Posts by dagoofman

anything with a tight sealing lid buckets, jars whatever

there is really good info in the jadam book on composting humanure iv also learned from others that time is what it take to process humanure lots of time even in the jadam method i think it says 1 yr to process if using a dry method id almost say wait 2 yrs before putting it in the garden time is the key

i use KNF/Jadam in all my raised beds in the deep ones i use a hugel method to fill the raised beds and IMO compost on top works great

iv been fertigating through a hose end sprayer for a yr now and it works great u just have to get the solutions correct for your sprayer the one i use has a dial so i adjust the sprayer to the solution i feel that even with overspray im just feeding the soil microbes and the plant so it cant hurt id guess and KNF is cheep enough that spraying extra outdoors through fertigation is not a big deal the only draw back is that unless u r mono cropping u r losing some of the nuance of KNF so i really only tend to fertigate 2-3 solutions on the regular leaf & growth (fat) and root & structure (skinny) i also do soil prep solution through the fertigation those i feel r more of a overall that every plant needs then i go to a pump sprayer during fruiting and ripening to tend to what each plant needs in that cycle of life if u r doing more of a mono crop in your fields id think fertigation would work really well i got the idea from a Drake KNF vid dont remember which vid it was they where making solutions and someone mentioned that one of the guys there uses fertigation for there solutions and they had just done the math to get the ratios right and its worked well for me   happy experimenting

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-Denatured alcohol is ethanol with additives or chemicals that make it taste bad or smell bad so that nobody drinks it. Remember, ethanol is poisonous if it is consumed in large quantities, so ingredients such as methyl ethyl ketone, acetone, and denatonium are added to make sure that doesn’t happen.-

first we have to remember is in KNF if u cant eat it dont use it IMO excluded (dont eat IMO) also in the recipe it calls for a 70 proof only about 35% alcohol this is to tincture the herbs properly and not strip n burn the materiel im sure theres a number of reason as to y its done this way tincturing herbs has been done for 100s of yrs id guess that most mistakes have already been made and the process is pretty sound

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there are some online classes and stuff u can do there but the final parts really do require a hands on approach i too wish there was another way but i understand to get it perfect u really need to be there and learn hands on so u can teach correct theres only so much u can learn with out being hands on with someone

-This is the way- The Mando

grew up in FL so iv seen a lot of this shelf mushroom on palms and once it gets in the tree it eats the heart of the tree if u r seeing mushrooms its to late the tree is dead in 3-5 yrs its gonna fall so if its close to your home or anything where its a risk when it falls its best to remove it sooner then later on the plus side the farmers used to love the palm stumps and would leave a couple ft or so of stump and build garden plots around them -use the gifts nature gives to u-

now if u r trying to save other trees around that one that might not be infected yet i would suggest using a natural soil fungicide like (bacillus amyloliquefaciens) a bacteria to get rid of the fungus in the soil then bring in collected IMOs from a trusted place to re introduce better fungus i only say to try the bacillus first other then bringing in just IMOs is that that shelf fungus is so proliferate in the soil that it might out compete the IMOs u bring in and not rid u of the problem fast enough to save the other trees

happy experimenting

for IMO 3 the basic idea is 50/50 carbon (home) and carbs (food) this can be any form of the 2 for example i once used shredded cardboard (carbon) and some old flour from the cupboard (carbs) and propagated some IMO3 for my compost was it the best NO did it work yes and o did my compost pile love it so it really depends on what u have what u can get i think it was rolled oats or crimped oats that chris trump was using in one of his vids u can get it pretty cheep at feed stores in the states its both carbon and carbs in 1 bag just remember KNF is about using whats around u whats cheep or even better FREE

Happy Experimenting

is there no dirt in your yard even if its mostly sand or clay any place where weeds or grass grows or thats not a pure sandbox i ask cause IMO4 is about using your native dirt to teach the microbes to live in it to acclimate them even if its poor dirt u r adding what it needs for it to go from dead dirt to living soil so that when u add it to your yard or gardens its got a head start on living in that environment and transforming the poor dirt into amazing soil if your yard is a pure sandbox wherever u r collecting IMOs maybe u could grab a few buckets of dirt and make your IMO4 out of that to add to whatever above ground beds u r using ….and if nothing else works and u just have to buy bags of dirt id say get the cheap top soil but this is not recommended and would be a last resort plan Z type thing any kind of native dirt would be better   remember that about 50% of IMO4 is IMO3 so u r adding organic matter and microbes to dirt to make acclimated soil

theres a Jadam recipe page 211 for crabshell JLF 1 part shell powder 10 parts water (by weight) add some grass and a handful of leaf mold soil let set longer then 3 months use at 50-500Xs dilution