How We Make Tea Our Plants Can Drink
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Compost tea is effective and a wonderful way to feed plants. We use it weekly on our plants as a way of fertilizing and the results are amazing. Check out our new clothing line! http:www.freshpickedapparel.com
special guest at 2:30. Solid execution lol
That part was hysterical! Random nextdoor neighbor dude putting bird seed out with a long a** pole from porch.
ALSO Great content with the the teas!
Maybe that was his employee!?
@@fyrekittah2491 no need to censor
Chandelle Mays thank you for censoring. No need to swear here. ;)
This reminds me of the one ginormous tomato plant that grew right next to the compost bin... Seriously that one plant was at least twice the size of every other tomato plant, and it's tomatoes were huge and delicious.
I collected and grew plants from seeds from mine
Your one ginormous plant was probably a seed from a discarded tomato and lucked out by falling into your super rich soil next to the compost bin. Proof positive that a good compost is simply the best. I bet it was such fun watching that plant grow.
Nah my mother would grow seedlings in trays and then plant them in those wire cages. It was just the plant closest to the bin, which was one of those plastic ones with the door at the bottom so you could get compost out.
Thanks for the video! It's great to see even a master gardener such as yourself continue to learn and improve, as well as dump marginal or ineffective ideas. 8 years ago you posted a video of a very exotic mix of ingredients for a bubbler tea. Then 6 years ago you had a very simple 3 component non-bubbler tea that had to mature for a day or two. Now you're down to 2 components and using almost immediately. Very cool.
I've been watching you for about 4 yrs and you always seem to amaze this old Lady. Many blessings to you and your family young man 😇
Hi Luke! Just wanted to add that chloramine does not dissipate into the air the same way chlorine does. Meaning it doesn’t burn off from treated municipal water. For that reason a carbon filter is needed for the garden hose.
Right
Rv camping filters work great!
Last year I bought a compost tumbler. In learning about it, some advice was to have a container under it to catch the excess water/rainwater that drips out of the composter and use that as compost tea. When that container gets almost full, I put the tea into another larger container with a lid and that was my tea storage over the winter.
Clever!
I live in a small apartment and have a tiny terrasse. I have multiple containers I grow edibles in. I can't make compost, but I often gather nettles in the surrounding area to make tea from. Just make sure to sift it to avoid the seeds. I learned that the hard way.
This is nice but perhaps you could source borage or comfrey? You see, stinging nettles are a vital food source for many butterfly caterpillars. They will only eat nettle. This includes the Red Admiral; Comma; Small Tortoiseshell and others. It worries me that people source their precious few resources when they desperately need them (and we need butterflies and other pollinators for our crop pollination).
Well done! Easy to understand and without long winded unnecessary detail…thanks!
Worm castings and the making of compost tea works amazing. Absolutely lush garden. The era of buying worm castings is also over, I just made a compost worm farm too!
Well done!
Simple gardening is fun gardening
I've got a great little garden going so far, I planted on the 17 and I got sprouts already!
Excellent video! This is my first year gardening to produce vegetables. We built two raised beds with a total of 62 square feet of gardening space. Order our seeds from MIgardner and they have mostly all germinated by now. We are looking forward to more videos this summer. Keep them coming.
Those strawberries look great already-the "tea" will make them even better, Another great video! Thank you!
The amount of information you share in each video is absolutely amazing. Thank you for your tips and advice!
Hey Luke the seeds i bought from you all of them are up and growing great i have to put them in pots because i live in a Apt.
THIS is the kinda tea I want to see on RUclips ;p
Luke, I have watched you for years and still I amazed at how BRILLIANT you are! Thanks for your channel, your store, your website and everything you offer to all of us!! Appreciate you tremendously! -Kristy
This video was great and it reminded me that it's time to fertilize my strawberries I think I will make rabbit dropping and compost tea together
Thank you for your interesting and helpful videos. I like that that your advice is realistically achievable for the home gardener. This is one of my faves.
Great to know I don't have to do all the elaborate bubbling. Managed to make a bunch of compost that turned out great, and will try this. Will likely use some directly, and also dilute some for a foliar spray loaded with a little epsom salts and eggshell. It's great seeing life come back into the soil after years of damage.
Not much in terms of questions. I've watched so so many of your videos. You are very through! But I know that means sometimes you're scrambling for more content! Just want to assure you that this video is absolutely new to this beginning gardener and because of you, I'm a total nerd of info now!
Janet Petko I’m never scrambling for content around here. Lol. It’s more a question of what do you want to see vs what there is to do.
Good Video Luke. Photobombed by your neighbour feeding birds :-) Getting my bucket out later this morning :-)
The timing of this video! I made some yesterday but you just cleared up a lot of questions. Thank you!
Funny, I was wondering how your neighbor got the bird feed filled then he showed us. Great info, Love your content.
Great timing on this subject. Have been thinking of this very thing for the last couple weeks. Thanks for the info.
This is EXCELLENT INFORMATION! Can’t wait to try your method of compost tea, Luke!
You should get that attachment for your drill that has a mixer on it.
I just found your channel! New subscriber, I relate to you as a fellow Michigander. I just purchased a new home with under 2 acres and I have a larger garden plot now than my old home, I’m excited to get a bigger garden going! I just planted some strawberries and asparagus along with my usual tomatoes and zucchini. Looking into getting some of your seeds as the price beats my local Home Depot! It looks like I need to mulch my plot as weeds are a pain! Love your plot!
Always nice learning from you. Just something I picked up along the way... when compost is brewed, it's called tea.. when it's steeped.. it's called extract. So you have compost tea and compost extract. Keep up the great work!
Perfect timing on video, we just made some compost tea up and I was wondering about how much and how often. Thanks a bunch
Thank you for not making this process over complicated and explaining both ways to create compost tea. So many people who posted videos made it seem like you have to have equipment to create usable compost tea. 😅
Trying this out. Just started my fall vegetable garden.
I was literally just thinking about making some compost tea for my garden. Luke, you're a psychic! :P
Would b cool to see a special episode on hot peppers and how to get the biggest yields. Love all your videos!
I have found one of the best teas I love to grow is using worm castings and miracle grow. I will take compost let worms further refine it then aerate it to allow it to better stir.
Ewell Acres ditch the miracle-gro. It’s just chemical fertilizers and not nutrients! Just add a good layer of compost!
Great info Luke. I really prefer the steep method to making compost tea. Right now I am having to wait about 24 hours of brewing time. Not good for an impatient person like me :-) Will definitely switch method. Thanks.
I can't like this enough, love using compost/manure tea!
Great video as always Luke thanks. Loved your no need for crop rotation video too. Saved me tons of effort as certain plants like my brassica's need the shadier parts of my garden
We have started planting our scraps from the kitchen Thur the year and it has made our garden so full of worms u can't dig without finding worms everywhere. Can u do a video on barring scraps? Or others ways to compost
I let nature create compost tea and worm castings for me in my beds so I don't have to do separately outside of my garden beds. I just mulch heavily around plants with organic matter witch creates oxygen rich compost tea every time it rains and already has a great environment under the mulch for worms to multiply and create tons of worm castings
Smart!
I find leaf mulch to be the easiest and best way to get this result.
I dont know if I missed in video but about how much worm castings would you use in a 5 gallon bucket? Thank you...you do us gardeners a great service...
I think he filled the bucket about 1/4 way. But as you could see, he re-used the worm castings. You can add as much as you want. Then add more water to the leftover castings just like he did. As long as it's really fully composted materials and worm castings. Unfinished compost will burn the leaves.
I bought a bag of worm castings and the directions said 1 pound for a 5-gallon bucket of water...left to 'brew' about 24 hrs.
We personally use fresh rabbit droppings mixed with rabbit urine. We mix about half a shovel full in a 20-25 gallon bucket.
👍 THANX. Luke.
My plants love ☕..
Thank you for explaining all of this. Thank you for making it all simple to use!
Use steeped by using a 5 gal paint strainer bag you can get at any paint store. Put one bag in bucket placed over the rim and add one shovel of organic manner of what ever you use. Steep for two to three days.
Pull bag and dump on drip line then dump solid in other area away from plants a little
To add to the info. Steeping is only lift strainer bag once a day lifting the bag in the water pulling one side of the bag and then the other to break the organic material around the bag. Then I generally put a piece of plywood over the pail as the pail sits in the back yard.
Once you dump the solids and slowly pour the tea around the plants drip line. Generally I put it in the soil a week or two before planting. Then feel free to repeat every two weeks.
How do I make the compost to use as tea tho? I'm afraid of compost piles attracting rats, mix, bugs etc LOVE LOVE LOVE your channel. As a first time gardener this helps ALOT!
The subject of organic and inorganic fertilizer is actually a pretty fascinating one and far from being as simple as inorganic = bad, organic = good. Something like miracle gro isn't a bad thing and sometimes compost tea is not such an organic thing. Some compounds in organic fertilizer need to be broken down by soil bacteria and fungi into that very same "inorganic" state in order to be soluble and taken up by plant roots in the first place which takes time. So in cases where you really need a fast result, the use of a so-called inorganic fertilizer might be the only thing to do. By the way, the term inorganic means the stuff went through a manufacturing process. So if a machine mixes soluble nitrogen (a completely natural organic thing as described above) with something else, that means it must be called inorganic. That's the entire threshold for being called inorganic in plant fertilizer. It is a subject that is best researched, but in a pinch organic stuff like compost tea will be a very low concentrate as Luke says, so far less likely to do unintended damage. However inorganic fertilizers have their place too and they don't automagically cast an evil spell on your crops. Sorry to go on, but as I said it's not as simple as compost tea = organic = good, anything in a box = inorganic = bad.
Well said and good point. It’s an ongoing debate amongst so many gardeners but I agree with you. And you bring up very good points and definition. I try to keep things simple and cheap, which is why I usually do teas and so called “organic” but in reality if I need a quick boost that my super soil mix is not currently satisfying I will add an organ I long term amendment in addition to an inorganic feeding to give an immediate boost. My sister was a bio major at UC Berkeley and said there is absolutely nothing wrong with “non-organic” ferts assuming you know the difference, when and how to use them. Essentially like you said, broken down into useable nutrients are both technically non’organic at that point. The main concern and consideration is how clean and environmentally friendly are the processes of making bottled synthetic nutrients. If that doesn’t bother said person, then the nutrients themselves will have the soluble/useable nutrients readily available to you in a much stronger and more concentrated dose. You have to be careful and have a little experience with using them (start light and increase if needed from there) because can harm plants mainly by burning roots. Compost teas are great when you just want useable nutrients from something you maybe already have on hand (soil, compost, worm casting) all of which can be used for teas. And these will not harm your plants due to the lower NPK/PPM’s in the nutrient water mix (tea). Organic (long release) soil mixes are great, and will provide nutrients, and micronutrients to your plants through the long term and will have nutrient readily available as time goes on, which will lessen the amount of deficiencies, pests and molds/fungus to affect your plants. And also are great if you miss a feeding, they still will have the base of what they need. Boosting with teas once a week and a stronger synthetic fertilizer a few times through the summer (mid veg and mid bloom) can be a great boost to growth and blooming/fruiting. Also sorry for rambling. But you brought up a good point/discussion. Thanks for your thoughts!
But Miracle-Gro is owned by monsanto so bad bad
@@Juanrivers2022 oh really? i didnt know that! YUCK!
Oh please! Enough with the synthetic fertilizers... The soil is cooked from all that nasty stuff.
@@capicuaaa Done your own research, have you? Nice. Whatever works for you.
Great information Luke! You mentioned having a chloride filter on the hose...where do I get one from and how does it go on the hose? I do know that chlorinated water is bad for the plants but I didn't know there was a filter for it that'd go on the hose. If you have a video on it please let me know. Thanks again for the great informational videos!
Most informative video I’ve seen on the matter yet, thanks!
That one random weed in between the 2 beds. It would drive me crazy!
That kinda looks like a strawberry sucker.
Your videos are very good so thank you for sharing. I just bought your new book and looking forward to see what it says and put it into practice.
I've been using wood ash tea, it works great too, but has no nitrogen.
Thanks. Focused me on using my work castings in this way. Especially to speed the heading of brassicas before winter. Mild winter here in South Australia. That in combo with chicken manure should be strengthening for them.
Worm
I make manure tea with rabbit manure. No composting necessary.
Sounds delicious
I left some bags in the rain for a little bit too long in a container then just dumped on my cannas and smelled really bad and worked like a charm.
For anyone reading this a year plus later, rabbit manure is considered cold, so it can go straight from the bunny to the plants. Of course it can still be made into tea as well.
Awesome, I'm doing this today. Thanks for the simple tip.
Another GREAT video! A couple of QUESTIONS, though. 1) how much worm castings were in the bottom of your bucket before you added the water. 2). What is the name of your filter so I can find it on amazon and do you have a code we can use with amazon to get 10% discount?
3) Can you use the liquid that accumulated from the worm bins to make tea too? If so, how? I look forward to reading your replies.
I have a bucket under my urban worm bag so when it rains I have a bunch of worm tea
Just put an inch or two in the bottom. It's not an exact ratio. You just need enough to get a dark "tea".
Linda Johnson we added maybe 4 cups? I didn’t measure because it doesn’t really matter that much. As for the filter we just started using ours so I don’t feel comfortable sharing the link in case something goes wrong but just check around and you will find one for sure.
@@snowpaw360 the exact questions I was going to ask... being I'm on a weight restriction.... I guess 1 cup to a gallon of water would be about the same ratio.
MIgardener Thank you for replying. Only, one question remains unanswered. The last one about the moisture that accumulates from the bottom of the worm bins. Can that be used as a tea? Do I use that to make tea too? Can I use it without diluting it? If I have to dilute the liquid from the worm bins, what would the ratio be? One tablespoon per gallon? Two tablespoons per gallon? I look forward to reading your reply.
Thanks. I am going to try the compost on my strawberry bed
Luke you are way ahead of everyone else 👍🏻😁
So simple! Thank you!
Also, so wouldn't using molasses and a bubbler to increase the amount of bacteria will fix the problem of having city water kill the bacteria in compost tea? Or will the chlorine kill the bacteria irrespective of how much bacteria is there? I figured if you multiply the amount of bacteria, you'll still have left to fertilize well. I find it a little tiring to let water sit. I don't have a rain drum and it hardly rains here so I mostly use city water.
Good info! Still could have been much shorter and to the point, but fast forward works. Well done and I'm getting my bucket out and heading to the manure pile!
And I just came in from building my new compost bin.
i read you can get rid off chlorine and other things using the air pump for one hour so you dont need to wait for 24 h
adding variations of bacteria wont harm anyone i add LAB and if i have fermented rice water i ll add little with the black molasses
brewing is important so bad bacteria dont show up and for more bacteria to be in the tea
Great episode. love compost tea
I'm curious. Have you done any kind of comparison plantings to see if using this particular tea is worth the effort? If so, I'd be really interesting in seeing the comparison. Thanks for posting.
Great video. Only question is why you didn’t check the PH of the tea before applying?
You're awesome dude, respect
Thanks for this knowlegde.
Watching from Indonesia.
If you put a cup of sugar in water it doesn’t instantly dissolve, it takes a few minutes with agitation to get it there. The 1-2 hours wait time is probably to let suspended solids settle, but it’s all preference.
It's not the nutrients, it's the microbes that are beneficial to your plants.
Michelle Leathers well there is both and nutrients are definitely important too.
What is the ratio of compost to water???
Some people use 4-5 cups of compost per 5 gallon. Then wait until the solids sink so the tea can be used.
I worked with fish. You can use hot water and let it cool to drive off the chlorine.
Thanks. You are a great teacher :) and you answered all my questions . Your method is so simple and you explained well. I was all I to brewing compost tea. Got the bucket and fish tank air bubbler and all the paraphernalia. Raccoon can and took the air bubbler. I lost my interest.
You have given me confidence to grow plants in my backyard. Thank you.,I subscribed.
Raccoon took the air bubbler...oh no....too funny....of all the things that could go wrong....sorry.....just watched the brewer method on Plant Abundance.....I think I'll stick with Luke's method as well....
Here is Ramy from Ireland , I would appreciate some answers for my following questions (All indoor gardening ):
1- Is compost worm generate beneficial nematodes in the bedding by any means.
2- if there are for some reason Root aphids and Gnat flying around in the worm bin which means that they will lay eggs(becoming this tiny brownish crawlers and springtails) and I used the casting after it's ready to harvest ,Dont you think that Its contagious, I mean I gonna take this root aphids and springtails to where I use the casting ?
3- Found random person online saying before use worm Castings you can boil it up to 130 Celsius to get rid of springtails or any eggs for any insect inside the casting ,then use the casting safely after ,Do you recommend this ? And if yes, Dont you thing it kill the microbial population and decrease minerals in the casting?
4- Is really worm casting with all its shapes(I mean whatever the worm feed on) is a natural pesticide?
Note: Root aphids , Aphids and springtails are most commonly pests that destroy crops here in Ireland.
Appreciate your time for this questions answers.
Thanks and regards
Ramy
Great video and information
Thank you
So simple, thank you for sharing
2:40 3:50 and 5:15 were the real subplot of this whole video
Luke...you didnt really say what was in your compost tea...you said worm castings...was that it? was there any compost in it?
Awesome video! Thanks for sharing
Letting the water sit isn't going to seperate out the chlorine, fluoride, etc. That used to work years ago when the solution was chemically unstable but nowadays the drinking water solution is completely stable and the only way you're going to remove those is by distillation, reverse osmosis, or some other method of purification.
Many thanks. You answered all my questions.
Great stuff Luke. Do you ever use a sprayer so that it gets a follier feed,?
Luke, I have chickens and chicken manure and also horse manure. Can I make compost tea from either of these? Is one better than the other? Does the manure have to be in compost from? Can I use some fresh manure mixed in the water? I had some old timers tell me that fresh chicken manure is too hot to use, but it can be used if put in a barrel with water and then apply around the plants.
My question as well...lots of chicken manure....
enjoyed the background show !
have you ever made fertilizer from fermented weeds/grass clippings?
Thank you!
Luke, I'm going to try compost tea this week with composted chicken manure. At the same time I plan on adding, per directions a microbial instant tea from Mighty Plant, inc. Any experience on this type of "instant" microbial tea?
Please list all you put in your compost tea. I only heard you say worm castings. Thank you 🙏
Luke There was a test done on city water and believe me you can smell the chlorine in the water leaving the water out for 24 hours did dissipate the smell at the chlorine but it barely measured any degree of getting rid of the chlorine. So do you have any fats that would make this test inaccurate if so I'm very interested. I've never used a tea before but I think I will Thanks for the info.
Great information Luke!! Thanks! Would this work with mushroom compost? Thanks again!💕
Yes this works great, or sprinkle the compost on the soil
Am I the only one who saw the person with the big stick can contraption reaching out on their balcony 😅
A bubbler does help the chlorine flash off faster from city water
Actually, compost tea you are stripping off the beneficial microbes and adding foods like kelp to grow those organisms, so they make glues. This is why compost tea is used as a foliar feed, so those glues stick to those leaves and protect the leaves. You appear to be making compost extract, which strips off microbes without adding foods so no glues are made which is good for a soil drench. A drop of humid acid in your water will bind up the chlorine and chloramine. Just wanted to point out the difference between tea and extract. Without the right microbes present, nutrient cycling is poor.
Sarah - I want to put composted horse manure in a bucket & make a tea out of it. What do you recommend is the best process & how long should it steep? Are there ant mistakes I should be aware of? What would make this effort most beneficial? Thanx
Smart very valuable info Luke ! 😊
So please confirm, you put 1 tbsp. of castings per 5 gallons of water?
MIGardener, Luke, I found this a little unclear as well. How much did you use initially? When you commented on the amt. of bacteria in a tablespoon, wasn't sure if that was the amount you were using or just relevant to that statement. Also, for the second application, was it only the residue left in the bucket from the first application to which you added the second round of water? Or, did you start over (you made reference to the contents still being dark) Sorry, I'm new to compost tea. I so appreciate all the particulars that you share, you provide so much great information! So timely, as I have some of your worm castings left over! I'd love to know which brand of filter you use on your hose, there are so many. ps thank you for the awesome sale on seeds! I got a little carried away, but wanted to be sure to do my part. ; )
@@debrabooe901 You use about three inches in a 5 gallon bucket. That's what he used. He was simply educating us on the fact that there are millions of bacteria in every tablespoon. The second batch he didn't add any more compost because he was going over the same area he just watered. I would suggest you use the above ratio for each new section. He did about a 4 by 4 section with one 5 gallon bucket. Hope this helps.
I heard chloramine wont degas due to the ammonia added to the chlorine. Can you verify this
Jill King no, I put a couple cups per gallon.
Hey luke...i grow in containers and use compost alot. My trunk is slowly getting buried by the extra compost and mulch. What should i do? Should i remove the top layer every year? Im scared i might damage the feeder roots but at the same time avoid trunk rot
Do you just water your plants with this, or can you apply this as a foliar spray? Does this increase chances of disease on the leaves?
Dr. Elaine Ingham differentiates steeped compost tea as "compost extract" and brewed as actual "compost tea." She also stresses that compost tea is for foliar spraying and compost extract is for watering in to places where you want to stimulate microbial life.
Have you ever added anything to your compost tea like fish fertilizer or anything like that? Would it be beneficial or a waste?
Hey Luke, Thanks for the video! Have you ever tried making a green manure compost tea from fermenting comfrey leaves, and stinging nettle leaves? I am curious if you have and what your results were. Thanks again!
I did that last year. I would fill up a couple 5 gallon buckets with weeds packed in, avoiding any I could tell had seeds, and add a couple tbsp molasses. I honestly don't know the names of the weeds, I just hunt around my forrest yard and grab what I can. Top with water, and stir every few days for 3 weeks. It gets really black by the end and smells like fresh horse manure. Because of that I didn't want it directly on my plants, I just root drench. Also because you are using green matter which is much higher on nitrogen and things like that, you want to dilute these at least 5:1 or more until it looks like weak brewed tea. When I pour it into my larger outdoor rubber trash so I can dilute can I use a paint bag on the top to filter it out so I get less seeds. It sure seemed to work, my soil was not amazing last year. I started adding this around bloom time, and then every couple weeks. I believe you do want to use it all within a week or so. But every time I used it seemed like the next day or two the plants got a big boost. Just definitely dilute it until weak tea, I think when blooming you don't want to overload the plants on nitrogen so they spend more energy fruiting. And it does stink and stain so don't wear fancy clothes.
Thanks for all that information!
Great info. Thanks. BTW at 2:40, what is your neighbour (Aussie spelling) feeding the squirrels/birds????
Chris M yes she feeds the birds daily.