This fertilizer – a godsend for the gardener. From nothing (sornyakov!) can make an excellent organic fertilizer, equivalent to the composition of manure. Only need three ingredients: water, grass and a bit of any nitrogen fertilizer to enhance fermentation. The most attractive for us – that only one barrel of 200 liters over the summer produces huge amounts of fertilizer, so that ordinary garden plot in a few hundred square meters are provided with food is completely …
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How to make a liquid fertilizer

Need a plastic container, preferably a spacious, 50 liters, the best – the usual barrel of 200 liters, while the success suit and buckets. The main thing that was a plastic container rather than steel.

Best of all walks green plant mass, so as the main feedstock for the production of fertilizers commonly used nakoshennuyu grass, weeds, leaves. In the barrel of their sleep as long as there is: half or two thirds, or even completely. The more grass, the more dense fertilizer happen. Then add a nitrogen source for enhanced fermentation: Nitrogen is a part of the protein, the bacteria multiply rapidly in the presence of nitrogen (in tissue nitrogen is small, bacteria decompose it slowly). Nitrogen source can be toilet waste (in small amounts – 1.3 liters per barrel) or a tablespoon of carbamide (urea) – all known granular fertilizer, or more capsules of liquid humate fertilizer (black and smelling of ammonia). After this, pour water almost to the brim. Top of the barrel is closed with a lid or knotted polyethylene.

The first batch of fertilizer is preparing for about two weeks – a little longer than all subsequent (7-10 days).

Before use, should be properly stirred a lot of herbs in a barrel that was washed from her as possible particles of decayed matter, grass, remove the fork and use a mulching cucumbers, squash, cabbage, etc., and the slurry used for fertilizing. But not all: there are a lot of micro-organisms, so a couple of buckets should be left at the bottom of the barrel to “ferment” the next batch of grass. Then he pours a barrel of accumulated weeds, add a nitrogen source, fill with water – and everything is repeated. In the hot summer, when the fermentation goes fast, fertilizer matures in 7-10 days.

The advantages of liquid fertilizer

Such “pluses” for three.

First, we make a plant bystrousvoyaemoe nitrogen fertilizer as a solution – it will act much faster than the mulch of rotting grass.

Secondly, remove the soil acidity by alkaline solution (also faster than in making dry reductants).

Third, saturate the ground alive activity of microorganisms, selection of which have a protective effect. That is, it is both food, and improving the environment, and protection against many diseases.

In addition, the fluid is very clean, well watered land in the early preparation for landing. In short, a barrel of herbal liquid fertilizer in summer becomes the head of “figure” in caring for the plantings. Set it better in the middle of the landings that do not have far to carry fertilizer.

It should be noted, and another valuable property barrels fermenting grass – she works as a disinfectant product. It can throw “for processing” affected by any disease tops, which would otherwise have been incinerated. In the barrel anaerobic conditions, there can not survive any agent – all transformed into fertilizer. In addition, the barrel can pour windfalls – the fallen fruit of apples, currants, gooseberries, which relies deeply bury or burn. Thus, a barrel of fertilizer eliminates the need to plant all summer fires and dig holes. Easy!

Willing or fertilizer?

When fertilizer is ready, the contents of the barrel appears smell “barn”, the color is similar to the slurry: a greenish-dirty, herbal weight strongly bubbles – produces carbon dioxide. Time is bubbling, then ferment exactly is going well, the grass decomposes and forms carbon dioxide and ammonia. We very much at hand, that ammonia is in the water and connect it with the formation of ammonia, and does not escape, as the storage of manure or compost.

Ammonia is alkaline, which is very beneficial to acid soils. In addition, since the ammonium ion is positively charged, he is well fixed in the clay soil where the particles carry a negative charge on the surface (opposite charges attract). Therefore, the liquid contents of casks, like all organic fertilizers can be incorporated into the soil in the autumn: Nitrogen little washed out. In contrast, nitrogen fertilizer is often in the form of an ion with negative charge, such as potassium nitrate, which is easier leached from the soil.

In what proportions, and when diluted to make

Thus, we obtain a universal nutrient mixture, which can be used as basic fertilizer, making it in the preparation of the soil, and as a summer fertilizing.

I usually diluted fertilizer “by eye” – is usually 1:1 (1,5), ie, from 200 liters of liquid fertilizer get 400-500 hp dressing, in a week – half a ton more!

Volumes of feedings depends on the needs of individual crops. So, if for cabbage and cucumber in August, you can pour a bucket of dilute feed under a bush, then strawberries – 1-2 liters per bush. Keep in mind that fertilizing is nitrogen, if you overdo, it can cause excessive growth of undesirable foliage (tomatoes, strawberries) or to provoke the emergence of pests and diseases. Balance on the middle.

In August and autumn production of fertilizers is not terminated, the benefit in addition to weeds, there are many cut tops – let him go to work. Useful vengeance pour fertilizer all preparing to spring clean piece of land.

And the plants themselves – is it possible to irrigate the fall of this fertilizer plants themselves? Here carefully! As you know, trees and shrubs in late summer with nitrogen is not fed. Water the fertilizer that circles around-trunk in perennial plants only in late autumn, when the plants dropped their leaves and fully prepared for the winter! Otherwise, our fertilizer containing nitrogen, can delay the growth of branches and twigs caused by poor winter hardiness.

It turns out that the three summer months with a single barrel can be sent to the area 6 tons of feed. Do you think this site will not yield? What do you think, how many kilograms of premium plant products can get from this?

How long can store liquid fertilizer

Who taught biology, he knows that ammonia in high concentrations – it is poison for all living things (which is why breeders so carefully remove the litter from the cells!). In particular, for micro-organisms. When stored in a barrel is too much ammonia, microbes are killed: poisoned by their own secretions. After standing for a month, the solution will continue to be nutritious, but without microbes. Therefore, if you want to water the soil living microbes, if you want you have been continuous live production of fertilizer, you need not only to continually add fresh food for microbes, but also time to remove ripe muck.