Anyone else making their own fertilizers?

[Figarosmom]

I make banana peel water for potassium which helps make stronger fruits, veggies and flowers. And I go out in the alley and gather nettles to make nettle tea which is rich in nitrogen for good root , stem and leaf production. Really any weed cut up and cramed into a bucket with water and left to sit for a few weeks makes a good concentration fertilizer . Has to be watered down like 10/ 1, 10 parts water to 1 part concentration. It really smells though so keep it covered.

[blue_jay]

1. Haven't tried it yet but open to learning

Thanks for the info!

[Duncanpup]

2. I have a furry fertilizer operation.

Dunc the golden chunk. And where he uses the yard the grass is really a nice green.

[Figarosmom]

4. Yesh i had those

A golden named Buster and a Akita/Shepard mix named Muzzy. The fertilizer was pretty good and plentiful.

[Duncanpup]

6. 😂

[no_hypocrisy]

3. There's always composting. You're returning natural minerals to the soil

which are absorbed by your plants, vegetables, and fruits.

[Figarosmom]

5. Yeah that is good too.

Takes a while and never enough. But it's good on combo with rest.

[MiHale]

7. I grow and use comfrey...

and field horsetail for the ‘live’ fertilizers. All the grass clippings are composted alongside the fruit, veggie scraps and garden debris.
I found a website that describes comfrey quite well, link below.

https://www.theimpatientgardener.com/growing-my-own-fertilizer/

[Figarosmom]

8. Yeah

Thats another one for potassium. Can put leaves around your plants or make a tea concentration.

Thanks for the link. I do watch Gardeners World . In fact thsts why I'm up so late. During g the day Monty Don does his history of gardens shows or Big Dreams ,Small Spaces or the My Dream Farm which I do watch. His history presentations are all full of art history and world history to tell why gardens were the way they were in certain times in history. But Gardeners World is on all night. I love the show and all the hosts of the show. Monty, Adam Frost. Rachael, Carol and the rest of them. They even show how disabled people can garden, the different tools and methods. I would encourage everyone to watch it on the Monty Don Channel on XUMO, PLUTO, AMAZON, BRITBOX or PLEX

[onethatcares]

9. I compost everything

from the kitchen to the kitchen. My neighbor gives me 5 gal buckets of chicken manure that I mix with the compost to heat it up. She also gives me gallon size bags of eggshells which I use to make calcium carbonate, I bought a 3 dollar coffee grinder at a thrift store to make a fine powder of the shells and mix them with 5% white vinegar then dilute with h2o . The particulars for that are on the interwebs.

I've also experimented with wood ash to soften the soil and biochar but haven't used either long enough to evaluate.

[Figarosmom]

10. All those are good

Old time methods. Especially adding kitchen refuge an egg shells to your compost as well as ash. Lucky you having a neighbor that has chickens and doesn't use their chicken poop in their own garden.