Make a liquid fertilizer from dandelions

  • Dec 24, 2019

The most common plant on the territory of Russia - dandelion. It has many species and belongs to the family Asteraceae. Basically, the only drug dandelion grows throughout Russia, from which the popular cough drugs or used as fertilizer.

Fertilizers from dandelions. Illustration for an article is used for a standard license © ofazende.ru
Fertilizers from dandelions. Illustration for an article is used for a standard license © ofazende.ru

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Fertilizer Dandelion

Because dandelion, which is considered a weed, is rich in vitamins, minerals and other trace elements, it is made into fertilizer for crops and fruit-bearing flowers.

This weed is usually harvested and prepared in advance, during its flowering and before the start seeding.

To make a liquid fertilizer of dandelions need in a large container (better bucket 100 L) to pour water 1/3, pour flowers to the top, stir well and trample. Then cover with a lid, but leave a small crack, so that oxygen entered. If it is not at hand, it is possible to wind the top of the food film and make it more holes.

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dandelion leaves. Illustration for an article is used for a standard license © ofazende.ru
dandelion leaves. Illustration for an article is used for a standard license © ofazende.ru

On a hot summer period in a bucket with infusion begin the fermentation process, and after a week the solution is ready for use. In the event that summer was cold, the solution will insist a long time and become smelly. It must be remembered that the fertilizer should not be any smell of fermentation, no stench. Before the process of fertilizing the plants need to pour a bucket with a solution of 2 more buckets of warm water. This is required in order to concentrate infusion is not Pozega roots fertilized plants.

Recipes liquid fertilizer

There are three most effective fertilizer using dandelions.

Infusion for spraying

300 g of green flowers Pour 10 liters of hot water (not boiling water), left for about 2 h and after infusion grate in 1/3 piece of soap. Ready to spray the plants with a solution before they bloom to scare away pests.

Dandelion and nettle

Nettle and dandelion for this infusion are going before they start spraying seeds. Herbs dry and chop, stir and move in a large bucket, pour into it about 1/8 of the water. To this solution was added humate (1 hr. l. 10 liters of water) and stir. Leave the infusion for 120 hours.

Infusion for feeding and spraying

This solution is prepared as follows: flowers of approximately 1.5 kg crushed, poured 10 liters of water and infused for about 2 weeks. After 14 days, the mixture is filtered and, without adding water, water the plants.

In order to get rid of aphids, mites and the sucker, it is necessary to take 300 g of leaves and roots of a dandelion, add water (10 L), the solution was left at 2 hour, and after the time to spray the plants.

How to apply

Fertilizers are used as follows:

  • Fertilizing of dandelions with other herbs quickly absorbed by plants, it lowers the acidity of the soil and saturates it with microelements. This type of fertilizer in the future is beneficial to the fruit culture.
  • Infusion of flowers is used in a proportion of 1:10 (1 liter tinctures and 10 liters of water). If you make the solution thicker, there is a danger to burn the plant roots.
  • Infusion of dandelion does not apply to beet and cabbage. He has a negative effect on the plants.
  • infusions of fertilizer is carried out 1 time in 21 days before flowering and 1 time in 14 days after the appearance of the fruit.

If you regularly use a liquid fertilizer from folk remedies, we can forget about for good purchased, which contain a bunch of chemicals and accelerators of growth, provide more adverse than beneficial impact. A grown products will be more environmentally friendly and acquire rich taste.

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