Compost Tea, Activated Biochar, Worm poop, and more! Food For The Garden!

kindredacres (63)in #homesteading • 5 years ago (edited)

Today was a busy day on the homestead!! We cleared out a bunch of weeds and invasive vines from the ditch at the edge of the woods. This ditch holds water and stays pretty wet. In the ditch we planted Marshmallow. Marshmallow is so useful and loves marshy wet areas so this was the perfect spot for it.

On the upper part of the rocky slope that leads to the ditch, we planted Sweet Woodruff. Sweet woodruff is an amazing plant that is useable in many ways....it can be highly invasive if in the right situation so just know this if you plan on delving into planting it. In our case, I'd be okay with it spreading where it is.

After planting out some stuff we got motivated to make some garden food. We started a 5-gallon bucket of a super potent compost tea concentrate....it's loaded with specialty goodies we grow for this purpose. It's actively brewing and will be ready in a few days.

We also sifted a little bit of our worm compost (tons of worms in there! Yaay! They are happy!!) to use to activate our homemade biochar.

Crushing small batches at a time....

Crushed and ready to be activated. We will mix it 50/50 with the worm compost.

Once the tea is done brewing we will finish activating the biochar using the concentrated compost tea. It's important to inoculate/ferment the char to make it active and ready to use. This is how we choose to 'fertilize' our plants. We make everything from scratch and from our property. We know exactly what is going into it....each and every ingredient, we put our love and sweat into making it, and the outcome will pay us tenfold. Every bit of what we made today came from our property....the herbs used in the compost tea, the wood to make the biochar, the worm compost came from our worm farm, etc.

Making your own homemade nutrient boosts for your garden can be as simple or complex as you want it to be! There are so many options in the way of adding nutrients to your garden that are totally environmentally friendly and work to regenerate the soil and build a great foundation. Chemical fertilizers that are commercially made can be a tricky thing as often they are taking from the soil, in the long run, hence the need for constant use. In this case, what we are adding to our soil and building and regenerating vs taking. If you are interested in how we do any of the above, leave me some comments. If I get enough interest I can do a video on it. ;)

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