What is compost tea?
Compost tea refers to the mixture of compost with water. You can easily make Compost tea for your organic farm or garden.The Quality of your compost tea will depend primarily on the quality of the compost you use to make it.It is very beneficial to flowers, plants, grass, and even fruit and vegetables.
Compost tea :
You can use this tea all around the garden and can really add to the quality of the plants. It contains microbes and bacteria which are beneficial in keeping plant life healthful. Compost tea is an excellent organic substitute for chemicals and fertilizers in the garden.
The beneficial effects of compost tea are much more extended than tradition compost. The 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 as a foliar spray,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.
Recipe :
Take 250gm of compost in a bit of cloth. Tie it to wrap the compost. Put that in 5 ltrs water and keep passing air in it or keep pouring same water from some height into it against to aerate the liquid. Do this for some time and leave it 5-6 hours and aerate again. That liquid is called compost tea!
TEA MAKING TIPS
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Use well-aged, finished compost
Unfinished compost may contain harmful pathogens and compost that is too old may be nutritionally deficient. - .Use it the same day for best results
- For best results add a sugar source
