No need to buy flower fertilizer, you can make it yourself from common materials around you

Composting fallen leaves into leaf mold

Steps:

1. Take a stroll around your neighborhood or a park and you can collect a full big bag of fallen leaves. It is best to choose leaves that are large, such as plane tree and maple leaves.

2. Prepare some garden soil, or soil that is not nutritious enough left over from repotting will also do.

3. Use the sandwich composting method, that is, cover with one layer of soil and one layer of fallen leaves in turn. First find an empty wooden barrel or flower pot, and spread about 5cm of garden soil on the bottom.

4. Spread a layer of fallen leaves on top of the garden soil, then pour on a little water to soak all the fallen leaves.

5. Repeat this several times, and finally cover the top of the flower pot with a layer of garden soil about 8-10cm thick.

Composting kitchen scraps

Steps:

1. Although it is already autumn now, some vegetables, fruits and the like at home still rot easily. We can collect these rotten things to compost, and they make very nutrient-rich fertilizer!

2. Collect all the rotten vegetable leaves, fruits, or leftover fish bones, crushed bits and other things, put them in a large plastic bucket, add a little water, cover with a lid and seal it.

3. To speed up fermentation, you can put the plastic bucket under the sun to bake, and about every 2-4 days, open the lid to let the gas out. After about 2-3 months, it will be fully composted. Once it is done, directly mix it with clean water at a ratio of 1:10 and water the flowers.

Pine needle soil

Steps:

1. Many places now have pine trees planted. In autumn, a thick layer of pine needles falls under the pine trees. Find a plastic bag and dig the pine needles out from under the pine trees, and they are simply great for growing flowers!

2. Put the collected pine needles under the sun to bake or scald them with boiling water to sterilize and disinfect, then put them in a plastic bag. It is best to crush them first, then add a little garden soil and sprinkle on a little water.

3. Seal the plastic bag and place it in a relatively warm place to ferment. It can be placed on a south-facing balcony or in the yard. If the temperature is high, it will be completely decomposed in about 2-3 months.

4. Stir the completely decomposed pine needles together with garden soil, and it can be used directly as nutrient soil for growing flowers.

5. If some flower lovers think that using pine needles to compost takes too long, then you can also directly spread the disinfected pine needles on the surface of the flower pot, about 2-3cm is enough. Pine needles have very strong water and air permeability, and can reduce root rot.

Benefits of pine needle soil for growing flowers:

1. Pine needle soil is fertile, contains many microorganisms and nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, etc., and is a slightly acidic soil.

2. It has a good insect-preventing effect, such as against termites, preventing insects from harming plants.

Fish intestine composting

Steps:

1. Autumn is soon here, the time for roses and other flowers to bloom again. In order to bloom more in autumn, you must apply some nutrient-rich fertilizer to the flowers, such as fish intestine fertilizer. Fish intestines can be obtained from the fish sellers at the vegetable market.

2. Find an empty plastic bottle, stuff the fish intestines in, then add a little water, seal it and put it under the sun to bake. Open the lid every 3-5 days to let air in. If you are afraid that fish intestine compost smells too bad, then add a little EM bacteria.

4. If some flower lovers dislike that composting takes too long, then you can also directly compost the fish intestines together with soil. One layer of soil and one layer of fish intestines and so on in turn, until the flower pot is filled.

Worm soil, worm castings

Steps:

1. First prepare an empty plastic bucket or flower pot, then put a layer of soil and a layer of kitchen scraps in the plastic bucket, such as eggshells, rotten vegetable leaves, etc., covering in turn like this until the plastic bucket is full.

2. Catch 3-5 earthworms in the wild and put the earthworms directly into the plastic bucket. It is best to choose to catch earthworms after it has rained, as the success rate is a bit higher.

3. After that, cover the plastic bucket with a lid, but do not seal it completely. It is best to leave a gap for air circulation. After about 2-3 months, it will be fully composted.

4. If some flower lovers really cannot accept earthworms, then you can go to your neighborhood or the wild to pick up some worm castings. Worm castings are those curved yellow or gray little clumps of soil.

5. If you pick up a lot of worm castings, you can mix garden soil and worm castings at a ratio of 3:1. After that, you will not need to fertilize for 2 years, and the fertilizer effect is very strong!

6. If you picked up the worm castings after it rained, or the amount of worm castings is relatively small, then you can directly put the worm castings on the surface of the flower pot, so that when you water the flowers, the nutrients in the worm castings can flow into the soil with the water.

Benefits of worm soil and worm castings for growing flowers:

Sawdust composting

Steps:

1. When decorating at home, some sawdust is often left over, and many flower lovers throw this sawdust away. In fact, sawdust is very useful for growing flowers. But this sawdust must be solid wood sawdust. The sawdust of those synthetic boards will have some glue residue on it, which is toxic, so never use it.

2. Mix the sawdust and soil at a ratio of 1:1, put it in a plastic bucket, then add a little water to moisten the sawdust, then seal the bag and put it under the sun to bake, thereby speeding up fermentation.

3. After about 3 months, the sawdust will be fully decomposed. When sawdust decomposes, it produces a large amount of heat, and many bacteria and insects in the soil are directly killed. When you find that the sawdust has turned dark brown, it means the composting is done.

4. After the sawdust is decomposed, directly use it to plant flowers. Many experienced flower lovers choose to use sawdust to grow clivia and orchids. It is both loose and breathable, so the flowers never get root rot!

Benefits of sawdust for growing flowers:

1. Sawdust is loose and breathable, has strong drainage, and can also regulate soil pH, so flowers do not get root rot and grow vigorously.

2. Sawdust is relatively hygienic, very convenient to use, and also light in weight, so it saves effort when moving it.

That is all for today's introduction.

What other good things have you flower lovers picked up for growing flowers?

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