What’s That Smell…

Here at Gardening Victory, w'e’re all about sustainability.

That’s why I’m going to teach you how to make your very own fertilizer with things you can find around your home, for free, and organic too!

Step 1: Pull some weeds

Any plant matter you can find. Weeds around your garden, plant clippings, grass, you name it and you can use it!

Step 2: Grab a big container with a lid

You’re going to put all the weeds you just gathered into a large container. Fill it to the top!

Step 3: Add some water

Now that your container is full, you’re going to fill it up all the way with water

Step 4: Now we wait

Give it a couple weeks and it’s going to start smelling awful. Good! The process is working!

Step 5: Fertilize

Once the concoction is really smelly and brown, you can take 1 part fertilizer to 10 parts water to fertilize any plant you have.

That’s it

You just made a load of liquid fertilizer concentrate!

How does that work?

Decomposition.

As organic matter, in this case weeds, decompose they release their nutrients: nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. Fast growing weeds especially are nutrient hogs, meaning they got lots of it. Decomposing these weeds in water make their nutrients easily bioavailable for your plants to absorb.

Cool huh?

The best part is there’s zero chemicals involved in this process, meaning you just made organic fertilizer too!

As long as you can manage the stink, you have a self-sustainable, organic, completely tax-free fertilizer. Now that’s what I call a gardening victory!