Are you looking to make warm tea from the vermicompost? in this video I'm going
to show you how simple it is to make your own worm compost tea
hi this is Jeremy Starke here from green thumb Gardner here to give you some tips
tutorials reviews for all your gardening needs in this video we're gonna go over
a couple of different ways on how to make worm compost tea this is very
minimal equipment that you do need you really just need buckets some water and
some compost but I'm gonna show you a couple other methods another method or
so that will show you how to up your game when it comes to the worm compost
tea to make sure you have the best one but before we get started if you could
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the way it let's get right into it let's get started with making your worm
compost heat there's a couple of different ways that you can do this you
can get very simple and you know I'll go over that way as far as being pretty
simple as far as doing this making this really without much equipment or
anything then you could really the other way is you can really up your game with
this it really gives it what you're getting out of the worm compost tea the
best possible one that you can make so just a little just a little explanation
as far as worm compost tea it is very useful for tea be a garden for any of
plants grass your shrubs vegetables because what it is it's made up of all
these healthy microbes the haircut that are that a really healthy for your plant
soil it's also healthy for the plant as well it helps it with preventing a lot
of different diseases gives you a plant really of extra boost of nutrients and
healthy microbes that that do make the plant health the more healthy microbe
that you get into the better off they're gonna be so I
wanna if you're if you're into Burma composting I want to just just kind of
separate two different things so that you that you're aware of what the
difference is so if you have a worm compost bin you know that there's some
liquid that that you can collect that comes out of it that comes out of the
bin itself if usually in the bottom there's a reservoir of some sort you may
have it you may not have it but most of them have a reservoir that is not actual
worm compost tea that is what they call leach a worm leachate and that stuff is
I I still use them a garden but I use it in the wintertime and I'll just kind of
dump it in my my soil because it has time to break down and everything in
there but I don't use it directly on my plants because it doesn't have all the
healthy microbes that you do need for that it's not a it's not the complete
microbes that you find in the compost tea and it's you know some say it's
actually it can be detrimental for your plants as well because there's also
other microbes in there that are not good for it and those happen to end up
on there so that's not that's not warm compost tea so to speak so even if you
dilute that I wouldn't use it directly in your vegetable garden you can put it
in on the plants I use in my other shrubs
I'll dilute it with some water and I'll put it in there and then you seem to be
fine but I'm not putting this stuff for my vegetable garden what I am putting is
this compost team so there's a couple different ways so you can do this if you
don't have any equipment or anything you don't have any the basic equipment that
I'm going to go over the very simple way and I'm just gonna give it to you right
here is you just take your work your worm compost you dump it into your water
that's it that's really it you let it sit and then you're gonna
have to drain it out then you can dilute it down to whatever strength you want
after about 24 hours now that's that's still a great way you can do that and
you're gonna get some much beneficial tea out of that and it's great and I'm
not saying don't try that if you don't have any equipment but if you want to up
your game and you know it's all about growing the best vegetables and give it
everything the best chance we have you get just a few little things that you
need to that you can add to to your little compost tea game right and I'm
gonna show you what these are here so this is just a bag it's like a mesh bag
you can find these there I'm also a home brewer so I grew a little bit of beer
sometimes so these are pretty well known in the beer brewing thing it's just like
a mesh bag that you can close up in there so you can use get one of these
right here I think they're like $5 and then the other thing you get is just a
pretty simple aquarium pump you don't have to get anything too crazy or
anything big all this is doing is when you put this in here and I'll show you
afterwards you put it in here and it's just gonna create more oxygen for your
for the tea so so that's the other thing yeah I think these run about 10 15 bucks
you don't have to be anything crazy big and then the other thing this is I don't
really see this too much talked about but this is molasses so if you're into
homebrew on maybe you're not I don't know but yeast is really big important
yeast in any kind of organic manner or microbes they will feed off of the sugar
so what adding molasses will do oxygenating it getting all that oxygen
in there getting the microbes in the air with a little bit of just a little bit
of molasses this thing will give your microbes will explode I'm telling you
right now this is this is the stuff that will up your game when it comes to
compost you will have this stuff is like magic I
mean compost vermicompost itself I love the stuff if you haven't seen any of my
videos take a look above I'll post a video up
there so you can make your own but really this stuff is like I mean it's
just it does wonders for your plants it I spray this on everything even my grass
so although all the benefits that I'm telling you about I mean really I'll
post a opposed to you know some show notes and there as well if you want to
get some more information but let me get to let me show you what to do so
basically the the matter is you take some of your compote your vermicompost
and I'd say it probably about you know two cups is probably enough but I did a
little bit more in here but you can you can get away with about two cups of
compost and you want to go through it so you just want to make sure there's no
worms in there I mean you know this one's pretty much about my bottom
section of my bin so it's not too many I didn't have to pick up too many worms
and then there's even some scraps in here
and this is why I like to do this in the bag because you know some of the stuff
might not be decomposed like I have some eggshells in there and stuff that just
haven't broke down there's a few little small little twigs or something in here
so there's a lot of like little things in there so that's why I like using the
bag because you'll find out when you when you go and you try to strain this
later it's just it just makes it a lot easier and you don't have to worry about
straining I mean it's it's literally already done in here for you so when you
put it in your spray bottles you know like I use this right here or even just
your hand mister you nothing's gonna get clogged in this so it's really important
straining so all you do is really just is I just take my compost so I'm gonna
put this all business stuff this stuff is like gold
for the garden too but I'm gonna put about two big handfuls of it in my bag
so you guys can see so I'm just gonna put two I'm gonna leave it like a couple
of this left I think this is just this deserves to go Mather bag alright put it
in here and obviously this thing is huge but this is from might be a board stuff
so and then what I do one thing you have to be aware of with this is you one of
the most important parts of it honestly is you need to use filtered water and
the reason is because these microbes the water that you get for your tap is most
likely has chlorine in it so I use a use a water filter I have a big thing
because by brewing the homebrewing that I use to filter out the water but if you
don't have one of those simply all you need to do is just fill up your bucket
so get up a five-gallon bucket just fill it up with water fill it up maybe to
just a little bit below the top right maybe up to this line right here cuz you
don't want it be you're gonna be sticking to stuff in here so you want
some room for it to go and then you put your pump in here too so you want to
fill up exactly the topic no enough like up here so it's not too filled up and
then you just let it sit for maybe 24 to 48 hours and what we will do is the off
gas everything will come out of the the chlorine will dissipate out of it so a
be they'll be perfectly fine for it if you don't do that then the microbes will
could potentially be killed so and that's really what we're going after
here's all the makeup so you want to make sure you do that if you don't feel
blood just you just do that and you'll be fine with it and then like I said you
put your your compost in here and your water
I got a little hook on hands just so I can grab it right so I leave it in here
filled up with water and then the other thing I add is for every five gallons I
usually add about a half a teaspoon to it I mean excuse me a half of a
tablespoon to a tablespoon of molasses and simply just add it in just enough
this is gonna be enough for the the microbes to do what they need to do all
right so you got enough in here now this just so you know the other thing I like
to use as I like to use the organic molasses the unsullied
it's just you know another thing I mean I'm gonna be adding trying everything
somewhat somewhat good and then so you have your water in here you mix it up if
you really want you don't really have to do much else and then all you doing is
you stick it in you pump right in here throw it on at a nice area maybe in your
garage somewhere it's not in the Sun or anything or eat bugs or you can even
cover the top of it up if you really want but you don't really have to do
that you put a net over or something but never have any problem just just just
plug it in somewhere let this sit for about 24 to 48 hours I mean 24 hours is
probably enough with this this will and then once you get everything in here and
then after 24 hours what you want to do is you take out your gonna take out your
bag if I get this unhooked here
okay now this this compost that's left over in here you can you can just throw
it in the garden I mean it's not all the bacterial microbes everything that came
out of it are in here now so it's been steeping in here so it's really not much
else to do with this piece of it but this stuff right here you're gonna take
out your pump and everything this stuff is ready to go what I like to
do to use this to use the worm compost tea is you know I take basically take it
and I put it in a spray bottle what I'll do is dilute it a little bit I usually
do it about half I choose a one to one ratio side but half water and half of
this and I spray this right on the plants it's it's great I mean I'm
telling right now if you really want a big thing you get one of those pump
sprayers put it in here and you could use that to spray it and that's why it's
really important to filter it out you can do another secondary filter if you
really wanted to if you're really into that stuff but you don't have to just
you know use it now if you are doing the first method where you just dump in the
compost in and you don't have one of these then you definitely want to filter
it out somehow because what will happen these sprays they get clogged up very
easily so that's the reason why I do this this step right here it's really
important that but if you're just putting it in a bucket you can just put
it in your watering can and I would say one to one ratio for that as well and
just just sprinkle it right over your flowers that the soil loves it it's
great on the plants itself the plants will absorb it and take it in so those
are those are the ways that you can you know practically user stuff I would try
to use this you know within you know probably I'd say less than a week
because if you let it sit out it's gonna stew up and just microbes in here so
they're gonna grow and grow and grow so I would get it up there as soon as you
can into the soil and that's basically it I mean you know as I said there's not
much equipment they need I'll put some links in the show notes of this stuff
that I use but it's really pretty simple if you don't have anything if you don't
want to do it just have your your worm compost you can just do it just like
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