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Hoping to find some resources for concoctions to brew for my garden. Nettle water is the classic, but there’s a lot of other options.

Does anyone know of a good resource listing what plants to brew for what nutrients? Or am i overthinking it and should just throw them together?

Generally calling out for pdfs and spreadsheets with dense information regarding what plants want and/or contain which nutrients.

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[-] punksnotdead@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately they're videos, not PDFs, but this might be useful:

Make fertiliser from weeds: https://youtu.be/DKoKC0vGkPo

Using wood ash in your vegetable garden: https://youtu.be/judMZBW9uSI

Make fertiliser from fish scraps: https://youtu.be/6BOGxGv8ZfE

Feeding your plants for free: https://youtu.be/0cUc_FKQq7M

I'm not affiliated with this channel in any way, I just like their presentation style.

[-] Kaffeburk@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Thank you! By what I saw before I got served an ad I will enjoy this content (on my pc with adblock) I just suck at remembering and confidently executing all the various dos and donts from videos I’ve seen over the ye. Which is why I’m holding out hope someone compiled the mega spreadsheet of goodness. Maybe there’s a wiki out there waiting to be found.. too bad searching is impossible.

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I've whipped up a basic, text-only tutorial from the transcripts of each video, if that's helpful to the community:

  1. Make Fertilizer From Weeds

  2. Using Wood Ash In Your Vegetable Garden

  3. Making Fertilizer From Fish Scraps

  4. Feeding Your Plants For Free

Bonus! Here's a basic Dos & Don'ts from these four videos! 🖖🏼🤓

  1. Homemade Organic Fertilizer - Dos & Don'ts

p.s. The viewing password for all above is OP's username copied w/ the at. 👩🏽‍🔬🧑🏿‍🔬👨‍🔬

[-] Kaffeburk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Edit to add; i think i found something very akin to what I’m looking for. Dynamic accumulators is the new word of the week!

https://buildasoil.com/a/blog/9813606-free-spreadsheet-list-of-dynamic-accumulators-and-nutrient-content

I found some further information in pdf form. Still hoping to find some dense spreadsheet that can come along easier than a booklet tho.

Not vetted or even fully read the links yet just posting if others are curious. https://www.sare.org/wp-content/uploads/Compost-Tea-Manual.pdf

https://dn721502.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-book-of-tea_202508/The%20Compost%20Tea%20Brewing%20Manual.pdf

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