homemade fertilizer??

Question

any ideas on how to make fertilizer at home?? websites??

Answer 1

Alfalfa Tea
Alfalfa is a good slow-release source of nitrogen, but since you will be "digesting" it by letting it ferment in water, the resulting tea is a soluable, fast-acting nitrogen source. In addition to nitrogen, alfalfa supplies enzymes and trace elements that are not present in chemical nitrogen fertilizers. it offers Triacontanol, a growth stimulant, an array of vitamins, co-enzymes, & 20 % crude proteins.
Choose a garbage bin or barrel with no leaks and a tight fitting lid. Position it in an out of the way place - you don't want to have to move it once it's full.
For a full size garbage bin (20 gallons) add 16 cups of alfalfa pellets or alfalfa meal (4 cups to every 5 gallons or 22 litres of water)
Add 2 cups of Epsom salts (magnesium sulphate crystals) (or half a cup to 5 gallons)
Fill with water
Let stand for one week until it bubbles with fermentation. Your nose will tell you that it's ready.
Apply tea once per month in the spring and summer, especially after the first flush of flowers, to encourage repeat blooming. It can be used to drench the soil or sprayed on the foliage.
Alfalfa pellets or meal are available from garden or feed stores in 50 lb. bags. Pellets are easier to handle, but I feel that the meal makes a better fertilizer. Epsom salts are available in most pharmacies.
Fish and Seaweed Foliage sprays
Seaweed provides micronutrients and plant growth hormones. Fish provides nitrogen but is effective beyond that as an explanation.

Fertilizer is made to order if you make your own.
Nitrogen: (For producing leaf growth and greener leaves (chlorophyll), protein synthesis)
Dried blood 12-15
Desert bat guano 8
Cottonseed meal 7
Bone meal 4
Coffee grounds 2
Ground cocoa bean & peanut hulls 1
Compost manure 0.5
Phosphorus: (For proper seed development; hastens maturity; increased seed yield and flower production; fruit and vitamin content; increased resistance to winterkill and diseases)
Phosphate rock 30-32
Bone meal 21
Dried blood 3
Cottonseed meal 2.5
Potassium: (For promoting early growth (meristematic tissue); improves stem strength and cold hardiness; better color, flavor and keeping quality of fruits and vegetables; good for root system)
Basalt rock; wood ashes 7
Granite dust 5
Greensand 5
Seaweed (kelp) 5
Manures & compost 2.7
Shredded leaves 0.6
Potash, plant residues 0.5

Coffee is acidic so in large amounts it will change your soil pH.
Coffee Grounds N-P-K 2-0.3-0.2 Minor source of calcium & magnesium. Use at 1lb/100 sq ft unless on acid loving plants
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/ext/groundsfo...

4 parts coffee ground
1 part bone meal
1 part wood ashes
Coffee is acidic while wood ashes are basic so this is a balanced use of the two.

University of Pennsylvania's Morris Arboretum uses:
In a large bucket combine
1 cup alfalfa meal
1 cup fish meal
1 cup greensand
1 cup gypsum
1/2 cup bonemeal.
Use a trowel to mix the ingredients well.

Sul-Po-Mag (0-0-22) 19% sulfur; 10% magnesium. Do not use with dolomotic lime. Rapidly available potassium and magnesium.

Answer 2

Fertilizing every now and then is good when you're just planting something, but even a natural fertilizer can be more bad then good because it makes your plants dependent, and can give them more nutrients then they can absorb (almost like eating too much for a plant, or a drug dependence), but anyway, the best natural fertilizer is just a nice compost. You can easily make compost by getting a compost bin, and then filling it with all your kitchen scraps sans any meat or animal products, (like bones or blood, or pet poo; eggs are okay) at the end of the day, make sure you cover it with leaves, and dirt, and even fresh plant material like weeds, although too much green stuff can make the compost too acidic. This will need to sit for awhile, but it's the most nutritious thing. You can also just bury a little bit of something when you plant something, such as banana peels, or I like seaweed, it's really great, and you can just buy some dried and then re-hydrate it. If you want a liquid, they also make liquid seaweed extract which I hear is very good, but I think that's the only liquid that would really be beneficial to the plants, and then not too much. Plants need to be able to stand droughts and flooding, and generally to be able to live on their own to be strong. You can add worms to your compost bin, which will help it to break down faster. The best compost bins I have seen are from TerraPlana, particularly the rotating barrel, which I know they have at Home Depot and probably Lowes, but there are many kinds you can choose from.

Answer 3

hmm. well i know a source of home fertilizer but u are not going to like it. i think u must mean compost. just google compost and i am sure u will find a site.

Answer 4

Compost is one of nature's best mulches and soil amendments, and you can use it instead of commercial fertilizers. Best of all, compost is cheap. ...
www.compostguide.com/

Answer 5

well, you could scrape out the outhouse! Or save all the biodegradable table scraps, even Coffey and tea grounds, and egg shells.

Answer 6

Dry dog food works great.

Answer 7

try used tea bags. its great 4 orchids.

Answer 8

saltpeter, potasium nitrate, and ferrous oxide