Worm Farming - Growing Solutions Brewer Review
I have been using a Growing Solutions worm tea brewer for two years now and I absolutely love it. I use to brew in a 5 gal bucket with air stones and an air pump and mesh bags. This worked well and any worm tea is better than no worm tea but I was not satisfied so I tried a few different brewer types along with different air stones and air pumps.
I found the Growing Solutions 10 gallon tea brewer. At first I was very turned off by the price but after reviewing the other commercial brewers in the market it did not seem to far out. I would have liked to have gotten a larger gallon brewer for the price but that would have meant larger air pumps and aeration disk which would have meant more cost.
These brewers are advertised on fine bubble diffusion. Each aeration disk disc has 4,000 engineered perforations (1mm in size) that provide consistent air bubble size and velocity. Also each disc’s perforations self seal when the system is off, preventing back flow of Compost Tea into the air manifold. I have noticed that this last point is very effective in keeping the air disk from getting nasty and full of tea or crude like many stones I had tried before.
The next component that I have really like about the system is the filter basket that is produced from industrial grade nylon mesh. This allows the water into the casting mixture in the basket but does not allow the castings back into the brewer. This is very useful since I use most my tea in sprayers and other brewers would allow to much casting mixture into the water and would clog up my sprayers even after screening it and this brewer keeps the tea very clean. It also have a nozzle on the bottom of the system making removing the tea much easier and also helps making cleaning the system very easy also.
Over all I really like my brewer and I am very pleased with the system but at a $600 price tag I would not recommend that ever home brewer jump up and go buy one. I would say that if you have a large greenhouse or commercial business like golf courses or landscapers then it can be totally worth the purchase.
You have a minor grammatical mistake in the following sentence:
It should be better than instead of better then.Woah!
That's more expensive than the Garden Tower 2!
Um isn't the garden tower a planter and not a tea brewing system? I was unaware the garden tower brewed compost or worm tea that can be used for endless amounts of plants instead of the only 50 plants that grow in the garden tower that are fertilized by castings not aerated teas. So for the price of 2 garden towers that only holds 100 plants I can fertilize my greenhouses and my pastures along with sell aerated worm tea from my business. I don't really see how the 2 of them even relate to each other. Thanks for reading anyways.
It has a composter in the middle and a drawer at the bottom for extracting the worm tea.
Sorry but that is incorrect. Worm tea is aerated what you are collecting is "Leachate" and if you are using that stuff you really should look into what the difference is since "Leachate" used improperly can be dangerous if being used on food crops. Leachate is essentially just run off from the rotten food and other things you put into your bin. Worm tea is finished clean worm castings that are aerated and usually a feedstock for the microbes is added.
https://www.wormfarmingrevealed.com/leachate-vs-worm-tea.html
Well, that is why I am following you, to learn this stuff.
Looks like they mention that in the FAQ
Yes Sir. No problem that is the advertising for these worm bins so they can sell them to people under that pretense. The leachate does have useful properties for plants but I usually recommend to people that they use it on ornamental plants and not food plants but if diluted and used fresh some people swear buy the results. Some people have bad results also. For personal use you can use a 5 gal bucket, air stones and air pump to make aerated worm tea with good results so I'm not telling people to go buy the $600 tea brewer for personal use I am just reviewing mine mainly for commercial growers that have high demand for such a product. One of the biggest disputes in the worm industry is leachate vs aerated worm tea because the manufacturers of these worm bins are very misleading with advertising.
Well, I have plenty of flowers that could use the compost tea, so that's where it will go, once I get things setup.
Based on the design of the Garden Tower 2, is there a way they could make their compost tea into worm tea?
I never recommend aerating leachate since feeding it could grow the bad bacteria instead of the good. You could just take some of the finished compost or worm castings if you have worms in your tower, I know I have talk to some people that have added worms to the tower. Use that to make your aerated teas with. There is a lot of information out there you can find using the proper names. What you have is leachate if you want to research information on it and what you are wanting to make is aerated worm teas so if you use those terms you will get a lot of info out there to help with what you are looking for. I always try and use the word leachate and when I talk tea it is aerated worm teas. It can get very confusing when people use terms like worm wee, worm tea etc and that is how the companies take advantage of marketing. That link has a lot of good information on it and there are also several good groups on Facebook if you use that platform that can share information with you. My facebook page is linked on my profile if you want to message me there since it is setup a little better for sharing information quickly and linking information.
thanks for the review👍 i'm just getting into teas and worm composting so looking forward to your posts=)