How to make fertilizer from potato peels: not all summer residents know

02.03.2023 16:00
Updated: 14.04.2023 10:25

Many experienced gardeners have been using potato peels in their gardens for years, as the fertilizer shows a high degree of effectiveness.

The advantage of this type of feeding is not only that it is free, but also in the valuable chemical composition of the peel and its naturalness.

How to use potato peelings as fertilizer

For shrubs

Anastasia Kovrizhnykh , an expert at the online publication BelNovosti, a landscape designer and agronomist, notes that many shrubs respond to potato fertilizing.

Using potato peels you can significantly increase the yield of berries.

Experienced gardeners simply bury potato peelings within the trunk circle of bushes.

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Potato flour

This is a universal product that can be used to care for both garden crops and indoor plants.

The peelings are dried in the oven and then sent to a coffee grinder to be ground into flour.

Spring digging

An excellent way to restore the nutrient composition of the soil is special digging. The crushed and dried peel is spread over the area of the plot and the soil is simply dug up.

The procedure is considered to be very effective.

Author: Marina Michalap Internet resource editor

Content
  1. How to use potato peelings as fertilizer
  2. For shrubs
  3. Potato flour
  4. Spring digging