An ABC of homemade fertilizers
There are lots of different fertilizers on the market but there are also lots of homemade alternatives. Here are a few tried and tested options you might like to try to give your garden a nutritious boost.
Miracle Grow
Ingredients -:
1 gallon of water
1 tbsp Epsom’s Salt
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp of Household Ammonia
Simply mix all the ingredients together and use once a month on your plants.
Ingredients -:
1 gallon of water
1 tbsp Epsom’s Salt
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp of Household Ammonia
Simply mix all the ingredients together and use once a month on your plants.
Banana Skins
It’s no secret bananas are rich in potassium, but did you know banana peelings also contain phosphorus, calcium, manganese, sodium, magnesium sulfur, and 42% potassium when dried? These are the wonderful essential elements your soil will get with a banana fertilizer.
To make some banana peelings homemade fertilizer, you will need banana peels, a tablespoon of Epsom salt for every 4 peelings, 3 eggshells, and water.
Dry your banana peels as well as your eggshells after washing them clean. Once your banana peels are dried, process them with the eggshells in a food processor or blender until they are a fine powder. Add the powder and Epsom salt into a spray bottle with water then shake to mix.
You can apply your fertilizer to the soil or the base of the plant and not directly on the leaves of the plants. You can also ‘roast’ banana peels in the oven until they are charred. When cooled, break them into pieces and pop them in the soil of your house plants.
It’s no secret bananas are rich in potassium, but did you know banana peelings also contain phosphorus, calcium, manganese, sodium, magnesium sulfur, and 42% potassium when dried? These are the wonderful essential elements your soil will get with a banana fertilizer.
To make some banana peelings homemade fertilizer, you will need banana peels, a tablespoon of Epsom salt for every 4 peelings, 3 eggshells, and water.
Dry your banana peels as well as your eggshells after washing them clean. Once your banana peels are dried, process them with the eggshells in a food processor or blender until they are a fine powder. Add the powder and Epsom salt into a spray bottle with water then shake to mix.
You can apply your fertilizer to the soil or the base of the plant and not directly on the leaves of the plants. You can also ‘roast’ banana peels in the oven until they are charred. When cooled, break them into pieces and pop them in the soil of your house plants.
Egg Shell Fertilizer
Egg shells are very high in calcium, which is necessary for good cellular growth in all plants. You can crush up used egg shells and simply bury beneath the soil surface, or for a faster result, you can make a spray .
Ingredients -:
20 egg shells
3 litres water
Boil egg shells in water for a few minutes, then sit in the water overnight. Strain and use as a spray or water from a can directly into the soil
Egg shells are very high in calcium, which is necessary for good cellular growth in all plants. You can crush up used egg shells and simply bury beneath the soil surface, or for a faster result, you can make a spray .
Ingredients -:
20 egg shells
3 litres water
Boil egg shells in water for a few minutes, then sit in the water overnight. Strain and use as a spray or water from a can directly into the soil
Coffee Grounds Fertilizer
Coffee grounds are a natural fertilizer that not only adds nitrogen to deficient soil, it also increases the acidity. This will make your roses, hydrangeas, magnolias and rhododendrons very happy!
Work up to 25% coffee grounds into soil, at the base of the plants. Coffee grounds will also improve the organic matter in the soil.
Coffee grounds are a natural fertilizer that not only adds nitrogen to deficient soil, it also increases the acidity. This will make your roses, hydrangeas, magnolias and rhododendrons very happy!
Work up to 25% coffee grounds into soil, at the base of the plants. Coffee grounds will also improve the organic matter in the soil.
Grass Clippings Tea
Ingredients -:
1 x 20 litre bucket filled with fresh grass clippings
Cover with water
Allow to sit for 3-5 days. Dilute the strained fertilizer tea by using one cup tea mixed with 10 cups fresh water and apply to soil.
Ingredients -:
1 x 20 litre bucket filled with fresh grass clippings
Cover with water
Allow to sit for 3-5 days. Dilute the strained fertilizer tea by using one cup tea mixed with 10 cups fresh water and apply to soil.
Weed Tea Fertilizer
Like the weeds that they are, they can really be annoying, growing under our very own feet. But like grass fertilizers, weeds such as chickweed, nettles, and horsetail are high in nitrogen.
Fill a 5-gallon bucket with 2/3 parts of freshly pulled weeds then top off with a few inches of water. Let the mixture to sit for three days at room temperature and stir it at least once a day. After three days, you can strain the liquid and dilute it with equal parts of water.
You can apply fertilizer by spraying it directly on your plants for faster growth.
Like the weeds that they are, they can really be annoying, growing under our very own feet. But like grass fertilizers, weeds such as chickweed, nettles, and horsetail are high in nitrogen.
Fill a 5-gallon bucket with 2/3 parts of freshly pulled weeds then top off with a few inches of water. Let the mixture to sit for three days at room temperature and stir it at least once a day. After three days, you can strain the liquid and dilute it with equal parts of water.
You can apply fertilizer by spraying it directly on your plants for faster growth.
Fertilizer Recipe To Amend Low pH Soil
This may sound unappealing but wood ash and human urine make a great fertilizer recipe which can boost your soil and plant growth. Wood ash is rich in calcium and magnesium, while urine is high in nitrogen, essential elements that are ideal for plant growth.
However, it is also important to note that the urine should be organic and not collected from a source on medications.
Research shows that when both materials are combined, urine and ash fertilizer can increase the yield in tomatoes. You can take this inspiration for your own homemade organic recipe.
This may sound unappealing but wood ash and human urine make a great fertilizer recipe which can boost your soil and plant growth. Wood ash is rich in calcium and magnesium, while urine is high in nitrogen, essential elements that are ideal for plant growth.
However, it is also important to note that the urine should be organic and not collected from a source on medications.
Research shows that when both materials are combined, urine and ash fertilizer can increase the yield in tomatoes. You can take this inspiration for your own homemade organic recipe.
