Fertilizer stinks to death? Learn a few tricks from a 60-year-old farmer and it won’t taste good at

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add brown sugar

Add orange peel

Add EM bacteria

Add distiller's grains

Add oleander leaves

Add quicklime

A few days ago, Huahua posted an article about "retting". Many flower friends left messages below, saying that retting smells very stinky and they don't dare to retting on the balcony for fear of being beaten by neighbors. Hahaha~ Today Huahua will give you a message I have compiled a few tips for making fertilizers less smelly. Let’s quickly learn them and you can make fertilizers as you like~

Add brown sugar

1. First of all, the retting fertilizer will have a flavor if it is not completely cooked. Really fermented fertilizer has only a little sour taste and no smell. Brown sugar can speed up fermentation and shorten the stinky stage of the fermentation process.

2. Fermented fertilizer is acidic. If you are not sure about the pH, you can buy a pack of pH test strips and test it yourself. The one in the picture below is completely fermented, with a pH value of around 3.

Add orange peel

1. Chop orange peels, grapefruit peels, orange peels, etc. into small pieces and pour them into the retting container. The fertilizer retting in this way not only has little smell, but also has a light fragrance.

2. Unscrew the lid and let it sit for the first 4 or 5 days. Once the gas is released, release it once a week after half a month, then once a month, and then there is no need to release it again. There is more gas produced at first, and then less and less.

After retting for 2 months , unscrew the lid and smell it. If there is no more odor, it is ready for use.

Add EM bacteria

1. EM bacteria are fungi commonly used in agriculture. When retting, pour some EM bacteria in the bucket to speed up fermentation and eliminate odor.

2. The picture below shows the fermentation after using EM bacteria One week results. In the jar are various peels and pomace left over from juice extraction. You can see that they have basically begun to soften and rot.

Put a piece of glass on the mouth of the bottle to seal it, and it can be used for a month without smelling at all.

Add distiller's grains

1. Distillers' grains Contains a lot of lactic acid bacteria and yeast, which are natural starters. Pour a little distiller's grains when retting, which can greatly shorten the retting time.

2. Add distiller's grains and retting, so the taste will not stink. Instead, there will be a faint aroma of wine. The compost in the picture below adopts the sandwich composting method, that is, a layer of soil, a layer of food waste, and another layer of soil... After adding distiller's grains in the middle, colonies will grow within a week, and the food waste in the middle will also be retting quickly. Ripe.

Add oleander leaves

1. Oleander is poisonous, everyone must know it. Adding oleander leaves during the retting period can kill insect eggs and disperse small insects.

2. Mash the oleander leaves and put them directly Put it into the composting bucket and stir it.

Add quicklime

1. Often Some gardeners complained that the fertilizer they had worked hard to retting was infested with insects, and they had no choice but to throw it away. In fact, you can add some quicklime powder to the retting bucket.

2. Adding quicklime can not only sterilize and disinfect, but also It contains a lot of calcium fertilizer, which can supplement nutrients for plants later.

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