urban vegetable patch

2L Nutrilsoil pack

Recently I found a new organic liquid fertiliser online – Nutrisoil. What makes me really excited is that is mainly based on worm casting! Worm casting people!! Well, most out-of-the-box organic liquid fertiliser are based on blood and bone with other added goodies. You will seldom come across one that is based on worm casting. If you have, you are lucky. Better still, if you have a worm farm, you will probably have a good supply of this nature super fertiliser

I have read a lot about the benefits of using worm casting or worm juice but sadly, I don’t have a worm farm. So you can only image how ecstatic I was when I found them. Nutisoil is family business based in Wodonga and the service you get is just superb. When I first ordered my Nutrisoil, it arrived with 1/3 of the content spilled out of the container. I email to them about it and they send a replacement bottle the very next day! Now, that a service you don’t get everyday.

I have since try Nutrilsoil for 1 month. Previously I am using Yates “Nature’s Way Multi Nutrient Plant Food”. What I found is that the green leafy vegetable reacts more vigorously to the Yates fertiliser where as Nutrilsoil is a more slow and steady fertiliser. I am not surprise with this result at all as I expect the greens to react more to a blood and bone based fertiliser. Having said this, I got a brilliant result using Nutrilsoil to treat one of my tomato plant suffering with tomato wilt virus. It does not cure but after 2 weeks, I notice the new shoots emerging and the leaves have slowly recover its lush green colour.

P.S: Nutrisoil are giving out 2 liters of trail pack for free (add $15 for postage and handling). So you got no reason not to give it a shot!

Absolutely love it. No longer do you need to feel guilty about washing your vegetables twice or thrice for that matter – you can now reuse the water and put it back into the garden. Beauty! I bought my sink at an Eco exhibition sometime ago and have never since looked back.

Hughie Sink. Notice the pail at the top right corner? Yup, use that to temporary capture water from the sink

My garden runs purely from greywater and no, I do not have a greywater system. I collect water around the house, that would otherwise go down the drain, to reuse it in the garden. Hughie sink just makes it so, I repeat, so easy. You fill it up, wash your vegetables and empty it directly to the garden. I usually empty mine into a pail and then later transfer it to the garden; this saves me the trip of walking to and fro to the garden while cooking.

Pro:

• Australian made
• Water saving. Duh!
• Made with good quality study plastic. Not the flimsy kind
• Inexpensive
• No need for any ‘special installation’. Just buy and use it.
• Sits nicely in the kitchen sink. Works even better if you have a 2 bay sink.
• There is a plug at the bottom to make releasing of water really easy!
• Can be used anywhere (not only kitchen) where water needs to be captured and later used on the garden
• You can even use it as a basket to carry your harvest!

Con:

• Its somewhat ‘chunky’. You cannot collaspe it, making storage a problem in tight spaces.
• When its almost filled with water, its hard to carry to the garden without spilling some along the way
• Due to its rectangle shape, you can’t fit it in a circular sink. (but of course)
• Looks ……. raw. If only it looks more ‘urban’ (you know what I mean)

You can get buy yours today from Bunnings ($29.95) or through these websites
Hughie official website
Todae

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