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How Can You Create Your Own Natural Fertilizer?

If you are looking for free or economical 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). All the ingredients for an organic fertilizer system are obtainable to you if you look closely. Finding good organic material is a challenge you will benefit from, particularly in the autumn when fallen foliage simply pile up ready to be transformed into  organic fertilizer for the coming of spring.

All the natural materials you see lying around can be converted into a part of your organic farming scheme. The organic materials, when processed with care, will provide nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium for your plants. These nutrients get liberated into the soil when the materials decompose.

Animal manure is a good organic fertilizer, but the mineral content changes. Animals that have been nourished with silage deficient in some necessary minerals will produce droppings that won’t do much for crops. Also, if the silage the animal has eaten contains chemicals or pesticides, the same contaminated components will be present in the compost. Consider these carefully if you’re thinking of using droppings as fertilizer.

You can use fresh dung on your crops, but the salinity levels in fresh manure are high. Composted manure has less minerals compared to the fresh counterpart, but nitrogen concentration in composted manure can be saved by mixing it with soil.

You can also add seaweed to the soil to enhance the chemical content and soil fertility. Rinse the seaweeds and convert it into compost by letting it rot along with other organic components.

One of the best fertilizers you can use is fish emulsion. This fertilizer is made from fish residue, so you can get this directly from fish processing businesses.

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 enhances soil acid base ratio and improves the over-all nutrient content of your soil. Compost comprises a mixture of nutrients and decaying plant and animal waste.

You can add wood ash to your compost pile in small amounts. Wood ash can also supply potassium to your crops.