Many of you have probably heard that potato peelings can be used as organic fertilizer for summer cottages. This is true, since they contain starch, potassium, and other valuable minerals. This method of fertilization is absolutely harmless, economical, helps to protect the garden from Colorado beetles (as well as their larvae), slugs, wireworms. How to use potato peelings as fertilizer, for which plants they are suitable as top dressing - we will consider below.

How to prepare fertilizer from cleanings?

Many of us love potatoes; in most families, it is considered the most popular, most commonly eaten vegetable. After peeling, the potatoes are always peeled. And the highest content of valuable components is found in it and in the layer that is located under the skin. Raw potato waste contains tons of macronutrients, micronutrients, and an impressive list of vitamins. If you use them rationally, do not throw them in the trash can, then all the useful elements will give their properties to the soil, plants in your garden.

It is much easier for residents of private houses to determine a place for organic fertilizers; they have a plot of land allocated for a garden-vegetable garden. In this case, you can immediately send the potato peelings to the compost.

If visiting the summer cottage is seasonal, there is also a way out - the peel can be dried or frozen. When the temperature is below freezing outside, potato peelings can be laid out on an unheated balcony (on suitable surfaces). They will freeze and thus be preserved. New "portions" of cleaning can be easily taken out onto the balcony as needed. As soon as early spring comes, you will have to visit the dacha and take them out there, because in the warmth this product rots, spreads an unpleasant odor, and this is not needed by anyone.

Drying potato skins is a more troublesome way of preserving, but more reliable and convenient. It can be dried on a hot radiator or in the oven for better storage. If you put extra effort, after heat treatment, grind the peels in a meat grinder, and then dry them again in the oven, you will get the perfect ready-made raw material for fertilization.

With the onset of spring, frozen or dried peelings from potatoes are placed in a large container (for example, a barrel), poured over with very hot water, and left to soak for 2-3 days. This nutrient mixture should be stirred periodically. Thus, potato peelings are used as a fertilizer rich in starch, salts, minerals, vitamins.

How to apply potato peel fertilizer?

The resulting gruel is just ideal for increasing soil fertility when planting seedlings of cucumbers, cabbage, melons, fruit trees, bushes. A small amount of the resulting potato infusion with gruel is poured into the bottom of the holes and beds, and only then the plants are planted. This fertilizer acts as an organic top dressing, thanks to which onions, zucchini, cucumbers, pumpkins, all cabbage varieties develop well and grow actively. You can apply this top dressing (by watering the bushes under the roots) every 10-14 days, for this the infusion is preliminarily filtered through a sieve.

Potato peel infusion is the best fertilizer for currants and similar berry crops. Thanks to this infusion, it becomes large, sweet. It is especially good to add top dressing at the stage of ovary emergence, during the ripening of berries, before harvesting.

However, there are some restrictions - tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, eggplant, and other nightshade crops should not be fertilized with this method, since this fertilization simply will not work on them. In some cases, it can even harm these particular plants, because they are prone to common diseases (black scab, late blight).

If you still want to feed the tomatoes with this organic composition, then use only those cleanings that have previously been in the oven. The raw materials that have passed hot processing no longer contain phytophthora, if you fill it with boiling water before adding it to the soil or simply dig it near the plants, nothing bad will happen.

It is good to use peelings from potatoes to fertilize fruit trees, berry bushes. To do this, they are buried in the area of ​​the trunk circle. It is best to carry out this procedure in the spring.

You can also use potato peelings, the beneficial properties contained in them not only as fertilizers. With their help, you can scare off pests and save your harvest.

Variants of "external" use of potato skins:

1. You can spread it between the beds, as well as in places where slugs accumulate - they are attracted by the smell, they willingly slide down on it. After that, it can be easily collected and destroyed.
2. If many heaps of peelings are poured between the rows of potatoes, this will attract Colorado beetles, their larvae. After the pests slide onto the piles, they are collected together with the peels and burned, after having poured kerosene over them.
3. Also, potato peelings will help to significantly reduce the number of wireworms, only here you will have to additionally donate a few potato tubers. The cleanings and tubers cut into several parts are added dropwise in different parts of the site, and after 3-4 days they are removed from the ground along with gluttonous pests. Subsequently, the wireworm, along with the bait, is similarly destroyed by burning.

Potato peels and currants

According to many positive reviews from summer residents, feeding currants with peelings gives an excellent result. This berry shrub "loves" starch and glucose, and the rind of the tubers is the richest in these elements. Dry potato skins can be buried under currant bushes in spring and summer. They decompose in the ground, giving it all the useful components during the process. You can also pour boiling water over the cleaning, after the infusion has cooled down, you can water the bushes.

So that the size of the currant berries is close to the fruit of the cherry, feel free to "treat" the bushes with infusion of potato peelings.

With the onset of autumn, remove the fallen leaves under the currants, loosen the soil, dig dry skins in a circle, and then cover the ground with dry grass on top. The result of your efforts will pleasantly surprise you later.

You can use cleaning not only for currants, but also for gooseberries, raspberries, strawberries. This fertilizer is very suitable for garden flowers (strained infusion).

This simple free top dressing helps to increase soil fertility, is safe, non-toxic. It represents an effective alternative to chemicals, and this is a significant plus. Do not rush to throw away a product rich in useful elements, especially since it is easy, quick to dry, and well stored in fabric bags. Use potato peelings as fertilizer, for which plants they can be used, and for which they cannot - we tried to concretize in this article.

Bountiful harvests to you!

To ensure the rapid growth and development of currants, it is necessary to fertilize it regularly. Potato peelings are the best fertilizer for this crop. With the help of this dressing, not only the level of berry yield increases, but also its taste is improved.

Harvesting feeding

Potatoes are one of the main crops widely used for human consumption. After processing this vegetable, peelings remain. They can be used to fertilize a variety of berry crops, including currants. This is due to the fact that in the skin of the potato and the layer that is under it, there is a huge amount of nutrients that have a positive effect on plants. The composition of waste includes micro and macro elements, as well as a huge amount of vitamins.

With the rational use of waste, do not throw it away. Potato peels can be used to fertilize soils. If you live in a private house, then they can be used for composting. For this purpose, a special heap or pit is used. It is necessary to dump this waste into it, as well as mowed grass, humus, soil. After a few months, the gardener will be able to get high-quality mineral fertilizing.

Waste use in the country

Very often people stay at the dacha seasonally, and they do not have the opportunity to prepare a compost pit. That is why it is recommended to dry or freeze potato peels. In subzero temperatures, you can lay out waste on the balcony, which is not heated. Due to the low temperature, the feeding will be frozen and stored.
The preparation of new portions of cleaning can be carried out as waste appears. With the onset of spring and the recession of frosts, it is necessary to remove waste to the dacha, with the help of which the currants will be fed. It is impossible to keep the cleaning after defrosting, as this will lead to their decay.

When drying waste, the amount of trouble for the summer resident is added. At the same time, the highest quality preservation of all nutrients in mineral fertilizers is ensured. To dry the cleanings, you can use an oven or a hot radiator, which will provide them with the highest quality storage. After drying, it is necessary to grind the cleanings using a meat grinder. Then the potato peelings are re-dried.

In the spring, waste that was previously frozen or dried must be brought to the summer cottage. They are placed in a container and poured with boiling water. The container must be tightly closed with a lid and left for several days. This time will be enough for the potato waste to completely soak. During this period, the mixture is periodically stirred. Thanks to this method of storing waste, salts, starch, minerals and vitamins are saved in them, which have a beneficial effect on the growth and development of currants.

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Fertilization of currants with potato peelings and ash

Internal use of waste

With the help of the resulting gruel, the soil fertility is increased. Most often it is used before planting currants. To do this, you need to dig holes, at the bottom of which the gruel is placed, and plant a plant. This fertilizer is an organic top dressing, when used, the high-quality development of berry crops is ensured. This infusion provides large crop fruits. When used, the taste of the berries becomes sweet. It is recommended to add top dressing when the ovaries form on the plant.

External use of cleaners

To ensure the highest quality fertilization of currants, potato waste can be buried. Surface fertilization of plants will also be quite effective. If the currants grow in rows, then to recharge it, it will be enough just to spread the recharge between them. It is recommended to carry out this procedure in the spring. Useful substances from potato waste will penetrate into the soil with melt water and rain. In addition, potato waste is ideal food for worms and other beneficial microorganisms.

Benefits of feeding

Many summer residents argue that when using waste from potatoes as fertilizer, you can get a good result in growing currants. This is due to the beneficial effects of glucose and starch on berry bushes. The burial of pre-dried waste under the currants can be carried out both in the spring and in the summer. When the skins decompose in the soil, it is saturated with useful microelements. Also, to feed this plant, you can use watering with an infusion from these waste.

This fertilizer is characterized by a high level of safety and at the same time is completely non-toxic. That is why it is an alternative to chemicals.

Make-up application rules

In order to ensure the highest quality effect of the effect of potato peelings on currants, it is necessary to use them correctly. To this end, you need to follow just a few simple rules. Despite the effectiveness of the fertilizer, many gardeners do not recommend laying it on the surface. This is because they can attract rodents. In addition, this type of use of fertilizing can negatively affect the aesthetics of the garden.

It is recommended to drop potato peelings dry near the plant roots. This will ensure uniform decomposition of the nutrient in the soil and its full return to the plant during the period of fruit ripening. You can also irrigate the berry culture of this top dressing. For this purpose, a watering can is used without a strainer, which will eliminate the possibility of clogging. When all these simple rules are followed, the gardener is given the opportunity to obtain a rich harvest of large berries.

Features of currant care

Currant belongs to the category of fast-growing plants. Its fruiting occurs the next year after planting. In order to ensure the correct growth of this plant, it is produced:

• Soil fertilization;
• Weed control;
• Loosening the soil.

Also, currants need regular pruning of dried branches. This procedure is recommended to be carried out in the spring. In order to ensure a full harvest of this crop, it is necessary to timely protect it from the effects of pests and diseases. For this purpose, the berry crop is sprayed with pesticides.

How to properly care for currants

After 15 years after planting, the bushes are aging and the yield level decreases. To avoid this, it is necessary to regularly update the berry bushes. In the summer, it is recommended to ensure the looseness of the soil around the bushes of this crop. In order not to make regular loosening, you can use organic mulch, which is spread around the bushes. In order to ensure high-quality flowering of bushes and a rich crop harvest, it is necessary to provide them with shade.

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Currant is a garden plant that is often exposed to powdery mildew. In order to avoid the appearance of this disease, it is necessary to regularly remove branches that are more than three years old. You can also plant garlic or dill nearby the bushes of this berry culture. The formation of the shrubs of the plant should be carried out over three years.

When growing this crop, you need to pay attention to the condition of the soil. It should be constantly moist and loose. For watering the plant, you can use an infusion of potato waste. It is recommended to loosen the soil after watering and rain. This will remove the top layer of soil, which does not allow air to pass through to the roots of the plant. Also, with timely care, watering of this plant is replaced.

If the cultivation of the crop is carried out on heavy soil, then it is recommended to dig it in the autumn. For light soils, it is recommended to shallowly loosen the soil around the bush. Since the root system of this plant is located close enough to the surface of the soil, it must be loosened no deeper than 15 centimeters.

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In order to retain moisture under the bush of this culture, it is necessary to mulch the soil around. When planting a berry crop in heavy soils, mulching is not recommended. In order for the berry culture to fully develop, it is necessary to make recharge. For this purpose, phosphorus-potassium feed is most often introduced. After a certain time, it is necessary to make nitrogen make-up. It is also necessary to use a balanced diet with various microelements.
In autumn, before digging the soil, superphosphate is added. All of the above dressings can be replaced with complex dressings. It is best to use natural ingredients for feeding the crop, which include potato waste, urea, and manure.

Currant is a fragrant berry crop. In order for it to have sweet and large fruits, it is necessary to apply fertilizers. The best option in this case is the waste of their potatoes.

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Red and black currants are a favorite berry of the inhabitants of the northern regions of Russia. Currant berries can be eaten fresh, you can cook fruit drinks and compotes, make jam, use as a filling for pies and pancakes. Currants grow well in harsh conditions, however, such an unpretentious plant should be periodically provided with additional nutrition. Experienced gardeners consider potato peelings to be one of the most effective fertilizers for this crop.

Properties

Potato skins are rich in starch, glucose, potassium, magnesium, iron, fluoride and other useful elements. Their quantity can even compete with some commercial mixtures for plant fertilization. Almost any crops can be fed with purifications, but currants respond especially well to this fertilizer. Consider the main benefits of potato skins feeding.

• Decomposed cleanings provide the soil with substances that are required for the active growth of the shrub.
• Not only does the fertility of the land increase, but its structure also improves. The decomposed peel makes the soil loose and light, therefore, such fertilizer is often used for silty, clay and peat soils.
• This is an absolutely safe top dressing. It is non-toxic, unlike purchased chemical mixtures, so the gardener does not need to worry about his health, as well as about the development of currants.
• Potato skins begin to affect the plant quickly. This is an organic fertilizer that is processed by bacteria in the soil, and then, in the shortest possible time, transfers all its beneficial properties to the root system.
• Unlike other natural remedies, potato skins do not affect the increased growth of nearby growing weeds.
• This top dressing can be applied at all stages of plant development, as well as used not only for currants, but also for other crops.
• It is not only an effective fertilizer, but also an excellent protection against insect pests.
• This is a more than economical fertilization option. It is known that after peeling potatoes, most people send their waste to the trash can. However, a responsible summer resident will not throw out such a valuable fertilizer for currants, saving on the purchase of an expensive chemical mixture.

How to prepare fertilizer?

Thanks to such a simple and cheap (and in fact, free!) Fertilizer, like potato husks, the gardener gets a good harvest. Large, healthy and very sweet berries appear on a well-fed shrub. But at the same time, you should follow the simple rules for preparing the fertilizer.

The easiest way is to bury the cleaners under the barrel. However, this method will not work in the case of currants. The fact is that this culture has a superficial root system, and therefore buried potato skins can harm young roots.

The preparation of potato peels also requires special rules, because it is important to keep them until spring. The main stages of preparation are given below.

• Thoroughly rinse the cut waste in running water.
• Next, we place them in a weak solution of potassium permanganate. This product will treat the skins from the fungus that often attacks potato skins.
• We spread the washed crusts on paper in one layer and leave them in a dry, ventilated room.
• If quick drying is required, it is recommended to pre-cut the peel into small pieces.
• When the husk is dry, fold it into paper bags. In such containers, it will remain until spring.

It is allowed to dry potato waste on a battery or even in an oven at a temperature not exceeding 100 degrees, but in the latter case, it is recommended not to completely close the oven so that there is access to oxygen, and the skins themselves should be on parchment. The crusts will dry completely in the oven after 3-4 hours.

A microwave oven is also suitable for this purpose, but it is usually difficult to guess how long it will take - it all depends on the power of the device and the thickness of the peel.

Another good way to prepare the rind is to freeze it. To do this, you should be guided by the following rules:

• rinse the skins well in the above solution;
• chop the skin through a meat grinder;
• the resulting slurry is placed in a container and left in the freezer until spring.

Fertilizer preparation begins approximately 7-10 days before currant processing. This usually happens in the spring. Recipe:

• pour the crushed husk into a bucket;
• pour boiling water so that the water is 5 cm higher than the purification;
• in this form, we insist the mixture for a week.

This is the main recipe for feeding currants. But there are other ways to prepare an effective fertilizer that is suitable for both currants and other crops. For example, an infusion:

• pour dried or frozen potato skins with boiled water;
• we insist during the day.

The resulting infusion is used for watering. In addition, you can make a kind of flour from the peel of potatoes - the ground peel is considered a high-quality universal fertilizer. For this:

• we prepare well-dried skins;
• grind in a meat grinder, blender or coffee grinder;
• we store in containers, but not for long, since the peel, crushed to a state of crumb, is subject to decay, and is also a tasty prey for pests and pathogenic microorganisms.

How to fertilize?

The method of fertilization is also important. As already noted, currants have a superficial root system, and therefore fertilizer should not be applied directly under the bush. For this purpose, a groove is pulled out. Fertilize in a certain way.

• Using a cord, we make a projection of the crown of the bush. This should be done before flowering. The circumference we get is the limits of the root system.
• Along this line, we tear out a groove to a depth of 20 cm.
• At the bottom, place the gruel from potato waste or ground peel and bury it.
• We carry out the procedure annually.

It is very useful to use this fertilizer when planting a plant. To do this, we add top dressing to the hole prepared for planting. We feed the culture every two weeks. However, in the case of currants, this method is not suitable. The fact is that with the regular decomposition of such an abundant amount of cleanings, a large amount of heat is released, and the soil can be overheated in the summer. Therefore, experienced gardeners warn that care should be taken when feeding currants with potato peelings. A couple of times a season is enough.

A particularly important period in the development of currants is the appearance of ovaries. At this time, she also needs a nutritious and beneficial fertilizer from potato peelings.

Potato infusion, the recipe for which was presented above, is recommended to be used as watering. Watering the plant with it is allowed once every two weeks.

Experienced gardeners know that potato peelings are not only an effective fertilizer for currants, but also an excellent protection against pests, the appearance of which negatively affects the harvest. To prevent the adverse effects of insects, it is recommended to set potato traps as soon as the bush is planted in the ground. There are two known ways to use cleaners as a pest control agent. First way:

• place the skins in any containers - cans, pots, glasses, the main thing is that the container is without holes;
• you can add sweet water, syrup or jam;
• bury the containers next to the currants so that their edge is flush with the edge of the earth;
• the next day, all that remains is to pull out the caught insects from the trap and destroy.

Second method:

• find the wire and thread it through the potato peel;
• bury one end of the wire, and leave the other sticking out on the surface;
• after a couple of days, dig out the bait and destroy the insects that adhere to it.

Both methods have been tested, but care should be taken when doing this. Cans and wire can damage the currant roots. For this reason, some gardeners recommend simply scattering the cleanings around the bush, and after a day, collect them together with the pests that come across and throw them away.

The recipe is pretty simple.

• Pour water into a large container, usually a barrel is used.
• There we also spread weedy succulent grass, nettles, drip, stale bread crusts, potato peelings. The mass of the bread should exceed the amount of other products. You can place the ingredients not at one time, but over a period of time.
• After three weeks, effective fertilizer can be used.
• With the resulting mixture, currant bushes are processed three times: the first time - when the ovaries are large, the second - during the ripening of the fruits, the third time - closer to harvest.

• fresh peel will damage young tender currant roots;
• in the summer heat, the crust will spread a stench;
• dry husks are a real treat for rodents;
• even thin skins can germinate.

Listen to a few more tips from agronomists on how to use potato skins as fertilizer.

• If the blanking cleanings were frozen and then thawed, then they can no longer be re-frozen.
• As a top dressing, it makes no sense to use boiled potato peel. All useful trace elements are already lost during heat treatment.
• Fertilizer can also be applied in winter. To do this, clean the ground around the currant bushes and cover with a film. With the accumulation of cleanings, you can dig out the snow, put fertilizer and bury it again. In the spring, it is necessary to carefully dig up the soil.
• If potato skins are used as an auxiliary ingredient in the preparation of fertilizer, then they cannot be mixed with ash. This is due to the fact that the peel contains nitrogen, which, under the influence of alkali, is transformed into ammonia and evaporates. Such fertilization will not bring much benefit.
• If there is a compost pit on the site, then you can store the potato peel for subsequent feeding right in it.

Potato skins are an effective fertilizer for any kind of currant. This top dressing is especially good at fertilizing the black variety. A properly prepared and used mixture will be a great help in growing large, sweet, juicy berries.

For information on how you can use potato peelings, see the next video.

The potato tubers are covered with skin. In cooking, it is of no value, but is actively used in agriculture. The main thing is to properly harvest raw potato peelings as fertilizer, to know for which plants they are used. If everything is done correctly, the farmer will receive almost free fertilizing to increase yields.

Benefits of feeding from cleanings

The use of inexpensive organic soil fertilizers minimizes costs and application of chemicals. There are not very many effective natural dressings, which makes farmers look for new opportunities to increase yields. And if manure or droppings are not available in every household, potatoes are present on the table of any family throughout the year, and waste from one root crop, even with fine cleaning, is at least 15-20% of the total volume.

The advantages of such organic feeding are many:

The versatility of fertilization applies not only to a wide range of crops, but also to seasonality. Seedlings are fed with gruel, watering is carried out with infusion of potato "waste". In some cases, ground cleaning is used, obtaining a product that can be stored throughout the summer season, and not used immediately. Such organics are used in spring, summer, autumn. It is rich in potassium, magnesium, nitrogen, phosphorus and other valuable elements that a plant needs at every stage of development.

How to procure?

Organic feeding will only be beneficial when properly harvested. Fresh potato waste should not be used. Spread out in the beds, they will begin to rot and attract the attention of rodents. It is not recommended to bury the raw peel in the ground. Decomposition will take a long time, the risk of infection of plantings with late blight will increase.

The procedure for "converting" tuber waste into nutritious fertilizers is quite simple. The peel is thoroughly washed, wrung out, dried, and then resort to one of the following harvesting methods:

How to improve yields?

We are constantly receiving letters in which amateur gardeners are worried that due to the cold summer this year there is a poor harvest of potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, and other vegetables. Last year we published TIPS on this matter. But unfortunately, many did not listen, but some still applied. Here is a report from our reader, we want to advise plant growth biostimulants that will help increase the yield up to 50-70%.

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Dried potato peelings are more practical fertilizers as they have a long shelf life. The frozen peel must be used in full immediately. If it is thawed, you cannot re-place the organic matter in the freezer.

How to store cleaning?

Collecting the peel begins in the fall or winter. If it was not laid in a compost pit, but dried or frozen, the organic matter must be properly preserved. Otherwise, it will not be usable. This is true for organics prepared in either of two ways.

The dried cleanings are transferred to cloth bags. Polyethylene can not be used. They do not allow air to pass through. Naturally dried potato peelings, so as not to worry about the presence of pathogens, when fertilizing the beds, it is better to store in a cool place, and then you can feed the plants in spring without fear of scab and late blight.

Heat-treated skins are stored in a cool and well-ventilated area. They are completely devoid of pathogenic organisms. Frozen peelings are left in the freezer or transferred to the balcony when frost hits the street. Care must be taken to ensure that they do not thaw.

Preparing potato peels

There are three options for preparing nutritious dressings with potato peelings, which can be used to fertilize various crops:

The gruel is placed in a hole or added dropwise next to the plant. Watering is carried out with infusion. Flour is used as a universal fertilizer. Its main advantage is a long shelf life, but it is not recommended to grind the cleaning immediately in the fall. Pests can grow in flour.

What crops is fertilizer suitable for?

Potato peelings are suitable as fertilizer for almost all garden, fruit and vegetable crops. They are versatile and effective, and are an excellent alternative to mineral fertilizing. For perennial crops, such organic matter is introduced into the soil in the fall, and under annual crops - in the spring.

Additionally, feeding is carried out in the summer.

Organic beneficial fertilizer, unlike mineral compounds, does not just give nutrients to plants, but improves the composition of the soil. It promotes the formation of humus - a fertile top layer. Speaking about the benefits of potato peelings, one cannot ignore the composition of this top dressing.
It is rich in glucose, vitamin C, starch, fats, potassium, salt. Once in the soil, this set of nutrients enriches the soil, releases heat, which is especially important for the full development of vegetable and horticultural crops.

What plants need to be fed?

Potato fertilizer is of great value for crops that need starch and glucose. Top dressing is necessary for raspberries, strawberries, currants, melons and gourds. It is useful for other plants, including even indoor and garden flowers.

The need for nutrients, which are rich in cleaning, is especially high in seedlings. Top dressing is best done in a nest. Gruel or flour is placed in the hole, covered with a small layer of earth. A second portion of fertilizer is applied on top, and sprinkled again.

Fertilizer for indoor flowers

Potato peels are great not only for use in vegetable gardens, but also for home gardening. Indoor ornamental crops respond well to organic feeding. The greens become lush, and the plant itself is more resistant to pests and diseases.

Watering is used for indoor flowers. The infusion is applied at intervals of once a month. Fresh cleanings buried in the ground are useful for saprophytic and epiphytic plants. Dracaena, orchids and other flower crops with aerial roots need decaying organic matter.

Fertilization of vegetable crops

Melons are fed by laying gruel in the hole. Cabbage, melons, pumpkin, cucumbers, watermelons, squash are recommended to be watered with potato infusion throughout the season. This will stimulate the growth of green mass and increase yields.

Radishes, garlic, onions and turnips begin to fertilize through watering from the last days of May. Top dressing is applied every 2 weeks. It is better to pour the infusion into the furrows dug between plantings. This will enrich the soil so that the plants receive all the necessary elements.

Fertilizing flowers

Perfectly helps to maintain flower beds in excellent condition. When replanting perennial or planting annual flowers, you need to add a small amount of gruel to each hole. As practice shows, 1 scoop is enough. Further care involves watering with infusion in the phase of active growth and flowering once a month.

Berries

Fertilizer is most beneficial for raspberries and strawberries. The first is fertilized by the root method. Flour is brought in, the earth is loosened. Water the bushes with infusion. You need about 5 liters per running meter of landings. Ground peelings are also poured under the strawberries in the spring. Top dressing is used for mulch.

Shrubs

Annuals and perennials respond well to watering and groundbaits. But, if we talk about the shrub that is most useful for potato peelings, they are considered the best fertilizer for currants, especially black ones. The berries grow to the size of cherries or raisins, and acquire a wonderful sweet taste.

Fertilize currant bushes with dried potato peelings moistened with water, burying the peel at the roots 15-20 cm deep. This top dressing is carried out when the soil has warmed up enough. An event is held every two years. If the quality of the crop does not meet expectations, it is carried out annually.
Increases the yield by watering every 2 weeks. In winter, the bushes, if the soil is covered with polyethylene, are also fertilized. They rake the snow, scatter cleanings, which are then buried.

Fertilizing fruit trees

The trunks are dug around, retreating about 50-100 cm, and the resulting furrow is sprinkled with flour. The soil must be loosened well. Each adult tree takes about 1 kg of top dressing, and for young ones - 0.5-0.7 kg.

It's interesting to know! Peeling potatoes will help get rid of slugs, wireworms, and Colorado potato beetles. It is enough to spread the peel on the ground, leaving it overnight, and the next morning to burn the waste along with the pests that have accumulated on it.

Restrictions

Organic fertilizer is not used for related nightshades. It is contraindicated for the following crops:

• nightshade;
• tobacco;
• physalis;
• tomatoes;
• capsicum;
• eggplant;
• potatoes.

Potato peelings as fertilizer

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• unpleasant crunching, clicking not on their own;
• pain during or after exercise;
• joint inflammation and swelling;
• unreasonable and sometimes unbearable aching pain in the joints ...

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Many of you have probably heard that potato skins can be used as organic fertilizer for summer cottages. This is true, since they contain starch, potassium, and other valuable minerals. This method of fertilization is absolutely harmless, economical, helps to protect the garden from Colorado beetles (as well as their larvae), slugs, wireworms. How to use potato peelings as fertilizer, for which plants they are suitable as top dressing - we will consider below.

What are the benefits of potato peelings for the garden and garden

During the dacha season, potato peelings are used as fertilizer and as protection against some pests. And as a bait for the Colorado potato beetle or slugs, the skins of potatoes proved to be great. One has only to spread them out on the surface of the earth before the emergence of sprouts, and when the pests stick around them (usually this happens at night), destroy them. By doing this, you will protect your crop from such a scourge.

It is good to put them in the ground near those plants that like starch contained in potatoes in large quantities. Rotting, they will give it to the soil, thereby making up for the lack of this product in it. And soggy cleanings are an excellent tool for the seedlings of some plants to take root well and quickly get stronger.

For which crops is potato peel fertilization suitable

Potato peelings can be used as fertilizer for a vegetable garden or garden, because their use allows you to improve the soil and positively affects the harvest anywhere in your area. Let's consider how to apply this tool for different types of crops.

This natural fertilizer will not work on nightshade crops, in particular: potatoes, eggplants, tomatoes, bell peppers. And given the common infections, the causative agents of which can persist in the top dressing, the listed plants can still be damaged.

• all types of currants, raspberries, gooseberries, other berry and ornamental shrubs;
• fruit trees;
• strawberries and strawberries;
• vegetable crops, especially pumpkin;
• flowers, including indoor flowers.

How to properly prepare potato peel fertilizer

Potato peelings as a fertilizer for the garden have long proven themselves in the best way. It is not for nothing that summer residents are trying to find out the best recipe for its preparation. Of course, you can just bury it in the ground. But in this case, along with the cleanings, the phytophthora preserved on them will also get into the soil. And besides this, it will take longer for them to completely decompose than in the case when they fall into the soil in the form of a properly prepared fertilizer.

Therefore, it is worth remembering a few rules for its preparation:

• Dried cleaners should be crushed so that transportation to the dacha and further work with them would be easier.
• Shredded dry peel of potatoes is placed in a barrel and poured with boiling water. This will help to cope with both late blight and other pests that have survived from the fall.
• The grounds formed after soaking are placed in the holes when planting seedlings, and the plants are watered from above with liquid, which helps not only to fertilize the soil, but also to cope with some pests.

Potato peel pest control

Another useful property of potatoes is that it is a great bait for pests. Slugs, the click beetle (its larvae are popularly known as the wireworm) and the Colorado potato beetle are especially fond of it.

You need to start setting traps as soon as the first shoots appear or the seedlings are planted in the ground. This way you are guaranteed to protect the future harvest.

The potato peel pest trap is very simple.

Traps are easy to make. Dig glass jars, old unnecessary buckets and pans, cans or cut plastic bottles into the ground so that the edge of the container roughly coincides with the top edge of the pit. The container should be deep enough and without holes. Put potato peels on the bottom every night. To enhance the effect, you can sprinkle them with sweet water (a tablespoon of sugar per glass), syrup, or add a little old jam, which no one will eat anymore. In the morning, you will only have to go around the containers, collect the pests that have fallen into them during the night and destroy. Just do not throw what you collect over the fence. After a few hours, slugs and insects will return to your area.

Another option for a trap is to bury a long piece of wire with cleaners strung on it in the ground. Leave one end sticking out of the ground or mark where the trap is buried. Dig it out every 2-3 days, collect the pests that come across and change the bait to a fresh one.

Top dressing of seedlings with potato peelings

Fertilizer from cleanings is useful when planting cucumber and cabbage seedlings in the ground. Each finished hole at the bottom is fertilized with potato gruel. One scoop is enough. Sprinkle with soil. Plant seedlings. This will contribute to the fertility of the soil, since the potatoes are tasted by the soil bacteria responsible for the formation of the fertile layer.

Fertilizing fruit trees with potato peelings

Dried peelings are buried within a radius of 0.5–1 m from the trunk, depending on the size of the tree. Or sprinkle the resulting circle with "flour", immediately after that loosening the soil well. The norm per tree is 0.7–1 kg.

Feeding currants with potato peelings

Currant is one of the most common plants in summer cottages. Housewives appreciate its berries for their excellent taste and an abundance of nutrients, and gardeners - for their unpretentious care. It is believed that currants are long-lived and can delight with their fruits up to 15 years. Experienced gardeners know that without proper care this shrub will not stop bearing fruit, but the quality and quantity of the crop will noticeably decrease, and in order to avoid plant degeneration, currants need not only be watered and pruned, but also given additional nutrition.

Potato peelings are the most favorite organic fertilizer for currants, since they contain a large amount of substances and trace elements useful for the bush: starch, glucose, phosphorus, iron, potassium, magnesium, fluoride, etc. Phosphorus promotes the active development of the root system and stimulates flowering. Starch, glucose and potassium make the berries juicier and sweeter.

Gardeners choose this type of fertilizer for several reasons:

• no costs;
• simplicity of preparation and preparation of feeding solution;
• environmental friendliness and safety for health;
• such fertilization does not stimulate the growth of weeds.

You can collect potato waste throughout the year, but it is recommended to feed the currants in early spring, before the flowering phase. You can do this in summer, but in this case there is a risk of overheating the soil, since a large amount of heat is released as a result of the decomposition of the cleanings.

Peelings from potatoes are an excellent source of potassium and starch, which currants love so much. It is thanks to them that currant berries become the size of a cherry. Do you want to get excellent harvests from your currant bushes? Then do not be lazy to collect and dry potato skins over the winter.

Do you want to save as much as possible and not harm the plants in your summer cottage? Then collect potato peels and make your own organic fertilizer.

Conclusion: in autumn and winter, do not throw away potato peels, but rather freeze or dry them, and take them to your dacha in spring. There they will be useful to you in gardening. After all, natural fertilizers are most preferred by gardeners, and most importantly, what benefits they bring to your garden.