If you’re looking for free or reasonably priced organic materials to make use of as natural fertilizer, you need only to look at the things piling up in your own patch (foliage, droppings and manure to name a few). Use local materials to avoid the monetary and environmental costs of using synthetic fertilizers. To be precise, check out the fallen foliage, the animal droppings and even the seaweed on the beach; all these can be turned into natural fertilizer for the coming of planting season.
All the natural materials you see lying around can become a part of your organic farming system. You just need to process these to create a complete fertilizer containing all three of the primary nutrient elements, nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. These minerals get liberated into the soil when the materials rot.
Animal manure is a suitable organic fertilizer, but the nutrient composition varies. Animals that have been fed with silage deficient in some necessary minerals will produce manure that won’t do much for crops. Also, if the silage the animal has eaten holds chemicals or insecticides, the same contaminated materials will be present in the compost. Consider these carefully if you’re thinking of using droppings as fertilizer.
You can use fresh manure on your crops, but the salinity levels in fresh manure are high. Nitrogen in composted manure can be preserved by mixing the manure into the soil.
You can also apply seaweed to the soil to alleviate the chemical concentration and soil fertility. Clean the seaweeds and convert it into compost by letting it decompose along with other organic components.
One of the best fertilizers you can use is fish emulsion. This supplement is made from fish waste, so you can get this directly from fish processing companies.
If you have a lot of fallen leaves on the ground, you can add those to your compost pit for fertilizer creation. Let the leaves dry for a day then put a thin layer of these leaves on your compost pile.
Compost the best organic fertilizer you can manufacture. What organic farmers call “compost” is just a mixture of organic wastes from crops and animals.
You can add wood ash to your compost pile in small quantities. This organic fertilizer is a great source of potassium.
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