If the leaves of the mint plant in your kitchen garden have shrunk during the winter season and seem to be drying up, then there is no need to worry. This is the season to make this plant green again. For this you will not need many things nor will you have to buy any expensive and chemical fertilizer from the market. You can easily make organic fertilizer at home by mixing some things which will improve the quality of the soil and your mint plant will start flourishing again.
This easily prepared fertilizer will not only help in making the winter withered plant green, but will also help the mint plant survive in summer. This increases the nutrients in the soil, due to which the plant remains green even in spite of strong sunlight and hot winds. So let us know what we should put in the mint plant so that it becomes green again.
Make Organic Fertilizer
In this article we are going to tell you how to make fertilizer. Apart from mustard cake, you will need just one more thing. You can prepare this simple solution and use it as liquid fertilizer. With this, your mint plant will become healthy again and big green leaves will start growing on it.
Essential Ingredients
2 spoons of mustard cake powder, 3 to 4 spoons of cow dung, apart from this you need 1 liter of clean water.
How to make fertilizer?
- First of all, grind mustard cake finely in a grinder and make powder.
- Now you have to get a bigger container. Take 1 liter of water and mix cowdung manure with ground mustard cake in it.
- Mix all these things well and cover it and leave it overnight or for two days. Actually this causes fermentation.
- In this way your ready organic liquid fertilizer will be ready, which you can add to the mint plant.
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How do you get benefit from this fertilizer?
Cowdung manure is considered beneficial for every plant. The plant gets nitrogen from mustard cake. Due to this, not only its stems grow faster, but the leaves also start becoming dense, big and green.
Plant Care Tips
- Remove the parts of your mint plant that have withered and the leaves that have completely dried, that is, first of all you have to prune them.
- After this, loosen the soil of the pot a little. For this you use garden fork, spading fork or digging fork. After this, apply the prepared fertilizer near the roots of the plant.
- Keep repeating this process every 15 days. With this, the mint plant will start turning green in a few days and you can easily harvest fresh mint in the summer season.
- Just applying fertilizer is not enough. After this, keep the plant in such a place where it gets light morning sunlight and is protected from strong sunlight during the day. Water regularly, but there should be only moisture in the soil. Keep proper drainage of water in the pot.
Also read: Plant plants at home in this Japanese way, it will not require much water or hard work.