types of organic fertilizers |
Posted: March 18, 2017 |
1. Manure
There is a cow, sheep, horse, goat, ... You can buy it from a farm or in bagged garden centers, some without bad smell and sometimes enriched with minerals. 2. Guano, gallinaza, palomina, bat droppings, ... Are products similar to manure: animal dejections. 3. Compost Compost is a material obtained from vegetable residues and other organic matter subjected to a process of composting (controlled fermentation). You can make homemade compost with vegetable waste from the garden and food. If not, buy it in sacks. You can collect all garden waste by using best plastic wheelbarrow from market. For its elaboration, they use very varied materials like: cocoa husk, the called humus of worm, fermentation of gooseberry, fermentation of sheep manure, mixture of vegetal materials composted, agricultural residues, varied mixtures of manures more peat plus humus of earthworm, Composting grape pomace, composting manures. As we see, there are many things used to make compost industrially. Compost can be enriched with Nitrogen, Potassium and Potassium and with micronutrients (Iron, Manganese, Copper, etc.). 4. Peat There are two types of peat: black peat (most common) and blonde peat (very acidic, ph = 3.5). They are widely used as a basis for preparing potting substrates and for seedlings. They are also good to add to the terrain. 5. Humic Extracts These products are less known by the amateur. Its use in intensive horticulture is increasing, but at the level of gardens is used very little. I suggest you try them and observe the results. It is a very good substance for the soil: they unblock minerals, fix nutrients so that they do not wash, activate the microbial flora with which it increases the mineralization and favors the root development, etc. In essence, these are humic and fulvic acids extracted Of organic substances. 6. Other organic fertilizers • Animal waste such as crushed bones, horns, blood meal, • Composted urban waste (sewage sludge). • Remains of crops and straw buried. • Green fertilizers Consists of growing a legume to bury it and thus contribute nitrogen to the soil. • Substrates for pots and seedlings It is not properly a fertilizer, but the support to grow ornamental plants in pot and to make seedlings. Growing substrates are obtained by mixing compost, humic amendments and peat enriched with mineral fertilizers.
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