Compost Tea & Production
Compost tea promotes root growth and with it silicon uptake: how the plant becomes more robust
Compost tea promotes root growth: in the ZHAW trial, cucumber seedlings formed 31 % more root mass than with water. More roots mea...
Compost tea against disease on golf greens: what our field trial shows
Compost tea kept up well with the fungicides in our field trial on golf greens. On the most affected green it even had less disease in ...
Compost tea and mycorrhiza: what our trial shows
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On the chart above: the variants
K0A− water only (control) · K0A+ water with mycorrhizal spores
K1A− compost te...
Inoculating seed and seedlings with compost tea: what the trial shows
When you water your seed with compost tea, the seedling gets a whole microbial community to take along – exactly at the moment the rhiz...
Making your own biostimulants: what really works on the farm
If you make compost tea, compost extract or ferments yourself, you have the microbiology fresh in the tank instead of sitting in a cani...
Foliar feeding done right: the 6 rules that decide whether it works
The best foliar feed fizzles out if the spray mix is not right. Water, pH and concentration decide whether the nutrient gets into the l...
Produce Your Own Slurry Additive: What Lactic Acid Bacteria Achieve in Slurry Storage
In autumn, our brewing system is in continuous operation: 500 liters of compost tea for the neighboring farm, the next batch for our gr...
How to check the quality of your compost tea
The best recipe is useless if you do not know what is in the tank at the end. In the first post, I described what is important when bre...
What is compost extract and how do I make compost extract
Why a compost extract is more suitable than compost tea in autumn: soil temperature, fungi, Johnson-Su compost, and quantities from practical experience.
Compost Tea as a Foliar Stimulant: What Really Matters
Fungal-to-bacterial ratio, molasses, compost quantity: What really matters for compost tea as a foliar stimulant—insights from the field.
