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There are a number of techniques that you can use to improve your gardening soil, each beneficial to itself but providing the greatest improvement when used in combination with each other. Discover how fish bones and egg shells invigorate your marigolds. Put those messy banana peels and epsom salt. This collection covers some of the simplest ways to help you in having a rich and a vibrant garden. Here are some recipes to superpower your garden growth within a very short period.
Applying homemade fish emulsion fertilizer is one of the way to improve soil for gardening within a short period. The fish emulsion fertilizer gives the plant the right organic nutriment they need for them to grow strong and healthy. It also acts as a bug repellent.
Although extracting this fertilizer is laborious, it is very easy and economical to use it once you have placed it in bottles.
The fish emulsion contains a lot of oil making the fertilizer to be viscous. Therefore, it is important to make sure that you shake the fertilizer vigorously before using it. Follow these procedures to prepare the homemade fish emulsion fertilizer for watering.
Instead of throwing the eggshells in a trash bin, you can use them to improve your garden soil. The eggshell packs calcium and other nutrients that plants need for a healthier growth.
Here are some of the ways you can use the eggshells in improving your gardening soil
You can also use them to feed the birds especially the mother birds that need diets rich in calcium. Eggshells also repel deer. Since the deer hate the smell of albumin, they will stay away from your garden.
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Coffee grounds will help acidify your soil in a localized area.
The coffee grounds are very useful for improving your garden soil. First the old coffee grounds will act as excellent ground mulch especially for plants that love acid. They also contain nitrogen, which is very important to the plants. They will create a ring of protection keeping the slugs, snails and ants away from plants such as tomatoes, strawberries, lettuce among others.
Coffee grounds are also rich in nutrients such as phosphorus, copper, potassium, as well as magnesium. This makes them effective for making high quality liquid fertilizer. Additionally, you can use them to stain your garden benches instead of using paints that leach toxic chemicals into the soil. They also make an excellent substrate for growing oyster mushrooms.
Is the use of banana peels the best kept secret for improving gardening soil? It might be. The banana peel fertilizer spray is an amazing fertilizer that is rich in much needed nutrients such as Potassium, Manganese, Magnesium, Calcium, Sulphur as well as phosphorus. To prepare this spay fertilizer, you will need about four banana peels. A tablespoon of Epsom salt, three eggshells, water and a spray bottle.
Remember to spray into the soil around the plant and avoid spraying their leaves, as this will not be of much benefit to the plant.
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Manure tea has many benefits to the plants. First, the manure contains the much-needed nitrogen to your plants. The manure is also affordable over other chemical fertilizers and it is all natural meaning that it will not damage your soil. The manure tea also adds other natural enzymes and micronutrients that are not found in the chemical fertilizer. Additionally, its liquid form enables it to penetrate to the roots for the plant to absorb it easily.
To prepare the manure tea is rather simple. You just need to have some manure, water, empty garbage or storage container, a rope and an old pillowcase or sack.
The brewing period is fast but you should allow for about two days for all the manure to dissolve.
After this, you will find that the water has turned to a dark brown color. Spray this manure tea around the roots of your plants.
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Composting will help you to have better and healthier soil. The process of making the compost is simple although the microorganisms will take some time to break the components. You can use trench composting to compost the kitchen scraps. The compost manure will add all the necessary nutrients that are needed to have healthier plants for better yields.
The Epsom salt is a safe and natural product that can be used to enhance the productivity of your garden as well as in households to provide natural frugal benefits. The salts are mineral compounds of magnesium and sulfate in crystal form. Here are some of the uses of Epsom salts.
The development of fruits demands a lot of nutrients. When you add the Epsom salts these nutrients are “more available”.These nutrients will provide the energy needed to make primary sugars, allowing the plant to make healthier and sweeter fruits.
The Epsom salts also helps in deterring pests, prevents leaf curling and leads to better pepper yields and prettier roses.
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