Make homemade plant food with these seven easy natural fertilizer recipes using ingredients you already have on hand.

• Seaweed Tea.
• Epsom Salts, Baking Powder, and Ammonia.
• Burying Banana Peels.
• Animal Manure.
• Aquarium Water.
• Compost Tea.
• Homemade Compost.

Natural organic material can be used to provide nutrients to fertilize your houseplants naturally. Household waste such as coffee grounds, egg shells, banana peels and green tea are suitable, or commercial natural houseplant fertilizer can be used.

Baking soda on plants causes no apparent harm and may help prevent the bloom of fungal spores in some cases. It is most effective on fruits and vegetables off the vine or stem, but regular applications during the spring can minimize diseases such as powdery mildew and other foliar diseases.

Can you use coffee grounds to fertilize indoor plants?- Coffee grounds can be used to fertilize indoor plants, but you are best to make compost with them first. Directly applying coffee grounds to indoor plant soil can cause excessive moisture retention, fungal overgrowth and even impair plant growth.

Composting tea bags is a “green” method of disposal and terrific for the health of all your plants, providing organic matter to increase drainage while maintaining moisture, promoting earthworms, increasing oxygen levels, and maintaining soil structure for a more beautiful garden.

“The best way to use coffee grounds for plants is adding it to your compost pile, and then mixing a little bit of that compost in with your potting soil,” Marino says. Diluting coffee grounds works the same way as diluting fertilizer: using just a teaspoon of coffee grounds per gallon of water.

How to Make Plant Food

• Measure 1 ½ tablespoons of Epsom salt into a clean gallon jug.
• Add 1 ½ teaspoons of baking soda to the jug.
• Measure a scant ½ teaspoon of household ammonia into the jug.
• Fill the rest of the jug with plain tap water, screw the lid on tightly, and swish well to combine.

Apple cider vinegar and other types of vinegar kill plants by drying out their top growth. Vinegar will not kill the roots, so some weeds will regrow after treatment.

Epsom salt helps improve flower blooming and enhances a plant’s green color. It can even help plants grow bushier. Epsom salt is made up of hydrated magnesium sulfate (magnesium and sulfur), which is important to healthy plant growth.

Dry laundry or dish detergents are too strong for plant use, and even liquid laundry soap solution may harm some tomato varieties. To ensure the safety of your tomato, water it well and test spray a few of its leaves.