Numerous challenges exist in organic greenhouse production, one of the largest being a lack of amendments that can effectively serve as plant nutrients or pest controls and still be considered organic ...

Q: What is a good recipe for compost tea? What is the best ways to use it? Answer: Compost tea is a liquid extract of compost that contains plant growth compounds and beneficial microorganisms. It is ...

Compost tea is an eco-friendly organic fertilizer solution that plays an important role in sustainable agriculture. With untreated water, a few simple tools, and time, you can transform your food and ...

Aerated compost teas (ACTs) are organic products obtained by forced aeration of composts suspended in liquid phase. These products may be biological control tools alternative to synthetic fungicides, ...

In a 1960s-era edition of Rodale’s “Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening,” the lengthy entry for compost reads like an ode to organic soil amendments: “Here in a dark and mouldy pile the wheel of life is ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of omaha.com stories. Cancel anytime. Paul Gilligan talks about the compost tea he is making at Lanoha Nurseries, 19111 W. Center Road. Paul Gilligan holds compost he ...

Four thousand years ago the Egyptians were making compost tea which simply extracts nutrients from compost and puts it in a liquid form. This method is easier to apply to the soil and the plants. A ...

Make mine aerobic compost tea. That's the latest request in organic-gardening circles. Compost tea is great. It's full of beneficial microbes and soluble nutrients. But research shows aerobic compost ...

Q: I've seen a couple of compost tea-brewing kits in catalogs. They're supposed to give you a really nutritious organic fertilizer that you make at home. What do you think of them? A: I don't have any ...

Join this fun, informative and interactive class at one of the best nurseries in CA. Randy Ritchie, founder of Malibu Compost and gardening author will walk you through – HOW TO use Real Organic ...

Nourished only by straw, leaves, compost and frequent apologies – yielded healthy and delicious tubers nonetheless ...