Redbird1223

Originally Posted by + WitchDoctor +

If you've ever thought about making your own nutrients, there are lots of ways to go about it...teas, compost, vermi-culture, fermented plant extracts, etc.

Here is a list of NPK values for organic materials. A lot of this stuff is just kitchen or farm scraps, so you'd be saving money WHILE helping the earth.

If anyone has anything else not on the list that they would like to add, that'd be awesome!

Also, if anyone has any good ideas on how to use any of these as a fertilizer, please feel free to share as well!! +rep for good ideas!




Material
Nitrogen
Phosphoric acid
Potash


Alfalfa hay
2.45
0.5
2.1

Apple fruit
0.05
0.02
0.1

Apple leaves
1
0.15
0.35

Apple pomace
0.2
0.02
0.15

Apple skin (ash)
-
3.08
11.74

Banana skin (ash)
-
3.25
41.76

Banana stalk (ash)
-
2.34
49.4

Barley (grain)
1.75
0.75
0.5

Bat guano
6
9
-

Bean and pod
0.25
0.08
0.3

Beet waste
0.4
0.4
3


Beet waste (root)
0.25
0.1
0.5


Blood meal
15
1.3
0.7

Bone (ground and burned)
-
34.7
-


Bone meal
4
21
0.2


Brewer's grains (wet)
0.9
0.5
0.05


Brigham tea (ash)
-
-
5.94


Cantaloupe rind (ash)
-
9.77
12.21


Castor bean pomace
5.5
2.25
1.13


Cattail reed & water lilly
2.02
0.81
3.43


Cattail seed
0.98
0.39
1.71


Chicken manure
1.63
1.54
0.85


Coal ash (anthracite)
-
0.125
0.125


Coal ash (bituminous)
-
0.45
0.45


Cocoa shell dust
1.04
1.49
2.71


Coffee grounds
2.08
0.32
0.28


Coffee grounds (dried)
1.99
0.36
0.67


Corn (grain)
1.65
0.65
0.4


Corn (green forage)
0.3
0.13
0.33


Corncob (ash)
-
-
50


Corncob (ground, charred)
-
-
2.01


Cotton seed
3.15
1.25
1.15


Cotton waste
1.32
0.45
0.36


Cottonseed meal
7
2.5
1.5


Cottonseed-hull (ash)
-
8.7
23.93


Cow manure (fresh)
0.29
0.17
0.1


Cowpea, green forage
0.45
0.12
0.45


Cowpes, seed
3.1
1
1.2


Crab (common)
1.95
3.6
0.2


Crab (king, dried and ground)
10
0.25
0.06


Crab (king, fresh)
2.3
-
-


Crabgrass
0.66
0.19
0.71


Cucumber skin (ash)
-
11.28
27.2


Dog manure (fresh)
1.97
9.95
0.3


Duck manure (fresh)
1.12
1.44
0.49


Egg
2.25
0.4
0.15


Eggshell
1.19
0.38
0.14


Eggshell (burned)
-
0.43
0.29


Feather
15.3
-
-


Felt hat factory waste
3.8
-
0.98


Field bean (seed)
4
1.2
1.3


Field bean (shell)
1.7
0.3
1.3


Fish scrap (fresh)
6.5
3.75
-

Fish scrap (red snapper)
7.76
13
0.38


Gluten feed
4.5
-
-


Grape leaves
0.45
0.1
0.35


Grapefruit skin (ash)
-
3.58
30.6


Grapes (fruit)
0.15
0.07
0.3


Greasewood (ash)
-
-
12.61


Greensand
-
1.5
5


Hair
14
-
-


Hare and rabbit waste
7
2.4
0.6


Hoof meal and horn dust
12.5
1.75
-


Horse manure (fresh)
0.44
0.17
0.35


Incinerator ash
0.24
5.15
2.33


Jellyfish (dried)
4.6
-
-


Leather (acidulated)
7.5
-
-


Leather (ash)
-
2.16
0.35


Leather (ground)
11
-
-


Lemon cull
0.15
0.06
0.26


Lemon skin
-
6.3
31


Lobster (refuse)
4.5
3.5
-
Lobster (shell)
4.6
3.52
-


Milk
0.5
0.3
0.18


Molasses residue (brewing)
0.7
-
5.32


Moss
0.6
0.1
0.55


Mud (fresh water)
1.37
0.26
0.22


Mud (harbour)
0.99
0.77
0.05


Mussel
0.9
0.12
0.13


Mussel mud (dried)
0.72
0.35
-


Oak leaf
0.8
0.35
0.15


Oats grain
2
0.8
0.6


Olive pomace
1.15
0.78
1.26


Olive refuse
1.22
0.18
0.32


Orange cull
0.2
0.13
0.21


Orange skin (ash)
-
2.9
27


Oyster shell
0.36
10.38
0.09


Paint processing waste
0.02
39.5
-


Pea pod (ash)
-
1.79
9


Peach leaf
0.9
0.15
0.6


Peanut (seed & kernel)
3.6
0.7
4.5


Peanut shell
0.8
0.15
0.5


Peanut shell (ash)
-
1.23
6.45


Pig manue (fresh)
0.6
0.41
0.13


Pigeon manure (fresh)
4.19
2.24
1.41


Pigweed (rough)
0.6
0.16
-


Pine needle
0.46
0.12
0.03


Potato (leaf and stalk)
0.6
0.15
0.45


Potato (tuber)
0.35
0.15
0.5


Potato skin (ash)
-
5.18
27.5


Poudrette
1.46
3.68
0.48


Powderworks waste
2.5
-
17


Prune refuse
0.18
0.7
0.31


Pumpkin (fresh)
0.16
0.07
0.26


Pumpkin seed
0.87
0.5
0.45


Rabbit brush (ash)
-
-
13.04

Ragweed
0.76
0.26
-


Redtop hay
1.2
0.35
1


Rhubarb stem
0.1
0.04
0.35


Rockweed
1.9
0.25
3.68


Rose (flower)
0.3
0.1
0.4


Salt mud
0.4
-
-


Salt-marsh hay
1.1
0.25
0.75


Sardine scrap
7.97
7.11
-


Seawood
1.68
0.75
4.93


Sheep manure (fresh)
0.55
0.31
0.15


Shoddy and felt
8
-
-


Shrimp head (dried)
7.82
4.2
-


Shrimp waste
2.87
9.95
-


Silk mill waste
8.37
1.14
0.12


Silk worm cocoon
9.42
1.82
1.08


Silt waste
9.5
-
-


Sludge
2
1.9
0.3


Sludge (activated)
5
3.25
0.6


Sludge from sewer beds
0.74
0.33
0.24


Soot from chimney fllue
5.25
1.05
0.35


Starfish
1.8
0.2
0.25


Sugar (raw, residue)
1.14
8.33
-


Sunflower seed
2.25
1.25
0.79


Sweet potato
0.25
0.1
0.5


Sweet potato skins (ash)
-
3.29
13.89


Tanbark (ash)
-
0.34
3.8


Tanbark ash (spent)
-
1.75
2


Tankage
6
5
-


Tea grounds
4.15
0.62
0.4


Tea leaves (ash)
-
1.6
0.44


Timothy hay
1.25
0.55
1


Tobacco leaves
4
0.5
6


Tobacco stalk
3.7
0.65
4.5


Tobacco stem
2.5
0.9
7


Tomato fruit
0.2
0.07
0.35


Tomato leaves
0.35
0.1
0.4


Tomato stalk
0.35
0.1
0.5


Wheat grain
2
0.85
0.5


Wheat straw
0.5
0.15
0.6


Wheat, bran
2.65
2.9
1.6


White clover (green)
0.5
0.2
0.3


White sage (ash)
-
-
13.77


Wood ash (leached)
-
1.25
2


Wood ash (unleached)
-
1.5
7


Wool waste
5.5
3
2