Natural Fertilizers For Home Floriculture. Part 2

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

Indoor flowers can and should be fertilized not only with sugar, but also with other natural ingredients. For example, drunk coffee, ash, fruit peels

Sleep coffee or coffee grounds

There are many in our country not only tea lovers, but also coffee lovers, lovers of instant coffee, but freshly brewed in a Turk or a coffee machine. After such a drink, there is always used, but still very useful coffee grounds. Do not throw it away, but rather add it to pots with indoor flowers. The coffee grounds will make the soil in the pot and flowerpot loose. And if the soil is not acidic enough, then it will acidify it, add more oxygen to it.

But not all indoor plants should be added with coffee. For plants that are not suitable for acidic and acidified soils, it is better not to add coffee grounds. But indoor azalea, lily, gladiolus, rose, various evergreens even respect coffee dressings very much.

I would like to say a few words about tea leaves, which many indoor plant growers love to add to flowers. Of course, tea brewing will make a certain mineral feeding for the plant. But it will also attract sciaris or black flies, which will quickly take a liking to the infused soil, and then spoil the plant itself. Therefore, be extremely careful with its use.

Undervalued ash

Ash is little appreciated in indoor plant growing. More often it is used only in the summer cottage, in the garden and in vain. But ash contains a large amount of minerals that are useful for maintaining a houseplant, for its nutrition, such as magnesium, zinc, phosphorus, potassium. And the plants absorb minerals from the ash very quickly, they assimilate them well. Add ash when planting and transplanting houseplants into pots. By the way, the added ash in this case will protect the plant roots from possible rotting and fungus on them.

If you did not have time or forgot to add ash to the planting place for the plant, then it can be added during the vegetative development and growth of indoor flowers. To do this, once a month water the plants with a tablespoon of ash (for each liter).

Citruses and other fruits as fertilizer

You should also avoid throwing away citrus fruit peels. Banana peels also contain many useful minerals. You can prepare a fruit potion from the peel of fruits for feeding indoor plants as follows. Take a liter jar. Put the chopped peel of tangerines, oranges, grapefruit into it. In general, what you can find. The jar should be filled one third with the peel and pour boiling water over it to the top. Cover with a lid on top and insist on the kitchen table for 24 hours.

Then the peel should be drained from the solution, added to the top of a jar of ordinary water and water the plants as with normal watering. You can prepare mineral watering from banana peels in the same way. Also, banana peels (but not citrus fruits) should be added to the ground in finely chopped form when planting plants, transplanting them to another place. In this case, the banana peels will act like plant compost. It will rot and will nourish the soil where the indoor flower grows.

And here's another recipe-mix, already together from citrus peels and banana peels. But you have to work on it. We take part of the peel of fresh citrus fruits, exactly the same amount of banana peel. Grind, cut into pieces, fold a large jar (three liters), filling it by a third. Pour a couple of small spoons of sugar into it. Fill with warm water, cover. We put it near the stove in the kitchen to keep the solution warm. You need to keep the jar for three weeks, at least. Stir the solution occasionally with a spoon, but often you don't need to.

After three weeks, drain the jar through cheesecloth. Place a bottle of liquid in the refrigerator. It is stored in it perfectly. Once a month, one part of the solution should be diluted with 20 parts of water at room temperature. And water the plants in the room with it as a mineral supplement.