Gardening Tips - Homemade Liquid Fertilizers

I read an article in Mother Earth News recently that piqued my curiosity.  I've been wanting to use organic fertilizers, but I didn't know where to start.  The article explains how to make and use homemade organic liquid fertilizers.  I'm not going to get into all the whens and wheres of using this fertilizer, or "tea" - you can read all about it in this article.  Though I will lay out the process of making them.  Be warned - one of these you might not like so much.  We'll start with something almost everyone has in their yard:

Grass Clippings
Fill a five-gallon bucket 2/3 full and then top off with water.
Let sit for three days, stirring/shaking once a day.
Strain or decant the "tea" and mix with water at a 1:1 ratio.
Use within a day or two.

Like all of these recipes, they are a good source of instant nutrients.  They are good for giving seedlings a boost of energy, or giving potted plants food that they can't get in their containers.  While these are fairly diluted forms of fertilizer, you should only use on plants once every two weeks.  Something fewer people have that is a good source of fertilizer is:

Dried Chicken Manure with Wood Shavings
Fill a five-gallon bucket 1/5 full with manure(33%) and wood shavings(66%)
Let sit for three days, stirring/shaking once a day.
Strain or decant the "tea" and mix with water at a 1:1 ratio.
Use within a day or two.

The last one I'll mention is a little different in several ways.  It needs a lot more dilution and it doesn't need to steep:

Urine
Dilute one part urine with twenty parts water.
Use within a day or two.

See?  That wasn't so gross.  I've never done it, but I'm tempted, knowing how much fertilizer it could produce!  I will say a few things about their use.  Watering plants before using liquid fertilizers is always a good thing.  It helps plants that are drought-stressed, and it keeps plants from absorbing too many salts in the fertilizer.