Use the broken-down layer under the top layer of litter. Leaf litter from under a mature gum tree is also perfect as a source material because it’s highly fungal. This might be good quality (preferably home-made) compost, or worm castings if you have a worm farm. To brew compost tea you start with a small amount of something that’s rich in microbes. Hugh showing a hand full of rich worm castings, which will be used to make compost teaĬompost tea increases the number of microbes However, this method doesn’t increase the number of microbes in the brew. It’s a fantastic thing to do and makes spreading the nutrients around your garden really easy.
Some of the microbes will probably wash off and end up in the tea as well. This technique will extract some of the nutrients from the source material (compost or weeds) into the water. You can do a similar thing with weeds to make weed tea or weed extract.
It’s probably easiest to start with what it’s NOT, which is compost extract.Ĭompost extract is made by putting compost in water, swishing it around, or leaving it to soak. Our 1,000 L compost tea brewer set up for demonstration at a workshop What is compost tea? We brew it on a big scale (as you can see in the photo below), but it’s also easy to make on a home garden scale. Planting a diverse understorey is another really useful technique for rapid soil improvement, and you can learn more about that here.Ī slightly more advanced technique is brewing your own compost tea. There are lots of techniques available to help you improve the soil, but one of the common questions we’re asked, is “how?”.Īdding aged chicken manure, compost, and worm castings are just a few (and we’re big fans of them all). Chickens can be great partners in helping you to build healthy soil Healthy soil can help prevent yellow leaves So it won’t surprise you to hear that some (but not all) causes of yellow leaves can be fixed by improving the soil. It’s one of the main things you should always be aiming to improve. We’re always banging on about healthy soil being the foundation of your entire food growing system. Click here to get your FREE ebook 10 Key Steps to Growing Great Fruit
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