Simple but effective fertilizer for home colors is easy to find in your own kitchen. For dressings used, and the remains of vegetables and fruit, and beverages, and more. Most options available to help home remedies use plants look lush and bloom better.
Fertilizing plants sugar
Sugar - a source of carbohydrates, essential to all plants: they synthesize these compounds from carbon dioxide and water. But home flowers often lack a sufficient amount of UV light that is important for the process, and carbon dioxide. By dissolving sugar breaks down into simple carbohydrates and helps the plant to get power.
To introduce such a dressing can be two ways:
- sprinkle on the surface of the soil before watering;
- dissolved in irrigation water.
In the container of 3 liters using 1-2 hours. l. sugar. If the crystals are sprinkled on top, it is important to water the plant well to carbohydrates penetrated to the roots of the bush.
Dentifrice
Toothbrush comprises chalk powder which is able to prevent acidification of soil in the pot at excessive watering. If the plant belongs to varieties preferring neutral or alkaline soil (aloe, coleus, laurel and lemon, geranium, roses room and so on.), It can be watered with a solution of dentifrice (1 part. l. 1 liter of water). Fertilizing spend 1 per month, it will prevent the leaching of calcium from the soil.
If bush suffered from overflowing (in wet soil or plant sluggish yellowing, collapses), can help him from a tooth powder composition (2 parts), copper sulfate (1 part) and wood ash (2 parts). The mixture was diluted with irrigation water (0.5 L per 1 L of the container volume). The soil at the root collar push to process bark, suffered from fungal diseases. Plant pour the prepared solution and leave for 7-10 days in a warm and light place, but not in direct sunlight.
potato broth
Starchy potatoes by boiling substances break down into simple sugars. Watering decoction of any useful plants, especially flowering: the water passes potassium contained in the tubers. It is useful for the formation of buds and cause more luxuriant bloom.
Coffee
Coffee grounds - supplier of nitrogenous substances. As with any organic substance, it eventually rot, enriching the soil in the pot substances necessary for increasing the green weight. Dried guschey convenient to mulch the soil surface. It is convenient to add it directly into the potting soil at planting. In the latter case, the additive loosens the ground and does not give her much to solidify afterwards. When mulching delivery with irrigation water nitrogenous substances will be constant and uniform.
Fertilizing plants bananas
Banana peel can replace complex fertilizer. The fruit contains a large amount of potassium, it is rich and the shell of the fruit. Peel is an organic material which decomposes quickly to release the nitrogen salts. Prepare dressing, you can:
- Grind and dry cleaning banana. They are easy to include in the Peat mixture, mixing with the soil or mulch the surface to the soil maintained friability. In both cases, the decay will take place gradually, and nitrogenous substances will come in small portions under irrigation.
- Brew or infuse. And use fresh and dried clean. To prepare the broth 1 liter of boiling water is poured into the tank pours 2-3 tbsp. l. chopped peel (can be fresh mince). Insist to cool and then poured potted plants.
Using banana skins can attract small flies.
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