Sunflower husk as fertilizer: properties and application

Often, waste from some garden plants is thrown away without thinking about their benefits. It is known that sunflower husk, which is also called husk, is used by experienced vegetable growers in different qualities. Only knowing the rules for the use of husks in growing plants in a vegetable garden and garden can you successfully increase the yield of cultivated crops.

Natural products such as sunflower husks should not be simply destroyed. They will serve as a useful service in the cultivation of horticultural and horticultural crops, if used correctly.

Content:

• What properties does sunflower husk have?
• Use cases
• When can the husk be used as a fertilizer?
• Application rules

What properties does sunflower husk have?

Fertilizers play an important role in obtaining high yields, as they provide the plants with the elements necessary for their growth and development. At the heart of sunflower husks, like other waste - sawdust, tree bark, hazelnut shells - is cellulose. It is an integral part of plant cells, protecting them from external influences. Due to this property, sunflower husks can be used as mulch.

To extract a lot of useful substances from the husk, it is burned and obtained ash fertilize the beds. The ash contains phosphorus, potassium and calcium. Moreover, the forms of elements in ash are most acceptable for assimilation by plant cells.

The useful properties of such feeding include:

1. decrease in soil acidity as a result of its alkalinization
2. suppression of fungal infections
3. improving the structure of the soil with its loosening
4. long-term effect of the fertilizer from four to two years

The husk contains no chlorine compounds, which is beneficial for the vegetation of many plants that are sensitive to this element. You can not use sunflower husk as fertilizer where acidic soils are needed for conifers, some types of flowers. Sunflower husk can be classified as useful for the soil and plants of the garden, garden products and can be safely used.

Use cases

To properly use waste sunflower seeds, you need to know how to use them:

• As organic fertilizer do not scatter seed husks over the beds, embedding it in the ground. It will not do any good, only harm. Moreover, fresh husks will attract mice, and they will destroy cultivated plants. Before fertilizing, the husks from the seeds are put on compost in boxes. This must be done in advance, since waste decomposes for a long time. As soon as they are converted to organic matter, fresh manure is added to them. It will increase the amount of nitrogen in the fertilizer.
• You can cook ash from the husk. It does not need to be mixed with other fertilizers - it contains enough elements necessary for plants. It is stored in a dry room, trying to save it from getting wet. In addition to fertilization, ash plays a role insecticide against aphids, Colorado potato beetle larvae, slugs.

Sometimes it is difficult to find material for mulch, and here sunflower husks come to the rescue. Cellulose in its composition will keep moisture in the soil for a long time. The layer thickness should not exceed two to three centimeters.It will not be easy for weeds to break through such a layer. There are many ways when sunflower waste will only benefit summer residents.

When can the husk be used as a fertilizer?

Ash obtained from burning sunflower husks is useful for almost all vegetables. Before plowing the field, three kilograms of ash are applied per ten square meters. For tomato, pepper and eggplant a kilogram will be enough. Before planting legumes, beets, radish 250 grams of ash are added per square meter, and for cabbage and garlic - 500 grams per square meter.

After that, the beds are dug up. When planting tomato seedlings, a handful of sunflower husk ash is added to each hole. Natural fertilizer is useful for grapes... It is added to the pits when planting berries, used as a top dressing during the growing season at 250 grams per square meter.

For potatoes ash is used not only during planting of a vegetable, but also when hilling a vegetable, pouring two tablespoons under a bush.

If you need to get rid of caterpillars on cabbage, aphids on the bushes, then a glass of ash is poured with ten liters of water, insisted for ten hours and the plants are sprayed in the early morning. And the larvae of the Colorado potato beetle will disappear if they are sprinkled with dry ash. Slugs don't like this remedy either. Sunflower ash is one of the sources of potassium. It is actively used as a fertilizer.

Application rules

Compost fertilizer from seed husks and manure is used in autumn or spring one month before sowing garden crops. It is laid out on the surface of the field, embedded to a depth of ten centimeters. You can cover the top of the fertilizer with a layer of mulch. When introduced in this way, it will slowly decompose, giving the plants the necessary nutrition. In autumn, compost is applied to light sandy soils or heavy loamy soils. Thanks to fertilization, their water permeability increases, moisture is retained for a long time in the soil.

A kilogram of composted fertilizer is spread over ten square meters.

Since the main period of fertilizing the soil is in the fall, then in the spring it remains before sowing to add a handful of fertilizers to the holes for planting potatoes, two to tomatoes. Sunflower husk compost is suitable for feeding a new lawn.

Before its arrangement, a layer of compost is laid on the site and dug up or plowed to a depth of ten centimeters. You can safely use sunflower husk as fertilizer. It will not do any harm if prepared correctly.

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