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Since compost is just decomposed organic matter like your grass clippings, leaves and bananna peels what now? You only have a small amout left after you shoveled the rest into your beds and used more as potting soil. Well, making compost tea will do more good with a tiny amount of compost than you can ever imagine.. There are two ways to make compost tea. The basic non- aeroated and the actively aeroated. The basic is just putting a little compost, maybe a handful of your organic fertilizer, maybe a dash of fish emulsion, stirring it up with a stick and letting it steep for an hour or two and then using it to help water your plants. This organic technique will do all kinds of good things for your soil and your plants, nothing wrong with this at all, but nothing to compare with what actively aeroated compost will do. So how do I do this miracle of actively aeroating my compost. First, go somewhere like a pet store and buy the biggest most powerful aquarium air pump you can afford, a little plastic tubing and the biggest air stone that your pump will work on. Steal a pair of your wifes panty hose, go into your garage and grab an old 5 gallon paint bucket and you are all set as far as the mechanics of it are concerned. Now, what to make the tea out of? There are probably more favorite receipies for compost tea than there are fleas on a hairy dogs back. All of them good. All of them multiply greatly the number of micro-organisms in the soil, the fungi and the helpful bacterias. But to start put a handful of your compost into your wifes panty hose, then maybe a small handfull of worm castings, maybe a spoon full of blood meal or alfalfa pellets. Tie a not in the panty hose to keep all of the stuff from floating out and throw it into the bucket and fill it up with water. Then when all this is done and the pump is going and the airstone bubbling away add 1 oz of molasses. The molasses will jump start the brewing process. Add any other organic liquid supplement at this time like one of my favorites liquid seaweed. Let it bubble for 24-36 hours depending on the temperature. If you brew the tea too long in too warm a temperature it will go anerobic. Once you have a good batch of tea brewed use it as soon as you can. It has a short shelf life. You can use your tea as a soil drench or as a foliar spray but you will have to strain it if using it as a spray