What to do with old potatoes: make effective fertilizer from them

08.06.2024 20:20

Fertilizers play an important role in the life of cultivated plants.

What is noteworthy is that to prepare the nutrient composition, you can use the harvested crop - in the case of potatoes, last year's.

Chop the tubers as if you were making soup. No need to peel, wash or cut out the eyes.

After this, fill the resulting blanks with water in a ratio of 1 to 1 and add beneficial microflora.

As additives, you can use preparations that contain trichoderma, yeast, sauerkraut juice, Baikal EM1, etc.

Potatoes
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Beneficial microorganisms will transform the potato mass into a nutrient solution that is beneficial for plants.

Don't forget to cover the bucket in which you prepare the bait with cling film to protect its contents from becoming familiar to the flies.

Leave the future fertilizer for a week to infuse, after which you can use it as a powerful potassium fertilizer or a serious soil improver, diluting it with water before watering in a ratio of 1 to 10.

Earlier we talked about whether it is possible to water violets with yeast .

Elena Shimanovskaya Author: Elena Shimanovskaya Internet resource editor