Weed tea (veganic) fertilizer
Click here for a list of weeds that can be used as fertilizers for your garden.
The list shows which weeds or plants add nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, boron, copper, manganese, sulfur, iron and/or silicon to the garden soil.
(Some of them have been recommended elsewhere as cover crops, too — green manure that is turned into the soil either during the growing season, or in the spring before planting again.)
I have a garbage can full of “brewing” dandelion “sun tea”, which I’ll use as a fertilizer on my garden, once it starts smelling “agricultural”, and I’m sure that the seeds aren’t likely to sprout if they end up in the dirt. Eventually, I’ll throw the solid left-overs in my compost pile.
(Calcium can be found in things like gypsum or limestone. I learned that if I put some around my tomato plants it is supposed to keep the tomatoes from getting the black spots on them that look like rotten spots at the bottom. It worked last year, so I guess it’s true.)