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Joined: 5/09/2005
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Posted: May/17/2006 3:10 PM PST

I've been reading different threads about using teas, banana peels, egg shells, and coffee grounds in the gardens, and I'd love to try some of your home remedies. I thought it'd be helpful to have all that infomation under one thread where we can discuss the non-commercial products that people use in their gardens. Good idea/bad idea?

One question that I have is if I'm already using an organic fertilizer, should I use these home remedies in additon to the fertilizer?
Str8jeepin4pack
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Posted: May/23/2006 6:35 AM PST

Most of the things such as coffee ground, banana peels should all be composted as well as any of your kicthen scraps. As for egg shells, great source of CA, but they need to compost for about a year before that CA is avaliable to plants. I also garden using organic nutrients if you want to make a good compost tea to water into your plants try this. I use guano and fish mix (bio bizz, new product) I have a 4 gallon bucket that i fill with water and add in the correct amount of fish mix depending on how much i am making (for example i have a 40 gallon water barrel so i make my mix to 40 gallons) I put my guano and any other dry nutrients i might use into a piece of panty hose and seal it up drop it in the bucket. Last step use a fish tank air pump and air stones and run the mix of 24 hours then water into your garden. Very easy and simple way to add all nutrients at once.

green leaves
sedumgrow
Joined: 4/14/2005
Location: texas,
Posts: 175
Posted: May/23/2006 11:54 PM PST

i use ''cow tea''.dried cow patties in a 5 gallon bucket of water.stir and water the babies.i have several friends that are cattle haulers and my boss has cows too..so the supply of the ''pies'' is unending.
Greenhousin
Joined: 11/11/2006
Location: perrysgreenhouse.com
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Posted: Nov/12/2006 3:03 PM PST

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Originally posted by Str8jeepin4pack
Most of the things such as coffee ground, banana peels should all be composted as well as any of your kicthen scraps. As for egg shells, great source of CA, but they need to compost for about a year before that CA is avaliable to plants. I also garden using organic nutrients if you want to make a good compost tea to water into your plants try this. I use guano and fish mix (bio bizz, new product) I have a 4 gallon bucket that i fill with water and add in the correct amount of fish mix depending on how much i am making (for example i have a 40 gallon water barrel so i make my mix to 40 gallons) I put my guano and any other dry nutrients i might use into a piece of panty hose and seal it up drop it in the bucket. Last step use a fish tank air pump and air stones and run the mix of 24 hours then water into your garden. Very easy and simple way to add all nutrients at once.

green leaves


Very Good info. :tup:

Airaiting the mixture is essential, doing this creates an aerobic environment for beneficial bacteria to thrive in. When using a good aerobic tea you are adding these beneficial bacteria , along with major and micro-nutrients to your soil, creating an environment in which many plant diseases and anaerobic "bad" bacteria can not survive.

Aerobic tea also is beneficial used as a foliar feed. Many pest do not like the tea on the leave surfaces. The tea also helps in controling Powdery Mildew.

I don't recommend using compost tea which is "steeped" for a period of time without the use of air stones in the reservour. If your Tea has an offensive odor, there is a possibility of spreading disease which has been created by the anaerobic envirnoment of the compost fermenting.
Compost tea should have a nice earthy odor to it.

Good tea recipes I have used in the past have included.

Bat Guano
Earthworm castings
Composted manures
Humus
Kelp Meal
Composted home and garden waste
alfalfa
mollasses

By adding nutrient mixes such as Fish Ferts you are essentially making a nutrient solution rather than a compost tea but I have also added the following to my teas for added nutrients.

Liquid Seaweed
Liquid Fish
Bio-Humus

Some pest control can also be added into your tea such as Thuricide or BT.

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