You drank tea with lemon in the morning, but where did you put the peel, threw it away? In winter, we use a lot of citrus fruits: tangerines, oranges, lemons, how to use citrus peel in the country for the benefit of our plants. I already wrote about. Let's look at another alternative to chemistry, a natural product that we usually send to the bin as a way to save money and an effective tool in caring for plants.

How to use citrus peel in the country

1 citrus peel for compost

Citrus peels can be composted and are an excellent source of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Adding them to your compost is another way to make it nutritious. Before sending citrus peels to the compost heap, be sure to chop them into small pieces to speed up the composting process. As an added bonus, citrus peels also protect the compost from certain animals and insects that are attracted to the smell of decaying waste. Citruses repel them with their smell.

2 Natural pest repellent

If your plants are suffering from insect pests and you want to avoid the use of chemical pesticides, then you can try to repel their attacks with citrus peels. Chop citrus peels around the affected plant, or make a hole in the peel and apply it to the stem or trunk near the infected area. Citrus peel, of course, cannot be as effective tool like using chemical pesticides, but it's more natural and organic.

3 Repellent from dogs and cats

If you have a dog or a cat, then for sure you have had cases when they lay on the bed with young shoots and ruined half of the future crop. To stop pets from visiting your vegetable garden and garden, try using citrus peels. Most cats and dogs hate the smell of citrus peels. You just need to mix small pieces of citrus peel with coffee grounds and scatter them around your plants. The combination of these two scents will keep pets from visiting your garden, repel pests, and the zest will fertilize your plants afterwards.

4 Citrus peels for flavor

Have citrus peels thrown into the fireplace, then you can enjoy the pleasant aroma of citrus fruits. You can get this fresh citrus scent if you don't have a fireplace or stove. Place fresh crusts in open containers on radiators. There will be a pleasant aroma in the room. By the way, this is how I dry these crusts throughout the winter, then I put them in a linen bag. In a bag, they can be crushed or even trampled on, so the dry crusts will be crushed and will occupy less space for storage. They are in my shoe box in the bedroom, waiting for spring, when I take them to the country., but there is always a light aroma of citrus.

5 Lemon peel for plant nutrition

Leftover lemon peels can be used to acidify the soil. For example, azaleas and blueberries love acidic soil. You just need to dry the citrus peel and grind them into powder. Sprinkle the powder on the soil and mix. This will naturally increase the acidity of the soil (remember that lowering the pH of the soil depends on the amount of citrus peel powder you use). As an added bonus, it also adds some important micro and macro nutrients to the soil.

6 Citrus peel for ants

Ants can be dangerous to the garden. They take away on plants and protect aphids from attack. ladybugs and other predators to provide their own honeydew supply, and ants can damage plants by disturbing the soil around plant roots. If you want to get rid of ants, you can use citrus peels. This is a non-toxic and organic ant repellant that is harmless to humans and other animals and is sure to keep ants away from your garden. Here's how to make this ant repellant.

1 Chop the lemon, lime, orange peels into small pieces. Use any combination of citrus fruits, or just one kind.

2 Pour the chopped rinds into the jar to fill it halfway. Fill the jar with water and close the lid. Keep the jar in a cool, dark place for three to five days until the skin turns pale and the water turns colored.

3 Strain the citrus extract through a sieve into a bowl to remove the spent crusts (they can then be thrown into the compost). Pour the extract back into the jar and add a teaspoon of molasses and dishwashing liquid. Close the lid on the jar and shake the contents to mix.

4 Pour the contents of the jar over the places where the ants accumulate. The citrus oil will kill the ants, and the sweet smell of the molasses will lure other ants into a death trap.

7 Citrus peels as a mosquito repellent

In the country, we often suffer from mosquito bites. Mosquitoes hate the smell of citrus peels. If you want to get rid of insects, you can rub citrus peels on your skin to repel them. You can also use the grated peel around your porch as a mosquito repellent.

8 Citrus peel as a small seedling container

The most ineffective piece of advice I've found on the internet about using citrus peels. This is the use of crusts as a container for seedlings. If you often make lemon or orange juice, bake pies out of them, then you can try these containers for use by making a hole for drainage from the bottom. Then the plant, together with the container, can be planted in the ground. But, it seems to me that such a container is not suitable for every plant, as it has an acidic reaction. If the room is humid, then the crust, in my opinion, can become moldy. And, probably, it will be difficult for the roots to break this container already in the ground, however, it can be torn with your hands or with a pruner.

How to prepare citrus peel for use in the country

We eat a lot of citrus fruits in autumn, winter, spring, and country chores occur at the end of spring and summer. How to prepare citrus peels, how to save them for the summer.
First, I dry the crusts on radiators throughout the winter, laying them out in open containers or pallets. After they dry, I collect them in a box or linen bag. Then they can be crushed by crushing with your hands or in food processor. In the combine, you can get different fractions: from fine crumbs to dust. The crushed peel does not take up much space, it is better to store it in a shoe box.

Discussion: 5 comments

I noticed that the dog leaves when I peel citrus fruits in the kitchen. I didn't know they smelled like that though.
As for the peel as a pot, original) Maybe there is a point in this? Like useful vitamins and minerals?

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1. It seems to me that it can get moldy, but you can try, for example, for violets, it will be just what you need, they love sour.

I was taught to put peels in flower pots- from midges. Only for some reason it didn’t scare away my midges at all 🙁

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1. And it doesn’t drive away my midges, it’s a mushroom mosquito. Need to take off upper layer soil, pour sand or perlite, and it is better to water through the pan. Midges lay their eggs almost on the surface of the earth, and the larvae in the ground develop in a wet one. If you water through the pan, then the top layer will be dry. And if sand is poured on top, then it also dries quickly, and under it the earth remains wet.

I don't have cats, but the homeless people shlendrai. I got a lot of skins from tangerines, so I'll scare everyone)))

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In one of the previous articles we gave general tips regarding how tangerine peels can be used with benefit. In the same publication, we will talk about what benefits this New Year's by-product can bring in the upcoming or already current summer season.

Protection of the garden from codling moth

In gardening, a problem often arises, the name of which is the codling moth. It is this little pest that can deprive a person of a good part of a quality crop if its quantity exceeds the permissible norm.

Citrus fruits will help correct the situation and preserve the fruits of hard physical labor. For this purpose, it is recommended to collect 0.5 liters of tangerine skins, pour them into a 10-liter bucket and fill with water. Then all this is infused for a day, and boiled for another 15 minutes.

As soon as the product has cooled down, it should be thoroughly mixed, filtered and flavored with 30 grams of urea. The resulting solution is recommended to spray fruit trees that begin to form buds. in early spring, and then the moth butterfly will not dare to settle on them and leave its offspring. In the case of a rainy spring, such a decoction of tangerine will need to be sprayed before flowers bloom on the trees.

Fighting ants

Ant colonies are a source of numerous troubles on suburban area. These little creatures are able to sneak into the house in search of delicious food, spoil young plantings
vegetable crops, to breed aphids, the harm from which is truly enormous. Moreover, despite the minimum size, it is very difficult, but possible, to remove ants from your territory. One of the options for eviction involves the use of gruel from fresh tangerine peel. From a couple of fruits, you need to remove the skin, and chop it in a blender (rub on a grater).

The porridge is then mixed with a small amount of water to a puree state. The latter must be laid out along the paths that the pest has laid along the beds and the garden area as a whole. If there is a full-fledged anthill on the site, it can be watered with dry citrus powder diluted in a large amount of liquid. The disadvantage of this method is that the ants, most likely, will not leave the garden, but will radically change their habitat, choosing, for example, an unnecessary piece of land behind a farm building or under a fence.

We dare cats

For reasons known only to them, representatives of the feline family are very fond of lying on a flower garden or newly emerged crops, completely killing hopes for a good harvest.

To prevent this from happening with your plantings, you can do the following: in problem areas, spread out the sleeping coffee brew mixed with freshly grated citrus peels.

Or you can just scatter the skins over the flower beds and beds, only they will have to be changed after each watering or rain.

Eliminate aphids and small caterpillars

Tangerine, orange and lemon peels twisted in a meat grinder help get rid of aphids, scale insects and small caterpillars.

For this purpose, the following mixture is prepared for spraying:

• Three kilograms of fresh skins, chopped with a meat grinder, must be poured with 10 liters
  heated water;
• The composition, which is in a glass container, is tightly sealed and sent to a warm and dark place for 5 days;
• Then the mixture is well filtered through gauze, and quickly poured into small bottles of lemonade or beer;
• The latter are tightly closed and filled with sealing wax / garden pitch, and placed in a cool place. There they can be stored until the moment of use.

Application of this homemade remedy from aphids and the rest of the above pests, it happens like this: 100 g of the finished tincture is taken, mixed with 10 liters of water, and the plants in need of treatment are sprayed with the resulting solution.
Another option for how tangerine peels can be used in gardening is to prepare a composition that helps get rid of pests such as thrips and spider mites. The skin of a pair of citrus fruits is taken, crushed, and poured with a liter of heated water. The container with the workpiece is placed in a dark room for a week, then a little liquid toilet soap is added to it, and everything is filtered through several layers of gauze.

With this tool, you can spray plantings on which aphid colonies are located, spider mite or thrips. This is done once a week, and the number of treatments depends on the number of pests and the magnitude of the damage they caused. In addition to all that has been said above, it is worth adding the following: citrus peel can be dried and laid out directly in holes or grooves intended for planting potatoes, seedlings or carrot crops. If you believe experienced summer residents, this technique allows you to protect the future crop from the invasion colorado potato beetle and wireworm.

Not only is the pulp rich in nutrients and minerals, the peel of an orange also contains pectins, essential oils, and beneficial vitamins. Due to their invaluable properties, orange peels have found application in the garden.

A feature of the peels is the long-term preservation of useful components and an unusual smell, not only fresh, but also dried.

The use of the peel in horticulture

Used in horticulture orange peel fresh, dried, crushed and in the form of infusions. Orange peels for the garden are used for a variety of purposes.

orange peel

Tick ​​control

In the fight against spider mites, thrips, they resort to the following infusion: fresh or dried orange peels from 2 oranges are poured into 1 liter warm water and clean for 7 days in a dark place. After a week, add to the solution a large number of liquid soap. The resulting solution is treated with the affected areas of plants.

Note. To combat spider mites, 5-6 procedures are needed with a week break, and 2-3 times are enough for aphids and thrips.

Ants

Columns of ants literally "get" their adventures, they easily make their way into the house in search of food, spoil the young plantings of vegetable crops and even breed aphids - a pest that can cause great harm to plants. It is very difficult to deal with them, orange peels will help get rid of them. In a blender, the peel of 2-3 oranges is crushed with the addition of a glass of warm water, the resulting slurry is applied to the ant tracks. The anthill can be doused with the same solution, but more liquid. Such manipulations must be carried out until the ants move their anthill outside the garden.

Ants

Elimination of scale insects and small caterpillars

AT this case you need a lot of orange peels, if not possible, you can reduce the proportions. 3 kilograms of fresh crusts are taken, crushed in a blender or meat grinder and poured with 10 liters of water. The resulting mixture must be corked, the use of glass containers is optimal, and removed for 5 days in a dark and enough warm place. The resulting mixture must be filtered through cheesecloth and poured into small bottles. The bottles are tightly corked and filled with sealing wax, stored in a cool place.

Important! To control pests, it is necessary to spray the plants with a solution, for which 100 grams of infusion is taken and diluted in a bucket of water.

From codling moth

The codling moth is a small, but quite significant enemy of the garden, for short term he is able to destroy a good part of a quality crop.

0.5 liters of orange peels are poured with 10 liters of water and removed for a day in a dark place. Then the resulting infusion is brought to a boil and boiled over low heat for 15 minutes. The cooled mixture is thoroughly mixed, filtered and 30 grams of urea are added to it.

Infusion is used for spraying fruit trees in early spring, so that the codling moth does not sit on them and lay offspring. In rainy spring, the spraying procedure is carried out several times, but only before the flowers bloom.

codling moth

Aphid control

Orange peel contains limonene, which can help control aphids. It has a destructive effect on the protective wax coating on their bodies, as a result, suffocating, the pest dies. The zest is also fatal for the stick insect. Limonene is a deadly poison for spider mites and thrips.

To combat aphids, orange peels are cut into small pieces or crushed in a blender and sprinkled on garden plants.

Insect attack protection

If grated open areas body with orange peel, then you can protect yourself from annoying insects. Contraindication - hypersensitivity to citrus fruits.

Insect attack protection

Protection of plantings from "fluffy pests"

Domestic cats in most cases are not indifferent to boxes with young seedlings, and no matter how you watch them, they will dive into them. The peel of oranges in this case acts as a kind of "repeller" - cats really do not like the citrus smell and will avoid the place where it is most pronounced. It would be advisable to lay out the crusts near the seedling boxes on the windowsill.

Representatives of the cat family are not indifferent not only to house plants, they are also not averse to soaking up in a flower bed or in a bed with young crops, breaking the newly sprouted shoots under the root. To avoid increased attention from uninvited guests”, you can spread the peels of oranges in the garden, in the beds or flower beds. A more effective but time-consuming way to protect against fluffy is to rub leaves and stems with fresh peel.

Protection of plantings from "fluffy pests"

Rescue of houseplants

Plants grown at home, just like outdoor plants, are susceptible to attacks by pests. To protect flowers, seedlings from them, the use of orange peels perfectly helps: 200 grams of peel is taken and poured with a liter of water at room temperature. The container with the solution is removed for 5 days in a dark place, then the infusion is filtered, the crusts are squeezed out. Half a glass of the resulting infusion is diluted in 2-2.5 liters of water with the addition of 1 tsp. "limp" soap. The resulting essence is washed leaves or sprayed on both sides.

as a fertilizer

Orange peels are popular as plant nutrition and soil fertility. To do this, they are placed 5 cm deep into the ground and dug in. The peel nourishes the soil with nitrogenous compounds and has a beneficial effect on the germination of plants.

Benefits of compost crusts:

• they contain nitrogen in an easily digestible form for plants;
• the aromatic substances that make up the peel rapidly decompose into safe compounds without harming beneficial microorganisms, worms;
• decompose quickly - it is only necessary to cut as small as possible before laying.

Interesting. Overseas importers coat the oranges with special chemical preservatives to make the long journey endure without harm. It is a mistake to assume that, due to this, the quality of the compost is deteriorating.

It is better not to throw away the peel, but to put it in compost - there its benefits will be much more tangible: the peel will become a breeding ground for microflora and an excellent insect repeller.

Orange peel is used as an organic fertilizer: the peel is crushed in a blender, meat grinder or manually and poured with boiling water (1: 2), infused for a day in a dark place, then carefully filtered. The resulting infusion is diluted with exactly the same amount of water. This mixture is watered plants no more than 1 time per week.

Attention! At overuse citrus peels can harm both the soil and plants - the zest has the ability to acidify the environment, so it is important not to overdo it.

Benefits of orange peel

Orange peels are popular not only in cooking or in cosmetology, recent times their use in horticulture is gaining momentum, where the benefits of them are no less significant.

The benefits of orange peel when used in gardening:

• the content of minerals necessary for normal growth of crops(potassium, phosphorus), essential oils, ascorbic acid, tocopherol, retinol, flavonoids and pectin substances;
• enriches compost with nitrogen- when decomposed, citrus peel releases a fairly large amount of nitrogen, for this it is simply necessary to put the peels in the compost;
• soil enrichment with nutrients- orange peel is rich in sulfur, magnesium, calcium and other nutrients, for a more efficient process of decomposition of the peel, it is recommended to dry them and grind them into powder, which is then scattered over the soil;
• protects against mosquitoes These pesky bloodsuckers can't stand the smell of citrus.

Attention! The main amount of ascorbic acid falls on the peel, and not on the pulp.

Many people advise using orange peels to start a fire in the stove in the country, arguing that they light up easily and burn for a long time, while exuding an unusual aroma. But, according to the experience of many summer residents, this is far from the case - the peel burns badly, there is no aroma, but only the smell of burning.

How to prepare crusts

To dry the crusts, place them on a sheet of newspaper, hold for 3-4 days at room temperature, then they must be put into a storage container (glass container, paper or cardboard container). You can dry it in the oven (at a temperature not exceeding 80 degrees), and in the sun. AT winter period It is advisable to use for drying batteries.

Important! At present, chemical agents for the treatment of fruits are intensively used, so that in fertilizers the peels are exclusively beneficial, they must be thoroughly washed or doused with boiling water before harvesting and drying.

Orange peels offer pest control without resorting to chemicals, which allows you to get an environmentally friendly crop. Also, bark fertilizers are completely natural. This does not require material costs - a kind of savings. Therefore, do not throw away orange peels, they will certainly come in handy, and a lot of them will accumulate during the autumn-winter period.

See best fertilizers for top dressing indoor plants at home. Recipes for more than 20 natural folk remedies are presented: yeast, sugar, banana peel, succinic acid, wood ash, eggshell and citrus peel.

As well as other homemade natural fertilizers, along with medical and kitchen secrets.

Home fertilizers for indoor plants: popular top dressings

To feed indoor plants with natural fertilizers at home, various products and substances are successfully used.

The most popular household fertilizers are banana peels, sugar, yeast, succinic acid, wood ash, and eggshells.

Top dressing of indoor flowers with a certain substance or product has its own characteristics and application rules.

The effectiveness of home fertilizers and folk remedies also varies significantly and generates debate.

Reviews of flower growers and the arguments of experts can be radically different.

Therefore, the use of folk remedies or home fertilizers as a top dressing for indoor plants is a purely individual matter.

1. Fertilizing indoor plants with yeast

Yeast is a popular household fertilizer for houseplants and flowers. They contain hormones, including cytokinins that regulate cell division, as well as auxins, thiamine, and B vitamins.

• Due to this, yeast contributes to the active growth of domestic plants and their full development.

Fertilizing houseplants with yeast has been repeatedly studied by scientists. It is scientifically confirmed that yeast accelerates the mineralization of organic matter, produces nitrogen and phosphorus, and also increases the activity of microorganisms in the soil mixture.

Thus, fertilizing houseplants with yeast at home is close to fertilizing with mineral fertilizer.

RECIPE FEEDING INDOOR PLANTS WITH YEAST:

1. 10 gr dry yeast (bag) and 3 tbsp. l. sugar stir in 10 liters of warm water. For a smaller volume: 1 g dry yeast + 1 tsp. sugar per liter of water.
2. The resulting solution is infused for 2-3 hours.
3. Before fertilizing home plants with yeast, the infusion is mixed with water in a ratio of 1 to 5, and then indoor flowers are watered.

LIVE YEAST:

1. Dilute 200 grams of yeast in 1 liter of water.
2. Before use, mix the solution with water in a ratio of 1 to 10.

FEEDING INDOOR FLOWERS WITH YEAST REVIEWS:

For maximum effect feeding indoor plants with yeast must be supplemented with calcium and potassium - eggshell powder and wood ash.

1% YEAST EXTRACT:

1. Dissolve 10 g of live yeast in one liter of water.
2. Feed the plant once a year in the spring.

REVIEWS: some experts believe that top dressing with 1% yeast infusion is equivalent to top dressing with a seasonal dose complex fertilizer for indoor flowers.

2. Wood ash - as a fertilizer for indoor plants

Wood ash is a very effective household fertilizer for indoor plants. It contains many nutrients: phosphorus, iron, sulfur, magnesium, potassium, zinc and calcium.

In wood ash, phosphorus and potassium are readily available to plants.

The editors of the magazine "Feast of Flowers" believes that feeding indoor flowers with wood ash is a very powerful and safe folk remedy. Wood ash is considered to be the best organic fertilizer for indoor plants.

APPLICATION - LIQUID FEED:

1. 3 art. l. ash (about 25 g) dilute in 1 liter of water.
2. Infuse the solution for a week, and then water the houseplants once every 10-14 days.

DRY: 1. Wood ash is mixed with soil mixture before landing in a ratio of 1 to 50.

IMPORTANT! In addition to top dressing, wood ash also disinfects the substrate. Ash is very fond of begonia, geranium, fuchsia, cyclamen and other indoor plants.

3. Feeding houseplants with sugar

For feeding indoor plants, sugar is used as a source of glucose, which provides energy for various processes in the plant.

And as an excellent building material to stimulate the formation of organic molecules. Glucose to be great building material should be well absorbed by the plant.

This is possible only if there is sufficient concentration carbon dioxide. Otherwise, the sugar will feed root rot or mold.

Therefore, to avoid such an effect, the feeding of indoor flowers with sugar should be supplemented with a preparation with effective microorganisms ("EM") ("Baikal EM-1" or "Vostok EM-1").

APPLICATION: feeding houseplants with sugar is made with a prepared solution - 1 tbsp. spoon for 1 liter of water.

Some growers sprinkle the soil mixture with sugar on top and then water - 1 teaspoon for a pot up to 10 cm in diameter.

GLUCOSE: maximum efficiency from feeding houseplants with sugar can be obtained by replacing it with glucose. In this case, the recipe is as follows: 1 tablet of glucose per 1 liter of water.

IMPORTANT! It is recommended to feed indoor flowers with sugar or glucose no more than once every 30 days.

4. Succinic acid for indoor flowers

Succinic acid is formed during the processing of natural amber and has useful properties. It helps to better absorb substances, strengthens the immunity of plants.

Succinic acid is not a fertilizer, but an auxiliary additive, which is often used for soaking seeds, rooting cuttings, as well as for spraying and watering.

Succinic acid for indoor plants use in tablets:

1. A solution for feeding indoor flowers is prepared at the rate of 1 tablet (0.25 g) or powder per 1 liter of warm water.
2. The resulting solution is sprayed on leaves, shoots or watered roots to quickly restore the plant.

REVIEWS: Aglaonema, arrowroot, ficus, crassula, begonia, prickly pear, oleander, chlorophytum, haworthia and citrus fruits are especially fond of top dressing with succinic acid.

Succinic acid tablets

IMPORTANT! Home flowers are recommended to be watered with succinic acid once a year, and for cacti and succulents (opuntia, haworthia) once every 2-3 years. An overabundance is not dangerous, but it will bring little benefit.

• To accelerate the growth of young shoots, you can spray the ground part of the plant every 3 weeks in spring and summer.
• The solution is suitable for top dressing for 3 days.

5. Eggshell fertilizer for houseplants

Eggshell - popular and controversial natural fertilizer for indoor plants. It contains a lot of calcium, but in a hard-to-reach form and reduces the acidity level of the substrate.

In addition, calcium loves a small number of types of home flowers, and an excess of the substance contributes to the occurrence of chlorosis.

• Therefore, feeding with eggshell houseplants should be carried out carefully and start with small dosages.

APPLICATION:

1. Eggshells are crushed, mixed with the soil mixture during plant transplantation.
2. Make an infusion on eggshells and water.

INFUSION:

1. Dried and crushed egg shells are poured warm water 1 to 5.
2. Insist 15-20 days, stirring every 3-4 days.
3. The resulting infusion is watered with home plants 1 time in 30-40 days.

DRAINAGE: eggshell can be good drainage. To do this, during transplantation, a 2-cm layer of crushed eggshell is poured onto the bottom of the pot.

FERTILIZER FROM EGG PROTEINS FOR HOUSE PLANTS:

1. Mix 1 egg white in 200 g of water.
2. The solution is placed in a dark and cool place (basement, cellar, but not a refrigerator (!).
3. After a week, the solution is diluted in 2 liters of water and watered indoor flowers.

• The smell is specific, but the plants actively respond to such top dressing.

6. Banana peel fertilizer for houseplants

Banana peel is a popular natural fertilizer for houseplants and flowers. It contains many nutrients, especially rich in potassium.

Top dressing from a banana peel for indoor flowers is made in various ways.

Here we will give the most popular and simple recipe, while others are described in a separate material.

1. fresh banana peel, thoroughly washed with warm water and dried (battery, oven).
2. Dried banana skins are poured into a coffee grinder and crushed.
3. Banana peel powder is poured on top of the soil mixture and watered with water (1 time per month). It can also be mixed with soil during plant transplantation 1 to 10.

7. Fertilize with citrus fruits

The peel from lemons, tangerines and oranges is an excellent natural fertilizer for indoor plants and flowers, which will stimulate their growth and strengthen immunity.

Top dressing from citrus fruits at home perfectly repels many pests and reduces the likelihood of diseases in indoor flowers, and also introduces nitrogen into the soil.

APPLICATION - WINTER:

1. Grind fresh citrus zest and fill liter jar 3/4, and then fill the entire jar with water.
2. The zest is infused for 24 hours, then the infusion is filtered and mixed with water 1 to 3.

SPRING AND SUMMER:

1. If you collect peels from citrus fruits in winter to feed indoor flowers in spring and summer, then put the dried peels in a liter jar by 80% and pour boiling water over it.
2. After the broth has cooled, it is diluted with water 1 to 5 and watered to feed the plant.

IMPORTANT! It is recommended to feed indoor flowers with citrus fertilizer at home in this mode: 1 time in 30 days - autumn / winter and 2 times in 30 days - spring / summer.

Natural folk remedies for feeding indoor plants:

8. Onions - the protector of indoor plants

Onion peel fertilizer occupies a worthy place in plant nutrition at home, as it contains many trace elements.

Feeding indoor plants with onion tincture is an excellent prevention against many diseases and pests due to phytoncides.

APPLICATION:

1. 25 g of onion peel (about a handful) is poured with a liter hot water and boil for 7-8 minutes under a lid and over low heat.
2. The broth is insisted for 3 hours, and after it has cooled, house plants and the top layer of the soil mixture are filtered and sprayed.
3. Top dressing with a decoction of onions is carried out approximately once every two months.

IMPORTANT! A feature of onion fertilizer is that it must be prepared before each feeding of home flowers.

Plants are fed by spraying, therefore, the maximum benefit will be for those species that do not have glossy or pubescent leaves.

9. Garlic

Garlic is a powerful prophylactic against fungal diseases in indoor plants.

APPLICATION:

1. 150-200 grams of garlic (cloves) are crushed and poured with one liter of water.
2. The mixture is tightly closed with a lid and infused for 4-5 days, and then filtered.
3. To feed indoor flowers, the infusion is diluted with water: 1 tbsp. spoon for 2 liters.

IMPORTANT! Garlic fertilizer is suitable for watering and spraying plants - 1 time in 10-14 days.

10. Aloe juice

Aloe juice is a well-known natural stimulant for rooting cuttings, while it can also be a fertilizer for indoor flowers. Feeding with aloe juice strengthens the plant's immunity.

APPLICATION:

1. Cut off from 3-4 year old aloe lower leaves and put in a bag, and the bag in the refrigerator so that the juice becomes softer.
2. The next day, the juice is squeezed out of aloe leaves and diluted with water - 1 teaspoon per 1.5 liters of water.
3. Feed home plants by watering or spraying no more than 1 time in 14 days.

2nd RECIPE FROM EXPERIENCED FLOWER FROM MOSCOW:

1. 6-7 branches of aloe are chopped (cut with a knife into small pieces), put in a 3-liter jar and poured with boiled warm water.
2. Insist week in a dark place.
3. 200 grams of infusion (glass) is diluted in 3 liters of water and indoor flowers are poured under the root with natural fertilizer.
   

11. Sleepy coffee

This natural fertilizer is widely used by many flower growers. Drinking coffee makes the nutrient substrate looser and lighter, increases acidity and the amount of oxygen.

PECULIARITIES: increasing the acidity of the soil does not positively affect all houseplants. Top dressing with sleeping coffee is recommended for azaleas, hydrangeas, lilies, ripsalis, roses and many evergreen species.

APPLICATION: coffee grounds mix with potting soil mix.

12. Tea brewing

Some flower growers feed home flowers by pouring tea leaves like mulch on top of the ground, but we do not recommend it, since sciarids (black flies) are easily bred in tea leaves.

APPLICATION: sleeping tea as a fertilizer can only be used in this version.

1. The tea leaves are dried, collected in a separate bag, and during the transplantation of indoor plants, they are mixed with the soil mixture in a ratio of 1: 3.
2. It is recommended to feed with tea only indoor flowers with a delicate root system - begonia, peperomia, violet and others.

REVIEWS: sleeping coffee and tea brewing, according to experts, it makes sense to use it exclusively as a drainage.

13. Aquarium water

Aquarium water has a neutral pH and contains many substances that stimulate the growth of indoor plants, and, therefore, is a fairly good natural fertilizer.

APPLICATION: aquarium water can be fed with home flowers only from March to June, and no more than once a month.

Top dressing of indoor flowers: kitchen and medical secrets!

14. WATER AFTER THAWING MEAT

The main danger is the risk of the appearance and development of unwanted microorganisms.

15. WATER AFTER WASHING GRAINS AND POTATO BUTTER

Some flower growers feed indoor flowers with water that remains after soaking legumes (peas, beans, lentils) or potato broth.

The bottom line is that starch enters the water, which feeds the plants with energy.

16. VEGETABLE DECOTIONS

fertilizing with decoctions of vegetables is popular with some flower growers, however, a scientifically proven positive effect on home plants has not been obtained.

Therefore, the editors of the Feast of Flowers magazine do not consider a decoction after vegetables to be a good fertilizer.

After June, it is not necessary to stimulate the active growth of green mass in most plant species. And top dressing more than once a month leads to excessive reproduction of algae and further landscaping and acidification of the soil mixture.

17. A decoction or infusion of dried mushrooms

A natural stimulant for soaking seeds before planting certainly won't hurt, but scientific results have not been found.

18. HYDROGEN PEROXIDE

1. 25 grams of 3% hydrogen peroxide is diluted in a liter of water.
2. The resulting solution can be sprayed or watered plants.

Feeding a weakened plant should be carried out several times until it looks better. Spraying indoor plants protects them from diseases.

19. YOD

Iodine is often used to protect against fungal diseases and powdery mildew, and also it is a good growth and flowering stimulator.

1. 1-2 drops (1 ml) per 1 liter of water.
2. Water along the edge of the pot so as not to burn the root system.

Feed every 7-10 days to restore a weak and fading plant.

• In other cases, it is enough to feed houseplants with iodine once in spring and summer.

20. MANGANESE

21. CASTOR OIL

Top dressing with castor oil has a very good effect on flowering plant species at the time of budding (budding) - 1 tsp. for 1 liter of water.

22. TOOTHPASTE

This top dressing is suitable for indoor plants that love alkaline soil.

1. 20 ml of toothpaste is dissolved in 1 liter of warm water and potted flowers are watered.

23. TOOTH POWDER

This recipe is good for root rot.

1. 2 tbsp. spoons of tooth powder, 2 tbsp. spoons wood ash and 1 tbsp. spoon blue vitriol mixed in 100 g of water.
2. Move the soil near the root of the plant and water it with the resulting solution.
3. We move the plant to a dry place

The most famous and effective home fertilizers for feeding indoor plants are considered. We will be glad if it becomes easier for you to feed indoor flowers, and they will respond with their beautiful appearance.

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Orange is a delicious and juicy fruit that you can buy at your local grocery store. Few people know that its crusts, which are usually immediately thrown into the trash can, can be useful on suburban area.

Compost

Like many other organic wastes, orange peels are suitable for composting. They contain nitrogen in a form easily digestible for plants. Besides:

• The harsh aromatic substances contained in the crusts quickly break down into safe compounds and do not harm beneficial soil bacteria and worms.
• Many skeptics claim that blue mold likes to grow on orange peels. However, the temperature inside compost heaps does not allow mold to grow.
• It is known that at the stage of long-term delivery of citrus fruits from overseas countries, their skin is covered with a special protective composition. Contrary to popular belief, this substance does not affect the quality of the compost.
• Some summer residents indicate that orange peels decompose extremely slowly in compost. This is not entirely true. To speed up the decay process, cut the peel into smaller pieces before composting.

Finely chopped orange peel without prior composting is buried in the top layer of soil to a depth of 5 cm. After a while, the decomposing peel will begin to release nitrogen, sulfur, calcium, magnesium and a number of other useful substances into the ground.

Aphid remedy

Aphids and the ants that spread it are found in every summer cottage. You can fight them with the help of a number of drugs with varying effectiveness. A good alternative, especially for followers natural farming are orange peels. The limonene contained in them destroys the protective wax coating that covers the bodies of insect pests. The strong pungent odor repels ants and aphids. Orange peels are laid out around the affected plants and strung on the most infected branches. Spraying is also carried out with the compositions, which will be discussed below.

Limonene, in addition to aphids and ants, effectively repels fleas, ticks and mosquitoes. Boil the crusts in water, let the composition brew for 2-3 hours, then strain it through cheesecloth. The resulting product is suitable for spraying diseased plants, removing fleas from dogs and cats, repelling mosquitoes and ticks (it is especially useful in the forest, it is enough to spray a little on clothes to achieve the effect).

By the way, do you want to attract more beautiful butterflies that are harmless to the garden to the site? Just carefully place the orange peels in different parts plot, and charming winged insects will not keep you waiting.

Popular recipes for aphids and other insects:

• 100 g of dry crusts are poured into 1 liter of water and infused in the dark for 3-4 days.
• 1 kg of citrus peel is passed through a meat grinder and placed in a 3 liter jar. The container is filled with water and insisted in a dark place for 5 days. Before use, 100 ml of the resulting infusion is diluted in 10 liters of water. To enhance the effect, 40 g of laundry soap is added to the composition.
• Pour the remaining peel from 2 oranges with 1 liter of water and leave in a dark place to infuse for 1 week. Supplement the composition with liquid soap and strain.

Plants infected with aphids are sprayed with a spray bottle or gently wiped with a soft cloth.