ORGANIC FARMING COURSE AGRO-ECONOMY
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)
•
– 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)
•
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.
KOZI YA KILIMO HAI KILIMO-UCHUMI
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)
•
- 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)
•
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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