DIY Flower Fertilizer from Kitchen Waste: Plants Grow Like Crazy and Won't Stop Blooming

Many gardening friends always feel that there are too many flowers they want to grow and too many beautiful flowers out there, but at home there aren't enough flower pots, not enough soil, and not enough fertilizer. Although chemical fertilizers are simple to use and their nutrients act fast, they easily make the soil compact and their effect is relatively short-lived. So how can you make your own green fertilizer for home gardening?

1. Household garbage, kitchen food scraps, and other things you can find everywhere can be turned into green organic fertilizer. For example, vegetable leaves and fruit peels are especially plentiful; you can put them into an empty flower pot, with soil on the bottom layer and soil on the top layer, and the peels and leaves in the middle. It is best to seal it with plastic sheeting and place it somewhere with a relatively high temperature so they fully ferment. After two or three months, a nutrient-rich organic fertilizer is ready. When growing flowers, you can use it as a base fertilizer, or mix it into the potting soil; the effect is good, the soil does not compact, and the fertility is ample.

2. Chinese herbal medicine residue. It contains the nutritional components of various plants. Used for composting, it is loose and airy, and it can also replenish the various nutrients needed for growing flowers, making the soil very fertile.

3. Making nitrogen fertilizer. For this, you can put moldy soybeans, peanuts, and so on from home into a bucket, add water, and ferment for several months. This is an organic fertilizer mainly based on nitrogen. The effect on flowers is excellent, but it stinks terribly. You can add a few orange peels to ease the smell. You can also compost soybean cake, rapeseed cake, and other cakes left after oil extraction. This is the cake fertilizer commonly used by expert gardeners. It is a fertilizer high in nitrogen and potassium, and it is very helpful for plant nutrition during the growing season.

4. Making phosphorus fertilizer. Phosphorus and potassium fertilizers can promote plant flowering. You can seal and ferment fishy water, bones, and so on from home. They are rich in phosphorus, which can promote flowering and bud formation in plants.

5. Eggshell flower fertilizer. Wash the egg white from inside the eggshells, dry them in the sun, crush them, then grind them into powder in a mortar. Then mix them into the soil. If the eggshells are not crushed, they can easily scratch the plant roots. You can also put the eggshells into a plastic bottle and leave them in the sun to ferment. Once the water changes color, you can dilute it with water and use it to water flowers.

6. Beer is also a good flower fertilizer.

Beer works well for growing flowers because beer contains a large amount of carbon dioxide, and carbon dioxide is an indispensable substance for the metabolism of various plants and flowers. Beer also contains nutrients such as sugar, protein, amino acids, and phosphate, which are beneficial to flower growth. Leftover beer also needs to be fermented; after leaving it for a few days, diluting it with water to water the roots or wiping the leaves is very good.

When using homemade flower fertilizer, you should grasp the principle of "thin fertilizer, light application," dilute it appropriately, apply it in the right amount, and by all means avoid applying too much. When composting fertilizer, you must wait until the fertilizer liquid soaked out has turned black and is completely decomposed before pouring it out and mixing it with water (about 9 parts water to 1 part fertilizer liquid) for use; do not use raw fertilizer. Adding a few orange peels when composting fertilizer can prevent foul odor and also leave a faint fresh scent.

Once the flowers take in these fertilizers, the soil does not compact, it is loose and airy, and they grow like crazy as if injected with chicken blood, blooming unstoppably.

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