How We Make Tea Our Plants Can Drink
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- čas přidán 23. 05. 2019
- Compost tea is effective and a wonderful way to feed plants. We use it weekly on our plants as a way of fertilizing and the results are amazing. Check out our new clothing line! http:www.freshpickedapparel.com
special guest at 2:30. Solid execution lol
That part was hysterical! Random nextdoor neighbor dude putting bird seed out with a long a** pole from porch.
ALSO Great content with the the teas!
Maybe that was his employee!?
@@fyrekittah2491 no need to censor
Chandelle Mays thank you for censoring. No need to swear here. ;)
Good Video Luke. Photobombed by your neighbour feeding birds :-) Getting my bucket out later this morning :-)
I've been watching you for about 4 yrs and you always seem to amaze this old Lady. Many blessings to you and your family young man 😇
Thanks for the video! It's great to see even a master gardener such as yourself continue to learn and improve, as well as dump marginal or ineffective ideas. 8 years ago you posted a video of a very exotic mix of ingredients for a bubbler tea. Then 6 years ago you had a very simple 3 component non-bubbler tea that had to mature for a day or two. Now you're down to 2 components and using almost immediately. Very cool.
Great timing on this subject. Have been thinking of this very thing for the last couple weeks. Thanks for the info.
The timing of this video! I made some yesterday but you just cleared up a lot of questions. Thank you!
THIS is the kinda tea I want to see on CZcams ;p
Great video as always Luke thanks. Loved your no need for crop rotation video too. Saved me tons of effort as certain plants like my brassica's need the shadier parts of my garden
The amount of information you share in each video is absolutely amazing. Thank you for your tips and advice!
Thank you for your interesting and helpful videos. I like that that your advice is realistically achievable for the home gardener. This is one of my faves.
Simple gardening is fun gardening
I've got a great little garden going so far, I planted on the 17 and I got sprouts already!
Well done! Easy to understand and without long winded unnecessary detail…thanks!
This reminds me of the one ginormous tomato plant that grew right next to the compost bin... Seriously that one plant was at least twice the size of every other tomato plant, and it's tomatoes were huge and delicious.
I collected and grew plants from seeds from mine
Your one ginormous plant was probably a seed from a discarded tomato and lucked out by falling into your super rich soil next to the compost bin. Proof positive that a good compost is simply the best. I bet it was such fun watching that plant grow.
Nah my mother would grow seedlings in trays and then plant them in those wire cages. It was just the plant closest to the bin, which was one of those plastic ones with the door at the bottom so you could get compost out.
Those strawberries look great already-the "tea" will make them even better, Another great video! Thank you!
Thank you for explaining all of this. Thank you for making it all simple to use!
This is EXCELLENT INFORMATION! Can’t wait to try your method of compost tea, Luke!
Perfect timing on video, we just made some compost tea up and I was wondering about how much and how often. Thanks a bunch
Excellent video! This is my first year gardening to produce vegetables. We built two raised beds with a total of 62 square feet of gardening space. Order our seeds from MIgardner and they have mostly all germinated by now. We are looking forward to more videos this summer. Keep them coming.
Your videos are very good so thank you for sharing. I just bought your new book and looking forward to see what it says and put it into practice.
Hey Luke the seeds i bought from you all of them are up and growing great i have to put them in pots because i live in a Apt.
Trying this out. Just started my fall vegetable garden.
Awesome, I'm doing this today. Thanks for the simple tip.
I just found your channel! New subscriber, I relate to you as a fellow Michigander. I just purchased a new home with under 2 acres and I have a larger garden plot now than my old home, I’m excited to get a bigger garden going! I just planted some strawberries and asparagus along with my usual tomatoes and zucchini. Looking into getting some of your seeds as the price beats my local Home Depot! It looks like I need to mulch my plot as weeds are a pain! Love your plot!
Worm castings and the making of compost tea works amazing. Absolutely lush garden. The era of buying worm castings is also over, I just made a compost worm farm too!
Well done!
Luke, I have watched you for years and still I amazed at how BRILLIANT you are! Thanks for your channel, your store, your website and everything you offer to all of us!! Appreciate you tremendously! -Kristy
Most informative video I’ve seen on the matter yet, thanks!
This video was great and it reminded me that it's time to fertilize my strawberries I think I will make rabbit dropping and compost tea together
I can't like this enough, love using compost/manure tea!
I was literally just thinking about making some compost tea for my garden. Luke, you're a psychic! :P
Always nice learning from you. Just something I picked up along the way... when compost is brewed, it's called tea.. when it's steeped.. it's called extract. So you have compost tea and compost extract. Keep up the great work!
Would b cool to see a special episode on hot peppers and how to get the biggest yields. Love all your videos!
Hi Luke! Just wanted to add that chloramine does not dissipate into the air the same way chlorine does. Meaning it doesn’t burn off from treated municipal water. For that reason a carbon filter is needed for the garden hose.
Right
Rv camping filters work great!
So simple, thank you for sharing
Many thanks. You answered all my questions.
So simple! Thank you!
I live in a small apartment and have a tiny terrasse. I have multiple containers I grow edibles in. I can't make compost, but I often gather nettles in the surrounding area to make tea from. Just make sure to sift it to avoid the seeds. I learned that the hard way.
This is nice but perhaps you could source borage or comfrey? You see, stinging nettles are a vital food source for many butterfly caterpillars. They will only eat nettle. This includes the Red Admiral; Comma; Small Tortoiseshell and others. It worries me that people source their precious few resources when they desperately need them (and we need butterflies and other pollinators for our crop pollination).
Last year I bought a compost tumbler. In learning about it, some advice was to have a container under it to catch the excess water/rainwater that drips out of the composter and use that as compost tea. When that container gets almost full, I put the tea into another larger container with a lid and that was my tea storage over the winter.
Clever!
Awesome video! Thanks for sharing
Great info Luke. I really prefer the steep method to making compost tea. Right now I am having to wait about 24 hours of brewing time. Not good for an impatient person like me :-) Will definitely switch method. Thanks.
👍 THANX. Luke.
My plants love ☕..
Great episode. love compost tea
Great to know I don't have to do all the elaborate bubbling. Managed to make a bunch of compost that turned out great, and will try this. Will likely use some directly, and also dilute some for a foliar spray loaded with a little epsom salts and eggshell. It's great seeing life come back into the soil after years of damage.
Thank you for not making this process over complicated and explaining both ways to create compost tea. So many people who posted videos made it seem like you have to have equipment to create usable compost tea. 😅
Another helpful video. Thanks
Thanks. I am going to try the compost on my strawberry bed
Funny, I was wondering how your neighbor got the bird feed filled then he showed us. Great info, Love your content.
Thanks men for recomendation. Thanks
Smart very valuable info Luke ! 😊
Thanks for this knowlegde.
Watching from Indonesia.
Luke you are way ahead of everyone else 👍🏻😁
Not much in terms of questions. I've watched so so many of your videos. You are very through! But I know that means sometimes you're scrambling for more content! Just want to assure you that this video is absolutely new to this beginning gardener and because of you, I'm a total nerd of info now!
Janet Petko I’m never scrambling for content around here. Lol. It’s more a question of what do you want to see vs what there is to do.
You're awesome dude, respect
enjoyed the background show !
Great info Luke
Thanks for all that information!
You should get that attachment for your drill that has a mixer on it.
Great information Luke! You mentioned having a chloride filter on the hose...where do I get one from and how does it go on the hose? I do know that chlorinated water is bad for the plants but I didn't know there was a filter for it that'd go on the hose. If you have a video on it please let me know. Thanks again for the great informational videos!
How do I make the compost to use as tea tho? I'm afraid of compost piles attracting rats, mix, bugs etc LOVE LOVE LOVE your channel. As a first time gardener this helps ALOT!
Thanks. Focused me on using my work castings in this way. Especially to speed the heading of brassicas before winter. Mild winter here in South Australia. That in combo with chicken manure should be strengthening for them.
Worm
Great video and information
Thank you
Great video. I've subscribed.
Great work
I let nature create compost tea and worm castings for me in my beds so I don't have to do separately outside of my garden beds. I just mulch heavily around plants with organic matter witch creates oxygen rich compost tea every time it rains and already has a great environment under the mulch for worms to multiply and create tons of worm castings
Smart!
I find leaf mulch to be the easiest and best way to get this result.
Happy holiday brother.....
Hi Luke. Great video. Question about when to apply. Morning? Evening? Does it really matter?
We have started planting our scraps from the kitchen Thur the year and it has made our garden so full of worms u can't dig without finding worms everywhere. Can u do a video on barring scraps? Or others ways to compost
that was so useful......
Great stuff Luke. Do you ever use a sprayer so that it gets a follier feed,?
I've been using wood ash tea, it works great too, but has no nitrogen.
I have found one of the best teas I love to grow is using worm castings and miracle grow. I will take compost let worms further refine it then aerate it to allow it to better stir.
Ewell Acres ditch the miracle-gro. It’s just chemical fertilizers and not nutrients! Just add a good layer of compost!
🌟🌟🌟Great video, can I ask is this good for your grass/ land?🌟🌟🌟
Thank you!
Great video. Only question is why you didn’t check the PH of the tea before applying?
Great video. Would adding yeast hurt it?
i read you can get rid off chlorine and other things using the air pump for one hour so you dont need to wait for 24 h
adding variations of bacteria wont harm anyone i add LAB and if i have fermented rice water i ll add little with the black molasses
brewing is important so bad bacteria dont show up and for more bacteria to be in the tea
Use steeped by using a 5 gal paint strainer bag you can get at any paint store. Put one bag in bucket placed over the rim and add one shovel of organic manner of what ever you use. Steep for two to three days.
Pull bag and dump on drip line then dump solid in other area away from plants a little
To add to the info. Steeping is only lift strainer bag once a day lifting the bag in the water pulling one side of the bag and then the other to break the organic material around the bag. Then I generally put a piece of plywood over the pail as the pail sits in the back yard.
Once you dump the solids and slowly pour the tea around the plants drip line. Generally I put it in the soil a week or two before planting. Then feel free to repeat every two weeks.
Great video, can purified, or distilled water be use?
I'm curious. Have you done any kind of comparison plantings to see if using this particular tea is worth the effort? If so, I'd be really interesting in seeing the comparison. Thanks for posting.
Luke I love your videos... I was watching your compost tea videos... what are your thoughts on using Coffee grounds for Compost teas... i can get free coffee grounds from star bucks... can i just add coffee to water and let it sit for a few days?
have you ever made fertilizer from fermented weeds/grass clippings?
Do you just water your plants with this, or can you apply this as a foliar spray? Does this increase chances of disease on the leaves?
Hey luke...i grow in containers and use compost alot. My trunk is slowly getting buried by the extra compost and mulch. What should i do? Should i remove the top layer every year? Im scared i might damage the feeder roots but at the same time avoid trunk rot
Hi, im very inexperienced newbe garden n bought bag of mushroom compost? Can i make tea from that and can I leave city water out in large bucket to have the clorine avaporate then use that water to make tea ? Thank you so much for all your great videos 😊👍🏽🙏🏻🙌🏼😁
Thank you for sharing. I learn something from each of your videos that are so helpful. Blessings
And I just came in from building my new compost bin.
Great information Luke!! Thanks! Would this work with mushroom compost? Thanks again!💕
Yes this works great, or sprinkle the compost on the soil
Good info! Still could have been much shorter and to the point, but fast forward works. Well done and I'm getting my bucket out and heading to the manure pile!
Would it be useful to add any additional items with the worm compost? Char, azomite, mycorrhizae?
I dont know if I missed in video but about how much worm castings would you use in a 5 gallon bucket? Thank you...you do us gardeners a great service...
I think he filled the bucket about 1/4 way. But as you could see, he re-used the worm castings. You can add as much as you want. Then add more water to the leftover castings just like he did. As long as it's really fully composted materials and worm castings. Unfinished compost will burn the leaves.
I bought a bag of worm castings and the directions said 1 pound for a 5-gallon bucket of water...left to 'brew' about 24 hrs.
We personally use fresh rabbit droppings mixed with rabbit urine. We mix about half a shovel full in a 20-25 gallon bucket.
Please list all you put in your compost tea. I only heard you say worm castings. Thank you 🙏
Thank you
I have made compost tea before with a bubbler, but I am always wondering if they fresh municipal tap water should rest for 24 hrs is it so good to water our gardens with it straight from the tap? I intend getting a rainwater tank this winter (I am in South Africa in winter now) to have rainwater for the garden at least
Have you ever added anything to your compost tea like fish fertilizer or anything like that? Would it be beneficial or a waste?
Thank You👍
Do you suggest any seed banks so i can find seeds that will grow in zone 3
If you don’t use it right away, is it better for it to be kept in the sun or shade?
can this be the only fertilizing we do over the summer?
Can you add the worm casings directly. We have had so much rain thus far, the ground has not had a chance to dry, I worry about fungus
We used to have ground water in our city before but now we have river water and I think that made our water a little hard so I'm not sure if hard water is bad for gardening not? Would you please answer that
Can you make the tea from the worm castings you buy at a garden center?