Fertizlier Tea - My Way

As a homesteader, money is tight.  Plants need fertilizer no matter how wonderful your soil may be.  I love, love, love fertilizer teas.  It uses scraps from the kitchen and is amazing for the soil.  By the way, it stinks. I mean, it really stinks.  This yummy concoction is best steeped outdoors.

If you want your garden to be organic, make sure the ingredients you use in the tea are organic.  What you put in is what you get out.


Ingredients for vegetables:

banana peels - 10-20
egg shells - 2 dozen
epsom salt - 1 cup
kelp - 1 cup
pumpkin seeds - 2 cups mashed
manure - 1 shovelful (if you have it)
fish - if you have it, as much as you want

Put the dry ingredients into a 5 gallon bucket.  Boil one gallon of water.  Pour over dry ingredients. Stir and put the lid on it - loosely on the lid because it builds gases.  Take it outside, if you haven't already.  Stir the yummy once or twice a day for five days.  Strain into another 5 gallon bucket.   Put the sludge that is left in your compost pile.  If you don't have a compost pile, start one.

In a 2 gallon sprayer, place 1/2 gallon of tea and fill with water.  Water the plants.  Do this once per month during the growing season.

Ingredients for berries and trees:

Use the recipe above but add 4 cups used coffee grounds and some whey if you have it.

Between companion planting, layering the soil, essential oil spraying and the fertilizer above, you should have a very productive garden.

Thanks for reading!