And last concept:\u00a0<\/strong>Many Experts recommend applying\u00a0egg shells andcalcium tablets to soil and some evenmake a smoothie juice or paste using all kitchen waste like banana peels, fruit peels and what not. This in perhaps unscientific according to me to directly apply to your plants. I don\u2019t know! If you have any scientific explanation to this, please do write in the comment box. What I feel is why not utilize this idea of making this smoothie and keeping a dedicated heavy duty blender or mixer for this purpose for faster composting. Yes! if you are adding this paste to your compost bin and feeding your earth worms, this can accelerate composting process.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nSo you can utilize this concept of foliar feeding \u00a0if your plants are not performing well despite all your efforts, care, fertilizing, watering promptly and what not! Many viewers keep asking the same question. So why not make it a habit of alternating your feeds \u2013 that\u2019s fertilizing your plants once in 15 days with foliar spray to feed your plants. Because this idea is independent of soil PH value.<\/p>\n
Now The Formula or the recipe of this Magic Fertilizer liquid.<\/strong><\/p>\nI will quickly list out the ingredients one by one and quickly explain the benefit of each of these components.<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0Water:<\/strong>\u00a0Nothing to explain about this universal solvent. We will formulate this recipe for 1 liter of water.<\/p>\n2.\u00a0Milk:\u00a0<\/strong>You can use skimmed milk or if available Raw milk is best. You can even use spoilt milk, butter milk or stuff like that. Use it with lower than 20 percent dilution in water that is 1:5 dilution. So you can add about 100 ml or 200 ml milk to our universal solvent.\u00a0\u00a0Milk is not only a source of calcium, but also an antifungal for treatment of powdery mildew and blossom end rot disease on tomato and other vegetable plants.\u00a0\u00a0It also kills many plant viruses like tobacco mosaic virus. In place if milk you can add 1 liter of a special water. Yes that’s special calcium rich water for plants. It s nothing but the left over water after you hard boil few eggs. The egg shells release a lot of calcium into this water during boiling.<\/p>\n3. Epsom Salt<\/strong> that\u2019s magnesium sulfate which is a greatest source of magnesium and sulfur. This is easily available at a gardening store or at your local pharmacist and even online.\u00a0\u00a0So the dosage is max 5 gms or little lesser than a teaspoon per 1 liter of water.<\/p>\n4. Then the Most important ingredient for adding the major NPK elements into the foliar spray is COMPOST TEA.<\/strong> So, how do you make compost tea? Its really simple. Just Add a handful of decomposed manure or compost like cowdung powder or vermicompost per liter of water. You can make your own quantity of 2 liters or 5 liters depending on your garden size. Allow this to brew for atleast 1 week. Make sure you stir this atleast once every 24 hours to oxygenate this mix till 1 week. Then strain out the liquid using a cloth and use this liquid. I shall make a detailed video some other time on how to use some simple gadgets like an aquarium air pump to quickly make your compost tea.<\/p>\nWell, For now, Once the compost tea is ready, you should dilute this like 1:5 in water and then add about 1 liter to the above solution. Normally if you are using only the compost tea as a foliar spray, you need to use 1:10 dilution. But here we are making a 2.1 liter solution in total. I Hope you got my point!<\/p>\n
That\u2019s it, mix it thoroughly and load the spray bottle or use your electric sprayer or whatever and foliar feed your plants. Spray very\u00a0early in the\u00a0morning\u00a0or late in the\u00a0evening because leaf stomatas are well opened at this period so that absorption happens at its best.<\/p>\n
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