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Calcium Fertilize

Calcium Fertilize

by | Jul 15, 2019 | Organic Farming | 0 comments

Foliar feeding with calcium fertilizer (the uses of calcium-rich fertilizer to the plant leaves) may makes the difference between a good crop of tomatoes to fruit with blossoming and rot, or gorgeous Granny Smith apples becomes bitter ones. Let’s learn more about making and using a calcium foliar spray for plants.

Why Use Homemade Calcium Rich Foliar Spray?

Calcium foliar spray gives essential calcium to the plants, preventing leaf necrosis, small brown roots, fungal issues, weak stems and stunted growth. Making calcium spray for plants will increase cell division, an important component, especially in those rapid growers such as: – Tomatoes, sweet potatoes, and maize increase. Although it is true that acidic soil have a decreases amount of calcium compared to more alkaline soils, pH is not a true reflection of the necessity for foliar feeding with calcium but may be used as a general guideline.

Homemade Calcium Rich Foliar Spray: –

While commercial calcium foliar spray may be purchased. This is less expensive, and  just as easy to make a homemade calcium rich foliar spray with ingredients already in the home or garden. If you are experiencing any symptoms above of the plant or have soil pH tested and  there is a lack of calcium, now is a good time to learn how to make your calcium fertilizer.

1. Egg Shell

Foliar feeding with Calcium Rich Eggshells plants require a proportion of calcium and magnesium for plants. When one goes up, the other goes down. Using your compost, which is usually rich in calcium or can be In modified with the  addition of lime or eggshells, which is a good way to increase the calcium levels in growing plants. Another way to accomplish this goal is to make calcium spraying for plants with egg shell.

Preparation method-

1. To make calcium spray for plants with egg shell, boil 20 eggs in a covered pan of 1 gallon of water.

2. Bring to a rolling boil, remove from heat.

3. Leave it for cool 24 hours.

4. Filter the water of shell fragment and collect it an airtight container and keep it cool and dark place.

2. Foliar feeding with calcium rich seaweed

Particularly rich in bromine and iodine, seaweed is also rich in nitrogen, iron, sodium and calcium.

how to make your own calcium fertilizer out of seaweed?

1. Collect the seaweed (if legal to do so where you are) or buy at the garden store.

2. Wash this seaweed thoroughly.

3. Chop up the seaweed and cover with 2 gallons of water in bucket.

4. Leave it for a few weeks with fermented lid for fermentation, and then filter it.

5. Cover loosely, ferment for a few weeks, and then strain.

6. Dilute 2/3 cup to one gallon of water to make a calcium foliar spray.

3. How to make your own calcium fertilizer from Chamomile

Chamomile flower is the sources of calcium, potash and sulfur.

It is also good for dumping preventing off and many other fungal issues.

Preparation method:-

1. Pour 2 cups of boiling water over ¼ cup chamomile (or you can use chamomile tea).

2. Leave this mixture until cool.

3. strain and place in spray bottle.

4. We can store this mixture for a week.

5. Use this mixture for foliar spray on the plants.

Manure Tea-provide essential nutrients

Manure Tea-provide essential nutrients

by | Jun 27, 2019 | Organic Farming | 0 comments

Manure tea is similar to compost tea fertilizer. Decomposed animal  manure is mixed in water, and until the water has becomes dark brown color, it is allowed to remain immersed in it. The solid materials of manure are taken out, then the liquid is used to lawns, gardens and flowers. Human waste is not recommended, because it contains parasites and diseases that should not be present into your soil.

It is compost tea, but uses composted livestock manure. The manure is collected in the sun during many months and then the compost is made. The livestock are raised in pastures where grasslands are available, where cattle are allowed to graze according to nature intended. Manure teas are used as a soil conditioner in vegetable gardens, flower gardens, lawns  and compost piles. The soil condition is better by planting plants  with composting tea, so that the roots of plants can absorb nutrients. It also provides valuable nutrients, minerals and beneficial microorganisms that help in growing strong and healthy plants. To speed up decomposition, manure tea can also be added directly to compost pile.

Method of preparation: –

1.Fill a 5 gallons (18.9 litres) bucket with the appropriate amount of water.

2. Put the manure into a large burlap sack or pillowcase. You should use 5 parts of water to 1 part manure.

3. Tie a knot in the sack to secure it.

4. Put the sack into the water.

6. Cover the bucket with a towel to keep flies away.

7. Let the sack to steep in the water for several days. The tea manure should reach a deep, dark golden brown color.

8. Remove the sack from the water after its been full steeped and allow it to hang over the bucket until it no longer drips.

10. This dilute mixture with clean water.

11. Apply to your plants and see them grow beautiful and healthy.

Use: –

Manure  tea can be applied in a many ways. To spray easily, keep in a spray bottle, or in a watering can for better saturation. A hose-end sprayer can be utilized for large areas. Manure tea can be put directly onto a compost heap to speed decomposition.

Benefit: –

Manure tea provides nutrients and minerals quickly. Most chemical fertilizers are slow released, which can take days or weeks to take effect. Manure  tea fast to provide  your plants with essential nutrients when, and where, they require the most. Manure tea can be used as a foilar sprays misted onto plant leaves.

Leaf Mulch

Leaf Mulch

by | Jun 19, 2019 | Organic Farming | 0 comments

Leaf Mulch is a layer of shredded leaves, which are applied on the soil surface. Truth be said, mulch can be almost any material. To save and enrich the soil of your garden, just spread around the plants. They are another conventional method of maintaining soil moisture, and the coverage they  provide can suppress weeds.

Method of making leaf mulch: –

1. Making leaf mulches is very easy, and there are several ways to do so. First of all, you need to collect any fall autumn leaves.

2. When collecting leaves, you should avoid using any that are diseased, because you will only take risk of spreading the disease to your other plants if you use them as leaf much. You should also avoid using leaves that are mixed with garbage, as the litter will struggle to break down and add contamination to your soil and leaf mulch.

3. Once you have collected all the leaves you need, you need to piece them. Most of the best garden spaces will shred the leaves, as they are collected, making the whole process of making leaf mulch unusually quick. If you have collected leaves with your hands, then you can use a leaf or garden shredder. Another option is to place all the leaves in a plastic rubbish bin and using a grass trimmer a bit like a kitchen blender.

Uses: –

Once all your leaves have been cut to a suitable size, then lay the leaves in your flower beds. Approximately 2 to 3 inches thick. Make sure that  the mulch does not smoother the small plants and make sure that the mulch does not touch the stems of any plants. Try and stay a few inches away from  the stems. It  is the best practice to avoid plants directly touching any  decomposing material like leaf mulch.

1. Use 4 to 5 inches around trees and shrubs to help protect their bases.

2. From late autumn, use mulch to cure rose bushes. Remember to remove this spring when the growth cycle starts again.

3. Working mulch back into your garden’s coil will mean your means soil will start fill with earthworms and other beneficial organisms. Meaning a healthier garden.

4. Make sure to shred leaves as much as you can. The section of whole leaves can bind together and become matted, which meaning water cannot pass through the surface. By reducing their size, you reduce this risk and give micro-organisms more surface area to work with.

5. Leaf malt is carbon-rich (brown-material), use it in your compost pile to balance out nitrogen-rich (green-material) waste such as fresh grass clippings.

Benefit::-

Beside keeping the weed growth low, using mulch can help your yard in many ways, including the following:

1. Reduce water loss in the soil.

2. Controlling erosion.

3. Regulating soil temperature (keeping it cooler in summer, warmer in winter).

4. Improving the soil, once the mulch has broken down (in the case of the organic kinds of mulches, such as shredded leaves).

5. Drawing beneficial worms to the garden.

6. Keeping decorative fruits up off the bare ground, which helps preserve an unspoiled appearance

Poonam Singh

Cover Crop

Cover Crop

by | May 13, 2019 | Organic Farming | 1 comment

A Cover Crop is a specific plant crop, which is mainly grown for the benefit of soil rather than the crop yield. Cover crops are commonly used to help suppress weeds, manage soil erosion and improve soil fertility and quality, and control diseases and pests. Cover crops are usually grasses or legumes but may be include of other green plants.

Cover crops are plants grown outdoors for the purpose of increasing the quality of the  soil. They help make regulate water, increase biodiversity, and improve farming as a whole.  These types of crops are also used in landscaping to enhance the look of a property.

Cover crops stay low or less to  land, are cheap to plant, and they do not require much maintenance. The popular options for cover crops are wheat, clover, rye, mustard, peas, and sudangrass. Cover crops are mainly used in large farms or land in-ground  garden rather than raised beds.

Why grow cover crops: –

Cover crops are plants grown  to save or improve the soil for future crops. Covering the soil in winter protects it from erosion and helps support all the beneficial life associated with it. This gives weed less opportunity to establish, meaning cleaner bed for sowing or planting in spring. At the end of winter, dig the covered crop into the ground and it will rot down to add valuable organic material in the soil, which will helping to feed the plants  that follow.

Benefits of Cover Crop: –

1. Cover crops improve biodiversity by increasing the variety of species in a given area. They also can help in reduce the amount of water that drain off an area, and prevents waterways and downstream ecosystem from erosion. Because roots of the cover crop make holes in the soil, cover crops help allow water to filter deep into the ground. As a result, cover crops help conserve water in many ways.

2. Cover crops can help break disease cycles by reducing the amount of bacteria and fungal diseases in the soil. If you have a soil that is infected, then you can plant a cover crop in that area as a means of eradicate the disease.

3. Cover crops are sometimes called “green manure” because they provide nutrients to the soil, as it manure does. They are also called “living mulches” because they can prevent soil erosion. A mulch is a layer of organic material, such as crop residue, which is left on the surface of the soil to prevent the drainage of water and protect the soil from the harmful effects of heavy rainfall.

Poonam Singh

Rapid Rice Straw Composting

Rapid Rice Straw Composting

by | May 8, 2019 | Organic Farming | 0 comments

Rapid Rice Straw Composting-Rice straw manure is an ordinary manure, which requires three months for complete decomposition. This is a very slow process for those farmers who grow rice crops two or three times a year. The IBS is a rapid composting method, speed up the process with a compost fungus activator, Trichoderma harzianum. The activator is supplemented by soil microbes as a source of waste cellulose decomposers. The number of decomposers and the rate of decomposition so that farmers can use the compost sooner.

For carbon composting for early composting, such as: – rice husk, nitrogen -rich content such as animal manure and the activator Trichoderma harzianum are required. A combination one part of nitrogen substrate to three part carbon is best. If animal manure is getting difficult, it can be replaced with leguminous plants such as azolla and sesbania.

Preparation Method: –

  • At the time of harvesting, rice straw is kept on one side of paddy. It later saves labour to have one compost pile for each paddy instead of  central heap.
  • Rice straw is soaked overnight in irrigation water or moisture in the rain until saturated.
  • A simple platform is made in the middle of the paddy ( size is relative to the size of the paddy).
  • A layer of saturated rice straw 10-15 centimetre thick is loosely  of rice on the platform.
  • Above the layer, one or two handful activator is spread out (25 kg / ha).
  • Straw is alternatively layered with the activator.
  • Until all the straw has been used.
  • On the layers of straw, fertilizers and nitrogenous plants are planted. The nitrogen substrate is 15-25% of total composition.
  • Compost is covered (with plastic, banana leaves, or coconut husks) and it gets heated within 25 hours.
  • The manure should be repeated repeatedly to compensate for evaporation,.
  • Manure is left unturned and ready within a month.
  • When the pile gets cold, then it is ready to use.
  • It is 30% of its original size.

Benefit:-

The benefit of income gains from a healthy crop is the most immediate return. But more importantly, the soil is benefits from continuous use of compost in the long term. Results include improved soil texture and ploughing, better aeration and water-holding capacity, increased fertility and low acidity. Because rice husk is made compost and it is not burnt. It releases less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Compost reduces the need for chemical fertilizers. Which contaminate surrounding waters  and  encourages algae bloom that compete with fish for oxygen. Additionally, as  farmer gain self-reliance they becomes less dependent on off-farm inputs.

Possible Drawbacks

  • Rapid composting like composting in general.
  • Often means more work for the farmer.
  • Labor inputs can be reduced by composting in the paddy and in small piles that are easily transportable.
  • A reliable supply of T. harzianum is important for facilitate the rapid decomposition process.
  • Contaminants reduce the effectiveness of the activator, and can cause skin irritation.
  • limited manure supply may result in compost with low N content.

Poonam Singh

 

Manures and Fertilizers

Manures and Fertilizers

by | May 1, 2019 | Organic Farming | 0 comments

Manures and Fertilizers – The plants need food / nutrients / elements for their growth and development, which are absorbed through the soil. The sources of nutrient supply are manure and fertilizer. Application of manure and fertilizers to the soil is one of the important factors, which help in increasing the crop yield and maintain the soil fertility. N, P and K are the 3 essential elements required for the crop growth.

Manures and Fertilizers

1. Manure:

It is a well disintegrated. All the excreta left by the animals and the straw, the litter, which is in the Stable, the barn or yard, all of it are included in it.

The term manure is used with the exception of water to any material,  when combined into soil and it becomes productive and promotes growth of the plant.

2. Fertilizer

These are industrially manufactured chemicals containing nutrients of plants. Or

It is an artificial product, which contains nutrients of the plant. Those who increase productivity when put into the soil, and also promotes plant growth along with them.

Difference between Manures and Fertilizers:-

Sr No Characteristics Manures Fertilizer
1 Origin Plant or animal origin Chemical synthesized or manufactured
2 Nature Organic in nature Inorganic in nature
3 Type Natural product artificial product
4 Conc. Of nutrients less concentrated More concentrated
5 Material Supply organic matter Supply inorganic matter
6 Nutrient availability slowly available May or may not be readily  available
7 Nutrients Supply all the primary nutrients including Micronutrient Supply specific type of nutrients one, two or three. micro nutrients may or may not be present
8 Effect on Soil Health Improves physical condition of soil Do not improve the physical condition of soil
9 Effect on plant growth No bad effect when applied in large quantities. Adverse effect on plant whenever there is deficiency or excessive application

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