FERTILIZING FROM POTATO CLEANINGS BY OUR HANDS - DO NOT HARM!

Many gardeners consider this organic matter to be almost an ideal fertilizer. But is it all so simple? In any case, the information contained in this letter will not be superfluous.

Hurry - you make the bushes laugh

Increasingly in their letters gardeners began to talk about the positive effect on plant growth of potato peelings, which they use as fertilizer or mulch Supporters of this agricultural acceptance is becoming more and more. Therefore, I only hear from familiar and unfamiliar gardeners how they collect and dry this good all winter (and at the same time banana skins, orange peels and egg shells) in the spring to transport bags of it to the dacha and empty it for planting as soon as it thaws topsoil.

At the same time, it is believed that blackcurrant responds especially to such top dressing - it yields after that are simply amazing: because of the placers of large, sweet and juicy berries, foliage is not visible. And even those bushes that scantily fructified before such top dressing are capable of this. Personally, I have no desire to doubt all this, because potato cleansing really activates the soil microflora, which contributes to the active growth and fruiting plantings.

But I am more interested in another question: when is it better to bring such organic matter under the bushes?

In my opinion, dried cleanings do not decompose too quickly in the still frozen ground and therefore slowly give it nutrients. Consequently, subterranean microorganisms and worms are not very actively attracted to the "cooperation". Therefore, the full effect of the introduction of such feeding will manifest itself only next year. Someone, perhaps, it is quite satisfied.

But I believe that a greater result can be achieved by composting the cleaning in the spring, and bring this immature compost under the bushes immediately after the harvest. The calculation here is simple: during this period, the currant begins to lay the fruit buds of the future crop, the earth is warm and saturated with moisture, and therefore the most favorable conditions are created for the active processing of vegetable organics.

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Fertilizer from potato peels do-it-yourself

And why, by the way, potato peelings have such useful properties?

I will take the liberty of telling you a little about this (proceeding at the same time from my own experience). After all, when working in the garden, we should always have complete information about what we are dealing with, otherwise growing plants will resemble a game with good luck in blind manners: caught - not caught.

The fact is that potatoes have a full “gentlemanly set” of bioactive substances that promote plant growth. It contains protein, carbohydrates (mainly starch), vitamins B₁, AT₂, AT₆ В₉ E, D, K, PP, U and, of course, C, carotene, pectins, organic acids (oxalic, malic, citric), potassium, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, iron, manganese, nickel, cobalt, iodine.

Speaking of protein. It consists of albumin, globulin and protein and is very close to human in nature, as a result of which it is easily and almost completely absorbed by us. Moreover, in tubers it is concentrated mainly in the outer part, under the skin. That is why it is so useful to eat jacket potatoes. And now the most important thing: almost all of the above substances are water soluble. Therefore, if you have already applied potato peelings to the soil, then do not let it dry out - do not save on watering.

Despite the universality of this organics, you need to know that there are cultures to which such refreshments are contraindicated - they are nightshade. But I can say that for them you can cook no less nutritious potato menu.

I do this: cleaning (and even small or severely flawed potatoes), mash, add breadcrumbs to them, pour it all with warm water, wait for the brew to ferment, and dilute it with water in the 1: 5 ratio. I water half a liter under each root, followed by mulching the ground with mowed grass or weeded weeds. And tomatoes grow with me after such feeding just fine.

Do you always need to close up such organics?

I think so. In one of the articles, the author said that he simply dumps peeling and potato fines directly into the bushes. But which of us does not remember the fetid smell of rotting potatoes? And who does not know what diseases such a “storage" can provoke? After all, this rotting mass is the home of dung flies and other harmful insects that lay their larvae in it (nutcracker beetles are especially dangerous, which contribute to the transfer of wireworm larvae). As they say, do you need it?

But some summer residents also boast that they throw broken potato sprouts under the bushes. But they contain a poisonous substance - glycoalkaloid solanine, which plants will absorb along with nutrients. Yes, the same, for example, currants! Of course, it will be impossible to poison it with berries (the presence of concentrated poison in them will be scanty), but then they will grow small and tasteless. And the whole bush as a whole will not differ in healthy appearance. In other words, the assurance that since the glycoalkaloid solanine is used in the pharmaceutical industry for the preparation of some valuable drugs, it will turn out to be quite appropriate in our gardens, in fact, is a fiction (if not worse).

And so something about the potato peelings can not be anything bad to mention. And our experimental gardeners did find another natural growth stimulator for their plantings. That's all you need to personally examine in your garden and practice to prove the usefulness of this event.

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