Stretch the fertilizing potential of your vermicompost further by brewing an aerated compost tea using worm castings, and learn how that differs from leachate. Carrie Hargrove of the Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture in central Missouri demonstrates how to build a brewing system at home, and shares CCUA’s worm tea recipe for making a fertilizer alive with beneficial microbial activity ready to help feed your plants.

MATERIALS LIST:
Large Jar (gallon jar works well)
Filtered or rain water (non-chlorinated water)
Finished worm compost (learn how to make your own worm compost:    • Make Worm Casting Fertilizer with Ver...  )
Unsulfured molasses
Aerator (can pick up at your local pet store)
Fabric and string
Optional: kitchen scale, table measuring spoon, stirrer

RECIPE:
1 gallon unfiltered water
¼ lb worm castings bundled in cloth (roughly the size of a small adult fist when bundled)
½ tbsp. unsulfured molasses

Use 1 cup finished worm tea mixed with 1 cup unfiltered (or rain) water as fertilizer on your plants

IN THIS VIDEO:
0:00 Introduction
0:50 Why use worm tea?
1:42 Worm tea vs. worm leachate
3:03 Materials for a homemade brew system
4:22 How to brew compost tea + CCUA’s worm tea recipe
7:23 How long to let worm tea brew

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