Organic fertilizers, different proposals Other times we talk about the compost, as a way to fertilize the soil. But there are other ways to incorporate nutrients to the soil where we have our plantas.A then, some of which can, without any problem, used in an urban garden, even with very little room (from experience). Introduction: Organic fertilizers in preparation and use of organic fertilizers, published by the Educational Development Corporation Costarricense explain that always receives input daily soil minerals and substances that come from space (cosmic dust), rainfall (mineral salts, phosphorus and nitrogen) and wind. With this, want to indicate that soil fertility always. But this may not be enough, or may be lost and the substrate becomes poorer
Then it becomes convenient to use different techniques to restore or improve their fertility. While not required, it is very important to improve production and each year it becomes more necessary. In pot culture, is much more imperioso.En organic crops, organic fertilizers different variables are used, that is, those from organic matter (animal or vegetable origin), which do not contain chemicals and allow reuse discarded products in everyday life or as a result of the work of the same crops.
Improves soil making it more fluffy and airy (crumb structure). Helps retain water (very interesting in sandy soils). Promotes soil microbial life ("life-giving"). Providing nutrients which decompose as, for example, nitrogen.
In general, when it comes to solid compounds, such as compost or vermicompost for application should only dig a small well (not too deep) on the side of the ground, trying not to hurt the roots, and fill it with the fertilizer. "By the process of bio-fermentation, manure nutrient also provide vitamins, enzymes, amino acids, organic acids, antibiotics and high microbial richness that contributes to dynamically balance the soil and the plant, making it resistant to pests and diseases "explains laCorporación Education for Costa Rican Development
Green One technique that can be used to bury in the ground vegetable remnants, whether weeds, other crop plants, or directly designed for this purpose fertilizer.
The latter refers to the culture, especially legumes, which are then fertilize the soil. Also incorporate nitrogen. Typically used for example alfalfa, beans, etc.. In an urban garden, is often not enough space to allocate to this type of fertilizer, but what you can do is to cultivate a vegetable for consumption and then use their leaves and stems to fertilize, can be beans, beans or green beans ( in my case, I ran fine peas).
Feed surface padding, mulch or mulching Another way to improve soil fertility is placed on it, around the plants, a layer of organic matter, which will decompose; irrigation and rains take those nutrients to the roots .
While most traditional is to use straw, different plant residues can be used as dry leaves, freshly cut grass, bark or even branches girls, compost, etc.. I usually use a layer of kitchen scraps that I know that decomposes quickly, eggshells, which are contributing calcium slowly, very thin strips of banana peels (potassium); compost or soil subscribing to half done, old mate, which is very good to keep moisture and above that a mixture of dry grass and bark, with a larger branch.
When implemented in a pot, do it one size larger than the wait, because then, with irrigation and the decomposition, reduces its volume and settles.
Besides enriching the soil has other benefits: keeps moisture (for preventing water from evaporating) protects the earth from the force of rainfall or irrigation (very useful potted balcony, which sometimes are inaccessible medium when watering and dropped water some distance, with great force), regulates temperature and if it is not common in urban gardens, prevents the emergence of weeds. By this, I also use it in seed
The first year I had a macetohuerto, making plant remains are buried in the same land, as would be understood by decomposing and directly feeding the roots. Then I was reading and discarding this idea, because if you think about it, what occurs in nature is to be adding layers of remains, but on the surface, and if you dig you see that does not happen below, up to the roots . This technique, organic mulch, which was replaced what was then.
Manure and other preparations. Another possibility is to prepare ourselves compounds that provide a particular nutrient.
This is the case of slurry, which explains Cristian Stehmann in Organic Manure simply ferments are prepared from herbs, plant residues or manure.
Send Stehmann: "Basically provide enzymes, amino acids and other substances into soil and plants, increasing the diversity and availability of nutrients for them. But more important than this is the contribution of microorganisms: By preparing slurry we develop "cultures" of microorganisms, especially bacteria. Each slurry is a specific culture where certain bacteria reproduce quickly in a favorable environment for their development.
When we water the soil with these preparations, we are inoculating, "seeding" from our organic garden soil with millions of microorganisms transform the organic matter in the soil specific nutrients for plants.
Thus improve nutrient availability and therefore health, development and production of plants. " Compilation of some preparations or similar techniques (there is a finite list found on several pages, add only those I see drinking for urban gardens in places reduced):
Prepared from banana peels the remains of three of these fruits are boiled for three to five minutes in a liter of water, along with three spoonfuls of sugar. Only the resulting liquid is saved. Every seven days plants diluted in water in a ratio of 2 to 1 (two of water) are watered
The great advantage of this preparation is that it provides potassium, which promotes flowering and fruit appearance. Therefore, although all plants require, given the scarcity floor apply to those plants that interest me by their fruits (tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, and since a few weeks ago, zucchini).
The blog A garden in the city remembers that lack this metal is manifested in the form and color of the leaves starting to curl at the edges, stunted and turn yellow
Shells huevoOtra option is to let them soak in water for a day, and the resulting liquid add a few drops of milk and used for irrigation.
Water for cooking vegetables The simplest liquid fertilizer that can be used is the use of water in which vegetables are boiled or blanched (unsalted). Chefs often propose other forms of cooking, such as steam or leave the skin on vegetables, as a solution to keep those nutrients remaining in the pan, then one option is to give to the plants. Appropriate dilution.
Some cases are more significant, such as beets, purple water that realizes all that is lost, or chard, which provides iron to the cultures.
On the other hand, explains that Stehmann purines can function as herbicides, as a general rule is: "these preparations inhibit the growth of plants that have been made." This is why I prefer not to use the cooking water in those same vegetables before and did not remember that there have been major problems, but just in case I avoid it.
Ash Another way to stimulate flowering is available around the ash wood floor (which are also rich in potassium).
One possibility in this point is to prepare an infusion made of paper. 50g of macerated them in a liter of water for a week and then used together with the irrigation water.
Compost Tea What can be done once you already have the compost is put it in a bag that allows leaks and place in a bowl of water, until it is dark.
Iron In Different sources indicate that buried metals, eg a wire, give it hierra to earth. My grandmother remembers that before pulling rusty nails or screws near the garden and sometimes nailed to the rough bark of a tree.
CaféColocar coffee deposits (solid) at the surface of the earth (stirring a little so that was mixed with the ground) or dissolved in water and water with this solution is useful for the plant. No blog abusar.Según alternative Lives, provides nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, also contains magnesium and copper.
Liquid manure prepared with fruits, vegetables and grasses is the fermentation of these products in water, ideally select those that are rich in nutrients and vitamins and achieve some variety.
Six kg of debris was collected, cut into small pieces and placed in a bowl and add sugar (ideally one kilogram) to ferment (as with the fruit to release the juices). The recipe also appears reduced by half steps (3 K and 500g), so that measures can be adapted.
Allow to stand for seven days and then the liquid is filtered. Applied every 15 or 20 days, diluted with water to a ratio of 1 to 20. This is perhaps the less viable, not by size, but by the time to wait. In my experience I always was hard to do, because it is difficult to explain to other people in the house there is a bucket with traces of fruits and vegetables fermenting (for them rotting), could only properly do it twice in some more opportunities, interrupted the process before recommending week, so the result was much lower.
To conclude
In these notes we try to give an introduction to different forms subscriber, focusing on those that can be performed perfectly in an urban garden, as space and materials are not a difficulty.
It is very recommended. Its importance is how to improve the look and production plants. In my experience you can see how the more I use my best crops give more fruit, larger reach, etc.. And corroborated something I had read that the subscriber is a way to solve the lack of space.
On the other hand, it also allows reuse kitchen waste or from the same plants. It also has environmental benefits. In the case of urban gardens in small spaces, it is a good solution for recycling resources, for lack of space, can not be used for compost.
And above all is justified because it is only using chemical products made by large companies.
Then it becomes convenient to use different techniques to restore or improve their fertility. While not required, it is very important to improve production and each year it becomes more necessary. In pot culture, is much more imperioso.En organic crops, organic fertilizers different variables are used, that is, those from organic matter (animal or vegetable origin), which do not contain chemicals and allow reuse discarded products in everyday life or as a result of the work of the same crops.
Improves soil making it more fluffy and airy (crumb structure). Helps retain water (very interesting in sandy soils). Promotes soil microbial life ("life-giving"). Providing nutrients which decompose as, for example, nitrogen.
In general, when it comes to solid compounds, such as compost or vermicompost for application should only dig a small well (not too deep) on the side of the ground, trying not to hurt the roots, and fill it with the fertilizer. "By the process of bio-fermentation, manure nutrient also provide vitamins, enzymes, amino acids, organic acids, antibiotics and high microbial richness that contributes to dynamically balance the soil and the plant, making it resistant to pests and diseases "explains laCorporación Education for Costa Rican Development
Green One technique that can be used to bury in the ground vegetable remnants, whether weeds, other crop plants, or directly designed for this purpose fertilizer.
The latter refers to the culture, especially legumes, which are then fertilize the soil. Also incorporate nitrogen. Typically used for example alfalfa, beans, etc.. In an urban garden, is often not enough space to allocate to this type of fertilizer, but what you can do is to cultivate a vegetable for consumption and then use their leaves and stems to fertilize, can be beans, beans or green beans ( in my case, I ran fine peas).
Feed surface padding, mulch or mulching Another way to improve soil fertility is placed on it, around the plants, a layer of organic matter, which will decompose; irrigation and rains take those nutrients to the roots .
While most traditional is to use straw, different plant residues can be used as dry leaves, freshly cut grass, bark or even branches girls, compost, etc.. I usually use a layer of kitchen scraps that I know that decomposes quickly, eggshells, which are contributing calcium slowly, very thin strips of banana peels (potassium); compost or soil subscribing to half done, old mate, which is very good to keep moisture and above that a mixture of dry grass and bark, with a larger branch.
When implemented in a pot, do it one size larger than the wait, because then, with irrigation and the decomposition, reduces its volume and settles.
Besides enriching the soil has other benefits: keeps moisture (for preventing water from evaporating) protects the earth from the force of rainfall or irrigation (very useful potted balcony, which sometimes are inaccessible medium when watering and dropped water some distance, with great force), regulates temperature and if it is not common in urban gardens, prevents the emergence of weeds. By this, I also use it in seed
The first year I had a macetohuerto, making plant remains are buried in the same land, as would be understood by decomposing and directly feeding the roots. Then I was reading and discarding this idea, because if you think about it, what occurs in nature is to be adding layers of remains, but on the surface, and if you dig you see that does not happen below, up to the roots . This technique, organic mulch, which was replaced what was then.
Manure and other preparations. Another possibility is to prepare ourselves compounds that provide a particular nutrient.
This is the case of slurry, which explains Cristian Stehmann in Organic Manure simply ferments are prepared from herbs, plant residues or manure.
Send Stehmann: "Basically provide enzymes, amino acids and other substances into soil and plants, increasing the diversity and availability of nutrients for them. But more important than this is the contribution of microorganisms: By preparing slurry we develop "cultures" of microorganisms, especially bacteria. Each slurry is a specific culture where certain bacteria reproduce quickly in a favorable environment for their development.
When we water the soil with these preparations, we are inoculating, "seeding" from our organic garden soil with millions of microorganisms transform the organic matter in the soil specific nutrients for plants.
Thus improve nutrient availability and therefore health, development and production of plants. " Compilation of some preparations or similar techniques (there is a finite list found on several pages, add only those I see drinking for urban gardens in places reduced):
Prepared from banana peels the remains of three of these fruits are boiled for three to five minutes in a liter of water, along with three spoonfuls of sugar. Only the resulting liquid is saved. Every seven days plants diluted in water in a ratio of 2 to 1 (two of water) are watered
The great advantage of this preparation is that it provides potassium, which promotes flowering and fruit appearance. Therefore, although all plants require, given the scarcity floor apply to those plants that interest me by their fruits (tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, and since a few weeks ago, zucchini).
The blog A garden in the city remembers that lack this metal is manifested in the form and color of the leaves starting to curl at the edges, stunted and turn yellow
Shells huevoOtra option is to let them soak in water for a day, and the resulting liquid add a few drops of milk and used for irrigation.
Water for cooking vegetables The simplest liquid fertilizer that can be used is the use of water in which vegetables are boiled or blanched (unsalted). Chefs often propose other forms of cooking, such as steam or leave the skin on vegetables, as a solution to keep those nutrients remaining in the pan, then one option is to give to the plants. Appropriate dilution.
Some cases are more significant, such as beets, purple water that realizes all that is lost, or chard, which provides iron to the cultures.
On the other hand, explains that Stehmann purines can function as herbicides, as a general rule is: "these preparations inhibit the growth of plants that have been made." This is why I prefer not to use the cooking water in those same vegetables before and did not remember that there have been major problems, but just in case I avoid it.
Ash Another way to stimulate flowering is available around the ash wood floor (which are also rich in potassium).
One possibility in this point is to prepare an infusion made of paper. 50g of macerated them in a liter of water for a week and then used together with the irrigation water.
Compost Tea What can be done once you already have the compost is put it in a bag that allows leaks and place in a bowl of water, until it is dark.
Iron In Different sources indicate that buried metals, eg a wire, give it hierra to earth. My grandmother remembers that before pulling rusty nails or screws near the garden and sometimes nailed to the rough bark of a tree.
CaféColocar coffee deposits (solid) at the surface of the earth (stirring a little so that was mixed with the ground) or dissolved in water and water with this solution is useful for the plant. No blog abusar.Según alternative Lives, provides nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, also contains magnesium and copper.
Liquid manure prepared with fruits, vegetables and grasses is the fermentation of these products in water, ideally select those that are rich in nutrients and vitamins and achieve some variety.
Six kg of debris was collected, cut into small pieces and placed in a bowl and add sugar (ideally one kilogram) to ferment (as with the fruit to release the juices). The recipe also appears reduced by half steps (3 K and 500g), so that measures can be adapted.
Allow to stand for seven days and then the liquid is filtered. Applied every 15 or 20 days, diluted with water to a ratio of 1 to 20. This is perhaps the less viable, not by size, but by the time to wait. In my experience I always was hard to do, because it is difficult to explain to other people in the house there is a bucket with traces of fruits and vegetables fermenting (for them rotting), could only properly do it twice in some more opportunities, interrupted the process before recommending week, so the result was much lower.
To conclude
In these notes we try to give an introduction to different forms subscriber, focusing on those that can be performed perfectly in an urban garden, as space and materials are not a difficulty.
It is very recommended. Its importance is how to improve the look and production plants. In my experience you can see how the more I use my best crops give more fruit, larger reach, etc.. And corroborated something I had read that the subscriber is a way to solve the lack of space.
On the other hand, it also allows reuse kitchen waste or from the same plants. It also has environmental benefits. In the case of urban gardens in small spaces, it is a good solution for recycling resources, for lack of space, can not be used for compost.
And above all is justified because it is only using chemical products made by large companies.
