Video: Blast Your Soil with Biology: How to Make 5 Gallons of Compost Tea

Video Summary: Making compost tea gives you the ability to treat a large amount of plants or soil with tons of beneficial microbes using as little as 3 cups of compost. By pulling microbes off the surface of compost or vermicompost, then adding air and food to explode the numbers of those microbes, you can deliver the same biology as several cubic yards of high-biology compost.

In this video, Steve brings in his Soil Nerd Troy to walk you through how to make a simple 5-gallon brew which can be used as-is or diluted to allow distribution over a larger surface area.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Video Start

00:21 How you can explode the microbe population in your tea

01:38 The setup for a good compost tea brew

01:49 How to neutralize chlorine and chloramine in your brew

03:30 A really inexpensive compost tea bag

05:30 Our compost tea recipe: Compost, humic acid and fishydrolysate

10:10 Why you want to massage and break up clumps of compost in your brew

11:50 If fungi don't reproduce in the compost tea brew, why add a fungal food at all?

14:59 How long should a brew last?

17:50 Should you expect foam in a compost tea brew?

18:46 Why you should NOT use air stones or bubble stones in a compost tea brew

19:54 How to choose the right air pump for your compost tea brew

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