Make your own kitchen waste fertilizer from collected plastic bottles - eco-friendly and natural, it only takes three months

When growing flowers and vegetables on your own balcony, you naturally don't want to use pesticides and chemical fertilizers, so you can learn to make some eco-friendly, nutrient-rich organic fertilizer yourself. Mix fallen leaves and vegetable leaves with some sugar and clean water, and in 3 months you can make an eco-friendly fertilizer.

What we're teaching everyone to ferment below is "eco-friendly enzyme," which can be used to water flowers and fertilize them.

Old vegetable leaves and discarded vegetable leaves are both fine; you can easily buy the leftovers from vegetable vendors at the market.

First, prepare the materials, including:Vegetable and fruit leaves (kitchen waste), a 2-liter plastic bottle, black sugar (brown sugar works too)

The specific steps:

1. Preparing the materials

Chop the collected vegetable leaves and fruit peels into small pieces; the finer the chop, the higher the degree of fermentation, and it may even finish fermenting in less than 3 months. Prepare clean water; tap water must be left to sit for 3 days before use, while rainwater, purified water or well water are all fine.

2. Making the eco-friendly fertilizer

Put the chopped leaves and chopped fruit peels (banana peels, watermelon rinds, gardenia peels, lemon peels, etc. are all fine) into the plastic bottle, first pour in about 1 liter of clean water, then pour in 120 milliliters of black sugar water or brown sugar water, and finally stir the various materials evenly and seal it with the lid. (Prepare a slender wooden stick)

3. The production process

A plastic bottle is used because fermentation produces gas; if you forget to open it, the bottle will bulge, and a plastic bottle can prevent it from bursting. So remember to open the bottle cap once a day to let air in and release the gas.

Black sugar or brown sugar can speed up the fermentation of kitchen waste. If you put in more vegetable leaves, after fermentation it will have the smell of pickled vegetables; if more fruit peels, it will have a fruity smell. It is recommended to add more chopped gardenia peels.

4. Fermentation results

Stir once more every five days, let air in once a day, and after three months you will get excellent fertilizer.

The filtered liquid is the best liquid fertilizer, but it must be diluted before it can be used to water flowers; it must be diluted with water more than 1000 times before watering flowers, otherwise it will be too rich and burn the plants. (This liquid can also be used to clean stains in toilets and sinks, and it is very effective)

The residue obtained can be mixed into soil and used as fertilizer, but not too much.

5. Notes:

During fermentation, the ratio of water : kitchen waste : sugar water is 10:3:1; roughly is fine, don't be too far off.

If after 3 months you feel the fermentation is incomplete, you can repeat it once and pour in sugar water again; after 3 months you will definitely get the best fertilizer and fertilizer water.

(Completed fermented kitchen waste fertilizer) Tap water must be left to sit for 3 days before use.