3 of the best Natural Fertilizers for the Garden that we just throw in the Bucket

Regular yeast, onion peels, tea and even coffee, which we often throw in the trash after drinking, can serve as an excellent fertilizer for your plants.

I have my own container for each product, there I put food leftovers, which then serve as an excellent plant nutrition. Here's how you can use natural products to increase yields.

Tea and coffee

Often, the thick remaining in the Turk goes straight to the trash can. Meanwhile, the benefits of such a component are important for indoor and garden plants.

Most of all, coffee dressing is relevant for acidic soil and plants that love it: roses, rhododendrons, rose hips and others. Due to this, the flowers have a rich aroma, and their color becomes richer.

Application options:

• Such fertilizer can be used to feed garden crops: melons, tomatoes, carrots. To do this, stir a glass of grounds in a bucket of water and leave to infuse overnight.

• As a mulch layer, coffee residues help to retain moisture during dry periods and prevent weeds from growing.
• Another interesting life hack - you need to mix carrot, beet or radish seeds with ground coffee before planting on the beds and then the harvest will delight you.
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As for tea, many people know that it is useful to water houseplants with used tea leaves. The same can be done with garden plants. When watering them with the remains of tea, a kind of humus is formed in the ground, and useful substances appear.

Bread and yeast

Ordinary yeast bread or yeast perfectly stimulates the growth of the root system, helps to accelerate the emergence of roots and, accordingly, the plants themselves. At the same time, they become strong and resilient.

Yeast, vegetable crops, garden strawberries and peonies are especially fond of.

Natural fertilizer can be prepared from both ordinary yeast and black bread.

Yeast is diluted in a proportion of 100 g per bucket of water, and 1 loaf of bread for the same volume. Insisting - during the day.

Such top dressing can be combined with fertilization with ash, which compensates for the calcium deficiency in the earth.

Onion peel

It is a universal top dressing suitable for all types of plants, especially those that turn yellow and wilted.

You need to collect the dry top husk and store it in linen bags.

Application:

• Add in a crushed form before planting plants in the ground;
• We feed with the prepared solution: 1 glass per bucket of water, heat it up, leave it to brew during the day, filter it, water it.
• Cold method: soak the husk (about 5 glasses) in a bucket, leave for 2 days, filter.

In this case, you can spray the finished solution not only under the roots, but also on the leaves. Almost all vegetables like this kind of rain, including pumpkin and zucchini.

Overhead watering will help prevent the appearance of pests: aphids, ticks, stalks and other representatives of the insect world.