Organilush
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Letting plants like nettles & mallow soak in a 5gal bucket of water for a week, 2 weeks, a month or more in non-aerated stagnant water.
How do I know if the "tea" is OK or not to pour into the soil? Are there any signs to look out for indicating the stuff would be detrimental to soil/plants?
It just seems like there would be a tremendous amount of "bad" bacteria and other undesirable nasties from such a concoction of stagnant water & rotting plants & zero oxygen.
I placed some shredded nettles & mallow in a 5gal bucket of water a while back. I was initially planning on using the "tea" after 10 to 14 days just to give my soil some stuff early in the season....but I honestly forgot about the thing. It's been somewhere around a month at this point.
Is it still OK to use or should I just toss it out & pour it into the yard waste heap in the corner of my yard?
I'm just trying to understand the whole anaerobic tea thing, when the impression I get is that in general anaerobic=bad for a healthy soil & harmful to roots.
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How do I know if the "tea" is OK or not to pour into the soil? Are there any signs to look out for indicating the stuff would be detrimental to soil/plants?
It just seems like there would be a tremendous amount of "bad" bacteria and other undesirable nasties from such a concoction of stagnant water & rotting plants & zero oxygen.
I placed some shredded nettles & mallow in a 5gal bucket of water a while back. I was initially planning on using the "tea" after 10 to 14 days just to give my soil some stuff early in the season....but I honestly forgot about the thing. It's been somewhere around a month at this point.
Is it still OK to use or should I just toss it out & pour it into the yard waste heap in the corner of my yard?
I'm just trying to understand the whole anaerobic tea thing, when the impression I get is that in general anaerobic=bad for a healthy soil & harmful to roots.
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