How to Make Your Own Liquid Lawn Fertilizer

Making your own liquid fertilizer is a cost-effective way to provide nutrients quickly to plants. Liquid fertilizers require frequent applications, between every two to four weeks; consequently, such a vigorous fertilizing routine can leave a dent in your budget. Many of the ingredients for one type of liquid fertilizer can be found in your home. Mix up a large batch to use it on your grass and ornamental plants.

Bucket

Gloves

Mask

Beer

Soda

Ammonia

Corn syrup

Molasses

Dish soap

Mouthwash

Hose sprayer

Garden hose

Pour one can of any kind of beer and one can of carbonated soda in a bucket. Beer and soda can provide grass a great source of the carbohydrates needed for growth.

Add one cup of ammonia to the mixture. Ammonia provides nitrogen to the soil, which essential for plant growth. Be sure you wear gloves and mask when handling ammonia; its fumes can be toxic.

Combine the mixture with one cup of corn syrup or molasses. The corn syrup or molasses contribute carbohydrates and sugars that can be used by grass. Molasses also contains iron for aiding the greening process.

Stir in one cup of dish soap and half a cup of mouthwash. The dish soap will help the fertilizer stick to the grass for absorption and the mouthwash can kill off insects. Make sure you do not use anti-bacterial soap, because it can kill healthy microbes.

Pour all ingredients in a 10-gallon hose sprayer and attach to your garden hose. Walk back in forth in a line across your lawn. Apply an even application by spraying from side to side. Water your yard thoroughly after application.

Make spraying your yard easier by breaking up your yard into sections before spraying.

Keep your grass watered every day for three days before applying fertilizer to decrease the risk of burning your grass.