I picked up various Espoma fertilizers cheap.

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Home depot/Lowe's kinda boxes?

itinkitook2much said:

I'm trying to learn to grow as organic as possible if possible 100% organic but I am running on super low funds.. Any headers on cheap organic nutrients could really help me out thanks

This was my first year growing veggies with poor results.. I only have xp growing marijuana
I used compost & sheep manure with magnesium sulfate & pureblend botanicare flower formula for my zucchinis, tomatoes, eggplant & hot peppers.

Fed Pureblend twice a week, magnesium sulfate once a week, all of them planted end of June beginning July
I let the ground dry out 3-4 times accidentally because my community garden is far from home & got busy during august...

Basically, I'd like your input on what I did wrong & what I should have done right!

THANK U

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The best nitrogen fertilizer I've ever used is my own diluted urine, about one whiz per gallon... I've seen some nursery supply places selling high priced mixtures of animal urine and kelp. A lot of commercial fertilizers contain "urea" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urea .

A compost pile is a must have too for an organic veggie garden, I recycle all of the yard and garden waste back into the gardens, a couple gallons of urine on the compost pile is a great compost pile activator also.

Dave's Not Here said:

The best nitrogen fertilizer I've ever used is my own diluted urine, about one whiz per gallon... I've seen some nursery supply places selling high priced mixtures of animal urine and kelp. A lot of commercial fertilizers contain "urea" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urea .

A compost pile is a must have too for an organic veggie garden, I recycle all of the yard and garden waste back into the gardens, a couple gallons of urine on the compost pile is a great compost pile activator also.

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How big is your compost bin & how hig is your garden? How often do you empty your composte ?? Thks !!!!

Compost piles are a standard size of 1meter by 1 meter and layers of carbon carbon nitrogen carbon carbon nitrogen. Etc. Like, leaves, peat, manure, leaves, peat, manure, leaves peat, manure.

I do carbon, probiotics, carbon, probiotics, nitrogen, probiotics, carbon, probiotics, etc.

That was just layers of probiotics in between each layer of carbon or nitrogen. I turn once a week and use it in three weeks. A layer is only a few inches or less.

Yea, I know you asked the other guy. I hope this helps.

itinkitook2much said:

How big is your compost bin & how hig is your garden? How often do you empty your composte ?? Thks !!!!

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I've got several spots and beds in my yard that I grow veggies in, my compost pile is about 4x4' 3 or 4ft high once piled up, just a square fenced in with one side open... I usually have another smaller pile next to it of overflow.

Dave's Not Here said:

The best nitrogen fertilizer I've ever used is my own diluted urine, about one whiz per gallon... I've seen some nursery supply places selling high priced mixtures of animal urine and kelp. A lot of commercial fertilizers contain "urea" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urea .

A compost pile is a must have too for an organic veggie garden, I recycle all of the yard and garden waste back into the gardens, a couple gallons of urine on the compost pile is a great compost pile activator also.

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Pioneers in the west of US referred to urine as 'Human Compost Activator'. I'd be leery if you are using pharmacy pills, not knowing which are water soluble, but otherwise urine is great for the pile.

Check with barbershops, human hair is also high in nitrogen. As others have said, coffee grinds, if you can hook up with an espresso stand or coffee shop. Around here, they grow a ton of mint, so mint pulp, from the processing is often found for free or cheap. Eggshells are another great thing to add to compost. Grass clippings. In the fall, when leaves fall, we ask all our neighbors if we can have them if we rake them up, they are more than happy for that trade. See anyone with a fruit tree they aren't using? Ask if you can pick up the windfall fruit and toss that on the pile too. There is so much free organic compost material that could be used.

If you want to spend money, Down To Earth makes a lot of high quality organic soil amendments and some very good complete slow release fertilizers. That's what I am going to use next year when I make my own super soil blend.

This is my first time growing vegetables. I've grown basil, thyme, oregano, mint, etc, in an apartment and used Medina's Hasta Gro Plant with really great success. Now that I have a vegetable and herb garden, I've been frugal and using the nutrient solution from my res during changes. Once a week isn't enough, so I also feed Gen Hydro micro and veg to the garden. The onions are finnicky. But the carrots, broccoli, and spinach really like it. So does all the basil, thyme, oregano, lavendar, patchouli, etc.