by using household items?
I've tried milk, apple vineger, coffee grinds and the leftover water from boiling eggs and beans.
2007-09-14 08:04:12 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Milk and vinegar are not fertilizers, they are fungicides. Coffee grounds only add a particular nutrient and are not well rounded used alone. However, if you put them in a compost along with plant vegetation, like dried grass clippings, leaf litter, composted manure, peat, topsoil, veggie and fruit scrapes, as well as egg shell, then you may have something.
If you like the organic way to fertilize then I suggest you start a compost pile with the items I mentioned. Turn the Pile and water it occasionally so everything will cook and you will have a wonderful natural fertilizer for your plants. All you'd have to do then is boil some of the compost, drain the water into a container and feed the plants with it. It's called compost tea. Just don't ever add meat, fat, or domestic animal poo to the compost.
Good Luck
2007-09-14 08:12:44 · answer #1 · answered by Sptfyr 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I use the water soluble Miracle Gro All Purpose plant food about once a month. You just add small amounts to your water (read instructions). My houseplants do really good.
2007-09-15 00:35:16 · answer #2 · answered by drayas 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
by using other than household items.. a water soluble fertilizer in your watering can is the most reliable way to feed.
If you insist on household items. unflavored gelatin has fertilizer value as does epsom salts. know how to use them, though. it's fairly easy to create toxicity with epsom salts, especially in small containers.
2007-09-14 15:08:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I use the little sticks every few months. Easy, no mess, and my friends are jealous of my plants.
2007-09-14 15:08:46 · answer #4 · answered by jade222_44 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I use the liquid that comes from my wormery. So I guess really I use all our household food waste, eventually. Get one, they're great...
2007-09-14 15:08:04 · answer #5 · answered by Yosemite Sam 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
buy a good mirale grow fertilizer and only apply the recommended amount not more or not less
2007-09-14 15:10:15 · answer #6 · answered by Larry A 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
miracle grow is great i use coz i dont have green fingers
2007-09-14 15:10:06 · answer #7 · answered by gigglewiggles 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Drop your drawers.
2007-09-14 15:07:36 · answer #8 · answered by kdog 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
miracle grow
2007-09-14 15:06:03 · answer #9 · answered by link00777rl 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
there's this new stuff called "plant fertilizer"...try that
2007-09-14 15:08:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋