I am ordering organic compost from my local recycling facility and I am curious as to how to make and apply compost tea to my veggie garden. What are some good resources, or techniques you have found? Thanks!
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I have followed this sites instructions when I began. It is wonderfully informative and surprisingly easy to do. I add a little less dark molasses than it calls for. You may as well, when you find that too much can attract the wrong kind of bugs too.
It is IMPORTANT that you use Unsulfered Molasses.
The Compost home page is rich with further suggestions for you. There are, in fact, too many to list here. I wish you happy reading and success. If you have any questions, I’ll be glad to answer as best I can, anytime.
Here’s a link to a natural gardening site. This guy is really good.
Compost tea is very beneficial. You can simply soak some compost in water for a few days and it will be decent OR you can do it properly and end up with a wonderful tea that will nourish and protect your plants. The trick is to aereate (oxygenate) the tea while it is brewing so the aerobic (oxygen loving) microbes will multiply too. If you do not provide aeration it will not contain as many beneficial microbes. I provided a link below for making worm tea which is the same as compost tea only using worm compost. Or google compost tea recipe.
