Kitchen waste

[Hybrid]

I do bokashi and have so far used the bokashi juice in my garden, but now I want tro try to make my own fertilizer to revitalize used soil.
Does anyone have a recipe for making a NKP-fertilizer based on kitchen waste?
So far I know coffeegrounds, bone meal and banana peels can be a good start, but how much of each component, how to mix it and when to use it?

 

[DTOM420]

I don’t have a recipe for a fertilizer but I’m looking at some stuff along these lines. First, doing a couple of worm gardens with an emphasis on feeding one a balanced diet with plenty of nitrogen and a second garden that gets fed heavy PK foods. Those castings will be primarily used for making aerated teas; but I’ll use excess castings as soil amendments. Second, I’m composting (including horse manure and chicken manure) and getting ready to follow you down the Bokashi route. Again, depending on what you compost can influence the balance of nutrients in the compost. Finally, I’m researching the soilfoodweb and microbiology of soil to make nutrients more accessible to my plants. While it’s not a “fertilizer” per se, making it easier for my plants to uptake nutrients achieves the same goal; and hopefully with less waste and better taste.

Hopefully someone far more knowledgeable comes along with an actual recipe like you asked for. Just thought I’d share what I’m looking at along a parallel route. Best of luck with your search!

I just found this thread over on Rollitup that I thought you might find interesting: https://www.rollitup.org/t/organic-...rmicomposting-soil-mixes-sips-etc-q-a.951076/

 

[Hybrid]

I don’t have a recipe for a fertilizer but I’m looking at some stuff along these lines. First, doing a couple of worm gardens with an emphasis on feeding one a balanced diet with plenty of nitrogen and a second garden that gets fed heavy PK foods. Those castings will be primarily used for making aerated teas; but I’ll use excess castings as soil amendments. Second, I’m composting (including horse manure and chicken manure) and getting ready to follow you down the Bokashi route. Again, depending on what you compost can influence the balance of nutrients in the compost. Finally, I’m researching the soilfoodweb and microbiology of soil to make nutrients more accessible to my plants. While it’s not a “fertilizer” per se, making it easier for my plants to uptake nutrients achieves the same goal; and hopefully with less waste and better taste.

Hopefully someone far more knowledgeable comes along with an actual recipe like you asked for. Just thought I’d share what I’m looking at along a parallel route. Best of luck with your search!

I just found this thread over on Rollitup that I thought you might find interesting: https://www.rollitup.org/t/organic-...rmicomposting-soil-mixes-sips-etc-q-a.951076/

Thanks for the link
I really like your idea making a KP-fertilizer, Nitrogen can easily be added the soil before or after but I guess having a N-free fertilizer can be very beneficial

 

[MickJ]

Comfrey is good for p or k , can't remember. Grows like mad where I live.

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[Hybrid]

Comfrey is good for p or k , can't remember. Grows like mad where I live.

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Thanks mate, had to google it and it’s high on potassium.
Bananas and Comfrey are good for K, pee, legumes and coffee grounds are good for Nitrogen.
Now we just have to find a good source for P

 

[MickJ]

Chicken shit and banana peel has both.

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[Hybrid]

Chicken shit and banana peel has both.

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Need to find a farmer so I can get some manure
Can't wait to start to grow in the bokashi buckets, guess that soil have it all. I will try that the next round
But how many banana peels do one average autoflower plant require to cover it's demand for Potassium?

 

[DTOM420]

Chicken shit and banana peel has both.

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Chicken manure has P an K? That’s awesome because I’ve stared collecting it from my coop and storing both the pure poop I scrape off the poop boards and the bedding I clean out 2x per year that’s wood flakes and manure and feathers mixed. I’ve got it composting currently. I’m using horse manure from my horses and composting that separately. I had forgotten what the chicken poop had in it but I knew it’d be useful for something in the garden. Lol! I’ll probably collect some cow manure out of one of the neighbors’ pastures and start composting it through the winter.

Would it be better to compost each manure separately and add them individually or to blend them together into one big compost pile?

 

[Eyes on Fire]

Well if you contact a farmer.make sure his heard is healthy and zero pathogens along with little or NO antibiotics. It'll take some real work to make a quality batch of fresh manure.Separate compost piles are best.They can be mixed once they are fully composted and cooled.

 

[DTOM420]

Well if you contact a farmer.make sure his heard is healthy and zero pathogens along with little or NO antibiotics. It'll take some real work to make a quality batch of fresh manure.Separate compost piles are best.They can be mixed once they are fully composted and cooled.

Thanks @Eyes on Fire ! Actually, I work on a property with a cattle operation and it’s all grass fed and healthy. We only occasionally treat a sick animal. The cows are pretty wild so there’s not much interaction except when we round them up to pull steers off for sale. It’d be a pain but I can actually gather it up out in the pastures one pie at a time. I’ll just keep a barrel and a shovel in the truck and when I find a spot where some were loitering, I can gather some up.

How would I know when it’s “good”