How To Make Plant Fertilizer At Home
Plants Need Food Too!!
When we buy or acquire a potted plant, most know that plants need watered. Well that soil they're isn't just any soil. It has been enriched with nutrients for the plant to eat. When the plant has eaten the whole supply of nutrients, it cannot get more. It is in a pot and cannot leave that pot.
So we must also supply food, aka fertilizer! Another word for this is mulch.
Fertilizers are expensive; fortunately you can make this easily at home and it will become better than anything you can buy!!
Ingredients: Used coffee can with its lid.
Bio-trash: eg. used coffee grounds with filters, used tea bags, eggshells, leftovers from cutting up fruits and vegetables.
🚫DO NOT USE:⛔️ Oils, meats, seeds, stems, anything hard, non-food products or processed pre-packaged food.
What you now want to do is fill your container with all this as if it is a wastebasket. Seal lid tightly. Wait.
If you need fertilizer immediately go buy it cause it takes a good month for your first patch of mulch to be ready.
ONE MONTH LATER....
Open your container. Mold is good! It may be quite stinky. Take something you don't care about (I use a stick) and mash your mulch.
Then take about 1 tsp. mulch, drop in 1 8 oz. glass of water per plant and feed your plants. I personally do this only once a month. Overfeeding the plants can kill them!
Keep adding to the mulch never buy fertilizer again!