Comfrey Tea

[Essexboy]

I've made and used Comfrey Tea for the first time this year and WOW what a result, more runner beans than we can handle. Super French Beans, spuds and generally everything we've grown. This stuff is fantastic and it's FREE. OK it stinks ! but if you can put up with the smell give it a try. It's amazing stuff.

[ESBkevin]

Yes the smell is terrible and don't get it on your skin, else you'll notice the stink for the rest of the day!
But it's easy enough to make and you can store it in sealed containers (Plastic milk containers for me).

Next for you to try is nettle tea. That one is particularly good for root and leaf development, so for fruiting plants before they flower and greens/general all the time.

I even mix my comfry, nettle an urine for a potent coctail cordiel. Best applied in the evening so the oder is least likely to bother anyone else. By morning it's hard to tell anything was in the air. You might wonder why i don't have friends ;-)

[bikermike]

applying urine to nettles can be very dangerous... you really don't want to be stung there...


I'm making weed tea this year (marestail, couchgrasss and bindweed in the main), that also smells and seems to work. I think you need to be quite liberal with it or it doesn't work so well...

Mike

[stigs]

Kelp Tea

I made some kelp tea about 10 years ago, I store it in 2 Litre fizzy drink bottles in the attic
while fermenting it smells like a slurry pit but still works contrary to the 6 months I was told it would last. I added coffee grounds eggshells and water and left it for about 8 weeks.
I add one cap full to 3 Litres of water and pour this into cat litter trays that my pots sti above with mop wicks hanging down into the mixture. I let this dry out and leave empty until the soil in the pots is dry as chillies like to dry out every now and then and refill 2 days later.

[burnie]

Can you dunk biscuits in it?...…………………………………………………….

[mrbadexample]

Can you dunk biscuits in it?...…………………………………………………….

Yes, you can.

[bikermike]

Yes, you can.

And they'll grow so much better as a result :-)
Rich tea plant anyone?

One thing I have noticed with weed tea, is that you need to use a lot of it compared to commercial stuff