hey everyone you're here with mark bowell on perfect gardens tv this month we're going to
be getting into soil amendments and you might be asking me mark i just harvested why are we getting
into soil amendments and this message really goes to the people where their environments drop below
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right for free speech thank you so much everyone what do i mean by that right it's about going out
there getting your amendments and actually tilling them into your soil now in a sense pre-cooking the
season so when it freezes over and your microbes shut down and it begins to thaw back up for those
few weeks before putting those seeds into the ground those microbes begin to come alive the
ice is melting and the microbes have enough time to eat their food and begin to poop out
the trace minerals that your plants are going to need and normally that's anywhere from two
to three weeks minimum so in this series we're going to be getting into it with dave hansen
and he's actually built out an incredible excel spreadsheet that's going to help you walk through
the down to earth amendment line as well as we have a special guest coming up that's going to
be breaking down licensing regulations in canada and more about the guy green product line in
this video though let's go ahead and get into it with dave hey what's up everybody my name is dave
hanson as mark stated that i made a spreadsheet that's going to outline down to earth's organic
products this was made in lou communicating with our community people that wanted to transition
into the organic field and it could be a little intimidating once we start seeing the products
myself i like to use down to earth it's a very great product a very consistent product
and my goal in making this spreadsheet was to put the information in front of the viewer um they can
print it out they can put it in a file they can catalog it in the three hole punch but the main
thing is to have that information in front of them because when they're going to be transitioning
into this organic world it's important for me to inform the people to know what they're amending
their soil with whether it's in the beginning when they're just starting off their soil or it's uh
top dressing or if they want to eventually get into teas we should know the contents and how to
apply it so when these deficiencies potentially come up in our garden we can look back at these
notes and we can we can say well maybe i'm having a nitrogen deficiency i've asked and
consulted multiple people and that's what we're feeling what can i have well we can look at this
and break it down and see simple things like black guano and other variants of things that we can top
dress or make teeth with so if mark wants to pull that off i can kind of show that sure 100 hey dave
what part do you want to cover first on this excel spreadsheet so i'll just start from the beginning
and and how down to earth breaks out their products so if you're just getting into organics
i highly recommend that you kind of follow the down-to-earth blended fertilizers so let's look at
the let's say vegetable gardens 444 what they're doing is basically blending and providing you
all their independent products in one so if we look at the 444 you're going to see right next
to the icon that we are going to see the npk value and then any micronutrients as well that
is associated with that product so in this case you know we have four percent nitrogen and 2.2
of that is water soluble so basically meaning that when you mix in water that it's going to
be a little bit more readily available than the insoluble but we can look over to the right-hand
side in the bold black where we see that it's composed of fish bone meal alfalfa meal feather
meal langdonite basalt potassium sulfate dolomite and kelp and why this is important because as you
enter into the organics and you start breaking these individual products down it's going to help
you transition into those problem times when you have deficiencies where you potentially can look
at like a calcium deficiency and say well what can provide me calcium i don't necessarily need
to add the pork well fish bone meal feather meal these are things that are going to allow you to
transition back into your your grow with lesson deficiencies in the green we're going to see
that we have the recommended amount that you should be applying to it now in this case i only
put the directions for potted plants or container plants so if you're amending your outside garden
and or other variances other than your pots then i highly recommend that you click the link which
every picture will bring up the website for that individual product and then further your
knowledge because what i'm providing you is the outline of the product and if we go
into the product we can go into guaranteed analysts we can go to application rates
and even download so if there's something that you're going to have forever in your
in your repertoire your your army of nutrients then you can download and once again
add this to your folder into your organization so when problems do come up or you're just trying to
further your knowledge of these products you can easily click the link and then transition
into these webpages you know dave not to not to interrupt you just to add a couple things i mean i
love your excel spreadsheet because even the down to earth website it is a little overwhelming you
know it i come here all the time i'm looking for stuff that i'm like oh the acid what's that what
acid mix what's that one what's the bio fish and i wish it was just there's more pictures and it
kind of correlates with the fertilizer and then i click on it it takes time to kind of upload
yeah and then they have the video and so on but then when i pull up your spreadsheet it's
like exactly what you said it just and it has what i need to kind of make a decision
because i see the fishbone meal the after alpha meal and i'm like okay well i think i might be
missing some insta insect flasks you know and it allows me to really quickly say okay i got my base
and because we're talking about right like you said like amending the soil and creating a super
soil or a top feed if you're starting with this this allows you to really quickly like pull your
excel straight sheet back let me and then you can start to select the other amendments and this is
what i've seen right i drop down and i see the single amendment yeah so ingredients yep so as
you drop down and down to earth did a really nice job even on the web page they break it down so on
your left hand side they have their individual minerals so your dolomite line your gypsum
and your your normal line and once again we're going to see those values of the calcium sulfur
and the percentages and what they're derived from what they're and then of course adding uh how to
apply it to to your garden and then if we continue down we're going to have the single ingredients
so these are the same ingredients that the base nutrient that they're using when they formulated
the 444 they composed it of these single ingredients and where this is going to help you
and to create an advantage if you're if you're thinking long term in your garden where you want
to reuse the soil like myself then after a seed to harvest you might have to amend it again with
some and these are where people can kind of experiment a little bit do side by sides and
we're okay let me try crab meal it's a 4-3-0 okay it derives from crab meal so we have the nitrogen
we have phosphate and we have of course a higher percentage of calcium so one thing to also note
is that depending on what ingredient that you're going to be picking is how fast is it going to
potentially break down and become available for your plant so things like oyster shells i know
from my experience i hear a lot of people say just go to a tractor supply store and buy some
ocean shelves and it's true i had chickens and and i buy them but those chunks were pretty big and
that calcium is not going to be available right off the bat it's high calcium it's 35 but you have
to remember depending on your microbial life and what you've created in the upfront how much work
you put up front and how much your soil and your plants communicating to break these things down
i look at certain things in my eyes like oyster cells as a long-term benefit so i'm using my soil
over and over and whether i'm adding a little fresh soil because i need more to fill my pots
i'm going to see pieces of oyster shells grow after growth it's not going to just all the sun
vanish these are these are things they're going to break down but where this comes into an advantage
is because over time you can amend these soils and you can transition into your new grow and
these are things that are still becoming available and are more readily available than when you just
topdressed it so things like oyster shells your top dressing with oyster shells probably not going
to be that much it's not going to be ready for you know that growth most likely it makes complete
sense what you're saying like if you can see it it's not available to your plant yeah you know i
mean but as it as your is it goes down it's going to create spacing in your humic layer it's going
to the microbes would break up and like you said you put it in for not this season but next season
you know and it makes a lot of sense actually i i really like that viewpoint yeah and ultimately
when you're when you're starting out if you're a new organic grower these are decisions and that's
why i recommend it in the beginning to start with a blended they do a great job they they
have people that that tested these products and and then they combine them in certain percentages
to give you ultimately the best results and then when we go to the single ingredient
um let's say i'm transitioning into flour and i might notice that maybe i have a slight magnesium
deficiency there's things like langdonite that i can use and if we break that down it's really nice
because it's the soluble potash so we remember we talked about soluble and insoluble it's 22 soluble
so these are things that are going to help you up front really quick and then we have the magnesium
we have the sulfur and we have to you know break these individual things down so sulfur is good
for the formation of amino acids and the proteins and the oil production so if we're transitioning
into flower we're noticing this language night could be a great option for you and see how it
how it how it performs in your plant me personally if i'm introducing something for the first time i
personally do a half dose just to make sure that my plant is going to react to it okay and that
it's not going to be too much i'd rather be on the law of minimal than overdoing it and causing a
toxicity so that's just one thing that i recommend is is a half dose but once again this information
is right in front of you we can break it down we can read the words over and over to ourselves
so that we understand them you know i am really looking forward to this david so just to look
forward to what's going to be happening in the um it could be two videos it could be five videos
this video is just going to be an introduction to this excel spreadsheet that is actually
only available for the members on the member side although what dave is going to be doing
is he's going to be coming here and we're going to be creating some content on each and every
one of down to earth's products just because i do have paid member clients and i do have to protect
their intellectual property at the same time too though some of these guys are willing to
share their information in one way or another so david i really look forward to bringing on
to the channel again and breaking down the rest of these fertilizers and what what's in them and kind
of how to use them because everything you kind of did right there you just you created a really nice
beautiful formula you know it's like oh how do you use this how do you recommend that blah blah and
it made a lot of logical sense so i'm i'm really looking forward once again to making these short
videos with you and introduce you more to this channel um so they get to know you over time so
you can become more of a content creator thank you so much thank you appreciate you dave have
a good one thank you please remember to like share and subscribe have a great girl everyone
i have an opinion on that one too but i i it's not definitive and it's not exact my
my couple things is my primary is flower den or flower density ratio compared to
chlorophyll on the on the on the flower that's my thought process of why there is a haze smell