I often hear some friends say that they use brown sugar to grow vegetables, in fact, brown sugar can indeed be used to grow vegetables, but many friends use it wrong, and even some friends think that if you dissolve brown sugar directly into water, you can directly use it to pour vegetables, but in fact, this is not the case, so not only can you not plant vegetables well, but also aggravate the insect pests of vegetables, resulting in reduced vegetable yields, and even loss of harvest is possible.
So, can brown sugar be used to grow vegetables, and how should it be used to grow vegetables? Here are some tips for us to use brown sugar to grow vegetables over the years, hoping to help you.
1. Brown sugar cultivation starter culture
For our growers, fermented fertilizer is a very important job, and it is also a relatively common job, which can save us a lot of fertilizer costs for growing vegetables, and the quality of vegetables is very high when using fermented farmhouse fertilizer to grow vegetables.
However, when fermenting fertilizer, in order to improve the fermentation speed of farm fertilizer and improve the quality of farm fertilizer, it is definitely necessary to use a starter culture, but if the starter culture also needs to be purchased, the cost is relatively high.
Therefore, we will cultivate some starter culture by ourselves, the common one is brown sugar EM bacterial liquid starter culture, from its name you can know, this starter culture is to use brown sugar as food, use EM bacteria as a strain to cultivate the flora, EM bacteria continue to decompose brown sugar, and then reproduce, when the brown sugar is decomposed, the nutrients will be released into the solution, and the beneficial bacteria will continue to increase, so as to form a high-quality starter culture. This way, we don't have to worry about running out of starter culture.
2. Brown sugar assisted fermentation of beneficial bacteria water fertilizer
We usually ferment the farm fertilizer, in addition to the compost, there will be water fertilizer, the fermentation of water and fertilizer and compost are not the same, when we ferment compost, directly sprinkle some starter culture, so that the starter can fully mix the compost material, however, we ferment water and fertilizer is different, in addition to adding starter culture, in order to accelerate the fermentation speed and quality of water and fertilizer, you can use brown sugar to assist.
In order to accelerate the reproduction of bacteria in the starter culture, we need to add the favorite food of the bacteria, that is, brown sugar;
We use brown sugar to assist in fermentation of beneficial bacteria water and fertilizer ratio is less than 50 kg of water and fertilizer, about 50 grams of brown sugar is added.
3. Use brown sugar with pesticides
In fact, if the insecticide wants to eliminate the pests, it needs the pests to eat the insecticide, and the insecticides we usually use generally have some strange tastes, and the pests do not like to eat so much, only some of the pests that are forced to eat will be eliminated, and those pests that can fly away can only be driven away.
Think about it, if we mix an insecticide with a substance that attracts pests, which can attract pests to eat, will the pests eat the insecticide, and the effect of eliminating pests will be greatly increased.
Brown sugar is actually a substance that particularly attracts pests, after the brown sugar is mixed with pesticides, sprayed between the vegetable seedlings, the pests will lick because of the sweetness of the brown sugar, which can eliminate the pests between the vegetable seedlings to the greatest extent, and even in a period of time, even the foreign pests can be quickly eliminated, and the vegetables play the greatest protection.
Brown sugar can be used to grow vegetables, but it is not directly dissolved in water and sprayed between vegetable seedlings, but treated first, or mixed with pesticides, so that there will be no increase in insect pests, reduced vegetable yield and loss of harvest.