6 kinds of fertile soil are right at your doorstep, stop spending money on soil

Earthworm soil

Earthworm soil can be called the king of fertile soil, with complete nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium nutrition, and it's also airy. If you can get earthworm soil, you won't have to worry about anything growing weakly! Huahua used to be quite grossed out by earthworms, but for the flowers at home, I went all in

Method 1: Find earthworm soil outdoors

Based on Huahua's experience, moist soil has lots of earthworms. Every time Huahua goes back to the hometown, I take a stroll around the front and back of the house. Wherever there are earthworms or earthworm holes, the soil quality is good, so hurry and dig some to grow flowers!

There's also finding earthworm castings. If there are some small clumps of soil on the surface, they're probably earthworm castings, with no bad smell and very clean. What earthworms eat is soil and what they excrete is still soil, so hurry and dig it up and take it home~

Method 2: Make earthworm soil yourself

Flower friends who are bold can dig up some earthworms and take them home, find some soil and raise the earthworms, cover with a lid, no need to feed them, and after 2 months you can harvest ready-made earthworm soil!

Note that earthworms should not be put in flower pots, because earthworms moving around may injure the flower roots; flower friends who can't find earthworms can go to a fishing tackle shop and buy some bait earthworms, which are also very cheap!

Tea leaf soil

Used tea leaves can be used to grow flowers. Many flower friends don't dare use too much, fearing the tea is too alkaline. Actually, after brewing with water, the alkalinity of the tea leaves has already dropped a lot and trends toward neutral. To be safe, we just need to compost the tea leaves!

Method: Compost

After brewing tea, add water and boil the used tea leaves, which makes them softer and more mushy. During this process you can add a few eggs or quail eggs, and cook tea eggs along the way.

After boiling, filter out the tea leaves, rinse them again with clean water, then mix them into the soil, seal and compost for about 20 days and it's ready, and you can use it to grow flowers!

Spent flowers and fallen leaves

The leaf mold soil Huahua often mentions can be made by collecting pine needles and fallen leaves from outside, but outdoor leaves carry bacteria and insect eggs, so everyone should pay attention to disinfecting when composting the soil.

The flowers and flower branches pruned at home can also be composted into leaf mold soil, and this is safer!

Method: Bury in soil to compost

Find an open space and dig a pit, mix the rotten leaves and spent flowers with garden soil and bury them in the pit. After burying, no need to tend it, and in 1 month it's fully rotted. After digging it out, sun it for 2-3 days, and be sure to spray carbendazim to sterilize, or put in a few mothballs. When you need to use it, just take out a little.

Fruit peel soil

Everyone has probably made fruit peel enzyme, which flowers love to drink. Have you tried fruit peel soil? It has the same nutrition, and you can make it at home, with no bad smell!

Method: Soil composting

1. Cut the leftover half watermelon rind into small pieces.

2. Find a big, thick plastic bag, first put a layer of soil at the very bottom, put in the watermelon rind, then put another layer of soil...

3. Once all the melon rind is in, cover the top with another layer of soil, don't mess up the order, this way it composts faster and better. Finally tie the bag shut, and at the current temperature it composts in 1-2 months.

Soybean and mixed grain soil

At home there are often expired mixed grains, soybeans, corn kernels, millet and so on. Never throw them away when expired, they compost quickly and are highly nutritious, and flowers that use them bloom more and more brightly.

Method: Boil and compost into soil

1. First boil the spoiled mixed grains, which both sterilizes them (mold and such) and speeds up rotting.

2. Find a large container, bury the boiled mixed grains with soil, tie the opening shut with a burlap sack or plastic bag, and after composting for 1-2 months it's ready to use.

Besides composting into soil, you can also put the boiled mixed grains in the potting soil. Because they are still decomposing, keep them some distance from the flower roots, and bury them with soil.

Fish, shrimp and meat soil

Not only do roses love fish and meat, many flowers like them too, but they have weak tolerance and need to be fully composted. Meat-based fertilizer is a very good phosphorus and nitrogen fertilizer, it's just that composting it stinks. It's best to compost it into nutrient soil, which smells much less.

Method: Mix with soil and compost until rotted

1. Find a foam box, first spread a layer of soil, lay fish innards, shrimp shells and minced meat scraps on the soil, then cover with soil, put on the foam lid, poke a few holes with chopsticks, place it in a remote spot, and after composting for 2-3 months it's done.

2. Once composted, first take it out and sun it, or also spray some carbendazim to disinfect and sterilize, this is safer! After processing, it's not only good for growing flowers, but even better for growing fruit trees and vegetables~