DIY fertilizer

@meiteoh (416)
Switzerland
May 22, 2008 4:21am CST
Do any of you avid gardeners here make your own fertilizer or do you just stick to commercially available ones? I've just started using coffee grounds as fertilizer for my green plants, but am wondering what else I can use from my home as fertilizer. (I know some people back in Malaysia who swear that pee is fab for veg...)
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@biggerb (2024)
• India
22 May 08
I use only organic fertilisers for my garden.Cowdung manure is sold by people who have cattle so I buy it from them and I swear by it.Most of my plants really thrive well.Another fertiliser I buy is the vermicompost.It is very good and pretty expensive too.So now i'm trying to make my own vermicompost.All the dry flower,leaves and vegetable peels are put in a pit and I have collected some earth worms and I have put it into the pit.For more information you get details from the internet.
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@cheongyc (5072)
• Malaysia
27 May 08
I am not a gardener. But I am an environmentalist. So, in order to cut down the garbage usage, I always collect all the organic waste after meal and bury them in the back yard. The organic waste was buried in different random sport, so they could decompose in time before the same spot is utilized for the same purpose again. Over time, the soil quality is improved and becoming fertile. The plants that my parents and my aunt planted is growing healthily. It's cost effective and environmental friendly in the same time. But my father sometimes dispose of the fruit skins, because he doubt that the pesticide and preservative on the fruit skin might contaminate the soil in our back yard.