Adding Manure to Garden Soil: All You Need to Know

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Adding Manure to Garden Soil: All You Need to Know

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Is your tomato plant not bearing enough fruits? Are the flowers of your plant falling off? Are your Rose and Hibiscus plants not blooming at all? Is your Tulsi plant struggling to grow? Are you not sure which fertilizers you should add to your home garden plants, indoor plants, or fruit trees?


By picking the right fertilizers for your home garden, these are all issues that can be effortlessly solved. With the right care and just the right additions to your garden soil, you will be able to grow a thriving, flourishing garden for yourself. So, let's get into it and understand organic fertilization better!

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Why Add Organic Manure?

Organic manure

Organic manure provides nutrients to plants, slowly and steadily. It keeps the soil porous, improves its water retention capacity, and checks the micronutrient deficiencies that may be caused by excessive application of chemical fertilizers. The chemical-free manure affects a long-range improvement in the soil. There is no danger of overfeeding with organic manure as the plant takes the quantity it requires. Organic manure can be used for all kinds of plants.


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Organic Manure for Flowering Plants

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Cow manure should be provided to flowering shrubs at the time of planting or potting. Cow dung manure is the most widely used organic fertilizer in India. Good quality cow manure is well decomposed, dark, damp, uniform, fine textured powder. Along with flowering shrubs, it is ideal manure for making lawns and flower beds.
Cow manure has a perfect balance of all essential nutrients plus it’s high in humus content. There are millions of beneficial microorganisms in cow manure that enrich microflora of the soil. Nutrients in the soil are easily made available to plants because of these bacteria from cow’s dung.



Tulsi Plant: How to Apply Manure?

Tulsi plant

Mix 1 part cow manure in 2 part garden soil to prepare your own potting soil for Tulsi, Aloe vera, lemongrass, and other homegrown plants. Apply a handful of basic Organic manure to your Tulsi plant once a month. You can provide ready-to-use Garden soil mix for regular hardy potted plants. The potting soil of Tulsi should always be kept aerated by regular mixing and superficial digging. 

 

• How to Add Manure to Plants and Succulents Indoors

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Mix vermicompost with coco-peat to prepare the soil-less potting mixture for ornamental indoor plants, and terrariums. Vermicompost is also given to Cacti and succulents, every 15-20 days.

Vermicompost is considered one of the most superior organic fertilizers, both nutrient & texture-wise. This compost, derived with the help of earthworms is high in nitrogen along with all the major macro and micronutrients. Vermicompost consistently releases the nutrients that are absorbed by the roots of plants. Apart from being a great fertilizer, vermicompost is an excellent soil conditioner as well as a growth medium.

 

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Fertilizing fruit plants

Mix 1 part vermicompost in 2 part soil to prepare the potting mixture for vegetable crops like Tomato, Chili, Spinach, Radish, etc. A soilless mixture of cocopeat and vermicompost can be used to grow micro-green leafy vegetables like Amaranth, fenugreek, wheatgrass, beetroot leaves, etc.  Also, apply a handful of organic manure, and cow manure to all container grew vegetable plants every 15-20 days. Such addition of an extra dose of organic manure to vegetable plants is called top dressing. Top Dressing helps in the formation of robust and healthy vegetable plants in pots.

 

Fertilizers for Fruiting Trees

Watermelon fruit growing on a plant

Basic organic manure is added in the pits along with soil at the time of implantation of grafts/ saplings. Ideally, pits of 3x3x3 ft size are filled with 2 parts loam soil and 1 part mixed organic manure. Plenty of cow manure should be provided to fruiting trees every three months by the ring method. Fruiting trees should be irrigated immediately after the addition of manures.

 

What is the Ideal Garden Soil?

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The ideal Garden soil mix is a perfect traditional combination of nutrient-rich red soil and high-quality cow manure. Red soil is porous; it has good drainage, good water-holding capacity and a good amount of humus content in the form of cow manure. Cow manure adds to the balanced nutrient content of the already rich soil. It is also an excellent potting medium for regular houseplants.

 

What is a Potting Mixture?

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Merely adding ordinary soil and basic fertilizers in a pot is not a good idea. You have to figure out the right growing medium and make an ideal potting mixture according to the type of plant you are growing. The good news is, if you do not want to invest extra effort, time, and labour in preparing the potting mixture for your plants, you can buy them in the ready-to-use form online.

 

Is There a Universal Potting Mixture for all Plants?

The Ugaoo Pot-o-mix is an ultimate soil-less potting mix for all container-grown plants. It is a perfect combination of 11 specially chosen materials:


  1. Coco-peat, peat moss, and coco husk are fibrous, soil-less substrates with significant moisture-holding capacity.
  2. Neem powder protects the plant from insects and pests.
  3. Charcoal chips purify the entire potting medium by absorbing harmful substances.
  4. Leaf mould is a good humus-rich fertilizer for pot-bound plants.
  5. Red brick powder keeps the pot well-drained,
  6. Biocompost is a nutrient-rich organic fertilizer.
  7. Perlite maintains aeration by reducing compaction,
  8. Phosphate solubilizing bacteria (PSB) are rich biofertilizers as a source of phosphorus.
  9. Trichoderma is a friendly fungus that protects the plants from fungal infection.
  10. Humic acid is an organic soil supplement.
  11. Biozyme is a bacterial culture, which is an excellent plant growth stimulant.



With the right growing mediums and fertilizers, you can have a thriving garden no matter where in the world you are. So, pick the right fertilizers for your plants and watch your garden flourish like no other!

Happy gardening!