Yeast as fertilizer

Of yeast know everything. These tiny single-celled fungi — the constant component of bread and muffins, they are used for the production of alcohol, beer and kvass, they are part of drugs and biological additives. Women make a yeast mask for skin and hair, and men love to produce home-made wine.



This might be the end of the listing of well-known applications of yeast, but its weighty word said gardeners: yeast is also an excellent fertilizer for horticultural crops!

They are rich in protein, the content of which reaches 65-66%, mineral substances, organic iron and trace elements. More than 10% of the mass of yeast are essential amino acids. Well is good to use to feed your favorite plants!

But first, let's look at how grown yourself the yeast. About this following video


Than yeast useful plants cultivated plants yeast as fertilizer is very useful:
  • it is a good stimulator of growth and a source of good bacteria;
  • yeast feeding stimulates root formation: the results of experiments have shown that substances secreted by yeast cells into the water, accelerate the appearance of roots in 10-12 days and increase the number of them 2-10 times! And where there is an active growth of roots there and the greens develop a strong and healthy;
  • fueled yeast solution , the plants become stronger and tougher;
  • seedlings, fueled by the yeast early in the spring, less in the sky, and is better tolerated picks;
  • there is a very good effect of irrigation on the rooting of rosettes of strawberry
Yeast feeding is useful for all vegetable crops, strawberries and flowers. Great to use the yeast solution as a foliar feeding.
Recipes yeast supplements the following video shows how easy it is to make a quick yeast solution for watering seedlings.

 
 
  • Recipe 1
200 g of regular baking yeast to dissolve in 1 liter of water. Before feeding the solution volume to bring up to 10 litres.
  • Recipe 2
100 g of raw yeast is to mix it in 10 litres of warm water, leave for a day.
  • Recipe 3
10 g dry yeast + 2 tablespoons sugar infuse in 10 litres of warm water for 2-3 hours. For feeding the resulting infusion is used in the ratio of 1:5
  • Recipe 4
70 litre barrel with green grass (1 bucket) to add the remnants of dry bread, crackers (0.5 kg) and 500 g of yeast. Use after infusion over 1-2 days.
  • Recipe 5
1st. spoon of dry yeast + 2 tablespoons sugar + 2 g of ascorbic acid + a handful of earth - to insist in 5 liters of water a day. To feed in the ratio of 1 liter of tincture per 10 liters of water
If no ready-made yeast, can home to make a natural yeast, which is not inferior in its properties to purchase:
 
  • Leaven made of wheat
1 Cup sprouted wheat to grind, add 2 tbsp sugar and 2 tbsp of flour (to the consistency of thick porridge) and cook on slow heat for 15-20 minutes. Leave for 1-1,5 days (until signs of fermentation). The obtained fermented mixture to stir 10 liters of water.
  • The yeast from the hops
1 Cup fresh (or dry) hop cones pour 1.5 l of boiling water and cook on slow heat for 1 hour. Strain after cooling, add 2 tbsp sugar + 2 tbsp wheat flour. Leave for 2 days in a warm place. Add in started to wander a lot 2 grated boiled potatoes and leave to ferment for another day. The resulting starter culture was diluted in a ratio of 1 Cup per 10 liters of water.
Useful tips from experienced gardeners make Good use of yeast solution for rapid rooting of cuttings. To do this, stand them in a yeast nutrient solution during the day

The yeast is quite resilient – survive and freezing, and drying. But we must remember that in cold environments the development of the fungus slowed down markedly. Therefore, the desired effect can be achieved by applying a yeast feeding only in fairly warm soil.

Do not use a starter fertilizer. Given that it stimulates the growing season, it is advisable to feed the plants in spring and summer, and also to use when transplanting plants. Additionally yeast waterings to maintain a sick and weak culture.

In the fermentation process there is an intensive uptake of potassium and calcium. That the soil is not worsened these elements suggest to introduce additional ash or relevant ready fertilizers. published

P. S. And remember, only by changing their consumption - together we change the world! ©

   

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