What is Compost Tea?

Did you know that plants can absorb nutrients 10 times more efficiently through their leaf surfaces than through their roots?  There’s a great way to utilize this aspect in nature and reap the benefits. Compost Tea.
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Spraying foliage with Super Compost Tea can produce remarkable yields.

We all know that adding compost to flower beds, lawns, and gardens are beneficial. The organic matter improves soil quality and gives plant much needed nutrients. However, it is the billions of living organisms that are found in the forms of bacteria, fungi, protozoa, nematodes and other micro and macro soil organisms that do the work of unlocking the minerals and nutrients that are needed.

Components that make up Compost Tea

Compost tea is a liquid derived from high quality compost.  Beneficial fungi, protozoa, bacteria, and nematodes along with other micro and macro organisms are extracted from the compost by a process of brewing a small amount of compost and water. They are then added to more water, the high oxygen content in water causes the reproduction of these organisms to explode. This results in a larger culture containing liquid of the original compost microorganisms.

To make a good compost tea, you have to start with quality ingredients at every level.  

1. Compost - we start with a blend of manure, sawdust, and hydroscopic fiber (wool) that has been turned and heated for a minimum of 3 weeks.
2. Water - water can add unwanted chemicals into you mix. Super Compost Tea only uses spring water, resulting in a purer product.
3. Dust - wool dust ??? why is this added, is it food??
4. Molasses: we add a small amount of unsulphured molasses to provide just the right food source for our micro-organisms

Benefits of Compost Tea

• Low strength fertilizer: super compost tea is an effective, low-strength, all natural fertilizer for house plants, seedlings, and gardens. Reducing salt accumulation in soils that come from commercial fertilizers
• Protects against many plant diseases: when sprayed on the plants, compost tea will coat and stick to the leaves providing a protective barrier that does not allow other harmful, disease causing organisms to attach to the plant.                            
• Increase the numbers of predator organisms: Many of the good microbes are also predators of bad microbes devouring large numbers of them reducing the risk of disease.
• Increase the biomass and species diversity of microbes: With the concentrated micro-organisms in compost tea you will be well on your way to a healthy rich soil and plant life.
• Speeds the breakdown of toxins: Many herbicides, fungicides, and pesticides have harmful chemicals that kill the beneficial organisms in you soil. Compost tea speeds the breakdown of toxins and Reduces fertilizer use and leaching into groundwater
• Increases the ability of soil to hold nutrients and retain water
• Improves the soils pH buffering ability through microbe diversity    

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Wild Valley Farms Super Compost tea has beneficial bacteria and fungi suspended in a water form that makes them quickly available to your plants. ​This can be applied through spraying the plant itself or drenching the soil around it.  
 
By adding compost tea to your plants and soil, the benefits of quality compost go much further.

How to Use

For best results, spray plants especially after transplanting,  and during blooming time and just after fruit sets.
 
Wild Valley Farms Super Compost Tea comes in  32 oz concentrate bottles or 300 gallon bulk tanks.

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