Homemade Fertilizer

[CrealCritter]

This is one way...

Homemade Fertilizer With Ammonia

A homemade lawn and garden fertilizer made with ammonia is safe for children, pets and the environment. Making a homemade fertilizer is also an economical alternative to purchasing commercial fertilizers. Ammonia, when used in combination with a few simple household ingredients, yields a...

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Then there's the rotted cow poop way.

What do you use for homemade fertilizer?

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[Hinotori]

Chicken poop or bury veggie waste in the garden.

 

[Chic Rustler]

manures, compost, trench composting, mulch, wood ash, and i used to make aerated rabbit manure tea.


my idea is if your soil is healthy you dont need fertilizer, so i feed the soil.

 

[Trying2keepitReal]

chicken manure, mulch (pine needles and dried leaves) and sometimes I rake up all the wild rabbit poop from under the evergreens and use it

 

[Mini Horses]

16 adult goats! Add 14 spring kids! Yeah, pastures get daytime sprinkles and shed the nightime ones. . Like rabbit poo...goat poo useable as delivered. Chickens everywhere..........7 mini horses add their pasture gold all over. There is ammonia in all. Nope. I don't buy, just shovel for garden. Do add lime some winters.

 

[CrealCritter]

manures, compost, trench composting, mulch, wood ash, and i used to make aerated rabbit manure tea.


my idea is if your soil is healthy you dont need fertilizer, so i feed the soil.

Wood ash, my understanding it's a substitute for lime, used to raise the soil PH and aid in the breakdown of organic matter. Am I correct?

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[CrealCritter]

We had a neighbor in NC that would just toss out kitchen scraps into his garden, he didn't bury them. It brought in rats, obviously not good.

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[CrealCritter]

16 adult goats! Add 14 spring kids! Yeah, pastures get daytime sprinkles and shed the nightime ones. . Like rabbit poo...goat poo useable as delivered. Chickens everywhere..........7 mini horses add their pasture gold all over. There is ammonia in all. Nope. I don't buy, just shovel for garden. Do add lime some winters.

I've often heard goat poop called magic raisins. I would like some goats and sheep but will have to wait until this winter. I'm kind of burned out on building fencing for a while. Plus Bekaert Sheep and Goat 30 1348-4 12.5 ga 330' fence and 6 foot t-posts are crazy money right now.

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[Chic Rustler]

Wood ash, my understanding it's a substitute for lime, used to raise the soil PH and aid in the breakdown of organic matter. Am I correct?

Jesus is Lord and Christ

yes but i use it for potassium

 

[Okiepan]

Wood Ash can be also used to make Lye for making Soaps