How to feed plants with green fertilizer

Green fertilizer from grass is used to feed any plants when they want to stimulate rapid and abundant growth. It contains mainly nitrogen and potassium.

Preparation of herbal fertilizer.

Liquid fertilizers from weeds can be used both for watering at the roots and for spraying leaves (foliar feeding). Foliar feeding helps to quickly eliminate nitrogen and potassium deficiency. It works faster than fertilizer applied to the soil.

Off-horse feeding is carried out at intervals of 2-3 weeks in the first half of the growing season. The solution is prepared 2 times weaker than for the root.

    How to prepare green fertilizer

This is how green fertilizer is prepared. The container (plastic or enamel) is filled 1/3 with freshly picked chopped grass. Fill with water, but not to the top of the container, because The liquid rises during fermentation. Cover and place in the sun.

For filling, take any weeded weeds, trimmed thin green branches of trees and shrubs, including insecticidal ones (horseradish leaves, burdock, tansy, chamomile, etc.). The contents are stirred once a day.

After 10-15 days, the fertilizer is ready. For feeding, take 1 liter of liquid per 10 liters of water (the color of weakly brewed tea). Only fermented mixture can be used. Plant residues are squeezed out and buried in tree trunks. You can dry the presses, burn them, and use the ash as fertilizer.

Intense fermentation begins in the container.

    How to water plants

The fermented liquid is added to the tree trunk circle, previously watered with water.
Consumption rates:

• for trees — 20-30 liters of diluted green fertilizer per tree
• for shrubs - up to 10 liters per bush
• for tomatoes, cucumbers, pepper and other vegetables - 2-3 liters per plant.

To speed up the preparation of herbal fertilizer, you can add soda ash (a glass per 100 liters of water) or baking soda (2 glasses) to the water. The mixture will be ready earlier - in 8-10 days.

Before use, green fertilizer can be enriched superphosphate (1 tablespoon of simple superphosphate per 10 liters of diluted fertilizer and potassium sulfate (1/2 tablespoon or 1 - 2 handfuls of ash per 10 liters).Superphosphate and potassium are first dissolved in a small amount of hot water (60-70 degrees), after a few hours they are drained from the sediment and poured into the solution.

This liquid fertilizer contains all the elements vital for the plant in an easily digestible form. It is especially valuable for plants in the first half of summer (May - June). Repeat feeding after 10-15 days.

In the second half of summer, the interval between fertilizing is increased to 20-25 days, the addition of superphosphate and potassium is doubled. From the second half of August, feeding of trees is stopped, because... grass fertilizer contains a lot of nitrogen, which can cause secondary growth of shoots and delay the ripening of shoots. The trees are poorly prepared for winter and may freeze.

If insecticidal plants are used to prepare green fertilizer, it also heals the soil.

You can get rid of the unpleasant odor by adding a few drops of valerian infusion and valerian leaves to the container.

The solution can be enriched by adding some aromatic herbs to the mixture (they contain volatile biologically active substances), onions, garlic, bird droppings, and wood ash.

    Reviews from gardeners about green fertilizer

All reviews are taken from the gardening forum

User review Elol:

“We also have a compost pit; we regularly fill it with lime and ash. But I prefer liquid green fertilizers made from grass - we soak the weeds in old buckets (we, however, have an old bathtub for this). The container should be in the sun - then everything happens faster. We cover it, because the smell from these fertilizers is very, very strong. And we wait. It will wander there and even gurgle for several days. And then you get some kind of greenish slurry.We shake it, and add one jar per bucket of water to the evening watering. It turns out great! You just need a clothespin on your nose - it’s very fragrant. But the plants really like it, especially peppers. We feed almost all crops; I haven’t heard of any contraindications yet.”

Irina:

“I want to try it. How often should you water with this fertilizer?”

Elol:

“We water once every two weeks. But usually there is not enough “potion” for all the beds, so it turns out that first one half of the garden, and along the way we “feed” the second. But I think so - it’s possible more often, especially while the growing season is active. When the harvest is already close, we don’t feed anything at all, we stop all feeding at least two weeks before the harvest date. Even green fertilizers are still fertilizers!”

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