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What is Compost Tea?
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Compost tea is a
liquid produced by leaching soluble nutrients
and extracting beneficial organisms from
compost. We start with the finest organic
compost, adding ingredients to feed the
microbes. The brewing process is performed at
constant temperature, continuously injecting air
into the solution with a high quality brewer.
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Compost
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Starting with only a few microbes, the brewer allows the tea
to grow billions upon billions of beneficial aerobic
microbes within hours. When these microbes are applied to
soils and plants, their benefits are many.
Compost Tea may be applied to virtually any plant or turf in
your landscape. As part of an ongoing organic program we
will custom brew teas for a specific benefit and apply the
tea by spraying onto plants, soil or turf
Benefits of using of compost tea
Improve
soils:
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Introduce
and establish healthy living organisms to the soil.
Synthetic fertilizers, road salts, and the process of
installing new topsoil to a landscape, strip most of the
living organisms that must be present in a healthy
system.
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Compost
tea microbes help break down compacted soils, allowing
more air and root spaces for plants.
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Increasing
nutrient availability in the root system in exactly the
right place, time and amounts that the plant needs,
Nutrients must pass through microbes before they are
available for plant use. The compost tea beneficial
microbes take organic matter, digest it through their
bodies and make the nutrients available for plant use.
Improve
plant health:
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Improved
plant growth by protecting plant surfaces with
beneficial organisms which occupy infection sites and
prevent disease-causing organisms from finding the
plant.
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Improved
uptake of nutrients by increasing foliar uptake (through
the leaves) while at the same time reducing evaporative
water loss from the leaf surface.
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Combat damaging turf grass pests such as
white grubs. Beneficial organisms in healthy soil help
keep theses pests in check. Synthetic fertilizers kill
the beneficial predators leaving the door wide open for
severe insect damage
Reduce
Synthetic Fertilizer use:
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Reduce the
negative impacts of chemical-based pesticides,
herbicides and fertilizers on beneficial microorganisms
in the ecosystem.
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Reduce
fertilizer use, and loss of nutrients into ground- and
surface waters protecting or valuable resources.
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Saving
energy. The production of synthetic fertilizers is a
very energy intensive process add in long transportation
from large processing plants to our area increases the
fuels need to get the product to your landscape
Compost and compost tea are produced locally, with very
low energy input methods.
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