2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
We all dream of growing on our backyard a good harvest of vegetables and fruits without nitrates and all kinds of "chemicals". That is why it is better to feed cultivated plants with fertilizers made with your own hands. Among experienced summer residents, this type of feeding is very popular. For these purposes, they use almost everything that grows in the country. Homemade fertilizers have many benefits
The most important advantage of their use is cost savings. After all, they can be prepared from the components at hand. Various summer cottage plants can be useful to you, even weeds, which should be dried and then burned. If you are raising poultry, you can use their droppings as fertilizer. It is rich in nitrogen, potassium, magnesium and other important elements.
Homemade fertilizer does not need to be stocked up for future use. You can do as much as needed to fertilize a specific area. Therefore, you will always get a fresh, high-quality composition that will only benefit. In addition, when making fertilizers with your own hands, you can always be sure of their naturalness. As you know, chemistry bears significant harm to both plant life and human health. That is why home fertilizers are much better than those sold in the supermarket.
There are several recipes for making homemade fertilizers.
Top dressing from wood ash
Many experienced summer residents use wood ash to fertilize their site. It is a product obtained after burning various plant material. This can be tops, dry grass, or tree branches.
Ash significantly improves the composition of the soil and does not clog it with toxic substances. Having organic substances in its composition, it can be an alternative to mineral fertilizers. In addition, ash can reduce the acidity of the soil, as well as make it looser.
To prepare a liquid fertilizer from wood ash, you need to take it in an amount of 150 grams and mix with 10 liters of water, and then leave it for 15 minutes. This means you can water trees, cucumbers, tomatoes and cabbage. For greater efficiency, wood ash can be mixed with compost, humus or peat. But combining it with poultry droppings and nitrogen fertilizers is highly undesirable, since most of the nitrogen is lost.
Rotten grass fertilizer
Who Said Cutting Grass Is Useless? It turns out quite the opposite. She can feed various shrubs: gooseberries, currants, raspberries. To do this, it is enough to simply spread the cut grass on the site, paying special attention to the base of the bushes. Experienced summer residents recommend doing this for the winter. So you will protect the plants from the cold winter and will be able to prevent the appearance of some plant diseases.
Nettle fertilizer
If you want to feed flowering plants, then ordinary nettle, which grows in almost any area, is useful for these purposes. It is better to mow it before the seeds appear. One kilogram of grass is placed in a plastic container and poured with settled water in an amount of 6-8 liters. The mixture should be infused in the sun for 10 days. In order for the infusion to turn out to be of better quality, it must be mixed periodically. It is advisable to do this several times a day. The herbal mixture will expand, ferment and foam. In addition, an unpleasant odor may appear. This must be taken into account when making such a fertilizer. The finished infusion is diluted with water and used for root feeding or for spraying plants. The ratio of water and infusion is selected taking into account the procedure being performed.
Nettle is also used in its pure form. If you mulch the beds with it, this will significantly improve the growth and development of cultivated plants, as well as scare off some pests.
Of course, such fertilizers are not highly effective and cannot replace organic and mineral analogues. Still, it is better to start with natural substances, and, if necessary, switch to chemistry.
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