What to Add to Green Manure to Avoid an Unpleasant Smell: An Unexpected Ingredient

30.03.2023 13:06

Green fertilizer, as every summer resident knows, is nothing more than an infusion of various herbs.

Many farmers who do not welcome chemicals in their gardens are attracted by the fact that this is an organic fertilizer that allows them to obtain an environmentally friendly harvest.

In addition, the advantages of such a composition also include the fact that thanks to its use, it is possible to significantly save the budget.

And one more advantage – green fertilizer not only saturates the soil with nitrogen and other useful elements, but also attracts worms to the beds.

It’s easy to prepare – just fill a barrel a third with herbs and add water, leaving it to infuse.

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However, at this stage, anyone planning to feed plants with such fertilizer will have to deal with its main disadvantage in the form of an unpleasant smell.

Fortunately, if you use a little trick, you can avoid the repulsive “aroma”.

All you need to do is add regular valerian to the barrel and then cover the container with a lid.

But if you want not only to get rid of the unpleasant smell, but also to speed up the fermentation process, any EM preparations will do, for example, “Baikal”, of which you need 500 ml per 200 l barrel.

Author: Elena Shimanovskaya Internet resource editor