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Ways to combat higher fertilizer prices and sustaining ourselves in the long run.

 
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Blake Lenoir wrote: Good evening folks! How are you? I'm looking for ways to combat higher fertilizer prices in an organic fashion without the chemical types and help others cope with the uncertainty in the world right now.
How can we create fertilizer for commercial use without chemicals and help grow crops quickly into autumn? I wanna help my community and others as much as possible. Please reach me on this forum if you need me. Good night!



I don't know if this is what you're looking for, but I use a cheap fertilizer recipe that might be helpful. It makes 5 gallons of fertilizer in a day, and for me, it works wonders in a vegetable garden.

A spoonful of yeast
A half cup-ish of sugar
Luke-warm water

Put that in a jar overnight (make sure the lid is on loosely), and in the morning, put it in a 5-gallon bucket and dilute it with lukewarm water (make sure it is lukewarm! When the water's been too cold, it doesn't work for me). Now you can spread it in your garden.

I've always thought that if I were to use this on a semi-large-scale organic farm with enough people, I would buy one of those chemical sprayers people use for lawns and fill it with this stuff.

Hope I was helpful.
 
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Emil,

Very interesting idea - fungus on demand. Please share some details how the wonders manifest for your vegetables.
 
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A while back, I had the idea to grow winter rye in a comfrey bed, and use both for green manure:

https://permies.com/t/179522/Cover-crops-die-summer

The plan hinged on the way comfrey disappears over the winter.
I've yet to try it, but there's a bed at the community garden that could become a green manure bed.

I also have a biomass bed over at the yarden, delegated  thusly because of shade and a hostile neighbor.
Said neighbor sprays herbicide on anything that is higher than the privacy fence, so I've been planning a switch to low growing plants instead of the jchokes and "trash" trees I've been growing.
 
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