Sharing the three simplest methods for making homemade flower fertilizer
Growing flowers is actually a process of continuous learning. You may start out simply because you like a potted flower, and then, to grow it well, you keep learning all kinds of care methods, and thinking about it, there is joy in that too. Flower fertilizer plays a fairly important role in the process of growing flowers, and many people who love growing flowers also like to make homemade flower fertilizer. Homemade flower fertilizer is convenient and eco-friendly, and the raw materials for making it are readily available in our daily lives. Here are a few simple and clean methods for making flower fertilizer, shared with the friends who love growing flowers.
1. The simplest methods for making homemade flower fertilizer
1. Rice-washing water flower fertilizer
(1) Watering flowers with rice-washing water is almost common knowledge in daily life. And fermented rice-washing water works even better. It is just that,,, that smell really is hard to describe in one word! My mom uses this kind of fertilizer! I am the victim!
(2) There is also a way that does not smell so strong. Pour rice-washing water, leftover beer - even expired beer is fine - or leftover yogurt together into a large plastic bottle, and put it in the sun to ferment. Do not fill the bottle too full, and do not screw the cap on too tightly, because gas is produced during fermentation, and this prevents the bottle from bursting. Check it often and let out the gas. It will be fully fermented in about two weeks.
(3) When using it, dilute it with water first. Of course, beer can also be used on its own; when watering flowers, just dilute it with water. Light fertilizer applied frequently is a relatively safe fertilizing method.
2. Soybean flower fertilizer
(1) Soybeans are something every household has. Those that cannot be eaten would be wasteful to throw away, and they can conveniently be used to make flower fertilizer. First soak them in water overnight, then cook them and let them cool. Dig a few small holes around the edge of the flower pot, put two soybeans in each small hole and bury them. The small holes must be a bit farther from the roots, to prevent the heat produced when the soybeans ferment from burning the roots.
(2) Alternatively, you can crush the soybeans and pour them together with the water into a large plastic bottle to ferment. Likewise, do not fill it too full, and do not screw the cap on too tightly so gas can escape. You can add some orange peel or lemon peel to reduce the smell caused by fermentation.
(3) Generally, after about one month, the clearer water on top can be diluted and used to water flowers. It feels that the longer the fermentation time, the weaker the smell of the fertilizer liquid becomes instead.
3. Eggshell flower fertilizer
(1) Eggshell flower fertilizer is the simplest apart from rice-washing water. But you also cannot just crudely and directly turn the eggshell upside down into the flower pot and be done with it (I will quietly say that my mom just turns them upside down like that). This way, not only can the nutrients in the eggshell not be properly absorbed and used, but the leftover egg liquid rotting in the flower pot will also breed many small bugs, which is really not good.
(2) To make eggshell flower fertilizer, first rinse the egg liquid out of the eggshells with clean water, then put them in the sun to dry. Sun-dried eggshells are very easy to crush. You can put them in a bag and crush them into fine powder with a rolling pin or a beer bottle, then mix it into the soil and it is ready to use.
(3) First, it loosens the soil and increases the air permeability of the potting soil, and it is also a very good and long-lasting phosphorus fertilizer, making the flowers bloom more vigorously.
2. How long common homemade flower fertilizers need to be composted
Many things in life can be turned into very good flower fertilizer through simple processing. Experience can be learned slowly through practice, but you still have to adjust and decide according to your own actual situation, such as the dilution ratio of the flower fertilizer. Many factors make it impossible to have an exact standard. 50 to 100 times is relatively safe. If you are not sure, then follow the principle of light fertilizer applied frequently, and better less than more.
Alright, the above is the simplest method for making homemade flower fertilizer brought to you by Tuliu.com. We hope every flower lover can grow flowers very well, so see you next time.