#Compost Tea

Compost tea is a liquid fertilizer that is easy to make, eco-friendly, and a great way to utilize garden scraps to nourish your plants. Essentially, it’s a nutrient-rich liquid created by steeping organic material, such as garden scraps, in water. The process helps to extract the beneficial nutrients from these materials, which can then be used to fertilize your garden. How to Make Compost Tea: 1. Gather Your Materials: Start by collecting your garden scraps. These can include plant clippings, leaves, grass, and even kitchen scraps like fruit and vegetable peels. 2. Choose a Container: A 5-gallon bucket or similar-sized container works well for making compost tea. You can use an old container that you don’t mind getting dirty. 3. Fill the Container: Add your organic materials to the container. It’s best to have a mix of “green” (high-nitrogen) and “brown” (high-carbon) materials. You can use a mesh bag to hold the materials together, or just place them directly in the container. 4. Add Water: Fill the container with water, making sure the organic materials are fully submerged. If you want to speed up the process, you can use non-chlorinated water. 5. Let it Steep: Allow the materials to steep for 1-2 days. Stir it occasionally to help the nutrients release into the water. 6. Strain and Use: After steeping, strain out the solid material, and the remaining liquid is your compost tea. Apply it directly to the soil around your plants, or use it as a foliar spray to nourish the leaves. ✨CHECK THE COMMENTS FOR the best ingredients to use in your compost tea🌿✨ ✨ LIKE & SHARE this video ✨ + FOLLOW @lovehealthmarket for daily gardening content 💚🤸🏾‍♀️ If you’re looking to get started gardening, subscribe to my Youtube channel in depth gardening tutorials. LINK IN BIO 💚✨ #growyourown #growyourowngreens #growyourownfood #blackgardeners #blackgirlsgardening #urbanfarming #citygarden #zone9 #zone9b #zone9a #floridagardening #urbangarden #blackgirlswithgardens

Q: “What do you feed your garden?” A: “Compost tea!” 👌🏼 One of the main ways we fertilize our garden (and feed our soil) is with compost and compost tea. Warning: Do not drink. Don't be an Aaron 🙃 . 🌿 Compost tea is a gentle but highly-effective natural liquid fertilizer made by steeping compost in water. It extracts beneficial microbes and soluble nutrients, turning them into a form that plants can readily uptake and utilize. It makes a little compost go a long way! You don’t HAVE to aerate your compost tea, but we always do! Studies show that actively aerated compost tea (aka AACT) is the most beneficial and effective as it encourages prolific growth of good microbes while reducing the risk of pathogens. . 💡 Instructions: . 1) Full a bucket or container with water. If it’s chlorinated tap water, let it sit out in the sun for at least 24 hours to let the chlorine dissipate first. . 2) Gather 2-4 cups of compost in a “tea bag” (reusable paint strainer shown here, cheesecloth also works). We usually use worm castings from our worm bin, though you can use any high quality, well-aged compost. . 3) Dunk the tea bag, and add ⅓ cup organic unsulfured molasses - a food source to increase the activity and number of microorganisms. Other options include liquid kelp or kelp meal, fish fertilizer or humic acid. . 4) Add an aerator and bubble for 24-48 hours. We use “bubble snakes” connected to an air pump now, but first started out with an inexpensive aquarium pump and basic air stone. . 5) After 24-48 hours, use the compost tea immediately (within an hour or so, while it’s still aerobic) to feed your garden. Use ½ cup to 2 cups per plant, depending on their size. For a broader application, transfer it into a watering can. Don’t worry, you can’t really “overdo” it - and it won’t burn your plants! . 6) Repeat up to once per month. We aim for a few times per year. The fruit trees are next! . ❓️ For even more details, search “Homestead and Chill compost” online - you’ll see our full compost tea tutorial and YT video, resources about worm compost bins, other ways to compost and home, and more! . #homesteadandchill #compostistheshit

Here’s how to make compost tea for your plants 🪴⬇️ 1) Add scraps of banana peels, onion skins, eggshells, and ground coffee bits to a glass jar or pitcher. 2) Once the jar or pitcher is full of your compost scraps, fill it the rest of the way up with water. 3) Steep in water for anywhere from 3-5 days. 4) When the kitchen sink compost tea is properly steeped, strain the liquid. Then, water your plants with a 1:4 ratio of one part compost tea to four parts water. 5) Blend up the banana peels, onion skins, eggshells, and coffee grounds with water to create a compost smoothie. Use it to fertilize your garden. Would you try this? Let us know in the comments and click the link in bio to learn more! 💚 #livebrightly #compost #composttea #plantfood #foodwaste #reducefoodwaste #upcycle #foodscraps #planthack #plantparents #plantlovers #plantmom #plantdad #sustainableplantparent

Let’s make COMPOST TEA! Brewing compost tea is our final step in maximizing the abundance of microbial diversity in our vermicast for soil-building efforts. To brew the tea, we create a perfect environment for our microbes composed of water, food, oxygen, and a place to breed and live with the right pH and temperature. We submerge our vermicompost into pristine well water (no chlorine or flouride that will inhibit microbial growth), some biodynamic preps, and compost catalyst. Over the next 16-24 hrs, we aerate the tank as the solution brews, and the microbial populations explode, increasing by ~500% — we consistently measure populations of about 1 billion microorganisms per milliliter (20 drops) of tea. Through the brewing process (without heat), these microbes are extracted into the “tea”, which we can then intentionally apply across the farm by injecting the tea directly into our irrigation system, spraying it topically on our plants, using it for root dips or seed soaks before planting, and more.. Compost tea has scientifically proven benefits of increasing root and plant growth, decreasing fungal disease, and increasing plants’ resistance to harmful organisms. What questions do you have about compost tea? Drop them in the comments below!

Most people try to directly feed the plants. But plants grow due to the wonderful living system in our soils Bacteria, fungi and other soil life break down organic matter and transform nutrients into forms plant roots can readily absorb. This powerhouse combo of compost tea & biochar loaded with forest soil and manure helps rebuild that vital living system. Feed the soil first. Everything else follows 🤎 #Livingsoil #composttea #biochar #regenerativegardening #growyourfood

Let this be the year you swap synthetic or packaged fertilizers for compost tea and feed both your plants and your soil! Healthy soil is host to all the nutrients your plants need plus this amazing mycorrhiza network that helps plants get the water, nutrients and minerals they need to thrive. Healthy soil will create healthy plants—and more nutritionally dense food for your body. Recipe and instructions in part 2 tomorrow!

Compost tea it’s a great way to use your homemade compost and boosting your plants and garden health! I’m using worm casting produced by my worm farm and by adding it to a bucket with rainwater or unchlorinated plus a source of food like molasses, you will greatly increase the population of beneficial microorganisms! Also, worms left in the worm casting won’t die as they breath through their skin and survive with the oxygen in the bucket. I learned this method by @deannacat3 a few years ago! BENEFITS: - Improve plants absorption of nutrients - Improve soil moisture retention - Reduce the amount of fertiliser to use in your garden NOTES: To collect worm casting, open your box and allow 10 minutes for the worms to bury themselves deep. You can then scoop out the top layer without risking to get the worms. There are other ways to do this but this is what I do! #compost

Stop Throwing Away Food Scraps — Bury Them Instead 🌱♻️ Don’t throw away your food scraps—bury them! This quick trench composting method turns peels, cores, coffee grounds, and eggshells into rich soil right in your garden. Just dig, add, and cover (and skip meat, dairy, and oily foods). #TrenchComposting #CompostingTips #GardenHacks #OrganicGardening #SoilHealth

The compost tea is done after 24 hours. #garden #gardening #composttea #compost

Compost Tea made with Worm Castings is a great way to give new transplants a nutrient boost. Adding Green Aminos from @thegreengro to the tea recipe is a great way to stimulate growth promoting seedling vigor and plant growth. But don’t forget to make sure you’re using a water filter! Chlorine in the water will kill off those beneficial microbes you are trying to breed when making compost tea. I like this filter that attaches right to my hose. Comment “FILTER” and I will send you a link to get your own. #composttea #greengrobiologicals #arizonagarden

When we compost there’s some leachate which comes out, and that is called compost tea. So all the nutrients from the peels come into the compost tea and I dilute it and give it to my plants. I usually drain the trays every month, and I get compost tea for my garden !! Free fertiliser, happy plants!! . (Composting, compost tea, fertilisers for garden, organic gardening) . #haryalibycherie #cheriegrowsflowers #cheriegrowsfood

How I Brew Compost Tea at Home 🫖🌿 Here’s the simple recipe I follow to feed my garden real nutrition from the soil up: 🌀 Start with clean water I use a charcoal filter on my tap to remove chlorine so we don’t kill the microbes we’re about to brew. 🌱 Add compost + castings A few scoops of homemade compost and worm castings into a tea bag = microbe magic. 🌾 Dry amendments Blends like @downtoearthfertilizers feed the microbes while enriching the brew. 🍯 Molasses I use 1 oz per gallon. It’s carbohydrate source for the microbes—and packed with trace minerals. 🌊 Sea minerals Sea-90 or diluted seawater helps bring in a broader spectrum of minerals for both plants, soil life, and the humans consuming the produce. 🌞 After 24 hours I add… 🪴 Aloe Vera Aloe helps plants deal with heat stress—perfect after those hot days. It also supports cell strength and nutrient absorption. 🦠 Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB) Added last so it doesn’t outcompete the other microbes—LAB multiplies FAST. LAB is also a facilitative anaerobe. 🐟 Fish Amino Acids (FAA) I add FAA at the end to avoid dirty tanks and prevents the brew from cultivating bad microbes. 🧪 After it’s brewed: I dilute the 50-gallon batch 1:2 with water to make nearly 100 gallons of compost tea! Feed your garden, feed your soil, feed your life. #CompostTea #NaturalFarming #KNFInputs #SoilToSoul #CultivatingClassics #OrganicGardening #BlackFarmers #RegenerativeGardening #WormCastings #DIYFertilizer #AloeVeraForPlants #FishAminoAcids #LABLife