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Don't throw watermelon skin, use it for composting, so it doesn't cost money!

Hank Schrader
2020-08-04 15:08:15
Summer is coming, and it's time to eat watermelon again. My friends, are you throwing away all the watermelon skins you have eaten? What a waste! In fact, watermelon skin is rich in nutrition, rich in protein, water, nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, which is a very good flower fertilizer. Today, we will learn to retouch watermelon skin with flowers!

The first step

Watermelon flower fertilizer

Pick a big watermelon, eat the watermelon pulp, only the watermelon skin.

The second step

Watermelon flower fertilizer

Use a spoon to scrape the red flesh out of the watermelon skin, because the sugar content in the flesh is too high, and put it together with the watermelon skin for composting, which is easy to attract small flying insects and ants.

The third step

Watermelon flower fertilizer

Use the kitchen knife to cut the watermelon skin vertically into thin strips. When cutting, pay attention not to let the knife cut your hand!

The fourth step

Watermelon flower fertilizer

Use a kitchen knife to cut the watermelon rind into small cubes.

The fifth step

Watermelon flower fertilizer

Put the watermelon husk in the plastic bottle. Don't fill it too full. Leave a finger space

The sixth step

Watermelon flower fertilizer

After the watermelon skin is packed, there is no need to add water in the plastic bottle, and then close the lid. Don't cover the lid too tightly, leave some seams, so as to avoid flatulence.

The seventh step

Watermelon flower fertilizer

Put the plastic bottle with watermelon skin on the balcony where there is light, the sun is more easy to rot faster

The eighth step

Watermelon flower fertilizer

Every day, open the lid of the plastic bottle to breathe. The retting of watermelon skin generally has no taste. If you are worried about the taste, you can put in some orange skin.

The ninth step

Watermelon flower fertilizer

Summer watermelon skin retting 10 and a half days will be out of water, this water can be poured out, directly used to water flowers, fertilize flowers. And the rest of the watermelon skin can be put in the bottle to continue drying until the watermelon skin no longer water. The rest of watermelon skin residue, we can bury it in the bottom of the pot, as the flower fertilizer.

The tenth step

Watermelon flower fertilizer

If you are a novice, worry about retting out the watermelon skin water to burn the root, you can dilute according to the watermelon skin water: water = 1:10 ratio, dilute and then water the flowers.

The eleventh step

Watering flowers with watermelon peel

Fertilize the flowers with watermelon peel, the effect is very good! Azalea, jasmine, gardenia, Begonia all kinds of flowers are applicable, and the fertilizer effect is moderate and does not hurt the root.

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