Each summer resident strives to create an environmentally friendly crop on his site and achieve maximum fertility from plants. But how do you do it?
Fertilize the garden - you need to use various means; to fight pests - you can't do without chemistry.
However, there is a "miracle" - a remedy of natural origin, which has a number of excellent possibilities. And this means is ordinary ammonia, the use of which can be found on the farm in many situations.
The benefits and uses of ammonia
Ammonia (NH3) is a colorless gas with a pungent urine odor. When combined with water, it forms a new substance - ammonia (NH4OH). It is he who is used as a top dressing. In the everyday life of gardeners, the names ammonia, ammonia and ammonia are firmly established, meaning the same thing, although in fact they are different substances. For simplicity, we will use all 3 names.
Ammonia for the garden
You can buy the drug at a pharmacy or in a garden supply store. It is sold in the form of a 10% solution and is called "Ammonia" or "Ammonia".
Why is ammonia so often used for the garden? Its benefits lie in the high content of nitrogen - the main constituent of plant organelles, lipoids and chlorophyll. Despite the large amount of free nitrogen in the air (78%), plants assimilate it only in bound form - in the form of chemical compounds from the soil.
The use of ammonia in the garden is so popular which makes it pungent. It is unpleasant not only for humans, but also for insects. The smell of ammonia scares off aphids, a bear, an onion fly, and a lurker.
Ammonia against pests in the garden
To prevent the appearance of a bear in the cabbage beds, before planting, half a liter of a 1% solution of ammonia is introduced into each hole (for this, dissolve 10 ml of the drug in a bucket of water).
We use ammonia from pests in the garden before planting
To prevent the onion fly and the lurker from starting on the site, once a week during June, water the beds of onions and garlic with an ammonia solution (25 ml of ammonia per 10 liters of cold water). If there is a high probability of the appearance of pests, watering the onion with ammonia can be continued all summer.
If you do notice signs of pests (holes in the leaves, midges), ammonia will help to quickly destroy them. To do this, dissolve 50 ml of ammonia in 10 liters of water, add 50 g of grated household soap or 10 ml of liquid soap. Spray the plants every few days.
Soap and ammonia from pests in the garden
The use of ammonia in the garden as a top dressing
Dried and pale leaves, small flowers, lack of fruit - these are the most characteristic signs of a lack of nitrogen in the soil. To eliminate them, the plants are fed with a concentrated solution. To prepare the fertilizer, 6 tablespoons of ammonia are diluted in a 10-liter bucket of warm water and mixed. Top dressing is applied at the root of the plants after watering, once a week.
Signs of a nitrogen deficiency in cucumbers
If the soil of the site is not very fertile and contains little nitrogen, carry out preventive root dressing every 2 weeks. To do this, dissolve 50 ml of ammonia in a bucket of water. Apply the prepared solution after abundant watering.Such feeding is especially fruitful on lilies, onions, cucumbers and carrots.
Precautions
In order for the use of ammonia in the garden to be successful, you need to remember that:
- Ammonia fertilizer is incompatible with other nitrogenous preparations: an excess of a macronutrient is just as detrimental to plants as its deficiency.
- They work with an agrochemical in gloves, a respirator, overalls, and a hat.
- When spraying in the body, the vents must be opened (so as not to breathe in poisonous fumes).
- If liquid has entered the gastrointestinal tract, drink a glass of warm milk and call a doctor.
- Of the active substances, it is permissible to mix alcohol only with iodine.
- Prepare a solution for watering or spraying in closed rooms without free access to fresh air.
- When diluting the drug and using fertilizer, the proportions and dosage indicated in the instructions must be strictly observed.
- Do not spray or root irrigation in the heat.
- People who have been diagnosed with vegetative-vascular dystonia are not allowed to work with the fertilizer.
Timely feeding of flowers and vegetables with ammonia is a guarantee of a future rich harvest. To produce it on time, you need to timely detect nitrogen deficiency in seedlings. If ammonia is used correctly in the garden and vegetable garden, then the plants will be strong and healthy, and vegetables and fruits will improve their taste, benefit the body, nourishing it with important macro- and microelements.
Treatment of onions with ammonia
If you notice yellowed and dried feathers, this is a signal of a lack of nitrogen in the soil and the need to water the onion with ammonia. To do this correctly, dissolve 60 ml of ammonia in a bucket of water, water the beds with the prepared solution every few days.
How to pour ammonia on an onion
For quick onion recovery, foliar feeding is used. To prepare the solution, add 3 tablespoons of ammonia to a bucket of settled water. Spray your garden beds after sunset or in cloudy weather twice a week.
To prevent the appearance of pests, you can root the onion with ammonia. To do this, dilute 30 ml of the preparation in a bucket of water, apply fertilizer under the root after watering.
Ammonia - application for cabbage
Treating cabbage with ammonia is a reliable way to protect it from cruciferous fleas, snails, caterpillars, cabbage flies and slugs.
To prepare the solution for a bucket of water (10 l), take 80-100 ml of ammonia. Spray the cabbage leaves every few days. If slugs appear on it, the treatment can be carried out directly from the watering can and pour over the heads of cabbage abundantly.
Treatment of cabbage with ammonia
In addition to protecting against pests, ammonia, in any case, also works as a top dressing. Therefore, it is better to exclude the introduction of nitrogen-containing fertilizers during the processing period.
Top dressing and watering cucumbers with ammonia
Cucumbers are fed with ammonia several times until fruit appears. To prepare a solution in 10 liters of water, dissolve 3 tablespoons of ammonia. Start watering after the start of shoot growth once every 7 days. During the appearance of the formation of the ovary, the treatment of cucumbers with ammonia is carried out more often - once every 4 days, and with a more concentrated solution (1 teaspoon per 1.5 liters of water).
Feeding cucumbers with ammonia
Ammonia as fertilizer
Yellow and white dried small leaves, lack of fruit, poor development, small flowers are all characteristic signs that nitrogen is very necessary for plants, and soon, as the plants may die. In a high nitrogen content, nightshade crops are required for active growth and fruiting, such as potatoes, eggplants, peppers, cabbage, pumpkin, and zucchini.Fruit and berry crops also need nitrogen feeding, such as cherries, raspberries, blackberries, plums, all of them need to be fed with ammonia.
Do not forget about flowers, as they also need nitrogen for a lush and bright flowering. Peonies, roses, dahlias, violets, climatis will be most happy.
Not all plants like high nitrogen content, such plants as cucumbers, tomatoes, beets, carrots, corn, currants, gooseberries, apple trees prefer medium nitrogen content.
Legumes do not need nitrogen at all, since they are able to absorb it from the air and enrich the soil with it for other plants.
For any plants, you can use a universal solution of ammonia; for this, dilute 50 ml of ammonia in 4 liters of water.
If a weak solution is needed, then dilute one tablespoon in 10 liters of water.
The maximum permissible concentration of ammonia for plants is 1 tsp per 1 liter of water.
Top dressing of garlic with ammonia
Feeding with ammonia is carried out if the tips of the garlic leaves become thinner, begin to curl and turn yellow. For this, a low-concentrated solution is prepared: 2 tablespoons of ammonia water per 10 liters of water.
We use ammonia in the garden for foliar feeding of garlic
They use ammonia from pests in the garden, namely, they carry out foliar processing from weevils. To combat them, 25 ml of ammonia are added to a bucket of water, the beds are watered with a ready-made solution every few days.
Processing tomato with ammonia
For the formation of good strong bushes and large fruits, tomatoes need nitrogenous feeding. If you do not use complex nitrogen-containing fertilizers or urea (Urea) on the beds, add ammonia. To do this, prepare a weak solution: 2-3 tablespoons of ammonia in a bucket of water. Feed at the root, in moist soil, once a week.
Root feeding tomato with ammonia
From ants
Ants can't stand the strong smell of alcohol. Therefore, if there is a need to "drive" them from your site, you can safely apply it.
To start the fight, it is worth purchasing several cans of ammonia in advance, fortunately, the cost is quite low.
Then every day you need to add a few tablespoons of pure ammonia to the branches and places where there are a large number of ants. And the best thing is to locate the anthill and use this method there.
Outcome
Ammonia is a versatile fertilizer suitable for most garden crops. Compared to other nitrogenous fertilizers, it is completely harmless to humans and pets, and also serves as a feeding and protection against pests at the same time.
Despite the benefits, excess nitrogen negatively affects plant growth. Therefore, do not carry out preventive feeding more often than once a week, and use low-concentrated solutions to treat plants, increasing the dosage over time.
The value of fertilizers for indoor plants
No matter how large and convenient the pot is, matched to the plant, the amount of soil in it is limited. The area available for the growth of the root system of a plant is many times less than that which it has in its natural environment. This speaks of the importance of not only timely transplantation, but also the correct fertilization.
Use ammonia as a source of ammonia
In the wild, even in difficult conditions with poor soil, plants receive minerals due to the fact that their roots grow in breadth and depth. House flowers do not have this opportunity. But creating favorable conditions is easy with the help of dressings. Moreover, it is not at all necessary to spend money on expensive drugs.If you carefully study the properties of known fertilizers and their composition, you can pick up an alternative from what is found in almost any home.
So, feeding with ammonia can fill the nitrogen demand of domestic plants. This element plays an important role in the process of photosynthesis and influences the growth of the plant.
