Nettle fertiliser Making your own fertiliser is an easy way to feed your plants good nutrients for free. When fertilising a garden, there are 3 key nutrients: Nitrogen (N) which stimulate leaf growth, Potassium (K) which promotes flowers and fruits and Phosphorous (P) which helps with the growth of roots. These are the N:P:K ratio found on store-bought fertilising products. Fruit trees and bushes, roses, annuals and perennial flowering plants will appreciate stinging nettle tea Nettle fertilizer is so effective that it’s probably better than anything you can buy at the garden store. But it has so many more uses. Dilute your nettles fertilizer “tea” and spray it on your plants for a safe insecticide that knows how to get rid of the bad bugs and keep the good ones. If sprayed, it will also be a foliar fertilizer rich in iron, vitamin C, nitrogen, beta-carotene, B complex vitamins, phosphorous potassium, enzymes, chlorophyll, magnesium, calcium, silica, iodine, and amino acids. You can also enrich the soil by directly watering the ground around your plants. The diluted fertilizer is known to stimulate your plants immune system, building their resilience to diseases and insects. Undiluted nettle tea is a very impressive natural weed killer that will not harm your health, the soil or the environment. First take your nettles. These are best as young stems but can be taken at any time. Quicker results are obtained if the nettle stems and leaves are bruised. Then crush them. This can be done by scrunching the stems in gloved hands or by placing the stems on a freshly mown lawn and using your mower to chop and collect the nettles at the same time. The addition of a few grass clippings that results from using this method does not affect the quality of the finished product. Immerse in water, stuff the crushed leaves and stems into your bucket, then you can put a rock or brick to weight the nettles down. Fill the container with rain water sufficient to cover the nettles. place a lid over the bucket. You may also consider placing the bucket away from the areas in the garden that you use most as the mixture tends to get rather smelly. The brew should be stirred with a stick every day, and you will see bubbles forming on the surface. When those bubbles disappear, the fermenting process is over and the brew is ready to be strained. It usually takes around two weeks. I store the liquid in plastic bottles. To use it, nettle fertiliser needs to be diluted 1 part liquid to 10 parts water.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 17:10:06 +0000
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