Powdered milk

If you have powdered milk that’s past its expiration date, don’t throw it away. Mix one part milk with four parts water.

The mixture contains calcium, proteins, sugars, and vitamin B that can help boost the overall health of your plants. Plants that seem stunted may benefit from a powdered milk mixture. Milk also helps with blossom end rot and diseased pepper plants, squash, and tomatoes.

Teabags

If you don’t drink coffee, you can still use tea bags as a natural fertilizer because they offer similar benefits to the soil as coffee grounds.

To fertilize garden soil with tea bags, remove the tea grounds from the bags and allow them to dry before application. According to gardeners, tea grounds are particularly beneficial for tomatoes.

HAIR (HUMAN/ANIMAL)

Hair is a good item to add to your compost pile, but you can also put it directly in your garden. As it degrades it will add nitrogen to the soil, and human hair can help keep the deer away.

Wood ash

If you have a wood stove or fireplace on your homestead, you have a free source of fertilizer. Wood ash helps add calcium carbonate and potassium to garden soil. Keep in mind that you shouldn’t use wood ash if you already added other things on this list to your garden soil. Wood ash increases soil pH, so don’t use it if your soil is alkaline.

Finally, wood ash can also help keep slugs away from your plants.

Save money and grow healthy, chemical-free plants in your home garden by using nutrient-rich household items like banana peels or eggshells as natural fertilizers.

EPSOM SALTS

Because of the mineral components of Epsom salts, they are a great additive to your garden water. But keep in mind that the magnesium and sulfur in Epsom salts are micronutrients, and Epsom salts alone are not a good overall fertilizer for your plants.

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