Anyone Using Alaska Fish Fertilizer?

[JIMKSI64]

I put them in the garden, too. What enters the garden, is absorbed by it.
I put 2 ground hogs , 3 opossum, 3 trash panda's in my garden last year alone. One being a alpha female that got into my attic. Was like confronting a small grizzly bear, in a closed environment

If left unchecked in my parts, they can devistate the small yards n gardens in my neighborhood.

Fixing sauffett, and gutters every year gets old and costly. A pellet is cheaper, and the animals don't go to waste. Don't take pleasure in it, so I bitch at my neighbor for the lack of maintenance of his property. 150x100' lot beside me and across the street from me. Rotted buildings, overgrown in brush. Perfect breeding grounds.

We have a natural trash pands sink in a local Apple Farm about 3 km from the house.
About every 5 years or so they breed out of the fruit farm and go forth unto the neighborhood.
Bunch get run over and some are shot.

 

[Phyto]

I put them in the garden, too. What enters the garden, is absorbed by it.
I put 2 ground hogs , 3 opossum, 3 trash panda's in my garden last year alone. One being a alpha female that got into my attic. Was like confronting a small grizzly bear, in a closed environment

If left unchecked in my parts, they can devistate the small yards n gardens in my neighborhood.

Fixing sauffett, and gutters every year gets old and costly. A pellet is cheaper, and the animals don't go to waste. Don't take pleasure in it, so I bitch at my neighbor for the lack of maintenance of his property. 150x100' lot beside me and across the street from me. Rotted buildings, overgrown in brush. Perfect breeding grounds.

Yeah, I live in the country, so besides trash pandas and possums, we’ve got skunks, coyotes, even the occasional bear. My dogs are expert at finding skunks, I keep a gallon of H2O2 in my garage. My poor neighbor had a family of skunks living under his house, one night they got into a fight, he had to sleep in his trailer for several days till the stink cleared out. After that, a live trap and a trash can full of water!

 

[wilinski]

You want to look into Hydrolized Fish, the one that stinks.....its gold for the soil life and also for plants...GOLD
Its packed with minerals, calcium and phosphorus and you can even make it yourself...is the best way to guarantee its freshness and have it without additives and preservatives.....

How to make your own fish fertilizer:

1. Buy a fish.

1. Now, ideally you would throw the fish into a blender to mash it up into little pieces. I cut my fish into 8ths or so and then chuck it into my kitchen blender but I’m a bit of a caveman. If you’re squeamish, buy a separate blender for this, just make sure it is powerful enough, mine is 500W and works fine for small-medium size fishes. Remember, the finer the fish bits, the more effective the fermentation.
2. Add water. You can use a simple guide of 3:1 – 3 parts water to 1 part ferment material. 1 roughly 8in tilapia comes to about 500mL when ground up, so I add about 1500mL water.

1. If you are using a blender, blend up the mixture. The water helps keep it loose so it blends much better after you add the water.
2. Add lacto bacilli to blended fish mixture. I use 2tbsp per L. You can use more or less if you want. 2tbsp/L is plenty though.
3. Add 1/3 parts sugar. This should be 1/3 the amount of fish you’ve added. Sugar will be either molasses or normal cane sugar.

1. If using sugar, the equivalency is about 1KG sugar = 1L solution. So if you have 500mL like my tilapia, you want 1/3 of that in sugar. You’d use about 167g sugar, or roughly ¾ cup.
2. I blend the whole mixture up a bit. It’s good to have it as fine as possible.
3. Up to you how much you blend it, I blend until I don’t hear so many bones crunching in the blades of the blender.
4. Now you have liquefied fish, sugar, and lacto. Pour this mixture into a container. Loosely cover the container. No need to seal, because the container will explode as CO2 is released by fermentation. You just want to make sure other things don’t get into it. I use a container with a lid and loosely screw the cap on top (just make sure you don’t seal it because it WILL explode).
5. The process takes anywhere from 3 weeks to over a month. How do you know its finished? By the smell.
6. You know when it’s done when there is no smell anymore. During fermentation there is a nasty smell, but once completed, there will be almost no odor. You can open it, and put your nose right up to it. Take a whiff. Nothing but a faint vinegar smell. Now you know its done. Congratulations! You’ve made your own Fish Hydrolysate!
7. Now, usually I transfer it to a smaller container, usually just a smaller water bottle, just for convenience. At this time, I use a strainer and a funnel to strain the bones and scales out of the hydrolysate. But don’t expect a lot. From a whole 8-10in tilapia, you will only get a little tiny pile of bones/scales. They will feel kind of rubbery, not brittle. Throw these in the compost pile or garden, they are excellent fertilizer and microbe food, already inoculated with microbes!
8. Leave the cap on the strained concoction loose until you see no more little bubbles forming. Then cap it and store it for use as your own natural fertilizer.

How to use this fish fertilizer:


Mix 2tbsp/gal for applications.


Plants

• Use as a soil drench as opposed to foliar spray.
• Inoculate compost to boost fungal population. This is huge – major growth booster of fungus.
• Use in compost teas to boost fungal growth, add Nitrogen. Use at ¼ strength for this application(1/2 tbsp per gal).
• Mix in water when watering plants, as a natural fish fertilizer and to enhance populations of micro-organisms in the soil

Animals

• Mix with water for an effective protein/lacto boost for your animals. Some will really love the added flavor. Others will hate it.

This article was copied from http://gilcarandang.com/recipes/fish-fertilizer/

Good info ! Thanks!

 

[Hossgrows]

Yeah, I live in the country, so besides trash pandas and possums, we’ve got skunks, coyotes, even the occasional bear. My dogs are expert at finding skunks, I keep a gallon of H2O2 in my garage. My poor neighbor had a family of skunks living under his house, one night they got into a fight, he had to sleep in his trailer for several days till the stink cleared out. After that, a live trap and a trash can full of water!

Oh...we get plenty of skunk's. But only in the fall it seems. There's nothing rotting in the garden by then for them to dig for. But I have to be careful going out the door at night to pick up the cats bowls.

 

[Zzzax]

Keep vegetation clear around structures and that discourages Raccoons and Skunks.
I have a cat door into the basement. I had let the garden overgrow and that created cover for the Raccoons. They got in the house. I live trapped five in 2024 and trapped two in 2025.
Kinda sad.. One was a little girl and she was so polite when I came into the kitchen for coffee. I made coffee and talked to her as she tried to hide behind the popcorn machine. Then she slowly made her way down and walked close to the wall and calmly wet out the cat door. Now Her Father, I assume, was right nasty. Anyway Live trap works fine.

So far this winter I suspect the local Groundhog has decided to burrow under the foundation of the shop. I simply will wait till spring and close that up after it is gone. Not a problem there.

As to fish emulsion. I bubble water in a bucket. Clear out the cholorene and oxygenate. Then I add used guinea pig bedding and their waste. A couple of hand fulls. Add Fish and about a TBS of fresh Coffee. Once that has run 8-12 hours I add some molasses and whatever dry materials I feel I want to like Azomite, Rock Phosphate, Kelp meal and what not.

I don't make the 5 gallons all that strong so I can water any time I like.

The Smell isn't all that bad.

So I'm talking watering with a Tea..

 

[LoveGrowingIt]

Just a caveat, using it on outdoor plants can attract things like raccoons, possums, etc, and sometines they'll dig up the roots trying to find that "smell".

I discovered that raccoons dig up fertilizer spikes. Not sure why they like them.