7 1 FERTILIZER – 7.4 - DIY Tomato Fertilizer

 

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7 1 FERTILIZER – 7.4 - DIY Tomato Fertilizer

 

Tomatoes are heavy feeders requiring lots of nutrients. 

Learn more about Natural Homemade Organic Tomato Fertilizer

As a home gardener, you always intend to apply organic fertilizer to your tomato plants.

There are so many different ways for you to choose the right one for your tomato garden. Here I am going to discuss some of the easiest and the best organic tomato fertilizer ideas to help you choose the right one.

1: Homemade organic compost fertilizer for tomatoes

Homemade compost is the best, easiest, and free source of nutrients for your tomato plants.

Making your compost from kitchen scraps and other household organic matter is a great source of nutrients for tomatoes. A good quality compost fertilizer can fulfill all the nutrients your plants need. This also develops the soil structure.

Best ingredients to make your homemade compost fertilizer

You need to add three different types of ingredients to your compost bin to make good quality homemade compost fertilizer.

– All kinds of leftover food and other organic remains

You can add all kinds of fruits, vegetables, and other leftover food to your compost pile to make compost. But adding the following ingredients will make your compost very nutritious, especially for tomatoes.

 

•  Banana peel (contains potassium and magnesium)

•  Orange peel (contains nitrogen, potassium, calcium, sulphur and phosphorus)

•  Potato peel (contains potassium)

•  Various fruit and vegetable leftovers (contain essential nutrients)

•  Garlic and onion peels (contains essential nutrients)

•  Crushed eggshells (contains calcium and potassium)

•  Wood ash or other organic ash (contains phosphorus)

•  Alfalfa flour (contains nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, sulfur and other essential minerals)

•  Grass clippings, weeds (contains nitrogen)

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– Carbon-rich materials

This includes dry leaves, straw, hay, cardboard, wood chips, sawdust, or shredded newspaper.

- Soil

The soil gets enough bacteria. So put a thin layer of soil about 5 cm on top of the compost to decompose the ingredients faster. - Water

Water is not essential to making compost. But if the weather is hot and dry then add some water to the compost heap.

Ingredients to avoid adding to your compost pile

Some household ingredients slowly decompose, releasing bad odour and attracting natural creatures and pests. Therefore, you should avoid these following ingredients when making your homemade compost.

•  All types of animal products such as meat, bones, fat, skin or others.

•  Leftover fish

•  All types of dairy products

•  Animal waste

•  Petroleum products

 

How to do

Whatever you put on the compost bin, first cut it into small pieces (less than an inch).

These speeds up the decomposition process. How long does it take?

Normally you should wait about 3-6 months to make good quality compost. It mostly depends on the ingredients you add to your compost bin.

When to put compost in the soil

Compost fertilizer is slowly released. Therefore, you should apply compost fertilizer at the beginning of the tomato planting hole. Add 30% compost to the total soil mix of a planting hole for a good harvest.

Caution

Never use easily decomposing fertilizer as it can kill your plants. When you apply this semi-decomposing fertilizer to your tomatoes, it will first take time to fully decompose and then feed your plants.

During the decomposition process, the compost needs more oxygen from the soil. So your plant roots cannot get enough oxygen from the soil. As a result, your plants may die in some cases.

2.  Organic fertilizer with animal manure 5 cm above the garden waste

Animal manure is a good soil amendment and a great source of nitrogen and other essential nutrients. You can find different types of animal dung around you to turn them into good quality composted manure.

•  Chicken manure fertilizer (NPK ratio: 1.1-0.8-0.5)

•  Cow dung fertilizer (NPK ratio: 0.6-0.4-0.5)

•  Horse manure (NPK ratio: 0.7-0.3-0.6)

•  Rabbit dung fertilizer (NPK ratio: 2.4-1.4-0.6)

•  Goat or sheep manure (NPK ratio: 0.7-0.3-0.9)

•  Pig manure (NPK ratio: 0.8-0.7-0.5)

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A nicely composted aged manure (about 6 to 9 months) is very nitrogen rich. Plus, it also contains some Phosphors and Potassium.

If you use too much of this composted manure in your tomato plants, they will produce more leaves than fruit.

 

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7 1 MBOLEA – 7.4 - Mbolea ya nyanya ya DIY

Nyanya ni vyakula vizito vinavyohitaji virutubisho vingi.

Pata maelezo zaidi kuhusu Mbolea ya Nyanya Asilia Iliyotengenezwa Nyumbani

Kama mtunza bustani ya nyumbani, daima unakusudia kutumia mbolea ya kikaboni kwenye mimea yako ya nyanya. Kuna njia nyingi tofauti za kuchagua moja inayofaa kwa bustani yako ya nyanya. Hapa nitajadili baadhi ya mawazo rahisi na bora ya mbolea ya nyanya ya kikaboni ili kukusaidia kuchagua inayofaa.

 

1: Mbolea ya kikaboni iliyotengenezwa nyumbani kwa nyanya

Mbolea ya kujitengenezea nyumbani ndiyo bora zaidi, rahisi, na chanzo cha bure cha virutubisho kwa mimea yako ya nyanya.

Kutengeneza mboji yako kutokana na mabaki ya jikoni na vitu vingine vya kikaboni vya nyumbani ni chanzo kikubwa cha virutubisho kwa nyanya. Mbolea bora ya mboji inaweza kutimiza virutubisho vyote vinavyohitaji mimea yako. Hii pia huendeleza muundo wa udongo.

Viungo bora vya kutengeneza mbolea ya mboji ya nyumbani

Unahitaji kuongeza aina tatu tofauti za viambato kwenye pipa lako la mboji ili kutengeneza mbolea ya mboji yenye ubora wa juu.

 

- Aina zote za chakula kilichobaki na mabaki mengine ya kikaboni

Unaweza kuongeza aina zote za matunda, mboga mboga, na vyakula vingine vilivyobaki kwenye rundo lako la mboji kutengeneza mboji. Lakini kuongeza viungo vifuatavyo kutafanya mbolea yako kuwa na lishe sana, hasa kwa nyanya.

 

•  Ganda la ndizi (lina potasiamu na magnesiamu)

•  Maganda ya chungwa (yana naitrojeni, potasiamu, kalsiamu, salfa na fosforasi) • Maganda ya viazi (yana potasiamu)

•  Mabaki mbalimbali ya matunda na mboga (yana virutubisho muhimu)

•  Maganda ya vitunguu na vitunguu (yana virutubisho muhimu)

•  Maganda ya mayai yaliyosagwa (yana kalsiamu na potasiamu)

•  Majivu ya kuni au majivu mengine ya kikaboni (yana fosforasi)

•  Unga wa alfalfa (una nitrojeni, potasiamu, fosforasi, magnesiamu, salfa na madini mengine muhimu)

•  Vipande vya nyasi, magugu (yana nitrojeni)

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-  Nyenzo zenye kaboni

Hii ni pamoja na majani makavu, majani, nyasi, kadibodi, vipande vya mbao, vumbi la mbao, au gazeti lililosagwa.

-  Udongo

Udongo hupata bakteria ya kutosha. Kwa hiyo weka safu nyembamba ya udongo kuhusu 5 cm juu ya mboji ili kuoza viungo haraka.

-  Maji

Maji sio muhimu kutengeneza mboji. Lakini ikiwa hali ya hewa ni ya joto na kavu basi ongeza maji kwenye lundo la mboji.

Viungo ili kuepuka kuongeza kwenye rundo lako la mbolea

Viungo vingine vya nyumbani hupunguza polepole, ikitoa harufu mbaya na kuvutia viumbe vya asili na wadudu. Kwa hiyo, unapaswa kuepuka viungo hivi vifuatavyo wakati wa kufanya mbolea yako ya nyumbani.

•  Aina zote za bidhaa za wanyama kama vile nyama, mifupa, mafuta, ngozi au nyinginezo.

•  Samaki iliyobaki

•  Aina zote za bidhaa za maziwa

•  Taka za wanyama

•  Bidhaa za mafuta

 

Jinsi ya kufanya

Chochote unachoweka kwenye pipa la mbolea, kwanza uikate vipande vidogo (chini ya inchi). Hizi huharakisha mchakato wa mtengano.

Inachukua muda gani?

Kwa kawaida unapaswa kusubiri kwa muda wa miezi 3-6 ili kutengeneza mboji bora.

Inategemea zaidi viungo unavyoongeza kwenye pipa lako la mbolea.

Wakati wa kuweka mbolea kwenye udongo

Mbolea ya mbolea hutolewa polepole. Kwa hiyo, unapaswa kutumia mbolea ya mbolea mwanzoni mwa shimo la kupanda nyanya. Ongeza mboji 30% kwa mchanganyiko wa udongo wa shimo la kupanda kwa mavuno mazuri.

Tahadhari

Kamwe usitumie mbolea inayooza kwa urahisi kwani inaweza kuua mimea yako. Unapoweka mbolea hii ya kuoza nusu kwenye nyanya zako, itachukua muda kwanza kuoza kikamilifu na kisha kulisha mimea yako.

Wakati wa mchakato wa kuoza, mboji inahitaji oksijeni zaidi kutoka kwenye udongo. Kwa hivyo mizizi ya mmea wako haiwezi kupata oksijeni ya kutosha kutoka kwa udongo. Matokeo yake, mimea yako inaweza kufa katika baadhi ya matukio.

2. Mbolea ya asili na samadi ya wanyama 5 cm juu ya taka ya bustani

Mbolea ya wanyama ni marekebisho mazuri ya udongo na chanzo kikubwa cha nitrojeni na virutubisho vingine muhimu. Unaweza kupata aina mbalimbali za kinyesi cha wanyama karibu nawe ili kuzigeuza kuwa samadi yenye mboji bora.

•  Mbolea ya kuku (uwiano wa NPK: 1.1-0.8-0.5)

•  Mbolea ya samadi ya ng’ombe (uwiano wa NPK: 0.6-0.4-0.5)

•  Samadi ya farasi (uwiano wa NPK: 0.7-0.3-0.6)

•  Mbolea ya samadi ya sungura (uwiano wa NPK: 2.4-1.4-0.6)

•  Samadi ya mbuzi au kondoo (uwiano wa NPK: 0.7-0.3-0.9)

•  Samadi ya nguruwe (uwiano wa NPK: 0.8-0.7-0.5)

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Mbolea iliyozeeka yenye mboji nzuri (kama miezi 6 hadi 9) ina nitrojeni nyingi sana. Kwa kuongezea, ina fosforasi na potasiamu.

Ikiwa unatumia sana mbolea hii ya mboji kwenye mimea yako ya nyanya, itatoa majani mengi kuliko matunda.

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