Can sweet potatoes be used as fertilizer?

Sweet potatoes as fertilizer

Sweet potatoes can be used as fertilizers because their main components are starch, cellulose, and minerals. They can supplement plant nutrition and organic matter and are an excellent organic fertilizer. However, it is best to compost them for a month before use and do not use them directly.

There are many plants that can be used as fertilizers for sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes are themselves a natural plant fertilizer. Common ones include osmanthus trees, gardenias, money trees, Christmas cacti, Schefflera arborvitae, orchids, Kalanchoe, and fortune trees.

How to make fertilizer from sweet potatoes

If you want to use sweet potatoes as fertilizer, you need to find an open space and dig an 80 cm deep pit as a composting pool, then put half of it with water and put the selected sweet potatoes in it. After a period of time, the sweet potatoes will ferment and mature into natural organic fertilizer. If you use it to grow plants, the fertilizer effect is very good.

Key points for using sweet potato fertilizer

1. In addition to sweet potatoes, sweet potato vines can also be used as fertilizer. Generally, they are dried, crushed and poured into the ground. The effect of fertilizer is also relatively good.

2. If sweet potatoes are used as fertilizer, they must be completely fermented and decomposed before use. Otherwise, if they are fermented in the field, they will generate a lot of heat, which is not conducive to the growth of the plants.