Plants in the home enhance your favorite spaces, green is a color that revitalizes and fills us with calm. Surrounding yourself with plants will not only be pleasant to the eye, it is proven that emotionally it brings us joy and life.

Many times our plants begin to decline and may look sad, it is just a warning that something is missing. Fertilizing the soil in our pots will provide it with all the necessary nutrients that it lost over time.

Fertilizers are substances rich in nutrients, generally those used provide nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, considerably improving our substrate . You will notice that your plants will grow quickly, it will give them the energy they need to look more and more beautiful.

Ingredients

  • Coffee (we can save the coffee grounds and reuse them in our compost)
  • White rice
  • 1 and a half liters of water
  • Recycled PET bottles
  • Funnel

Step by Step

  1. Mix 1 liter of water with two or three handfuls of white rice.
  2. Let the mixture rest for two hours. Rice will release the nutrient-rich starch and carbohydrates needed to fertilize our soil.
  3. Drink the coffee that we had separated (in this way we not only benefit our plants but the planet by reusing some waste as the star ingredient of our fertilizer).
  4. Mix the coffee in half a liter of water. You can use a cut PET bottle as a container.
  5. Leave it to rest for two hours.
  6. Strain the water from the rice and separate it for later use.
  7. Pour the liquid from the two mixtures into a recycled PET bottle. Use the funnel to make the task easier for you.
  8. Ready, you have a spectacular fertilizer for your plants!

How to use

Apply to the soil of our plants, taking care not to wet their leaves. It is applied undiluted for better effectiveness, if you want to do it, mix it with an equal part of water. Choose a day in the morning or at sunset to do it. If you have leftover coffee grounds, spread it on the ground, mixing it with the soil on the surface, it is great for keeping snails and slugs away from our plants.

Contribution of rice water

Rice water is a good complement to our homemade fertilizer because it is an ideal energizer for plants . Also the presence of Vitamins B and E, its mineral and protein content will serve to strengthen the roots. Starch is the main energy and carbon reserve of plants. Plants generally obtain it naturally, but when they fall, our preparation will give them that extra energy necessary to recover quickly and effectively.

Contribution of coffee

Coffee provides a good amount of vitamins, minerals and nutrients necessary for the good growth of our plants. This liquid is a natural fertilizer that we have at our fingertips, it will not cost us anything since we can use the lees that we would usually throw in the trash. In addition to fertilizer, worms love coffee, in this way they will oxygenate our soil, directly impacting the health of our plants. We must do it consciously since a large amount of coffee could give us the opposite effect, acidifying our soil too much.

Bonus with eggshells

Eggshells are another of the ingredients that are often used to improve the appearance of our plants; they are a rich source of calcium . Crush 6 eggshells from happy chickens in a coffee grinder, make an infusion by adding them to 3 liters of water. You can add the eggshell water to our previous mixture of homemade fertilizer, providing more properties to our fertilizer.

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