Compost tea is black gold for your garden!  Compost is full of living microbes that help to build your soil and nourish your plants.  But some times it’s inconvenient to  apply compost to your plants through the season.  If your plants are in containers, eventually the soil would reach the very top of the pot!  But container plants especially need fertilizing through out the yea r, as constant watering washes out many nutrients.

The solution is to make compost tea.  It concentrates the nutrients and makes it very easy to apply.  It’s easily watered on your lawn, containers or vegetable gardens.  It can also be sprayed on your plants and dose and amazing job at warding off fungus and pests.  As both are normally symptoms of plant stress.

I hope this video on how I make my compost tea is helpful to you.  I’ve heard some have improved it further by adding an aerator, such as an air stone from a fish tank to it.  As aerating the water adds more oxygen and encourages microbe growth.  I haven’t tried that yet as I’ve had wonderful results with just stirring the mix.  But if you have tried both ways and found an advantage to one or the other, I would love to hear about it!