A common mistake when adding bird droppings: this is definitely not a good way to use fertilizer

25.02.2023 13:41

Adding bird droppings to the soil helps to replenish the deficiency of nutrients.

However, using fertilizer incorrectly can only make the situation worse.

Unfortunately, many summer residents forget that bird droppings are very concentrated.

Inexperienced gardeners do not take this circumstance into account and apply too much fertilizer.

As a result, the soil becomes much less suitable for growing crops, and the plants die.

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How to apply fertilizer correctly

Considering the high concentration of dry bird droppings, this fertilizer should be applied in very limited quantities.

When digging up the soil cover, you need to remember the following ratio: no more than 0.5 kilos of manure per square meter of the area.

If the fertilizer is placed at the bottom of the hole, then a maximum of 10 grams of the product should fall into each hole.

But it is better to use bird droppings not in concentrated form, but in diluted form. One kilogram of fertilizer can be safely poured with two buckets of water.

In this case, the resulting solution should also be used with caution: for each square meter of the area - a maximum of two liters of the prepared liquid.

Kurchev Anton Author: Kurchev Anton Deputy Editor-in-Chief