Why is Your Garden So Green????

I have a secret!

C.W.Morton

Jul 05, 2024

I have a secret!

Source : Straico AI. Prompt : A Gardener with a Fishy Secret.

I’ve always had a garden; from my first apartment to my first house in Washington, and every place in between.

Up until about 8 years ago my garden looked like almost everyone else’s.

Plants get disease, sometimes have yellowing leaves, sometimes burn from nutrients — I get plenty of veggies and fruit, sure — but the plants don’t always look lush and vibrant or “greenhouse healthy”.

Sometimes my plants struggled a lot.

But I just assumed this was normal.

After all, this is what most people’s gardens around me looked like.

It is what my dad’s garden looked like when I was growing up.

Healthy for a few weeks, then slowly…. it starts to be less healthy until you gather all the veggies you can for as long as you can and they eventually die out in the fall/winter.

I was using miracle grow soil brand sometimes, other times just using whatever soil was at the store and mixing it with whatever off-the-shelf brand fertilizer that Walmart or Home Depot promoted.

I, like many probably, assumed I was just horrible with plants, but perhaps just good enough to get some veggies, so who really cares how the plants look?

Right?

Then I changed what I was feeding them per recommendation I had from a friend in the cannabis industry.

The results were Night/Day.

I started using this >>

Source : Alaska Fish Fertilizer listing, Amazon

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This stuff is not like Miracle Grow or any other chemical fertilizers.

It seems very hard to overdose if you follow instructions, and seems to make my soils reusable for a long time. I don’t get nutrient burn, and my leaves are very lush.

They stay lush too, throughout fruiting and all the way to winter, until the cold itself finally kills my plants.

They don’t struggle and wither into the fall like they used to.

Caveat: This is a brown stinky sludge, gross to the max, and it might stain your whites. Heads up!

Two things make my plants perpetually lush and healthy :

Alaska Fish Fertilizer
Good spacing

Alaska Fish Fertilizer

The fish fertilizer is one of the most forgiving and easy to apply nutrients I’ve ever used. It takes care of everything and I do mean that.

I start by mixing a first batch in water and drenching the soil before I plant.

Then I plant.

Then I use it once a month at first, then increase to every two weeks when the plants are flowering and setting fruit.

Great for sprouts, or full grown plants, good at every stage of growth. No need for different formulas.

I use a 3 gallon watering can (actually an old cat litter jug), and mix about 1–2 cups of fish fertilizer into it.

You don’t have to be exact in measurement — if you go a little hot, it’s okay!!

You only need to administer every two weeks tops — and it lasts a while in the soil and provides nutrients that seem to prevent a lot of the plant diseases I used to see all the time.

I think this is because malnutrition sets the stage for various types of disease.

Best part — unlike chemical fertilizers that can impact flavor and give you weird tastes if you use them while the plants are fruiting — this fertilizer will not impact flavor and will only enhance it.

Some of the richest soil in the northwest is found where salmon have died or been eaten by bears and their remains discarded. In my opnion, it is the next best thing to volcanic soil!

Volcanic soil + Fish Fertilizer = head explodes.

Good Spacing

Ample spacing prevents disease like powdery mildew and other forms of disease that center around stagnant airflow and a build up of moisture in the wrong spots.

It helps control the spread of disease if you end up with a plant or two that succumb to something and you need to remove them.

This also helps roots find more soil without finding each other and fighting for resources.

It helps leaves find more light.

In short — spacing your plants does many good things and no bad things. It will only help to have your plants spaced a little more than you probably think you need to.

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