Homemade Organic Fertilizer - Tips on How to Make It

Did you know that homemade organic fertilizer is healthier and cheaper? Here are a few tips and a recipe for making your own fertilizer and growing nutritious, delicious fruits and vegetables.

For optimal results, treat your garden with a homemade fertilizer and compost. The two together make for excellent results and have been repeatedly successful.

The most important ingredients are bone meal, kelp meal, seed meal and various kinds of lime. It's important when you're making the fertilizer to measure by volume, not by weight. Meaning, by using measuring cups or a yogurt cup instead of using pounds. It doesn't have to be exact measurements. The proportions can be off by approximately 10 percent and still produce great results.

Recipe:
4 parts seed meal
1/2 part ordinary agricultural lime
1/2 part gypsum
1/2 part dolomitic lime

For best results you can add:
1 part bone meal or 1 part kelp meal

Buying your ingredients in bulk, by mail order or online will often give you the most materials for your money. If you find a good source, then go ahead and stock up once or twice a year. Garden shops, like Gardens Alive! generally sell ingredients in smaller, manageable quantities.

You can evenly spread 4 to 6 quarts for every 50 feet in a row that is up to 12 to 18 inches before planting each crop. Work the fertilizer into the soil with a hoe or spade. For more demanding vegetables, such as tomatoes, sprinkle small quantities every few weeks around the plant after the original application.

If you want to buy in bulk and think you will have extra, then premix in a plastic garbage can or plastic tote so that you can safely store it for next time.

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