I dehydrate my food scraps in the oven and then grind them up and add coffee/tea, dried banana peels and dried crushed egg shells. I make a Supermix and mix it into the soil. I didn’t know you could make a compost tea out of it. I like it. I could do both. 👍👍
This was the most simple compost video, I don’t have room to store a brewing bucket, I have compost containers and wormbins no room for anything else. I’m seriously working hard to balance living soil and love the ability to use kitchen scraps in other forms. This is me work smarter and not harder love it. Even some of the organic fertilizer are suspect based on USA FDA murky guidelines.
Wow I I been doing this all along and my family thought I was crazy and to tell you the truth I thought I was kind of crazy. So I learned after all I was on the right track!!!👍👍😇
I've been doing it all wrong😬. I was just blending it all up and simply dumping it around my trees. They didn't seem to complain and liked it because they gave me crazy amounts of fruit. This year I must've had some watermelon seeds left after blending. I had watermelon vines around my trees everywhere. I left them alone and grew my first watermelons🤷🏼♀️. Nature is amazing!
Wow. I've seen people talk about using compost tea but you've made the process look so possible for me. You said we could store the compost tea concentrate for 6 months but how long should we let it steep before starting to use it? I love that you're focused on feeding the soil instead of the plants; I've found the best gardeners do!
This is an idea I had in mind but now I know "exactly" how it can be done. Also I learned about "feeding the microbes": a big bonus! Thank you soooooo much!😃😃
Thank you so much for making this video. I was looking for just this. I kept seeing myself throwing away my kitchen scraps in the recycling bin, but I kept thinking about my plants and how could I use it for them. Perfect, perfect, perfect answer. Thank you again.
I always learn A LOT from your videos. I decided to go all organic so you can imagine how pumped in feeling right now. 😀Thanks for sharing this amazing video.
We love doing this. Thanks for sharing this info. We do strain our tea and use a liquid fertilizer applicator attached to a hose to apply the diluted concentrate.
I’m learning so much from you. I wish I could visit your garden, sounds and looks amazing. Thank you for helping me understand how to make compost tea. I have banana peels in water and that’s as far as I’ve gotten! Waiting for the deals on organic fruit and veg at the supermarket then will add to the banana water 👩🌾
Greetings from Canada Jag. My question is, I start my seedlings indoors under lights. Would there be any issue with fungus gnats using this technique? You have a great channel and I hope you are recovering from the flood. Wishing you well this season.
Fungus gnats is always the issue. I have a video on how to control fungus gnats ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_3BAW3x3574.html Floods have receded, farm is back to normal now, thank you for the support!
i'm so exited to find you. you give simple information and it makes so much sense that i feel confidence for once about taking care of my garden Thank you
Does it matter if the produce is going bad, starting to decay or has signs of mold already?? Like all the information that you share- very educational and informative. blessings
hi,ive been watching your videos and enjoy them thank you for sharing your knowledge about nature,i have one question after you make the compost tea how long does it take and store them before you can use it,thank you and more power
Welcome to the world of David The Good's fetid swamp water! Take this to the next level by getting a large bucket or barrel and basically doing the same thing, but also adding in weeds. I will blend up bones from roasted chicken (since they're relatively soft) in my blendtec and at them to the barrel to get a big infusion of phosphorus You can keep adding to it over time. You can stir the liquid and get as much liquid as you need to make your tea. The Koreans use this method also and say that the longer you keep the barrel going, the better it gets!
Great info Jag. I appreciate your short but very informative videos you go straight to the point. As a very busy person I always appreciate short but straightforward videos. New subscriber here!
Thank you for this video. Really appreciate, it's great. Like another commenter I also would like to know how soon after making it can this compost tea be used on the garden? Also can you keep adding new material to the original batch, i.e. keep topping it up, or does each fresh made batch need to be put into a separate bottle. Thanks 😊
In summer I dig the garden and drop all my scrap there and bury it , in the winter here in Minneapolis is hard because out side it freezes ! I dry my egg shell and banana peels in the over and ground it for using in my flower pots in spring 🤷🏼♀️would you have any idea how we can compost in the -10 F ? I have to take my coffee ground out in to the garage and it freeze until may 🤷🏼♀️
OK I've just made my first bucket full of this tea. I estimate it'll be used it up in about a month. What about if I keep topping it off with "freshly made" tea, will the "shelf life" be extended? 2 years or more?
Hi, does it matter if i don't have all the kitchen scraps you have put in the blender to make this tea recipe? I dont eat watermelon often thus i don't have watermelon scraps, i mean as long if i have any fruit and vegetable waste i can make this tea right? Thanks
You mention rinsing the milk jug prior to use...just curious - wouldn't leaving a bit of milk help to jump start different microbes? I'm just thinking about yogurt/probiotics/etc, but I don't know the first thing about this. Thanks for a great tutorial!!
Man, I found your channel and I don't follow anyone else anymore, I unfollowed them because I have everything on your channel. THANK YOU for explaining so simply, comprehensibly and sharing a lot of knowledge. I don’t yet have a garden but want to have one if Allah gives, I learned a lot.
Thank for this, a question, I did the same but used a wide mouth jar, after a week or so, the top of the solution turned to white mold. What happened? Could it be that too much air was circulating in the jar? Is it still ok to use? Can I just true the mold part away and use the rest?
I am not sure if I caught this, do you let your compost tea right away or do you let it set for a while? I am making my own compost in trash cans but they are full now. So I want to keep using my scraps and this seems to be a great way to keep it going. Thank you
Let the concentrate sit for atleast 3 days. You can keep the concentrate for upto a year. From concentrate you can use right away after diluting aerating the compost tea.
Ok.please help. I live in Florida, and when there's no grass to cut I have a 5-gallon bucket I keep water in and I get like you did vegetable scraps I dehydrate a lot so I'll get scraps onion scraps carrots whatever and I've been grinding them up in a blender and then I've been adding it to this 5 gallon bucket of water and I just keep adding and then I use out of it and then I add more water and add more ground vegetables, and get a jug and pour it on my plants or on my garden getting it ready for spring. Now I was looking into whether you can add any baking soda or Epsom salt to it and someone said that if you let it sit like that that you're going to grow bacteria and get e-coli. So now I'm freaking out I've just mixed it in with all my soil and topsoil getting my garden ready. Have I really messed up or what??
Of course. Some people say citrus peels scare away earthworms. Personally, I don't think it matters much - worst case, they will be decaying for a little bit longer. Microorganisms in the compost pile will take care of it sooner or later.
Most of us have chlorine and chloramines in our tap water. So using it directly to dilute the solution may kill the microbs??? We should at least let the water sit because the chlorine will dissipate after a few hours, although chloramines will not. To be safe I added a little "tap water conditioner" for aquarium fish before use.
