With products in which yeast is present, a person comes across every day. People buy bread, kvass, medicines, biological supplements to food. But the yeast fertilizer for seedlings is a relatively new and unusual way of using them.
Feeding with yeast plants
Yeast fertilizing is an excellent option for restoring soil and giving fresh forces to plants. And you can use both dry and pressed yeast, they equally contribute to accelerated growth and increase crop yields. But such yeast feeding is completely counter-indicative, for example, to a potato. The tubers will become loose, and the harvest will not be saved.
Garlic and onions, too, to feed yeast is not worth it. And the benefits for carrots, radishes and various berries is huge. In addition, yeast can be used for:
- tomatoes;
- beans;
- courgettes;
- cucumbers.
In yeast, high content of mineral components and protein, as well as organic iron and amino acids. But experienced gardeners do not advise using yeast dressing often. Enough of one treatment during the growth of seedlings and three treatments per season after landing on a permanent place with observance of equal time intervals.
Yeast for plants as a fertilizer
Yeast as a fertilizer has the following advantages:
- yeast extract is able to completely replace complex fertilizers that need to be introduced throughout the season;
- You can prepare fertilizer yourself, it's not difficult;
- if you exceed the dosage of the solution of the plant will not suffer;
- With the help of fertilizer, the root system of cuttings, which are poorly developed, is stimulated;
- low cost of the product.
Specialists note that the principle of the fertilizer is simple: due to the fungus, which is contained in yeast, the composition of the soil is reconstructed. The activity of microorganisms is activated, for which an enabling environment has been created. Thanks to microorganisms, organics are processed faster, and potassium and nitrogen enter the soil.
Feeding of seedlings with yeast: a recipe
You can prepare a yeast fertilizer using several recipes. The costs for the entire process of yeast feeding are several minutes, and yeast, potato tops, hops, weeds, fallen leaves, old hardened bread, etc. can be included in the composition. Bread should be without mold, just stale.
A universal recipe for yeast dressing for seedlings : in a bucket of 10 liters you need to put a few crusts of bread, pour a glass of sour milk, add 200 g of ashes, add a batch of yeast. At the next stage, you need to pour in water, wrap the container in an old blanket and put it in heat to start the fermentation process. Twice a day, the infusion should be mixed, and a week later they can water the plants.
Extra fertilization of seedlings with dry yeast: a recipe
For many gardeners and truck farmers the fertilizing of seedlings with dry yeast and sugar has become a real wand. Prepare everything easily: you need to pour in a 10-liter bucket of water 2 tbsp. spoons of dry yeast, 4-5 tablespoons of sugar, add vitamin C and 500 g of wood ash. The composition is mixed and insisted for 24 hours. Before watering, 1 part of the infusion is diluted with 10 parts of clean water.
Feeding of seedlings with live yeast: recipes
Feeding seedlings with live yeast can increase the immunity of plants and saturate future fruits with vitamins. Recipes are mass, in a variety of variations, and the proportions depend only on the components that will be mixed. The most common recipes are:
- Briquettes of "live" yeast (100 g) are bred in ten liters of warm water and insist for exactly a day. Other components in this case are not added, watered with pure yeast infusion.
- In a barrel with a capacity of 70 liters, add a bucket of green fresh grass, 500 g of stale bread or biscuits, 500 g of yeast, pour all with warm water. Insist all two days, then watered the garden.
How long does the yeast solution for feeding?
So, how much can yeast yeast feed for plants? Long store the prepared solution can not be better to use all at a time, and for each new treatment, prepare a fresh infusion. It is very important to take fresh yeast, the shelf life of which has not yet come to an end, because of the delayed damage will not, but also benefit.
Before irrigating the soil with a yeast tincture, you need to be sure that the soil is completely warmed up. In cold conditions, the activity of useful fungi will stop. As a result, the desired result will not be achieved. But if the plants get sick, yeast feeding can be used, it will not cause the death of crops.