Compost Tea Making: For Organic Healthier Vegetables, Flowers, Orchards, Vineyards, Lawns: Volume 1 - Softcover

Compost Tea Making is the first comprehensive, practical guide to creating compost tea for farms, orchards, vineyards, lawns, and gardens. This essential reference book explains why compost teas have such powerful, beneficial effects for all plants. The global compost tea revolution is in its infancy. Readers will begin to grasp the importance of rejuvenating the microbial life in our agricultural soils world-wide. Seasoned with the authors incurable dry humor, elegant prose, photographs, and interviews with professionals, this book demystifies the often-confusing ideas and techniques used to make compost teas. With simple recipes, techniques, and equipment, the actual making of compost tea is easy. Learn why compost teas are so powerful and effective--How to brew compost teas--Compost tea applications--How to put together a simple compost tea brewer--How to make compost specifically for compost teas. How to create worm castings for compost teas--How to build practical, movable worm bins--How to combine EM products with compost tea to increase its potency

A passionate gardener and vintner, Marc has been growing most of his own fruit and vegetables for over 30 years, refining his techniques and adding to his knowledge base with each growing season. Marc is a firm believer that good soil is the foundation for a bountiful garden, which sparked his interest in researching compost, worm castings and compost tea making.