Make the best worm casting tea in minutes.
Learn how to make the best worm casting tea in just minutes with this easy instant method. Join me in The No Dig Gardener studio, and I’ll tell you how to create a nutrient-rich worm casting tea for your plants. This easy DIY recipe is perfect for beginners in vermicomposting and no dig gardening. Enhance your gardening skills and watch your plants thrive with this simple and effective worm casting infused tea technique. Dive into the world of homesteading and discover the benefits of using worm castings to boost your garden’s growth. Enjoy the rewards of a healthy garden using microbes to give support to your soil and plants.
What you need for your worm casting tea
Firstly you’ll need your worm castings. Then you can also add your own well made compost, or well rotten manure for other beneficial biota. If you are going to use a vessel to pour your liquid on your plants, you may well decide to put your medium straight in to your water. However, if you make a concentrate, use something like organza party bags.
Although anything like a pair of old tights will do. Your water is also important. Use bottled, filtered, boiled, or tested well fed water that has no salt. You don’t want to use chlorinated tap water as this will kill the microbes.
The ratio is a cup of castings per 1 gallon of water. Therefore, if you make a concentrate, don’t forget to dilute it down. You’ll also need a vessel large enough to hold the volume of water you’re going to use. I like 42ltr buckets. They have a larger surface area than many buckets, so you can slosh the water to keep it aerated. You can use an aquarium bubbler for longer term aeration, but this requires space, and electric points. Also, there is a cost element for the bubbler and electric I just can’t justify. One thing I do add is a couple of tablespoons of un-sulphured molasses to feed the microbes. This is totally optional, but must be un-sulphured if used as sulphur kills the microbes.
Method for making worm casting tea.
Add your water to the vessel. Put your castings and compost in the organza bags, and remember to tie the drawstrings. Place the molasses in the water and disperse. Add your bags, and make sure they have absorbed the water. Keep the vessel out of the direct sun, and cool for several hours to allow the microbes to permeate the water. Give the water a slosh every so often to keep it aerated.
Can this tea be used as a foliar spray?
You don’t really want to use worm casting tea as a foliar spray. You need to remember that the biota that are in the castings and compost are designed to live in dark moist conditions. They soon die on the surface of plants. Also, plants are not ‘eating’ the microbes anyway, regardless of where they are. The point of using worm casting tea is to add extra biota to soil, or compost. Thus to support the microbes already there, and help them make nutrients bioavailable to the plants as they do their job.
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