I love my garden and growing my gown plants, the majority of these are vegetable, but there are also many flowers. While watching the TV gardening programs, they actively promote using a plant feed, to make sure your plants are happy and healthy. Often these programs don't tell you which one is best to use, and you often find yourself aimlessly looking at the shelves in the garden centre and gawking at the prices.
A little known fact, is that you can make your own very effective plant fertilizer with out having to use any types of mature, chemical or even a compost.
Do you eat vegetables? Even frozen vegetables? Most people do. Before you even start to cook these they are full of vitamins and minerals that keep our bodies healthy. The biggest problem we face by cooking these vegetables is that a lot of the goodness is lost through the cooking so we never actually get to benefit from this.
But by cooking these vegetables carefully your other plants can benefit tremendously. All you have to do is boil the vegetables off in water in a pan on your stove. Make sure you cover the pan with a lid, this will stop the water from evaporating and is much better for the environment as it will take less energy to boil the water. When your vegetables are ready for eating, don't pour the water down the skin like you normally would. Strain the water in to a large bowl, and leave it to cool.
This water that the vegetables have been boiled in should be full of the nutrients from the vegetables. Once the water has cooled (make sure it is hand cold, not warm), you can then store it in bottles. When your plants in your garden (or even in your house) then need their weekly feed, you can give them this wonderfully rich bottled plant feed that you have made from your kitchen.
The biggest benefit of this method of plant feed, is that it is organic. You know exactly what has gone in to it, and you know what is going to on to plants. Not only that, but it will have cost you no money and very little extra effort.
