Hearing such a phrase from experienced gardeners as, potato peelings are the best fertilizer for currants, a novice gardener will definitely be surprised. But in fact, there is nothing to be surprised at. Since potato peelings are the best organics for plants planted in the country.
So, below we will take a closer look at how to properly use potato peelings as fertilizers, how to feed a currant crop with this component, and what properties potato peels have.
Properties of potato peels
It is quite difficult to find a person in whose diet there is no product such as potatoes. Perhaps it would be superfluous to list how much benefit it brings to a person, since even a small child knows about it.
But not every adult knows that potato peels are absolutely not inferior to the fruit in terms of the content of nutrients. They contain a huge number of such elements as:
- fluorine;
- potassium;
- magnesium;
- iron.
And this is just a small list of useful substances that are contained in potato peels. But it is they who are so necessary for the full growth of crops, and not only for the currant variety. Fertilizing, for example, raspberries, currants or gooseberries with potato waste, you are guaranteed to get a good harvest of large and very tasty fruits.
Moreover, the peel of a potato can be safely called an organic growth stimulator, since it helps to increase the green mass of blackcurrants more intensively, and the branches of this crop grow much faster.
By the way, it is worth highlighting that cleaning also has a great influence on the taste of berry crops, making them sweeter and juicier.
And all because the cleanings contain a high percentage of glucose, of natural origin. As a result, the gardener enjoys delicious and very sweet fruits.
Thanks to all the properties described above, potato lumps will become simply indispensable in the spring as a top dressing for such crops:
- for almost all fruit trees;
- all types of berry bushes;
- for vegetable crops;
- for flowers, including for indoor;
- and of course, for blackcurrant.
But how to prepare a fertilizer mixture from potato peels and consider further. And which is better, the use of raw or processed, let's figure it out together.
How to prepare potato peels
Currant-like potato peel can be harvested all year round. The main thing is to save them correctly until the onset of spring. To do this, you will need to do the following:
- potato peelings are thoroughly washed in a weak solution of potassium permanganate to destroy all fungal spores that are often found on the peel;
- then, the washed peel must be spread out in a thin layer on paper in a dry and well-ventilated place;
- further, when the cleanings are completely dry, they must be folded into pre-prepared paper envelopes in which they will be stored until spring.
It is worth noting that if you want to dry the potato peel faster, then chop it with a knife into small cubes, so it will dry several times faster. Or use the freeze method.
To do this, thoroughly rinse the cleaning and twist them into a meat grinder. The finished gruel is folded into a container and sent to the freezer until spring.
How to use
In order to use potato peelings in the spring, it is necessary to properly prepare organic fertilizer.
After freezing
If you have frozen the peel, then it should be removed from the chamber and allowed to completely thaw. Then, start preparing top dressing. First you need to boil 10 liters of water. Then 2 kg of gruel from potato peels are added to hot water. Next, mix everything well and let it brew for a day. Currant bushes are poured with the finished mixture at the rate of 1 liter of fertilizer under the bush.
After drying
In the case when potato peelings were harvested for future use by drying, the cooking method will be similar, only potato raw materials will need half as much, or more precisely, 1 kg. As for watering with this remedy, potato infusion is needed for 10 days, from the end of March.
It is worth noting that thanks to such top dressing, currant fruits will grow larger and sweeter. Potato infusion has a particularly good effect if the fertilization procedure is repeated during the formation of the ovary and a week before harvest.
At the same time, keep in mind that when re-fertilizing, the number of watering days is reduced to 3.
To enjoy currant berries, you do not have to purchase various preparations of chemical origin. To do this, you have a wonderful product in the form of potato peels.
Almost any crop can be fed with potato lumps. But if you don’t have time to harvest healthy potato raw materials, then a little trick from experienced gardeners will help you.
When autumn comes to your front garden and the time comes to prepare the currant crop for hibernation, perform the following manipulations:
- remove all fallen leaves and other fragments from the currant beds;
- dig the ground around the bushes;
- then, make a shallow groove around the stem circle of the currant;
- next, put fresh potato peelings in a 5 cm layer, previously washed in a weak solution of potassium permanganate, into the dug groove;
- and bury the groove;
- and lay a thick layer of dry grass on top of the buried groove.
Having performed such a manipulation, in the spring you will be pleasantly surprised at how intensively the currant culture will grow. As already described above, potato skins are an excellent growth stimulant for almost all crops. And most importantly, it is absolutely natural.
Result
Most seasoned gardeners have experienced first hand that a top dressing like potato skins can really work wonders. In fact, it is universal. Since the cleaning contains potassium, glucose, starch and many other equally useful components for the full growth of fruit and vegetable crops.
Some gardeners claim that with the help of potato waste, almost all crops can be fully fertilized and chemical fertilizers can be completely abandoned.
Moreover, you can fertilize with this component not only in spring, but also in summer and even in autumn. In addition, potato peeling can increase soil fertility several times. Therefore, most gardeners recommend: before planting a fruit crop in the front garden, fertilize the ground with potato top dressing.
For these purposes, an infusion is prepared from it according to the above recipe. Or they put 200 g of cleanings on the bottom of the hole. At the same time, no matter which method you choose, the result will surely please you in the form of a good harvest.
Cons and pros of potato feeding
Despite the fact that the benefits of potato peel for your garden are simply colossal, there are still several disadvantages to such top dressing, which should always be remembered, namely:
- The vast majority of potato skins contain spores of defects of fungal origin. And if, before preparing such a product for future use, and not treating the skins with a solution of potassium permanganate, it is likely that the culture may become infected with a dangerous defect.
- Potato dressing has a small side effect in the form of a significant release of heat during decomposition. As a result, if such a fertilizer is applied in early spring, the root system will quickly warm up, and may die during night frosts. For this reason, you should plan the time to apply this top dressing so as not to harm the culture.
Of course, it is worth noting that the above disadvantages are easy to eliminate if you correctly approach the process of harvesting and using raw materials.
Well, as for the pluses, then potato peelings have just a lot of them, namely:
- profitable financial means;
- natural growth stimulator;
- improves the taste of fruits;
- potato fertilizer is safe and does not contain toxins.
It is worth highlighting that this is only a small list of the advantages of using potato peels. In fact, all the advantages of such top dressing are quite difficult to list.
Conclusion
Well, now you know how useful potato peelings are for your front garden and vegetable garden. Such free top dressing helps not only to reap a good harvest of natural fruits, but also fertilizes the soil, making it more fertile.
Therefore, the next time before you throw away potato peels, do not rush to do this, use them in your country house. And your berry crops will surely thank you in the form of a good and generous harvest.
Probably, there is not a single area where there would be no currant: black, white, red or pink. And she, as a rule, succeeds well in any area. As for the differences between the species of the currant itself, they are small: red and white, as well as pink currants (this is a variety of red) are more sun-loving and like to grow in higher places, while black currant grows normally in lowlands, loves slopes very much, and in partial shade, its berries will be even larger.
In terms of taste, white and pink currants are the sweetest, followed by black, and red currants traditionally have the most sour taste. By the way, this acid is special and has bactericidal properties. Therefore, it is possible in redcurrant juice.
Blackcurrant Proximity to groundwater, soil composition are not critical for currants, although, of course, it prefers loam and loose, fertilized soil best of all. Currant seedlings are planted in the same way as tree seedlings, and they do it in spring or early autumn. Contrary to popular belief, currant bushes can be successfully transplanted at least all year round, in some cases this improves their yield, only cut the plant significantly when transplanting. If the bush is very old, cut it completely, so you rejuvenate it.
Proper agricultural technology immediately affects the size, taste of berries and their number. Of great importance for currants is mulching the soil between the bushes, but make no mistake - do not start doing this in early spring, let the earth warm up well. - and you are guaranteed to be with the harvest. Currant loves frequent and plentiful watering, fertilizing with organic matter. It is impossible to dig up the earth under the bushes - only carefully loosen it.
White currant is pouring hot water over the bushes in early spring, before buds open, usually it is done in the snow. But during this period it is not easy to approach the bushes, and moreover, they can be partially covered with snow. Therefore, you will get the same result if you carry out this “promotion” at the end of November. For currant bushes, it would be good to make wooden or metal fences so that branches with ripening berries do not lean to the ground.
By and large, the taste of currants depends on the variety, but these are always berries with varying degrees of acidity. There are a limited number of truly sweet blackcurrant varieties. But there is a way to help make the berries sweeter.
Red currant This is starch feeding, currant is extremely responsive to starch. Moreover, ordinary powdered starch from the store will not work here - this form is practically indigestible for currants. You can successfully use potato peels, but this is not the best option, since even thin peels can germinate, but not benefit the currants. Then you have to weed out potatoes from under the berry bushes.
That's why the best option is a special "bread" fertilizer.
It is prepared in the most ordinary barrel for watering, the cooking process goes on by itself, without our participation - you just need to pour a certain amount of water into the barrel and put nettle greens, goutweed and pieces of stale bread into it for some period of time. Bread should prevail, the proportion is approximately the following: 70% of bread and 30% of green mass. You can also put those same potato peelings there. To speed up the process and there was no smell, tie the barrel with oilcloth, like a “lid”. In about three weeks, a wonderful fertilizer will be ready that you can use. If necessary, you can make another batch.
With this fertilizer, the berries will turn out to be larger than usual and much sweeter, even for red currants, not to mention black ones. It is enough to fertilize them with berry bushes 2-3 times. The first time - when the ovaries are already large, the second time - when the berries begin to ripen, and the third time - shortly before harvesting. By the way, "bread fertilizer" is suitable not only for currants, but also for fertilizing vegetables - it increases productivity. And also - for the autumn "refueling" of the soil - in this case, simply pour the contents of the barrels evenly over all the beds.
Each gardener thinks about how best and more efficiently to fertilize his site. This difficult task can be solved not only by chemicals from the store, but also by simple "folk" remedies. They are much more affordable and safe - because they are environmentally friendly. For example, you can use potato peels as a fertilizer.
Potatoes are one of the most popular products, but at least 1/5 of the entire tuber is cut along with the peel. In the best case, cleanings are sent to the compost, but more often straight to the trash can. But in vain! They can be of great use in the garden.
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Potato peels are easily digested by soil-dwelling bacteria. At the same time, in the process of their decomposition, all the nutrients enter the soil and can be absorbed by the roots of garden plantings. At the same time, heat is released, which warms the soil, and this is also important for growing plants. Thus, the fertility of the land is greatly increased. Hence the harvest.
Potatoes as a fertilizer are also useful because they contain a large number of nutrients. Namely:
- vitamins (primarily C);
- glucose;
- fats;
- starch;
- micro and macro elements;
- mineral salts;
- a wide range of organic acids.
It is hard to disagree that such a list of nutrients will have a positive effect on plant development. In addition, potato fertilizer has a number of other advantages over feeding crops with chemicals:
- Purifications are available raw materials, which does not require special spending. They are in every home, and you can accumulate a huge amount of them, thereby securing a supply of organic fertilizer for the warm season.
- This type of fertilizer is increases the content of fertile humus in soils.
- Regular application of cleanings has a positive effect on other characteristics of the soil: it becomes looser, thereby facilitating the process of nutrition for the root systems and providing oxygen to them.
- Organic fertilizers (in their saturation with micro and macro elements important for planting) are far superior to various mineral complexes. Potato peels are organic.
- When using chemical mineral fertilizers in plants and crops, the content of chemicals increases. This is unlikely to threaten human health, but products with a high content of such compounds are unlikely to bring benefits either. Potatoes are a natural fertilizer.
- Often, the introduction of organic matter into the soil is accompanied by an increase in the growth of not only horticultural crops, but also weeds.. When using potatoes, this effect is less pronounced.
- Cleaning can help control planting pests.
The use of potato peels is completely safe for both humans and the environment, because chemicals do not enter the groundwater.
The plants themselves will not suffer: with such care for them, it is impossible to “burn” or “overfeed”, which is quite acceptable when using fertilizers from the store.
But not everything is perfect! The use of potato peelings as a fertilizer still has its drawbacks, which must be mentioned:
- large volumes of application are needed (this must be done regularly to achieve the desired result, one-time top dressing will only have a temporary effect);
- it is impossible to control the concentration of the introduced useful elements;
- it is not suitable for all plants, as will be discussed later.
Thus, peeling potatoes is a very effective and affordable fertilizer for the garden. It has more advantages than disadvantages.
Before we talk about the options for making fertilizer from potato peels, we need to talk about how they can be stored through the winter for later use.
The benefits of future feeding depend on whether this is done correctly, so you need to take this stage with responsibility. There are two ways to harvest cleanings - drying them and freezing them.
Drying
Drying the peels left after cooking potatoes at home is not difficult, but you still have to work hard and devote some of your time to this.
Step by step guide on how to dry potato peels:
- The first step is to collect the cleanings and rinse them thoroughly in cool water. You need to do this until traces of pollution disappear.
- Then you need to thoroughly squeeze the raw material and wait until most of the moisture has evaporated from it.
- Then you can already proceed directly to the drying process itself, which can be done both at home and on the street, and using an oven or microwave.
When drying potato peelings in the open air, they should be spread out in a thin layer on paper or cloth.. At home, this should be done in a ventilated area. For example, a balcony is ideal. You can also put cleaning paper on the battery in a warm room, be sure to periodically open the window. An influx of fresh air can keep them from rotting.
If the potato waste is dried on the street, then you need to make sure that they do not fall under the direct rays of the sun and that they are not soaked by rain.
On average, it takes up to 10 days until complete drying. The exact period cannot be called, because this time depends on the thickness of the cleanings and the layer, environmental conditions, temperature conditions. Those who do not want to wait a long time can do it much faster thanks to the use of household appliances.
To dry the future fertilizer in the oven, it must be heated to a temperature not higher than 100ºС. At this time, you should put a clean sheet of paper on a baking sheet, and already pour it on it and evenly distribute it with a thin layer of peeling potatoes. The door should not be tightly closed so as not to block the access of oxygen. After 3-4 hours, you can turn off the oven.
The process will go even faster using a microwave. The drying time of cleanings in it depends on the power of the device, the selected mode and the condition of the raw materials. If you experiment, you can find a suitable technology for quick drying.
The readiness of the fertilizer can be easily determined “by eye”: completely dry potato peels become brittle and translucent.
In this form, they need to be laid out in pre-prepared fabric bags (so that they are ventilated). If drying took place naturally in the house or in the open air, then it is recommended to store the workpiece in a cold place: on a balcony, unheated shed or garage, so that the low temperature destroys possible pathogenic microorganisms. If an oven or microwave was used, a pantry is suitable.
Freeze
Potato peelings for the garden can be preserved in another way - freezing. Truth, This method has one major drawback.: the volume of freezers is limited, and most often it is occupied by food. Before freezing cleanings, they must be thoroughly washed and dried.
The way out is the storage of cleanings on the balcony after the onset of sub-zero temperatures. True, after the thermometer rises above zero, they should be used immediately. Re-freezing cleaning is strictly prohibited.. As well as using the peel of boiled potatoes for fertilizer - after heat treatment, useful substances are unlikely to remain in it.
How do you use potato peels? There are three main ways:
- flour;
- gruel;
- infusion.
Let's consider each of them in more detail:
Flour from potato skins
To prepare flour, you will need a peel dried in advance (the technology was described above). Then it is ground in a meat grinder, blender and coffee grinder. Such fertilizer can be stored in bags, but it should not be left for a long time, because the flour can rot or pests and pathogenic microorganisms will start in it.
With the onset of spring, it's time to use this valuable product for plant growth. Grinded potato peel is good as an all-purpose fertilizer.
To make gruel, you will also need dried peel, as well as a barrel and boiling water. Dry potato waste is placed in the kidney and completely filled with hot water. This is necessary in order to kill possible fungi, microbes and pests. After a week, dry cleaning will absorb moisture and get wet. It remains only to mix them well. The resulting porridge is ready for use in the garden.
Infusion
Pretty easy to make an infusion. To do this, you will need either raw or frozen potato peels. They are poured with boiling water for 24, and then the resulting liquid is used for irrigation. By the way, such a tool will surely appeal not only to gardeners, but also to lovers of indoor plants - they also respond positively to such an organic "treat".
Simply laying waste from potatoes on the surface of the soil is prohibited: this can attract rodents and other pests that will harm the crop.
How to apply potato peels as fertilizer
How and why to apply fertilizer with potato peel
For which plants are potato peelings suitable as a fertilizer? Almost for everyone, because such top dressing is both universal and effective at the same time. There are only a few exceptions: representatives of the nightshade. We are talking about tomatoes, bell peppers and eggplants. The fact is that these plants, along with potatoes, have the same diseases that can be transmitted along with organic feeding from potato peelings. Better not risk it!
Plant seedlings especially need to be provided with useful substances, so potato fertilizer when planted in the ground will be most welcome. You can use potato flour or gruel for this purpose. They are placed at the bottom of the hole when it is created (about 1 handful), then a small layer of earth is poured, and another portion of fertilizer is added on top of it.
Sprinkle again with soil and plant seedlings. This will provide the young plant with the necessary nutrients for a long time.
For gourds (cucumbers, zucchini, watermelons, melons, pumpkins)
Potato peels as a fertilizer are excellent as a fertilizer for cucumbers and other melons. It is necessary to take care of their feeding even when planting seedlings in the ground, as described above.
For onions, garlic and root crops (radish, radish, etc.)
For these crops, an infusion will be effective. It must be applied starting from the last decade of May. The interval between "potato dressings" is recommended to be observed at two weeks. No need to try to water each of the plants under the root - just spill a bed from a watering can without a nozzle (the infusion can clog it).
It is important to ensure that particles of potato peel do not accidentally fall on the surface of the soil, because this can attract unwanted guests in the form of rodents.
Potato peelings as a fertilizer for raspberries are applied in the form of flour or infusion. After watering, the soil must be loosened. It is recommended to sprinkle strawberries periodically (1-2 times a month) with flour.
Fertilizer with potato peels is very useful for currants, especially for black currants. With regular feeding, its berries grow noticeably larger, sometimes reaching the size of a cherry. To do this, every spring, gruel or soaked peel should be buried under a bush to a depth of 20 cm. This procedure can be carried out every year. Also in spring and summer, you can use potato peelings for currants in the form of an infusion, watering the bushes once every two weeks. The effect will not be long in coming!
How to use potato skins as fertilizer
Potato peelings as a fertilizer can be used for different crops. This is a natural organic product that can transfer a lot of useful substances to plantings.
Potato tubers are covered with skin. In cooking, it is of no value, but is actively used in agriculture. The main thing is to properly prepare raw potato peelings as a fertilizer, to know for which plants they are used. If everything is done correctly, the agrarian will receive almost free top dressing to increase productivity.
The benefits of feeding from cleanings
The use of inexpensive organic fertilizers for the soil minimizes the cost and application of chemicals. There are not very many effective natural top dressings, which makes farmers look for new ways to increase yields. And if not every household has manure or litter, potatoes are present on the table of any family throughout the year, and waste from one root crop, even with fine cleaning, is at least 15-20% of the total.
The advantages of such organic feeding are many:
The versatility of fertilizer concerns not only a wide range of crops, but also seasonality. Seedlings are fed with gruel, watering is carried out with an infusion of potato "waste". In some cases, ground cleanings are used, obtaining a product that can be stored throughout the summer season, and not used immediately. Apply such organic matter in spring, summer, autumn. It is rich in potassium, magnesium, nitrogen, phosphorus and other valuable elements necessary for the plant at every stage of development.
How to prepare?
Organic top dressing will benefit only with proper harvesting. Do not use fresh potato waste. Spread out on the beds, they will begin to rot, attract the attention of rodents. It is not recommended to bury the raw peel in the ground. Decomposition will take a long time, the risk of planting late blight infection will increase.
The procedure for "turning" tuber waste into nutrient fertilizer is quite simple. The peel is thoroughly washed, squeezed, dried, and then resorted to one of the following harvesting methods:
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Dried potato peels are more practical as a fertilizer because they have a longer shelf life. Frozen peel must be used in full immediately. If it is defrosted, it is impossible to re-place organic matter in the freezer.
How to store cleanings?
Collect the peel begin in the fall or winter. If it was not laid in a compost pit, but dried or frozen, the organic matter must be properly preserved. Otherwise, it will not be usable. This is true for organics prepared in any of two ways.
Dried cleanings are transferred to cloth bags. Polyethylene cannot be used. They don't let air through. Naturally dried potato peelings, so as not to worry about the presence of pathogens when we fertilize the beds, it is better to store in a cool place, and then in the spring you can feed the plants without fear of scab and late blight.
Heat-treated skins are stored in a cool and well-ventilated area. They are completely devoid of pathogenic organisms. Frozen cleanings are left in the freezer or transferred to the balcony when frost hits outside. You have to be careful not to let them thaw.
Preparing potato peels
There are three options for preparing nutrient top dressings with potato peels that can be used to fertilize various plant crops:
The gruel is laid in the hole or added dropwise next to the plant. Infusion spend watering. Flour is used as a universal fertilizer. Its main advantage is a long shelf life, but it is not recommended to immediately grind cleanings from autumn. Pests can start in the flour.
For which crops is the fertilizer suitable?
Potato peelings are suitable as a fertilizer for almost all garden, fruit, and vegetable crops. They are versatile and effective, they are an excellent alternative to mineral supplements. Under perennial crops, such organic matter is introduced into the soil in the fall, and under annual crops - in the spring.
Additional feeding is carried out in the summer
Organic useful fertilizer, unlike mineral compounds, not only gives nutrients to plants, but improves soil composition. It contributes to the formation of humus - a fertile top layer. Speaking about the benefits of potato peelings, one cannot ignore the composition of this top dressing.
It is rich in glucose, vitamin C, starch, fats, potassium, salt. Getting into the soil, this set of nutrients enriches the soil, releases heat, which is especially important for the full development of vegetable and horticultural crops.
What plants need to be fed?
Potato fertilizer is of great value for crops that are in need of starch and glucose. Top dressing is necessary for raspberries, strawberries, currants, gourds. It is also useful for other plants, including even indoor and garden flowers.
Especially high is the need for nutrients, which are rich in cleaning, for seedlings. Top dressing is best done nesting. Porridge or flour is laid in the hole, covered with a small layer of earth. A second portion of fertilizer is added from above, and sprinkled again.
Fertilizer for indoor flowers
Potato peelers are great not only for use in vegetable gardens, but also for home gardening. Indoor ornamental crops respond well to organic top dressing. Greenery becomes more magnificent, and the plant itself is more resistant to pests and diseases.
For indoor flowers, watering is used. The infusion is applied at intervals of once a month. When fresh, cleanings buried in the ground are useful for saprophytic and epiphytic plants. Dracaena, orchids, and other aerial-rooted flowers need decaying organic matter.
Fertilizer for vegetable crops
Melons are fed by laying slurry in the hole. Cabbage, melons, pumpkins, cucumbers, watermelons, squash are recommended to be watered with potato infusion throughout the season. This will stimulate the set of green mass, increase productivity.
Radishes, garlic, onions and turnips begin to fertilize through watering from the last days of May. Top dressing is applied every 2 weeks. It is better to pour the infusion into the furrows dug between plantings. This will enrich the soil so that the plants receive all the necessary elements.
flower fertilizer
Great for keeping flower beds in great condition. When transplanting perennials or planting annual flowers, you need to make a small amount of slurry in each hole. As practice shows, 1 scoop is enough. Further care involves watering with infusion in the phase of active growth and flowering once a month.
Berries
Fertilizer is most useful for raspberries and strawberries. The first is fertilized in a basal way. Flour is brought in, the earth is loosened. Water the bushes with infusion. Approximately 5 liters are needed per linear meter of landings. Ground peelings are also poured under the strawberries in the spring. Top dressing is used for mulch.
shrubs
Annuals and perennials respond well to watering and root bait. But, if we talk about the shrub, which is most useful for potato peelings, they are considered the best fertilizer for currants, especially black currants. Berries grow the size of cherries or sultanas, acquire a wonderful sweet taste.
Currant bushes are fertilized with dried potato peels moistened with water, digging the peel at the roots 15-20 cm deep. Such top dressing is carried out when the soil has warmed up sufficiently. The event is held every two years. If the quality of the crop does not meet expectations, it is carried out annually.
Helps to increase the yield by watering every 2 weeks. In winter, bushes, if the soil is covered with polyethylene, are also fertilized. They rake the snow, scatter cleanings, which are then buried.
Fruit Tree Fertilizer
The trunks are dug around, receding about 50-100 cm, and the resulting furrow is sprinkled with flour. The soil must be well loosened. For each adult tree, about 1 kg of top dressing is spent, and for young trees - 0.5-0.7 kg.
It's interesting to know! Peeling potatoes will help get rid of slugs, wireworms, and the Colorado potato beetle. It is enough to spread the peel on the ground, leaving it overnight, and the next morning, burn the waste along with the pests that have accumulated on it.
Restrictions
Organic fertilizer is not used for related nightshades. It is contraindicated for the following crops:
- nightshade;
- tobacco;
- physalis;
- tomatoes;
- capsicum;
- eggplant;
- potatoes.
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Many of you have probably heard that potato skins can be used as organic fertilizer for country plantations. This is true, because they contain starch, potassium, and other valuable mineral components. This method of fertilization is absolutely harmless, economical, helps protect the garden from Colorado potato beetles (as well as their larvae), slugs, and wireworms. How to use potato peelings as a fertilizer, for which plants they are suitable as a top dressing - we will consider below.
What are the benefits of potato peeling for the garden and the garden
During the summer season, potato peelings are used as fertilizer and as protection against certain pests. Yes, and as a bait for the Colorado potato beetle or slugs, potato skins proved to be excellent. One has only to spread them on the surface of the earth before the appearance of sprouts, and when pests stick around them (usually this happens at night) - destroy them. This will protect your crop from such a scourge.
It is good to dig them into the ground near those plants that love the starch contained in potatoes in large quantities. Rotting, they will give it to the soil, thereby making up for the lack of this product in it. And soaked cleanings are an excellent means for the seedlings of some plants to take root well and quickly grow stronger.
What crops are potato peel fertilizers suitable for?
Potato peelings can be used as fertilizer for a vegetable garden or orchard, because their use improves the soil and has a positive effect on crops anywhere in your area. Consider how to apply this tool for different types of crops.
This natural fertilizer will not affect nightshade crops, in particular: potatoes, eggplants, tomatoes, bell peppers. And given the common infections, the pathogens of which can be preserved in top dressing, the listed plants can still be damaged.
- all kinds of currants, raspberries, gooseberries, other berry and ornamental shrubs;
- fruit trees;
- strawberries and strawberries;
- vegetable crops, especially pumpkin;
- flowers, including indoor ones.
How to prepare fertilizer from potato peels
Potato peelings as a fertilizer for the garden have long proven themselves in the best way. No wonder summer residents are trying to find out the best recipe for its preparation. Of course, you can just bury it in the ground. But in this case, along with the cleaning, the phytophthora preserved on them will also get into the soil. And besides, it will take longer for them to completely decompose than when they get into the soil in the form of a properly prepared fertilizer.
Therefore, it is worth remembering a few rules for its preparation:
- Dried cleanings should be crushed to make transportation to the country house and further work with them easier.
- Shredded dry potato peel is placed in a barrel and poured with boiling water. This will help to cope with both late blight and other pests that have survived since autumn.
- The thickening formed after soaking is placed in the holes when planting seedlings, and the plants are watered with liquid from above, which helps not only to fertilize the soil, but also to cope with some pests.
Pest control with potato peels
Another useful property of potatoes is a wonderful bait for pests. Slugs, the click beetle (its larvae are popularly known as the wireworm) and the Colorado potato beetle are especially fond of it.
You need to start setting traps as soon as the first shoots appear or seedlings are planted in the ground. So you are guaranteed to protect the future harvest.
A potato peel pest trap is very easy to make.
Making traps is easy. Dig into the ground glass jars, old unnecessary buckets and pots, cans or cut plastic bottles so that the edge of the container approximately coincides with the top edge of the hole. The container should be deep enough and without holes. Put potato peels on the bottom every evening. To enhance the effect, you can pour them with sweet water (a tablespoon of sugar per glass), syrup, or add a little old jam that no one will eat. In the morning, you just have to go around the containers, collect the pests caught in them during the night and destroy them. Just do not throw the collected over the fence. After a few hours, the slugs and insects will return to your yard.
Another option for a trap is to bury a long piece of wire with cleanings strung on it in the ground. Leave one end sticking out of the ground or mark the place where the trap is buried. Once every 2-3 days, dig it out, collect the pests that have come across and change the bait to a fresh one.
Feeding seedlings with potato peels
Fertilizer from cleanings is useful when planting cucumber and cabbage seedlings in the ground. Each prepared hole at the bottom is fertilized with potato gruel. One scoop is enough. Sprinkle with soil. Plant seedlings. This will contribute to the fertility of the soil, since the potatoes are to the taste of the soil bacteria responsible for the formation of the fertile layer.
Feeding fruit trees with potato peels
Dried peelings are buried within a radius of 0.5–1 m from the trunk, depending on the size of the tree. Or sprinkle the resulting circle with “flour”, immediately after that loosening the soil well. The norm per tree is 0.7–1 kg.
Feeding currants with potato peels
Currant is one of the most common plants in summer cottages. Housewives value her berries for their excellent taste and abundance of useful substances, and gardeners for their unpretentiousness in care. It is believed that the currant is a long-liver and can please with its fruits up to 15 years. Experienced gardeners know that without proper care, this shrub will not stop bearing fruit, but the quality and quantity of the crop will noticeably decrease, and in order to avoid the degeneration of the plant, the currant must not only be watered and cut, but also given additional nutrition.
Potato peelings are the currant's favorite organic fertilizer, because they contain a large amount of substances and trace elements useful for the bush: starch, glucose, phosphorus, iron, potassium, magnesium, fluorine, etc. Phosphorus promotes the active development of the root system and stimulates flowering. Starch, glucose and potassium make the berries more juicy and sweet.
Gardeners choose this type of fertilizer for several reasons:
- no costs;
- ease of preparation and preparation of a solution for top dressing;
- environmental friendliness and safety for health;
- this fertilizer does not stimulate the growth of weeds.
You can collect potato waste throughout the year, but it is recommended to feed currants in early spring, before the flowering phase. You can do this in the summer, but in this case there is a risk of overheating of the soil, because as a result of the decomposition of the cleanings, a large amount of heat is released.
Potato peels are an excellent source of potassium and starch, which currants love so much. It is thanks to them that currant berries become the size of cherries. Do you want to get excellent yields from your currant bushes? Then do not be lazy to collect and dry potato peels during the winter.
Do you want to save as much as possible and not harm the plants in your summer cottage? Then collect potato peels and prepare organic fertilizer with your own hands.
Conclusion: in autumn and winter, do not throw away potato peelings, but rather freeze them or dry them, and take them to the country in spring. There they will be useful to you in horticultural affairs. After all, gardeners prefer natural fertilizers most of all, and most importantly, what benefits they bring to your garden.
