Totally Insane Compost Tea Recipe! (Blame it on Korea) (Day 2 of 30)
You wanted my compost tea recipe? You got it. Today I continue my 30 videos in 30 days challenge from Justin Rhodes by answering a YouTube critic and showing you HOW CRAZY I CAN COMPOST! (Get my book Compost Everything: The Good Guide to Extreme Composting here: http://amzn.to/29nTcsl) Since the compost tea changes every time, and is more of an anaerobic compost slop than anything else, it really doesn't matter what you put in it. This is extreme composting. Korean natural farming and JADAM organic farming use similar methods - including using urine as fertilizer. It works and will make your gardens very happy.
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Spraying a mixture of a molasses and water (1 to 2 cups per gallon) to the drenched area should kill the after smell. Use EM1 (effective microorganisms-Korean Natural Farming-teraganix) if problems persist.
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Your video title is apt. Anybody who would knowingly make anaerobic compost tea is insane.
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This is fucking amazing!!! Thank you so much! I'm sharing with all my compost tea buddies! Here I thought we had to aerate and blah blah blah! This method is awesome and i will be sure to try it out!
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LMAO dude, just got a new fellow "reformed" subscriber!
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dude, you are hilarious
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I've had great results from these teas for years. My favorite is half Kudzu half Bradford pearfruits. Plants stand straight up!
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Hi David, greetings from Brazil.
As far as I know, the definition of compost makes an aerobic process necessary. What you are making is called anaerobic tea. -
HAHAHA "I'm a Christian, but I'm reformed"
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I make anarobic slurry compost tea from seaweed and weeds (nettles etc) here in the arctic northern norway! I'we had great results on my strawberries and everything, (exept for the smell neighbours have complained about) :p
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If you don't have the ability or base plants to make this tea you can also purchase Azomite which contains about 70 nutrients.
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Got to love it! Thanks David!
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Do you put a lid on this stuff while it cooks? If not, wouldn't you have every bug in the universe laying eggs in there? I imagine that mess would be a high-end hotel (Best Buffet in Town!) for insects looking to make babies. If it isn't already obvious, I know next to nothing about manure tea or entomology (which, I was dismayed to learn, is NOT the study of ents). Thank you for a very funny video. You tie those shoes and hold your head high, man. Although, like, not at the same time.
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Do all the items have to be added the same day or can it take a week to add everything? I make cultured kefir milk could that be added? What about herbs from the garden?
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I've been making actively aerated vermicompost tea for over a year now and love it. I took the slurry at the bottom of the bucket from a batch of aavct, mixed some black kow in and let it sit in a closed 20ish gallon Rubbermaid bin for months. It was nice and thick without much odor. I decided to up my game and throw my lot in with taking the same bin and making a batch of your aenerobic tea. I had a pile of decaying squash vines grown in a melon pit and filled the bucket with that, some other plant material, and some, ahem, liquid nitrogen and water. I let that ferment for over a week sealed up in the bin and the stench is overpowering. I used a stick to pull out the vines and a storm of houseflies descended upon the rotting vines as if form thin air. You can smell it almost anywhere on my 10th acre lot in suburbia (sorry neighbors). I'm hoping a good afternoon thunderstorm followed by a good baking and drying in the Florida sun will take care of the smell, but I have a feeling I'll be digging a big melon pit to toss the vines and most likely the tea in as well.As they say in permaculture, it's not a mistake, just a gathering of information, but it is not something I'll be doing again in suburbia. Maybe I'll try it again on the back forty of my future farm, but never again in the city. So for now, I'll stick with melon pits and aavct. Thanks for all the good ideas and experimental gardening. I have truly learned so much.~Erin
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Mmm, you've got me thinking. One of my new plots has a terrible case of bindweed, and the roots are pretty much immortal even in compost heaps - hideously transferable. I could abandon it, but I'm bloody-minded.... So, based on the idea that weeds can help cure the reason they're there, I'm going to try making tea from them. Should have a tonne or two for the brew. Might be worth a video!
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This was great. Thank you.
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The NWO hates you, even if they haven't found you yet. It doesn't matter, they are toast, ready for your slurry garden mixture. Abundance and freedom will always rule. Thank you.
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3. Shoes but no socks.
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I've had great results with my compost tea. It takes about a week for all of my kitchen/garden refuse to get through the human centipede in my basement. It's definitely well worth the wait. #Humanure
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Love u David. You are GGOD!! Keep growing!!!
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