How Do You Make Homemade Fertilizer For Organic Gardening?
Growing organic food is a goal for many gardeners who want to avoid harmful chemically-treated produce in the grocery store. The best thing about organic gardening is that you can make your own homemade fertilizer and rest assured that you are taking the healthiest steps for your produce. With ingredients purchased from your local nursery or at Wal-Mart, you can take your organic gardening to the next level…using your own homemade fertilizer. Combine the ingredients for your homemade fertilizer in the following ratio:3-cups of bone meal, 2-cups of fish meal (or substitute blood meal) and 1-cup of kelp. You can double or triple this recipe to make larger organic gardening amounts. Combine the ingredients outdoors or wear a dust mask if you are making your homemade fertilizer inside. The dry ingredients tend to blow around a bit so make sure you don’t breathe in the airborne powder. Mix 1/4-cup of your homemade fertilizer around the base of individual vegetable plants as you position t
