Plants Not Growing? This Is How To SUPERCHARGE Your Fertilizer!

Great information, as usual! Thanks for all the effort you put into your videos. They're always so interesting and I always learn so much from you. And I love watching to the end to see Dale. 🥰

Great info as usual!!

In recent years, I've been using both synthetic and organic fertilizers at the same time. My plants have been noticeably happier.

Here in Seattle I start my tomato plants indoors and transplant them into the garden in mid to late April to get as early a start on the season as possible. The soil is too cool to make my organic fertilizer bio-available to the plants, so I also fertilize the tomato plants with Miracle-Gro when I first set out the plants. They settle in and grow much faster than when I used to use only organic fertilizer.

This video is packed with great info. Thanks!!

No more wondering about fertilizers for me... I got chickens!
Other options... Nettle fertilizer for nitrogen for early season and comfrey for later in the summer for blooming and fruiting. I like using everything natural (and free ;) )as much as possible

I started using Jacks 10-10-10 at the end of our brutal Texas summer this year after seeing you using it and oh boy did I see a growth difference! Good stuff! (during the hottest part of the summer I only used Vermistera liquid worm castings, and it was the life line they needed to get through. I highly recommend it)
🐾Love how Dale is licking his lips waiting for the treat😄

I need to.water...cant believe it..all chsnces of rain have fizzled for a year now.

I always mix soluble fertilizers at half strength and they seem to work well

This is the best explanation of how to use any fertilizer for ur garden in u tube channels….ur knowledge is greatly appreciated. Never get tired of listening to your talks. Thanks for sharing.😊

I try not to use these kind of fertilizers. I use homemade compost, nettle and comfrey tea ☕️

Marcus, you deserve kudos for this presentation! Your explanation of these challenges with fertilizer working properly is THE BEST! 💜💜

Very helpful video. I appreciate the "brownie" model!

Thanks for the knowledge, MG! 👍
I ordered 2 fig bushes in the fall of 22. I'm growing them in pots...Celeste and Violetta de Bordeaux. I got one fig...on the VDB. It took months to grow and ripen. I harvested it yesterday, and it was pretty tasty. 😋 Lots of with jelly as you say.😃
Thanks for turning me on to figs other than the Brown Turkey traditionally grown here.👍
Y'all have a beautiful Thanksgiving Day! Love to Dale! 💕

So should we not be making soil amendments in the fall? I always thought was the ideal time. I'm in zone 7

So simple and common sense points, but I didn’t even think about throwing my compost on top of my fertilizer. Thanks

I have a large tub with a lid (and drainage holes) filled with the soil I use to plant my veggies. I mix in organic granules and lightly water in every time I fill it.
By the time I use it it’s ready and also has lots of earth worms ready to go to work for me.
After planting, I like fish emulsion.

If you don’t mulch you’re missing the boat!
Love DR Earth organics!

When you mention soil temperature- at what depth do you aim for

Another reason that fertilizers may not work is ph. Soil that is above about 7 makes it difficult for plants to take up nutrients.

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Which part of Florida did you choose?

Question: have you ever made or considered making a video of your supply shed and what’s in it? Covering like your fertilizers and sprays you keep on hand and when they’re useful? Thanks for all your videos! Very inspiring

Thanks for another informative video. I have always been bad about fertilizing, this is also my first year living in a place with seasons. Something I've been seeing a lot this fall, is prepping beds for spring. They advise adding slow release fertilizer, compost and mulch. But will the fertilizer break down over winter and be ready for feed my spring garden?

I live in southern cali and those shade clothes are the difference between having food and no food 😂

Very informative, thank you! I definitely needed to hear this.

It's a good bet that the people who switched actually had delayed good results from the first fertilizer they used before switching, since it would still be decomposing and the new one wouldn't have had time to decompose yet.

A little late here. Just gotta chime in again and say your Alaskan Fish Poo and Jack's Blossom Booster combo this past season for my hot peppers, both in pots and beds, was mind boggling. Ex...I had 14 Black Habanero pepper plants in 7 gal pots and they all were 6-7 feet tall. My small garage freezer is packed with them now. Wish you lived closer so I could unload some on you😀

Great Video!
Thanks for the great tips!

This is hard. It doesnt get to 55 degrees soil until May.

Great info , thx

thank you ! so helpful

Even some of the most popular organic fertilizers are still obtaining some of their ingredients from GMO sources. Cotton seed is GMO. Soy is, most of the time, GMO or highly processed. Bloodmeal, bonemeal, are usually from the meat industry, which is 80% GMO and glyphosate tainted, depending on the animal feed and the quality of the pasture. Pasture raised dairy cows are still fed supplementally, while they are being milked. Microbes, fungi, bacteria, although they do not have brains are highly intelligent. Seems at times more than the humans. They either know what they need or different genetic codes within that whole system just shut off because of all the various genetic modifications that, at this point in history, is difficult to trace. I am learning how to apply all this information and realizing that although there are so many companies and choices, I don’t have many choices when it comes to growing my own food the way that I want to, without doing a ton of research first.

Organic Fungi compost is interesting 🤔🍄

Excellent! Many thanks.

Alaska fish 5.1.1 has went to $27

Thanks. Great video. You're an awesome critical thinker. Most gardening channels lack good critical thinking. A+ here!

Would it be wise to make a 'tea' with your compost and granular fertilizer?

Well done!

I like garden-tone, it has strains of bacteria in the fertilizer already. But I usually make worm tea because it’s amazing.

Does the fish fertilizer draw raccoons!

🤯🤯🤯Mind Blown. Im a new gardener and I cannot believe all this info I never would have never known! Thank you!

Have you used Neptune’s Harvest? Love to know your thoughts, it’s supposed to be less smelly than 5-1-1.

This is excellent! Thank you!!!❤

This video was or is extremely helpful. So much valuable information. Thank you.

Unless you're in a "grassy field" that's a prairie and the biomass accumulation to breakdown is really high and equal which far outweighs a forest floor 😬

Fantastic... thanks so much for the vital information!