I'm attempting to make my first organic tea, and I'd like some feedback on if my tea recipe seems ok, and if anyone else has ever tried this. I wanted to make sure my tea was extra rich for the bacteria and fungus that we all want to thrive, and I was going to originally use basic old ditch water. I changed my mind last minute though, because I thought about a tip I read once about potato water being a good fert. My girlfriend was boiling a load of rutabaga's (no salt or anything added), and I told her to save it for me. It left me with just a little short of a half a gallon of steaming cloudy cooking runoff from the stuff. I put a cover on it while it was still hot, and put it in the fridge until it cooled to room temp. Then I added 1 tablespoon of earthworm castings, 1 teaspoon of high nitrogen bat quano, 1 teaspoon of unsulfured blackstrap molasses, 1 teaspoon of this stuff http://espoma.com/p_consumer/pdf/products/tones/Esp_Plant.pdf, 1 tablespoon of Epsom salt, and 1 tablespoon of lemon juice for some acidity. I have a 10 gallon aquarium pump running on it keeping it aerated (medium-big bubbles onry), and its staying roughly 76-78 degrees. When its done in 18-24 hours, I plan to mix it with 1 gallon of distilled water, and using it to water my fresh seedlings in their new soil. Is there any glaring problems with this mix that I'm missing? Any help would be majorly appreciated Oh, and I forgot to add. This is the nutritional value of a rutabaga, so I assume the water has similar value along with lots of carbs and sugars. http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2611/2
not sure about the boiled water. i would think that would kill of some microbes but they would probably be replaced by the ingredients you put in it. and im also not sure about the epsom salt. i think you may have put to much in, especially for just a gallon of tea. i thought you were only suppose to use a teaspoon per gallon max because it can give too much Mg. not sure tho some you might wanna look that up.
1/2 cup compost 1/2 cup worm castings 5 gallons water 2 tablespoon molasses 2 table spoon neptunes harvest fish fert. 2 table spoon liq kelp. 2 tablespoons soft roch phosphate or azimite ,2 air pumps 4 air stones 65-70 deg 24 hours brew strain it threw cheese cloth to spray it on plants or just dump it in your pots as is. Keep the other stuff out of it.if it smells like something died in it at the end of brew throw it out.good luck
More like a good pinch of epson salt.But not in the tea!in a fert mix yes ph test the mix has sulfer in it