Organic Compost Tea for your home garden
Year after year this organic solution grows in popularity. Compost tea is very environmentally friendly, cheap and easy to make, allowing you to bypass many of the expensive commercial fertilizers, and is absolutely wonderful for your home garden, when applied regularly.
About compost tea
Definition Compost Tea
- Compost Tea :
- Compost Tea is a liquid solution rich in nutrients and microorganisms, such as bacteria, fungi, and protozoa, that is created by brewing, or steeping, mature compost in water. Compost tea is normally applied directly to the soil, for root uptake, or as a foliar spray.
Benefits of Compost tea
- Great organic alternative to commercial gardening chemicals
- Help plants suppress disease
- Provides micro-organisms beneficial for plant growth
- Additions source of nutrients for plants and soil
Nicknames given to Compost Teas
- Worm Tea
- Garden tea
- Liquid black gold
- Liquid worm poop
- Compost juice
- Compost extract
- Compost leachate
- Manure tea
Compost tea names often relate to the type of compost used in the compost tea brewing process. Liquid worm poop, or worm tea are often referenced when talking about compost tea; this is because worm castings, or vermicompost, is a common source of compost in many compost tea recipes.