#diyfertilizer

[gardeningloverfamily]

🥥🥥What’s your favorite organic fertilizer recipe?

🥥 My Favorite Organic Fertilizer Recipe Secret:

One of my favorite organic fertilizer recipes is Banana Peel and Coffee Grounds Fertilizer. It’s easy to make, full of essential nutrients, and great for vegetables, houseplants, and flowers.

🥄 Ingredients:

🍌 2-3 banana peels (potassium and phosphorus)

☕ 1 cup used coffee grounds (nitrogen)

🧂 1 tablespoon Epsom salt (magnesium)

💧 Water (enough to fill a 1-liter container) 🛠 Instructions: 1️⃣ Cut the banana peels into small pieces. 2️⃣ Combine the peels, coffee grounds, and Epsom salt in a blender. 3️⃣ Add water and blend until smooth. 4️⃣ Use immediately or store the mixture for up to a week in a sealed container. 5️⃣ Apply it to your plants by pouring the mixture around the base once every 2-3 weeks.

This recipe feeds your plants organically while improving soil health. It’s ideal for those seeking eco-friendly and chemical-free gardening solutions.

🌱 Boost your garden naturally with this easy-to-make organic fertilizer recipe using banana peels, coffee grounds, and Epsom salt. Perfect for healthy vegetables, houseplants, and flowers!

[gardeningloverfamily]

What’s Your Favorite Method for Starting Seeds Indoors?

Starting seeds indoors is a great way to get a jump on the growing season. One of my favorite methods is using seed trays with a humidity dome. This method provides a controlled environment, maintaining moisture and warmth, which are essential for seed germination. I fill each tray with a quality seed-starting mix, sow the seeds according to the recommended depth, and cover them lightly with soil. The humidity dome helps keep the moisture levels high, ensuring that the seeds have the best chance to sprout. Once the seedlings have developed their first true leaves, I gradually acclimate them to outdoor conditions before transplanting them into the garden.

[ligayagardener]

Fish Amino Acid vinegar extract and fermenting fruit fertiliser. Smells great! After making a batch of FAA the traditional way, all of the leftovers are being dissolved in home made Apple Cider Vinegar over the next month in one bucket. In the other bucket, all of the fruit that's been damaged by varmints is getting a second life and fermenting nicely into a liquid brew. Fruit is pretty well the life goal of most fruit trees and they put a lot of energy and nutrients into producing it. This is one way to reclaim some of the nutrients so that they can be added to the root zone of the trees. The pulp left after either of the mixes are strained is a favourite of the worms in the worm farms. I think I can hear them smacking their lips now. At least, I think it's their lips 💋 😅 _________________________________________________ #fertilizer #diyfertilizer #plantnutrition #growyourfruit #growyourownfood #growwhatyoueat #ourpatch #ourgarden #gardenblogger (at Gawler, South Australia) https://www.instagram.com/ligayagarden/p/CYik04bPrLz/?utm_medium=tumblr

[ligayagardener]

Besides my fortnightly shower, straining the juice from the Fish Amino Acid batches is the stinkiest job in the place! Actually, unlike me, it only has a faint, fishy smell and isn't that bad. I do have to keep Athena away from it though. She'll eat it until she gets sick! Fish Amino Acid extract (or anaerobically fermented seafood scraps) is a great way to get all kinds of nutritional goodies into your garden. I've yet to work out a way to get it into the aquaponics as it's oily nature means that it coagulates and floats to the surface. I'm going g to be working on a solution this week though and will keep you posted. Maybe a burst in an ultrasonic cleaner to break it all up...? _________________________________________________ #faa #fishaminoacid #fermenting #gardeningwithmicrobes #diyfertilizer #fishfertilizer (at Gawler, South Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CXpka1hP48U/?utm_medium=tumblr

[ligayagardener]

Making a calcium rich vinegar extract from eggshells. Vinegar is a great way to extract minerals from many substances and the resulting liquid is shelf stable for a long while. That means you can store it in a cool dark place for use later. Here, I'm extracting (primarily) calcium from broken up, roasted eggshells. They get roasted at 150 degrees C for 20 mins or so to dry off the organic material. The ratio of vinegar to eggshells is pretty arbitrary and I've settled on one of 3 to 1 or 4 to 1 depending on how much vinegar i have. Make sure the vinegar reaches all of the eggshells and leave for a week, stirring occasionally until any bubbling stops. Strain out the eggshells and bottle and store the solution. Keep the remaining eggshells. Often you can add fresh vinegar to them and keep on extracting eggs goodness. I usually use home made Apple Cider Vinegar or fruit vinegars but at the moment, I don't have any around because my ACV mother got a bit sick and I'm starting a fresh one. I like these vinegars because they're practically free but you can always use white vinegar. You don't need to use much, I use 1 tablespoon in a watering can of water or 1 tap in my 2 litre sprayer for a foliar spray. Some sources, say that you can use less than this. Use as a spray on leaves or a drench for the roots of plants either as a regular part of your fertilising routine or as an emergency amendment for plant health problems. I usually add a couple of drops of Seasol to whichever vessel I'm using to make it a bit more potent and broad spectrum when using it to remedy plant health issues. There you go. Pretty easy ________________________________________________ #diy #diyfertilizer #applecidervinegar #saurbanfood #growitlocal #permacultureblogger #permaculture #organicgardening #greenthumb #groowyourownfood #growwhatyoueat #gardenharvest #ourgarden (at Gawler, South Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWb7LUQBLtN/?utm_medium=tumblr

[ligayagardener]

@poeticjusticegawler gave us a whole box of eggshells the other day so it's time to dry them out, powder them and make a vinegar extract from some too. I'll be posting about what we do with them in the garden over the next couple of days, so keep an eye out. ________________________________________________ #gardenersofinstagram #gardening #diygarden #diyfertilizer #gardenpics #fertilizers #organicfertilsers #organicgardening #gardenblogger #groowyourownfood #reuserepurposereduce #composting #organicpestcontrol https://www.instagram.com/p/CWZaEMQvF-Z/?utm_medium=tumblr

[ligayagardener]

A potassium rich brew of dried, powdered, banana skins is brewing tonight. Tomorrow, I'll strain it and use it as a foliar spray after diluting it 20:1 (at a guess...I'm not very accurate 🤣). I'm brewing it up because our Tomatoes are starting to flower and potassium encourages flowering and fruiting. __________________________________________________ #diy #diyfertilizer #foliarspray #gardenersofinstagram #gardenblogger #saurbanfood #growyourownfood #growitlocal #permaculture #greenthumb #permaculturesa #diygarden #aquaponicsvegetables #aquaponicsgarden (at Gawler, South Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWXpvttv-zq/?utm_medium=tumblr

[tfbtfarms]

Banana peels soaking in water. That’s all it takes to make your own fertilizer. We often give the peels to our pigs when we eat a banana but if we have tomatoes in the garden, the plants get priority over the pigs and we make some liquid fertilizer. Bananas are full of potassium, which is a really important nutrient for growing tomato plants. It’s a great wnd affordable way to boost the potassium content of the soil without over adding nitrogen and phosphorous that’s in standard fertilizer. (at The First Best Thing Farms)
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