AimÂ
This artichel persuade readers to manage organic waste well into something valuable and beneficial for the environment and to tell readers about onion peel fertilizer.
Introuction
If we talk about waste, things that will appear in our mind are dirty, smell, untidy, and disgusting. Essentially, waste is produced by humans. Waste has a kind of type, and the common one is organic waste. Organic waste is environmentally friendly dirt that can be recycled into beneficial things. According to the Ministry of Environment and Forest, the highest contributor to waste came from the household industry with an amount of 36% while the traditional market that we thought was the main problem only has an amount of 24%. Can you believe it? Therefore, regardless of what type of waste is need to be handled from the smallest element of society that is household. If waste is not managed well, Â it causes many diseases and smell, because organic waste decays faster than other. The well-managed organic waste can be something new that is valuable and useful for the environment.
Materials and Method
Do you know? One of the beneficial household organic waste is onion peel, it is usually used as a natural food coloring, but it can be used as an organic fertilizer that can increase plant quality and improve soil nutrients. Onion peel are a great source of minerals like iron, calcium, magnesium and coppe. Onion peel also rich of antioxidant and phosphor, a lot of studies proved that onion peel can be used as an efficient organic fertilizer. Studies proved that onion peel fertilizer can improve vegetables such as lettuce nutrition quality and also improve size and freshness, and there's a study that this fertilizer is also good for Indonesian-origin medicinal plants such as ceplukan or being known as golden berry in western. In the process of making onion peel fertilizer only needs a few materials such as a grip of onion peel, 200 ml of hot water,1 liter of cold water, and also a bowl or any bucket. The first step is to soak onion peels in 200 ml hot water for 2 hours in the bowl, then pour the soaked onion peel water into the bucket and add 1 liter of cold water, the onion peel fertilizer ready to use. For easy use, you can pour the fertilizer into a spray bottle and spray it into plant leaves, or just pour fertilizer into soil. Giving fertilizer in the different spots once a week can improve the different parts of plants when you pour the fertilizer into the soil it could improve the root growth and also could return the gone soil nutrients and when you spray it on leaves it could improve the number of leaves and leaf width.
ConclusionsÂ
Making organic fertilizer is such a brilliant idea, managing waste into beneficial thing that improve the plants and soil quality. Giving organic fertilizer to plants that we eat is healtier because there is no chemical residue, furthermore organic fertilizer could return the gone soil nutrients also fertilize the land.
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