How to Make & Use Compost Tea - Improve Plant & Soil Health

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Learn how to make and use compost tea to improve the health of your plants and soil. Ali shows how she has made compost tea for years to improve the health of her soil and plants for higher production in her organic vegetable. Making compost tea is simple and the rewards pay off!
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00:00 Compost Tea
00:49 The Most Important - Clean Water
01:48 Tea bag for compost
01:58 Neutralize water
02:21 5 gallon bucket tea brewing/feeding tea
02:53 Soil pH - what type of tea to brew
03:53 Fungi driven tea
04:06 Compost tea recipe
05:54 Aeration in the tea
06:56 Clean the bubblers/brewing temperatures
07:15 Brewing time
08:19 Application of tea & how
09:26 Dilution rate
10:34 When to apply compost tea/best results
10:54 How often to use compost tea

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@larryanderson599 2 ай бұрын

Excellent video. I’ve been making worm tea for two years. I’ve learned a lot from your video today. Keep up the excellent work.

@Alisorganics 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for your wonderful comment.

@ShadowCasterFishing 2 күн бұрын

Thanks for putting this together. I appreciate your bloopers to show that this isn't as easy as it looks. Your videos are informative and succinct and relates to home gardeners. Concerning diluting compost tea and extracts, my thinking is inverse to what you described. I make extract for roots and tea as a foliar spray as you explained. However, you said you dilute extract 1:1 and tea 1:5. I do the opposite. A lot of my research and regenerative soil/plant knowledge is from gardens of your size and larger and farming. I am trying to apply it to my small potted herb/vegetable garden and in ground (mostly fruit tree) garden as well as lawn care. From my experience, the extract (good extract/tea from good compost) allow you to dilute the microbes for distribution and inoculation for growth in the soil. This is a generally good area for microbes to colonize. The tea is brewed to maximize microbes so that the 'glue' from the microbes sticks to leaves and allows them to colonize and do their magic on the leaves. Any tea is better than none, of course, but the science leads me to believe that diluting extract (further than tea) for soil/roots makes more sense than tea. With that all said, you will find anything and everything on videos. Since most are not examining with microscopes, it is really what individually makes sense to a gardener. Thanks again, your videos are much appreciated.

@stevenpyle8747 2 ай бұрын

Tap water could also be left in direct sun light for 24 hrs. should also help to remove the issue.

@user-qx7zt2dl9x 2 ай бұрын

I love your teaching style, straight to the point and just the right amount of information❤

@Alisorganics 2 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊

@gardenstatesowandsew 9 күн бұрын

Thank you. I have blueberry bushes that aren’t doing so good

@samyu2971 2 ай бұрын

Compost tea demystified! Always wondered how to do this. Thanks!

@Alisorganics 2 ай бұрын

Thank you as well🌻

@timmax4817 Ай бұрын

Wow she hit on everything!! GREAT RESOURCE!!

@gardenjohn1 2 ай бұрын

👍👍👍

@gardenjohn1 2 ай бұрын

I am constantly making tea, I add forest soil to teabag, makes excellent tea !!

@Alisorganics 2 ай бұрын

Good idea! More diversity in the tea! And different fungi. 😊

@stephaniehart6922 2 ай бұрын

Great video. I learned so much. What happens if I am unable to use all of the tea within an hour? Can I refrigerate it to increase its life?

@Alisorganics 2 ай бұрын

I actually have never refrigerated it. I would be interesting to see it under a microscope. Maybe I'll have to give it a go. I would think without the air moving through it the microbes wouldn't live long....

@TheCornishCottageGarden-bs5lf 2 ай бұрын

Gonna try this 😊

@jillnewton5630 2 ай бұрын

Why can't you use the dirty water for making tea? Thank you for the excellent video! As always, so much good information.

@Alisorganics 2 ай бұрын

Sometimes our water is almost thick with silt. The muddy water can coat the leaves of the plants not allowing them to “breath” well. I could let it settle for several days and carefully use the top without the settlement, but it’s just quicker to use the humic acid. When I have time to make compost tea… it’s time to make compost tea! 😄