self-made fertilizers

[andyguo]

Self-made fertilizers, Liquid organic fertilizer ,which consist of animals and plants’ residue fermented by soaking them in water for a long time until they get rotten;It is easy to make it, and there’s a wide source of raw materials.It has rich organic matter and nutrients, also safe and cost-effective.

Self-made fertilizers methods:
(1) plant soaking.Available stems and leaves of vetch, alfalfa, rape, radish, beans ,or residues of vegetables left after dinner,which can be chopped firstly and soaked in a tank until deeply fermented.Finally,we can water the flowers with the rotten liquid combined with appropriate water.

(2) rice-water stool.
Rice-water stool has rich starch and trace elements.,It can increase soil organic matter and nutrients to promote growth of flower and improve flower quality when watering flowers with it.
However, rice-water stool shall be better when it is deeply fermented.

(3) residue of Animals
After eating chicken, duck, fish and other animals, we can make full use of their feathers, blood, internal organs, bones, scales and other left residue.
We can combine them with water ,5 to 10 times the remains, soaking them in a enclosed environment until they’re deeply fermented.
finally,You can water the flowers with it.
I read some books about flowers recently,this is my summary above.

[Eristic]

I read some books

This is a big modern problem. Everyone is reading books, no one is thinking anymore.

Why spend so much good gardening time messing about with foul-smelling fetid tanks of rotten material of dubious merit?

All that is required is to top-dress or incorporate free horse manure into your land at the appropriate time. Should you need a liquid feed for pot plants, put some of the manure in the watering can. Keep life simple.

[RozieDozie]

What if you ain't gotta no "free" horse manure or no truck to haul it, or no strength to shovel it....

I use what is available to me for my fertilizer and free horse manure isn't one of those things. To me, the key is to use what you have readily available for fertilizer.

[RozieDozie]

LOL!! Looking at another thread, I see that andyquo is maybe a bit "high" on spam.

Doesn't change my mind about the horse manure, though.

[cottagequeen]

Speaking of horse manure, I was talking to someone yesterday about horse manure. Her family has horses and she said she wished she could get rid of it. I told her to post it on craigslist. "Why?" she says. I explained to her about using it in the garden as fertilizer. She said her husband composted it and put it in their garden and nothing would grow there. That every where they piled it in the fields, nothing grows. I asked her what they feed their horses, because I had never heard of horse manure killing the soil where nothing would grow. Anyone ever heard of this happening? I also told her I have gotten horse manure form a good friend of mine and haven't had any problems!

[GennyL]

Originally Posted by cottagequeen

Speaking of horse manure, I was talking to someone yesterday about horse manure. Her family has horses and she said she wished she could get rid of it. I told her to post it on craigslist. "Why?" she says. I explained to her about using it in the garden as fertilizer. She said her husband composted it and put it in their garden and nothing would grow there. That every where they piled it in the fields, nothing grows. I asked her what they feed their horses, because I had never heard of horse manure killing the soil where nothing would grow. Anyone ever heard of this happening? I also told her I have gotten horse manure form a good friend of mine and haven't had any problems!

indeed what do they feed them? Also "Piling" it is NOT Composting it.

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[tracydr]

It could be that the hay they are feeding has been treated with the herbicide clopyramid. Nasty herbicide which stays around for years and can be passed in the manure.
Otherwise, I can't imagine the problem. I've grown my gardens in straight manure, only a few months old before.

[cottagequeen]

Genny, My friend piles hers and leaves it, while it isn't "composting it, id does age it and there are no problems with things growing. Also the lady did say her husband "layered, mixed it and let it heat up before putting it on the garden" I think the piling in the pasture was after results in the garden.
Tracy, I bet that is what they are doing! I'll have to ask her if they grow their own hay or buy it. I have heard her complaining about having the vet out alot too.

[andyguo]

Originally Posted by Eristic

This is a big modern problem. Everyone is reading books, no one is thinking anymore.

Why spend so much good gardening time messing about with foul-smelling fetid tanks of rotten material of dubious merit?

All that is required is to top-dress or incorporate free horse manure into your land at the appropriate time. Should you need a liquid feed for pot plants, put some of the manure in the watering can. Keep life simple.

THX