Crop feeding

[bearded bloke]

Home made chicken poo tea,home made wood-burner ash tea & mulching with homemade compost &/or well rotted manure (collected free from a friend who has rescue donkeys) variously form my plant feeding during the growing season,soil is fed overwinter by deep mulching with donkey poo.

[AllInContainers]

I have a small growing space. If I grew fertilising materials, I would have no space to grow anything to fertilise with them. I buy slow release granules and liquid feeds, and I don't get caught up in brand namess or the small print on the label

[solway cropper]

On the plot I feed the soil then the plants take what they want from it. Container crops are grown in home-made compost with addition of BFB and home-made liquid feeds.

I have access to seaweed, various animal manures, wood ash, large amounts of compost and my own pee so all I need in addition is a tub of BFB which lasts 2-3 years.

[Feral007]

We feed organic hay to the horses, make manure tea out of their leftovers
Comfrey tea, and also chop up comfrey for the garden. Mulch thickly with hay which breaks down and joins the soil.
Have just found a nettle plant so will nurture that too. For tea.
We have compost that we add from time to time.
The chooks freerange around the fruit trees, so they fertiilise that for us. And they go through the compost pile to take out what they want first.

The only thing I really buy (apart from organic hay) is some seaweed extract from time to time. Don't use it a lot, more when planting out seedlings or new trees. And now we will be spraying the paddocks with seaweed fertiliser as well, to put some of the trace elements back in.

We also put the plants or parts of plants back onto the garden after we've harvested. Stalks, leaves, etc. That way you're only removing the part of the plant that you are eating. The rest breaks back down into the soil, so less to replace.

[PassionateButInexperience]

I dont want to grow Comfrey, neither have access to it.

Can I buy dried leaves(i saw online) and soak them in warm water for a day or to to get the extract and use it ?
Or may be just thinly mux the the dry leaves into the soil before. fruit forms??

Same for the Nettle tea ??

what does seaweed does if you are using nettle and comfrey already?

[dim]

I use actively aerated compost tea which I brew myself, aswell as seaweed as a foliar feed, fishmix as a foliar feed, and I use volcanic rock dust for minerals

and this year I am using biobizz grow and biobizz bloom