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Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Natural plant food for your garden

If you leave a green lifestyle, then it's time you use green techniques to take care of your backyard. Contrary to popular belief, using environmentally friendly products is not difficult or expensive. All you need to do is find the most appropriate natural plant food to make your garden a lot greener.

In a recent research conducted by the University of California it was discovered that most of water contamination is down to the use of inorganic plant food products in the agricultural sector. The good news is that agriculturists have started to change their traditional inorganic plant food products for more greener alternatives. We all should do the same when taking care of our gardens.

Advantages of natural plant food products

This type of plant food is great way of improving the natural ground composition and at the same time improving the condition and aspect of your plants. When you use natural plant food in your backyard, you will notice an improvement during the developmental stages of the plants. Also you backyard will look green for longer period. Another advantage of using natural plant food products is that they enhance the composition of the ground in your garden.

Also, if you have sandy ground in your garden, you will not have to worry about plants not being able to survive there because by using natural plant food your ground will improve significantly. Apart from that, natural fertilisers will help your ground hold water in a more efficient way. As the natural plant food is made from natural ingredients it will provide your soil with microbes that will help plants develop in a better way.

What ingredients are used to make natural plant food?

Many times people go to the store and just grab any plant food that is  at hand. However, any decent gardener who claims to be so ought to know what the product contains. If you know what components are used to make that plant food you are buying it will be easier to stay away from those products that are not natural. Plants need three basis substances to develop. The substances are nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus and almost all natural products contain them. In case you want to grow roses, the plant food you buy should be made of fodder aliment.

This product contains high levels of nitrogen, low levels of phosphorus and a good level of potassium. Other good alternatives of natural plant food products are brown algae plant food and blood aliment. Brown algae concentrates have good quantities of potassium, but no phosphorus at all. Therefore you should combine it other products to get better results.

Natural plant food for maize

If you grow maize in your field you will have probably noticed that this is a needy grain. When you analyze the amount of substances needed by maize you realize that it is generally higher than for any other grain you grow. The substances maize needs are nitrogen, iron, and potassium to mention a few. Let's have a look at what you need to consider when buying natural plant food for maize.

Stores are flooded with natural plant food products for maize, therefore when you have to choose the most appropriate one for your field it can be a challenging task to carry out. Follow these steers and it will be as easy as 123.

1- The first thing you need to know is that the goals you set should be achievable. Once you have set your goals you should have the ground tested in order to know what substances are missing or have low levels.
2- Deficiency of one or more substances is revealed by the plant in different ways. This means that you need to pay attention to what the plant tells you in order to provide the correct natural plant food product to improve its condition.

3- When the leaves at the bottom of the plant start to get a yellowish tone it means that it is not getting enough nitrogen. In this case as well as using a natural plant food product for maize you will have to combine it with carbamide, nitrate and/or calcium to improve the plant's condition.

4- When the leaves start to get a darker green tone or simply get black the plant does not have enough phosphorus. In this case you should try to find a natural plant food product for maize that contains phosphate in different forms.

5- If the leaves at the bottom of the plant have darker ends, and it does not grow, the plant does not have enough potassium. The best products to treat this insufficiency contain hydroxide, potassium and magnesium.

6- When the stalk does not grow and you notice dark spots on the leaves, the plant is trying to tell that it does not have sufficient zinc. Try to find products that have zinc in different forms.

7- Natural fertilisers for maize will always give you better results if you use them together with products to avoid vascular plants and bugs. There are now some plant food alternatives that come with a component that works against pests.

Natural plant food complex

Thanks to the increase in the interest in the world and its natural resources, agriculturists and horticulturists seem to be changing their methods. However, now that the market is full of natural alternatives to improve the condition of fields in a more environmentally friendly way, crop producers have started to argue which is the most appropriate method to use. The chosen products by most crop producers are natural plant food products because they are not hazardous for the environment or their fields.

As a consequence, natural plant food product sales have increased significantly and the ones who are getting the benefits of this greener way of taking care of fields are natural plant food complex proprietors. The most obvious thing to do for crop producers is to set up their own natural plant food processing complex to make use of the waste matter other people get rid of.

Take the example of poultry farms. Apart from growing chickens to sell, they also get chicken dung, and as they cannot use because they do not have fields to fertilise they just throw it away. Instead of getting rid of such useful raw material they could start a natural plant food processing complex and earn more money.

In Asia, they have already started to open complex where animal dung is processed and sold. The biggest complex sells more than one hundred thousand tons of natural plant food every year. On the other end of the world, the United States another plant food complex has been opened. In the American case, they work together with a rubbish processing company that transforms it into plant food. Therefore, they can produce a lot more plant food. The good thing about this complex is that they use a technique that does not damage the environment.

At the same time they make use of the present nitrogen and phosphorus in chicken dung. However, animal dung is not the only ingredient that can be used as plant food. Other waste matter is useful for the same purpose. One thing to consider is that when the rubbish is processed to make the natural plant food, water is also produced due to evaporation, and the problem is that this water contains harmful substances for the ground when they are in high percentages.

Nevertheless, the need for natural plant food is on the rise and there should more natural plant food processing complex to feed the needs of producers.

Natural plant food- commercial alternatives

Natural plant food- commercial alternatives

We all know that the fashion nowadays is to go green. Therefore, most things are done in an environmentally friendly way to protect the world. One of the most amazing things that have happened in recent years is that agriculturists and horticulturists have started to use more natural products to take care of their fields. As a result, more greener products have appeared in the market and many people have started to manufacture natural plant food at home.

However, it is important to mention that not everybody can do that at home. This is when the market created the natural plant food alternatives to aid those producers who do not have access to making their own natural plant food and who want to keep their practice environmentally friendly.  As consequence, government agencies have created projects to promote the production of natural plant food for commercial purposes.

Desired features of commercial plant food

When you purchase natural plant food in stores you need to read the labels very careful. The label should include a list of ingredients and the amount of each of them contained in the plant food. Most commercial plant food alternatives contain nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium because those are the substances plants need to develop in a good way. In order to make sure that the plant food is really natural you need to check that the level of substances does not surpass ten. One thing to consider is that, although the levels are small the plant food will still be effective.

If the label says the plant food contains carbamide, ammonia and/or salt, this means that the plant food is not natural and that you need to stay away from it. Some commercial plant food often includes oilseed and animal skin waste. Despite the fact that these two components are natural, they can have remains of hazardous chemicals that will affect the natural composition of the ground.

In order to purchase the most appropriate commercial natural plant food for your ground, you need to have the ground tested prior to buying anything. This way you will know exactly what the ground needs and you will be able to choose the best option. Remember that    most so-called natural products are not always natural. In an effort to produce more and to increase sales some companies have included not natural components in "natural" plant food.   

Natural plant food- animal dung rounded

Using a natural plant food product to boost the condition of your ground and as a result improve the appearance of your plants is the best way to protect the environment. With this new green boom, the market of natural plant food has experienced an increase not only in sales but also in the number of products that are produced every year. As the variety of natural plant food alternatives is so wide it can sometimes be difficult to choose the most appropriate product to match your needs. Read on to find out what are the most suitable natural products to take care of your garden.

Natural plant food products are made of algae concentrates, animal dung, wood ash, fish coating and compost. All the natural plant food products are available in different ways: fluid, gritty, powder and rounded animal dung, which is commonly referred to as pellets. Let's have a look at the different ways of using each product.

- Fluid plant food: this product is used to sprinkle it over the foliage
- Powder plant food: this has to be diluted in water and then poured into the ground.

Both sprinkled and poured product application methods are the most widely used among farmers, but they also argue about the pros and cons of each technique.

- Pellet plant food: as this is a relatively new method, more farmers are turning to it due to its convenience and its high effectiveness.  Some of the pros of using pellet plant food are that it is significantly cheap compared to fluid and powder alternatives and this kind of product frees substances in a gradual way. Therefore, it does not exhaust the ground and it lets it take its time when absorbing substances.

They also allow plants to make use of the substances they absorb for longer periods and they will not leak and erode the ground. Pellet plant food has very small quantities of inorganic substances and this makes it the perfect ally to condition your ground. This type of plant food is made of various ingredients such as fish coating, algae concentrates and other sea-related things. The sea-related pellet plant food has small quantities of chemicals that are beneficial for the ground and plants.

However, other ingredients are used to make pellet plant food. You will find chiropteran dung in some products and this is also a good ingredient because of the levels of nitrogen it has.