It’s time to fertilize your garden for the best possible harvest. Compost tea to the rescue!
Compost tea provides excellent nutrients and microorganisms to your garden. Compost tea benefits include:
* Increases nutrients to your plants and helps to reduce diseases!
* Provides essential organisms that enhance plant growth!
* Enhances the soil for future plantings!
Let’s get started! You’ll need completed compost, water and a bucket.
If you find yourself without complete compost, no fear! Just dig into the bottom of your compost pile and use that dirt. It’s the most fertile soil in your yard!
Simply find a large bucket or a wheel barrel, like I used. I used my wagon wheel barrel for ease of draining the water.
Simply fill your container with water to cover the compost. Let it sit in the sun for a few days.
Drain the water off of the compost, using either burlap cloth or something to hold back the compost. You will need another container to put and/or drain your “tea” into.
Dilute the compost tea 10:1 with water. Put the liquid in your watering pail and nourish your plants (at the ground, not on the leaves)! Use immediately.
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Not wishing to totally revolt you with multiple comments about dung, but here’s another idea…
Take one old odd sock (hose are even better but I don’t seem to have any these days, hmmm….).
Carefully (!) add one or two droppings from your dear goats and tie off.
Pop in a bucket and fill said bucket with water; leave for a few days – out of the way of guests (not a scent to be sharing!) and littles.
Peg your nose, dilute and distribute as required. (Being careful, of course, to clean up well afterwards. Good organic fertiliser is rarely, if ever, sanitary.)
For those who have no goat, the same effect (remarkably including the odor!) can be achieved using a good few handfuls of nettles in place of the dung in a sock, left for a little longer.
Hello Puffin Hen,
I’ve heard of that method! Stinky-poo!!
Thanks for commenting!
I’ve been thinking about compost tea for a while- great post! I’ve heard some places say that it needs aerated to be effective- have you heard of that?
Jill,
I’ve never heard of aerating, do you mean to aerate the soil or the tea? The tea sets out a couple of days, so you must mean the soil. Hmmmm, maybe I’ll look it up.
Our compost is finally starting to take off after a slow start last year. I love taking a peek in there and seeing it crawling with life! We bought a big steel drum to hopefully make compost & fertigation tea with in the future! Until then, I’ll just have to stick with an equally smelly fish emulsion.
Quinn,
Hey, whatever works! Just remember to fertilize!
Such a timely post! I need to do this. Heading out to the compost bin. Thanks
Jenn,
Enjoy your tea!
I use a garbage pail with holes drilled in the bottom and keep it inside my kitchen atop a disposable roasting tray. (I’m a city gardener with little room outside for a real compost bin)
I just noticed about a gallon of tea in the tray – apparently as long as you don’t whap into it and disturb the liquid, it doesn’t stink a bit so this is a great project for in-kitchen composters, too.
Jill,
That’s a great idea! Thanks for sharing that!
Thank you for sharing! I keep hearing of compost tea, but wasn’t sure how to make it.
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