Tips to Make Your Home Garden Fertile

Gardening was always a favorite past time hobby for all age groups. In recent past when space became a problem or constrain for urbanites, home garden, terrace, kitchen garden etc have become no one recreation medium. Here are some tips for making your home garden fertile without using any chemical fertilizer.

Earth worm
Earth worm is also called "Friend of Soil"; it eats humus, leaves, sticks etc which are left in the soil and make the soil clean. Earth worm digs the soil making it porous, aerated and fertile by its feacus which is generally in round shape. So earth worm is also called the prowler, it loosen the soil enriches the soil, thus help in holding more water in the soil. Therefore it is a must for any home garden.

Leafy manures
To make your home gardens soil Lome, light and fertile use of leafy manures is a mandatory. Making of Manures: Dig a hole of 2x2 ft , cut leaves in to pieces or used remains of vegetables, fill up to 1 ft height then cover with some oil and little urea on the top of this layer. Again add cut leaves on the top of first layer, then close the hole with soil and leave it as such till 20 days. By 20 days the leaves will be totally converted in to manure. After 20 days remove the manure and add this to your garden soil or in pots.

Decomposed cow dung
Cow dung when fully decomposed becomes good manure. Preparation of cow dung manure is similar to Leaf manure. First you dig hole of 2x2 ft hole put cow dung and cover the pit by soil and keep it for 21 days. Then when cow dung is fully decomposed the bad smell stops. Then you dig the hole, remove and add along with leaf manure to the soil. The soil will be fertile & will hold more water, soil will be loose and plants will grow well.

Mixture of Leaf manure and Cow Dung
While preparing pots or flower beds, you can use natural fertilizer like Leaf manure and cow dung manure. The percentage will be 50% soil 25% leaf manure 20% cow dung manure and balance 5% sand. Mixture of all the four above mentioned manure with some termite resistance powder in this. Mix it well with hands and then put this in pots or flower beds and sow plants and water regularly can have healthy plants or flowers plants.

The above are few tips to make your garden soil fertile, loosen and well aerated. You will have healthy garden without any chemical fertilizer. This way one can have natural fertile and eco- friendly home gardens.