My newfangled friend Matt just charge methis entertaining postwhere he devises a new and novel anaerobic compost tea … and puts it to exploit ! -DTG
Insani-Tea
A couple weeks ago , I stumbled across a YouTube video from David The Good calledTotally Insane Compost Tea Recipethat got me to thinking . I had take about this idea a few years ago inSepp Holzer ’s Permaculture , and kind of file it away as something to try afterward .
Well , it ’s subsequently … ..
We ’ve had a bad morning glory problem in our gardens this year , with all of the later rain and hot / humid conditions , and I needed a way to dispose of it . I had been yanking it up , and hang the carcasses on the fence to dry out , or chucking it into the driveway where it hopefully will not re - theme . Morning glory is one of those weeds I consider noxious , even if theUSDAdoesn’t agree with me . Once it gets started , it will take over rapidly , and repress plants and Vannevar Bush . If you get out it out , and do n’t get every slight teeny - tiny bit of the root , it number back with a vengeance ; kind of like horseradish . And if you let it go to seed ; well you just do n’t want to do that . It ’s not something you may really “ chop - and - drop-off ” either , I ’ve had plants re - root themselves and get back after pull it up .
Nowunlike horseradish , I do n’t experience of too many redeem qualities for morning halo . I do n’t think it ’s really comestible , the flower are nice- but very abruptly - live , it does provide a living cover- but it tends to toss off whatever it covers , the vines really are n’t proficient for doing anything with- unlikewild word of mouth .
What on ground was it created for ? ? ?
Well thank youDavid The Goodfor prove me a means to use morning glory , and remind me about the benefits of compost afternoon tea . rick out The Creator actually had a purpose in mind for this noxious locoweed we call morning aureole .
An unused , shady recess of our big garden had become an right-down monolithic jungle of morning glory . Impossible to even take the air thru . I frighten away up a bbl , and depart work on cleaning up this corner . Why the barrel ? Well , it ’s one of the important parts of the compost Camellia sinensis ; the other 2 part – urine , and weed . I drop several mornings pulling morning glory vine , and gourmandize them down into the barrel . I put a palpebra on the barrel to keep the mosquito out . After occupy the cask , and packing it down , I had nearly 100 pounds of break of day gloriole vinesin a 40 gallon cask ! I say we had a morning resplendence problem . I filled the gun barrel up to overflowing with water , and let it do work for a few days . Oh , and if you watchthe videoall the way to the end , there’sthatsecret fixings that I added as well .
After about a week in the heat , I ended up with theWORSTsmelling liquid I ’ve ever run across …
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I love experiments like these . Thank you , Matt , for sharing your compost madness .
you could discover plenty more about crazy compost in my bookCompost Everything : The Good Guide to Extreme Composting .
- picture at top byLisa Ann Yount . Public sphere permission .
