Create Your Own Organic Fertilizers

Liquid organic fertilizers are a great way of ensuring that your plants get the nutrients they need quickly and as easily as possible. Liquid organic fertilizers contain not only the essential nutrients that most plants need for healthy growth but also all the trace elements needed to build their immune systems. It is also very easy to create your own liquid organic fertilizer within a matter of minutes, as we will now proceed to explain.

Let us first start with the equipment that will be needed for this purpose. The most basic equipment that you will require is a large plastic container, that has never been used for any kind of toxic chemicals and which can be closed well with a tightly fitting lid. Depending on the composition of your soil, the plants that you are growing and the purpose of your fertilizers, you might want to work on different brews. However, once it has matured, the fertilizer is bound to be very strong – dilute it before you apply it to your plants or the soil.

·    Using Weeds
Quite often, if you are frustrated at a particular weed appearing again and again, you should probably realize that this is the natural way the soil tries to restore the balance of nutrients. Take a hint from the soil and prepare a fertilizer from these particular weeds and use it as foliar spray. You will find a reduction in the appearance of the weeds.
·    Using Nettles
Stinging nettles can stimulate growth in plants, particularly in spring. Pull up a sizeable number of stinging nettles – ensure you are wearing gloves while pulling them up – and fill your container with them. Fill it up with water and allow the whole mix to ferment for a few days till the nettles have broken down completely.
·    Using Fish
If you would like to make a liquid organic fertilizer using fish, just take some fish scraps, fill your container with it and cover it with water. In this case, you have to take extra precautions to ensure that the lid is perfectly fitting else flies may get to the brew and moreover, you could find the smell overpowering. When you let it ferment for about a month or so, the brew will contain high concentrations of trace elements.
·    Using Comfrey
A liquid organic fertilizer from comfrey can be made in the same way as above and is considered to be very rich in potash. Particularly helpful for plants that bear fruits like tomatoes or pumpkins, this fertilizer forms a perfect liquid fertilizer leaving very little solid residue.
·    Compost Tea
Compost teas or bird manure teas are very powerful liquid manures and can provide some much-needed tonic, very quickly to plants. You need to put compost in an onion or Hessian bag, immerse it in water and then let the manure seep into the water. Dunking the bag or shaking it occasionally will allow for better seepage. After waiting for one to three weeks, you will have an excellent brew of compost tea or bird manure tea available.