 Greetings friends. This is Survival Doc. I'm out here in the Missouri Ozarks talking to a friend of mine who knows a lot about gardening and he's gonna show us his special brew that he makes to enhance the growth of his plants. This is my friend Logan. Hi Logan. I'm not sure if I'm saying this right but it's tricantinol. This is a mixture of one part alfalfa which I try to source without any non-gmo and no pesticides or besides. It's one part wood ash and one part water with a tablespoon of sulfur molasses in there. You let this brew for about two weeks or until it turns to the dark green almost blackish color that you get there. Then you use one cup of that to two gallons of water and you take a cup of that then mixed with water and you put that on your plants and that's supposed to promote root growth and plant growth by upwards of 200% just from what I've read so yeah. Okay Logan let me say about the formula right. You said you use one part alfalfa and you want to use non-gmo organically grown alfalfa. One part alfalfa, one part wood ash, one part water and then in a container like this you want to add one tablespoon of sulfured molasses and you put this in here and let it ferment for a while and say how long has this one been fermenting here? This is about a month old now. Okay, you've been using some of this. I've been using it for a few weeks now. Approximately when does it get to the point to where you can start using it? About two weeks old. So after about two weeks you can start using it and you said you mixed one cup per two gallons of water and then when you water your plants you use about one cup of water and how often do you apply that to your plants? I do it once a week. Once a week? Yeah. Okay. Along with my other fertilizers. All right and as you mentioned to me earlier you said it's very alkaline of course haven't been made out of wood ash it would be very alkaline so you want to be careful applying this to your plants especially your acid loving plants. Yeah like your blueberries. Yeah like your blueberries right which love acid. Okay so all right and I've been out here touring Logan's garden and I can tell you that this stuff really really does work and that somehow it enhances the growth of the plants enhances the germination of the seeds. He showed me some carrot seeds that germinated what in two days. Yeah and he has a fantastic looking garden out here and so and what do you call this mix? I just call it my tricantinol. Tricantinol. Yeah. Okay and so tricantinol is that's like the chemical that's produced in here by the. And I don't know if I'm saying that right. Yeah that's okay. That's close. That's okay it's certainly close enough and I know when I get back to my garden I'm certainly gonna start and you said instead in place of the alfalfa. Hey you can use brassica. You can use brassica. By brassica leaves like cabbage leaves broccoli. Yep. Leaves any brass any leaves in the brassica. Yep. Brassica family. All right Logan appreciate it and we're gonna give this a try and we're gonna see how it works in our garden back at home. So I'm gonna put that the TC on these little guys here. Uh-huh. It turned them to this slightly yellow color and I've been trying to fix them since. Yeah because their acid plants. Yeah and I. And what about this blueberry here? It looks like it's done nice. Did you not put it on this one? Yeah no I treated this one too but it did not affect this one at all. Okay. But it did affect the little the one year old plants. So caution using this on acid loving plants especially if you already have alcohol and soil. So this was another test to see if the alfalfa would affect the plants without using it in a brew like that. So what I did is this area right here you can see that I covered it with the alfalfa ground cover and then this area was covered with just the field grass and I mean you can look at the difference in these plants. Oh yeah yeah I mean it's pretty pretty obvious. All right so if you're just using alfalfa then it's a ground cover as opposed to like just cut grass then this is what it can do to your plants. Yeah. Much better. Much better growth. Yep. And the only difference between these peppers you said and those over there. Is the ground cover. Yeah is the ground cover. These have alfalfa. All this was planted at the same time. Uh huh. And here's Logan's gardening. Logan I understand correctly that you are new to gardening. Yep. I've been gardening for about five months now. Five months now. Okay. He's a researcher though. Right. You do your research online. Oh yeah. I spent the whole winter researching. Yeah. Yeah. All right so for you newbies to gardening you can take the lesson from Logan is that if you do the research, read the books, do the research online. You too can be a gardener in a short period of time. And here we are with the close up of Logan's new garden. And this is the first year you garden this spot. Yep. Logan and these are these are Logan's tomato plants here. He's using a black plastic. To keep the weeds down, keep the moisture in the ground. Here are his bell peppers. Nice crop here. And these are some tomatoes. Logan said that he didn't stake these up in town in time. So these tomatoes are kind of low growing. And over here you have was that cucumbers. Yep. Cucumbers. This is a mix of the market more and then the straight eight. Okay. And I'm going to trellis these up 10 feet here. And we have radishes. Radishes here. This is Clemson spineless okra. And then we got cauliflower. Cauliflower. And that one didn't really is not working out. So anywhere where one of those died I pulled it out and I've been planting kale. So those should be coming up soon. And this and I remind you folks that this is Logan's first year at gardening and look at the basil. Yeah, we got a few different kinds here. We've got Emily sweet tie and holy basil holy cow. Yeah, these are all planted with different peppers. These will be coming up and hopefully the next couple of days. Getting ready. This is for acorn squash and peas here. Building nice trellis there. And over here you see you have your herb garden. I see we got dill growing there. Dill, coriander and thyme right now and a little bit of yarrow. Are you planting parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme? I didn't know if he was familiar with that song. Logan being a little bit younger than me, but apparently he has heard that song. Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme. And what is it? Oh, this is a coriander or um, oh, I'm sorry. I'm stepping on something. Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm trapping on the. That's yarrow. On Logan's yarrow. I'm sorry. The problem with herbs is they look like weeds to the to the uninitiated. Sorry. Don't worry about it. All right, here's Logan's way of growing potatoes here. Tell us a little bit how you grow potatoes with this method, Logan. Well, these are super simple. You just start with a one board section and this is a two by two square. Fill it with dirt, plant your potatoes and as they grow up, you just add another section of material and add more dirt. All right. So you don't add more potatoes. The potatoes just continue to grow up and you add more dirt and the potatoes continue to grow and upward, but then you're having tons of potatoes growing down here in the bottom part. And then when you get ready to harvest these potatoes, what do you do? Just you can just push these over and the potatoes and everything will fall out. Right. So you don't even have to do a lot of digging then. Yep. That's great. I've got one of the things you do need to know about these though, is that don't ever add more than six inches of dirt at a time. If you add, even if the plants taller, if you add more than six inches of dirt, your plants will just die off. Okay. Because I was adding two sections at once early on and that's a foot and when I did that, the plants would just die. Then you'd get the next day. Good information, Logan. Thank you for sparing me that mistake because generally I have to make all the mistakes before I get it right. So when I can get a shortcut, I appreciate it. Okay, Logan, thanks a lot. We appreciate your time. Appreciate your showing us your garden here. And this is Survival Doc reminding you to be prepared or be prepared to be fleeced.