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Uploaded by on Jul 25, 2010

Give your plants the nutrients they need with Compost Tea. Dave shows us how to make and use Compost Tea

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  • @r1pvanwinkle Aeration helps kill off the organisms that can cause illness. This is why its OK to spray compost tea on foliage, but not OK to spray leachate (compost juice), as pathogens can kill your plants.

  • @r1pvanwinkle This is not compost tea, it compost juice, as @gojuryukarateka wrote. Compost tea is not the dark-colored solution that leaks out of the bottom of the compost pile. That’s called leachate. Compost teas are prepared using an aerated process. Aerating means introducing oxygen into the tea, by injecting air or by showering recirculated tea through a porous bag of compost suspended over an open tank, for example.

  • these plants are also addicted to caffeine, it makes them work harder (joking)

  • @r1pvanwinkle Yes, compost tea MUST be aerated, and therefore what he is making isn't even close to being compost tea. You're correct, molasses is only one of many foods can be added to feed awakened bacteria and/of fungi. Though its probably the best and most economical for bacteria. Attend a class by Dr Elaine Ingham of the Soil Foodweb and you will understand.

  • @gojuryukarateka Compost tea doesn't NEED to be aerated, besides, that is a recent concept and the catalyst doesn't need to be molasses either. What he is making is in fact compost tea.

  • @kishakisha17 ... no, there are companies that sell compost in bags for people who do not make their own compost.

  • what do mean by tea bags? r saying i could make compost tea from my tea bags i use to make myself a cup of tea??

  • that's not compost tea ... its compost juice. to make compost tea it needs to be aerated with a pump for 12 hours or more and fed with molasses to awaken and feed dormant bacteria. after aerating the tea can be diluted 5 to 1. compost tea is a far better innoculant than compost juice.

  • You have the easiest recipe I have seen on YouTube. Most videos require air filters, etc.  I am going to use this spring. Thanks

  • No wonder my plants are so small. They need compost tea.

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