Saturday Morning With Jack Tame

In the old days, when I was a long-haired hippie (!!!) I used to make my own liquid fertiliser for the organic garden.Two reasons:1) it brought all sorts of elements into the top soil (beneficial for plants)2) the liquid in the barrel often had the most amazing life-forms living in it (especially rat-tailed maggots! – I’ll get into details in a later episode of “Jack’s weird and wonderful world”Main plants to add to the barrel-with-water:Weeds!Weeds grow in your garden because conditions are such that the weeds can flourish simply because they have the nutrients that might be lacking in the soil!!If you have lots of YARROW it might mean your soil could do with a bit of Phosphorus. Yarrow has deep roots that can grab phosphorus from way down in the soil and “bring it up”. Mind you it also has good amounts of Potash, plus the trace elements of copper and sulphur.COMFREY does a similar deep mining of the soil: it gets potash up to the surface.I have a lot of NETTLE in my garden – a sign of Nitrogen being leached