Preparation Of Fertilizers From Grain Waste

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

If suddenly your bread is dry or even moldy in your kitchen (which is greatly facilitated by improper storage in a too tightly closed container) - this is not at all a reason to send it to the trash bin! Such bread is an excellent raw material for the preparation of the most useful fertilizers! You should not get rid of the strained grain waste after making kvass - they will also serve well on the site

What are the benefits of bread dressing?

Bread dressing helps to revive the root system of plants, make their flowering more abundant, significantly increase the yield, make the fruits much tastier, and also noticeably improve the fertility and structure of the soil and enhance the effect of any organic fertilizers introduced before! Moreover, such fertilizers help to increase the resistance of plants to a wide variety of infections and increase their immunity to adverse environmental conditions!

What crops are not suitable for such feeding?

It is not recommended to feed potatoes with bread - it can become tasteless and friable. Plus, it's far from the best option for garlic or onions!

Cons of bread dressings

The yeast contained in bread is endowed with the ability to reduce the amount of calcium in the soil, therefore, simultaneously with the introduction of bread dressings, it is recommended to also add wood ash, eggshells or any other fertilizers containing calcium. In addition, grain dressings can gradually acidify the soil, so it is best to resort to their help on neutral or alkaline soils.

And one more important nuance - you should not add chicken manure or manure to bread dressings, as these ingredients neutralize the effect of yeast!

How to prepare a nutrient fertilizer?

To prepare a healthy and nutritious fertilizer for a wide variety of horticultural crops, all pre-collected grain waste is transferred to a tank and, filling them with warm water (at the rate of five liters of water for each loaf of bread), as well as covering the tank with a lid, leave their days on ten or twelve to sour in a warm place. Then the fermented mass is diluted with water in a ratio of 1: 1 and the crops growing in the garden or vegetable garden are fed with the resulting solution - in this case, the crop will grow by leaps and bounds! It is quite permissible to add dandelion or nettle to the resulting mixture - they will help make this dressing even more effective!

Grain waste for weed control

Grain waste will also be useful for fighting annoying weeds - as it turned out, weak alcohol solutions (from 3 to 6%), which include thoroughly fermented grain mass, are considered an excellent stimulator of germination for dormant weed seeds! After the entire crop has been collected from the beds, it is necessary to thoroughly loosen the soil, simultaneously removing both the weeds themselves and their rhizomes, after which the prepared "mash" is poured over the freshly loosened surface and the soil is covered with a film on top. All these actions must be done about a month before the onset of cold weather. Moisture and heat in combination with alcohol vapors will induce a huge amount of weed seeds remaining in the ground to grow together, and in a few days friendly shoots will appear on the soil surface! And the coming cold will quickly destroy them! If desired, you can repeat this procedure in the spring, after the snow has completely melted. The thankless work of tedious and often not very productive weed control in this case will be greatly facilitated! However, it is also important to take into account the fact that such actions should be carried out exclusively in the beds, without affecting the near-trunk circles of fruit trees - garden trees need a powerful sod layer, which they need to preserve both the moisture they need and the microenvironment that delivers nutrition to the roots!