Almost at any dacha next to fruit and berry crops flowers adjoin, because without them it is impossible to create a cozy and colorful area. The variety of flowering plants is amazing. Annuals and perennials, bulbous and ground cover, herbaceous and tree-like. You can always pick flowers for any corner of the garden. However, the duration and splendor of flowering depend not only on the species, but also on the timely and correct application of top dressing.

How many times to feed flowers

Certain nutrients are required at different stages of growth. The plant has 2 main tasks. First, to form the vegetative organs (stems and leaves) that the flowers can bear. Secondly, to form buds and bloom. This is a "minimum program" for plants, which determines required amount dressing.

However, the frequency of fertilization also depends on the life span of the plant (annual, biennial or perennial). "Minimum program", that is, applying fertilizers 2 times during the growing season is relevant only for annual flowers, life cycle which fit into one season. They are fertilized 2 to 3 weeks after planting in the ground to stimulate vigorous shoot growth, and during bud formation to maximize flowering.

The life cycle of biennial and perennial plants includes wintering, so there is a need for a third feeding, which will help the plant prepare for an unfavorable period. But the "minimum program" for perennials also requires adjustments, because some flowers need more nutrients and require 4 5 dressings per season.

Organic fertilizers and their use for flowers

Organic fertilizers can be called the most natural feeding, because they are products of decay or vital activity of living organisms:

• Manure;
• Bird droppings;
• Compost;
• Humus;
• Peat;
• Sawdust;
• Siderata.

Organics are well absorbed, but when choosing the best option, it is necessary to take into account the specific features of plants, because not all flowers react normally to bird droppings or compost, and peat and sawdust acidify the soil, which is unacceptable when growing calciphiles.

Compost, humus and green manure cuttings can be used for all flower crops. It is best to mulch the soil of flower beds and flower beds with them, adding a little natural humus. Regular renewal of the mulch layer in some cases completely replaces other organic fertilizers, and infusions of weeds are also an excellent source of trace elements.

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In addition to replenishing the supply of nutrients, such organic matter like humus, compost, peat and sawdust improve the structure of the soil, making it looser and more breathable.

Mineral fertilizers

This group includes fertilizers that can contain only this substance or a whole complex of macro- and microelements. They dissolve easily and quickly supply plants with nitrogen, phosphorus, calcium, potassium and trace elements (iron, boron and others). In some flowers that react negatively to organic fertilizers, this is the only way to replenish the need for nutrients.

One of the most popular single-component mineral fertilizers that can be found in any country house is urea. It is an excellent nitrogen source for garden flowers and is recommended for spring feeding. Urea granules are embedded in the soil, where, in the presence of moisture, they quickly dissolve and immediately go to the roots.

Plants need large amounts of phosphorus-potassium fertilizers to form buds, bloom and prepare for winter. Superphosphate and potassium nitrate are well suited for this purpose. However, these monofertilizers, in contrast to urea, are less and less used in floriculture, giving way to complex mineral or organomineral fertilizers.
Complex mineral fertilizers contain, as a rule, the main elements N: P: K in certain ratios, as well as a large number of microelements that are no less important for the life of a plant organism (iron, manganese, boron, molybdenum, etc.). The most popular fertilizers are Kemira, Agricola, Pocon, Master, and for different periods of growth there are preparations with the required ratio of the main elements. For flowering plants the best option is the predominance of phosphorus and potassium over nitrogen.

Choosing a mineral fertilizer industrial production, do not forget about natural substances. An excellent source of various trace elements is ordinary wood ash, which is always found in the country. This substance is well absorbed by plants, while it is impossible to overfeed with ash, unlike chemical fertilizers. In addition, it mildly deoxidizes the soil and is necessary when mulching with sawdust and peat, which shifts the pH to the acidic side.

Nutrient requirements of flower crops

The nutrients that a plant needs depend on the growing season and the characteristics of the plants. Flowers with a short growing season, such as spring bulbs or primroses, need less nutrients, because their aboveground part quickly dies off. But the amount of nutrients that they consume in a short period of time is very large and even the land well-fertilized before planting often cannot meet this need, therefore additional nutrition is necessary for the normal formation of bulbs or the preparation of plants for a dormant period.
Flowers with a long growing season need more nutrients, but their consumption is stretched.

In spring, flower crops, like most other plants, need nitrogen, which can be applied in the form of organic or mineral fertilizing. However, an excess of this element can lead to a delay in flowering and the formation of a small number of buds.

The most important element, which is actively used flowering plants, is potassium. It is actively removed from the soil during all periods, and the demand for it increases sharply in cloudy weather and with a decrease in the length of daylight hours.

Flower feeding methods

A large number of types of flower crops makes it necessary to resort to various types of fertilization.

According to the method of introducing nutrients, the following are distinguished:

• Root;
• Foliar.

Most often, gardeners apply fertilizer at the root in liquid or dry form. Mineral dressing can be used dry (in a planting hole or can be embedded in upper layer soil) or dissolved with irrigation water. Organic fertilizers such as manure and poultry manure are often applied in infusions, while compost, peat and humus are used to mulch and fill the planting pit.

Foliar top dressing is often underestimated, although this method of fertilization helps to quickly provide the plant with the necessary micro and macro elements. For weakened, diseased, damaged and young plants, this method is optimal. For foliar top dressing, special fertilizers or conventional complex preparations are used, but in a lower concentration than when applied with irrigation water.

Special attention should be paid to prolonged-release fertilizers, which are produced in the form of sticks, pyramids or granules. They gradually release nutrients, maintaining the required concentration of micro and macro elements.

Some drugs last more than a month, which saves the grower from the need to often feed plants that require increased doses of nutrients.

Features of popular types of garden flowers

When choosing a fertilizer and the method of its application, it is necessary to take into account the specific features of flower crops. For example, when growing roses, you cannot do without organic matter, and for lush flowering you will have to feed the bushes at least 4 times per season.

Annual plants also respond very well to feeding and develop actively, however, organic matter can not be used for all crops. For example, asters do not react well to manure and get sick, and such anniversaries as marigolds, nasturtium and levkoi form lush tops to the detriment of flowering. These yearlings need nutrients, but for top dressing it is recommended to use a complete complex mineral fertilizer.

Corms and rhizome perennials such as gladioli, peonies, delphiniums also need high doses of fertilizers. It is recommended to feed them 4 times per season: at the beginning of the growing season with preparations with a high nitrogen content, during development and flowering with complex mineral fertilizer, and at the end of the growing season with phosphorus-potassium.

For successful cultivation modern dahlia hybrids require regular leaf feeding, due to insufficient development of the root system, which is not able to provide the plant with a full set of substances for full flowering.

Plants that prefer acidic and slightly acidic soils (hydrangea, rhododendrons, heather) will be helped by mulching with high peat or pine sawdust, which will naturally acidify the soil.

When planting flowering plants on the site, it is always necessary to remember that the formation of buds and flowering requires a huge expenditure of nutrients, which are often lacking in the soil. Timely and efficient fertilization will improve the appearance of plants and help prolong flowering.

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What could be more beautiful than enjoying the lush bloom of our “green favorites”. Passionate florists grow flowers as in open ground, and on the windowsill. It is especially joyful when a blizzard is raging outside the window, and flowers are blooming in the house.

Today's article is devoted to natural dressing for indoor flowers, thanks to which they grow healthy, beautiful and bloom regularly. It's strange that landing on summer cottage be sure to fertilize, and when it comes to indoor flowers, many neglect their feeding, which is very in vain.

How to feed home flowers

First of all, you need to familiarize yourself with the intricacies of fertilization. Follow a few simple rules:

• After transplanting the plant into a fresh substrate, fertilizing should not be applied earlier than after two months. Indeed, during this time, the flower is content with the nutrients contained in the soil, an excess of fertilizers can destroy the plant;
• Soil must be shed before applying any fertilizer plain water... It will save root system from damage if the solution turns out to be highly concentrated;
• Sick and weakened plants need feeding, but they absorb nutrients more slowly. To help the flowers get in order, feed them with a less concentrated fertilizer solution;
• No fertilization all year round... For most home flowers, fertilizing is required in spring and summer;
• When using fertilizers, it is necessary to observe the dosage and regularity of feeding. Everything is good that is moderate: from an excess of nutrients, the condition of the plant will worsen, its death is possible. Only balanced feeding is beneficial.
• It is recommended to stop feeding in autumn and winter, most tropical plants go into the resting stage. However, with dry hot air, plants even in heating season do not "fall asleep", continuing the active vegetation. In this case, it is quite possible to use the recipes for home dressings given below.

When home flowers need feeding: how to understand?

Indoor flowers need more often than we think, as they grow in limited space(flower pot), their feeding area is local. Even when grown in a spacious pot, the plant depletes the soil rather quickly.

In part, regular transplantation with a replacement of the substrate helps to correct the situation. The plant will use up the useful elements that are in the composition of the soil in a couple of months, maximum - in six months. Young plants are transplanted once a year, and mature plants should be disturbed less frequently. It is necessary to replenish the supply of nutrients with additional feeding.

So, after about 2 months after transplanting, you can already feed the plant. This will support strength, ensure normal growth and development. An exception to fertilization is the onset of a dormant period (autumn winter period).

The need to feed the flower is signaled by its condition:

• Slowdown in growth rates;
• Shoots are weak and elongated;
• The leaf plates are small, droop, pale, or their shade changes (yellowing is observed, spots and other painful signs appear, the leaves fall off);
• Lack of flowering;
• Disease and pest resistance decreases.

It is better not to reach such situations, so try periodically. We will consider in detail which fertilizers from natural ingredients you can prepare yourself and how exactly.

A dozen of simple and effective dressings for home flowers

How to feed home flowers with succinic acid for flowering and growth

Succinic acid with a set useful qualities, learn by processing natural amber. It is widely used, including for feeding indoor plants.

To prepare a working solution in 1 liter of water, dissolve 1 tablet of succinic acid and spray on the leaves or water.

Top dressing is especially useful for, ficus, orchids,. It is allowed to carry out such feeding once a year, otherwise a negative effect is possible.

Sugar as fertilizer for indoor flowers

Suddenly? However, sugar is perhaps the most popular natural fertilizer for home flowers. Who thought of the first to use it as a top dressing for flowers remains a mystery, but we can successfully use this find.

The usefulness lies in chemical composition product. An excursion into chemistry: as a result of the breakdown, fructose and glucose are released. Flowers do not need fructose, but glucose has a double effect. First of all, it is a source of energy for maintaining any process of plant life (respiration, assimilation of the same nutrients). Secondly, glucose acts building material serving for the formation of organic molecules. In truth, for the "building" process to be successful, carbon dioxide will be required.

With its shortage, valuable glucose from the building material will cause negative phenomena: mold, the appearance of root rot, etc. Together with sweet feeding, it is advisable to add a drug from the EM category ("Baikal EM-1", for example), this combination is 100% beneficial.

We prepare sugar dressing as follows:

• We dilute 1 tablespoon of sugar in 0.5 liters of water and water the plants at the root. You can simply sprinkle sugar over the surface of the soil and water.

How often is sugar feeding allowed? Everything should be in moderation, resort to such feeding no more than once a month.

By the way, glucose is a valuable active ingredient in sugar; it can be added to pure form, this method is even more effective. Go to the pharmacy for glucose tablets.

• Dissolve one glucose tablet in 1 liter of water,
• watering or spraying plants with such a liquid can be monthly, but not more often.

Coffee grounds and tea leaves for feeding home flowers

To the delight of coffee lovers, we will say that sleeping coffee will be an excellent food for flowers. We drink a cup of our favorite drink, and leave the coffee grounds to the flowers, just put it in the potting soil.

Useful action coffee grounds for indoor flowers:

• Maintaining looseness, lightness of the soil;
• saturation of the soil with oxygen;
• increased acidity.

Pay attention to the last point - not all flowers are favorably affected by an increase in soil acidity. This top dressing is good for gladioli, lilies, all types of roses, many evergreens.

Do not throw away in vain tea leaves(only it must be fresh, without mold).

Such feeding has two opposite sides:

• Positive: the soil becomes looser, air permeability increases;
• negative: the aroma of the brew attracts sciaris (black flies).

Fruit rind as a top dressing for indoor flowers

For the preparation of top dressing, citrus peels (oranges, tangerines) and bananas are suitable. Eat healthy, vitamin-rich fruits and use the leftovers to your advantage.

• Chop the citrus peels and cover them three-liter jar 1/3 of the volume, pour boiling water to the top.
• This fertilizer should be infused throughout the day.
• We dilute the resulting liquid clean water(we bring the total volume to 3 liters) and water the indoor flowers.

The "banana" dressing is prepared in the same way:

• Grind the banana peel, fill it with 50% of the volume of a liter jar and fill warm water.
• Let it brew for a day, strain and bring the resulting liquid to a volume of 1 liter with clean water, then water the flowers as usual.

Also, shredded banana peels can be embedded in the substrate. During transplanting, mix it into the soil, over time, the pieces will rot and release the elements that contribute to the growth of green mass. Citrus peels cannot be used like that.

Another option is a nutritious dressing prepared on the basis of citrus peels mixed with banana peels:

• We take them in equal shares, grind and fill a three-liter jar by 1/3
• Add 2 tablespoons of sugar and fill with warm water.
• The mixture must be fermented for 3 weeks, stirring occasionally, keep in mind that the aroma will still be the same. The result will be a cloudy mixture of a light yellow hue; it is better to store the nutritious substance in the refrigerator.

To prepare a working solution, mix with water in a ratio of 1 to 20 and water the flowers monthly.

Wood ash as a food for home flowers

Ordinary wood ash is rich in a range of useful elements: calcium, potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, zinc, iron and even sulfur. Moreover, phosphorus and potassium in a form that is easily digestible for plants, so wood ash can rightfully be called one of the best fertilizers for an indoor garden.

Dry wood ash can be embedded in the soil during plant transplantation, this will not only make the soil mixture more nutritious, but also serve as a disinfecting agent. It is especially useful to sprinkle damaged roots with wood ash, then they will not rot. In the future, an ash solution will help to saturate the soil with useful substances: for 1 liter of water we take 1 tablespoon of wood ash, stir it well, let it stand for two days and water it.

How to feed homemade flowers with yeast

Yeast is suitable not only for making fluffy dough or delicious kvass, but also is an excellent fertilizer for plants.

Their composition and action have come under close scrutiny. They contain many useful elements: B vitamins, auxins, phytohormones, cytokines (hormones that regulate the process of cell differentiation). Moving away from scientific terminology: act as a growth stimulant. Scientific research has proven that yeast feeding promotes the activation of microorganisms in the soil, organic matter is processed faster, and the release of carbon dioxide is significantly increased. Feeding with yeast is a substitute for a whole complex of mineral fertilizers.

There is no doubt about the answer to the question of how to feed home flowers - be sure to try yeast feeding:

• Dissolve 10 g of yeast and 1 tablespoon of sugar in 1 liter of warm water.
• When using dry yeast, you need 10 g per ten-liter volume of liquid, also dissolve 3 tablespoons of sugar.
• Any solution must be fermented for at least a couple of hours. Dilute the finished mixture with water in a ratio of 1 to 5 and pour over the flowers.

Onion peels for feeding home flowers

A common vegetable like onions can be found in any kitchen. We will leave the fruit for cooking, and take the husk for preparing a nutritious infusion. The fertilizer will saturate the soil with a full set of trace elements; it is permissible to apply it to absolutely all plants.

Consider making an onion "cocktail". Please note that top dressing cannot be stored for a long time, so prepare it in volume for one use.

• You need to take 50 g of onion husks, pour two liters of water and boil for 10 minutes.
• Let the mixture steep for 3 hours, during which time the solution will also cool down, strain and water or spray the flowers.

Vegetable broth for feeding home flowers

Boiling potatoes, carrots or beets? Many argue that watering plants with a decoction of vegetables is an excellent top dressing. Others say that they did not notice the miraculous effect. In any case, it's worth a try, because it certainly won't do any harm. Of course, the broth should be fresh and cooled, and preferably without salt.

Humus is a safe top dressing that can be used even in autumn and winter.

Humus - universal feeding, which is successfully used in relation to all crops in the garden, vegetable garden and on the windowsill. Most gardeners and florists rightly mark humus as the best feeding: readily available, replenishes a whole range of nutrients.

Humus can be of three types: leaf humus, chicken manure humus and humus based on mullein, pig manure, etc. In terms of basic qualities, they are about the same, but various plants assimilate them in their own way.

So, palms, ficuses, dieffenbachia, monstera, citrus and other large, fast-growing house flowers prefer fertilizer based on bird droppings. For them, such feeding is more effective than feeding with a mullein, but it must be used wisely (chicken droppings itself are more concentrated).

Preparation of poultry manure-based feeding:

Dissolve 10 g of chicken manure humus in 3 liters of water, you get a liquid with a faint turbid greenish tint. First, be sure to spill the soil in the flower pots with plain water, and then add a little nutrient solution.

Feeding cow dung with humus

Without the risk of harming the rest of the flowers, you can safely feed with a solution of cow dung humus:

Dissolve 100 g of such humus in 10 liters of water and pour it under the spine, trying not to get on the leaf plates.

Leaf humus

The safest option is to use leaf humus. It is simply mixed into the substrate when transplanting plants. If the plants do not need to be replanted annually, to recharge the soil surface, mulch with leaf humus should be mulched every spring. It is rich in a number of useful elements that are released during decomposition, and the structure of the soil is also significantly improved.

When using such a top dressing, take into account the presence of a specific aroma. It will come from flower pots for at least several hours. It is possible to get around the trouble only with the use of humus prepared using accelerated technology (it does not contain pathogens and seeds weed). But it should not be used as a liquid top dressing; embed it in a liquid form in a substrate. It is ideal for loosening heavy soil.

Aquarium water for feeding home flowers

The aquarium water, which is time to change, may not go down the drain, but to feed domestic plants. It is soft in composition, has a neutral pH, and is rich in nutrients that stimulate flower growth. It is permissible to use it only from early spring to early summer, when the growing season begins to build up green mass.

Moderation must be observed: it is permissible to apply such dressing no more than once a month. This is due to the fact that microscopic algae, after entering the soil, can multiply greatly, the substrate will acidify (turn green, an unpleasant odor will appear).

If you want to do everything with benefit, from the middle of summer, stop feeding with aquarium water altogether.

As you can see, there are many recipes for making natural fertilizers. Choose according to your taste, but first of all be guided by the type of plant.

Unusual flower food that is always in the house

In addition to the top ten dressings for indoor flowers in the arsenal of flower growers, very interesting options... They are used less often, but according to reviews, they are no less effective.

How to feed home flowers:

1. The water remaining after washing fish or meat is filtered and used as a top dressing for indoor flowers. I have not been able to find a scientific basis for its usefulness, but it has a place to be;
2. But the water after washing cereals (rice, millet, buckwheat, etc.) is enriched with a number of useful elements. These are magnesium, phosphorus, silicon, iron, but the concentration is scanty, so this water can be periodically used for regular watering;
3. Eggshells are rich in calcium and, in the opinion of a large number of flower lovers, can become top dressing for the latter. My reasoning on this score is as follows. Among indoor flowers, the number of "admirers" of calcium is limited, especially in this form it is very poorly absorbed. And from an overabundance of this element, chlorosis of the leaves most often develops. Doubtful usefulness. It seems to me that crumbled eggshells will serve as a good drainage - mix them into the substrate when replanting plants;
4. They have proven themselves well Toothpaste and tooth powder. You can make a nutritional formula with 3 tablespoons of tooth powder, the same amount of wood ash, and 1 tablespoon copper sulfate... Dissolve the ingredients in 1 liter of water. Conveniently, you do not need to insist on top dressing, immediately pour it under the flowers. Quick and easy to prepare top dressing based on toothpaste: dissolve 1/3 of the tube in 1 liter of water and water. Such fertilizers will give the root system proper nutrition and heal the flowers.

It seems that the most popular fertilizers that can be prepared at home are listed by me. If you know other secrets of successfully feeding indoor flowers, share them in the comments.

Indoor plants delight the eye with fresh greens and bright flowers, they decorate any interior, make the atmosphere in the home or office more comfortable and positive. But decorativeness and aesthetics are far from the only functions of a home flower garden. Indoor flowers can be of great benefit, sometimes they are simply necessary indoors. But, like people, plants need food: proper feeding is the key to health and flowering. Fertilizers for indoor plants can be mineral or organic, they are purchased in specialized stores, or they can be prepared independently.

Absolutely all indoor plants need regular fertilization.

Indoor flower dressing is essential as the conditions are not optimal in themselves. They need to be adjusted and supported by the plants with various additives to ensure lush bloom, good growth and development. It is difficult for some specimens to survive freezing winters or dry summers without feeding.

Fertilizers for indoor flowers are selected individually, one cannot say which one is the best and most effective. This will be the composition that is suitable for a particular variety of indoor plants. At the same time, it is very important not only to choose it correctly, but also to apply it so that the plant receives everything it needs, but does not suffer from an excess of nutrients.

Let's take a closer look at which fertilizers are suitable for certain colors, and how to use them correctly. We will also study recipes for fertilizers for indoor plants that can be prepared at home.

How to feed cacti

Cacti are popular with many home gardeners. And if we are talking about landscaping an office or study, then they are simply necessary. Many believe that fertilizers for indoor plants of this species are not needed: cacti are unpretentious to care for, do not die from drought, and do not require frequent soil replacement. But if you do not find an effective nutritional composition for these crops, they will not develop well and fully, let alone bloom. In flower shops you can buy ready-made mixtures for succulents. And you can prepare fertilizers for indoor plants yourself. Experienced florists recommend such a composition.

1. Prepare an alcohol mixture - for this, 10 ml of food (not technical, this is important!) Is diluted in 10 ml of drinking water.
2. Then one tablet of any multivitamin (for example, "Vitrum", "Complivit") is dissolved in the resulting mixture.
3. Add 10 ml of sugar syrup (or molasses) and urea to this.

Top dressing for cacti and succulents is prepared using multivitamins.

In the resulting mixture, a tissue swab is impregnated and all points of growth of a home cactus are treated. In this way, it can be fed only if the thorns have already broken through. For seedlings and "children" it is better to use a different composition based on a solution of vitamin B6 or B12.

How to care for violets

Violets are very delicate flowers, quite capricious in their care, therefore fertilizers for plants of these varieties must be selected with special care. Many people like violets, but not everyone dares to have them precisely because of the difficulties in leaving. In inexperienced flower growers, violets either die or grow very slowly, rarely bloom.

There is little secret, which will ensure good flower growth and excellent appearance. Fertilizer for indoor flowers at home can be prepared from a regular banana peel. To do this, you should:

• dry two banana skins in the oven or on the battery;
• cut them into large pieces, put them in a container and pour 1.5 liters of warm water;
• insist for several hours - you can all night;
• the resulting infusion is filtered and used for watering plants, diluted in equal proportions with water.

Blooming houseplants (violets, orchids) can be fertilized using banana peels.

If you start feeding the violet with an infusion of banana peel immediately after ejecting the buds, it will very soon delight large and beautiful flowers to the envy of all neighbors.

What fertilizing do roses need

If a florist sets himself the goal of creating a beautiful flower corner at home, he will not be able to resist the temptation to decorate it with indoor miniature roses. it ornamental plant it is not in vain that she is considered the queen of flowers. Roses are a sure-fire option to decorate window sills and shelves in the house. But they are capricious, require a lot of attention and regular feeding.

What a rose needs to bloom and not get sick:

• convenient location, where there is a lot of warmth and natural light - best of all on the southern windowsill;
• regular watering, but without abuse - this is the main rule in caring for a rose at home;
• soil replenishment, intensive soil and plant fertilization.

Foliar dressing for indoor roses are carried out in the form of spraying the leaves with Epin diluted in water.

Roses need and foliar feeding, and root. Ready-made mineral fertilizer from the Epin store can be added to the spraying water. In a liter of water, one ampoule of this top dressing is diluted, the liquid is poured into a spray bottle and the plant is carefully treated. This should be done at least once a month. And if the rose is stressed after a move or transplant, then you can spray it more often.

For root feeding, any formulations are used that are offered in stores for garden roses... But only the concentration of the finished solution should be half as much. The most popular and effective fertilizers are: "Pocon", "Sotka", "Garden of Miracles", "Good Power".

How to feed deciduous house plants

If you are to plant flowers on the windowsill, then you definitely need to add a sprawling fern or a luxurious dracaena to your home collection. There are many types of indoor plants that are not bred for the sake of flowers, but for the sake of very beautiful leaves.

These are a variety of palms, lianas and ficuses, asparagus, chlorophytums and ivy. And they also have their own fertilizers. Nitrogen fertilizing will help to quickly revive the flowers, make them brighter and thicker. It is best to use solutions based on liquid vitamins B6, B12. Until the plant comes to life, you need to spray it with such mixtures at least twice a week. As soon as the appearance improves, feeding it once a week is enough.

Also, for feeding decorative deciduous plants, the following solutions and compositions are suitable:

• Store-bought mineral or organic mixes containing potassium;
• aquarium water;
• cooled potato broth;
• water remaining after soaking or cooking cereals: rice, buckwheat, barley or oats.

Such top dressing is especially necessary and effective in winter, when the plants receive little light and the air temperature is lowered.

Fertilizers for medicinal plants

In what house will you not see a pot of aloe, Kalanchoe or a golden mustache on the fridge or windowsill? This tradition originated in the Soviet period, when various medicinal tinctures, ointments and rubbing based on these plants were in vogue.

Today, it is supported by alternative medicine practitioners, and it should be noted that both aloe and golden mustache can be very beneficial. In particular, aloe and Kalanchoe are used to treat colds, rhinitis and sinusitis, problem skin, poorly healing wounds. But the golden mustache is able to work wonders for joint pathologies, arthritis, arthrosis, radiculitis.

For aloe, not only correctly selected dressings are important, but also suitable soil... It should be loose enough and allow air to pass through well. It is based on sod or leafy land, to which a little peat, expanded clay is added, charcoal... Watering aloe is not often needed: in winter, once every three to four weeks, and in summer - as the earthen coma dries up.

Aloe or Kalanchoe needs organic fertilization such as manure or bird droppings.

Fertilize aloe about once a month. If the leaves of the plant will be collected for cooking medicines, feeding is stopped 1.5-2 months before the planned collection. It is better to use mixtures of an organic type:

• manure or bird droppings - one part is diluted in ten parts of water;
• egg shells - the raw material is poured with water so that it completely covers it, and left for three days. Then the liquid is drained and used for irrigation;
• banana peel - first the peel is dried, then ground in a blender or coffee grinder, diluted with two parts of water and insisted for 24 hours. You can combine the infusion eggshell with a banana mixture and fertilize with this aloe composition.

Aloe itself can also be used to heal and fertilize other indoor plants. To do this, it is enough to squeeze the juice from the fleshy, old leaves and dilute it with water.

It is recommended to fertilize the golden mustache with mullein or chicken droppings, if there is an opportunity to purchase them. In winter, you can use a mineral solution - "Agricola Green Belt" or "Sotku" for feeding. They do this not more often than once every 1.5-2 months.

How to feed potted trees and shrubs

In offices, restaurants, hotel lobbies, spacious living rooms, you can find miniature fruit trees and shrubs in tubs. What fertilizers should be chosen for such crops so that they do not get sick, grow well and bear fruit?

• Ammofoska - 25 g;
• wood ash - 25 g;
• water - 5 l.

It is necessary to mix the dry components, then dilute them with a small amount of water and stir with a mixer. After that, pour in the remaining water, leave the mixture for several hours to swell, stir again with a mixer before use. Watering the soil in a tub with a tree is necessary until it is well moistened throughout its depth.

Large indoor plants are fed using complex mineral fertilizers.

Without feeding, indoor plants cannot grow fully, and even more so - bloom beautifully and for a long time, bear fruit and reproduce. But their excess is also destructive. Indoor flowers should not be watered uncontrollably with nutrients, especially those of mineral origin. Only by observing the rules of care for each individual type of indoor plants can you create a lush and attractive flower garden in your home greenhouse.

Flowers - what could be more beautiful? Perhaps that is why we - summer residents - grow them not only on our own garden plots but also at home. It is especially pleasant when the snow is sweeping outside the window, and beautiful flowers bloom in the room on the windowsill, isn't it?

Today I propose to talk about important nuance, without which it is problematic to grow healthy, beautiful, luxuriantly flowering plants - about natural dressings. If at the dacha we necessarily fertilize the plantings, then when it comes to home flowers, some dressings are neglected. And in vain.

When to feed

Home flowers should be fed much more often than we sometimes think. Such a need is caused, first of all, limited area plant nutrition. And even if your blooming pet grows in a large, spacious pot, this does not mean that it has enough minerals. The plant, in any case, strongly depletes the soil and therefore needs additional feeding.

Partly the way out of the situation will be to periodically transplant the plant into a new nutritious soil substrate. But the supply of nutrients contained in this very substrate will last for about two months, but not for six months or even a year, as many novice flower growers believe. And after these very two months, the plant, especially if it begins to bloom or grow actively, must be fed. The only exception will be plants in which a dormant period has begun: they temporarily do not need feeding.

The signal that you need to urgently start feeding home flowers are:
slow growth;
weak elongated stems;
pale, poorly colored, overly small, drooping leaves;
unwillingness to bloom;
poor disease resistance, yellowing and shedding of leaves, the appearance of various spots on them and other signs of ill health.
Ideally, of course, it is better not to bring it to this, so let's talk about what natural fertilizers we can use for our pets and how.

1. Sugar

Perhaps the most popular natural fertilizer used to feed indoor flowers is sugar. Yes, it’s sugar, you don’t think. Who first guessed to use it as a fertilizer for plants, history is silent, but we can successfully use this method to feed our own flowers.

What is the use of sugar feeding

From chemistry lessons, we remember that sugar breaks down into fructose and glucose. We don't need the first, but the second, that is, glucose, performs 2 functions at once. First of all, it serves as a source of energy for all vital processes of plants (respiration, absorption of various nutrients, etc.), and secondly, it is an excellent building material, contributing to the formation of complex organic molecules.

True, there is one caveat: glucose is an excellent builder only if it is well absorbed, and carbon dioxide is needed for it to be absorbed. With an insufficient concentration of carbon dioxide, once in the root zone of plants, sugar will turn from a builder into a source of nutrition for various molds, root rot, and so on. Therefore, together with feeding plants with sugar, it makes sense to use one of the EM-preparations, for example, "Baikal EM-1" - from such joint feeding will be 100% good.

How to feed plants with sugar

To prepare "sugar" top dressing, dilute 1 tbsp. sugar in 0.5 liters of water, or simply sprinkle with sugar and then pour over the soil in a flower pot.

How often can you use sugar for dressing?

You should resort to such feeding of home flowers no more than once a month, so do not overdo it.

Sugar or glucose?

Instead of sugar, you can also feed home flowers with ordinary glucose, which is sold at the pharmacy. Such dressings will be even more effective than "sugar" ones. To do this, 1 tablet of glucose must be diluted in a liter of water. It is also necessary to water or spray plants with "glucose" water no more than once a month.

2. Slept coffee

Sleep coffee is an excellent fertilizer for all home flowers (and not only home flowers), especially since this fertilizer does not need to be specially prepared. Just after drinking a cup of coffee, do not pour out the coffee grounds, but mix it with the earth in the flowerpot. Thanks to this simple technique, the earth will become looser and lighter. In addition, the acidity of the soil will increase and there will be more oxygen in it.

What flowers like coffee

Using drunk coffee as a top dressing for home flowers, remember: by no means all flowers have a good effect on the acidity of the soil. Feeding drunk coffee is useful not only for home flowers, many plants like them, including: azaleas, gladioli, lilies, all types of roses, rhododendrons and many evergreens.

Not coffee alone

As a dressing for home flowers, they often use not only drunk coffee, but also tea leaves. Unfortunately, it can give not only a positive, but also a negative effect. Undoubtedly, such additives will make the soil in the flower pot looser, but do not forget that black flies (sciarids) simply "adore" tea leaves in the soil, so be careful.

3. Citrus and other fruits


Peels of tangerines, oranges and even bananas can be excellent fertilizers for indoor plants. True, for this you will have to "conjure" a little over them.

To prepare citrus fertilizer, their zest must be crushed, filled with about a third of a liter jar with it and pour boiling water to the top of this jar. Having insisted such a "citrus" fertilizer throughout the day, we take out the peels, bring the water in the jar up to a liter by volume again, adding pure water, and water our flowers.

In approximately the same way, fertilizer is prepared from banana peels: chop them, fill a liter jar to half and fill it to the top with water. We insist on fertilizing for a day, after which we filter, discard the skins, and fill the jar again to the brim with clean water.

Unlike citrus fruits, banana skins can also be added directly to the soil: when transplanting home flowers, add some pre-dried and chopped banana skins to the pot with nutrient soil. Over time, they will rot and feed the plants with microelements that will have a beneficial effect on the growth of green mass.

You can also cook from citrus peel and banana peel nutrient mix for plant nutrition... For this, chopped zest and banana peel (in equal proportions) fill up to a third a three-liter jar. Add 2 teaspoons of sugar and, pouring everything with warm water, let it brew for 3 weeks in a warm place. From time to time, such a nutritious mix needs to be shaken, but don't worry - a very decent aroma emanates from it :) After 3 weeks you will receive a light yellow cloudy liquid that is perfectly stored in the refrigerator. For top dressing, it must be diluted 1:20 with clean water and safely used once a month.

4. Ash


The benefits of ash as fertilizer are underestimated by many, but in vain. After all, ash contains potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, calcium, iron, zinc and even sulfur. Moreover, potassium and phosphorus are contained in ash in a form readily available to plants, which makes ash one of the best fertilizers for flowers.

How to use ash for fertilizing home flowers

To feed the flowers, the ash can be simply mixed with the soil when replanting the plants. So you will not only make the soil substrate more nutritious, but also disinfect it, so that the roots damaged during transplantation will definitely not rot.

And you can also prepare a liquid top dressing for home flowers from ash. For this, 1 tablespoon of ash is diluted in a liter of water.

5. Yeast is an excellent growth stimulant for home flowers

Did you know that yeast can be used not only for making delicious kvass and yeast dough? It turns out that yeast can be used to make an excellent growth-stimulating solution for plant nutrition.

Yeast gives off mass nutrients that actively stimulate plant growth, such as phytohormones, B vitamins and auxins. In addition, yeast contains cytokinins, hormones that help regulate cell differentiation and division; the presence of these substances also has a beneficial effect on plants.

By the way, unlike most home dressings, so to speak, cooking, yeast dressings have been repeatedly investigated by scientists. As a result, it has been proven: thanks to them, the activity of microorganisms in the soil sharply increases, a rapid mineralization of organic matter occurs, and the release of carbon dioxide significantly increases. Therefore, fertilizing plants with a yeast nutrient solution is equated to fertilizing with complete mineral fertilizers.

How to make yeast nutrient solution

To prepare a yeast feed, dissolve 10 grams of yeast and 1 tbsp. a spoonful of sugar in 1 liter of lukewarm water. If there is no ordinary yeast at hand, you can use dry yeast, dissolving 10 grams of dry yeast and 3 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar in 10 liters of water. Regardless of which yeast you used to make the nutrient solution - regular or dry - let it sit for about 2 hours before feeding the plants. Then the solution is diluted with water in a ratio of 1: 5 and poured over the earth in pots with plants.

6. Onion cocktail

The familiar and so beloved onion, without which it is simply impossible to imagine our cuisine, can be successfully used not only in cooking. A "life-giving cocktail" made from onion husks will have a beneficial effect on the growth of all domestic plants without exception, as it contains a full set of microelements.

How to make an onion cocktail

There is nothing difficult in making a cocktail from onion peel, the only caveat: it cannot be stored for a long time, so this dressing must be prepared anew every time. So, to prepare an onion cocktail, you need to pour about 50 grams of onion husks with 2 liters hot water, bring the broth to a boil and, boiling for about 10 minutes, let it brew for three hours. After the broth has cooled down, filter it and spray the plants.

7. Humus

Humus is truly universal fertilizer, which is used with equal success both for feeding plants in a garden-garden, and for feeding indoor flowers. That is why many growers rightly believe that better fertilizer you simply will not find it: nutritious and readily available, it has a lot of advantages.

But humus humus discord, and if the main qualities of different types Since this fertilizer is about the same, different houseplants prefer different humus as top dressing. So, for example, ficuses, palms, citrus fruits, dieffenbachia and monstera love humus based on bird droppings, the effect of which is much higher than from feeding with mullein. This is due to the fact that bird droppings are several times more nutritious than mullein, and that is why it should be used very carefully for feeding most indoor plants, using only for large and rapidly growing species.

Before using poultry humus it is necessary to dilute with water (10 grams per 3 liters of water) until a liquid of a weak turbid greenish hue is obtained, and before fertilizing the flowers, the soil in pots should be slightly watered with ordinary water.

To feed the rest of your indoor flowers, it is best to use leaf humus- for example, by adding it to the soil substrate during plant transplantation. Leafy humus contains a number of elements necessary for plant nutrition. In addition, it significantly affects the structure of the soil, significantly improving it.

You can feed the flowers and humus based on cow (pig and so on) manure, for which 100 grams of humus is diluted in 10 liters of water.

Using humus for feeding home flowers, be prepared for the fact that for some time a not very pleasant smell will come from the pots, which will disappear within a few hours. There will be no smell only if you use humus prepared using accelerated technology, which does not contain weed seeds and pathogens. True, as liquid dressings it is not recommended to use it: it must be mixed with the soil during plant transplantation, using it as a baking powder for heavy soils.

8. Decoctions of vegetables

The use of decoctions of vegetables (naturally, not salted) for feeding is rather doubtful, but many believe in the miraculous effect of such an unusual fertilizer, arguing that the decoction of vegetables is very nutritious for home plants and can only benefit them. Whether this is so, I personally do not presume to assert - this dressing did not affect my flowers in any way, but I could be wrong; I will be glad if you convince me.

9. Aquarium water

Ordinary aquarium water can be an excellent alternative to purchased fertilizers. It contains a large amount of substances that perfectly stimulate plant growth, it is very soft, has a neutral pH. But it is recommended to use it for dressing in spring or early summer - at the moments when the plants begin to actively grow leaves and shoots. But starting from the middle of summer, it is better not to use aquarium water for home flowers.

Again, everything is fine in moderation, so you need to feed the plants with aquarium water no more than once a month, otherwise a lot of microscopic algae, getting into the soil of a potted flower, will multiply greatly, as a result of which the soil will turn green and sour.

10. Succinic acid

Succinic acid - a substance that is obtained after processing natural amber - has a lot of useful qualities, due to which it is widely used, including for feeding home flowers.

Receive succinic acid in the form of a white crystalline powder, slightly similar to citric acid what is it in appearance, and to taste. To prepare a nutrient solution, dissolve 1 gram in 5 liters of water. This liquid can not only be watered, but also sprayed on indoor plants. Especially such top dressing is loved by begonias, aglaonems, citrus fruits, chlorophytums, ficuses, haworthia, prickly pear and fat women.

Please note: you can use succinic acid for feeding home flowers no more than once a year, otherwise you risk getting the opposite effect.

In addition to the 10 most popular fertilizers for home flowers, there are several more options that are used less often, but from this, according to their supporters, they are no less effective:
filtered water left over from washing meat and fish is also considered a good flower fertilizer; however, I didn’t have a chance to come across scientific confirmation of this fact, maybe you were more fortunate? If you have already had the opportunity to be convinced of the miraculous power of such dressings, tell us about it in the comments, please;
some growers use water from washing cereals to feed home flowers: buckwheat, rice, millet, etc., which contains iron, silicon, phosphorus and magnesium;
eggshells, according to many home flower lovers, are also very useful. It is buried in the soil during plant transplantation, water is insisted on it, which is used for irrigation, but whether it is actually a top dressing is a question. Yes, eggshells really contain a large amount of calcium, but it is practically inaccessible to plants, and then what is the use of it? Moreover, a very limited number of indoor flowers are distinguished by their love for calcium, and its excess in the soil only contributes to the fact that chlorosis begins in plants. So it turns out that the use of eggshells as fertilizer is very doubtful, except that it can become an excellent drainage;
toothpaste and toothpaste are also fertilizers for home flowers. To prepare a mix with tooth powder, you need 3 tbsp. tablespoons of powder, 3 tablespoons of wood ash and 1 tbsp. Dissolve a spoonful of copper sulfate in a liter of water. You do not need to insist on this fertilizer; you can apply it immediately after preparation. It is very easy and quick to prepare fertilizers with toothpaste: dissolve a third of a tube of toothpaste in 1 liter of water, this feeding will nourish the roots of flowers, and they will acquire a healthier appearance.

And the last thing - before using fertilizers for home flowers, remember a few simple rules:
do not feed transplanted in new soil plants earlier than 2 months later, because in nutrient soil also contains fertilizers, an excess of which will only lead to the death of the plant;
before fertilizing the plants, spill the soil with plain clean water, this will help you not to destroy them if the fertilizer turns out to be concentrated;
all weakened or diseased plants must be fed very carefully, using a much lower concentration of fertilizer solution for these purposes; no need to make additional fertilizing all year round, home flowers need fertilization only during the spring-summer period.

Using various fertilizers for home flowers, try not to overdo it, because everything is good only in moderation, and an excess of nutrients will disrupt the uniform development of your plants and may cause their death. That is why feeding should be correct and as balanced as possible, only in this way they can be beneficial.

Well, it seems that I have listed all the most popular natural dressings for home flowers, although I could be wrong. Maybe I didn’t mention the fertilizer that you are successfully using? Please tell us what you use to feed your houseplants and why?