How I make soil bacteria for my veggie garden - Part one

g'day I'm standing here with bare feet and dirty heads usually I'm working as a photographer you call me a nature photographer because for the last 35 years I've been traveling around the world making images that can inspire people to get out in nature to connect with them but in Matt's 2020 I was stuck at I am like most people that put a spanner in the works but that ended up being a good thing because it gave me the opportunity to fulfill a dream I've had for a long time of having a garden that I could grow my own wonderful colorful natural fresh organic food so I did the good thing is that the photographer part of me GoPro start recording and still be using all this camera gear that I've been accumulating over the years so now I can share the journey with you [Music] [Applause] it all began with the bare heel and an idea a we D he'll actually secluded deep in the Australian bush far away from many town and even further from a city cows here have been keeping most of the weeds down and they've been pooping everywhere which has been really good for the soil I think they like it up here on the way sunny great you I moved here from Denmark about 18 months ago and at that time I knew very little about the local seasons and the local bugs in fact apart from my mother teaching me about how plants get their energy from the Sun which I remember only because it's called photosynthesis and a little bit about how high on earthworms and cow manure on you pretty much zilch of our gardening and I started putting up an electric fence here to keep the cows out by the way these videos I want to make are not meant to be how-to videos but rather videos that I just want to share of my own enthusiasm of watching how plants respond to human care of nature and to convey that enthusiasm through my camera motivate people to get back to the garden and connect with nature and we discover how amazingly in reaching in actual years when I began the journey a whole new world opened up to me when my body is grounded and I was eating food that I've grown myself will have a taste of it mmm really and truly into another state but well-being and that's the journey I want to share the witty garden it's all about trial and error I love to make experiments and in the coming videos I want to share some of my experiments which all going well will end up helping me to see if plants are sensitive sentient beings just like us I had planned to make an episode on how to get rid of caterpillars the organic way so I asked some of the locals what they did in of course a Google search result came up time and time again chilli and garlic spray garlic and chilli spray so I went and picked some chillies got my hands on a bunch of garlic which I munched up with an axe in a bucket I made a fire to simmer it all for a while and thought I was doing great I sprayed it all over my greens but the next day there was still caterpillars munching away on my plants so I did it all again mainly you see I've been a stupid either here in the bush there are lots of birds around during the day so caterpillars seem to hide and rest in the center and the best way to see the caterpillars is the poo they leave poo on the leaves you see if you can't see it like straight on there then you take a look underneath the leaf then you'll see in here look see at night however when the birds are sleeping caterpillars were still binge feeding on my garden of baby broccoli oh good idea was back here at nighttime looking from grubs little fella they're so small so I did an experiment and put two broccoli leaves in front of my camera I sprayed one of the leaves with my homemade organic chilli and garlic spray and not the other then I put a handful of the hungry culprits in with them a day later it was obvious the spray was useless it ended up being a daily routine of collecting caterpillars by hand and taken them far away from the edibles Celia mates ago mate be careful apart from the caterpillars on the broccoli for a few weeks in May everything seems to be doing great so I think I'm on the right track with this anyway most interesting thing that I've learned so far and also the craziest thing I've heard is that every single plant here in this garden get their food from bacteria farts yeah bacteria fur a healthy soil is full of bacteria that eat all the dead organic matter and it's their farts that the plants live on who would have thought that all right the way I see it is like this let's start with the word compose the song is composed of any number of notes in any number of combinations and the photograph is also composed of light an angle color.we aha in a sense also a composition of natural elements that all derive from the earth itself so too are the plants in fact every single living organism is a composition of natural elements that exists all around us now let's look at the word decomposed the exact opposite to take all those elements and separate them again back to their original form of carbon nitrogen potassium magnesium sulfate and so on so forth just like you on your periodic table so when a plant or an animal dies we all know that it decomposes but what is actually happening underneath the ground well you have earthworms and bugs and all sorts of things that eat and die and get eaten and at the end of that food chain there are the tiny tiny little things you can't even see with your naked eye a soil bacteria they are basically the end of the food chain in the animal kingdom they release will break down those elements back into the soil so the plant kingdom can take them in through the roots it just smells like a fresh forest in the morning check it out see if you look at the close up of all the microbes and start the same cycle of life and death composition and decomposition again so a healthy living soil is full of soil bacteria releasing the elements back to be reused by the plant kingdom so far so good and my plants are powering it seems they love my soul bacteria so I reckon the first episode should start with how I make soil bacteria so it's very very simple to make a hundred liters of this stuff which is heaps by the way and will probably last you for years will take 21 days what I did is I started with two litres of water and 1/2 kilo of white wine the statue rises when it is just wash the rice in the water for a while strain off the rice and then cover the top with a little cloth [Music] put it in the cupboard for seven days put the rice in the fridge because you can use it for dinner [Music] after seven days in the cupboard at half a liter of full cream organic Dairy Milk don't use coconut milk soy milk almond milk cashew milk anything other than dairy milk as of won't work you need the lactose bacteria in the dairy milk right they apparently eat all the bacteria we don't want so give it a stir and pop it back in the cupboard again for another week it'll end up separating into curd and whey keep the way and give the curd to your chickens if you have any they'll love it or give it to Miss Muffet don't throw the way away because you need the way you want to take the way which will be around 2.3 liters and put it in a drum that can hold 100 litres add the same amount of molasses about 2.3 liters and then fill the drum up with water to 100 litres if you want to make a smaller batch of say like 20 litres you can get a 20 liter drum at Bunnings and you could just use half a liter of way and half a liter of molasses with 19 meters of water when you take the lid off you have soil bacteria by the trillions and you can use them straight away just take 100 mils of it in an oil in a bucket and add water I use this to water around the base of my plants and imagine it's like pouring in busloads of tourists to the Forbidden City that are all going to eat and far so the plants get healthy and happy for my troubles [Music] it doesn't stop there either once you have your soil bacteria base you can take it to the next level and use it to make you free organic fertilizers I've got one that's called chicken sh1t now the one that I call seaweed I wanna call comfrey I'll explain how to make those and also how I use it to speed up my compost making a compost can take months and months but when you use soil bacteria it speeds up that natural process to just 21 days that's got certain ingredients too so I'll show you how I make my fertilizers and my compost so we're getting our soil ready to plant our vegetables and and I'll show all that in my next episode so stay tuned and we'll take it to the next level hope you enjoyed the video and learned something I'd be inspired to get your own garden going it's really simple beautiful happy healthy plants welcome to the Wheatley garden channel have a nice day and I'll catch you later

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Length: 11min 52sec (712 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 23 2020