Fertilizer

We live on a coral island.  We, along with everyone else, try to conduct our lives in a way that does not negatively impact the sea and its animals.

Our drinking water is very pure.  It has nothing in it...no minerals, no solids, nothing.  It is great tasting but has no nutritional value for plants.  Particularly plants in pots.

When it comes to fertilizing plants, you have to be creative. Most manufactured fertilizers contain too much nitrogen and phosphorus which is not good for the sea.

Our gardener suggested we use donkey manure.  It's free and natural and is already present on the island. It is good to use on plants throughout our garden and yard.  Particularly, since it will remain in pots and not get into the groundwater, which is really sea water.

I have collected the raw material for my "fertilizer production operation". Not any manure will do for this operation.  It must be properly dried on the road and not fresh.

The dry manure is collected in a bucket.  Add water and stir.  Periodically stir the mixture for 3-4 weeks until the manure has broken down.

Bucket one is used for the preliminary processing.  A portion of the liquid is transferred to a second bucket to be further diluted. I have been told that a 1/2 gallon of the donkey fertilizer can be used on each plant.

This is my fertilizer processing plant.  It consists of two buckets with lids, two stir sticks and a water supply.

This is my first attempt at making liquid fertilizer from natural materials. I feel like such an earth muffin.