Natural Fertilizers For Home Floriculture. Part 4

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

Well, we conclude our conversation about fertilizers for plants living in the house. Such fertilizers can be ordinary vegetables, or rather their decoctions and even water … from a home aquarium with fish

Vegetable broth as a natural "food" for indoor plants

Many growers use vegetable decoction as an additional mineral feed for their home flowers. How effective this method is is still debated. But one thing is true - it will not harm the plants.

You can water the plants with decoctions cooled and strained from vegetables when you cook these products for household needs. But it must be remembered that the water of such a decoction, which will be further used as a top dressing, cannot be salted.

Aquarium water

How many times do we pass it by, pour out the excess when cleaning the container with fish, while forgetting that such water can be a good fertilizer with natural organic matter for houseplants. Only it is not often necessary to apply it in this direction. For example, once every two or three months, or even less often. Since the algae minispores contained in it will germinate over time, if they are used often, in pots, and then the soil in them will turn green from above, a fungus may form in it.

This water contains ingredients that stimulate plant growth, minerals. Use it during the growing season of the plant, its growth.

Succinic acid from the pharmacy

For such a means for feeding indoor plants, you should go to the nearest pharmacy. There is this substance there - mere pennies. It is obtained from natural amber. Therefore, by right, such feeding can be considered natural.

If you try a tablet or powder of succinic acid with your tongue, you can feel the sourness of the product, the same as that of citric acid. The solution "for feeding" plants should be done as follows: dilute one gram of acid in tablets or powder with five liters of water. The solution can and should be used immediately. They are watered and sprinkled on green indoor plants. But it is a very powerful remedy with a mineral composition. Therefore, such water should be used for its intended purpose only once a year.

Have you tried such fertilizers for flowers?

I would like to briefly mention such substances for feeding indoor plants as water remaining after washing or soaking meat in it, fresh fish, various cereals, such as buckwheat, rice, millet, oats, barley.

Eggshells are also used by growers. True, by and large the calcium that it contains in itself, the shell is unlikely to transfer in the soil to plants. And the sense in it in this case is only that it can well loosen the soil with itself and drain it. For this, ground eggshells are added to the soil during plant transplantation.

Also try making a mineral-friendly solution with toothpaste or powder. The latter, in this case, you need to take three large spoons, add to it the same amount of wood ash, a spoonful of vitriol and a liter of water. Stir everything diligently. Water the plants immediately.

Pasta can also be used to make a simple healthy "drink" for your green pets. Dissolve the paste in a liter of water, about a little less than half of the entire tube. And pour the house "beds" with the produced solution once a month. You will notice how after such a drug it becomes healthier and more blooming in appearance.

Rules for the use of natural dressings

These are the rules that will help you more rationally and correctly use natural food for home plants.

Rule 1. You should not "feed" the extra plant immediately after you transplant it. Better to do it after a couple of months. Not that the surplus dressings that are already contained in the new soil will be heavy for the plant.

Rule 2. Before each feeding, water the plant with plain water to reduce the concentration of the agent, if you allowed it.

Rule 3. Too often fertilize plants growing in the room should not. Often they require additional feeding only during the period of growth and their growing season. This time usually occurs in indoor plants, as well as in summer cottages, in the spring-summer period.