USE OF BLOOD LEAVES AS MANURE

Today I want to share with you another discovery in gardening -
the use of blood leaves (Amaranthaceae) to manure your plants. I have used  it on at least two  crops - maize and pepper to boost growth.

Last week I noticed that the blood leaves  stems or branches  in my mini-garden were spreading.

So  I decided to prune. I was almost going to trash them when it occurred to me that the leaves may be good in manuring plants.

So I decided to use in manuring some of the maize plants in sacks or bags and pepper plant in one bag.

Unlike two or three  other pepper plants that have been fruiting very well, this particular pepper plant  was struggling with fruiting.

Over the weekend,  after manuring with blood leaves, I noticed that more pepper fruits had emerged on the struggling plant - I was able to pluck some for the very first time in months on this plant.

Also the corn or maize plant I manured with blood leaves brought out tassels (not ears) few days later.

The only bag  of soil I didn't put the blood leaves  had  two maize plants and they  didn't bring out tassels (not ears).

So today, this sunny October 3rd morning I applied the blood leaves on the soil in that bag with the two maize plants and some soya chaff as well.  So  the two maize plants can also get some boost.

I keep learning new things o - almost everything is usable. My five-year bachelor  of Agriculture degree course  and career in agricultural journalism did give me much knowledge.

Nothing however compares with putting some things into practice  - I may also write books from my learning on this to increase knowledge for students.

But right now I am just encouraging  gardeners  that almost everything  is useful - II am thinking  some weeds that we remove and discard or trash may be good for manuring - just cut off the roots so they won't sprout but decompose. I am going to be trying out weeds or plants yet unidentified in my garden for manuring. This mini-urban gardener is thinking deep o!

Public holiday is sure a good time to rest but if  you take a bit of the day to do some gardening, you will likely find the day much more refreshing

You can use containers - bags or sacks, buckets, basins, pots, drums if the ground you have is cemented or tiled.

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