where can I get organic fertilizer in kenya? are there any stockists?
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Organic fertilizers are best utilized when comprised as the excess of what you already have growing. You will find you already have green waste (high in nitrogen) from plants and trees around your property and brown waste from dried leaves and seed hulls and tree needles. Phosphorous, from sea shells and potassium, from sea salts are very important natural fertilizers. You should also find a manure source - a couple chickens or a pig will do best. Save also all your kitchen scraps except meat fats or cooking oil.
If you chop these things small and make the tallest pile you can of alternate layers of the ingredients and wet it down and turn the pile over once in a while, you'll soon have a rich and nutritious compost to spread over your plant beds to revitalize them. If you can get a clean oil drum with a cover, drill some holes in the sides to allow air to get in and set this in a sunny spot and you can compost faster while retaining more nutrients under the lid.
Another way to fertilize tired soil is to stagger plantings...if a field is tired and producing poor crops, try planting legumes to restore nitrogen to the dirt. Also, a hedgerow as a windbreak around the property protects the topsoil from blowing away.
There is a free book online called "Managing Nutrient Cycles to Sustain Soil Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa" at the CIAT website that includes reports of studies of organic fertilization experiments in Kenya.
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