Natural fertilizers
I would like to know if anyone fertilizes their plants with herbs or anything else natural? Peat? We decided to fertilize with nettle infusion this season. All vegetables, flowers, except garlic and legumes. They say it has a very beneficial effect on plants.
Fertilize with herbs? How's that? You probably mean humus? I dug a hole at the end of the garden where I take all the garden debris (leaves, tops, weeds). They rot there slowly, and the next spring I gain mass from the bottom of the hole and use this to water my plants.
I wrote that they fertilize with nettles. It’s such a technology, they insist on it, but it takes a long time and it has such a smell... We decided not to ferment the nettle, but to make an extract from it. We filled the bucket with fresh nettle stems and roots, filled it with warm water for about a day or so to prevent it from fermenting, and then used it right away. Water, spray.
Wow, where do you get so many nettles so that there is enough to fertilize the entire garden? What is the dosage of nettle water for irrigation? And why spray it, it helps against some pests. Because of your method, I have some kind of confusion in my head; I have never heard of this method of fertilizing plants.
Yes, a bucket of nettles is not much, depending on the type of garden. Pour this nettle solution into the sprayer and spray the leaves.I don’t know more details yet, because this is the first time we are going to fertilize plants in this way. They say plants love it and grow better. This infusion contains a lot of nitrogen. If a simple nettle extract doesn’t work, then we’ll try fermentation.
As I understand it, you spray seedlings (cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, etc.) with this solution, not trees. It’s just not entirely clear to me how it’s possible to spray an entire fruit tree in this way - it’s quite tall, and it will require a lot, a lot of nettles. You can't save that much.
Our neighbor sprayed shrubs and fruit trees in her garden using a pump. True, instead of nettle she had garlic infusion.
I don’t know whether garlic infusion helps for better growth and harvest, but the most common methods are still peat, chicken manure and compost, and you can also fertilize greenhouse soil, not just the garden, using natural methods.
This year we fertilized vegetables with yeast several times. In total, this feeding can be done 3 times during the season. Yeast is diluted with water and applied at the root of the plant. Tomatoes and cucumbers grow well after this.
Maybe you can tell me what is the best fertilizer for these seeds. organic, of course))) because I haven’t grown something like this before and therefore I need advice from those who know a lot about this matter
Just yeast? Will there be problems with the soil? However, the rotting of fallen leaves and old grass, coupled with yeast, can cause a fermentation process, which will greatly increase the acidity of the soil. But this is not very good for plants.
We fertilized vegetables with yeast several times a season for a couple of years. I didn’t notice any special effect from this fertilizer. The plants still grew slowly. They bred a whole bucket. Then, 200 ml of fertilizer was mixed with a bucket of water and watered the plants.
Fertilizing with herbs is not humus. Any grass is kept in a container with water for two weeks and the fertilizer is ready. This year we tried fertilizing vegetables with grass. We didn’t notice any particularly rapid growth; the vegetables grew the same as when using other fertilizers.
My husband is making a small compost pit. We take all the remaining grass and chicken droppings there. We try to chop up the grass. Once a week we water the hole with plain water. The compost is ready by next spring. An excellent fertilizer for all types of crops.
Banana peels are very good for fertilizing plants. They are usually placed in a saucepan and left to steep for about three to four days. Then you can water both indoor and garden plants.
Indeed, a great solution without fertilizers is a compost pit. After all, you can throw not only weeded grass there, but you also need to water it with slops if there is no rain, and it is best to cover it with film for better reheating!
We made ourselves a wonderful thing, such as a compost pit, where we throw out all organic waste.And then, when everything rots, we fertilize the soil. A wonderful thing, and also very concentrated. It only takes a little bit.
Not only nettle, but also dandelion, dandelion, almost any herb will do. Fill the container (barrel) to 1/3 or 2/3 of the volume, fill it with water and place it in the sun. You can also add spoiled bread, old jam or a little yeast. It is not necessary for it to ferment for a long time, to actively boil and that’s enough. It is diluted at the rate of approximately 1 liter per bucket of water and can be watered for almost all crops. Scatter the remaining grass between rows, under bushes and trees. And there are also such EM fertilizers, if you add them to a barrel, then there will definitely not be an unpleasant odor, it’s been tested. And everything grows well after such watering.
to the question "what?" I won’t answer, but “how?” - I can tell you. Previously, I did everything manually or with a spray gun, but this is a bit of a task. Now I discovered equipment for applying fertilizers, cool stuff. look at here: . I'll be glad if it's useful.
Last year we fertilized cucumbers, tomatoes, beets and carrots with rabbit humus. Vegetables grew very well after it, this was especially noticeable on cucumbers, they began to set quite quickly.
how long does it take for you to rot? or do you add it right away?
It can be stored in a container for more than a year, diluted with water. We take approximately a liter per 12 liter bucket. I noticed that the cucumbers responded well to this fertilizer; they began to set and grow quickly. In one place, the cucumber vine became like a seat belt in a car, so flat. I've never seen anything like this before.
I am part of the manure - it is dry, clean, without straw and branches, I also scatter it in the snow throughout the garden. And part just before plowing. You can do the same with rabbit meat. The plants are growing, the harvest is excellent!
So, dear ones, it depends on what you are going to fertilize. and where it grows is also important. I became very interested in plant care when I started growing flowers from Bob Marley's store: konoplisemena.com. as it turned out, there are countless subtleties - horse manure, for example, must be exceptionally clean and seasoned, and the ash that is practiced to be scattered under trees should absolutely not be used. so here it is worthwhile to better clarify the genus and variety of the plant being fertilized.
I use chicken manure diluted in water as fertilizer, it’s a very good fertilizer
We usually fertilize with either rotted manure or general-purpose mineral fertilizers. We also buy special fertilizers for certain vegetables, for example, peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers.
By the way, about nettle infusion. Consider the direction of the wind, because there will be a wild stench in the area for two or three days. At one time they watered it with this infusion, then the neighbors began to make complaints about the terrible stench.
I don’t fertilize the plants with herbs, I’m afraid that this will introduce weed seeds into the garden. I always fertilize with horse manure, which I buy from the gypsies who sometimes come to us, as well as with cow manure.
They fertilize not with grass, but with the liquid that is obtained by steeping the grass in water for two weeks.The liquid can be drained through a fine mesh and weed seeds will not fall into the garden. I have fertilized vegetables this way several times.
Very interesting, unfortunately I didn’t know about this possibility, I should read about it, I’ve never made an infusion of herbs to fertilize the soil, to be honest, I don’t really believe that it will help.
You know, I don't use such fertilizers. I simply bury food vegetable waste or, for example, crushed remains of sunflowers in the ground. Let them rot in the ground and increase soil biomass.