Flower friends in the north, how to make homemade acid fertilizer

How to make the simplest acidic fertilizer without time-consuming rotting.

Here are some guidelines for making fertilizer for your home:

Food waste composting is the process of using microorganisms and small insects in nature to break down organic matter (food waste) in the presence of air and water. The final product is called food waste fertilizer, which is rich in easy-to-use phytonutrients that form part of a healthy soil. It is recommended to buy a bucket and wooden box for composting food waste.

It is best made on the balcony or outdoors. When the food waste compost is fermented, it will have a taste (mainly ammonia and hydrogen sulfide).

Kitchen waste composting mainly has the following conditions: carbon-containing organic matter such as dried leaves, wood chips, paper, peanut shells, melon seed shells, etc. Nitrogen-containing organic matter such as fruit and vegetable waste, coffee grounds, malt powder, etc.

1. Air 2. Appropriate amount of water.

Turning Food Waste into Treasure in 6 Easy Steps:

1. Separate edible kitchen waste (vegetable peels, fruit peels, a small amount of wasted cooked food) into containers.

2. Collect the dried organic matter (dried leaves, sawdust) in a small container.

3. Take a box or a bucket and drill 4 5 different holes around the container to let air in.

4. Spread a layer of soil on the bottom.

5. Now start adding food waste alternately wet waste (vegetable and fruit skins) and dry waste (straw, sawdust, dry leaves).

6. Cover this container with plastic sheeting or wooden planks to help retain moisture and heat. Some advice Every few days, use a rake to turn the pile quickly to provide inflation. If you feel that the pile is too dry, sprinkle it with some water and make it moist.

Within 2-3 months, your food waste should start to form compost on dry, dark brown soil. There are also ready-made, kitted tools for food waste composting. With time and a little patience, you might enjoy composting food waste.

It is not recommended to use leftover meat, bones, leftovers, leftovers, etc. from food waste.

By sorting, ** and composting, a family of four can reduce waste by 1,000 kg to less than 100 kg per year. Imagine that 90% of all the garbage in Chennai disappeared overnight, a clean green city – and it will help you start your composting journey.

The concept of acid fertilizer is rather vague. If you want to adjust the pH of the soil or fertilizer, you can add citric acid, and other acids are more harmful to plants. Citric acid is an acid that can also be secreted by plants.

Iron supplementation can be considered EDTA-FE chelated iron, or EDDHA-FE chelated iron. Both types of iron can be used even when the pH is higher than 7. Ferrous sulfate should only be used under acidic conditions.

You can find it on TB.

Just use ferrous sulfate directly... Organic fertilizer, compost with pine leaves, or fermentation of fruits and the like, are also acidic.

Add some ferrous sulfate to the fertilizer water, such as when the sesame sauce residue is added, add some ferrous sulfate to the bucket, and the fertilizer water that comes out is alum fertilizer water, many flower farmers do this, and I also learned it in the altar.

Homemade three kinds of "acid fertilizer", Junzilan drank "rubbing long", and it was easy to burst!

Generally, the fertilizer made by yourself is acidic, is there alkaline fertilizer?

1. Homemade acidic soil:

In autumn, collect all kinds of leaves, individually or mixed into large pots or black plastic bags, a layer of leaves, a layer of peat soil or garden soil, and then add a little ferrous sulfate or ferric citrate, soak enough water, cover and compact. After an autumn and winter fermentation, acidic soil is formed.

2. Make sour soil with vinegar

1) When watering the potting soil, add an appropriate amount of vinegar to promote the absorption of trace elements such as phosphorus and iron, and prevent yellowing of branches and leaves.

2) Pouring an appropriate amount of vinegar can not only eliminate the peculiar smell, but also sterilize and disinfect the soil.

3) Dip a cotton ball in vinegar to rub the flowers and leaves, which can make red spiders, aphids, etc. restless, and then sweep them down to eliminate them.

4) Prepare or apply alkaline drugs, wash hands with vinegar water, and rinse utensils, which can remove the remaining drugs and play a role in disinfection.

1. Prepare some eggshells and vinegar, wash the eggshells, expose them to the sun, then break them, soak them in vinegar for a period of time, and then use them as acidic fertilizer. In addition, rice water, or boiled soybean water, can also be used as an acidic fertilizer after fermentation.

2. Collect all kinds of leaves in autumn, individually or mixed into large pots or black plastic shed base bags, a layer of leaves, a layer of peat soil or garden soil, and then add a little ferrous sulfate or ferric citrate, soak enough water and then cover and compact. After an autumn and winter fermentation, acidic soil is formed.

Shiyang PH is 5-6.

Camellias, rhododendrons, gardenias, magnolias and other flowers that like acidic soil, often grow poorly in alkaline soil, some people think that as long as the ferrous sulfate solution is watered frequently, it can solve the problem, because ferrous sulfate is strongly acidic, and it is fast-acting, and it can make the alkaline soil acidic after watering, so that the seedlings suffering from yellowing disease quickly turn green. But this is only one aspect, on the other hand, if the ferrous sulfate liquid is poured frequently, it will produce sulfuric acid crystals to block the pores of the seedlings roots, so that the plants can not absorb the nutrients and water in the soil, and will also lead to death. Alum fertilizer water soaked with ferrous sulfate and cake fertilizer can overcome the disadvantages of single pouring ferrous sulfate.

However, alum fertilizer water is only suitable for the vigorous growth of flowers and trees in spring and summer. Because the effect of ferrous sulfate can only last for 5 days --- 7 days, and cake fertilizer is a slow-acting fertilizer, for flowers that are not suitable for fertilization or should be less fertilized during late autumn to early spring, continuous watering of alum fertilizer water, it is easy to make flowers suffer from fertilizer.

In the northern winter, flowers in the south spend 5 --- 7 months in the greenhouse, during which most of them are watered with alkaline well water or tap water, which is most likely to alkalize the soil. Whereas, the northern soil is mostly alkaline. The fundamental approach to such overly alkaline soils is to reduce the degree of soil alkalinization.

There are two methods: one is the organic improvement method. It is to mix coniferous or broadleaf soil with the soil. Coniferous soil is made from the needles, stumps or sawdust of decaying pine trees, and the pins are strongly acidic and have a pH value.

The general alkaline soil mixed with 1 5 or 1 6 coniferous soil is most suitable for acid-loving flower pots. Broad-leaved soil is formed by the decay of the fallen leaves of various broad-leaved trees. pH.

The advantage of organic improvement is that the organic matter itself contains a variety of elements after decay, which are necessary for the growth of flowers, and make the soil loose, with good air permeability and water retention.

The second is the inorganic improvement method. That is, 100 grams --- 200 grams of sulfur powder are mixed in 1 cubic soil, and the effect can last for 2-3 years.

Flowers and trees suffering from yellowing disease due to soil alkalinization, transplanted in the prepared acidic soil, the first 10 days because the roots are not rooted in the new soil, can not absorb nutrients, it is best to spray the front and back of the leaves with edible vinegar. In this way, through photosynthesis, the leaves produce a certain amount of acidic nutrients that are returned to the plant. If you spray edible sugar (50 times with water) frequently, it can also make the leaves bright and the flowers huge.

Edible sugar is a hormone that we root, and its effect is also nayi, indole butyric acid and indoleacetic acid are side by side, and it is relatively safe to use.

Domestic acidic flowers, after dismantling the belt is often used to water this kind of Songdan water, not yellow leaves, the growth of the vigorous travel cherry blossom reeds.

Acid-loving flowers do not need to be too particular, you can fertilize like ordinary flowers (of course, not too much, so as not to cause fertilizer). But be aware of two things:

1. Pay attention to the pH value of the soil, it is best to choose the sensitive limb peat soil or red and yellow soil in the south, and other flowers are good to say, azaleas have to be so, otherwise they will not grow well;

2. Watering should be done with neutral or even slightly acidic water, and the pH value can be adjusted with white vinegar, so that the fertilization will not be harmed.

Add ferrous sulfate and spray on water.

White vinegar can be used. When I don't have white vinegar at home, I often mix it with edible vinegar... Hehe... The flowers are not dead!