Weed tea

[davholla]

I have lots of weeds in the garden.  Can I just put them all in a bucket, leave them to ferment and then put the liquid on my soft fruit as a type of food?
Also I have turbo fruiter powder, would it be better to disolve it in water before feeding the fruit with it?

[davholla]

[galina]

I have lots of weeds in the garden.  Can I just put them all in a bucket, leave them to ferment and then put the liquid on my soft fruit as a type of food?
Also I have turbo fruiter powder, would it be better to disolve it in water before feeding the fruit with it?

Don't know about the fruiter powder, but liquid fertiliser is what I make and use a lot of.  I have a water butt with a tap at the base.  I have covered the base with stones to keep the tap clear of soil and debris.  First layer was the first crop of nettles, followed by the first cut of comfrey,  then more nettles and a second cut of comfrey.  There are still some good nettles at the bottom of the garden at the hedge where the lawn mower does not get to and I will fill up the butt with that as the other layers rot down.  The resulting concentrate is quite smelly but really perks up those seedling tomatoes that needed a boost, because their compost had come to the end of its nutrients.

Not sure about all weeds, but nettles and comfrey are recognised as very beneficial.

[Digeroo]

Some weeds are definitely not beneficial.  I made a tea using the perennial blue bell and everything it touched died more a sort of natural weed killer. 

I do drown bindweed and that seems to be ok though I did not put it on fruit.  Fruit takes so long to grow it takes too long to replace if you kill it.   I would experience with a potato plant if you loose one it is not a great loss.  I certainly pile up my weeds under the potatoes and rhubarb. 

I would suggest composting the weeds.

I sprinkled my turbo fruiter around but it did rather blow in the wind, so next time I waited until it was a calm damp day and used it then.    It was supposed to be raining today sp had plant another application to get the fruit to swell well.