How to Make Compost Tea for Your Lawn

A great way to get a dose of beneficial nutrients on your lawn (or garden) is with compost tea. Using compost or worm castings in strainer bags as your base with mollasses and beer, you can also add your favorite plant and soil supplements to really dial in your lawn health.
Steps:
1. Measure the size of your lawn to know the amount of liquid to make
2. Fill a 5 gallon (19L) bucket half-way full of water
3. Add the appropriate amount of liquid supplements (i.e. macro- and micro-nutrients, iron, etc.)
4. Add mollasses and beer
5. Place strainer bags of compost or worm castings in the bucket
6. Fill the bucket so it's 2/3 full, leaving space for the foam that will build up while it aerates
7. Place in a covered area outside and put tank aerator in as directed
8. After 24 hours, fill back up to 2/3 full if needed
9. After 48 hours, remove strainer bags and pour liquid through a paint strainer to hold back solids and debris
10. Fill sprayer with the "tea" liquid and fill as needed with water
11. Spray lawn with a foliar tip
12. Let lawn sit for 4 hours, then water in
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Products used:
Compost tea bag: a.co/d/apOPizy
5-gallon bucket (x2): a.co/d/iUesz2o
Measuring pitcher: a.co/d/iRRtkWi
N-Ext MicroGreene: yardmastery.com/collections/f...
N-Ext GreenCharge: yardmastery.com/collections/f...
LawnStar liquid iron: a.co/d/iRRtkWi
GS Plant Foods liquid kelp: a.co/d/2U96p7r
GS Plant Foods humic acid: a.co/d/e85KxQ1
FEature water-soluble micronutrients: www.iwantfeature.com/product/...
Molasses: a.co/d/085KQdY
Beer: Whatever you've got
Tank aerator: a.co/d/fRBYLQb
Bucket strainer: a.co/d/7R7f7pZ
Flowzone sprayer: fzspray.com/collections/sprayers
"Awesome hat": www.quiksilver.com/pierside-s...
Timestamps
00:00 About Compost Tea
01:34 Adding the ingredients
07:00 Completing the tea preparation
10:23 Checking in at 24 hours
10:41 Finishing and straining
14:12 Spraying the compost tea

[@101rwd1943]

Compost tea smells like success

[@Lawnspiration]

Haha, it smells like something! TBH, the molasses and stout make it smell kind of nice.

[@MrErpman]

I found GS Plant Foods products this year and they've done wonders for my yard. Currently spraying (using a hose end bottle sprayer) Soil Soft, Green Envy, and Kelp+Yucca every 3 to 4 weeks.

[@florinewoodward1315]

Thank you for taking the time and effort to do this video. Just curious if you reuse the tea bags. How do you store the tea bags in between the brews that you're doing? I would think these could be reused a number of times. Should be a way to store these to keep the microbes active in between brews.