Compost tea is effective and a wonderful way to feed plants. We use it weekly on our plants as a way of fertilizing and the results are amazing. Check out our new clothing line! http:www.freshpickedapparel.com
VIDEO: How We Make Tea Our Plants Can Drink
Compost tea is effective and a wonderful way to feed plants. We use it weekly on our plants as a way of fertilizing and the results are amazing. Check out our new clothing line! http:www.freshpickedapparel.com
Hi Luke! Just wanted to add that chloramine does not dissipate into the air the same way chlorine does. Meaning it doesn’t burn off from treated municipal water. For that reason a carbon filter is needed for the garden hose.
Great video, can purified, or distilled water be use?
Hi. How long should you let the water sit before mixing it with the compost? Might be a dumb question.
Also, so wouldn't using molasses and a bubbler to increase the amount of bacteria will fix the problem of having city water kill the bacteria in compost tea? Or will the chlorine kill the bacteria irrespective of how much bacteria is there? I figured if you multiply the amount of bacteria, you'll still have left to fertilize well. I find it a little tiring to let water sit. I don't have a rain drum and it hardly rains here so I mostly use city water.
Should used a strainer
I think you're awesome but from what I have seen the purpose of aeration is to add oxygen and help the good bacteria grow. Basically like growing bacteria in a bucket. That's why you should wait 24-36 hrs. If you didn't have the mixture aerated, it would become anaerobic and grow bad bacteria
To much Bla Bla Bla Bla. Just show us how to make it.
Any thoughts on using chlorinated public service water if well water is not available?
I can't like this enough, love using compost/manure tea!
We make a tea with sheep manure can I add some worm casting to my tea with the manure great video
How much room casting would you put in a 5 gallon bucket
We used to have ground water in our city before but now we have river water and I think that made our water a little hard so I'm not sure if hard water is bad for gardening not? Would you please answer that
Thanks for this knowlegde.
Watching from Indonesia.
Can you make compost tea from store-bought bagged compost?
Was the water U used from a well? ie..non chlorinated? If so how can we on public water systems declorinate?
WHAT??? That's not what Gary says.
How much of the worm castings did you add to your bucket
I worked with fish. You can use hot water and let it cool to drive off the chlorine.
Can I use rabbit pooh…do I need to let it set for awhile
Could u add Molasses to that tea for an extra kick
A bubbler does help the chlorine flash off faster from city water
I just watched a 2014 video of you extolling the virtues of 'supercharged' compost tea made with a bubbler. Now here you are in 2019 telling us you prefer 'steeped' tea. What changed?
Hey Luke, Thanks for the video! Have you ever tried making a green manure compost tea from fermenting comfrey leaves, and stinging nettle leaves? I am curious if you have and what your results were. Thanks again!
Luke, I'm going to try compost tea this week with composted chicken manure. At the same time I plan on adding, per directions a microbial instant tea from Mighty Plant, inc. Any experience on this type of "instant" microbial tea?
Just a thought…. more modern thinking is that "compost tea" is an ENRICHMENT of bacteria, fungi, and protozoa (all essential biologics for natural health of plants). The "soluble" components are organic acids (humic acids and fulvic acids) are not enriched in tea, but actually diluted. Enrichment of soil (or compost) biology (i.e., those bacteria, fungi, and protozoa) requires incubation in the tea for some 24 hours or more. In other words, you gotta let them multiply and grow over time (i.e. the 24 hours). Since you want to enrich the aerobic biology, many insist on an aerator during the incubation period. If you don't aerate, you risk growing (enriching) anaerobic biology, which is typically bad, bad, bad. If you don't incubate (as described in this video), what you get is compost extract, not tea. Extract is great stuff too, and perfect for drenching the soil. But if you want an excellent foliar spray, you'd do better using the enriched (i.e., incubated), aerobic, compost tea. Hope this helps.
Chloramine doesn’t gas off from what I understand.
So simple, thank you for sharing
Would it be useful to add any additional items with the worm compost? Char, azomite, mycorrhizae?
Great video. Would adding yeast hurt it?