2023-07-23 13:47:07
For lush flowering, geraniums should be fertilized regularly. This also works without chemicals – with home remedies from the fridge.
Dortmund – Geraniums (also called pelargoniums) are among the absolute classics among balcony flowers and indoors Garten. Its lush blooms embellish every house in summer, be it in the standing or hanging version.
Planting and caring for geraniums – Fertilizer is crucial for many blooms
Although Geraniums are actually useless to bees and therefore some advise against planting geraniums, many hobby gardeners still rely on them. In order for geraniums to develop their full bloom and bloom as long as possible, the plants need a little support in the form of a fertilizer that provides them with the most important nutrients.
If you want to do without chemicals, you can care for your geraniums with natural home remedies. The good thing about it: Almost everyone has one of these in their fridge or in the kitchen.
Fertilize geraniums with home remedies: drink ensures thousands of flowers
Milk is ideal for fertilizing geraniums because it contains a lot of calcium and other nutrients that benefit the popular balcony flowers. To make the natural geranium fertilizer, simply mix one liter of milk with about three to four liters of water. This is used to water the flowers once a month.
Use home remedies for fertilizing: Geraniums benefit from nutrients
Baker’s yeast is said to prolong the flowering period of geraniums and speed up bud development. And this is how you make the yeast fertilizer:
Dissolve 10 grams of dry yeast in 10 liters of water and add a pinch of sugar. Yeast loves sugar, which is why it enhances the effect.Fertilize the geraniums with this mixture once a month in spring, when flowering begins. In summer you should use a nitrogenous fertilizer.
Caring for geraniums or pelargoniums with banana peels – home remedies work wonders as fertilizer
Not only bananas are full of vitamins and minerals. Their skin also contains important nutrients such as magnesium, potassium and phosphorus, which is why they are ideal as flower fertilizer. reports 24garten.de.
If geraniums get the right care, they will produce a real sea of flowers.
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Geraniums benefit above all from the calcium contained in the tropical fruit and reward it with lush flowers. However, since banana peels contain little nitrogen, they are only suitable as additional fertilizer for the geraniums in the garden.
In order to avoid pesticides, which are often found in large quantities on the peel, getting into the potting soil, it is better to use organic bananas. And this is how you make the banana peel fertilizer for the plants:
For the geranium fertilizer you need about 7-8 banana peels. Leave the peels to dry in the sun for about 3 to 4 days. Then process the dried banana peels in a blender to a fine powder. Then mix 6-8 tablespoons of the banana peel powder with 1 teaspoon Epsom salt and 4 liters of water – done.
The plants are now watered once every 3 weeks with the banana peel fertilizer. Around to support the flowering joy of your overwintered geraniums in spring, they should be trimmed and trimmed. And also in summer should Geraniums should be “trimmed” regularly to help them grow.
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