Come hang out with us as Wil and I make compost tea! As Wil says, it’s basically a probiotic for your soil and your plants. And when we have healthy soil, we get healthy plants!
For the written directions, visit the blog post here: https://rootsandrefuge.com/how-to-make-compost-tea
LINKS MENTIONED:
– Check out Wil’s Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/HoneybeeHollowGardens
– Nature’s Always Right’s video on compost tea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKzYBbl4Shc
– Natalie from Hey It’s a Good Life’s Worm Farming Course: https://heyitsagoodlife.com/pages/worm-farming-course-launch
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Hey guys! You can add hot water to a pot and gently hover the container over it.. the worms will all make their way to the top of the container so you can remove them not drown them. ❤
Your mug is amazing !
Hey Jess, you probably know this already, but just in case, you can treat eczema with a mild solution of bleach and water! Just one tablespoon of regular strength bleach in one gallon water would bring some relief. Aloe and plantain are also good for skin conditions.
You want it to be like bubbly champagne. I would think putting the Azomite in the worm bin and letting them digest it and work it into the castings would make it more bio-available
Been using worm casting tea to try and kill Root Knot Nematodes.
This is how I fertilized my food garden when I lived in the California desert. I used aquarium bubbler and 3, 5 gallon buckets. It works !
I will never see blue barrels the same after Netflix…
Great video
Important that if you're going to dilute your tea with water, be sure to let that water sit for at least a day, too, bc the chlorine will kill your microbes both before brewing and after!
Another wonderful video Jess! Fantastic job! I love using worm casting and worm tea, it's all great stuff for the garden!
Nylon stockings (I get mine at the dollar tree) also work really well as bags for castings, particularly for smaller amounts.
Still can't believe you got some bad compost. If you are willing to make the drive to Augusta Ga there is a place called Bricko Farms and his compost is really good. Dunno what part of SC you are in, but i'm here in Aiken and it's like a 20 min drive.
PILLOW CASES… When I was in working in California as a prison guard the inmates made 50 gallon steam pots of coffee using new pillow cases. They made a small hole to thread a shoe string through to tie it off. I think it would work great for the large scale compost tea production.
Jess I am going to do this in my new 27 ft bed as the soil really needs help- Will Thank You also for teaching us new methods (new to us). Great Video Cheers Denise- Australia
Hi Jess, how did the mushroom experiment go for treating the soil?
I started gardening because of you and Justin rhodes but I am struggling a bit with aphids on some of my plants I have tried spraying them off with my hose, using need oil , using a soap water solution nothing has worked any suggestions? I absolutely love your videos and having been praying for you with your medical stuff I have M.S. and Addison disease medical stuff is the worst! Keep your head up it will get better!!
Thanks for this! I've been working on creating different types of garden teas and am now excited to try this method!
Larger cities have a chemical called chloramine and that doesn't air out but has to be filtered out with a filter specified to remove it that you can attach to your hose.
Hi. Have you considered growing comfrey in your hi tunnel and making tea/ green compost with the leaves?
Love you mushroom cup
Here in MA they’re filling our taps w treated sewer water. It’s not human consumptive. Not sure if that’s ok to use?
It seems to me that you could've just spread the worm castings in the garden and used the fish emulsion as a foliar spray and spent the other 2 days doing something useful.
Jess, please pass this on to Will. Most municipal water treatment systems use chloramine, not chlorine. Chlorine will offgas, but chloramine will not. However, you can easily neutralize both with a very simple thing – Vitamin C. A 1000mg caplet will neutralize an entire bathtub full. It's cheap, easy, and very fast. You can even buy Vit C filters for your shower or garden hose. But for his teaching purposes, he can counsel people on city water.