Planting Tips

Chapter 10 How to make homemade fertilizer for family gardening
There is no need to spend money to buy fertilizers for growing flowers at home. Waste suitable for flower fertilizers can be collected everywhere in daily life. With a little preparation, it can be used to fertilize potted flowers. It is more comprehensive than purchased chemical fertilizers and sheet fertilizers. The fertilizer effect Longer lasting and affordable.

(1) Those who have a courtyard in the family can dig a soil pit at an appropriate place, about 60 cm deep, and the size should be adjusted to local conditions. Flower pots or plastic buckets, crush the organic wastes in domestic waste, such as egg shells, meat waste, visceral scales of poultry and fish, etc., while they are fresh, and then mix them with 3 parts of sand or ash , can be put into a pit or a fertilizer basin (barrel) at one time or zero, and the surface is covered with a layer of pure soil, sprinkled with some insecticides and covered, and the pit or basin (barrel) should be kept moist to promote fertilizer maturity.Self-made fertilizers are best carried out in autumn and winter. When the temperature rises and decomposes in spring and there is no foul smell, it can be mixed into the cultivation soil as base fertilizer.Household flowers are generally not soaked in the above-mentioned fertilizer sources as liquid fertilizers to maintain environmental sanitation.

(2) Inedible rotten beans, bad peanuts, moldy melon seeds, rotten eggs, etc. are rich in nitrogen. Broken bones, fish bones, poultry manure, chicken feathers, hoof horns, human hair, etc. are rich in phosphorus. Waste organic matter in life can be used as base fertilizer after accumulation and fermentation; it can be made into black and smelly liquid by sealing and soaking in a tank, and can be used as top dressing after dilution.

(3) Rice washing water after fermentation, fish farming wastewater, fishy water, baby bottle washing water, eggshell washing water, pot and bowl washing water, plant ash, etc. all contain nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, etc. good fertilizer.

(4) Pork bones, beef and sheep bones, and fish bones are cooked in a pressure cooker for 1 hour, taken out and dried, crushed and then fermented. They are the best phosphate fertilizers.Animal bones, fish bones, etc. can also be roasted directly in the fire and then crushed to make phosphate fertilizer. Although this method is simple, it loses a lot of fertilizer.During the fermentation process of homemade fertilizers, an unpleasant smell is often emitted, which lasts for a long time, which not only affects the environmental sanitation of balconies and living rooms, but also makes people feel deeply uncomfortable.There is a simple and easy way to prevent the odor produced during the retting process.

Put a few slices of orange peel into the fertilizer solution, because the orange peel contains a lot of aromatic components, which can remove the odor in the liquid fertilizer, no matter whether the orange peel is dry or wet, if it takes a long time, you can put some more.Fermented orange peel is also a good fertilizer.Therefore, the liquid fertilizer made by adding orange peels not only does not reduce the fertilizer efficiency, but also has a certain aroma of orange peels.

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