Using Fish Emulsion or Fish Fertilizer in the Garden

what's up everybody and welcome back to the channel today we're talking about using fish fertilizers in your vegetable garden you're not going to want to miss this one [Music] so before we jump in it would truly mean the world to us if you would hit that like button it does wonders for the channel now back to the fish food now one of the reasons i really like using fish fertilizers is because they are a type of water soluble fertilizer which means once you mix these up in water and pour them on your plant the roots absorb it almost instantly i've talked about using other fertilizers like blood meal or other forms of compost and they're great too but they're an insoluble fertilizer and they usually take one to two weeks to break down now this is not a knock on these type of fertilizers i think for best results you should be using both now on most fertilizers you're going to find the npk content and that is the three numbers represented on the labels now this neptune's organic harvest fish fertilizer is a type of hydrosylate fertilizer which we're going to get into the differences between that and a fish emulsion later on in the video but it contains a 2 4 and .5 ratio and this is the percentage of nitrogen which is the first number that promotes foliage or top growth the second number is four which is your phosphorus which is going to promote root growth and the 0.5 is the percentage of potassium and that's what really regulates the water nutrient and carbohydrate content in the plant tissue okay so what are the differences between a fish emulsion and a fish fertilizer first off they both work great they're both fertilizers that get the job done the main differences are in the manufacturing process so the way in which most companies manufacture fish emulsion is they take the fish and they boil it or cook it under high heat and then they remove all the beneficial oils in contrast a hydrolysate fertilizer is one hundred percent liquefied fish that's right there are no oils or proteins removed the fish go through a natural cold pressed liquefaction process and then after that the liquid is screened and then bottled up and it's ready for sale now i'm not here to argue in this video which is better but i do know that a lot of gardeners prefer the hydrosalt process because they argue during the heating process of an emulsion fertilizer many of the oils and proteins are lost i do like the idea of a cold pressed process so today i'm going to be using neptune's harvest hydrolyzed fish fertilizer i really like this brand a lot because they stress the fact that they use a lot of different species of north atlantic fish as opposed to just one species using several species of fish will give you a much better analysis profile you'll have a full range of nutrients vitamins enzymes and growth hormones if you'd like to try this stuff out for yourself i will have an amazon link down in the description that'll take you right to the product listing now let me go ahead and show you what this stuff looks like it's got like a light brown thick texture to it the ratio is two tablespoons per gallon this is a two gallon watering can so i'm going to add a couple more or a few more rather tablespoons and you would think that this stuff smells really bad another good thing about the neptune's bran i don't know what they're doing but it doesn't have that bad of an odor gotta wait for that hose to cool off it's like molten lava coming out of this hose right now [Applause] and now i'm pretty much just going to pour this on every vegetable i got watermelons cantaloupes peppers squash zucchini okra tomatoes you name it [Music] pretty much used the whole two gallons on these eight tomato plants so i've got more to mix don't worry too much about burning your plants as long as you got this mixed right just give them a good soaking and don't worry about over fertilizing and in about two to three weeks i'll give it to them again all right guys there you go an organic way to fertilize your vegetable garden while resting assured that your plants are getting all the nutrients that they need if you like this video would you consider hitting that subscribe button and notification bell that way you'll get future updates about every time we release videos like this until next time become a plant person

Channel: S&K Greenhouse

Views: 58,341

Keywords: garden, fishemulsion, fishfertilizer, gardening, gardentips, howto, vegetablegarden, vegetables, neptune, sharvest

Id: oDXZYiyi6mA

Length: 5min 17sec (317 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 08 2021