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Choosing Homemade Gardening Tonics for the Growth of your Garden

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Finding the best homemade garden tonics that you can use for your garden is beneficial. This is because you want to ensure the best life for your plants.

You can be sure they will grow larger, fuller, and greener than before using a tonic that you made right from your home. This also helps when you need to save money in the process of gardening as well.

Choosing Homemade Garden Tonics for the Growth of your Garden
Choosing Homemade Garden Tonics for the Growth of your Garden

If you do not have much money to put into tonics for your garden, do not worry since there are homemade garden tonics out there. You will need a few supplies, and you can be on your way to gardening on a whole new level using the tonic that you made from home.

Choosing Homemade Garden Tonics for the Growth of your Garden

Choosing the perfect homemade garden tonic to go with might be the difficult task, but there are many to choose from. Depending on what you have lying around the house, there might be an easy solution to use for a tonic in your garden.

Do not become discouraged if you find one of the homemade tonics did not work for you. Try another one out; it might take a trial and error basis to find the right concoction for your garden growth.

  1. Compost Tea Tonic

Making this tonic is much like making a normal cup of tea, only it is a much larger cup of tea. Shovel old compost into a pillowcase that is no longer in use, or a burlap bag. Fill up a large bucket or barrel of water, and sink the bag into it.

Cover the bucket or barrel, and let the bag steep for a few days. Just like tea, the longer it steeps, the stronger the tonic. Once the tonic is done, it can be used both for fertilizer and foliar feeding medium.

  1. Compost Feeder Homemade Tonic

This is one of the easiest and best homemade garden tonics that can be made for virtually no money. Just mix ½ a can of beer, ½ a can of regular cola, and ½ a cup of liquid dish soap.

If you have a 20-gallon hose sprayer on the end of the hose, then mix all of this within that bottle, and then spray the crops with the tonic after it is prepared. Having it in the bottle at the end of a hose allows you to mix the tonic with water while spraying.

  1. Alfalfa Tea Tonic

Use a 32-gallon trash can, and fill it with alfalfa pellets. Only one or two bags of the pellets will be enough; it doesn’t need to be completely filled – just about half way full. Fill the rest of the trash can with water. Stir the pellets and water together, and cover the trash can with a lid. Over the next three days, make sure to stir the tea several times a day.

Make sure the pellets dissolve and replace the lid each time. On the third day, add a box of Epsom salt and a box of fish emulsion to the mixture and stir in. Once this is done, you are ready to add the tonic to the garden. There will be a residue left on the bottom of the bin which can be saved to make more tea for the next use.


Read Also:

  • How to Conserve and Use Rainwater: Rainwater Harvesting
  • Sustainable Gardening: What to Plant, and Where to Plant It
  • Instructions to Build a PVC Hoop House for Your Garden
  • Ways to Save Money on Garden Fertilizer
  • How to Take Care of Fiddle Leaf Fig

These are all great ideas for homemade fertilizer. Depending on what exactly you are looking for regarding the ingredients to put in the tonic, you can be sure to have fuller, healthier crops and plants by the time you need them using one of these tonics. On the other hand, why not try them all? Everyone wants larger fuller crops when harvest time comes around each year.

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For more information on green living and natural pesticides that are safe to use on crops, just visit these wonderful resources.

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Perla Irish, who is more familiarly called Irish, is the Content Manager at Housesumo.com. She loves following trends around home and garden, interior design and digital marketing. Through this blog, Irish wants to share information and help readers solve the problems they are experiencing.

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