Practical technical points for fertilizing flowers without damaging roots

Growing flowers seems to be becoming more and more popular. Many people keep a few pots at home. Not only do they have high ornamental value and enhance the taste of the home, but some flowers are also excellent at purifying the air, so it makes sense that people love growing flowers. However, if you want the flowers to grow well, water and fertilizer are naturally indispensable. Many flower lovers find fertilizing especially headache-inducing, feeling it is a particularly troublesome task, and if they are not careful, not only do they fail to replenish nutrients for the flowers, but they actually speed up their death. In this issue, the editor shares a little fertilizing trick with flower lovers, hoping it will be helpful to them.

First, before fertilizing, we can prepare some materials. The specific materials are: a pair of scissors, a plastic bottle, some common household waste that can be composted into fertilizer, and the flowers that need fertilizing. An ordinary mineral water bottle will do for the plastic bottle; its length should not exceed the height of the flower pot. We cut off the bottom of the bottle with scissors, then bury the whole cut plastic bottle in the flower pot, leaving only the bottle cap exposed above the soil surface. Note that the bottle should not be too close to the flower's root system, to avoid damaging the roots when fertilizer is added later.

We take out the prepared composting materials. Generally, fruit peels, vegetable leaves and so on are all fine. First cut these things into small pieces, the smaller the better, then unscrew the bottle cap in the soil and drop the cut pieces through the bottle opening. After dropping them in, remember to screw the bottle cap tight. This way, the fruit peels, vegetable leaves and such will slowly ferment in the bottle. Once fermentation is complete, they will directly replenish nutrients for the flowers from the bottom of the bottle, and there is no need to fertilize the flowers again. Isn't it simple and convenient, saving quite a bit of trouble?

Moreover, fertilizing this way will not damage the flower's root system. When we fertilize, we also do not need to control the amount of fertilizer or consider the timing of fertilization. We only need to add some fruit peels, vegetable leaves and so on into the bottle every two or three months during the flower's growing season, but do not add too much; about half a bottle is enough. If you are still troubled by fertilizing your flowers, you might as well try the editor's method, making fertilizing no longer so complicated and instantly simple and effective.