Home Made Fertiliser (Experiment)

I'm going to be honest. I have never made fertiliser before and have no idea what I'm doing. BUT! I'm going to try to make my own fertiliser because I realized I waste a lot of vegetation during food preparation (example: the leafy part of the radish). Also, I'm in college and I'm poor.

My experiment will be based on 2 theories:

1.) If you let something rot in a closed container the container will then have nutrients and microbial flora.

2.) If you let something rot in water, the liquid will still be nutritious and can then be poured into potted plant soil to make it richer (it might need to be diluted).

This is supposed to be a small-scale version of the instructable "Nettle Fertiliser" by tim_n.

I don't have a large yard so I don't need to produce it on a large scale.

Step 1 Step 1 - Find the Container

My roommate gave me a big apple juice container. I guess anything could work. You might want to keep the lid though.

Comments

[explosivemaker]

I'm no doctor scientist, but this seems to be screaming "mold"

[Caulerpa]

Yeah, but isn't there mold growing in compost heaps? I thought that some mold was actually healthy. Maybe I should add some dirt to it too.

[explosivemaker]

there should be tons of bacterial goodness in there...but it just seems like this would turn more into a bottle of slime...compost would have more material like grass/other yard waste that wouldn't give off much water

(like what happens to tomatoes when you leave them in the back of the fridge in a bag and they start to "emit" some liquid and grow mold)

...but hey, go for it anyway...you won't know till you try it

[Holligan_dan]

Add some vitamin B tablets to your mix, helps with enriching.

[Caulerpa]

thank you :] do you think this could work?