55 Gallon Compost Tea Brewer!

We made our very first compost tea brewer!
just found out the benefits of making my own compost tea! It's a super concentration of beneficial bacteria, protozoa, fungi and nematodes! It'll help you get the good guys to beat out the bad bugs and funguses! That's what I'm talking about free fertilizer and herbicide all in one!

You can a make a brewer in a 5 gallon bucket, heres a YouTube video w/ the directions...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dTM81dKeiM

Here's the instructions to the 55 gallon brewer we made: http://www.uos.harvard.edu/fmo/landscape/organiclandscaping/build_tea_brewer.pdf

Organic Tea Recipe: http://www.uos.harvard.edu/fmo/landscape/organiclandscaping/tea_recipes.pdf

Vist their website to learn more about this farm: www.thepromiselandfarm.com

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[MrTimjwilson]

Fungi will pass through your sprayer nozzle okay provided it is the larger aperture but I agree you need a larger mesh filter which is continuously cleaned as you go so it does not build up debris. Good going & good luck. Tim Wilson

[KanadianKain]

pantyhose i wouldnt recommend, can filter our lots of the fungi, and nematodes.

[claywade77]

Another suggestion is to not use a high pressure sprayer but rather use one of those flower water devices......watering can? The fungi that you produce in the brew will be damaged by the high speeds traveling through the small orifice. I agree with peppersnsmartpots, you need to bring the pump above water level. If the pump goes off then the water will siphon back into your air pump and cause damage. Anyways awesome job and keep up the good work!

[aace20011]

What manufacturer is the pump?

[peppersnsmartpots]

Great brewer! It sure beats my 7gal beer fermenter converted to compost tea brewer.

I do want to sugest raising the pump above the water level to prevent water from entering the pump during a power interuption.

[streetbikebro]

Nice Job sis