Compost Tea!

You probably already know how much I love tea. And you can probably guess how found I am of compost.

Check out this article about what compost tea can do for soil! 

"Compost tea is useful much like yogurt is to the human intestinal track in which helpful microbial colonies make nutrients available and support the immune system.
In soil, aerobic bacteria and mycorrhizae (helpful fungus) produce antibiotics and enzymes that prevent disease agents from taking hold. Plant foliage can also be colonized by these microbes, preventing pathogenic infection.
Compost tea works with microbes by multiplying and concentrating the actual numbers found in the relatively small amount of compost used. Rather than force feeding plants with soluble chemical salts such as nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium, or N-P-K, compost tea feeds the soil with countless microbes that work symbiotically with plants, providing bio-available nutrients from otherwise insoluble minerals. The benefits of using compost tea include reduced water and fertilizer requirements, increased root and foliar growth, and improves soil tilth, porosity and nutrient-holding capacity."

The article is complete with instructions!

"During the brewing process, microbes found in the compost will use the oxygen, humic acid, sugar and minerals as a food source to rapidly reproduce. The tea will then contain numbers of microbes several orders of magnitude over what the compost originally supported. Good compost tea may have up to 100 trillion bacteria per 1 milliliter of solution."