Compost Tea

Posted by Sally Odum Jun 1, 2006

You make compost tea by soaking or steeping compost in water. Spray the compost tea directly on the plant leaves or apply it to your soil as an organic fertilizer.

Organic fertilizer and compost tea helps the soil in your vegetable garden and the planet Earth by protecting the environment:

• It can increase vegetable plant growth and size of vegetables.

• It helps establish more vigorous root systems.

• It provides nutrients to your plants and to the soil in your vegetable garden.

• It has no toxic chemicals to harm the earth, water, humans, animals, birds, insects or bumblebees (remember some plants need pollination!)

• It reduces plant diseases and pests.

• It provides beneficial organisms.

Enriched with nutrients, compost tea can be sprayed on vegetables, flowers and houseplants.

For an overview of organic gardening, see Organic Gardening.

Learn how to create your own compost in a compost pile in the back yard and use it as organic fertilizer and mulch: Compost: Organic Fertilizer.

Discover the advantages of a compost bin or compost tumbler and where to buy one online, as well as a compost bin plan to build a compost bin! Tumbler Compost Bin.

Here's a link to a complete, simple guide on making compost tea courtesy of the State of Pennsylvania: How to Make Compost Tea.