So-called organic farming is gaining increasing popularity. The essence of the method is to use a minimum amount of chemical fertilizers in the garden plot. Chemicals need to be replaced with something. Preference is given to natural organic matter. We don’t hesitate to throw food waste into the trash bin. But if you spend a little time processing potato peelings, they can then be used as fertilizer. With a minimum of effort, you will get an excellent natural remedy for feeding.
What are the benefits and benefits of potato peelings?
Any summer resident wants to consistently receive a good harvest from his garden plot, spending a minimum on it Money and strength. Therefore, instead of purchasing fertilizers in the store, all kinds of fertilizers are used folk remedies. Chemical and organic fertilizers, in addition to their high cost, have other disadvantages. In the soil into which you add them, not only agricultural crops, but also all kinds of weeds begin to grow well. If the dosage is not strictly observed, excess chemicals enter from the soil into vegetables, berries and fruits, and from there into your body. As you can easily guess, there is nothing good in such an “overdose”. This will not benefit your health or the soil.
Potato peelings, whose benefits for the garden have been tested by time, are absolutely safe for humans and completely free fertilizer. Unlike chemicals, organic matter decomposes much faster, being processed by bacteria contained in the soil. This means that the necessary microelements will quickly reach their destination through the root system. " By-effect» rapid decomposition - heat generation. If you fertilize in the spring, the soil will warm up noticeably faster.
The structure of the soil also improves. It becomes lighter and looser. This is especially important for peat, clay, and silt soils.
Everyone knows that potatoes are very healthy. It contains many microelements useful for humans - potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, calcium, iron, sodium. But the same substances are necessary for proper growth and development of plants. The most common chemical fertilizers contain nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium.
Potato peelings contain many useful substances that are so necessary for the plant.
In addition, 10–25% (depending on the variety) of potato mass is starch, and 3–5% is glucose. It is these substances that plants store in seeds, bulbs or tubers. Starch and glucose are the main nutrition for the developing embryo. Consequently, potato fertilizer will be useful for agricultural crops at all stages of development.
Another important point is the availability of potato peelings. Potatoes in one form or another are present on the table of every family, regardless of financial situation, almost every day. Even if you remove the peel in a very thin layer, approximately a tenth of the mass of the tubers will still be thrown away. A more likely option is 15–20%. Now calculate how many cleanings you can accumulate by next summer if you set a similar goal from the beginning of autumn.
Video: potato peelings to help the gardener
Pest Control
Another useful property Potatoes are a wonderful bait for pests. It is especially loved by slugs, click beetles (its larvae are popularly known as wireworms) and the Colorado potato beetle.
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.
A pest trap made from potato peelings is very easy to make.
Making traps is easy. Dig into the ground glass jars, old unnecessary buckets and pans, cans or cropped plastic bottles so that the edge of the container approximately coincides with the top edge of the pit. The container must be deep enough and without holes. Place potato peelings at the bottom every evening. To enhance the effect, you can water them sweet water(a tablespoon of sugar per glass), syrup, or add some old jam that no one will eat anymore. In the morning, all you have to do is go around the containers, collect the pests caught in them overnight and destroy them. Just don’t throw what you’ve collected over the fence. After a few hours, the slugs and insects will return to your area.
Another trap option is to bury a long piece of wire in the ground with peelings strung on it. Leave one end sticking out of the ground or mark the place where the trap is buried. Once every 2-3 days, dig it out, collect any pests you find and replace the bait with fresh bait.
How to prepare and use fertilizer?
Raw materials for preparing fertilizer need to be collected all winter
Peelings from boiled potatoes are not suitable as a fertilizer. Prolonged heat treatment destroys all useful microelements.
Of course, if you simply spread fresh potato peelings over the beds, good harvest can't wait. They will begin to rot very quickly, especially in the summer, in the heat, spreading the corresponding “aroma”. In addition, mice, rats and other rodents living in the surrounding area will come running to your site - this is a wonderful treat for them. And in general, plantings “treated” in this way look very unaesthetic.
At the same time, fresh potato (like any vegetable) peelings can and should even be added to the compost heap.
Potato peelings are a good addition to compost.
Exist different variants fertilizers But in any case of cleaning, before fertilizing, it is necessary to thoroughly rinse and disinfect using boiling water, dry heat or cold to destroy the bacteria and/or fungi present on them. Otherwise, you will only contaminate the soil and healthy plants.
To get the right, healthy fertilizer, you need to act as follows:
- Rinse cleaning in cool running water until they disappear visible marks mud.
- Wait until they dry and lay them out in a single layer on newspapers or thin cloth. If weather permits, dry outside in a well-ventilated place, away from direct sunlight and possible rain. When it’s already cold, do it in the apartment on the radiator or on the balcony. Complete drying takes 7–10 days outdoors and 2–3 weeks indoors. The exact period depends on the thickness of the cleaning. Those who want to speed up the process can dry them in the oven. Place the peelings on a baking tray covered with baking paper, place inside and leave for 3-4 hours at a temperature not exceeding 100ºC, closing the door loosely. The procedure will take even less time if it is carried out in a special electric dryer or microwave oven. The main thing is to choose the appropriate mode. The finished fertilizer becomes noticeably lighter, the peels are translucent and break easily.
- You can simply freeze the peelings. The disadvantage is that places in freezer There probably won't be enough to store them. Another most suitable place is the balcony. But as soon as it settles on the street positive temperature, the fertilizer will have to be used for its intended purpose. Thawing the peels and freezing them again is strongly not recommended.
- If the house was dried naturally, the cleaning is stored on the balcony, in an unheated garage, shed, etc., so that the cold destroys pathogenic bacteria and fungi. Place the oven-dried future fertilizer in linen bags and keep in a dry, cool, well-ventilated place. Perfect option- pantry.
- Grind the dry peelings in a meat grinder, blender or food processor until powdery. This ready-made fertilizer is the so-called flour. In addition, this type of cleaning takes up much less space and is easier to store and transport.
- In spring and summer, use dry peelings to prepare an infusion. Place them in a bucket or barrel, filling the container about a third, fill it to the top with boiling water and close tightly. Wait 3-4 days until a characteristic odor appears. Without stirring the contents of the barrel, scoop a liter of infusion from above, pour into a 10-liter bucket and add water (9 l). Now mix thoroughly and water the plants.
- The gruel remaining at the bottom of the container will also come in handy. It is dug into the ground under bushes and trees and added to holes when planting seedlings.
- Another option for preparing the infusion is to pour boiling water over the peelings, wait until it cools to a temperature of 35–40ºC, and strain.
Bury dried peelings in the ground or prepare an infusion
What plants need to be fed?
What plants benefit from fertilizer from potato peelings and how to feed them to maximize the benefits?
Table: how to feed crops with potato peelings?
| Agriculture | Type of feeding |
| Cucumbers, pumpkin, cabbage, squash, zucchini, watermelons, melons. | When planting seedlings in the ground, a “porridge” of dried peelings poured with boiling water is placed at the bottom of the hole. Sprinkle with a layer of earth of the same thickness, then another portion of “porridge” is needed. The last layer is soil again. Then the sprout is placed in the hole and it is covered with earth. |
| Onions, garlic, turnips, radishes, radishes. | Watering with infusion of dried potato peelings every two weeks starting at the end of May. It is better not to water individual bulbs, but to pour fertilizer into the furrows between the rows of plantings. The infusion must first be strained so that the pieces do not end up on the garden bed. On the surface they are absolutely useless, and they also attract pests. Remove the nozzle from the watering can - it gets clogged very quickly. Despite straining, the infusion turns out to be quite thick. |
| Raspberries. | Cleanings in the form of flour are applied to the root zone, then the soil is well loosened. An infusion of fresh peelings is used for watering (about 5 liters per 1 p/m). |
| Strawberry. | In the spring, flour from the peelings is sprinkled under each bush. For small ones, one handful is enough, for larger ones, two. In addition, dried peelings can successfully replace mulch. |
| Currant. | White, pink, and red currants love peeling, but the effect of feeding is especially noticeable on black ones. The berries will become noticeably sweeter and larger, reaching the size of raisin grapes or even cherries. The dried peelings are buried at the roots to a depth of 15–20 cm, after slightly moistening them with water so that they do not take away moisture from the plant. The procedure is carried out in the spring, as soon as the soil has melted sufficiently. If you are satisfied with the condition of the plants, you can feed the bushes every two years. It is possible to feed bushes in winter if the soil around them is cleaned in the fall and covered with polyethylene. As fresh cleaning accumulates, rake the snow, spread it on the ground and bury it again. In the spring, dig the soil well. Watering with infusion of potato peelings every 12–14 days is also effective. |
| Fruit and berry trees. | Dried cleanings 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 afterwards loosening the soil well. The norm for one tree is 0.7–1 kg. |
| Tomatoes (tomatoes), eggplants, nightshade, bell and hot peppers. | Fertilizing is not recommended. Since potatoes and these plants belong to the same nightshade family, they are affected by the same diseases. Even disinfection in the form of scalding with boiling water and drying at high temperatures does not completely guarantee the destruction of bacteria and fungi that cause late blight, black scab and verticillium. In addition, these crops naturally contain the same micro- and macroelements as potatoes. Therefore, fertilizer from the peelings will not have a noticeable effect on them. |
| Annual and perennial flowers and ornamental shrubs. | Watering with infusion of dried potato peelings. Under perennials Add flour in spring and autumn. |
| Houseplants. | Watering with infusion of dried potato peelings. The procedure is carried out every 3–6 weeks depending on the condition of the foliage. You can also water them with cooled water in which jacket potatoes were boiled. This fertilizing stimulates the growth of greenery. Sometimes it is advised to bury fresh cleanings in flower pots, but such “fertilizer” will soon make a lot of difference bad smell, and there will be midges in the apartment. The exception is saprophytic or epiphytic plants, for which rotting organic matter is vital for growth and development (orchids, dracaena, and so on). They can be distinguished by the presence of aerial roots and the ability to grow in water. In this case, you cannot do without good drainage. Add peelings in very small quantities. |
To ensure rapid growth and development of currants, it is necessary to fertilize them regularly. Potato peelings are the best fertilizer for this crop. With the help of this fertilizing, not only the level of berry yield increases, but also its taste improves.
Preparation of fertilizing
Potatoes are one of the main crops that are widely used as food by people. After processing this vegetable, the cleaning remains. They can be used to fertilize a variety of berry crops, including currants. This is explained by the fact that the potato skin and the layer underneath contain a huge amount of nutrients that have a positive effect on plants. The waste contains micro- and macroelements, as well as a huge amount of vitamins.
If waste is used rationally, you should not throw it away. Potato peelings can be used to fertilize soils. If you live in a private house, then they can be used to prepare compost. 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, and soil. After several months, the gardener will be able to obtain high-quality mineral fertilizer.
Use of waste at the dacha
Very often people stay at their dacha seasonally, and cook compost pit they don't have the opportunity. This is why it is recommended to dry or freeze potato peelings. At sub-zero temperatures, you can spread waste on the balcony, which is not heated. Thanks to the low temperature, the dressings will be frozen and preserved.
New batches of cleaning can be prepared as waste appears. When spring comes and frosts subside, it is necessary to remove waste to the dacha, with the help of which the currants will be fed. You cannot store the peelings after they have been defrosted, as this will lead to their rotting.
When drying waste, the summer resident has more trouble. This ensures the highest quality preservation of all nutrients in mineral fertilizers. 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 peelings using a meat grinder. Next, the potato peelings are dried again.
IN spring time waste that was previously frozen or dried must be brought to the summer cottage. They are placed in a container and filled 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 stored in them, which have a beneficial effect on the growth and development of currants.
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Fertilizing currants with potato peelings and ash
Internal use of waste
With the help of the resulting gruel, 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 the plant. This fertilizer is organic fertilizer, the use of which ensures the high-quality development of berry crops. This infusion ensures the production of large fruits of the crop. When used, the taste of the berries becomes sweet. It is recommended to add fertilizer when ovaries form on the plant.
External use of cleaning products
To ensure the highest quality fertilizer for currants, you can bury potato waste. Surface fertilization of plants will also be quite effective. If currants grow in rows, then to feed them it will be enough just to spread the feed between them. It is recommended to carry out this procedure in spring. Beneficial substances from potato waste will penetrate into the soil with melt water and rain. In addition, potato waste will be an ideal food for worms and other beneficial microorganisms.
Benefits of fertilizing
Many summer residents claim that by using potato waste as fertilizer, you can get good results in growing currants. This is explained by the beneficial effects of glucose and starch on the berry bush. Burying pre-dried waste under currants can be done both in spring and summer. When the skins decompose in the soil, it is saturated with useful microelements. Also for recharge of this plant You can use watering with infusion from these wastes.
This fertilizer is characterized high level safety and is completely non-toxic. That's why it's Alternative option chemicals.
Rules for using recharge
In order to ensure the highest quality effect of potato peelings on currants, it is necessary to use them correctly. To this end, you just need to follow a few simple rules. Despite the effectiveness of the fertilizer, many gardeners do not recommend spreading it on the surface. This is because they can attract rodents. Besides, this type the use of fertilizers can negatively affect the aesthetics of the garden.
It is recommended to place dry potato peelings near the roots of the plant. This will ensure uniform decomposition of the feed in the soil and its full release to the plant during the period of fruit ripening. You can also water the berry crop with this fertilizer. For this purpose, a watering can is used without a strainer, which will eliminate the possibility of clogging. By following all these simple rules, the gardener has the opportunity to obtain a rich harvest of large berries.
Features of currant care
Currant belongs to the category fast growing plants. It bears fruit the next year after planting. In order to ensure proper growth of this plant, the following is done:
- Soil fertilization;
- Weed control;
- Loosening the soil.
Currants also need regular pruning of dried branches. This procedure is recommended to be carried out in 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 age and the yield level decreases. To avoid this, it is necessary to regularly update the berry bushes. In summer, it is recommended to keep the soil loose around the bushes of this crop. In order to avoid regular loosening, you can use organic mulch, which is laid around the bushes. In order to ensure high-quality flowering of bushes and a rich harvest, it is necessary to provide them with shade.
Secrets of growing a plant
Currant is garden plant, which is quite often exposed to influences powdery mildew. To avoid the occurrence of this disease, it is necessary to regularly remove branches that are more than three years old. You can also plant garlic or dill near the bushes of this berry crop. The formation of plant bushes 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. To water the plant, you can use an infusion of potato waste. It is recommended to loosen the soil after watering and rain. This will allow you to remove the top layer of soil, which does not allow air to penetrate well to the roots of the plant. Also when timely care watering of this plant is replaced.
If the crop is grown on heavy soil, then it is recommended to dig it up in the fall. For light soils, it is recommended to loosen the soil around the bush shallowly. Because root system Since this plant is located quite close to the surface of the soil, it is necessary to loosen it no deeper than 15 centimeters.
Additional information about growing the plant
In order to retain moisture under the bush of this crop, it is necessary to mulch the soil around it. When planting berry crops in heavy soils, mulching is not recommended. In order for the berry crop to fully develop, it is necessary to feed it. For this purpose, phosphorus-potassium supplements are most often applied. After a certain time, it is necessary to apply nitrogen supplements. It is also necessary to use balanced diet various microelements.
In autumn, before digging the soil, superphosphate is added. All of the above supplements can be replaced with complex supplements. It is best to use for feeding crops natural ingredients, which include potato waste, urea, and manure.
Currants are aromatic berry crop. In order for it to have sweet and large fruits, it is necessary to apply fertilizers. Most the best option are in this case the waste of their potatoes.
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Many of you have probably heard that potato skins can be used as organic fertilizer for gardening. This is true, since they contain starch, potassium, and other valuable mineral components.
This method of fertilization is absolutely harmless, economical, and helps protect the garden from Colorado potato beetles (as well as their larvae), slugs, and wireworms. How to use potato peelings as fertilizer, for which plants they are suitable as fertilizing - we will consider below.
What benefits do potato peelings bring to the vegetable garden?
During the summer season, potato peelings are used as fertilizer and as protection against certain pests. Yes, and as bait for Colorado potato beetle or slugs The potato skins worked great. You just have to spread them out on the surface of the earth before the sprouts appear, and when the pests stick around them (usually this happens at night) - destroy them. This will protect your crop from such a scourge.
It’s good to dig them into the ground near those plants that love starch, which is contained in potatoes in large quantities. As they rot, they will give it back to the soil, thereby replenishing the lack of this product in it. And soaked peelings are an excellent way to ensure that seedlings of some plants take root well and quickly grow stronger.
For which crops is fertilizer made from potato peelings suitable?
Potato peelings can be used as fertilizer for a vegetable garden or garden, because their use improves the soil and has a positive effect on the harvest anywhere in your area. Let's consider how to use this tool for different types crops
This natural fertilizer will not affect nightshade crops, in particular: potatoes, eggplants, tomatoes, bell peppers. And given the common infections, the pathogens of which can survive in the fertilizing, the listed plants may still suffer damage.
- — all types of currants, raspberries, gooseberries, other berries and ornamental shrubs;
- - fruit trees;
- - strawberries and wild strawberries;
- — vegetable crops, especially pumpkin ones;
- - flowers, including indoor flowers.
How to properly prepare fertilizer from potato peelings
Potato peelings as a fertilizer for the garden have long proven themselves to be the most in the best possible way. It’s not for nothing that summer residents try to find out the most best recipe its preparations. Of course, you can just bury it in the ground. But in this case, along with the cleaning, the remaining phytophthora will also enter the soil. And besides this, it will take longer for them to completely decompose than if they enter the soil in the form of properly prepared fertilizer.
Therefore, it is worth remembering a few rules for preparing it:
- — Dried peelings should be crushed so that transportation to the dacha and further work it was easier with them.
- — Chopped dry potato peels are placed in a barrel and poured with boiling water. This will help cope with both late blight and other pests remaining from the fall.
- — The grounds formed after soaking are placed in the holes when planting seedlings, and the liquid is watered on top of the plants, which helps not only to fertilize the soil, but also to cope with some pests.
Pest control with potato peelings
Another useful property of potatoes is that they are a wonderful bait for pests. It is especially loved by slugs, click beetles (its larvae are popularly known as wireworms) and the Colorado potato beetle.
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.
A pest trap made from potato peelings is very simple to make.
Making traps is easy. Dig glass jars, old unnecessary buckets and pans, tin cans or cut plastic bottles into the ground so that the edge of the container approximately coincides with the top edge of the hole. The container must be deep enough and without holes. Place potato peelings at the bottom every evening. To enhance the effect, you can pour them with sweet water (a tablespoon of sugar per glass), syrup, or add a little old jam that no one will eat anymore. In the morning, all you have to do is go around the containers, collect the pests caught in them overnight and destroy them. Just don’t throw what you’ve collected over the fence. After a few hours, the slugs and insects will return to your area.
Another trap option is to bury a long piece of wire in the ground with peelings strung on it. Leave one end sticking out of the ground or mark the place where the trap is buried. Once every 2-3 days, dig it out, collect any pests you find and replace the bait with fresh bait.
Feeding seedlings with potato peelings
Fertilizer from peelings is useful when planting cucumber and cabbage seedlings in the ground. Each finished hole at the bottom is fertilized with potato pulp. One scoop is enough. Sprinkle with soil. Plant seedlings. This will promote soil fertility, since the potatoes will be liked by the soil bacteria responsible for the formation of the fertile layer.
Feeding fruit trees with potato peelings
Dried cleanings 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 afterwards loosening the soil well. The norm for one tree is 0.7–1 kg.
Feeding currants with potato peelings
Currant is one of the most common plants in summer cottages. Housewives value its berries for their excellent taste and abundance of nutrients, and gardeners value them for their ease of care. It is believed that currants are long-lived and can delight with their fruits for 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 harvest will noticeably decrease, and in order to avoid degeneration of the plant, currants must not only be watered and pruned, but also given additional nutrition
Potato peelings are the most favorite organic fertilizer for currants, because they contain a large number of substances and microelements useful for the bush: starch, glucose, phosphorus, iron, potassium, magnesium, fluorine, 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;
- — ease of preparing and preparing a solution for feeding;
- — environmental friendliness and health safety;
- — this fertilizer does not stimulate the growth of weeds.
You can collect potato waste throughout the year, but it is recommended to feed currants in early spring, before the flowering phase. You can do this in the 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 waste.
Potato peelings 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 cherries. Do you want to receive excellent harvests from your currant bushes? Then don’t be lazy to collect and dry potato peels over the winter.
Do you want to save as much as possible and not harm the plants at your dacha? Then collect potato peelings and prepare organic fertilizer with your own hands.
Conclusion: in autumn and winter, do not throw away potato peelings, but rather freeze or dry them, and take them to the country in the spring. There they will be useful to you in gardening matters. After all, gardeners prefer natural fertilizers most of all, and most importantly, what benefits they bring to your garden.
Potato dishes most often appear on our tables. This means that there are a lot of potato peelings left over, even if you peel the tubers carefully, with a minimum level of waste. But it is precisely in the peel and right under it that the greatest number vitamins and nutrients. This is an excellent reason to benefit from potato peelings and use them, for example, as fertilizer for your garden.
Potato peelings are a good fertilizer for the garden
If you live in a private house or are the owner summer cottage, then you probably send the potato peelings to the compost bin. What should residents of city apartments who go to their dachas only during the season do? Throwing cleaning products in the trash can is not the best the best option. You can easily store them until spring by drying or freezing them.
Don't throw away potato peelings, they make free natural fertilizer
Potato peelings will serve you well. They will become good fertilizer for many plants, environmentally friendly, and most importantly - free. Most often, it is enough to simply bury them in the ground so that when they decompose, they release useful substances into the soil. But cleanings can also help you with “external” use in pest control.
Benefits for various plants
First of all, it is worth noting that fertilizer and fertilizing from peelings are categorically not suitable for plants of the nightshade family, such as:
- tomatoes;
- potato;
- capsicum;
- eggplant;
- nightshade;
- physalis;
- tobacco.
These plants are related, therefore, firstly, the substances and microelements contained in the peelings will simply be useless for them, and secondly, they have common diseases. Such feeding can lead to infection with late blight and black scab.
Note! Heat treatment disinfects potato peelings, killing pathogens of late blight and scab. Therefore, if you dried the peelings in the oven at high temperatures or poured boiling water for infusion, the fertilizer will not harm the plants.
But other plants will be very happy with this feeding in any form:
Rules for the preparation of raw materials and the nuances of preparing the infusion
if you have open balcony, you can freeze the peelings on it as they appear in small portions. With this method, all vitamins and valuable substances are preserved. True, there is one drawback. As soon as the temperature rises, the cleaning will begin to thaw and rot, which means it will smell unpleasant. It is unlikely to be possible to store them in the freezer, since there are other products in it. Therefore, you will have to immediately go to the dacha and use the cleaning products as intended as soon as possible.
You can use the second method - dry the cleaning. Although this is more difficult in the process, it is much more convenient in terms of storing the finished product. Dry the cleaning materials by spreading them out in an even layer on a radiator or windowsill. You can use the oven to speed up the drying process. 2-3 hours at 140 degrees are enough for each batch of cleaning. After drying, you can store them in linen bags, which is very convenient.
If you want to achieve a greater effect, twist the dried ones in the oven or on a cleaning battery in a meat grinder, and then dry them again. This way you will get potato flour that will decompose in the soil much faster than whole peelings.
Place the prepared peelings in a barrel and pour boiling water over them to obtain a nutritious infusion
In the spring, place the collected potato peelings, previously dried or frozen, in a large container, for example, in a barrel, and pour boiling water over them. Leave to soak for a day, stirring occasionally. As a result, you will receive a solution and gruel, which contains vitamins, minerals, salts and starch necessary for many plants.
Table: principle of applying fertilizer from potato peelings
Target | Way |
Application for seedlings | Seedlings of any crops, except nightshades, take potato pulp well when planted in the ground. Pour 1 scoop of gruel into the bottom of the prepared hole, sprinkle with soil and plant the seedlings. |
Plant nutrition | Strain the infusion of potato peelings, water the remaining liquid with a small amount of grounds at the roots of the plants. Such feeding is equivalent organic fertilizers. Do it every 2 weeks. |
For indoor flowers | Pour a solution of dried, ground into flour peelings houseplants at least once a month. Also, when replanting, you can put a small amount of the grounds from the solution into the pot. |
For garden flowers | When planting annuals or replanting perennial flowers, add the pulp from the infusion (1 scoop) into the holes under each flower. During the growth and flowering period, water the flowers with a solution from a watering can once a month. |
For fruit and berry trees and bushes | You can simply bury whole dried peelings in the soil in a circle around the trunk. |
Video about using potato peelings as fertilizer
Fertilizers made from potato peelings were known to our grandmothers, but now they are gaining popularity again. The material is affordable, environmentally friendly and easy to process and use, perfect for both pumpkin family plants and black and red currants. Have a good harvest!
Today you can find many in specialized stores. But high price does not always allow you to purchase necessary funds. In this case, you can use something that can always be found in any home - potato peelings. In our article we will tell you how to use this and for which plants this feeding method is suitable.
Useful properties and composition
Bacteria living in the soil digest potato peelings quite easily. Decaying, everything nutrients end up in, and are subsequently absorbed by the root system.
During this process, heat is released, which contributes to warming, and this has a positive effect on the growth of crops. Potato peelings can increase the fertility of the land and increase the quality and quantity of the harvest.
Important! When drying potato skins, take care not to expose them to Sun rays. You should also protect cleaning from rain. Otherwise, they will either burn or rot.
The benefits of potatoes are obvious, as they are rich in nutrients and vitamins. It includes: - glucose;
- organic acids;
- starch;
- vitamins;
- mineral salts;
- fats;
- micro- and macroelements.
Such a set of useful substances will definitely have a positive effect on the growth of crops. In addition, potato peelings have the following advantages over:
- they are available;
- are able to increase the concentration of fertile humus in the soil;
- can, which ensures the flow of oxygen to the root system;
- are pure organic matter;
- help get rid of.
Using potato peelings, you can be sure that the harvest is environmentally friendly, since they do not contain chemical elements.
For which crops is the fertilizer suitable?
Potato peelings can be used as fertilizer for or, because their use improves the soil and has a positive effect on the harvest anywhere in your area. Let's consider how to use this tool for different types of crops.
Vegetable garden
The infusion of purifications will also have a beneficial effect on crops. It will help increase green mass and gain strength, which will ensure a rich harvest. 
You can also fertilize with infusion of potatoes and. Feeding should begin at the end of May and should be carried out every 2 weeks. It is not at all necessary to pour the infusion directly at the root - just water it with a watering can.
When doing this, make sure that pieces of potato peelings do not fall on the ground, as they will attract rodents and others.
Garden
Potato peelings are ideal for the role of fertilizer for, and we will tell you how to use them below. They will be especially useful for black berries. Fertilizing helps to increase the size of the fruit, in some cases catching up in size.
Every year, it is recommended to place potato pulp or soaked skins under each one in a hole 20 cm deep, after which the mixture is sprinkled with earth. In spring and summer, you can feed with infusion, once every 2 weeks.
You can also fertilize with potato infusion or flour. After fertilizing, the soil should be loosened. If you decide to fertilize, it is better to use potato flour for this, sprinkling it under the bushes twice a month.Feeding currants and other crops in the spring with potato peelings will definitely ensure a healthy and rich harvest!
Indoor
Potato peelings can also be used for fertilizer. Their pre-prepared infusion is recommended. This event should be carried out once every 3-6 weeks.
However, if you are at the dacha only on weekends, you should use other methods of storing skins - drying or freezing. If there is sub-zero temperature, you can store the skins on the stove until it gets warmer outside.
An increase in temperature can lead to their rotting, so in the spring the material for fertilizer should be taken to a compost pit. 
You can also use a method such as drying for storage. This method is more troublesome, but still reliable. You can dry the cleaning using radiators, or an oven is also suitable. Then it is recommended to grind them in a meat grinder, and then put them in the oven again to dry.
This way, you will already have ready-made raw materials that can be used as fertilizers.
With the arrival of spring, dried or frozen peelings must be transferred to a large container and filled with boiling water. The mixture is stirred for several days so that it is evenly soaked.
How to prepare fertilizer
Potato peels can be used as fertilizer in any form. We invite you to familiarize yourself with each of them.
Infusion
Making an infusion is quite simple. You will need some raw or frozen skins. It is necessary to fill them hot water and leave to infuse for a day. The prepared liquid can be used by watering plants. The infusion is successfully used both at home and for fertilizer.