Make your own Compost Tea for plants
Step be step guide to DiY compost tea.
Compost Tea Recipe
What you need
1) A bucket
2) Aerator aquarium pump with 2 stones
3) Old socks
4) A stick longer than the bucket diameter
5) Vermicompost 2 to 4 handful
6) 50g jaggery
7) 3/4th bucket water
Steps
– Fill the bucket with water.
– Setup aerator pump such that the stones are at the bottom of the bucket.
– Mix powdered jaggery to water.
– Fill compost inside the socks.
– Tie the socks to the sticks such that it can hang in the bucket to 2/3 the depth when the stick is placed on the rim of the bucket.
– Place the bucket in a cool shaded place. No direct sun and rain.
– Ensure the aerator pump is properly placed above the water level in the bucket and such that it does not accidentally fall in to water.
– Switch the pump ON.
– Keep squeezing thevsocks from time to time to allow thr decoction to seep in.
– After 24 hrs, switch off the pump.
Compost Tea is ready!
