Compost Tea

Compost tea is the controlled extraction of microorganisms and nutrients from a small amount of high-quality compost (and additional nutrient sources) into water. The water is aerated to vastly increase the extraction of microbes, and to provide an environment that will breed many more microbes, favouring mostly those that thrive in an aerobic environment. The tea is then sprayed on the soil and plants in order to inoculate the landscape with these beneficial aerobic microorganisms.

Compost tea is gaining in popularity because there is rarely enough good quality compost around for our lawns and gardens, and it is expensive to buy it in large amounts. Also, compost cannot be applied to plant leaves, but compost tea can. The benefits are immense.

I am not going to go into any more detail than that here, as this is a huge topic, but there are some excellent links in the resources section to the right. The 'Compost Tea Brewing Manual' that is listed is also a must have for serious compost tea users.