As gardeners we’re often obsessed with pest prevention, nutrient deficiencies, and fertilizing our plants. What if there was a way to take care of all three of these at once?
Enter foliar spraying and feeding with worm tea. It’s a great pest prevention tool as the spray dislodges aphids and the like from your plants. It also acts as a correcter of micronutrient deficiencies, as worm tea is chock-full of micronutrients.
Today’s video features Steven Cornett of Nature’s Always Right farms. He’ll show you how he approaches foliar spraying his crops with worm tea and explain the logic behind it so you can decide whether it makes sense for your garden.
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I've read that type of sprayer will damage the beneficial organisms because of the high pressure. Thoughts?
Reason worm tea is good as pest repellent is because worm castings have the enzyme chitinase. Chitinase will compromise/destroy the exo-skeletons of insects.
+Epic Gardening can you use worm tea to get rid of or deter snails and slugs or just snails or?
Are you diluting with non-chlorinated water in the tank sprayer?
What’s the best time to foliar spray with this tea?
Thanks for a great video.
Love your book and your channel. I read your article on liquid kelp foliar spray and you recommended using a non-ionic surfactant. Is that safe for vegetables you will be eating. Kale, tomatoes, etc…
Curious…Should I replace ALL my garden hoses with drinking hoses to ensure the quilty of water I'm providing my plants? I too use a water filter on my garden hose and wonder if it isn't truly helping because I am not using hoses appropriate for drinking.
I watched this video, and we loved the idea. We have tried this, and are doing it every two weeks. But we still have quite a few bugs. I am wondering, you mentioned the Mosquito Bits in another video. Can I not put some of these in the worm tea that we make to up the percentage of the good bacteria that can and will kill the bugs??
It’s this safe around bees?
Probably always a good idea to just let the chlorine gas out over 24 hours but really, depending on where you live, the chlorine levels once it comes out the sprayer or faucet, it's already being exposed to air & studies have shown that in certain regions in the US and most of Canada don't have enough chlorine to completely decimate bacteria populations in soil or in that canister of tea. It's meant for closed pipe systems and the further you live from the treatment plants, the less supply of chlorine you'll have in your water. Plus it's safe to drink immediately and the bacteria populations killed in soil kill usually build right back up quickly unless it was an intense concentration like it pools or treatment plants
Can this be used indoors on houseplants?
I'm new to gardening and have watched a lot of you tube videos. now I used a weelie bin to make compost and after a while I thought I'd better make a gateway in the bin to be able to shovel it out, so I drilled a hole in the bin and it started to leak this brown liquid that I now know was leachate. I tried to catch it in a bucket but a lot of it leaked onto my lawn I was worried it might burn the lawn but it's turned the lawn much greener now I'm trying to make more so I can do the rest of the lawn.
Bajheera? Lol
Vitamin C powder works for chlorine as well if youre impatient 🙂
Great video man, thanks for the upload!
Rainwater! Use rainwater
Does worm tea foliar spray boost vegetable size?
Is that as the watering for the day or is there still a watering? If watering still needed how far in-between tea spraying do you water?
I forget the channel I saw it on, but if add Vitamin C powder to your water it acts the same as those tablets and breaks up the Chloramine into it's constituent parts (Chlorine and Ammonia) so that they can then off gas normally. The person put a very small amount of powder into his water, so you don't need much.
Dear EG, thank you for your wonderful site.
I used castings tea as a foliar in my VPot where I grow my salad greens. How long I need to way to harvest these greens and eat them?.
I can not find this very important information anywhere. Thank you and warm regards. A home gardener from New Zealand.
Question: Does this method work well with the white butterflies that lay the eggs? Spend hours sometimes just picking them off. Thanks
good work .thanks for this information
If you use hot water and let it cool 98% of the chlorine it dissipated. I worked with fish.
is it good for flowers?
hi can we store compost tea if we dont usw it right away?
Great video thanks guys. I pass water through my worm bin and collect it in a bucket. Is that basically the same liquid you have? It comes out really dark so must be a good concentrate?
Epic!
You can use powdered ascorbic acid to neutralize the chloramines that most utilities use now to treat their water.
Great video but were is the recipe for the compost tea?