Bread crusts as fertilizer. Useful tips about yeast and bread sourdough. When is grain feeding effective?

Many gardeners, despite the abundance chemicals, prefer to use for feeding tomatoes and cucumbers folk remedies. Especially popular among summer residents are nutrient solutions based on bread, which every family has. Valuable fertilizer can be prepared from any bread waste: crackers, crusts, even moldy pieces.

When and why do you need grain feeding?

Bread is used as fertilizer due to its yeast base. It is yeast, rich in proteins, amino acids, microelements and vitamins, that acts as a biostimulant. Sourdough contains yeast that activates beneficial soil bacteria, neutralizing pathogens. As a result, organic matter is processed faster and plants assimilate better nutritional elements. In addition, yeast fungi secrete substances that accelerate the root formation process.

Brown bread containing a large number of proteins, amino acids and vitamins, used for preparing feeding vegetable crops

The benefits of grain feeding

This feeding is especially useful in the initial period of development, helping to saturate young shoots with carbohydrates and oxygen. The seedlings are actively developing, quickly forming green aboveground part and a strong root system. Weak sprouts that are lagging behind in development are restored. Plants tolerate stress more easily after picking and transplanting into the ground.

Feeding pickled tomatoes with bread promotes rapid recovery from stress

Fertilizing with bread also has a beneficial effect on adult plants:

You can use any bread - black, gray, white. Rye bread, especially those made from whole grain flour, ferment better and also contain more proteins, vitamins and minerals than wheat.

Both white and black bread are suitable for preparing fertilizer.

Video: which bread to take for feeding - white or black

Fertilizing with black bread helps acidify the soil, so I combine watering with a bread solution and adding ash (200 g/m2). Wood ash also saturates the soil with potassium and calcium, which are actively absorbed by the action of yeast.

It is advisable to combine watering tomatoes with bread infusion with the addition of ash.

When is the best time to feed vegetables with bread?

When growing vegetables on fertilized soil, it is enough to feed them with bread three times a season. The first fertilizing can be done in the seedling period, a week after picking. This will allow the plants to undergo transplantation less painfully. The second time, grain fertilizer is applied a week after planting the seedlings in the beds, which promotes better rooting and growth of green mass. Bread sourdough, especially enriched with additional components - iodine, ash, will protect cucumbers from gray rot, and tomatoes from late blight, brown spot. Another feeding is carried out when buds appear.

Feeding tomatoes before flowering promotes the massive appearance of buds

If the soil is poor, you can increase the amount of fertilizing, taking breaks of 10 days. However, after the fruits appear, it is better not to feed tomatoes with bread, so as not to cause excessive growth of foliage to the detriment of fruiting. But cucumbers will benefit from such fertilizing - productivity and fruiting period will significantly increase.

With the help of grain fertilizer you can significantly increase the fruiting period

Bread starter should be added to well-warmed soil, because yeast fungi are active only in a warm environment.

Video: feeding from bread and iodine for plants!

Recipes and schemes for applying grain fertilizer

Fertilizer can be prepared from fresh bread or crackers. For fermentation, you must use only warm (+20–26°C) water.

Bread topping recipes:

• Black bread is cut into cubes and the bucket is filled halfway. Then pour in water so that it just covers the bread. Place a plate on top and press down with a weight. Leave for a week, then filter and dilute 1:3. To water young plants, use 0.5 liters of liquid; for adults, 1–2 liters.

  Concentrated bread infusion is diluted with water

• 1 kg of rye and wheat crackers and 1 glass of eggshells, previously crushed into powder, are soaked in 10 liters of water. After a day, add 10 drops of iodine and 5 liters of water. For irrigation, the liquid is diluted with water 1:5 (1 liter per bush); for spraying, a less concentrated composition is used (1:8). This solution not only stimulates plant growth, but also feeds them with calcium, iodine, and protects them from diseases.

  Bread solution with iodine will protect plants from fungal diseases

• A 200-liter barrel is filled 2/3 with nettles, add 2 loaves of black bread cut into pieces and pour in yeast starter from 10 g of dry yeast, 3 tbsp. spoons of sugar, 1 liter of water, infused for an hour. Fill the container with water and leave for 5–7 days. The strained liquid is diluted with water 1:8 and used for root or foliar feeding (1–2 l/bush). Fertilizer made from nettle bread, rich in nitrogen, is especially useful for plants in the initial period of development. Thanks to the herbal component containing formic acid, spraying with the infusion will help relieve vegetable plantings from aphids.

  Feeding with bread allows you to get a rich harvest of tomatoes and cucumbers. The product, which is on the table of every summer resident, may well become an alternative to expensive fertilizers. Bread starter stimulates plant growth, improves the quality of vegetables and increases the fruiting period.

If stored incorrectly in a tightly closed container, the bread suffocates and becomes moldy. When making kvass, strained grain waste at first glance is also no good. Meanwhile, this grain waste can be successfully used in your garden as fertilizer. The carbohydrate-rich mass is saturated with compounds that are easily accessible and digestible by plant roots. Perhaps someone will be indignant: “What blasphemy to bury bread in the ground!” Yes, it is blasphemy when we allow bread to become moldy, and if this happens, then it is better to use it to benefit the future harvest.

You can prepare a nutritious fertilizer for gardening garden crops as follows: pour bread waste into a tank, add water, cover with a lid and let it sour in a warm place for 10-12 days. Dilute the fermented mass 2-3 times with water and use this nutrient broth to feed garden crops. The result will not be long in coming. The harvest will grow by leaps and bounds.

Valuable quality of fertilizer from bread

There is another interesting use for bread waste. It turns out that weak 3-6% alcohol solutions, such as fermented grain mass, are an excellent stimulator for the germination of dormant weed seeds. After harvesting from the ridges, loosen the soil, removing weeds and their rhizomes, and quickly pour your “mash” over the freshly loosened surface and cover with film. This must be done before the onset of cold weather, about a month. Alcohol vapor, heat, and moisture will awaken a lot of weed seeds to grow, and the seedlings will sprout together. The coming cold weather will complete the work begun. All this can be repeated in the spring, as soon as the snow melts. Rest assured, you will greatly facilitate the thankless work of weed control. Remember, this should only be done in the beds, without touching tree trunk circles garden trees, because on the contrary, they need a thick turf layer to preserve moisture and the microenvironment that supplies the roots with nutrition.

We're used to organic fertilizers mean standard and well-known: compost, manure, peat, humus, manure, green manure... But sometimes some food products can also act as excellent fertilizers. For example, the most ordinary yeast bread. After all, many simply throw away its remains. Do you know how much benefit it can bring to the garden?

I inherited this dacha secret from my grandmother (in the villages before, nothing was simply thrown away). But on the Internet I have more than once come across similar information, which once again confirms the effectiveness of using bread to feed plants.

But I started digging on the Internet not to confirm my grandmother’s recipe with other people (we ourselves can clearly see the effectiveness of the method in our garden), but still to understand the mechanism of how it works. It turned out that…

It's all about the yeast.

In bread feeding, yeast plays a key role. As it turns out, yeast is included in almost all commercial growth stimulants as an active component. They carry a whole bouquet useful substances and microelements, actively influence the formation and development of the plant root system.

In principle, my grandmother’s recipe can even be partially replaced with yeast infusion.

You just need to buy yeast, natural and high-quality yeast, which is not yet sold in any store. And a fair amount of grain residue accumulates over the winter.

What to feed with bread?

Yes, almost everything you need active growth, starting from seedlings and ending with adult plants. This is the most natural stimulant. It will benefit both flowers and vegetable crops (we feed peppers, tomatoes, eggplants, cucumbers), as well as strawberries.

Bread topping recipe.

Remains of yeast bread collected during winter period, put it in a container and fill it with water (so that it covers the volume of bread). Cover the container tightly with a lid and place a weight so that the bread does not float. Let it ferment in a warm place for about a week. Then dilute it a little with water and water the solution at the roots of the plants.

It's worth considering...

Firstly, of course, as in any business, you shouldn’t overdo it with grain supplements. They primarily affect growth. Therefore, apply them only when the plant needs growth most.

It is good to combine grain fertilizing with the addition of ash, because during fermentation quite a lot of calcium is absorbed, and ash replenishes this balance (read about using ash as a fertilizer).

I would also like to note enough bad smell this fertilizer. Although, this drawback can be attributed not only to sourdough, but also to many other organic fertilizers.

If you are a supporter of natural methods of fertilizing gardens and vegetable gardens, then you will probably be interested in a recipe for fertilizing the soil based on bread. This is a very ancient recipe, it has supporters and opponents, but its effectiveness has been tested for centuries, which is why we are talking about it.

What is the secret of grain fertilizer

Wouldn't it surprise you that there is a huge amount of yeast in bread? That's what it's all about. Yeast acts as an active growth stimulator necessary for the initiation and development of the root system in plants. They contain a lot of useful substances and microelements. Plants respond very gratefully to fertilizers containing yeast, immediately begin to grow and thank them with a generous harvest or flowering, if we are talking about flowers.

Of course, the application of grain fertilizer should be timely, that is, not at the height of summer, but precisely at spring time. Then the plants begin to develop a rhizome and the entire supply of useful yeast will come in handy. When growing seedlings, dive and
you plant it in the garden, and now it’s time to flavor everything with bread.

Great addition to leavened bread wood ash, humus, weed grass. This way you will make the fertilizer as balanced as possible.

That is, when yeast runs the risk of absorbing potassium and calcium from the soil, ash promotes their production. However, these are the subtleties of the recipe and we will talk about this further.

Making your own bread supplement is as easy as shelling pears!

Self-prepared fertilizer from bread (with or without ash, humus, nettles) is a wonderful fertilizer for plants. They are highly effective and, moreover, affordable, prepared from available materials.

An alternative to bread can be ordinary baker's yeast - always live, in briquettes, and not dry, powdered. But why spend money on yeast, go to the store, and constantly prepare some kind of solutions, if you can bake a delicious pie from yeast, and fertilize your plants with last year’s bread!

To do this, it takes several months, or even the whole winter, to collect half-eaten bread. Rolls with black bread, oatmeal with custard - anything, as long as it contains yeast. After all, there is also yeast-free bread, in this case it is not needed at all. Dry leftover bread in the oven to prevent mold and store until spring.

When you grow seedlings or pick them, when the plants gradually begin to grow in the spring, it is time to water them with bread infusion. We remember our supplies, find a large bucket or vat and pour old bread into it. Add ten times the amount of water, cover with a lid and leave to sour for several weeks. It is better to infuse bread bait in a warm place, in the sun. The smell will not be the most pleasant; a long-term fermentation reaction will occur. Do you want a richer feeding? Add nettle, dandelion, ash to the vat, eggshells, or you don’t have to imagine and use all these fertilizers separately.

After the allotted time, separate the liquid from what was once bread. Consign waste to compost. It is not recommended to send unstrained liquid to the beds or add crumbs directly to the soil. According to some gardeners, this can attract rodents to the garden.

The strained infusion is essentially a concentrate of useful substances. For its further use, add water to it in a ratio of 1:1 or 1:2 and water the plants during their early growth - at the stage of seedlings, picking, planting in open ground and a few weeks later.

Which plants benefit from grain fertilizer?

Bread-based fertilizer is a natural growth stimulator and therefore has a positive effect on any plant. If you managed to prepare a lot of it, and your beds are small, water them all. However, according to the observations of gardeners and gardeners, there are crops that respond to watering with a bread solution with a yield that is almost 1.5-2 times greater than usual.

Among vegetable crops these are:

• pepper;
• tomatoes;
• cucumbers;
• eggplant;
• potato.

Among garden and indoor flowers This:

• peony;
• iris;
• chrysanthemum;
• gladiolus;
• rose.