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Liquid Compost Tea Starter/Enhancer
           
Sustainable Gardening
Holistic Gardening Compost Tea is a liquid solution or suspension made by steeping compost in water.  There are five
Container Growing major types of teas… aerobic, compost leachate, manure tea.   Each type is made differently, but
they are all brewed to be introduced to soils in order to create/increase soil biology.
Upside Down Gardening
Organic Lawn and Turf Compost Tea: An extract of compost where the bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and beneficial
Dog Spot Treatment nematodes are increased in numbers using nutrients and oxygen provided the composting material
Growing Orchids you use. It is oxygenated tea made from compost. Care must be taken as to what you put into
your compost mix. Meat scraps, animal waste and many other things can quickly bring about
Growing Bromeliads
harmful bacteria such as E-coli. It has little in the way of nutrients. Don't try to make compost tea
Growing Flowering Plants without the aeration equipment. If the tea is not aerated constantly, the organisms in it will quickly
Organic Herb Growing use up the oxygen. At this point will start to stink and become anaerobic. Anaerobic tea can harm
Growing Trees & Shrubs your plants. Anaerobic "tea" will produce methane, alcohol and can  permit the growth of E-coli
and other adverse pathogens. Use brewed tea within a short time after taking it from areation.
Hydroponics
Composte leachate: It is the collection of water that runs through a compost pile. It is usually
Seed Germination low in biolgy but hs higher levels of nutrients. You need to be careful in that it can be anaerobic
Compost Starter with many harmful bacterias in it. Not recommended for most.
Potting Mix Additive
Manure Tea: This is the liquid from a manure pile. It can usable levels of nutrients such as
nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium but it can also contain high levels of harmful bacteria. It
Beneficial Soil Biology
often contains high numbers of root feeding nematodes. Not recommended for most.
Foliar Sprays
What is Turf Pro? The compost you are working from will generate a number of beneficial bacteria that are very
What Are Humates?
useful in building soil, if you keep a healthy level of organic material in your soil, controlling many
pathogens and diseases. Very time you brew a batch you will get some differences in the biology
Effects of Synthetic Fertilizer because of variations in what you use as compost.
Pollution from Fertilizers To further enhance the effectiveness of you tea you need to increase the type and number of
Miscellaneous Articles beneficial soil biology. This can be done by using a Compost Tea Starter/Enhancer.
Application Rates
A Starter/Enhancer, when used at the very beginning of the brewing process, should a number
MSDS of strains of beneficial soil biology to give you a complex mix of biology, both bacillus and fungi,
well beyond that normally found in freshly brewed tea.  The Starter/Enhancer should provide the
food necessary to keep the biology alive and active until it can colonize the new mix.
An additional dose of Starter/Enhancer during brewing will reinforce the biology that has
already started.  

What Compost Tea Starter/Enhancer can do all of this, and at the same time, be 100% naturally
organic?
 Turf and Garden Pro!   Turf and Garden Pro liquid is natural Humate products that contain a large
number of naturally occurring bacillus; including one that is a natural nitrogen fixing agent.  Turf
and Garden Pro also has a number of antibacterial fungi that fight pathogens and work with your
plant roots to extend their ability to gather food and water. Turf and Garden Pro as a Compost Tea
Starter/Enhancer  produces plants that are stronger and more resistant to pests and disease while
making them more temperature and drought tolerant.

 Recommended Rates:

Pre-activation - 1.0 ounces (2 tablespoons) of Turf and Garden Pro liquid per 5 gallons of Tea
Brewed.

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During Brewing – 4.0  ounces (1/2 cup) of Turf and Garden Pro liquid per 5 gallons of Tea Brewed.

Happy brewing and great results!

                                                                        

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