Having been brewing teas of some kind for a few years ( good and bad ) and currently having the remains of a compost already aged for about six months, I ate some mangoes and wanted to try to "brew" a quick DIY compost tea.
Compost tea is a great way to give your garden an extra boost any time of the year, I like to use this on tomatoes and anything that I deem needs alot of energy to produce its harvest. To Make compost tea is fairly easy, just fill a bucket with water and try and get an air filter or pond pump to keep the water moving around in the container. Get an old towel and place a fair few handfuls of compost into the center then tie it together to resemble a home made tea bag, Sit the bag overnight, strain the resulting liquid and treat your plants at feeding with a half/half solution of water and tea.
When researching I hear this word, anaerobic don’t let your compost tea become anaerobic, what is anaerobic? Anaerobic compost tea is usually made because of common noob mistakes of over concentration or under aeration of the solution, over concentration isn't a concern with compost but a great way to tell if you have made this mistake is by the smell off your tea. Anaerobic Composting is composting without oxygen so the air stone is essential if we are trying to avoid a state of anaerobic activity, the good bacteria you are trying to cultivate in the tea do need oxygen to grow and when supplied a sufficient amount of oxygen the tea doesn’t stink, this time what I have done is use an old solar powered pond pump to push the tea without breaking a $0 budget , although without a proper aeration and without oxygen the sugars in the tea are probably feeding a bacteria that gives off methane which is a sign of anaerobic activity. If your Tea is not aerated or over concentrated it wont necessarily be damaging on application, but fool me once don’t fool me twice and I want the best results.
These are some birds I saw today walking home - Rainbow lorikeets
When and if your trying to feed a tea overnight (this is the minimum duration recommended to soak a teabag) then the aerobic composting method is the best option, looking for food scraps that are full of sugars or greens ( things like alfalfa spout, coffee grinds, fresh blueberries, mangoes, apples ) but remember the majority of your tea bag should be from bat guano or aged compost..( i live near the ocean so i use seaweed and oyster shell because my girlfriend works at a seafood shop). Fill a tub with rainwater and add ingredients to let sit and prepare to be filtered.
Hope this helped some people.. anyways plz upvote!