Organic weed fertilizer

Green fertilizer is a valuable find for gardeners and summer residents. Literally from nothing you can prepare an excellent organic feeding for plants, equivalent in composition to manure.





You only need three components: water, weeds from your site and a handful of nitrogen fertilizers to improve fermentation. One barrel of 200 liters during the summer with a margin will provide a standard garden plot with food.

Herbal infusions for fertilizing plants, obtained as a result of fermentation of various types of weeds in the water, fell to the liking of gardeners for simplicity, safety, as well as for good digestibility and speed.

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In addition to plant nutrition, they are able to perform other functions: scare away pests with their smell, attract earthworms, create an alkaline environment that is harmful to pathogenic fungi. The properties of green fertilizers depend on the plants that are used.





For fertilizer with a high nitrogen content, it is recommended to use nettle, clover, lice, swan, legumes (peas, lupin, beans). Liquid nettle feeding It is suitable for almost all garden crops. It is not recommended to feed it only legumes, onions and garlic.





For crops demanding potassium (tomatoes, cucumbers, beans), fertilizer from comfrey is used. This plant in potassium content exceeds manure and contains almost the same amount of phosphorus.





To saturate the infusion with phosphorus and potassium, weeds with a long rod root are suitable: dandelion, donnik, horse sorrel. It is not recommended to use leaves and branches of trees, especially maple, birch, chestnut.

Method of preparation
  1. Fill half the container with selected plants. Capacity is better to use plastic, as the metal enters into oxidative reactions and infusion can form undesirable for plants compounds.


  2. Cut large weeds into pieces of 10-15 centimeters.
  3. Pour water heated in the sun, but not to the brim, keep in mind that the slurry will ferment and bubble. To accelerate the fermentation processes, add a shovel of manure.
  4. To prevent the grass from popping up, crush it with oppression, such as a brick. Cover it with a loose lid.


  5. Periodically stirring, insist 1.5-2 weeks. When the grass is fermented, an unpleasant smell will be felt.
  6. After about 1.5 weeks, the foam will disappear, all the leaves will turn into porridge, and the color of the liquid will turn dark brown. It's a sign of feeding readiness.


Use of fertilizer Liquid feeding It contains mainly nitrogen. This element is necessary in the early stages of vegetation to build up green parts of plants (tops, leaves, shoots). Therefore, it is better to make such a dressing in early summer.





Before use, the solution must be thoroughly mixed and strained. For irrigation under the root, the liquid is diluted with pure water in a ratio of 1: 10.

The rate of consumption of feeding is the same as when watering with clean water. For example, 0.5 liters will be enough for a cucumber seedling with 2-3 leaves, 1.5-2 liters for an adult strawberry bush, a bucket under a tree.

The experience of successful gardeners proves that thanks to affordable and absolutely free liquid fertilizer, even a small garden with low fertility land can successfully bear fruit and delight with excellent harvests.

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