Home Made Lawn Fertilizer

Home-made lawn fertilizer, when made organically, is a potent, correctly-balanced mix that, when used in tandem with compost, will provide consistently excellent results in your garden.

Advantages of making your own home-made lawn fertilizer
-Making your own fertilizer is not only cheaper than buying it commercially, but you can also tailor the ingredients to suit the needs of your garden.

-An additional advantage is that homemade fertilizer, when made entirely from natural ingredients, is MUCH better for your garden than harsh chemicals.
-Organic fertilizer takes around 2 months to decompose in warm soil, slowly releasing nutrients as it breaks down. This is in stark contrast to most chemical fertilizers, that dissolve quickly in soil.
-Home-made organic fertilizer improves the resilience and health of plants and flowers, and maximizes the nutritional quality of fruit and vegetables grown with its aid.
-If you grow your own fruit or vegetables, using an organic product in infinitely preferable to tainting your produce with chemicals.

Ingredients
Recipes for home-made fertilizer can include any or all of the following: seed meal, lime, bone meal, phosphate, bird manure, kelp, beer, Epsom salts and fermented fish.  There are a plethora of recipes available online, because most people who make home-made fertilizer tend to have a favorite recipe. Here’s one example:

An all-natural organic fertilizer recipe:

1 part bone meal
½ part kelp meal
½ part dolomitic lime
4 parts soybean meal
½ part agricultural lime

How to apply home-made fertilizer
Once-yearly, spread this mix with compost over your growing area. For light-feeding plants, apply 4 quarts of fertilizer and a quarter inch of compost for every 100 square feet. For heavy-feeding plants, apply an extra 2 quarts of fertilizer and an extra quarter inch of compost. If you have heavy clay soil, you’ll need 50 per cent more fertilizer and around twice as much compost.