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A short video describing the basic biological benefits of compost tea, how to use it and how its produced.





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Compost Tea Recipe What Is Compost Tea and How To Make It

When we talk about Organic Gardening, one of the main topic we discuss is how to nourish the soil without adding any chemicals. It
is probably the most important factor of organic gardening. One of the options of doing this is to use Compost Tea. This article is all about making this. But before going into compost tea recipe we should first know, what is a compost tea?

What is compost tea?

Compost tea refers to the mixture of compost with water.

Compost tea types:

There are two types of compost tea.

1. Aerated Compost tea

2. Non-aerated Compost tea

 What to put inside a compost pile?

 

How To Make Compost Tea?

Non-Aerated type are the easiest to prepare. You simply need to put the compost in a perforated bag and then put the bag in a container and then fill the container with water. After some times, the water would become dark brown in color.

For aerated version most preferred way is to use Brewers.

Compost Tea Brewer:

It is basically a plastic bucket connected with some pipes to an air pump and a water source. Here, the compost is mixed with water and the mixture is aerated with the help of pump. The extract from this solution is used to fertilize the garden.

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The Brewer adds fresh oxygen into the water, which helps the bacteria to thrive.

Though people talk about Tea Brewer every time they discuss Compost Tea, it is not the only way to prepare the tea. There are other and more simper ways to this. Here is a video that describe the simplest method to prepare compost tea.

Check out this video and realize it is not compulsory to have a complex compost tea brewer.

Why compost tea?

The beneficial effects of compost tea is much more extended than tradition compost. Best part of using compost tea over traditional compost is that you can use it on both soil and leaves.

You can spray compost tea on the leaves; it will reduce the foliar diseases. As it is in the liquid form it will improve the soil quality by increasing the nutrients available to the plant.

A Compost Tea recipe is not that a complicated matter as it may sound. I hope after reading this article you have a much more clearer view about the subject. I will also encourage you to share with your friends so that they can also try this in their garden.

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Used Tea in Gardening Use

Today we will discuss the use of used tea leaves in gardening. We all love tea. What better it would be if we can use the tea leaves after taking out the liquor from it and use it in garden.

Tea leaves are very rich in organic materials, disposing them like trash is like throwing out valuable natural resource. Adding them in the compost pile will reduce the need of adding other fertilizers.

They are a fantastic source of Nitrogen. After taking out the tea liquor, the remaining leaves can be used as a great source of nitrogen in the compost pile. It can be a good supplement to balance the brown materials (rich in carbon) of the compost pile. To know more about carbon nitrogen balance check out our earlier article on composting ingredients.

You can take out the tea leaves from the tea with a strainer.  Store these along with your kitchen scraps. Once the bucket gets filled dump them into the compost heap and let them decompose.

If you are using tea bags to prepare tea, you can use the bags also as composting ingredient. But while dumping the tea bags, cut them open and take the tea leaves out.  Not all tea bags can decompose. In cases where the bags are made up of nylons, they will not do any help in composting. Some tea bags can be made up of paper or silk they will decompose but the rate will be very different from the leaves. That is why it makes sense to take out the leaves from the bags.

Tea leaves can also be used as mulch. Unlike other kitchen scraps, tea leaves don’t need to be composted before applying as mulch. Tea leaves hold water in large quantity. So don’t apply if your garden soil is damp and your plant requires dryer soil.

Tea leaves also protect the plant from many soil borne diseases. It is a little acidic in nature so mixing with soil will decrease the pH of the soil, and provide ideal growing condition for many plants. Tea leaves are rich potassium (K) and phosphorous (K) apart from Nitrogen (N), which are key elements in plant growth. Tea leaves are beneficial for Mushrooms in particular. Tea leaves mixed with peat moss works wonder for Mushrooms. Apart from Mushrooms tea leaves have also shown good results in rose cultivation.


 
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