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Liquid feeds

Compost tea is effortless to make, pick your compost (stinging nettles, goat/sheep manure or homemade compost) then fill up an old pillowcase with you organic material.

Tie the pillow case and attach a weight, a couple of bricks will do nicely.

Sink this in a massive water filled container, cover the container and leave for a couple of days. Hey presto you now have a light liquid feed, you can leave it longer if you need to have a powerful liquid feed, the left overs in the pillowcase can be used as a bedding mulch

If you go fishing or are making huge quantities of excellent compost you will probably be employing lots of worms or maggots, the liquid build up in worm colony containers can be utilized as a liquid feed, it wants to be diluted even though ten parts water to 1 component worm excrement. This feed is an superb supply of phosphorus and potassium.

Organic fertilizers

Bird manure is a super supply of nitrogen the catch is that fresh bird manure can burn the roots of your flowers, you want to leave for a couple of months and then mix with hoof and horn, alternatively you can use the bird manure pellets that are now being sold.

This mix is best to generate sturdy growth the very best time to apply this is in spring or early summer season, you will get a gradual release of nitrogen and in turn generate strong shoot and leaf growth.

Wood ash is a great supply of potassium it can be added directly into your soil or your compost heap

Bone meal creates really excellent root development it is best utilized as a base dressing prior to planting, very good supply of phosphate

Propagation of seeds and cuttings

Creating an organic potting mix is really effortless and most importantly does not require any additional fertilizer.

1 of my favourite organic supplies is coconut coir at times called coconut peat, you can save on watering by as a lot as 50% if you use this I also uncover it is far superior to frequent goods like peat moss.

Totally free draining supplies like perlite market great drainage but also enable valuable oxygen to flow to the roots

You need to have to add the coconut coir and perlite with each other in equal measures, this is ideal accomplished by hand, guarantee there are no lumps in the final mix. Thats it you now have a ideal organic potting mix that can be used to propagate seeds and flower cuttings powered by