In this video, I share how to grow legumes to add free fertilizer to your garden! Legume plants have the ability to capture nitrogen from the atmosphere and fix it to their roots. This nitrogen fixation is possible due to a symbiotic relationship with Rhizobia bacteria in soil. Nitrogen collects in the roots and the nutrients can be incorporated as free fertilizers with proper technique!
This video explains how a legume plant fixes nitrogen from the air we breathe, how to inoculate legume seeds for planting if your soil does not colonize rhizobium bacteria, and how to properly incorporate old plants to fertilize a garden naturally.
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SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
How Legume Nitrogen Fixation Works: https://pubs.nmsu.edu/_a/A129/
How Rhizobium Converts Nitrogen to Ammonia: http://labs.bio.unc.edu/Vision/pmabs/rhizobium.activity2.pdf
TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 The Importance Of Nitrogen For Plants
1:14 How Legumes Fix Nitrogen From Air
3:24 How To Inoculate Legumes
4:13 The Best Nitrogen Fixing Legumes
6:00 How To Use Legumes As Fertilizer
8:36 3 Steps To Maximize The “Free Fertilizer”
10:52 Adventures With Dale
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0:00 The Importance Of Nitrogen For Plants
1:14 How Legumes Fix Nitrogen From Air
3:24 How To Inoculate Legumes
4:13 The Best Nitrogen Fixing Legumes
6:00 How To Use Legumes As Fertilizer
8:36 3 Steps To Maximize The "Free Fertilizer"
10:52 Adventures With Dale
Thank you for producing this amazing video.
I look forward to your videos and I learn alot about gardening from watching your channel. Thanks for sharing.
Have you ever had an issue with scorpions in your garden?
Still not telling me what Legumes are….. That is ok really don't need to know I guess😏😏…. Will continue to watch you
Very good to grow legumes. I grow pole beans and they keep producing until frost.
Keep us up to date please with the volenteer pepper!
As always, this video is loaded with useful information and there is no beating around the bush to give this valuable info. Thank you so much, keep doing what you do ❤
Dale’s NOT happy! 😂😂😂
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And more important than money, fertilizer usually is bad for the environment organic or conventional
Watch the glasses. Is that a dry erase board? 🕵🏻🔎🔎
Most if not all of the products you have in your Amazon store links in your description are not available. Amazon use to do this to my store too and I wasn't selling anything so I'm just curious if you are making any sales from your links or is something going on with Amazon?
Thumbs up for the gardening info and for Dale 🙂
In a way, the nitrogen nodules almost look like the knots created by root knot nematodes. Thank you for the helpful information, TMG!
I bought my Frenchie a baby pool for the hot Maryland summers and he wants NOTHING to do with it either!
I have planted asparagus this year they were supposed to be two year old crowns. When they started growing they weren’t even as thick ad a pencil. I have been letting them flower. I’ve seen some now look like they’re getting a little thicker. What should I do please ty
What fertilizer should I use for beans?
Poor Dale. He sure doesn't look very happy….😊
Could you perhaps use a worm farm for a source of cheap fertiliser? Or amend plants with a bucket of weed and offcuts soup that has been left to ferment over the course of several months?
For some reason our cucumber vines in our greenhouse will not stip making fruit. It flowers everyday too!. –What's growing on from REAP WHAT YOU SOW GARDENING
The new video quality is epic! You gotta be living the new camera. Thanks for breaking down what nitrogen fixing is so well. Ive heard of it but never explained so well
Thank you. You are brilliant.
I’d like to see another video done on using pee for fertilizer but with different ratios with a bunch of plants. That last test you did was too potent. Nobody recommends that high of a ratio. 6:1 to 8:1 are normal recommendations. Maybe do a 2:1, 4:1, 6:1, 8:1, 10:1 ratio.
I have a few tomatoes that are volunteers. One is growing in the rocks of my French drain.
Dale said, "Who's bright idea was this?" 🐕
Another great video
Weirdly, my beans are being absolutely demolished by treeehoppers of all things. I've tried several kinds of pest control but they are back after a few days.
You can plant gleditsias to dix nitrogen
So glad I found your channel. This is such a great idea. We as home gardeners can use the same concepts as farmers, just on a smaller scale. That pepper plant looks amazing. I'm really curious what it produces. Keep us updated.
Poor sweet Dale! He thinks he’s getting a bath! 😂😂😂🫧🧼