| Plant Care Tips:
How to Feed Your Plants Naturally
Plant
Benefits | Natural Fertilizer | Natural
Soil Enhancers
You’ve heard the expression, “You
are what you eat.” Guess what — your plants are
also what they eat! This includes
your outdoors and indoors, edible and ornamental plants, as
well as your lawn.
Food? What food?
Some soils just have fewer nutrients than others.
If this is the case, you need to give your plants some plant
food. This is similar to you taking
supplements when you’re not getting enough nutrients
from your diet.
Avoid artificial plant foods. Why put all those
toxins into your plants and, consequently, onto your plate?
Or why risk that one of your pets will eat such a toxic plant
and get sick?
The most cost-effective and easily obtained,
Natural Fertilizer is your own compost.
How do you make compost?
1. Build a compost
pile:
All year round, save all of the fruit
and vegetable waste from your kitchen, and store it outside,
in a hole in the ground. The hole does NOT have to be
very deep, just a few inches will do. Make sure the diameter
is large enough to accommodate your future compost pile.
When you mow your lawn, collect the
mulch your mower produces and mix it in with the other contents
of your compost.
Egg shells are a good addition, too,
but do NOT use any other scrap from animal-derived foods.
Most plants don’t eat flesh, on the other hand, many
wild animals do, and they would make a mess of your compost
pile if they were smelling meat or bones in it.
2. Apply compost
to soil:
Distribute the compost in your future
garden at the very beginning of the growing season, just as
you are ready to till the soil. Then plant your garden, and
enjoy delicious veggies and fruits later in the season.
You can also combine some of the compost
with the soil that you’ll be using for your potted plants.
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