As a soil scientist I am watching this in love. Everyone needs to care about their soil ❤️

These are the ratios and some of the suggestions, if you just want to scroll. Alfalfa meal: 2-0-2 Spring suggestion Cottonseed: 6-2-1 Suggested for the fall, weed suppression Bat Guano: 10-3-1 Fast acting fertilizer, compost tea spray Kelp Meal: Many Trace minerals Rock phosphate: 0-3-0 Green Sand: Iron potassium silicate, helps bind sandy soil and loosen clay soil, and increase soil water hold Garden Gypsum: Need soil clay/salt heavy to be helpful Garden Lime: Raises ph in soil Blood Meal: 12-0-0 Fast acting and acidic Bone Meal: 4-12-0 Suggested for raised containers at the end of grow year Cow Manure: 2-1-3 Trusted source- moderate speed Chicken manure: 3-1-2 Hot, and can cause nutrient burn, compost a little bit. Earth worm casting: .5-.7-.1 Fish emulsion or bury a full fish: 2-4-0 Huzzaaahhh

Kevin it makes me so happy you and Mark are KZfaq garden friends. I appreciate the knowledge and content you share.

I like sheep poop outside and worm poop inside. I just realized how weird that sounds, but you all are my garden-family so you get it. ♥

I'm always suspicious of the motivations when folks review sponsored products. BUT I love all Espoma products, and appreciate Kevin's guidance on use.

I love that you and Mark are cross promoting each other's channels now. Living in Hawai'i I can relate to both of you!

I'm completely new to gardening, but I am growing vegetables in pots inside my apartment. I am learning so much from your videos. Always a confidence booster! Thanks

Thank you, Kevin, for your video on the various organic fertilizers. Every time I go to a nursery, I stand in front of the fertilizers shelf and not knowing which one to buy. Thanks to your video, I can now have some ideas on which one to buy. You just made me a more knowledgeable gardener in this department!!! Love and look forward to all of your videos. Happy Spring!

Love this breakdown, Kevin! Super useful to have this quick analysis of the various garden amendments, their pros, cons and applications. This is going to become one of my go-to reference videos!

Thank you so much Kevin for constantly sharing endless amounts of information to help gardeners worldwide, keeps a lot of us motivated to grow our own food despite the challenges faced along the way!

This is so helpful! I go to a garden center and get overwhelmed with the variety of fertilizers that is available. This is a great start. 👍🏼😃

Can you do a video on testing for ph and making adjustments in the soil

Fascinating! I use fish emulsion on everything in my garden, and I've rarely had any plants that didn't respond incredibly well to it, but unlike the rest of these fertilizers, you usually mix it with water then spray it on the leaves themselves. It's stinky but holy cow do I see tired plants start perking up in less than a day! I love love LOVE it!

I have bunnies and use bunny poop as a fertilizer. Works amazing! Doesn't need to be composted. I just toss in into the garden or bury it under an inch or so of dirt. My plants are super happy & have grown massive!

I really needed a video like this, only know what two of them were for. Thanks!

Great video, as always. Thanks, Kevin.

I took notes. I’m officially a garden nerd 🤣🤭

Kevin, this was so timely !!! I just applied a little bone meal and garden tone (I saw on your channel!) before I planted corn. Now I know maybe it wasn’t the smartest with the bone meal.... it’s my first yet gardening, and you have helped and inspired so much! Thank you!

It is mind blowing how much good information is in this one relatively short video. Awesome work!

Thank you so much for this video! When I walk into a garden center, it can be overwhelming seeing all the different products on the shelves. There are so many options, and the numbers can get all mixed up in my head. Thank you for talking a little bit about each of these, and offering concrete examples of when or how you might want to use them.

Good vid. More on organics plZ. More products and tea and pest control. Thank you keep up the good work.

I love Self Sufficient Me. I really enjoy it every time one of you mentions the other. Gardener Scott, Next Level Gardening and Gardenerd are also great.

potassium, take wood ash, then strain it with water, take water to allow to dry in the pan. there you have raw potassium. POT ASH is derived from wood ash. or was, now it comes from rock. potassium carbonate.#epicgardening great video kevin

As a chronic over-fertilizer I found the use cases very helpful. Thanks!

Here on Long Island, natives (ex: Matinecock) used bunker fish as fertilizer, among other things. I’m so excited (& honored) to try this native method, along with local sea leaves, for the first time this year 🐟🌱🙏🏾

This is my favorite video you’ve made. So informative and takes the guess work out of choosing fertilizers! Absolutely love your knowledge and that you share it!

Just purchased the worm castings from your website. Looking forward to putting it to use in my little balcony garden!

I’ve been using some locally made fertilizers this year - rotted horse manure, crushed crab shells and seaweed. All seems to be going well so far!

I got one for you dude! A scientist/hobbiest plant nerd in Canada has discovered that hot weather seeds like eggplant and peppers germinate super fast in an "Instant Pot" set to make yogurt. If you have one of those, you have a video.

Great topic!! And....thanks for the links under the description. It makes it so much easier to find the specific topic on the video. 👍👍🌾🌱

2 days ago planted my potatoes with bone meal:potash at a 6:1 ratio, 1tbsp per potato. i don't know what i'm doing, but i hope it works! cats broke into the bone meal after less than 3 minutes with it on the counter

YAY! This is exactly the video I needed because I'm getting my garden beds ready to plant this next week (we're going to be close to 35 degrees the next two nights)

Thank you so much foe this video!! Love love love explanation

Yasss! Finally a good video about fertilizers 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🥰

I’m loving alfalfa pellets meant for horses as a side dressing fertilizer for all my plants. They thrive. And inexpensive.

Thanks for such an informative video. really helps getting ready for summer.

I was waiting for you to mention horse manure. It's the only way I can justify feeding two horses for over 20-years (since I'm a terrible rider)

Thank you for covering so many of the vegan friendly fertilizer options!!

Thank you! How about a video on homemade fertilizer?

Thank you for information

I didn’t know that Epsom had expanded their line to all this. Very interesting. One of the things I like to do is mix all these together in some compost, then spread it over the garden. Then keep some for planting. The good thing about organics are they will adjust themselves to what the plants need as opposed to chemical fertilizers that will burn up your plants if you add to much. And with chemical fertilizer you better get used to reading those numbers and buying separate fertilizer for different plants.

Thank you thank you so much for clarifying this info. Your awesome!

Got blood meal for my snake plants, robellini and bird of paradise. These are potted plants in my apartment. I repotted two snake plants with cactus soil and blood meal and may have been heavy-handed, then mixed some soil and blood meal and used as top soil for the other two, again heavy-handed. I removed as much top soil as I could because bird of paradise and the robellini palm are my favorites and I personally don't want to hurt them.

This is the perfect companion video to my Grow Bag Garden book.

So happy you posted this!

Another great little video by a bloody legend 🪴

Great descriptions of the amendments🍺🍺

This was interesting. I hadn't really planned on getting a soil test. I was just going to compost and mulch, but it's good to know there are specific amendments I could use if needed.

GM Kevin☕️☕️. Thank you for breaking all this down for me. I’ve been confused for years about everything that is out there now days... the when & how kinda info is most appropriated. Learn so much from you & Mark . There’s a couple other fav gardeners & I learn many things & techniques from all of you! Have a great day 🥬🍅🧤😻

I have recently tried seed from this grower. Seeds germinate reliably and often faster than stated on the package. I planted these seeds and had to thin them a lot. These are great seeds.

I appreciate you explaining each of these in one video for a good reference. Thanks Kevin!

Thanks Kevin for all of the tips and the details. Hope to see more Fruit Tree videos, mostly a Fig Tree video. Hope you are feeling Great and keep on growing

THANK YOU FOR THIS!! It can be so confusing

Thank you for mentioning worm castings for those on a budget...great video as usual

As a fairly new gardener, I am loving all of this information! Your videos are always so helpful, thank you so much Kevin!!

I love ALL your videos! I also watch a guy that goes by "home grown veg" over in the UK. He collects sea weed each fall, chops it with his mower, and mulchs it over the winter. He said as long as you are NOT collecting for commercial use, just home use, you can take all you want!

can you make a video on homemade fertilizers? fertilizers are quite expensive in this side of the world i have NEVER fertilized my plants in three years of having plants

To anyone wondering,. Fish meal, blood meal, bone meal, alfalfa meal, kelp meal and most all organic products can be made yourself for a fraction of the cost of you're willing to put in a little effort. Things like oyster shell flour is usually sold in 5 lb boxes for 20 bucks. But you can buy a whole bag of oyster shell for chickens for about 15, and grind it yourself with an old blender or food processor. Alfalfa is sold in 50 lb bricks at feed shops and that same blender will work it to a meal quickly. Dehydrated and blended fish makes fish meal. Blood can be slowly simmered until it is a paste, spread on parchment paper and baked at a low temp till dry, then blended. Bones can be steamed in a pressure cooker then slow baked and ground for bone meal. Kelp can be harvested, dried, and powdered. Crab meal can be made by drying and blending crab shells. Chicken manure can be collected, dried and powdered for a quick acting nitrogen (let sit out for a month or so before collecting) about the only thing I wouldn't recommend making yourself is bat guano, as many bags carry heavy disease (as we found out) and can cause issues, so best leaving that stuff to those that know what to get. But if you live near a beach and have lots of seagulls and such that poop in a certian spot, it can be dried and powdered for seabird guano with relative ease. Lots of these things are fractions of the cost of amendments sold for gardening and are THE EXACT SAME THING. Happy gardening!

Thanks for explaining all of this. I am using worm tea and worm castings and I am making my own compost. My plants seem to be pretty healthy so far, but I am just establishing a new yard so we will see how it goes.

This is what I needed to know. 👍🏾

This was amazing information, thank you for sharing the knowledge. This will help me with my new raised beds I will be doing this year and years after.

This video is very helpful thank you! I just bought some of espomas fertilizer and this video really answered what i was supposed to do with it.

such a great video. You missed the opportunity to mention one thing. If you are concerned about chicken or cow manure being too hot, just run it through your worm bins. Your worm population in the bin will explode, but you also greatly cut down on the time to be able to use chicken manure. I do this as a weekly thing to keep a very fast supply of worm castings coming ( actually they are double manures).

I really wanted that 1% organic material in my garden.... I like it

Excellent video especially for those that may be newer to gardening.

Thanks so much for this video. I didn’t really appreciate what the differences were for each fertilizer. This will be a great reference video.

Thks so very much. I have been using organic fertilizer for first time for my Vega/herbs. I used the Holly Tone organic on some shrubs that I had to greatly prune 3 years ago, and they grew back looking vital and great. Thks for affirming the Organics. Ahna Georgia/USA

I had no idea there were so many fertilizers. I just discovered the concept of fertilizer too. I just have some plants like two plumerias and a succulent combo that I want to maintain well. The amount of info out there on gardening is intimidating.

This is my favorite channel. The information here is helpful and easy to understand. Worms are my favorite method of composting and bringing microbial life to the best quality

I like using their "Tone" products rather than the individual amendments. If you look at the labels, they are all basically the same stuff but in slightly different ratios. The Garden-tone seems to be all purpose and it works great in my garden. It doesn't burn with too much available nitrogen.

watched this , subscribed , like , shared , bell reminder , commented ....your the man

You can get alfalfa and chicken feed crumble from Tractor Supply for really cheap. Just make sure it doesnt have any medications added.

Just make sure that if you are using guano, make sure it’s ethically sourced because in some cases it disturbs the bats greatly

Well, I just purchased a ton of Alfalfa Hay for my guinea pigs...So, this comes on perfect timing. 😭 Guess I'm good in that department. 🥰

although I just found this video by looking at the explanation about this fertilizer it's very good, thank you

You are so helpful!! 🙏 Thank you!

I once read a book called Bartram’s Travels. I highly recommend it. He documents the indigenous farming practices of the time (late 18th century). One thing that always intrigued me was the practice of digging up oyster shells and spreading them on the surface of the soil

I always lean toward Espoma products. Thanks for going thru all the amendments- I really appreciated the explanations & indications for them! Much needed! Another great & timely video!

FASCINATING!

I'm in South Africa and in the summer I get bakkie/truck loads from the local elephant sanctuary - it's is crazy hot - heat wise as well, if you drop a bunch on dry grass it can start smothering with smoke. We have to wait at least 4 months before applying it into the soil.

Great video, I like to use "Garden tone" which has a bunch of the good stuff combined. I also make my own fish emulsion by chopping up some fish, throwing it in a bucket of water with about a cup of brown sugar. Let it fester for about 2 months stirring occasionally and when the rotten smell starts to turn more earthy it's ready to use. I've got some left over from last year and just threw some fresh fish in a new bucket to have more ready when I run out.

Thank you Kevin, great content👩🏼‍🌾

Rabbit Manure is amazing when direct feeding the plants.

My dad use egg shell and shrimp shells as fertilizer and they are effective.

Kevin you didn’t bring up horse manure. I just got a big load for free. It is mixed with hay from the stalls. I’ll use it in the bottom of my new raised beds over the logs. Cover with cardboard so I don’t start growing a garden full of hay. Then top with soil, compost with amendments then mulch. I’m planning my own EPIC garden this year!

I use Cotton Burr Compost. The plants love it.

I use bat guano and my plants love it. You can see the benefits right away

Good, clear rundown on fertilizers & amendments.

You Sir, are the best. Thank you.

Made a couple buckets of Comfrey tea this year. Dumped one full bucket into the compost pile, and add a bit to my watering can for any plant I'm hand-watering.

This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much.

Right on time video! Thanks for sharing

I like gardening I live in the north and I'm growing in containers but you can still use fertilizers and mulch

really enjoyed learning with you. and yes I did take notes. Thank you

I appreciate you and these videos. Thank you.

Love yr channel bro 👍🌹👍 So ... informative !! 🌴 Thank you so much 🍀👍🍀

I don't know how to continue middle of the lemon plant. I watched your video and I am going to buy it to the store. Thank you so much. 👌👌👌👌👌

This helps me so much. I have access to both cow and chicken. Now I know how to use it. Thank you.

I don't know why I expected to have a video about organic material fertilizer, but I am happy about the info either way :D

This was hugely enlightening as to the nature of organic fertilizer!