How to Make Your Own Liquid Fertilizer

Plants love a good liquid fertilizer. There are many commercial products such as Miracle-Gro that can be purchased, but they are expensive. Those products are all chemicals. I prefer to use an organic liquid fertilizer. Here is an easy way to put your compost pile to work and make your own liquid fertilizer.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

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   Buy or sew a bag made of burlap or cheesecloth. An old pillowcase works really well for this.

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   Place one or two shovels full of compost into your bag or pillowcase and tie the top closed.

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   Place your bag into a large lidded plastic garbage can.

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   Fill the garbage can with water. Place the lid on and let stand for 3 to 4 days.

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   Remove the bag from the garbage can. The liquid left is your liquid fertilizer. If the water is a very dark color add some fresh water so the color is a light to medium brownish color.

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   Use a watering can and put around the base of your plants every 2 to 3 weeks. If the soil is very dry water the liquid fertilizer down to a 50-50 mix with plain water or water your plants first to wet the soil then apply the liquid fertilizer. If you use this with very dry soil you can damage your plants.

Tips & Warnings

• Can be used with a sprayer attachment on your hose.
• You can make more or less depending on your needs.

[40skydiver]

on 8/10/2009 Great how to on How to Make Your Own Liquid Fertilizer.

[sallyemaycreate]

on 8/10/2009 Interesting article.... thanks for the great idea and tips! 5*

[konakai]

on 8/10/2009 This is new to me on how to make your own Liquid Fertilzer. Great information to share. 5*****

[Merriment]

on 8/10/2009 I really like this idea of using the compost to make a liquid fertilizer. I do think it's time to fertilize my vegetable plants again!

[godfather25]

on 8/9/2009 Excellent article on making your own liquid fertilizer.