Make vegetable slurry yourself
Jauche, a herbal extract for your garden plants, is used alongside compost and green manure. Manure promotes plant growth and is effective against pests. The production of manure is easy.
You need that for your slurry
Before you start you need a barrel or a barrel, ideally made of wood or plastic. Now add fresh herbs to your jar until it is half full and replenish it with rainwater or tap water. Since the manure will start to ferment and foam soon, please let five centimeters of air to the edge. If your herbs are already dried, take 9 parts of water on a part of herbs. The vessel covers her, so that no birds or other small animal drown in it. To cover it is a grid, because it must get air on your herbal tea. To stir you need a stick.
Care of the manure
Your manure needs oxygen to ferment. She gets it by daily stirring. One or two times a day is enough. If you ever had anything to do with manure, then you know the stench. Stirring helps to reduce it. If you give a handful of stone powder in your slurry every day during the first week, that also prevents the severe smell. The stone meal has another function: It provides minerals and trace elements in your herbal tea.
Let slurry pass through
The manure is ready when it has become dark and has stopped foaming. Standing in the sun is faster than in a shady corner. You can set up for two to three weeks.
These plants are suitable for the manure
Depending on the purpose you pursue with the manure, different plants are used. Nurturing nettle, comfrey and dandelion promote growth. Even coal waste or the broken Geiztriebe of tomatoes are suitable for your strength. If you want to prevent diseases, then you put on the manure with field horsetail, birch leaves, ferns, onion and garlic waste. Against pests, you take oak or rhubarb leaves for your brew.
It all depends on the right mix
Your manure has stopped foaming and you can now dump it in the ground or spray your plants with it. Before that, the slurry is diluted with water. The ratio is 1: 5 for heavy eaters such as eggplant, broccoli, Chinese cabbage, cucumber, cabbage, pumpkin, leek, celery, tomato or zucchini. For fennel, beetroot, lettuce, salsify and spinach, the slurry is diluted 1:10.
Now you can fertilize
You can attach the manure at any time of the day. The important thing is that the sun is not bulging in the sky. The floor should not be too dry. In this case you moisten it before. There is no rule about the frequency of the application. It means following your instincts. Exceptions to this type of fertilization are seedlings that have not yet fully grown, and more generally carrots, radishes, radishes, beans, onions and all spice and medicinal herbs.
