November 21, 2024

VIDEO: How to Easily Make Compost Tea in Minutes!


Compost tea! It is the perfect soil conditioner, the perfect way to
supercharge the garden, and it is FREE! This method of compost tea
making is called steaped tea. It is much faster and more convenient for
young gardeners, or in a pinch when your garden need a little greening
up. Brewed compost tea is my preference if I have the time, but often I
don’t so I usually go with this method. Gardening does not have to be
difficult, so don’t make it difficult!

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30 thoughts on “VIDEO: How to Easily Make Compost Tea in Minutes!

  1. I understand why people call these compost teas, I'd probably call this a compost slurry, organic liquid fertilizer, and at a stretch compost tea if it used dechlorinated water. It's clearly not an actively aerated compost tea (using a bubbler), used to increase soil microbial numbers and diversity that most associate with "compost tea", or to a lesser extent a tea extract (massaged compost teabag used to release the microbes and nutrients into dechlorinated water), or a leachate (strained through compost). Using chlorinated tap water may make the microbes dormant or kill them off, losing the long term benefits of added microbial numbers and diversity in soils that make those nutrients organically available to plants in the first place. It's this microbial diversity that we want in the long run doing the work in the soil for us such that we don't have to amend the soil with liquid fertilizers weekly. Also, by providing habitat by way of plants, plant litter (leaves, green mulch, etc) we keep those microbes fed, hydrated and flourishing once they're there, and they in turn feed the plants. Feed, shelter and clothe the soil to feed the plants.

  2. Pleeezzzeeeeee help….I just noticed that I have mushroom looking spores and a grainy white looking powder in my compost. Should I be worried? Any suggestions? I truly value your opinion. Txs… In advance

  3. Question.. I have a 50 gallon plastic bucket that I throw clipping and pretty much all plant material into. There's about 1/3 rainwater in there and it's a very dark coffee color… is that the same as compost tea?

  4. ok look…..can you boil it on the stove to purify it from mold and whatever else?
    The nutrients can survive, as their boiling point is higher than the temp itself…thats my thinking

  5. Somehow I got unsubscribed from your channel…but I'm happy to be back.
    Great video. My compost pile has been unsuccessful. I'm implementing changes this year, so I am looking forward to using the compost tea…eventually. All that to say, is there away to use food scraps not turned to compost, say, for example adding water to brown bananas I pulled out of my freezer???

  6. Excellent, thank you . I can use the same for potted plants??? My friend adds sugar and leaves it for 24 hours before using on plants. Is that going to make any difference?

  7. I was watching one of your other videos on compost tea but I can't seem to find it again but anyway, you mentioned in that video that you should not use city water because of the chlorine but you filled your bucket with water from your home. I have built several of the Johnson Su bioreactors, I have the automatic watering system on them. I have not noticed any problems with them but you got me thinking about it. I have not seen anything about not using city water in any type of composting. If I need to let water sit for the 24 hours I have no idea how I would store enough water to water these reactors and also so I don't have to lift buckets and water by hand every day. I would need to plumb and wire a pump to pump water from several large barrels. I live in Utah so rain barrels don't do us much good. Is the water from our taps really that big of a deal? I have watched other people on you tube say that the amount of chlorine in our water is very miniscule and does not harm anything. I have talked with my state about it and they say the same thing but I still wonder. Is there any rock solid evidence on tap water being harmful to composting?

  8. Fantastic! My first exposure to compost tea was when I got my PDC and the fear of it was instilled in me…I'm lucky to have lots of trees with OM underneath, so I'll be able to do this right away. Subbed, even though I'm in Florida!

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