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Sunday, April 9, 2017

Seedling

Habanero

Nopale

Lemon Basil

Jerusalem Artichoke/ Sunchoke

Thursday, April 6, 2017

Using Molasses for Your Garden

This is a quick overview how I use my molasses. The molassre agricultural grade, which are use to feed livestocks, therefore are safe to use in our organic garden.

Use is as foliar spray or direct drench unto the soil.

1. Direct Molasses Foliar Spray or Root Drench.

Blackstrap molasses is high in calcium, magnesium, iron and potassium. It also contains sulfur and a host of micronutrients. Using molasses as fertilizer provides plants with a quick source of energy and encourages the growth of beneficial microorganisms.

The second way molasses controls insects, is by being directly ingested by the insect. What most people don’t know is that only Sugar Ants and bees can easily process the simplest sugars. Insects have no way of expelling the gas that builds up from fermenting sugar and the vegetation in their gut. Plus, they have exoskeletons and can't get bloated. Their delicate internal organs are crushed from the inside out.

2. Cultivate EM. (Re-Cultivate EM1)

Effective Microorganisms (EM) are mixed cultures of beneficial naturally-occurring organisms that can be applied as inoculants to increase the microbial diversity of soil ecosystem. They consist mainly of the photosynthesizing bacteria, lactic acid bacteria, yeasts, actinomycetes and fermenting fungi.

You can dilute EM1 with un-chorinated water to spray or drench your plants. EM1 can further be process to make EM2. Example, EM1 + Water + Flours to make Bokashi Starter.

3. Fermenting Fruit Peel Enzyme.

This is basically fermented fruit and vegetable peels. It can be used to save a lot of money on detergents, can keep your home drains clear, and can fertilize your garden and kill pests.

Add EM1, Molasses and Un-chlorinated water into the bucket of fruit peels, cover it and let them ferment. After 2 weeks, it is ready to use.

4. Cultivate Bacillus ssp.

If you Google Bacillus ssp for plant growth you can see tons of info from plant health, root growth to drought tolerance benefits.

My was given by a friend who own a Musang King Orchard which he and his peers are using this widely in their orchard.

Am using molasses and rain water to cultivate them in the anaerobic environment.

5. Brewing Worm Tea.

"A primary reason for producing a compost tea is to transfer microbial biomass, fine particulate organic matter, and soluble chemical components of compost into a solution that can be applied to plant surfaces and soils in ways not possible or economically feasible with solid compost."[USDA Compost Tea Task Force Report, April 2004]

While a compost extraction can be made by simply stirring, it's made even better if continuous oxygen is incorporated into this "compost broth" which can increase the original numbers of microbes into the billions. This is known as AACT or actively aerated compost tea.In this case, worm tea.

The above statement says it all.

How I make it, Wormcasting + Molasses + Mountain Water/Rain Water + Aeriation for 48 hours

6. Others (Which I have yet to start)

Excellent for making fish, seaweed etc amino acid foliar spray. Also as ground cover. Or speeding up breakdown of animal manures /composting.