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  The 20 Homemade Fertilizers For Indoor Plants   Houseplants need fertilizer at every stage of their development. A lack of nutrients will harm flowering and growth as well as the appearance of the plant. If you wish, you can find a wide variety of composts in flower stores. But you can also prepare your own high-quality fertilizer with the materials you have on hand - in this article. You will learn to make your own homemade fertilizer for indoor plants ! FERTILIZING YOUR INDOOR FLOWERS Early fertilization of potted plants is essential for proper development, good growth, and lush blooms. The whole problem is that potting soil contains only a supply of certain nutrients, and these nutrients are further depleted over time. If you don't give your plants enough nutrients at least twice a month, they will starve to death after a while. This will inevitably lead to a decline in ornamental value. You can make your own nutrient mixture in your own kitchen. You can make it from al...

  Popular mineral fertilizers When fertilizing the soil, gardeners want first of all to increase the yield of this or that crop. Of course, in addition to this, they get an increase in plant immunity and even an improvement in soil structure, i.e. undoubted additional benefits. However, such complex effects can only be produced if the fertilizers are correctly combined, their dosage correctly calculated, and the period and method of soil application correctly chosen. In this material, we will tell you about the most commonly used mineral fertilizers for home plots, their characteristics, and the way they are applied. FERTILIZER APPLICATION RATE IS THE KEY TO SUCCESS Do not think that the more fertilizers in the soil of the garden, the better the plants, for example, an excess of sodium nitrate or this harmless, at first glance, lime can cause a sharp increase in calcium in the soil, leading to a sharp lack of magnesium. Vegetable crops with a lack of magnesium and excess calcium ...

  7 Tips on How to Grow Strong & Healthy Seedlings Successful cultivation of healthy seedlings requires correct agricultural techniques. If the work is carried out qualitatively and meets the requirements of sowing technology and care, then seedling raising is not a difficult process, and the planting material is planted in an absolutely healthy and permanent place. However, there are cases when healthy, friendly seedlings begin to wilt, and after 1-3 days, the seedlings die completely. The cause may be non-infectious plant damage related to violation of agronomic requirements of cultivation conditions (insufficient light, low temperature, high humidity, over-fertilization, etc.), so that weak seedlings affected by soil infection in the form of fungal and bacterial diseases blackleg, rot and other forms. This article is devoted to how to avoid seedling diseases caused by cultivation errors and how to overcome blackleg and other infections. SIMPLE RULES FOR RAISING HEALTHY SEED...

  The common 6 fertilization mistakes which happened in the most home gardener The leaves wither, their color and the color of the buds change, the growth activity decreases or, on the contrary, the growth of asexual reproduction impairs the yield. Weak flowering, strongly broken ovaries, even regular fruit set. All this can be due not only to diseases or pests, not only to the fault of an increasingly erratic climate but to our behavior, especially in relation to incorrect fertilization of the soil . Let's talk about the main fertilizer application mistakes. What happens if you make these mistakes, and how to correct them, or avoid them altogether. 1. Deficiencies of basic elements and their causes First and foremost is the problem that many gardeners and horticulturists face. These problems occur through no fault of our own, but because of a series of "lucky" factors that generally say a few words about the deficient element and then go right into error. Plants can be ...

  What causes garlic leaves turning yellow In the agronomy of garlic cultivation, there is a natural yellowing associated with the end of the growing season, which occurs causally when violations of planting rules lead to diseases or deviation from the norms of physical-biological development during the growing season due to damage by pests. To identify the causes of garlic leaves turning yellow , consider the possible causes in this article and provide positive and consistent ways to protect the crop from negative factors that affect garlic yield and quality. CAUSES OF GARLIC LEAVES TURNING YELLOW Garlic is divided into 2 groups - spring garlic and winter garlic. Yellowing of spring leaves is more common in winter garlic. The causes of yellowing can be broken down as follows. 1. Stress factors caused by violation of agronomic cultivation techniques. 2. Infection of plants by fungal and microbial microbiota. 3. Pest infestation. Violation of cultivation rules that cause garlic lea...

  How to whitewash tree trunk in Spring Our garden is a living organism that also needs to be protected from adverse external influences. All spring work in the garden is done to protect it, and this includes pruning, spraying, feeding, watering, and other activities. The list of protection works also includes the spring painting of the central trunk and skeletal branches of the fruit trees, and this article will describe how to do this for the whitewash tree trunk . Whitewashing protects fruit trees: preventing excessive spring heat and sunburn (not the leaves that have not yet grown) helps to eliminate a significant portion of the pests and diseases that protect the offspring for a successful winter. Keeping the tree's external mulch in a healthy state is an opportunity to prolong its fruiting period, get rid of pesticide treatments, and obtain an ecologically clean harvest. Timely and proper whitewashing will protect plants from rodent damage, bark cracking, and delayed flowerin...