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Hey guys! It’s Phil from SmilingGardener.com and I’m finally back at the garden here,
talking about sea fertilizer today. It was a bit of an anxious year because I broke new
ground and put in a new vegetable garden this year. And I basically, I planted a bunch of
stuff mostly in June and seeded a bunch of stuff and I left for ended up being about
five weeks and it’s at my parents’ house.
So my parents were here to water it for the most part but they weren’t here all the
time and you know when you put in a garden, a vegetable garden you wanna be here every
day. There’s all kinds of things you wanna do every day so I was a little nervous about
how it was gonna turn out. It turned out actually, turned out, worked out really well especially
for a first year on new soil.
The soil is not all that great yet and you know I’m working on it with things like
sea fertilizer, but I guess you can see part of it behind me here, there’s some green
and herbs. I really like to plant things all together really biodiverse not straight rows.
So I have, you know, I have 30 plants behind me right here. That’s mostly greens and
herbs, so that turned out great. And I also show you more about that for the coming weeks
and months.
Today, what I want to talk about was, oh! If you haven’t picked up the 50 Vital Organic
Gardening Lessons for Becoming a Better Organic Gardener, you can do that at SmilingGardener.com,
right on the main page. I’m sure you had heard me talked about that before.
And today what I want to talk about is, one of the first things I did when I came back
is I put together a concoction and I sprayed my plants. And if you guys have been watching
me for a while, you’ll know that I like to do a lot of foliar feeding and spraying
directly on to the plants. And today, I wanna talk about one of the ingredients that I like
to use.
And the reason I started thinking about this was last night my dad was asking me about
the health benefits and environmental implications of eating fish and things like that because
my wife is a holistic nutritionist. And she and I work together teaching people about
health and things like that. And he was asking about fish and he was asking about trout and
I started thinking about the research by Dr. Maynard Murray.
He was an ear, nose and throat doctor who did a lot of research in the ocean because
he was dejected! All the people who were coming to him with all kinds of diseases and diabetes
and arthritis and things like that, and eventually his research took him to the ocean where he
found that ocean trout live quite a long time.
They didn’t get any cancer, they got pretty big where as lake trout were smaller. They
on average they were getting cancer after I think it was 5 and a half years is what
its averaged out to be. I think it was lung (liver) cancer so eventually his research
led him to believe that all of the, the fact that all of our minerals eventually make their
way into our oceans. It’s a very mineral rich place, it’s the reason why the life
in the ocean is so much healthier than the life on land. So he started getting the navy
to bring in railroad cars of ocean water.
He bought a farm. And he was doing experiments on his farm watering and he just noticed huge
improvement in the health of his plants. You know bigger yield, much less pest infestations,
healthier plants all around, that tasted better and stored longer and things like that.
So I got really excited about sea fertilizer and I think what I am going to do today is
post on my blog on how you can go about using ocean water or you can purchase a product
to use it. And if I post it on my blog that way I can show you how like the amount to
use and how to dilute it and things like that. So, if you’re not already watching it here,
if you’re on YouTube or something you can go, I’ll put a link below to this blog post.
See, you can use ocean water but he eventually started using more concentrated forms and
what’s going on today is products like this that don’t look all that nice. It’s just
ocean water but it’s very concentrated ocean water, its very pristine and this one is called
Sea-Crop, it’s the brand name, and I think It’s one of the best, it’s the one that
I always used.
I’m sure there are a lot of other ones out there that are good too; and really what it
is, it’s ocean water, so it’s you know, over 80 minerals from the ocean.
The way they make this one is there’s other organic living substances in there too. You
know just bioactive substances, and really really super amazing to use in the garden.
On the blog I’ll show you how.
The research the he did, if you wanna learn more about the research and just so much proof
out there about how this works, you could read his book “Sea Energy Agriculture”,
where he covers a lot of the research, one that always sticks in my mind about this product,
the Sea-Crop is it was use in an independent trial on tomatoes and they got 89% more tomatoes
on their plants and 44% bigger tomatoes. So just a lot more yield and not just yield,
you know it’s also about improved health and taste and storage and all that kinds of
stuff.
So, yeah I post on the blog more about this and I also talked this there are some questions
people often have about, you know, some of them they are a little bit concerned about
using what is a, maybe salty product on their gardens. So, I’ll address it there. I just
don’t want this video to become too long.
So I’ll put a link below to that. You could also when you’re there, you can pick up
the 15 Vital Lessons for Becoming a Better Organic Gardener - just some lessons that
I learned earlier on when I was studying this stuff that I thought were really cool. So
I put them all together for you for free.
And I will be showing lots more videos about this garden over the next little while, I
just--I’m excited to get in here we’re eating from it every day all kinds of good
stuff. So, that’s all for now and I’ll see you next week.