Worm Tea Foliar Feeding: Why You Should Do It ASAP!
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- Опубликовано: 14 фев 2018
- As gardeners we're often obsessed with pest prevention, nutrient deficiencies, and fertilizing our plants. What if there was a way to take care of all three of these at once?
Enter foliar spraying and feeding with worm tea. It's a great pest prevention tool as the spray dislodges aphids and the like from your plants. It also acts as a correcter of micronutrient deficiencies, as worm tea is chock-full of micronutrients.
Today's video features Steven Cornett of Nature's Always Right farms. He'll show you how he approaches foliar spraying his crops with worm tea and explain the logic behind it so you can decide whether it makes sense for your garden.
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Love this video. Have watched it multiple times and each time I pick up a little more insight based on my own growing experiences. Thanks! 😁
What a great team great questions and answers 🙏
I LOVE you guys & your content. You help me to better care for my garden & indoor plants. Thank you so much.
OK I may have missed it but they do mention the stomata. Those are pores mainly on the under side of plant leaves that open in early morning before the sun gets high. Mainly before 9am the earlier the better for foliar spray. Otherwise you would be wasting your time, mid afternoon they are closed so do what you will with that info. I like to liquid seaweed to my worm tea and it adds something like 70 minerals.
Fantastic tip!
U won't be wasting your time, although absorption will be limited if sprayed during the day, until the next morning when the dew rehydrates the solution and it feeds the next day, think outside the box, happy gardening.
Really I really enjoyed the video thanks for the information great job guys
I came here for some tips that I can use in my pumpkin growing adventures. I don't want to use pesticides. I found your video to not only be informative, but fun. Thanks!
Very interesting information here. Thanks guys! 👊🏻💥👊🏻
Your guys videos are epic. Thank u for these
Thank YOU for watching
Thanks so much for watching Ryan, glad you are liking.
What’s the best time to foliar spray with this tea?
Thanks for a great video.
good work .thanks for this information
I'm new to gardening and have watched a lot of you tube videos. now I used a weelie bin to make compost and after a while I thought I'd better make a gateway in the bin to be able to shovel it out, so I drilled a hole in the bin and it started to leak this brown liquid that I now know was leachate. I tried to catch it in a bucket but a lot of it leaked onto my lawn I was worried it might burn the lawn but it's turned the lawn much greener now I'm trying to make more so I can do the rest of the lawn.
Love your book and your channel. I read your article on liquid kelp foliar spray and you recommended using a non-ionic surfactant. Is that safe for vegetables you will be eating. Kale, tomatoes, etc...
Is that as the watering for the day or is there still a watering? If watering still needed how far in-between tea spraying do you water?
Dear EG, thank you for your wonderful site.
I used castings tea as a foliar in my VPot where I grow my salad greens. How long I need to way to harvest these greens and eat them?.
I can not find this very important information anywhere. Thank you and warm regards. A home gardener from New Zealand.
Vitamin C powder works for chlorine as well if youre impatient :)
Great video man, thanks for the upload!
Curious...Should I replace ALL my garden hoses with drinking hoses to ensure the quilty of water I'm providing my plants? I too use a water filter on my garden hose and wonder if it isn't truly helping because I am not using hoses appropriate for drinking.
I have big respect on people who grows their own food and do it as organically as possible.
What’s the name of the water hose attachment called again you said it to fast in the video
Love this!!
I watched this video, and we loved the idea. We have tried this, and are doing it every two weeks. But we still have quite a few bugs. I am wondering, you mentioned the Mosquito Bits in another video. Can I not put some of these in the worm tea that we make to up the percentage of the good bacteria that can and will kill the bugs??
You can also add about 1-2 drops of humic acid per gallon to neutralize any chlorine or chloramine.
what kind of sprayer is that, i like the filter on the top
+Epic Gardening can you use worm tea to get rid of or deter snails and slugs or just snails or?
Love the video had a question about using The spray on Edibles. Is it okay to spray it on your vegetables if you're going to eat them within two weeks?
hi can we store compost tea if we dont usw it right away?
Enjoy both of your RUclips Channels! Thanks for sharing your Wisdom and Knowledge.
I seen in the previous comments posted a month ago that you would have the video for making your Worm Tea...I subscribed to both your channels and I still cannot see the video for the Worm Tea? Plz post a link so we can learn how you make the Worm Tea. TIA
I'm not sure when Steven is putting his up, but I will do a video in the next month or so!
Are you diluting with non-chlorinated water in the tank sprayer?
Question: Does this method work well with the white butterflies that lay the eggs? Spend hours sometimes just picking them off. Thanks
I'm not sure nor am I an expert but I would think think. You're blasting them off at high pressure which would hopefully kill pests or atleast get them off the plant
Thanks.
Good video guys. I've been foliar feeding for a few years and I'm a big fan.. I add a tiny bit of wetting agent (SLS) to allow the solution to wet better. Like you pointed out it works great for aphid control.
Wetting agent is a good idea. Nice call.
Nice Papi, glad you have been doing foliar for a while and like the results. I also can't say enough good things about it.
I spray when it’s black , never burns . As long as you only use castings and molasses.
is it good for flowers?
Great video thanks guys. I pass water through my worm bin and collect it in a bucket. Is that basically the same liquid you have? It comes out really dark so must be a good concentrate?
That's leachate slightly different
I forget the channel I saw it on, but if add Vitamin C powder to your water it acts the same as those tablets and breaks up the Chloramine into it's constituent parts (Chlorine and Ammonia) so that they can then off gas normally. The person put a very small amount of powder into his water, so you don't need much.
Can this be used indoors on houseplants?
can you do a video on how to clean your equipment after you finish spraying? i know you cant just leave it like that and use it again. it must be cleaned well. How do you do that? Thanks and love your videos!
Good call - Check out Steven's channel for more of what he's up to on the farm!
I want a t shirt like Steven's!!
I was planning on top dressing my potted plants with worm castings along with foliar feeding with tea this spring. I know you said foliar feeding isn't enough alone. Will my original plan suffice? I don't know how to mix fertalizers. Also... The corn syrup is leaving shiny spots on my leaves. How often after foliar feeding can I clean my leaves?
Most organic fertilizers have a mixing ratio on the back of the bottle,like 40mm per 9 litres...
It’s this safe around bees?
Does worm tea foliar spray boost vegetable size?
Great video but were is the recipe for the compost tea?
I've read that type of sprayer will damage the beneficial organisms because of the high pressure. Thoughts?
The spray out of his backpack sprayer isn't very strong at all, shouldn't damage
Vitamin C will neutralize chlorine and chloramine. A 500 mg tablets will neutralize around 40 gallons.
29slowjoe no way really?
Probably always a good idea to just let the chlorine gas out over 24 hours but really, depending on where you live, the chlorine levels once it comes out the sprayer or faucet, it's already being exposed to air & studies have shown that in certain regions in the US and most of Canada don't have enough chlorine to completely decimate bacteria populations in soil or in that canister of tea. It's meant for closed pipe systems and the further you live from the treatment plants, the less supply of chlorine you'll have in your water. Plus it's safe to drink immediately and the bacteria populations killed in soil kill usually build right back up quickly unless it was an intense concentration like it pools or treatment plants
I came here looking for info on exactly this. There is so much hysteria and so many opinions presented as facts about chlorine that I want to get to the bottom of it. Filling up buckets of water and having them sit a day is a lot of inconvenience and wasted effort over a lifetime if it doesn’t add value. I don’t worry about it from watering my garden but when it comes to making & diluting worm tea I’d like to be more certain.
Dude thanks
Can you use worm tea as fertilizer in the soil?
So wheres the link he mentioned
Ty
No, thank you!
Our pleasure!
@Epic Gardening,is Stomata similar to Stigmata,doesn't everybody always mix-up the two when using such a word within the Gardening community,ha?.
Can you post a link to your video w/ the recipe?
Pls share if u gt it ...RSA...number 0769104047
If you use hot water and let it cool 98% of the chlorine it dissipated. I worked with fish.
I'm having a very bad white fly ( fungus fly) problem in my out patio plants. I bought a plant from a store and now my succulent's are infested IV bought Neem pure oil I mix with pure water and mix and spray on the plants and soil since Oct 2020 it's June I'm really tired of fighting these bugs...I'm 60 yr lady..I don't know how to rid them...I even emptied them out put the old soul in a plastic bag and climped it ..put it in the sun..and replanted with fresh soil..and they came Back...I don't want to use pesticides...I heard of dawn soap and vinager but I haven't used it 😲🌻🌼☀️ blessings..sorry it's late insomniac 😟
Neem oil with a few drops of dawn dish soap helps a ton. Buy those yellow sticky traps they sell at walmart or garden stores. It will get rid of the problem over time. Have to keep up the fight tho dont let them take over
Very impressive I'm blown away by the dedication its inspirational to me because I love nature always have. Nature gave me everything I have so it is up to us to give back to where we came from as the stewards of this precious land
:D so glad to hear this Nik!
I love the ending of this video with no subscribe message
Thanks for posting this Kevin!
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Thank you for enjoying Clinton!
So the worm tea is basically a natural pesticide + supplements for plants?
Yep like a nitrogen, probiotic, vitamin/mineral supplement. Easily one of the best natural fertilizers.
Thank youu for the answer!
Keep up the very good works :)
Epic!
You can use powdered ascorbic acid to neutralize the chloramines that most utilities use now to treat their water.
I don't see how to video on worm tea. Am I missing something?
Check out Steven's channel for a video on that!
I dont see a video on how to make the tea?
Will be making one soon!
I'm filming the last part of the video today. Look for the video in the near future :)
Bruh those eyebrows are legendary
What happened with the audio at 3:06 ?
Little recording mishap 😉
I have subscribed to his channel and did not find the video on how to make your own worm tea. Can you provide the link? And also the link to the 4 gallon sprayer? Thanks.
I will have a video on the recipe coming soon Augustine! The sprayer can be found here: amzn.to/2F8aszE
Filming the last part of that video today. Will post on my channel soon. Thanks!
@@epicgardening Is this still the sprayer you're using 4 years later, or did you find something better?
Hey, worm farmers! I started my worm "condo" about a week ago and I have a huge aphid infestation. I really don't know what to do, has anyone had the same problem? I can't find anything on RUclips that's specific to aphids in a compost bin. I certainly won't want that future compost anywhere near a garden... Help!
Do your best to protect the entrances to your worm bin! Aphids inside makes me think something you added had eggs in there already
Epic Gardening thanks! I’m gonna look into aphids eggs online, maybe if I freeze my food scraps before I feed the warms, that might be killing the eggs. We shall see... thanks for the quick response! I love your channel! You’ve helped this city mouse become a country/nature mouse!
Try covering with a layer of wet newspaper on top. It seems to work.
LuckyCesar78 thank you! I’ll give that a go. I decided to feed my worms only cardboard and paper, since I thought aphids wouldn’t eat that and die or leave. Been doing that for a month and it seems to be working but there’s still some aphids left, probably feeding off whatever fruits and veggies in the dirt. I’ll try your trick and see! Thanks again!
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Or use rain barrel water.
Maybe you might catch a Super Aphid with out for Vengence ?.
well he didn't foliar spray himself... those caterpillars are going strong :D... j/k thanks for the great video
its call living organic soil and garding or bio organic ! i do the samething in my medicinal canabis garden and my vegtable and fruit its wonder full you should try the enzems corn sprout tea that will bring it to a next level !
I'm trying that this coming year!
How long can u keep the tea do u know?
@Epic Gardening,doesn't the solution sprayer that your fellow gardener is putting on looks a bit lika a Ghostbuster Photon pack,ha?. Is he afraid of any ghost,Slimer,Marshmellow Puff & such like him?.
How has he learnt all this stuff ? Through books and youtube ?
Mentoring, books, RUclips, and practice
@@epicgardening Who was your mentor and do you know "Ecology action / John Jeavons and the Biointensive method ?
Maybe you can make a video about your best books which helped you the most ;-)
Shall do! Check "Teaming With Microbes"
@@epicgardening When I start a new project. Which soil should I use for my first vegetable beds. The reason is, it will take time to produce my own.
I water crops directly with leachate and not even the tea 😆
ask any cannabis grower about foliar :) lol
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Bajheera? Lol
Rainwater! Use rainwater
They live in SoCal. Rainwater is hard to come by
I made it 5 seconds.....WOW the eyebrows!! lol its ok to trim them up bud!!!
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Nah, they're cute!
I can't look anything beside those monsters of eyebrows....