I don’t throw away tangerine peels: I make a valuable fertilizer for flowers with triple benefits.
Fiery fireworks, fellow flower growers!
Today on the agenda is the benefits of tangerine, orange and lemon skins for indoor flowers. A special lot of waste product remains during the New Year holidays. I have been growing flowers for many years and three years ago I read the citrus peel fertilizer recipe. I tried it - I liked it!
The benefits of fruit peel fertilizer: 3 nice points at once
Fertilizer from tangerine skins produces, according to the assurances of the authors of the recipe, immediately 3 beneficial effects for indoor plants:
- Any fertilizer from food is organic. I have always fed flowers with a complex mineral fertilizer. I think that organics are a good addition to the usual diet. After all, we, comrades, joyfully treat garden flowers with compost. Why do we forget about indoor rooms? They will happily respond to organics by growing greenery.
- The Internet collects a lot of positive reviews "vitamin cocktail" for home flowers. It is made from a solution of vitamins purchased in ampoules. Mandarin cannot boast of the same rich composition. But citrus also contains plenty of vitamins.
- Specific scent of mandarin, orange and lemon essential oils repels insects. Citrus elixir will not cope with a neglected lesion of a spider mite, but... Comrades who notice earthen midges - feel free to take note!
Fertilizer needs to be prepared correctly to get the most benefit.
How I Prepare and Apply Tangerine Peel Home Flower Fertilizer: The Complete Recipe
Comrades, I give detailed instructions on how I do feeding.
- Collect the skins. The original recipe instructed them to wash them to remove the chemicals. The advice seemed odd to me: Doesn't someone wash the tangerines before putting them in a fruit bowl?
- You do not need to dry the peel. Place in a three-liter jar and cover with warm water (not boiling water!). I put the product in about 1/4 of the volume. No more needed - because the concentration will be too great. Less is unlikely to bring much benefit.
- I insist neither more nor less, but exactly 7 days. This will go on the fermentation process, and we will get a rich organic fertilizer with pleasant bonus properties.
- Before watering, I dilute 1 to 2: half a watering can of infusion-fertilizer, half a watering can of settled water.
- I water it once every 2 weeks on already moistened soil. This will maximize the effect. After all, dry soil does not take moisture well.
Do you like the recipe? Comrades, put your thumbs up! All healthy flowers!