I was wondering if you guys know of anything that might be around the house you can use as fertilizer? Food scraps etc? Or mixes of things to make your own fertilizers?
2006-06-19 00:45:39 · 6 answers · asked by Jennifer S 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Most food scraps can be put into a compost heap. You should also compost green garden waste such as lawn mowings, hedge clippings &c.
If you have only a small garden, you may find a worm bin is more practical.
http://www.cityfarmer.org/wormcomp61.html
http://www.savvygardener.com/Features/worm_composting.html
2006-06-19 00:49:25 · answer #1 · answered by pica_septima 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I have two pet cluckers and last year I used their dumps on my tomato plants and got tomato plants that grew to 8 feet high. You need cluckers for this, though, but their buttwerks are much faster than composting food scraps.
So the net result was I took table scraps and ran them through a chicken first. Chickens will eat almost anything, even stones. Faster than composting and it worked wonders on the tomatoes.
2006-06-19 07:56:08 · answer #2 · answered by Kokopelli 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take vegtable peelings, place in a blender, add 2 - 4 cups of water and puree. The result is a liquid fertilzor much like compost without the heaving lifting or turning of the compost heap. I use this to water my outside plants with every other week or so. It wont burn the plants as it is not chemical.
2006-06-25 18:10:58 · answer #3 · answered by Laurie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the most easy and all out tonic is look in your garden for rich green stinging nettles ( wear gardening gloves) place your cut or drawn nettles in a bucket of water not to close to the house as it does give off an oader but the benefits to all the plants is remarkable and out weighs shall I say the pong. put say a cupfull of the now week old solution and top up with water and wait the results or it can be used as a foliage feeder from a spray bottle. good luck Hold your nose.
2006-06-19 07:52:52 · answer #4 · answered by mysticmo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
coffee grounds, egg shells, milk water (the last of the milk in your carton with a little water), beer (yeah, really), if you have fish, acquarium whater when you change it, water from boiled eggs, liquid from steamed vegies....fun huh?
Love!! the clucker clue.
2006-06-19 09:00:01 · answer #5 · answered by reynwater 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sheep crap.
2006-06-19 07:49:31 · answer #6 · answered by Little Lolita 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋