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Backyard gardening provides an opportunity to promote healthier eating, reduce carbon footprints, and provide physical activity, stress relief, and educational opportunities, fostering a deeper connection to nature and food production, which is a good reason to cultivate a kitchen garden.
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Using organic fertilisers is an excellent way to take care of your plants and the environment at the same time, so make the most of your garden. These inexpensive fertilisers listed below guarantee that your plants will flourish with organic nutrients. Additionally, they will help maintain soil health, promote healthy plant growth, and reduce the need for synthetic chemicals, ultimately creating a more sustainable and eco-friendly garden.
5 Organic Fertilisers To Make For Your Plants Easily At Home
Composted Animal Manure
The best animal manure to feed your garden's plants is compost animal dung. Fresh manure has a high urea content that may burn the roots of your little plants, so avoid utilising it. Use aged or composted manure in your home gardens for optimal results.
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Make sure that it is organic manure and should not have residual pesticides, synthetic fertilisers, or antibiotics from the animals. It is also important that it is composted so that any grass seeds consumed by the animal are destroyed. Otherwise, you may have lots of grasses and weeds popping up in your garden.
Tea Leaves
Using tea leaves that are left after brewing the tea is also a good option for making fertiliser. Tea leaves, when added to soil, can act as a natural pest repellent, protect the plants, and lead to their healthy growth.
Additionally, it gives the plants essential nutrients, prevents fungal growth, stops the growth of weeds around the plants, speeds up composting, helps in retaining water in the plants and acts as a good feed for earthworms.
Banana Peels
Banana peels are packed with citrus properties, which are a perfect source to attract good bacteria that promote the growth of the plants. The process to use them as fertiliser starts by drying banana leaves in the sun or boiling them in hot water so that you can remove chemicals from them, then crush those peels and put them directly on the soil.
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Eggshells
Eggshells in the soil provide a natural source of calcium for the plants. To use them as fertiliser, place the eggshells in the sun to dry. This process will kill all the pathogens and bacteria left in the shell. After drying the shells, crush them and directly sprinkle on the soil.
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Rice water
Rice water has essential nutrients that are the key requirements for plant growth. The residual water from rinsing or boiling rice is rich in nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, which are crucial for robust plant growth. When put into soil, rice water enhances soil fertility by enriching its structure, and its mild nature reduces the risk of overfertilization, making it suitable for a variety of plants.
