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Best DIY Homemade Fertilizers

Best DIY Homemade Fertilizers to Make Your Plants Healthy and Blooming

Best DIY Homemade Fertilizers to Make Your Plants Healthy and Blooming

Keeping your plants healthy and vibrant requires regular fertilization. Homemade organic fertilizers are an excellent way to nourish your plants naturally without any harmful chemicals.

Here’s why I prefer homemade fertilizers:

🌱 Kitchen waste turns into highly effective fertilizer
🌱 No side effects, even if used in excess or less
🌱 Budget-friendly and easy to make

If you are looking for simple, organic, and affordable ways to feed your plants, here are some easy homemade fertilizers you can try.

Best DIY Homemade Fertilizers

Best DIY Homemade Fertilizers


1. Kitchen Waste Fertilizer

Kitchen compost

Instead of throwing away fruit and vegetable peels, turn them into a powerful liquid fertilizer for your plants.

How to Make It:

  1. Take fruit and vegetable peels (banana, orange, potato, etc.) and put them in a bucket.

  2. Add water and let them soak for 4-5 days to decompose slightly.

  3. After five days, add half a spoon of baking soda to enhance the effectiveness.

  4. Strain the liquid and dilute it with an equal amount of water before using it on your plants.

Benefits:
✅ Provides essential nutrients like potassium and phosphorus
✅ Helps plants grow strong roots and healthy leaves
✅ Completely organic and chemical-free

READ HERE – How to Make Kitchen Waste Compost


2. Green Leaf Fertilizer

 

Do you have fallen green leaves in your garden? Instead of discarding them, you can use them to create a natural fertilizer rich in nitrogen.

How to Make It:

  1. Collect fresh green leaves and soak them in water for 3 days.

  2. After three days, strain the liquid and use it directly for watering your plants.

Benefits:
✅ Enhances soil fertility
✅ Increases nitrogen levels for better leaf growth
✅ Helps improve plant immunity


3. Coffee Grounds Liquid Fertilizer

 

Used coffee grounds contain nitrogen, which is essential for leafy plants and flowering plants like Hibiscus, Rose, Jasmine, Aparajita and chrysanthemum (guldawari).

How to Make It:

  1. After brewing your coffee, collect the leftover coffee grounds and store them in a bottle.

  2. Fill the bottle with water and let it sit for 5 days.

  3. Once fermented, dilute it by adding 5 times more water before using it on your plants.

Benefits:
✅ Encourages lush green growth
✅ Increases acidity in the soil (great for acid-loving plants)
✅ Acts as a slow-release fertilizer


4. Neem Leaves Pesticide & Fertilizer

boiled neem leaves
boiled neem leaves

Neem leaves are a natural pest repellent and also add nutrients to the soil. This homemade neem liquid works both as a fertilizer and pesticide.

How to Make It:

  1. Take fresh neem leaves and chop them into small pieces.

  2. Soak them in water for 2-3 days.

  3. Strain the liquid and dilute it before using it for watering or spraying on plant leaves.

Benefits:
✅ Protects plants from pests and fungal infections
✅ Provides essential nutrients
✅ Works as an organic alternative to chemical pesticides

READ HERE – How to Make & Use Neem Leaf Pesticide


5. Mustard Cake Fertilizer

mustard cake liquid fertilizer
mustard cake liquid fertilizer

Mustard cake (sarson ki khali) is an excellent organic fertilizer packed with nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. It promotes blooming and healthy plant growth.

How to Make It:

  1. Take 50 grams of mustard cake and soak it in 1 liter of water.

  2. Let it sit for 2 days to ferment.

  3. After two days, dilute it by adding 10 liters of water.

  4. Use this solution twice a month for best results.

Benefits:
✅ Encourages better flowering and fruiting
✅ Strengthens plant roots
✅ Improves soil health

READ HERE – How to Make Mustard Cake Liquid Fertilizers At Home


6. Onion Peel Fertilizer

Why Onion Peel Fertilizer is best Organic Fertilizer for Plants?
Why Onion Peel Fertilizer is best Organic Fertilizer for Plants?

Onion peels are rich in potassium, calcium, and iron, which help plants grow stronger.

How to Make It:

  1. Take a handful of onion peels and soak them in a liter of water for 24 hours.

  2. Strain the liquid and dilute it with another liter of water.

  3. Use this water to irrigate your plants.

Benefits:
✅ Boosts plant immunity
✅ Encourages better flowering
✅ Prevents fungal infections

READ HERE – How To Make Onion Peel Liquid Fertilizer


7. Used Tea Leaves Fertilizer

tea leaves in gardening

Used tea leaves contain nitrogen and tannic acid, which help enhance soil fertility.

How to Make It:

  1. After making tea, let the used tea leaves dry completely.

  2. Mix the dried leaves with garden soil before planting.

  3. Alternatively, you can brew used tea leaves in water and use the liquid to water plants.

Benefits:
✅ Improves soil texture and water retention
✅ Provides nitrogen for healthy leaf growth
✅ Works as a mild natural pesticide


8. Banana Peel Fertilizer

banana peel fertilizer

Banana peels are an excellent source of potassium and phosphorus, which help with flowering and fruiting in plants.

How to Make It:

  1. Chop banana peels into small pieces.

  2. Bury them directly in the soil near plant roots.

  3. Alternatively, soak banana peels in water for 2 days and use the liquid as fertilizer.

Benefits:
✅ Encourages flowering and fruit development
✅ Improves soil structure
✅ Provides essential minerals for plant health

READ HERE – How To Make Banana Peel Liquid Fertilizers


Final Thoughts

 

These are my budget-friendly, effective, and organic homemade fertilizers that keep my plants healthy and blooming. The best part? They’re completely safe for plants, eco-friendly, and made from household waste! 🌿

Try these DIY fertilizers and let me know your results! Happy gardening! 🌸✨


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organic neem pesticide

DIY Pest Control Solutions: How to make Neem Pesticide at home

How to make Neem Pesticide at home

 

When we do gardening and grow plants, we always need to take some precautions so that we get healthy plants. Sometimes even after taking all the safety measures, we find pests and diseases in our plants.

Pests and diseases have always been a major challenge for gardeners. Chemical pest control is still a major method of pest control today, although due to its long-term side effects, attention has been paid to conventional and biological pest control in the late 20th century.

How to make Neem Pesticide at home
How to make Neem Pesticide at home

Today it has been proved that the use of chemicals in gardening and farming is very harmful to the plants, soil, and environment. An organic pesticide method to control pests and diseases can be both safe and effective for our plants.

Key note:
“Neem liquid pesticide is one of the best organic solutions for both outdoor and indoor plants.”

So, let’s discuss how to make organic neem pesticides for plants at home.

What is neem pesticide?

 

AZADIRACHTIN INDICA is the scientific name of the neem plant. Neem has been used in Ayurvedic medicines for centuries. It is specifically used to make various insecticides and also to control pests and diseases on the plant.

neem leaves used for ayurveda medicine
neem leaves used for ayurveda medicine

According to the research, it has been found that when some Indian scientists sprayed the diluted neem pesticide on different plants, the plants did not get harmed by the locust pests which were present on the surface of the plants.

Therefore, we should spray neem pesticide on our plants in the gap of every 7 days which will reduce the pest’s attack on the plant.

Note:

Sometimes our indoor and outdoor plants get affected by pest attacks like

  1. Aphids
  2. Whiteflies
  3. Mealybugs
  4. Leafhoppers
  5. Spider mites

To remove and control such pest attacks we can use neem liquid pesticides.

  • This neem liquid pesticide is easily available in the market, also you can make it at home very easily, which is very effective and beneficial for our plants.

Click here to read: How to Use Neem Oil on Plants to control Pest Attack

How to make Neem Pesticide at home

 

neem pesticide
neem pesticide

To make neem oil, we need to extract it from neem seeds, a process that is not feasible at home. So, let’s start with the simplest method of preparing effective neem pesticide at home.

1. Pluck neem leaves: First of all, pluck the neem leaves and wash them properly to remove all dust and dirt.

wash neem leaves
wash neem leaves

2. Boil the leaves:  In the next step, boil the leaves in 1 liter of water for approximately 20 minutes.

boiled neem leaves
boiled neem leaves
  • After 20 minutes, about one-fourth of the water will remain, and the color of the water will have changed to dark green.
  • Allow it to cool to room temperature, and then strain the water.

3. Dilute the solution: This solution is quite potent, so it should not be directly sprayed on the plants.

neem solution
neem solution
  • First, dilute this solution with water.
  • Add 10 tablespoons of this neem liquid to 1 liter of regular water.

Now, you can apply this diluted neem water to your plants and leaves. It’s a 100% pure organic neem liquid pesticide.

neem pesticide spray in plant
neem pesticide spray in plant

One of the best qualities of neem liquid pesticide is that it is harmless to insects like bees and earthworms which are very helpful to our plants.

It was all about homemade neem pesticides.

 

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