Gardening & Plant Care : How to Make Compost Tea
Posted by admin on Oct 24, 2009
To make compost tea, place store-bought compost or homemade compost in a barrel, add water to the barrel, and then remove the water after it has been sitting in the compost. Use compost tea on perennial plants and vegetables to provide helpful nutrients with advice from a sustainable gardener in this free video on gardening compost.
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u need to youtube how to make REAL compost tea this isnt nearly as effective as making it using the air pump system.
This is not compost tea! This is called compost lech ate!
Compost tea is actively aerated using some sort of air pump, making sure the tea is kept aerobic by keeping the oxygen levels @ 6 parts per million!
The pump is optional…it is not necessary..1 quart of compost to 5 gallons of water, let sit for 24 hours and strain=compost tea.
Yup your right ebola. I think i’ll try this.
why get all techie about this. pour some water over your compost in a five gallon bucket, let it sit for a couple of days, strain it and put in a water squirt bottle, spray your folaige and PRESTO. I mix mine with organic seaweed and the veggies just jump. Keep it simple.