Take a bucket.
Add a tablespoon of rock phosphate. Get you some phosphate.
Add a tablespoon of bone meal. Get you some more phosphate, and some calcium and other minerals.
Add a tablespoon of blood meal. Get you some nitrogen, iron and other minerals.
Add a tablespoon of wood ash. Get you some potassium and other minerals.
Fill it up with water, stir it around a bit.
After a few hours, measure the PH. It will likely be a bit alkaline due to the wood ash. Add ammonia until you get the PH to the 6.5 - 6.8 range. More nitrogen.
Add a bubbler to help keep the water moving to help things dissolve and help encourage growth of beneficial bacteria.
After a few days feed your plants with the water. Since many of the above are not considered particularly soluble in water, there will be plenty of solids left at the bottom which you can use as the starting point for a new batch. What you pour off should be a nice, gentle organic fertilizer that won't burn your plants but will have pretty much all the nutrients they need.
BAMN. Did I nail it?
Add a tablespoon of rock phosphate. Get you some phosphate.
Add a tablespoon of bone meal. Get you some more phosphate, and some calcium and other minerals.
Add a tablespoon of blood meal. Get you some nitrogen, iron and other minerals.
Add a tablespoon of wood ash. Get you some potassium and other minerals.
Fill it up with water, stir it around a bit.
After a few hours, measure the PH. It will likely be a bit alkaline due to the wood ash. Add ammonia until you get the PH to the 6.5 - 6.8 range. More nitrogen.
Add a bubbler to help keep the water moving to help things dissolve and help encourage growth of beneficial bacteria.
After a few days feed your plants with the water. Since many of the above are not considered particularly soluble in water, there will be plenty of solids left at the bottom which you can use as the starting point for a new batch. What you pour off should be a nice, gentle organic fertilizer that won't burn your plants but will have pretty much all the nutrients they need.
BAMN. Did I nail it?
